Trump News Today: Backed by former president, JD Vance wins Ohio Republican Senate primary

Far Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was recently forced to testify in a lawsuit accusing her of violating a 14th Amendment anti-insurgency clause, was confronted on camera by a voter and veteran who accused her of “disrespecting the United States Congress”. and describes himself as “saddened that the 14th has gone on to such madness”.

Some more traditional Republicans were appalled by last night’s primary in Ohio’s 9th congressional district, whose incumbent Democrat Marcy Kaptur will now be challenged by JR Majewski – a Jan. 6 riot participant who became famous by painting a Trump mural on his lawn and giving an interview about it while wearing a QAnon t-shirt.

Here he “raps” in a music video themed “Let’s Go Brandon” – sort of.

The Republican Party has been unenthusiastic about coming up with a concrete policy platform for this year’s midterm elections, leaving Senate campaign chairman Rick Scott to launch his own. plan – a plan that has been ridiculed for suggesting raising income tax by 50%. of adult Americans.

Now Joe Biden has delivered a speech not just touting his party’s plans, but fitting into Mr Scott’s self-proclaimed ‘ultra-MAGA’ agenda.

“Let me tell you about this ‘ultra Maga agenda’ – it’s extreme, as most Maga things are,” he says. “It will actually raise taxes for 75 million American families, more than 95% of whom earn less than $100,000 a year.

“Working class people are going to pay a lot more — and it goes deeper than that,” Biden continued. “It’s hard to make this up – meanwhile, millionaires, billionaires and corporations are missing out…I think it’s really outrageous,” he said.

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A member of the self-styled Oath Keepers militia, William Todd Wilson, will appear in court today to plead guilty to offenses relating to the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol.

More specifically, it faces charges seditious conspiracy and obstruction of official process. Other members of the group, including its founder, Stewart Rhodes, are being held on similar charges, which are among the most serious facing the January 6 rioters.

Donald Trump recently started posting on his troubled social media platform Truth Social, which suffered a disastrous launch earlier this year and saw downloads and user engagement plummet to dizzying levels as many many curators refused to migrate from other places – while many who did languished on a glitchy waiting list.

The ex-president’s return to the platform appears to have been spurred by Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, on which Mr Trump says he will not return even if his account is reinstated. Alex Woodward took a peek inside the Truth Social ecosystem, where the president is (mostly) staying for now.

Rob Portman, the Republican from Ohio whose retirement paved the way for this year’s open-seat race, offered his support to JD Vance after his victory in the primary last night – but as the Rampart‘s Amanda Carpenter points out, her embrace of the Trump critic-turned-sidekick sits uncomfortably alongside her given reasons for stepping down…

Donald Trump’s fixation on the 2020 election isn’t waning, and even though he faces legal action for improperly pressuring Georgian officials to overturn the result in their state, he is now promoting from a film directed by right-wing agitator Dinesh D’Souza. which claims at least 2,000 “mules” were paid to illegally collect ballots and deliver them to drop boxes in major swing states ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

However, the film is actually riddled with lies and largely reaffirms claims that have already been debunked elsewhere over the past 18 months. Here is a fact check:

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, an elected Republican in a reliable blue state, is one of his party’s few elected critics nationwide — and despite all indications that Mr. Trump still effectively controls the GOP, he always implores his comrades to get rid of the president’s influence.

Mr. Hogan, who acknowledged that a 2024 presidential race was not out of the question for him, gave an interview to CBS News in which he insisted that Mr. Trump should not run for a second term. and that the party should not name him if he does.

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After years of back and forth, Donald Trump has finally agreed to settle a lawsuit over the use of his hotel for the 2017 inauguration — specifically, allegations that he deliberately overcharged the inauguration committee for the use of its facilities.

The settlement sees Mr Trump agree to pay authorities in Washington $750,000 while admitting no guilt or guilt.

The story of Ohio’s primary winner JD Vance’s conversion from Trump critic to Trump endorser is being told in detail on the internet today, but perhaps the best way to gauge the magnitude of transformation is to read the current 2016 candidate’s own words.

write in Atlantic, that he’s been bashing latelyMr. Vance explained Mr. Trump’s rise with a riff on his thesis that white working-class “Scottish-Irish” Americans were responsible for their own drug addiction: