Trump claims Biden ‘hates military’ in latest attack ad after completing pre-sentencing interview: Live

Donald Trump has attacked Joe Biden in a new ad posted to his Truth Social platform in which he claims the president “hates the military”, a clear attempt to firefight the revival of his own notorious “suckers and losers” comment about America’s fallen soldiers.

The ad compiles clips of disaffected veterans speaking to conservative media about their apparently negative experiences of interacting with Biden at official events.

The Republican presidential candidate completed a virtual interview with Manhattan Criminal Court’s probation department on Monday, a mandatory requirement before he is sentenced on July 11 by New York judge Juan Merchan after being found guilty on all counts at his hush money trial last month.

The former president was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying documents to cover up a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels in October 2016, just prior to that year’s election, to ensure her silence over an alleged affair.

Trump also spoke remotely yesterday at an event hosted by The Danbury Institute, a Christian non-profit that calls abortion an “atrocity” and wants it to be “eradicated entirely”.

However, just hours before his campaign said he would only give a pre-recorded message and would not mention abortion.

Key Points

• Trump claims Biden ‘hates the military’ in latest attack ad

• Convicted felon completes mandatory pre-sentencing interview after less than 30 minutes of questioning

• Trump gives speech to extreme anti-abortion group – without mentioning abortion

• Republican candidate says Taylor Swift is ‘unusually beautiful’ but ‘liberal’

• Trump jokingly tells rally-goers not to die in searing Las Vegas heat

Trump gives speech to anti-abortion group, without mentioning abortion

10:30 , Joe Sommerlad

The former president yesterday supplied a brief, pre-recorded message for an event hosted by an extreme anti-abortion group – which denounces the procedure as “child sacrifice” – but managed to dodge the issue altogether.

Trump spoke virtually at the “Life and Liberty Forum” held by the Danbury Institute, a group that has decried abortion as “the greatest atrocity facing our generation today” and has vowed not to rest “until it is eradicated entirely.”

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, however, did not mention “abortion” once.

Here’s more from Kelly Rissman and John Bowden.

Trump gives brief speech to extreme anti-abortion group – without mentioning abortion

Fox host hints Trump could back out of first debate with Biden

10:00 , Joe Sommerlad

Sean Hannity, who interviewed Trump in person last week, casually floated the idea on his show last night that the Republican candidate could refuse to take part in the first debate with Biden (scheduled for June 27 on CNN), seemingly preparing the ground for precisely that to happen.

On the same network, Trump’s favourite conservative legal scholar Jonathan Turley very openly pleaded with Judge Merchan not to put the “elderly” candidate in jail.

Truth Social: Trump claims Biden ‘hates the military’, appeals to Latinos for support and promotes Charlie Kirk’s book

09:30 , Joe Sommerlad

Trump’s latest social media dump includes an appeal to Latinos to support him, the usual slew of endorsements for GOP primary candidates, a promotional pitch for Charlie Kirk’s new book (he spoke to Kirk’s Turning Point movement in Phoenix, Arizona, last week), as well as a nasty new attack ad on Joe Biden.

A classic Trump projection effort, he claims that the president “hates the military” in a clear bid to firefight the revival of his own “suckers and losers” comment about fallen soldiers, compiling together clips of aggrieved veterans speaking to conservative media about their apparently negative experiences of interacting with Biden at official events, which, for some reason, is presented on a rickety looking 1970s television set.

Cheap, unconvincing and more than a little desperate, I’d say.

Josh Marcus wrote this on Sunday on Trump’s latest attempt to dissociate himself from the comment, which dates back to his former chief of staff John F Kelly and an article in The Atlantic.

Trump says only a ‘psycho’ would call war dead ‘suckers – which Trump allegedly did

Trump says Taylor Swift is ‘unusually beautiful’ but ‘liberal’

09:00 , Joe Sommerlad

The Republican presidential felon has described the most famous woman in the world as “unusually beautiful” but “liberal”, noting: “She probably doesn’t like Trump.”

