Trump news – live: Trump snubs Ron DeSantis with Florida rally and shares post dismissing his 2024 chances

Donald Trump has announced four rallies for the home stretch of the midterm elections, taking him to Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida and Iowa. He will campaign alongside various Republican candidates but is snubbing several others – including those fighting competitive races in Arizona, Georgia and Nevada.

However, his Florida rally will apparently not feature Governor Ron DeSantis, who is considered his most viable opponent in a hypothetical Republican 2024 presidential primary. Mr DeSantis himself is up for re-election but is expected to have no trouble winning his race against former governor Charlie Crist.

The former president also shared a post on Truth Social in which Megyn Kelly says she thinks the Republican base wouldn’t leave Mr Trump to support anyone else unless he picked them personally.

Meanwhile, Mr Trump’s attorneys have received the January 6 committee’s subpoena compelling the former president to appear for deposition by 14 November and turn over relevant documents.

The news comes after Mark Meadows, who served as Mr Trump’s chief of staff at the end of his presidency, failed in his latest attempt to avoid testifying to Georgia investigators looking into the former president’s efforts to pressure state officials into overturning the 2020 election.

Key points

• Trump shares Megyn Kelly rant blasting DeSantis’s 2024 chances

• Trump attorneys receive Jan 6 committee subpoena, report says

• Meadows ordered to testify in Georgia

• Former Trump valet in Justice Department sights

Trump shares Megyn Kelly rant blasting DeSantis’s 2024 chances

18:30 , Oliver O'Connell

Donald Trump gleefully shared comments made by former Fox News anchor and Trump nemesis Megyn Kelly dismissing the chances of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in 2024.

The former president shared the comments which were included in Dave Rubin’s podcast after Ms Kelly initially made them on The Rubin Report on 16 October.

Gustaf Kilander has the story.

Trump shares Megyn Kelly rant blasting DeSantis’s 2024 prospects

Justice Kagan blocks Jan 6 subpoena for Arizona GOP official’s phone records

17:56 , Oliver O'Connell

US Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan has temporarily blocked a subpoena from the House committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol seeking phone records for an Arizona Republican Party official who joined a scheme to falsely declare Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 presidential election.

Justice Kagan issued an administrative stay on 26 October, giving the full court a chance to weigh in on the decision.

Alex Woodward reports.

Justice Kagan blocks Jan 6 subpoena for Arizona GOP official’s phone records

Trump-flavoured violence rears its head in advance of midterm elections

17:15 , Andrew Naughtie

More than 40 per cent of voters are now worried about threats of violence or intimidation at the ballot box this year, according to polling from Reuters. The same survey found that 67 per cent of voters are worried about post-election violence – and an elections task force at the US Department of Justice also found that Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania are all particular hotbeds for threats against election workers.

There is no direct connection between Donald Trump and the sometimes armed vigilante groups that are cropping up to “defend” the integrity of the midterm elections, but as Alex Woodward writes, the rhetoric and tactics of these groups carry a distinct echo of January 6 – and of the lies Mr Trump has told about the 2020 election since before it was even held.

Read more:

Armed ‘vigilantes’ and conspiracy theorists threaten to disrupt midterm elections

ICYMI: Mark Meadows ordered to testify in Georgia

16:51 , Andrew Naughtie

A judge in South Carolina ruled that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows must testify before a grand jury in an investigation about Republican attempts to interfere in Georgia’s 2020 election, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

Circuit Court Judge Edward Miller denied Mr Meadows’s attempt to stop a petition to stop him from testifying in an investigation advised by Fulton County’s district attorney. Mr Miller said that going to Atlanta would not present an “undue hardship.”

“Well, you have eloquently enumerated your arguments, which I think perhaps an appellate court can review, but based on what’s before me today I’m going to find that the witness is material and necessary to the investigation,” Mr Miller told Mr Meadows’s attorney James Bannister.

