Trump news today: Trump dismisses classified documents scandal at Fox town hall as Dominion lawsuit goes unmentioned
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Donald Trump sat down with Sean Hannity for a town hall in Iowa on Thursday evening to answer questions from local voters, although almost all of the questions came from the Fox News host himself.
Before a raucous and adoring crowd, the Republican former president was asked about domestic and foreign policy topics, claiming he would solve most within six months of retaking office, boasting of his tough stance towards Russia and Iran.
When other GOP primary candidates like Ron DeSantis and Asa Hutchinson were brought up, he dismissed the threat they posed as his audience booed and jeered the very mention of their names.
But there was no mention whatsoever of Fox’s recent $787m settlement with Dominion Voting Systems over the former’s coverage of Mr Trump’s bogus claims that the 2020 presidential election fraud was “rigged” against him by a vast Democrat-led conspiracy to deprive him of a second term.
Mr Trump did use the opportunity provided to try to shoot down the latest allegations that he knowingly stored classified Pentagon documents from his presidency at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, insisting: “I don’t know anything about it. All I know is everything did was right.”
Trump accuses DeSantis of faking his own name
The 45th president on Wednesday claimed that Mr DeSantis was looking to “change his name”.
“Have you heard that ‘Rob’ DeSanctimonious wants to change his name, again,” Mr Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.
“He is demanding that people call him DeeeSantis, rather than DaSantis. Actually, I like “Da” better, a nicer flow, so I am happy he is changing it.
“He gets very upset when people, including reporters, don’t pronounce it correctly. Therefore, he shouldn’t mind, DeSanctimonious?”
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Alisha Rahaman Sarkar2 June 2023 09:00
Ex-Biden Chief of Staff Ron Klain says ‘calm down you nervous nellies’ after Biden fall
Gustaf Kilander2 June 2023 07:00
Underestimated McCarthy emerges from debt deal empowered as speaker, still threatened by far right
Underestimated from the start, the Republican who cruised around his California hometown of Bakersfield and stumbled into a career in Congress was never taken too seriously by the Washington establishment.
With overwhelming House passage of the debt ceiling and budget deal he negotiated with President Joe Biden, the emergent speaker proved the naysayers and eye-rollers otherwise. A relentless force, he pushed a reluctant White House to the negotiating table and delivered the votes from his balky House GOP majority to seal the deal.
“You still ask the same questions each week: Do you think you can pass the bill this week. Do you think you will still be speaker next week,” McCarthy chided reporters after Wednesday’s late night vote.
“Keep underestimating us,” he said, “and we’ll keep proving to the American public that we’ve never given up.”
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Lisa Mascaro, AP2 June 2023 05:00
Watch Biden trip and fall on-stage at Air Force graduation ceremony
Joe Biden falls at the Air Force Graduation
The president dropped to his knees but was quickly helped back to his feet during the event at the service academy in Colorado Springs on Thursday, to cheers from the crowd.
The 80-year-old President had been handing out diplomas and thanking the Academy graduates for choosing “service over self” before the fall.
Mr Biden pointed to a black sandbag on the stage seemingly blaming it for the stumble.
Watch moment Biden trips and falls on-stage in Colorado
Joe Biden tripped and fell on stage as he took part in the Air Force graduation ceremony in Colorado. The president dropped to his knees but was quickly helped back to his feet during the event at the service academy in Colorado Springs on Thursday, to cheers from the crowd. The 80-year-old President had been handing out diplomas and thanking the Academy graduates for choosing “service over self” before the fall. Mr Biden pointed to a black sandbag on the stage seemingly blaming it for the stumble.
Oliver O’Connell2 June 2023 04:00
Woman interrupts DeSantis speech to claim her son’s murder was covered up
The woman who made the accusation was led out of the facility where the rally was being held. As she was walking out of the event, the woman threw down a DeSantis hat she was holding and vowed to replace with a hat representing former President Donald Trump.
Oliver O’Connell2 June 2023 03:45
Trump plays down legal threat of secret papers recording
Donald Trump returned to a familiar refrain on Thursday, insisting once again that he had done nothing wrong even as new challenges pop up seemingly every day for the ex-president who faces a bevy of criminal and civil investigations.
John Bowden filed this report.
Oliver O’Connell2 June 2023 03:21
Watch: Trump claims he will have US ‘hopping in six months’
Oliver O’Connell2 June 2023 03:01
And with that, the town hall is over after just two audience questions.
Oliver O’Connell2 June 2023 03:00
Trump reiterates his claim that he could stop Russia’s war on Ukraine in 24 hours.
Trump says it’s because he knows both Putin and Zelensky.
He then claims the death toll in Ukraine is way higher than what’s being reported: “The numbers are much different than what you’re being told.”
Oliver O’Connell2 June 2023 02:55