What gave it away Don?

The former president was interviewed by Variety editor Ramin Setoodeh last November for a new book about his time hosting The Apprentice entitled Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass, which is set to be published on June 18.

Asked his opinion of Swift, Trump replied: “She’s got a great star quality. She really does.”

Kevin EG Perry has the story.

Donald Trump says Taylor Swift is ‘unusually beautiful’ but ‘liberal’

Trump completes mandatory pre-sentencing interview after less than 30 minutes of questioning

08:30 , Joe Sommerlad

The former president’s mandatory pre-sentencing interview with a New York City probation officer took place on Monday and ended after less than a half-hour of routine questions, according to the Associated Press.

Trump’s answers will be compiled into a report that will be presented to trial judge Merchan prior to the Republican’s July 11 sentencing in his hush money criminal case.

Donald Trump completes mandatory presentencing interview after less than 30 minutes of questioning

Jan 6 rioter running for Congress storms out of televised debate

06:30 , Oliver O’Connell

A Georgia Republican congressional candidate who was convicted over his part in the US Capitol riot stormed out of a live televised debate on Sunday night just a week before his party’s primary runoff.

Chuck Hand, who is battling GOP rival Wayne Johnson for the chance to take on 16-term Democratic incumbent Sanford Bishop in November, left the stage at the Atlanta Press Club after declaring that he refused to debate Johnson.

Joe Sommerlad has the details:

Jan. 6 rioter running for Congress storms off stage during televised debate

ICYMI: Six hospitalized at scorching Trump rally in Vegas

04:30 , Oliver O’Connell

Six people were hospitalized on Sunday after attending former President Donald Trump’s outdoor rally in scorching heat in Nevada.

Some 24 others were treated at the rally as temperatures exceeded 100 degrees Fahrenheit in Las Vegas, where thousands of people gathered in the city’s Sunset Park to watch Trump speak at his first large-scale rally since he was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.

During the rally, he addressed the heat several times, even telling his supporters at one point not to die from heat exhaustion because he needed their votes.

Martha McHardy reports:

Six hospitalized at scorching Trump rally in Vegas amid teleprompter meltdown

Giuliani calls DA Fani Willis a ‘ho’ at Christian rally

02:30 , Oliver O’Connell

Rudy Giuliani, former mayor and US attorney, called Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis a “ho” before making fun of her name at a far-right conference.

Over the weekend, Giuliani referred to the Georgia prosecutor as “Fani the ho” at the ReAwaken America Tour, videos posted online show.

The former mayor of New York City then complained that the spelling of her name does not align with its pronunciation.

Kelly Rissman reports:

Giuliani calls DA Fani Willis a ‘ho’ to rapturous reaction at Christian rally

Trump calls Jan 6 rioters ‘warriors’ at Nevada rally

01:30 , Oliver O’Connell

Donald Trump has defended his supporters involved in the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, calling them “warriors” at a Nevada rally.

“Those J6 warriors – they were warriors – but they were really, more than anything else, they’re victims of what happened,” Trump said at the rally, speaking to a crowd of several thousand supporters.

“All they were doing is protesting a rigged election. That’s what they were doing,” Trump continued, repeating his false claim that he should have won the 2020 presidential election.

Martha McHardy has the story:

Trump calls Jan 6 rioters ‘warriors’ at Nevada rally

What Trump said vs what he did

Tuesday 11 June 2024 00:30 , Oliver O’Connell

Donald Trump has executed three perfect U-turns within the last two weeks, three times acting in complete contradiction to his earlier public statements on three separate issues, his conscience cheerily untroubled.

Joe Sommerlad reports:

Trump’s political U-turns: What he said vs what he did

Trump suggests MAGA fan would contemplate suicide over voting for Biden

Monday 10 June 2024 23:30 , Oliver O’Connell

During a Sunday campaign rally in Las Vegas, Donald Trump boasted a diehard campaign supporter who’d attended numerous Trump events would rather die by suicide than vote for Joe Biden.

