Trump news – live: Trump denies ever having ‘Iran’ paper despite recording, as Fox confronts him over 2020
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Former president Donald Trump denied that he ever possessed a secret document about attacking Iran despite the fact a recording exists that had him discussing a document he kept from his presidency.
Mr Trump spoke in an interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier at his property in Bedminster, New Jersey less than a week after he pleaded not guilty to 37 charges in a federal court in Miami at his arraignment. A federal grand jury had indicted him for allegedly willfully mishandling classified documents, obstruction of justice and making false statements.
The former president was also confronted by Baier over his insistence that he won the 2020 election — which he did not, as the Fox News host made clear in a testy exchange.
Voters may be growing sick of Mr Trump as well. In a new poll, voters were most likely to describe Donald Trump in one word: a “criminal”.
Mr Trump also complained about the latest Quinnipiac University poll being cited by Fox News that shows Joe Biden beating him in the 2024 election as the network prepared to broadcast an interview with him.
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Petition seeks to ban Donald Trump Jr from Australia
04:45 , Oliver O'Connell
A petition has been launched in Australia calling for a ban on Donald Trump Jr from visiting the country for a right-wing event next month.
By Monday nearly 15,000 people had signed the Change.org petition protesting against the former president’s eldest son attending the “Turning Point Australia” event.
Graeme Massie reports.
Petition seeks to ban Donald Trump Jr from Australia visit
Trump conjures familiar enemy in attacking Democrats as ‘Marxists'
03:45 , Oliver O'Connell
Lashing out after his arraignment on federal charges last week, Donald Trump took aim at President Joe Biden and Democrats with language that seemed to evoke another era: He was being persecuted, he said, by “Marxists” and “communists.”
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Garland keeps poker face as firestorm erupts after Trump charges
02:45 , Oliver O'Connell
On his first day as attorney general, Merrick Garland pledged a return to what he called the “norms” of the Justice Department and said he would work to eliminate the perception of political interference. But in the two years since he took office, the former federal judge has found himself in the middle of a political firestorm of historic proportions.
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Attorney General Garland keeps poker face as firestorm erupts after Trump charges
Christie doubles down on plans to take on ‘loser, loser, loser’ Trump
01:45 , Oliver O'Connell
Chris Christie became the latest Republican to publicly trash the decisions of his party’s leadership this week when he laid into the pledge that GOP bigwigs are requiring participants in the 2024 debate cycle to sign.
Speaking on CNN’s State of the Union, the ex-New Jersey governor seemed to indicate that he had signed the pledge — which states that any participant in the GOP debates will support the party’s eventual nominee — merely in order to make it onstage, while alluding to the idea that he would not hesitate to break it.
John Bowden reports from Washington, DC.
Chris Christie slams GOP debate pledge as a ‘useless idea’ and rips ‘loser’ Trump
‘Unauthorised, illegal and dangerous’
01:15 , Oliver O'Connell
Donald Trump’s former defence chief threw cold water on the assertion from his former boss and his allies that the classified records and other documents seized from the ex-president’s home and resort in an FBI raid were his to take.
As the ex-president’s loyalists continue to offer a wide scope of defences for their leader ranging from arguments that Mr Trump was allowed to designate the materials as personal records for his own safekeeping to the idea that the prosecution is merely a politicised weaponisation of the Justice Department, former Defense Secretary Mark Esper has offered his own assessment on the situation.
John Bowden has the story.
Trump’s defence chief slams ex-president’s ‘illegal and dangerous’ documents trove
Watch: Trump’s plan to end war in Ukraine (sort of)
Tuesday 20 June 2023 00:25 , Oliver O'Connell
Trump finally reveals his incredible plan to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours: “I would tell Zelensky something, and I would tell Putin something, and I’d get them into a room.” Of course, he won’t say what that something is. pic.twitter.com/wRwkI4HAmY
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 19, 2023
Watch: Trump praises Saudi leadership
Monday 19 June 2023 23:51 , Oliver O'Connell
Trump on Saudi Arabian leadership: They are friends of mine. They are great people. The Crown Prince and the King—I got along with them incredibly. They would do anything. They are great, great people. pic.twitter.com/EIhaMn8bkC
— Republican Accountability (@AccountableGOP) June 19, 2023
No more family in White House says Trump
Monday 19 June 2023 23:42 , Oliver O'Connell
Donald Trump says that if he wins a second term, there’d be no Ivanka or Jared in the White House.
“That’s enough for the family,” he says.
Trump says that if he wins a second term, there'd be no Ivanka or Jared in the White House. "That's enough for the family," he says.
— Jill Colvin (@colvinj) June 19, 2023
Watch: Baier lists former officials in the Trump administration now against him
Monday 19 June 2023 23:38 , Oliver O'Connell
Bret Baier lists former officials in the Trump administration that are either running against him for the GOP nominee or are refusing to support his candidacy. pic.twitter.com/0kMvKlLTMQ
— Republican Accountability (@AccountableGOP) June 19, 2023
Despite recording, Trump denies ever having secret document about attacking Iran
Monday 19 June 2023 23:35 , Oliver O'Connell
Former president Donald Trump denied that he ever possessed a secret document about attacking Iran despite the fact a recording exists that had him discussing a document he kept from his presidency.
