Trump tells Maga supporters in the Bronx: ‘If a New Yorker can’t save this country, no one can’: Live – The Independent

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During his latest campaign event in Crotona Park, South Bronx, the former president said he was ‘thrilled’ to be back campaigning in New York City, which he modestly claimed he had ‘helped build’
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Donald Trump has made the extraordinary claim that his US-Mexico border wall was just three weeks from completion when he left the White House during an address to his supporters in New York City, whereas only a fraction of the barrier had been erected by January 2021.
In his first rally in the Big Apple in eight years, the Republican presidential candidate told the crowd at Crotona Park in the South Bronx on Thursday: “If a New Yorker can’t save this country, no one can.”
Mr Trump also declared he was “thrilled” to be back campaigning in New York, which he modestly claimed to have “helped build”, also using the occasion to attack illegal immigration and make a series of false claims about his record in office.
He promised a major mass deportation operation should he regain the Oval Office, pledged to indemnify police officers against prosecution and praised Hungary’s “strongman” prime minister Viktor Orban.
It comes after another big week for the former president in the courts.
Manhattan prosecutors and defense attorneys rested their cases in his high-profile hush money trial ahead of closing arguments on Tuesday while a Florida pre-trial hearing into the classified documents against him collapsed into a chaotic shouting match.
Here’s Gustaf Kilander on a very delicious irony indeed.
If convicted, Mr Trump may find himself running in an election that he cannot vote in
Former FBI director James Comey is confident that the Manhattan district attorney’s hush money case against Trump is strong enough that he will be convicted, he told NewsNation.
Comey, who served as director of the FBI from 2013 until 2017, said that the prosecution built a “very strong circumstantial case” by tying together evidence like documents, checks, phone calls, messages and Trump’s words to prove their allegations.
“There’s an overwhelming chance of a conviction, a significant, but much smaller chance, of a hung jury and zero chance of an acquittal,” Comey told host Dan Abrams on Wednesday.
Ariana Baio reports.
Manhattan District Attorney’s office has ‘overwhelming chance’ of convicting Donald Trump, said former prosecutor
A jury of 12 New Yorkers will soon decide Trump’s fate in the first-ever criminal trial of a sitting or former president – and their decision could hit the former president’s bank balance.
Ariana Baio looks at just how much a guilty verdict could cost him.
Justice Juan Merchan will decide how much Donald Trump owes if convicted of criminal charges
In 20 days over the course of five weeks, after 22 witnesses and more than 200 documents have been presented, Manhattan prosecutors and defense attorneys have rested their cases.
Alex Woodward, who has been in court every day to watch the trial unfold, explains what exactly prosecutors need to prove for a jury to convict the former president.
Did Trump falsify business records? And did he do it to conceal or commit another crime? And which ones?
The first-ever criminal trial of an American president is now drawing to a close in Manhattan Criminal Court after five weeks of extraordinary testimony and courtroom antics.
Here’s what to expect regarding the verdict, which will be in the jury’s hands from next week.
With the first criminal trial of a current or former president nearing its end, here’s what to expect
Donald Trump isn’t known for letting slights pass.
Yet for weeks, the famously combative presumptive Republican nominee has sat silently — to the point of sometimes seeming asleep — in a sterile Manhattan courtroom amid a barrage of accusations and insults.
There were the times his former fixer-turned-chief prosecution witness was quoted calling him a “boorish cartoon misogynist” and a “Cheeto-dusted” villain who belonged in a “cage, like an animal.”
There were the graphic details relayed by a porn actor about the night she claims they had sex.
And there were lengthy descriptions of what the prosecution argues was an illegal scheme to conceal hush money payments to salvage his then-flailing 2016 campaign.
Through it all, even as he and his allies attacked the case outside the courtroom, Trump has spent the majority of his time as a criminal defendant sitting nearly motionless for hours, leaning back in his burgundy leather chair with his eyes closed.
He ultimately chose not to testify in a case that made him the first former president in the nation’s history to stand trial on criminal charges.
Closing arguments in the case are scheduled for Tuesday, after which a jury will decide whether to make him the first former president and major party nominee convicted of felony charges.
Donald Trump isn’t known for letting slights pass
US attorney general Merrick Garland has taken the rare step of directly refuting a claim made by Donald Trump.
The AG appeared at a press conference in Washington DC on Thursday where he took a question from a reporter on the presidential candidate’s claim that FBI agents were “authorized” by Joe Biden to use “deadly force” against him when they raided his estate and resort at Mar-a-Lago in August of 2022.
Mr Trump made the claim on his Truth Social platform on Tuesday after newly unsealed court filings showed that four additional classified documents were discovered in his bedroom in the months following the initial search.
“That allegation is false, and it is extremely dangerous,” Garland said.
The AG himself personally approved the search of Trump’s home before the appointment of a special counsel to handle the department’s prosecution of the former president in two separate cases.
“The document that is being referred to in the allegation is the Justice Department’s standard policy limiting the use of force,” Garland continued.
“As the FBI advises, it is part of a standard operations plan for searches and, in fact, it was even used in the consensual search of President Biden’s home.”
John Bowden reports.
Top Justice Department official explained how former president misconstrued ‘deadly force’ language
Trump yesterday again revived the controversial lyrics that he has so often turned to on the campaign trail to excite those of a xenophobic disposition.
But is that what civil rights activist Oscar Brown’s composition was ever really about? His family says not.
You can examine the words yourself below and make up your own minds.
The Republican front-runner for presidency has recently revived recitations of controversial parable that he argues is a warning against accepting refugees
Here’s another extraordinary line spotted by the IndyTV team.
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Donald Trump addresses his supporters at a campaign rally in Crotona Park in the South Bronx, New York City, on Thursday 23 May 2024
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