“Wouldn’t it be incredible—he’s gone to 250—if he voted for Biden,” Trump told the crowd at Sunset Park, pointing out a supporter in the crowd who he said he had seen at numerous rallies. “He’s going to vote for Biden? I don’t think so. It would be suicide before Biden right?”

Observers were shocked by the former president’s claim.

Josh Marcus reports:

Trump suggests MAGA fan would kill themselves before backing Biden

What jobs can’t Trump get with felony convictions?

Monday 10 June 2024 23:00 , Oliver O’Connell

He cannot legally bartend in Florida, but he can be president of the United States. He can be legally denied certain public housing, but he could soon live at the White House. And he cannot legally possess a firearm in any state, but he could soon command the country’s nuclear arsenal.

Alex Woodward reports:

All the jobs Trump now can’t get with his felony convictions

Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office releases Giuliani mugshot

Monday 10 June 2024 22:45 , Oliver O’Connell

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has released Rudy Giuliani’s mugshot, which was taken as part of the Arizona fake electors case.

Trump gives two-minute speech to extreme anti-abortion group — without mentioning abortion

Monday 10 June 2024 22:27 , Oliver O’Connell

Donald Trump supplied a brief, two-minute, pre-recorded message for an event hosted by an extreme anti-abortion group – which denounces the procedure as “child sacrifice” – but managed to dodge the issue altogether.

Trump spoke virtually Monday at the “Life and Liberty Forum” held by the Danbury Institute, a group that has decried abortion as “the greatest atrocity facing our generation today” and has vowed not to rest “until it is eradicated entirely.”

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, however, did not mention “abortion” once.

Kelly Rissman and John Bowden report:

Trump gives brief speech to extreme anti-abortion group – without mentioning abortion

Watch: Vance says Trump VP vetting includes question on whether candidates have committed a crime

Monday 10 June 2024 22:15 , Oliver O’Connell

…which is awkward.

Trump says only a ‘psycho’ would call war dead ‘suckers and losers’ — which he reportedly did…

Monday 10 June 2024 22:00 , Oliver O’Connell

Donald Trump is again denying that he called American soldiers who died in World War I in France “suckers” and “losers,” as attention has returned to the alleged comments during Joe Biden’s recently concluded state visit to the country.

During a rally Sunday in Las Vegas, the former president called the alleged comments “disinformation” reported by the “fake news.”

Josh Marcus has the story:

Trump says only a ‘psycho’ would call war dead ‘suckers – which Trump allegedly did

Trump to meet with GOP senators on Thursday

Monday 10 June 2024 21:52 , Oliver O’Connell

Per NBC News:

Former President Donald Trump will meet with a group of Republican senators in Washington, D.C., this week, four sources with knowledge of the meeting told NBC News.

Trump will meet with the senators on Thursday after addressing the Business Roundtable, a lobbying group.

Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., told fellow GOP senators in an e-mail obtained by NBC News that he invited Trump to meet with Republican senators. “I believe it will be helpful to hear directly from President Trump about his plans for the summer and to also share our ideas for a strategic governing agenda in 2025,” wrote Barrasso, who is the No. 3 in Senate Republican leadership.

Trumps hide and Bidens unite in face of criminal trials

Monday 10 June 2024 21:47 , Oliver O’Connell

Ariana Baio looks at how the Trump and Biden families responded to the criminal trial of one of their members with differing approaches.

A tale of two families: Trumps hide and Bidens unite in face of criminal trials

Trump can easily win in Nevada. And if he does, he’ll likely win the election

Monday 10 June 2024 21:30 , Oliver O’Connell

Eric Garcia writes:

Republicans and Democrats alike have dubbed that Democratic infrastructure the “Reid Machine.” And When Democrats across the country suffered huge losses in 2016, Nevada was a firewall. Cortez Masto, Reid’s hand-picked successor, won, Democrats flipped the legislature and Hillary Clinton won in the state, too. Things looked even better in 2018 when Democrats flipped the governorship and Rosen beat Republican incumbent Dean Heller.