Mr Trump spoke in an interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier at his property in Bedminster, New Jersey less than a week after he pleaded not guilty to 37 charges in a federal court in Miami for his arraignment in Miami. A federal grand jury had indicted him for allegedly willfully mishandling of classified documents, obstruction of justice and making false statements.
Eric Garcia reports.
Trump denies ever having secret document about Iran despite ‘unclassified’ recording
Monday 19 June 2023 23:34 , Oliver O'Connell
Well that’s that. Trump just confessed to Fox News that he stole and shared classified materials. https://t.co/W35ZgpT0V9
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) June 19, 2023
Most damning evidence against Trump is Trump talking
Monday 19 June 2023 23:32 , Oliver O'Connell
It makes it hard for Trump to deny the intentionally did things when there's tape of him saying he intentionally did them.
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) June 19, 2023
It's almost like Trump is building a case against Trump.
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) June 19, 2023
Trump says he wants to be less combative but press is ‘dishonest'
Monday 19 June 2023 23:28 , Oliver O'Connell
Bret Baier: “What did you learn from your 1st term ... and changes that you would make if you get elected?
Donald Trump: “I would like to be less combative. But I find the press is extremely dishonest. And if I’m not combative, I don’t get my word across... I don’t think you could win.”
Watch: Trump talks about recording of him discussing secret documents
Monday 19 June 2023 23:25 , Oliver O'Connell
There’s a lot going on here and this is going to reviewed: Trump on the recording of him pic.twitter.com/JpohMqb2Li
— Acyn (@Acyn) June 19, 2023
Baier pushes back on Trump’s claim that he won 2020 election
Monday 19 June 2023 23:21 , Oliver O'Connell
In a remarkable moment, Bret Baier tells Donald Trump he lost the 2020 election pushing back on all of the former president’s claims of voter fraud.
Baier also confronts the former president over why he hired so many people he now insults, running through a list of his cabinet.
Trump: First of all, I won in 2020 by a lot
Baier: You lost the 2020 election
Trump: They were counting ballots, not the authenticity of the ballot. The ballots were fake ballots. pic.twitter.com/yrM5gVV1ei— Acyn (@Acyn) June 19, 2023
Trump maintains he had right to keep boxes
Monday 19 June 2023 23:11 , Oliver O'Connell
Former president Donald Trump is sticking with his story that he had the right to take boxes of classified documents and denies he has done anything wrong.
Trump: I have every right to have those boxes pic.twitter.com/2z4bhWdhEo
— Acyn (@Acyn) June 19, 2023
Watch: Trump calls Barr ‘coward’
Monday 19 June 2023 23:08 , Oliver O'Connell
Trump: Bill Barr was a coward. Bill Barr didn’t do what he was supposed to do and I fired him pic.twitter.com/xsn0n76RrW
— Acyn (@Acyn) June 19, 2023
Trump gives Fox News new excuse for not giving back boxes of secret documents
Monday 19 June 2023 23:02 , Oliver O'Connell
Donald Trump has floated a new excuse for refusing to return classified documents — he was “very busy”.
Bevan Hurley reports as his latest interview gets underway on Fox News.
Trump gives Fox News new excuse for not giving back boxes of secret documents
Judge says Trump must be supervised by lawyer when reviewing evidence against him
Monday 19 June 2023 22:45 , Oliver O'Connell
Former president Donald Trump will be barred from viewing the evidence the Department of Justice has collected against him, except when in the presence of his attorneys, according to a new order by one of the judges overseeing the criminal case against him.
In a four-page order signed on Monday, Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart granted a prosecution request for a protective order meant to shield the information that must be disclosed to Mr Trump about the case against him from public view.
Andrew Feinberg reports.
Trump must be supervised by lawyer when reviewing evidence against him, judge says
Will Trump drag down the Republican Party after his indictments?
Monday 19 June 2023 22:15 , Oliver O'Connell
Donald Trump‘s grip on the Republican faithful was evident from the moment he left the federal courthouse in Miami last week.
Fresh off becoming the first former president to face criminal charges levied by the government he once oversaw, Trump’s motorcade moved through a crowd of hundreds of mostly adoring fans. He met more supporters at a Cuban restaurant in Little Havana, a Miami neighborhood that, like much of south Florida, has swung toward Republicans in recent years.
A federal indictment on charges of mishandling the nation’s most sensitive national security secrets would doom any other White House hopeful. But Trump’s reception in Miami — and the more than $7 million he raised after the indictment — was a reminder of the central tension coursing through the Republican Party as the 2024 presidential primary gets underway.
For now, no one comes close to Trump in his command of the voters who will decide the GOP’s nominee next year. But Trump’s path beyond the primary is far more perilous as he faces significant and growing questions about his ability to appeal to a broader, more moderate set of voters in a possible general election matchup against President Joe Biden.