Eric Garcia has the story:

Judge rules that Mark Meadows must testify in Georgia election meddling probe

Analysis: Why Trump isn’t campaigning in important states

16:15 , Andrew Naughtie

In today’s Inside Washington dispatch, Eric Garcia takes a look at Donald Trump’s latest midterm campaign rally itinerary, which includes stops in relatively safe Iowa and Florida but ignores Georgia, Nevada and Arizona.

As ever, it seems the logic underpinning the plans revolves around Mr Trump alone:

Read the full analysis below.

Trump is holding rallies in some strange places during the midterms. Here’s why

Fanone speaks at Jan 6 rioter’s sentencing

15:50 , Andrew Naughtie

Sentencing is underway in the case of Albuquerque Head (his real name), who has been found guilty of multiple offences at the January 6 riot. Among them is participating in the assault on police officer Michael Fanone, who has since spoken out many times about the brutality he and his fellow officers faced on the day – and who has been addressing the court today:

Tucker Carlson firing up election lies in advance of 8 November

15:15 , Andrew Naughtie

Donald Trump’s relentless lying about the theft of the 2020 election began well before that election was even held, and has not stopped in the two years since. And just as last time, the same sort of groundwork is being laid for any Democratic victories in important 2022 races to be violently disputed from the right:

Can Trump run again in 2024?

14:45 , Andrew Naughtie

Losing to Joe Biden in November 2020 may have dented Donald Trump’s pride, but it now seems almost certain that he will run again for the White House in 2024.

Mr Trump has not stopped fundraising since moving from Washington DC to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, amassing a war chest of well over $100m with which he can help boost Republicans who backed his “Big Lie” to defeat those in the GOP who did not.

And Mr Trump has been back out on the road this year ahead of the midterm elections. He’s been holding MAGA rallies in state after state with candidates he’s endorsed, insisting to crowds that he did not legitimately lose to Mr Biden and repeatedly hinting that he plans on avenging his defeat by running again.

So what, if anything, could stop him?

Here’s an analysis from Graeme Massie and Gustaf Kilander:

Can Trump run again in the 2024 election?

Trump finally receives Jan 6 subpoena – report

14:16 , Andrew Naughtie

Attorneys for former president Donald Trump have formally accepted service of a subpoena commanding the ex-president to provide documents and give evidence before the House January 6 select committee next month.

According to Politico, the select committee’s subpoena for the ex-president was received on Wednesday by Matthew Sarelson, an attorney for Mr Trump with the Dhillon Law Group.

The report that Mr Trump’s team has accepted the panel’s compulsory process comes just days after it was issued by the select committee’s chairman, Representative Bennie Thompson of Mississippi.

Andrew Feinberg has the story.

Trump attorneys receive Jan 6 committee subpoena, report says

Trump claims people voted 28 times in 2020

13:45 , Andrew Naughtie

Donald Trump gave an interview yesterday to Dinesh D’Souza, the longtime right-wing conspiracy merchant whose documentary 2000 Mules propagates numerous debunked claims about the supposed theft of the 2020 election. And in the course of their discussion, Mr Trump came out with an alarming figure: apparently, some people who took part in the last election voted up to 28 times in a day.

Palin: Trump has “nothing to hide” from Jan 6 panel

13:15 , Andrew Naughtie

At a four-way debate in Alaska’s ranked-choice congressional election campaign, former governor and early Trump presidential endorser Sarah Palin was asked what she thought of the January 6 committee’s subpoena for Donald Trump’s testimony. Her response? “Subpoena away!”

In her view, Mr Trump committed no crime and has nothing to hide. Whether he will actually comply with the subpoena and testify on 14 November, however, is not yet clear.

Trump teasing 2024 run with Iowa rally

12:45 , Oliver O'Connell

Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to return to Iowa ahead of the 8 November midterms, to headline a rally for Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds and Sen. Chuck Grassley.

The event, set for 3 November in Sioux City, the hub of Iowa’s conservative northwest, comes as Trump has continued to tease interest in a White House comeback campaign as he has campaigned around the country for Republican candidates.

Returning to Iowa, where the 2024 Republican presidential caucuses are scheduled to launch the GOP nominating sequence, would likely further stoke speculation of Trump’s future.