But underneath the surface, there are signs of creaks and cracks in the machine. Indeed, Nevada is for Republicans what North Carolina is for Democrats: a state that can go their way if all of the circumstances go right.

Continue reading…

Trump can easily win in Nevada. And if he does, he’ll likely win the election

Trump blames Nevada’s ex-Democrat Governor for stealing state

Monday 10 June 2024 21:00 , Oliver O’Connell

Donald Trump has claimed that Nevada was stolen from him in the 2020 presidential election, in part due to the state’s former Democratic governor, despite the fact he lost by thousands of votes.

The former president has lost the state in the previous two election cycles, conceding it to Hillary Clinton in 2016, and Joe Biden in 2020, where he lost by 34,000 votes.

Mike Bedigan reports:

Trump blames Nevada’s ex-Democrat Governor for stealing state

Trump says Taylor Swift is ‘unusually beautiful’ but ‘liberal’

Monday 10 June 2024 20:30 , Oliver O’Connell

Donald Trump has described Taylor Swift as “unusually beautiful” but “liberal”, noting: “She probably doesn’t like Trump”.

The former US president and recently convicted felon was interviewed by Variety editor Ramin Setoodeh last November for a new book about his time hosting The Apprentice, Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass, which is set to be published on June 18.

Kevin E G Perry has the story:

Donald Trump says Taylor Swift is ‘unusually beautiful’ but ‘liberal’

Jan 6 rioter running for Congress storms out of televised debate

Monday 10 June 2024 20:00 , Oliver O’Connell

A Georgia Republican congressional candidate who was convicted over his part in the US Capitol riot stormed out of a live televised debate on Sunday night just a week before his party’s primary runoff.

Chuck Hand, who is battling GOP rival Wayne Johnson for the chance to take on 16-term Democratic incumbent Sanford Bishop in November, left the stage at the Atlanta Press Club after declaring that he refused to debate Johnson.

Joe Sommerlad has the story:

Jan. 6 rioter running for Congress storms off stage during televised debate

Vindman says Trump ‘J6 warriors’ comment dishonors D-Day soldiers

Monday 10 June 2024 19:45 , Oliver O’Connell

Retired Lt Colonel and former director for European Affairs for the US National Security Council Alexander Vindman has slammed Donald Trump for calling the January 6 Capitol rioters “warriors”.

Vindman says the comments dishonor soldiers including those who stormed the beaches at Normandy 80 years ago this month.

He wrote on X: “[Donald Trump] the warriors are the ones that stormed Normandy 80 years ago. Too many of those warriors did not survive that fight against Fascism. You dishonor them and all soldiers, ‘calling us suckers and losers.’ And now you call 1/6 insurrectionists warriors? WTF!”

Trump suggests MAGA fan would contemplate suicide over vote for Biden

Monday 10 June 2024 19:30 , Oliver O’Connell

During a Sunday campaign rally in Las Vegas, Donald Trump boasted a diehard campaign supporter who’d attended numerous Trump events would rather die by suicide than vote for Joe Biden.

“Wouldn’t it be incredible—he’s gone to 250—if he voted for Biden,” Trump told the crowd at Sunset Park, pointing out a supporter in the crowd who he said he had seen at numerous rallies. “He’s going to vote for Biden? I don’t think so. It would be suicide before Biden right?”

Observers were shocked by the former president’s claim.

Josh Marcus has the story:

Trump suggests MAGA fan would kill themselves before backing Biden

Biden campaign seizes on Trump saying ‘I don’t care about you’ to Nevada rally

Monday 10 June 2024 19:15 , Oliver O’Connell

Trump calls Jan 6 rioters ‘warriors’ at Nevada rally

Monday 10 June 2024 19:00 , Oliver O’Connell

Donald Trump has defended his supporters involved in the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, calling them “warriors” at a Nevada rally.