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Petition seeks to ban Donald Trump Jr from Australia
Monday 19 June 2023 21:45 , Oliver O'Connell
A petition has been launched in Australia calling for a ban on Donald Trump Jr from visiting the country for a right-wing event next month.
By Monday nearly 15,000 people had signed the Change.org petition protesting against the former president’s eldest son attending the “Turning Point Australia” event.
The group is affiliated with right-wing provocateur Charlie Kirk’s “Turning Point USA”, which aims to reach the next generation of conservatives.
Graeme Massie reports.
Petition seeks to ban Donald Trump Jr from Australia visit
Voices: The indictment has helped Trump in the primaries – but there’s a catch
Monday 19 June 2023 21:30 , Oliver O'Connell
Eric Garcia writes:
The former president continues to have a vise grip on Republican Party. But there are significant caveats: the charges might hurt the former president with voters outside of his base. The NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll found that 50 per cent of independent voters thought that Mr Trump has done something wrong or illegal.
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The indictment has helped Trump in the primaries – but there’s a catch
Sketch artist defends Trump arraignment picture
Monday 19 June 2023 21:15 , Oliver O'Connell
The artist behind a flattering courtroom sketch of Donald Trump has defended his controversial depiction of the former president.
William J Hennessy Jr was one of three artists who drew Mr Trump, 77, during his arraignment in Miami on 13 June on 37 federal counts related to willful mishandling classified documents, obstruction of justice and making false statements.
The sketch of a slimmed down, youthful-looking Mr Trump standing bolt upright provoked protests on social media for being overly generous to the defendant.
Bevan Hurley reports.
Sketch artist defends controversial take on Trump arraignment
Watch: Christie vows to save party from ‘three-time loser, Donald Trump'
Monday 19 June 2023 20:53 , Oliver O'Connell
“I will do what I need to do to be up on that stage to try to save my party and save my country from going down the road of being led by three-time loser, Donald Trump.”
CHRIS CHRISTIE: "I will do what I need to do to be up on that stage to try to save my party and save my country from going down the road of being led by three-time loser, Donald Trump." pic.twitter.com/njU3O7sbee
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 19, 2023
Trump rants over poll showing him losing to Biden
Monday 19 June 2023 20:41 , Oliver O'Connell
Former president Donald Trump reacted angrily on Monday after Fox News highlighted a Quinnipiac University poll showing him as trailing President Joe Biden by a four-point margin.
Mr Trump wrote on his Truth Social website that the respected polling organisation had released a “bad poll” and accused Quinnipiac of using too few Republican voters in the sample of Americans who were surveyed. Mr Trump argued that the poll actually showed that he was in the lead over Mr Biden.
Andrew Feinberg has the story.
Fox News to air Trump interview tonight after he criticises network
Monday 19 June 2023 20:20 , Oliver O'Connell
Fox News guest says it’s time for someone to ‘pull a trigger’ over ‘the left'
Monday 19 June 2023 20:15 , Oliver O'Connell
A Fox News guest discussing last week’s “drag nuns” protest, the Trump prosecution and “the left” has suggested the time may be coming for someone in America to “pull the trigger” like at Concord, the battle which helped to spark the Revolutionary War.
Retired MLB pitcher and conservative commentator Curt Schilling made the on-air comments Friday while in conversation with host Jesse Watters. Schilling complained that leaders on the right “talk, talk, that’s all they’re doing” without backing up ideology with action.
Sheila Flynn reports.
Anger as Fox guest says it’s time for someone to ‘pull a trigger’ over ‘the left’
Francis Suarez: Could he be the first sitting mayor to become president?
Monday 19 June 2023 19:45 , Oliver O'Connell
In a 2024 Republican presidential field full of long-shot candidates, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez may be — on paper anyway — the longest long shot of all.
No sitting mayor has ever been elected U.S. president, a job that historically has been won by governors, vice presidents, senators or Cabinet secretaries. Some former mayors have become commander-in-chief, but only after serving in higher-profile positions.
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Miami's Francis Suarez looks to become first sitting mayor to be president
Garland keeps poker face as firestorm erupts after Trump charges
Monday 19 June 2023 19:15 , Oliver O'Connell
On his first day as attorney general, Merrick Garland pledged a return to what he called the “norms” of the Justice Department and said he would work to eliminate the perception of political interference. But in the two years since he took office, the former federal judge has found himself in the middle of a political firestorm of historic proportions.
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Attorney General Garland keeps poker face as firestorm erupts after Trump charges
Voices: Why aren’t more Republicans attacking Trump like Bill Barr?
Monday 19 June 2023 18:45 , Oliver O'Connell
“The fact is, [former president Donald Trump] is a consummate narcissist...He will always put his own interests and gratifying his own ego ahead of the country’s interests.”
Reading that comment initially, you’d assume it was made by a Democrat. But in fact the speaker there is Bill Barr, Trump’s own former Attorney General, who roasted Trump on CBS’ Face the Nation this weekend. Barr also explicitly pushed back against Republican claims that the prosecution of Trump was unfair or politically motivated. "This is not a circumstance where he’s the victim or this is government overreach," he said. "He provoked this whole problem himself."
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