Trump to rally in Iowa ahead of Nov. 8 as he teases 2024

Trump attorneys in possession of Jan 6 committee subpoena, report says

12:15 , Andrew Naughtie

service of a subpoena commanding the ex-president to provide documents and give evidence before the House January 6 select committee next month.

According to Politico, the select committee’s subpoena for the ex-president was received on Wednesday by Matthew Sarelson, an attorney for Mr Trump with the Dhillon Law Group.

Andrew Feinberg has the story.

Trump attorneys receive Jan 6 committee subpoena, report says

Meadows must testify in Georgia election meddling probe, judge rules

11:45 , Oliver O'Connell

A judge in South Carolina ruled that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows must testify before a grand jury in an investigation about Republican attempts to interfere in Georgia’s 2020 election, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

Circuit Court Judge Edward Miller denied Mr Meadows’s attempt to stop a petition to stop him from testifying in an investigation advised by Fulton County’s district attorney. Mr Miller said that going to Atlanta would not present an “undue hardship.”

Eric Garcia reports.

Judge rules that Mark Meadows must testify in Georgia election meddling probe

Woodward: Trump refers to himself 100 times for every time he shows concern for American people

10:45 , Oliver O'Connell

Veteran journalist Bob Woodward, the author of three books about Donald Trump and a new audiobook of recordings of their conversations, says the former president’s narcissism was evident throughout those interviews.

Speaking on CNN on Tuesday, Mr Woodward elaborated on what he observed during his lengthy interactions with Mr Trump over his presidency.

Trump refers to himself 100 times for every mention of American people, Woodward says

Trump ‘could not spell Middle East’ says former donor and ally

09:45 , Oliver O'Connell

A California billionaire and known ally of Donald Trump maintained his innocence on charges of illegal lobbying on behalf of United Arab Emirates officials while criticising the former president’s awareness on foreign affairs.

Tom Barrack, 75, stood trial at a Brooklyn federal courtroom on Monday and Tuesday, where he and his legal team are fighting off charges that he used his position as chairman of Trump’s inaugural fund to influence US foreign policy in the early days of the administration.

Johanna Chisholm has the story.

Trump ally says ex-president inept on foreign affairs, couldn’t ‘spell Middle East’

Trump Jr calls stroke victim John Fetterman ‘brain dead’ in nasty attack

08:45 , Oliver O'Connell

Donald Trump Jr suggested that Pennsylvania Democrat candidate John Fetterman was “brain dead” after the lieutenant governor, who suffered a stroke in May, clashed with his Republican opponent in a highly anticipated debate on Tuesday.

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar has the story.

Trump Jr calls stroke victim John Fetterman ‘brain dead’ in nasty attack

Trump says Bob Woodward had ‘no right’ to release recordings of them

06:45 , Oliver O'Connell

Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Tuesday lunchtime to complain about veteran journalist Bob Woodward’s recent release of his recorded conversations with the former president.

Mr Trump wrote: “As he fully understands, writer Bob Woodward never got my permission to release tapes of my various interviews with him. Those tapes were allowed only for purposes of making sure that he got my quotes & statements correct for “the WRITTEN WORD,” in other words, for his, nevertheless, highly inaccurate book.”

Trump says Bob Woodward had ‘no right’ to release recordings of their conversations

Trump pressed Arizona GOP Senate candidate to keep pushing ‘big lie’

04:45 , Oliver O'Connell

A clip from new Tucker Carlson documentary on Arizona GOP Senate candidate Blake Masters’ campaign shows former President Donald Trump urging Mr Masters to more forcefully peddle the myth that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

Abe Asher has the story.

Trump pressed Arizona GOP Senate candidate to push ‘big lie’, documentary reveals

Liz Cheney predicts Trump 2024 nomination would ‘shatter’ GOP into two parties

03:45 , Oliver O'Connell

Liz Cheney has a dire outlook for the GOP if Donald Trump were to run for president and win the party’s nomination in 2024.

