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Donald Trump opened up a marginal two percentage point lead over Joe Biden this week in the race for the White House, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, leading by 41 per cent to 39 per cent, with the remainder undecided, planning to support a third-party candidate or abstain altogether.
Meanwhile, it has been alleged that the Republican raged at House speaker Mike Johnson in the wake of his being found guilty at his New York hush money trial last month, demanding he help overturn the verdict.
That comes as Trump returns to the US Capitol for the first time since his supporters laid siege to it on January 6 2021 to meet with House and Senate GOP lawmakers behind closed doors on Thursday.
The presidential contender has also recorded an appearance on social media star Logan Paul’s podcast that will drop later today and will address a gathering of CEOs in DC this evening.
Trailing his interview with Paul, Trump was seen in an X video presenting the host with a pair of MAGA caps and a T-shirt bearing his notorious mugshot, declaring the image was so famous he had “eclipsed” Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra.
The State of Georgia has filed a motion to dismiss an appeal by Donald Trump and his co-defendants in the Fulton County 2020 election subversion case on the ruling that allows District Attorney Fani Willis to remain on the case.
Trump and his co-accused have fought hard to have Willis removed from the case over her affair with colleague and lead prosecutor Nathan Wade. After a contentious hearing in February and March, Judge Scott McAfee ruled that while Willis could continue to prosecute the case, Wade would have to resign, which he did.
You can read the full filing on the motion to dismiss Trump’s appeal of the ruling here.
Last night, Wade spoke with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins about his removal from prosecuting the former president:
Nathan Wade, a former prosecutor in the Georgia election case against Donald Trump, spoke to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Wednesday.
Here’s our coverage of Willis accepting Wade’s resignation in March:
Attorneys underscore Trump’s alleged efforts to overthrow 2020 results
Here’s Michelle Del Rey to tell us who is being briefed against as our man prepares to name his new sidekick at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee next month.
A source said the star might not be as bright on one candidate to be Trump’s Vice President as many believe.
Trump is surely waaay too petty and nowhere near magnanimous enough to do this, isn’t he?
Nevertheless, former Trump campaign aide David Urban suggested as much on CNN’s Out Front with Erin Burnett last night, telling the host:
“Listen, what I’d like to see happen is I’d like to see President Trump come out with a statement saying, ‘Look, if Hunter Biden commits to a program of sobriety, inpatient or maybe outpatient, shows up, keeps his sobriety, I’ll pardon him.
“I’d love for President Trump to say that. It would be a magnanimous offer on his part, shows humanity and, and really flip the tables on the Democrats.”
A day after CNN called out Fox’s hypocrisy over the Trump and Hunter Biden verdicts, here’s JD Vance and Laura Ingraham ably demonstrating precisely what Abby Phillip was talking about.
This was also pretty brazen from “Judge” Jeanine Pirro.
Trump opened up a marginal two percentage point lead over Joe Biden this week in the race for the White House, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, as voters consider the recent criminal convictions of both the Republican candidate and the president’s son Hunter Biden.
An estimated 41 per cent of registered voters in the two-day poll, which closed on Tuesday, said they would vote for Trump if the election were held today, while 39 per cent opted for the Democratic incumbent.
Some 20 per cent of voters said they remained undecided, were leaning toward third-party options or might not vote at all on November 5.
The Republican was so angry when the guilty verdict was read aloud at his New York hush money trial last month that he was heard afterwards subjecting Mike Johnson, the speaker of the House of Representatives, to a foul-mouthed rant by phone, according to a new report.
Politico’s Playbook newsletter recounts that the GOP presidential contender was overheard “dropping frequent F-bombs” in his call with Johnson on May 30 as he told the speaker: “We have to overturn this.”
Here’s our report.
Presidential candidate was reportedly overheard ‘dropping frequent F-bombs’ on phone to House speaker
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Protesters demonstrate before US former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump meets with House and Senate Republicans at Capitol Hill
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