“Those J6 warriors – they were warriors – but they were really, more than anything else, they’re victims of what happened,” Trump said at the rally, speaking to a crowd of several thousand supporters.

“All they were doing is protesting a rigged election. That’s what they were doing,” Trump continued, repeating his false claim that he should have won the 2020 presidential election.

He also baselessly claimed that police welcomed rioters into the Capitol on January 6, telling rioters to “Go in, go in, go in, go in.”

Martha McHardy reports:

Trump calls Jan 6 rioters ‘warriors’ at Nevada rally

Trump just like Jesus, says Marjorie Taylor Greene

Monday 10 June 2024 18:30 , Oliver O’Connell

Georgia Republican Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene likened Donald Trump to Jesus Christ, who is “also a convicted felon”, after the former president’s “bulls***” conviction in the hush money trial last month.

Kelly Rissman reports:

Rep Taylor Greene compares Trump to Jesus – because they’re both convicted felons

Alvin Bragg agrees to testify to Republicans in Congress

Monday 10 June 2024 18:00 , Oliver O’Connell

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has agreed to give testimony before a House Judiciary Committee panel regarding Donald Trump’s hush money trial.

Bragg’s testimony comes at the demand of House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, who sent a letter last month stating that the DA and Matthew Colangelo, a prosecutor on the case, participate in a House panel on 13 June.

Graig Graziosi reports:

Alvin Bragg agrees to testify to Republicans in Congress after Trump guilty verdict

The jobs Trump can’t get with felony convictions

Monday 10 June 2024 17:30 , Oliver O’Connell

Alex Woodward writes:

He cannot legally bartend in Florida, but he can be president of the United States. He can be legally denied certain public housing, but he could soon live at the White House. And he cannot legally possess a firearm in any state, but he could soon command the country’s nuclear arsenal.

Donald Trump joined the nearly 20 million Americans with felony convictions when a jury in New York found him guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree on May 30.

But unlike the millions of Americans re-entering society after conviction and incarcerations, who face countless barriers to decent jobs, housing, healthcare, childcare, and the ability to vote, among other hurdles, Trump can rely on his immense wealth, influence and potential path to the presidency to avoid them.

Read on…

All the jobs Trump now can’t get with his felony convictions

Six hospitalized at scorching Trump rally in Vegas

Monday 10 June 2024 17:00 , Oliver O’Connell

Six people were hospitalized on Sunday after attending former President Donald Trump’s outdoor rally in scorching heat in Nevada.

Some 24 others were treated at the rally as temperatures exceeded 100 degrees Fahrenheit in Las Vegas, where thousands of people gathered in the city’s Sunset Park to watch Trump speak at his first large-scale rally since he was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.

During the rally, he addressed the heat several times, even telling his supporters at one point not to die from heat exhaustion because he needed their votes.

Martha McHardy reports:

Six hospitalized at scorching Trump rally in Vegas amid teleprompter meltdown

Lindsey Graham compares fellow Republican to Nazi appeasers of the 1930s

Monday 10 June 2024 16:30 , Oliver O’Connell

Senator Lindsey Graham made the comparison between members of his own party who oppose further military aid to Ukraine and the European leaders of the 1930s who pursued a policy of appeasement with Adolf Hitler on Sunday.

Graham was speaking on CBS’s Face the Nation when he made the remark, which was likely to rile up far-right members of his party in the House and Senate who voted against that assistance when it passed both chambers in the national security supplemental legislation passed in April.

John Bowden reports from Washington, DC:

Lindsey Graham compares fellow Republican Tommy Tuberville to Nazi appeasers

Trump’s political U-turns

Monday 10 June 2024 16:00 , Oliver O’Connell

Donald Trump has executed three perfect U-turns within the last two weeks, three times acting in complete contradiction to his earlier public statements on three separate issues, his conscience cheerily untroubled.