The conservative Wyoming congresswoman says the divides in her party are too deep to endure another run by the ex-president. Speaking on Meet the Press this past Sunday, she warned that they would be stressed to their breaking points should he do so.

John Bowden reports.

Liz Cheney predicts Trump would ‘shatter’ GOP into two parties if he is 2024 nominee

Biden has done ‘the impossible’ on Ukraine says ex-Trump ambassador

02:45 , Oliver O'Connell

The man whose testimony confirmed Donald Trump’s sham investigations for military aid quid-pro-quo tells Andrew Feinberg that Mr Trump’s successor has done ‘the impossible’ by rallying Nato and the EU in support of Kyiv.

Ex-Trump Ambassador Gordon Sondland says Biden has done ‘the impossible’ on Ukraine

Hunter Biden’s Burisma role was ‘corruption, straight off the bat’, says Jon Stewart

01:45 , Oliver O'Connell

Political commentator Jon Stewart did not mince words when sharing his views on the propriety of Hunter Biden — the son of Joe Biden — holding a position on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy sector holding company.

Stewart made clear he thought the situation was a clear case of corruption during a recent episode of his podcast, The Problem with Jon Stewart, Mediaite reports.

Graig Graziosi reports.

Jon Stewart says Hunter Biden’s Burisma role was ‘corruption, straight off the bat’

Would Trump be able to run again in the 2024 election?

Thursday 27 October 2022 00:45 , Oliver O'Connell

Donald Trump made history in becoming the first president in US history to be impeached twice by the House of Representatives.

But while losing to Joe Biden in November 2020 may have dented the one-term president’s pride and fuelled 18 months of lies about rigged ballot boxes, it now seems almost certain that Mr Trump will run again for the White House in 2024.

Here’s how he can:

Can Trump run again in the 2024 election?

What Trump quotes made it into Bartlett’s Quotations?

Wednesday 26 October 2022 23:45 , Oliver O'Connell

Trump’s quotes originate everywhere from a speech in Nevada (“I love the poorly educated!”) to one of his debates with Hillary Clinton (“Such a nasty woman”). One selection originates not directly from him, but from a conversation with then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions as documented in the Mueller Report: “Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I’m f—ked.”

From Trump to RBG, the new entries in Bartlett's Quotations

Will Elon Musk let Trump back on Twitter?

Wednesday 26 October 2022 22:45 , Oliver O'Connell

As Elon Musk looks poised to take control of Twitter, what does that mean for its most famous exile?

Would Elon Musk allow Donald Trump back on Twitter?

Trump teases 2024 run with Iowa rally ahead of midterms

Wednesday 26 October 2022 21:45 , Oliver O'Connell

Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to return to Iowa ahead of the 8 November midterms, to headline a rally for Republican Gov Kim Reynolds and Sen. Chuck Grassley.

The event, set for 3 November in Sioux City, the hub of Iowa’s conservative northwest, comes as Trump has continued to tease interest in a White House comeback campaign as he has campaigned around the country for Republican candidates.

Returning to Iowa, where the 2024 Republican presidential caucuses are scheduled to launch the GOP nominating sequence, would likely further stoke speculation of Trump’s future.

Trump to rally in Iowa ahead of Nov. 8 as he teases 2024

Trump attorneys receive Jan 6 committee subpoena, report says

Wednesday 26 October 2022 21:15 , Oliver O'Connell

Attorneys for former president Donald Trump have formally accepted service of a subpoena commanding the ex-president to provide documents and give evidence before the House January 6 select committee next month.

According to Politico, the select committee’s subpoena for the twice-impeached ex-president was received on Wednesday by Matthew Sarelson, an attorney for Mr Trump with the Dhillon Law Group.

Andrew Feinberg reports from Washington, DC.

Trump attorneys receive Jan 6 committee subpoena, report says

Why Trump will be most worried by DeSantis’s display of Maga-filled meanness

Wednesday 26 October 2022 21:00 , Oliver O'Connell

As the 44-year-old Ron DeSantis looks set to secure re-election in Florida and use it to very possibly as a platform to make a presidential run in 2024; he has an approval rating of 53 per cent, more than Donald Trump ever had when he was president.

