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Donald Trump is known to have met with Florida governor Ron DeSantis in Miami on Sunday so as to resolve their variations after a bruising main rivalry in time for November’s presidential election.

Mr DeSantis’s marketing campaign for the GOP nomination resulted in disappointment in January after failing to dwell as much as expectations and after he was brutally taunted by the previous president, who now hopes to capitalise on his affect with Sunshine State conservative donors and sat down with him for an hours-long assembly to bury the hatchet.

Mr Trump in any other case spent his weekend lashing out at quite a lot of his enemies on Truth Social, from unbiased candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr to outgoing Utah senator Mitt Romney, however reserved explicit ire for President Joe Biden and comic Colin Jost after they joked about him on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night time.

Mr Biden teased his election rival by saying his hush cash trial, which resumes on Tuesday, had left him dealing with “Stormy weather”, nicknamed him “Sleepy Don” and admitted that age was a difficulty within the contest in any case: “I’m a grown man running against a six-year-old”.

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Truth Social: Trump posts ‘STOP THE PROTESTS NOW!!!’

Here he’s, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, not figuring out that American residents have a constitutional proper to protest.

Joe Sommerlad29 April 2024 12:45

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New York hush cash trial: Key takeaways from first week of testimony

Trump’s trial will not be occurring on Monday however can be again tomorrow with extra testimony from banker Gary Forro and others.

Here’s Kelly Rissman on what we discovered from week one correct.

Joe Sommerlad29 April 2024 12:30

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Barr: Angry Trump usually proposed executing his rivals

I don’t know what’s extra chilling about this revelation from Trump’s former US lawyer common Bill Barr: that the forty fifth president mentioned this form of factor on the White House or that Barr plans to vote for him once more in November anyway.

Here’s Kelly Rissman’s report on Barr’s latest declaration of assist for a person he as soon as in comparison with a “nine-year-old child” (three years older than Biden positioned him).

Joe Sommerlad29 April 2024 12:00

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Trump invitations himself to the White House to debate Biden

The former president turned felony defendant has abruptly begun to place strain on his successor to debate him, regardless of refusing to look on stage along with his rivals for the Republican nomination final yr.

Speaking outdoors of Manhattan Criminal Court on Friday, he proposed the White House as the perfect venue for such a contest, which Biden has mentioned he’s greater than keen to be a part of.

Here’s extra on Trump’s problem from Andrew Feinberg, Eric Garcia and Josh Marcus.

Joe Sommerlad29 April 2024 11:30

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Biden trails Trump in ballot displaying RFK Jr profitable one in six voters

Here’s extra from John Bowden on CNN’s newest ballot suggesting RFK Jr is having a critical impression on the presidential race, little question a significant factor behind Trump’s sustained assault on the Kennedy household’s black sheep over the weekend.

Joe Sommerlad29 April 2024 11:00

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‘Stormy weather’: Biden pokes enjoyable at Trump at White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Another goal of Trump’s fury was Saturday Night Live common Colin Jost, who roasted him remorselessly on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night.

Notoriously thin-skinned, there’s no means the Republican was going to take jokes like these with good grace.

Trump refused to attend the occasion when he was commander-in-chief after being mocked remorselessly in particular person by Barack Obama when he did go in 2011, with the forty fourth president riotouslessly sending up the Republican’s ludicrous “birther” conspiracy principle of the time.

President Biden additionally received in on the act on Saturday, teasing his election rival by saying his hush cash trial had left him dealing with “Stormy weather”, nicknamed him “Sleepy Don” for dozing in courtroom and admitted that age was a difficulty within the race for the White House in any case: “I’m a grown man running against a six-year-old”.

Here’s extra on the night time from Ariana Baio.

Joe Sommerlad29 April 2024 10:30

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Truth Social: Trump spends weekend lashing out at enemies

The former president was in any other case busy this weekend attacking his quite a few enemies on his social media platform, going after everybody from President Biden to California governor Gavin “Newscum” whereas getting in jabs at outgoing Utah senator Mitt Romney and even Bill Maher and Howard Stern.

He reserved explicit venom for unbiased presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr, nonetheless, amid latest polling indicating the anti-vaxxer is attracting the assist of potential Trump voters.

Here’s Ariana Baio with extra on his indignant response to RFK Jr, who has claimed he was approached by the Trump marketing campaign to be the Orange One’s working mate.

Joe Sommerlad29 April 2024 10:00

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Trump and DeSantis meet in Miami to bury hatchet after bitter main rivalry

Donald Trump is known to have met with Florida governor Ron DeSantis in Miami on Sunday so as to resolve their variations after a bruising main rivalry in time for November’s presidential election.

DeSantis’s marketing campaign for the GOP nomination resulted in disappointment in January after failing to dwell as much as expectations and after he was brutally taunted by the previous president, who now hopes to capitalise on his affect with Sunshine State conservative donors and sat down with him for an hours-long assembly to bury the hatchet, in accordance with The Washington Post.

Trump has constantly fallen behind President Joe Biden’s fundraising efforts to this point and is exploring all avenues as he seeks to make up the distinction.

Although the front-runner ridiculed DeSantis all through the marketing campaign – taking credit score for his election to the governor’s mansion, mocking him for carrying heeled cowboy boots to look taller and calling him “Ron DeSanctimonious” and “Meatball Ron” – the governor endorsed Trump for the presidency when he introduced the suspension of his marketing campaign.

The pair have reportedly not spoken since, nonetheless, and DeSantis was branded “a sad little man” in February by Trump marketing campaign aide Chris LaCivita after criticising the candidate.

Sunday’s detente was meant to convey an finish to that animosity between the 2 males.

Then-Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis speaks to supporters at a caucus night time celebration in West Des Moines, Iowa, on 15 January (AP)

Joe Sommerlad29 April 2024 09:35

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Good morning!

Hello and welcome to The Independent’s dwell protection of Donald Trump’s race for the White House and quite a few authorized entanglements.

The Republican presidential candidate’s New York hush cash trial is in recess on Monday however, by no means concern, there’s loads extra happening in Trumpworld to maintain us occupied.

Joe Sommerlad29 April 2024 09:15

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