Joe Sommerlad reports:

Trump’s political U-turns: What he said vs what he did

Giuliani calls DA Fani Willis a ‘ho’ to rapturous reaction at Christian rally

Monday 10 June 2024 15:45 , Oliver O’Connell

Rudy Giuliani, former mayor and US attorney, called Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis a “ho” before making fun of her name at a far-right conference.

Over the weekend, Giuliani referred to the Georgia prosecutor as “Fani the ho” at the ReAwaken America Tour, videos posted online show.

The former mayor of New York City then complained that the spelling of her name does not align with its pronunciation.

Kelly Rissman has the story:

Giuliani calls DA Fani Willis a ‘ho’ to rapturous reaction at Christian rally

Trump calls Jan 6 rioters ‘warriors’ at Nevada rally

Monday 10 June 2024 15:30 , Joe Sommerlad

Martha McHardy has more on Trump’s latest attempt to elicit sympathy for the “Stop the Steal” insurrectionists, attempting to paint them as victims of “injustice”, just like himself, after being prosecuted for attempting to subvert democracy by laying siege to the US Capitol for the first time since the Revolutionary War.

Trump calls Jan 6 rioters ‘warriors’ at Nevada rally

Trump fundraising off meeting with probation officer

Monday 10 June 2024 15:25 , Oliver O’Connell

Trump attorney requests oral arguments in Fani Willis disqualification appeal

Monday 10 June 2024 15:15 , Oliver O’Connell

Steve Sadow, Donald Trump’s lead attorney in the Georgia election subversion case, has requested oral arguments at the Georgia Court of Appeals on whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should be disqualified.

If the court accepts his request, oral arguments are tentatively scheduled for October.

Cringeworthy single declares Trump the ‘chosen one’

Monday 10 June 2024 15:00 , Joe Sommerlad

MAGA “musician” Natasha Owens has released a stomach-turning new single entitled “The Chosen One”, complete with a music video, drawing bizarre parallels between Trump and Jesus Christ, just as the candidate himself has on multiple occasions and Marj Greene did in Vegas yesterday.

The former president, naturally, shared the song in a Truth Social post on Friday.

Katie Hawkinson has more so read on, if you dare.

Cringeworthy single declares Donald Trump is the ‘chosen one’ picked by the Lord

Trump’s tactics for vengeance just got a whole lot clearer

Monday 10 June 2024 14:30 , Joe Sommerlad

The fallout from Trump’s conviction on 34 charges related to the falsification of business records last months has turned out to be manifold but one of the main takeaways so far has been that it has allowed Republicans to play out their revenge fantasies.

Last Thursday, the presidential candidate told TV psychologist Dr Phil in an interview that “sometimes revenge can be justified.”

During the same show, he and the host both pleaded for the investigations into Trump to stop.

Most Republican actions – particularly in the House of Representatives and on the state level – could be interpreted as an act of revenge these days.

That’s because most of them feel Trump was wronged by Democrats and the “Deep State” and that the multiple investigations and two impeachments are somehow proof of that.

But Trump has not been shy about his very personal desire for revenge.

Here’s more from Eric Garcia.

Trump’s revenge plans just got way more specific

Tulsi Gabbard pitches new role for herself: Trump’s defense secretary

Monday 10 June 2024 14:00 , Joe Sommerlad

Former House Democrat Tulsi Gabbard appears to have thrown herself into consideration for secretary of state or defense secretary in a potential Trump administration.

Gabbard, who has reportedly met with the Trump campaign in recent months, was asked on the Wisconsin-based radio show The Regular Joe Show last week whether there was “one thing” she could do that “would be serving the country in the best way possible” if Trump is elected president.

“I think there are a few different ways I could serve, as secretary of state, secretary of defense. There are a few different ways I believe I could best serve our country,” she said.