Andrew Buncombe looks at what that might mean for Trump.

The person most worried by DeSantis’s display will be Trump | Analysis

Trump team receives Jan 6 subpoena, report says

Wednesday 26 October 2022 20:12 , Oliver O'Connell

Per Politico:

Attorneys for Donald Trump have accepted service of a subpoena issued by the Jan. 6 select committee demanding documents and testimony from the former president by next month.

A person familiar with the matter confirmed that attorneys for the former president agreed to formally receive the committee’s summons. A Trump spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The January 6 committee wants the former president to appear for deposition by 14 November and to provide relevant documents by 4 November.

DC court sets date for E Jean Carroll case oral arguments

Wednesday 26 October 2022 19:36 , Oliver O'Connell

A Washington, DC appeals court has set the date for oral arguments in E Jean Carroll’s defamation case against Donald Trump.

They will take place on 10 January 2023.

Mr Trump has already sat for a deposition in the case earlier this month.

Ms Carroll filed the suit in November 2019, five months after she came forward with her allegation that Mr Trump raped her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman in the mid-1990s.

The suit alleges Mr Trump defamed Ms Carroll when he responded to her allegation by accusing her of lying in a bid to bolster sales of her forthcoming book.

What we know about E Jean Carroll’s rape allegations against Donald Trump

What you need to know about the Trump Organization tax fraud trial

Wednesday 26 October 2022 19:10 , Oliver O'Connell

The Trump Organization, former President Donald Trump’s eponymous real estate business, is going to trial on charges of criminal tax fraud.

The company faces allegations that it enacted a scheme to help executives avoid paying income tax in a case that has entangled the company’s longtime Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg.

Here’s what you need to know:

Everything to know about the Trump Organization case

ICYMI: Hope Hicks to testify before Jan 6 committee

Wednesday 26 October 2022 18:32 , Oliver O'Connell

One of Donald Trump’s onetime closest White House advisers will testify before the Jan 6 committee on Tuesday in a sign that his once tight circle of advisers has now splintered following the attack on the Capitol.

Hope Hicks will meet with the committee’s lawmakers today, NBC News reported, citing a source familiar with the proceedings. Her testimony represents one of the highest-ranking defections in the Trump sphere.

John Bowden reports.

Top Trump aide Hope Hicks to testify before Jan 6 committee

‘Because we want to win’: Paul Ryan explains why GOP won’t nominate Trump in 2024

Wednesday 26 October 2022 18:05 , Oliver O'Connell

Former House speaker Paul Ryan has said that “anybody” but former president Donald Trump could win the White House for the Republicans in 2024.

In an interview on Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.” programme on Tuesday, Mr Ryan said: “We won’t nominate Trump because we want to win.”

Sravasti Dasgupta reports on Mr Ryan’s reasoning behind his statement.

Paul Ryan says GOP won’t nominate Trump in 2024 ‘because we want to win’

Rubio: Jan 6 committee 'a joke’

Wednesday 26 October 2022 17:46 , Oliver O'Connell

Florida Senator Marco Rubio has called the House select committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol a “joke” and a “kangaroo court”.

He would instead like to see an investigation into the riots of 2020.

Meadows must testify in Georgia election probe, judge says

Wednesday 26 October 2022 17:21 , Oliver O'Connell

A judge on Wednesday ordered former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to testify before a special grand jury that’s investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies illegally tried to influence the state’s 2020 election.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis opened the investigation early last year into actions taken by Trump and others to overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden.

Meadows is one of a number of high-profile associates and advisers of the Republican former president whose testimony Willis has sought.

Eric Garcia has the story for The Independent.

Judge rules that Mark Meadows must testify in Georgia election meddling probe

Woodward details degree of Trump’s self-obsession

Wednesday 26 October 2022 16:55 , Andrew Naughtie

Veteran journalist Bob Woodward, the author of three books about Donald Trump and a new audiobook of recordings of their conversations, says the former president’s narcissism was evident throughout those interviews.

