Biden mocks Trump as “great king of MAGA” in his speech on economics
As Donald Trump’s nominee, David Purdue, struggles to gain momentum in Georgia’s gubernatorial election, Mike Pence has announced he will visit the state to vote for incumbent President Brian Kemp, a Republican who has refused to bow. Mr Trump that the state was stolen by Joe Biden in 2020
Meanwhile, an elected commission investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol issued summonses to House Speaker Minority Kevin McCarthy and four other Republican lawmakers who are close allies of Donald Trump: Jim Jordan, Ohio, and Ohio. from Pennsylvania, Andy Biggs from Arizona and Mo Brooks from Alabama. Everyone was given the opportunity to testify voluntarily.
And the Justice Department is now investigating whether former President Trump or one of his aides violated federal law by mishandling classified documents that end up in Mar-a-Lago instead of the national archives at the end of his term.
On Friday, the former president shared some thoughts about Elon Musk’s plan to buy Twitter, saying the billionaire would not pay a “ridiculous price” for the platform, as it is mostly “BOTs or spam accounts.”
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Trump says Elon Musk will not buy Twitter at such a “ridiculous price”
Donald Trump says Elon Musk will not buy Twitter at “such a ridiculous price” after the billionaire announced that he had stopped buying the platform for $ 44 billion.
The Tesla boss says he is “still committed” to buying Twitter, but that the deal has been postponed until he gathers more information about spam and fake accounts on the platform.
Mr Musk has promised to put Mr Trump back on the platform once he takes control of it, but the one-term president has questioned what will ever happen in a post on his own platform, Truth Social.
Oliver O’Connell May 13, 2022 5:55 p.m.
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ICYMI: Pro-Trump Netflix may be ahead of you
A custom social media platform (albeit a concern) is very good, but Donald Trump now seems to be pursuing another venture to provide “refuge” for the president’s fans: a right-wing alternative to Netflix.
The Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) is recruiting for the new venture. In an ad released Wednesday, the group announced that a streaming service called TMTG + would be a “Big Tent platform offering broad-based entertainment based on free speech.”
He added that “in addition to the social media platform Truth Social, our SVOD [Subscription Video on Demand] the TMTG + platform will be home to a wide variety of unscripted, scripted and original content. ”
Shravasti Dasgupta has more.
Oliver O’Connell May 13, 2022 5:37 p.m.
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Trump is thinking about Elon Musk’s intention to buy Twitter
Former President Donald Trump visited his own social media site, Truth Social, to share some thoughts on Elon Musk’s intention to buy Twitter.
He wrote (right?): “There’s no way Elon Musk can buy Twitter at such a ridiculous price, especially since he realizes it’s a company based largely on BOTS or spam accounts. Fake someone? “
The former president continued: “Until you get rid of them, if this can be done at all, what do you have? Not many? Had it not been for the ridiculous bill of separation fee of billions of dollars, Elon would have disappeared. In my opinion, Truth Social is MUCH better than Twitter and is an absolutely explosive, incredible commitment! ”
Mr Musk said earlier that he would allow Mr Trump to return to Twitter, which he has been banned from since 6 January 2021. Earlier today, Mr Musk said his purchase of the website for social media for microblogging is “on hold” while a review of how many bots and spam accounts exist on the platform.
Oliver O’Connell 13 May 2022 17:26
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Kevin McCarthy stands up …
After being summoned by an elected committee on Jan. 6, House of Representatives minority leader Kevin McCarthy appears to be keeping a lower-than-usual profile as he spends his day on Capitol Hill:
Andrew Naughtie13 May 2022 17:15
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Musk insists Twitter sales are still ongoing
Elon Musk tweeted shares on Twitter overnight, saying he was pausing his plans to buy the company while assessing its estimates of how fake or spammed the account was.
Since then, however, he has sought to calm things down:
Mr Musk reiterated that he would like to see the recovery of Donald Trump’s Twitter account, although the former president has said (for now) that he intends to stay on his own platform, the troubled Truth Social.
Andrew Naughtie13 May 2022 16:45
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Lindsay Graham says he was “wrong” by proposing Biden to be president on Jan. 6.
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham was not flattered by the recent release of audio recordings following the Jan. 6 riots, which he said Donald Trump was responsible for the day’s events and said Joe Biden would be “perhaps the best man.” in the White House.
Now Mr Graham has returned to his comments, telling Fox News presenter Jesse Waters that he was “wrong” about Mr Biden.
“I’ve known Joe for 30 years. He is a good man, but it was a disaster as president, “he said. “No one is afraid of Joe Biden abroad, and his policies at home are failing.
Eric Garcia has the story.
Andrew Naughtie13 May 2022 16:16
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Pence broke up with Trump in the race for governor of Georgia
Supporter of Donald Trump in the race for governor of Georgia David Purdue failed to catch up gloomily with Republican President Brian Kemp. And with the vote scheduled for May 24, Mr. Kemp attracted his own supporter: Mike Pence.
Although Pence did not explicitly condemn Mr Trump for his actions after the 2020 election, Mr Trump essentially ruled out his inclusion in a future presidential ticket. For his part, Mr Pence continued the campaign-style speech and speeches across the country, sparking some speculation that he could step down for the presidency if Mr Trump does not run or is unable to run.
Andrew Naughtie13 May 2022 15:29
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Report: The Justice Department under Trump called a reporter’s phone records
It turned out that during the Trump administration, the Department of Justice issued a summons for the telephone recordings of an investigative reporter who was reviewing his policy of separating families on the US border.
The journalist in question was Stephanie Kirchgesner of The Guardian – and the newspaper itself was apparently not informed of the summons at the time of its publication.
Gino Spokia has the news.
Andrew Naughtie13 May 2022 15:00
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Hillbilly Elegy director “surprised” by JD Vance’s far right turn
Ron Howard, who is directing a widespread film adaptation of JD Vance’s memoirs on Appalachian cultural dysfunction, Hillbilly Elegy, says he is surprised by the embrace of Donald Trump’s candidate and hard-line politics.
“I always knew he was conservative, but [he] he seemed to me a very right-wing center, a kind of moderate thinker, “the director told the Hollywood Reporter, noting that the film he was directing” was never intended to suggest that he was heading in the direction of politics. “
Around the time his well-received book made him nationally famous, Mr. Vance was a ruthless critic of Donald Trump, whom he warned could become “Hitler of America” and described as the political equivalent of fiercely addicted opiates. who ruined life in the region where he grew up. But during this year’s Ohio Senate primary, Mr. Vance became an ardent Trumpist and a warlike cultural warrior.
Read more from Abe Usher below.
Andrew Naughtie13 May 2022 14:30
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ICYMI: Prosecutors are investigating Trump Mar-a-Lago documents
The Justice Department has launched an investigation into how several boxes of official documents from the Trump administration, some of which are classified, ended up in Mar-a-Lago instead of being handed over to the National Archives, as required by law.
Under federal law, all records created during Mr. Trump’s tenure are owned by the United States and had to be transferred to the archives by the time he left office on January 20, 2021.
The investigation aims to determine how the boxes of documents were transported to Florida, who is responsible for their packaging, whether anyone knew that classified materials were exported from the White House improperly and how they were stored in Florida, according to The New YorkTimes.
Andrew Feinberg and Gustav Kilander have the story.
Andrew Naughtie13 May 2022 14:00
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