“Ultimately, we’ve got to save our country and win this election. I look forward to finding the best way that I can do that.”

Gabbard endorsed Biden after she dropped out of the Democratic primary race in 2020 and then left the party altogether in 2022.

Alex Woodward has more.

Tulsi Gabbard pitches a new role for herself: Trump’s defense secretary

A self-described ‘s** poster’ launched a Trump conviction conspiracy theory with one Facebook message

Monday 10 June 2024 13:30 , Joe Sommerlad

Here’s Josh Marcus on the potential hornet’s nest stirred up by “Michael Anderson”.

Trump jury verdict center of conspiracy theory after Michael Anderson Facebook post

Trump judge alerts lawyers to social-media post from ‘juror’s cousin’ saying a conviction was in the bag

Monday 10 June 2024 13:00 , Joe Sommerlad

The judge presiding over Trump’s hush money trial has meanwhile alerted prosecutors and the former president’s defense team about a Facebook post from an apparent social media troll announcing Trump’s conviction one day before a jury announced a guilty verdict.

A brief letter from New York Justice Juan Merchan on Friday tells the parties that the court “became aware of a comment” from a user named “Michael Anderson” that states: “My cousin is a juror and says Trump is getting convicted… Thank you folks for all your hard work!!!!”

The comment was posted under an unrelated post on the New York court system’s Facebook page from May 29, the day before jurors found Trump guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records, according to the letter.

A Facebook profile that appears to belong to the person who posted that comment – as well as similar comments on the court’s page – describes himself as a “professional s***poster”.

Judge Merchan asks both sides to view the comment.

Alex Woodward has more.

Trump judge alerts lawyers to Facebook post claiming guilty verdict was coming

DA Bragg agrees to testify to House Judiciary Committee over Trump trial

Monday 10 June 2024 12:30 , Joe Sommerlad

Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg has agreed to give testimony before a House Judiciary Committee panel regarding Trump’s hush money trial.

The former president has maintained his innocence despite his conviction. He is expected to appeal the court’s ruling, and has also sought refuge by arguing he has “presidential immunity” – even though the crimes in question took place before he became the president – which will be argued before the US Supreme Court.

Bragg’s testimony comes at the demand of House Judiciary chair Jim Jordan, who sent a letter last month stating that the DA and Matthew Colangelo, a prosecutor on the case, participate in a House panel on June 13.

Graig Graziosi has more.

Alvin Bragg agrees to testify to Republicans in Congress after Trump guilty verdict

Truth Social: Trump pledges no tax on tips for service workers

Monday 10 June 2024 12:00 , Joe Sommerlad

On social media, Trump has been busy dumping the usual mess of flimsy Biden attacks, rally clips and promotions for his business ventures (currently his Scottish golf courses and golden sneakers), amongst which, for once, you will also find an actual policy: his call for an end to taxes on tips for service industry workers, as trailed in Vegas.

He also finally comes out to endorse Sam Brown in Nevada’s Senate race and promotes high praise for his own campaign from, er, UFC president Dana White.

Here’s more on his tax promise from Martha McHardy.

Trump makes bid for service workers’ backing by saying he won’t tax tips

Sunday shows: Trump cheerleaders talk D-Day and deporting legal migrants

Monday 10 June 2024 11:30 , Joe Sommerlad

JD Vance, Lindsey Graham and Kristi Noem were out in force for the former president yesterday but should probably have stayed in bed. With friends like these…

Here’s John Bowden on Graham’s suprise attack on fellow Republican Tommy Tuberville over Ukraine.

Lindsey Graham compares fellow Republican Tommy Tuberville to Nazi appeasers

MTG compares Trump to Jesus Christ

Monday 10 June 2024 11:00 , Joe Sommerlad

Trump was introduced at Sunset Park by the attention-seeking Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and by Michael McDonald, chair of the state Republican Party, who both struck a disturbingly culty note in praising the Dear Leader in faux-Christian terms.