Speaking on CNN on Tuesday, Mr Woodward elaborated on what he observed during his lengthy interactions with Mr Trump over his presidency.

“My assistant, Claire McMullen, has listened to these tapes many, many times,” Mr Woodward said. “And she found one time Trump referred to the American people, 100 times he referred to himself, what he knows.”

Oliver O’Connell has more.

Trump refers to himself 100 times for every mention of American people, Woodward says

Meadows must testify to GA grand jury, judge rules

Wednesday 26 October 2022 16:25 , Andrew Naughtie

Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s final White House chief of staff, has lost an attempt to avoid testifying to the grand judy convened in Fulton County, Georgia, to investigate the Trump circle’s efforts to overturn the election in the state.

Trump donor says ex-president “could not spell Middle East"

Wednesday 26 October 2022 15:50 , Andrew Naughtie

In a Brooklyn courtroom yesterday, a California billionaire and known ally of Donald Trump maintained his innocence on charges of illegal lobbying on behalf of United Arab Emirates officials while criticising the former president’s awareness on foreign affairs.

Tom Barrack, 75, also described how his business was affected by the near-constant “drama” being issued from the Trump White House.

Some of his clients in his private equity firm, Colony Capital, “were upset I was friends with the president,” he testified on Monday, noting that Mr Trump was viewed as someone who “could not spell ‘Middle East.’ … It was a nightmare.”

Read more from Johanna Chisholm.

Trump ally says ex-president inept on foreign affairs, couldn’t ‘spell Middle East’

Kinzinger: US closer to civil war than people realise

Wednesday 26 October 2022 15:20 , Andrew Naughtie

The Daily Show last night carried a segment examining just how close the US is to an outbreak of wide-scale political violence and even civil war, with two Republican voters in Oath Keepers t-shirts weighing in on the subject.

But alongside hardcore members of the Maga movement, the programme also talked to January 6 committee member Adam Kinzinger, who agreed that the US is closer to a civil conflict than many might want to accept.

Watch the segment below:

Trump lays into McConnell again

Wednesday 26 October 2022 14:50 , Andrew Naughtie

Donald Trump’s loathing of Mitch McConnell is no secret whatsoever, and nor is his disdain for the handful of Republican senators who voted to impeach him after the January 6 attack. Top of the list in this year’s election cycle is Lisa Murkowski, often described as a “moderate” member of her party’s caucus, who is running for re-election under Alaska’s new ranked-choice system.

Mr McConnell is invested, both figuratively and literally, in getting her re-elected rather than having a Democrat or Trump-backed alternative in his chamber. And the former president is predictably unimpressed:

Hope Hicks meets with Jan 6 panel

Wednesday 26 October 2022 14:20 , Andrew Naughtie

The January 6 select committee has reportedly taken testimony from Hope Hicks, formerly one of Donald Trump’s closest aides.

Ms Hicks served a number of roles under Mr Trump after joining his campaing in the early days of the 2016 cycle. She served as White House communications director for a time before ending her service to Mr Trump less than a week after Jan 6 while at the time serving as a “senior counselor”.

She was one of the few high-ranking Trump loyalists, outside of members of his own family, to make it through virtually the entire term of Donald Trump’s presidency. Her breaking point finally came in the wave of resignations that followed the attack on the Capitol, which included many high-ranking officials such as Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.

Here’s John Bowden with some background.

Top Trump aide Hope Hicks to testify before Jan 6 committee

Report: Trump eyeing Swift Boat strategist for 2024 job

Wednesday 26 October 2022 13:50 , Andrew Naughtie

As the never-ending speculation about another Trump presidential run continues, The Washington Post reports that the ex-president is considering appointing veteran Republican operative Chris LaCivita to a senior role in a future campaign.

Mr LaCivita is most notorious for spearheading the effort to smear 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry for supposedly lying about his military record in Vietnam, which was the core of his political brand at the time.

It is still not known for certain if Mr Trump will run for another term, though he has alluded to doing so countless times. Previous reports have said that members of the GOP leadership have convinced him that declaring before the midterm elections would risk turning the vote into a referendum on him, possibly to their detriment.

Watch: Trump pressed AZ candidate to push big lie

Wednesday 26 October 2022 13:20 , Andrew Naughtie

In a somewhat eerie clip from a Tucker Carlson documentary, Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters – who is a controversial for numerous reasons, including his long history of racist online posts – is seen talking on the phone with Donald Trump, who chastises him for not doing enough to push the lie that the 2020 election was stolen.

In the clip, Mr Trump specifically tells Mr Masters to be more like Kari Lake, running for governor in the same state, who has become notorious for bringing up the fictional theft of the election in answer to almost every question she is asked.

The polling in the Arizona race shows the Trump-backed Mr Masters roughly four points behind Democratic incumbent Mark Kelly, who is a top Republican target.

Abe Asher has more.

Trump pressed Arizona GOP Senate candidate to push ‘big lie’, documentary reveals

Ryan: Trump won’t be 2024 nominee

Wednesday 26 October 2022 12:50 , Andrew Naughtie

Former House speaker Paul Ryan, who was the GOP’s vice presidential nominee in 2012, has said that he doesn’t expect his party to nominate Donald Trump in the 2024 election – for the simple reason that doing so would lose them the presidency.

“We won’t nominate Trump because we want to win,” he told Fox News. “The new swing voter in America is the suburban voter. And it’s really clear that the suburban voter doesn’t like Trump. We are so much more likely to lose with Trump because of the fact that he is not popular with the suburban voter.

“Why would we want to risk giving a nomination to somebody that we know-we haven’t... my party hasn’t lost this much this fast than we have with Trump.”

Sravasti Dasgupta has the story.

Ex-Speaker Paul Ryan tells Fox that GOP ‘won’t nominate Trump because we want to win’

Trump vents fury at Bob Woodward

Wednesday 26 October 2022 12:20 , Andrew Naughtie

Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Tuesday lunchtime to complain about veteran journalist Bob Woodward’s recent release of his recorded conversations with the former president.

Mr Trump wrote: “As he fully understands, writer Bob Woodward never got my permission to release tapes of my various interviews with him. Those tapes were allowed only for purposes of making sure that he got my quotes & statements correct for “the WRITTEN WORD,” in other words, for his, nevertheless, highly inaccurate book.”

He continued: “The tapes are much better than the book, at least if they were not bludgeoned to death by him to make me look as bad as possible, but he & his publisher had NO right to use my ‘VOICE’ or them!”

Mr Woodward, who made his career during coverage of the Watergate scandal, recently called Mr Trump “an unparallelled danger” in an op-ed for The Washington Post.

Read more from Oliver O’Connell.

Trump says Bob Woodward had ‘no right’ to release recordings of their conversations

Trump’s valet focus of Mar-a-Lago documents probe, reports say

Wednesday 26 October 2022 11:50 , Andrew Naughtie

The Department of Justice investigation into whether former president Donald Trump violated laws prohibiting unauthorised retention of national defence information and obstruction of justice has reportedly zeroed in on a US Navy veteran.

The veteran is Walt Nauta, who served as Mr Trump’s White House valet and remained in the ex-president’s employ after the end of his term.

Andrew Feinberg reports.

Trump document probe zeroes in on ex-president’s valet

Cheney: GOP could split in 2024

Wednesday 26 October 2022 11:20 , Andrew Naughtie

Liz Cheney has a dire outlook for the GOP if Donald Trump were to run for president and win the party’s nomination in 2024.

The conservative Wyoming congresswoman says the divides in her party are too deep to endure another run by the ex-president. Speaking on Meet the Press this past Sunday, she warned that they would be stressed to their breaking points should he do so.

“The party has either to come back from where we are right now, which is a very dangerous and toxic place, or the party will splinter and there will be a new conservative party that rises,” she told host Chuck Todd.

Were Mr Trump to successfully win the nomination, the party would “shatter”, she added.

John Bowden reports.

Liz Cheney predicts Trump would ‘shatter’ GOP into two parties if he is 2024 nominee