Trump latest: Jan 6 legal memo shows plan to overturn 2020 presidential election

“Maybe the most telling part of the Amber Turd trial is that not a single man seems to have come out in her defense saying she’s great,” Mr Trump Jr tweeted on 28 May.

The former president’s son’s remarks sparked backlash on the platform, with critics condemning the fact that he felt the need to weigh in at all.

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A District of Columbia jury has acquitted attorney Michael Sussmann on charges that he’d lied to FBI agents while tipping them off about allegations that a computer server in Donald Trump’s eponymous skyscraper was communicating with a computer belonging to a Russian bank at the height of the 2016 presidential campaign.

The jury rendered its not guilty verdict on Tuesday after three days of deliberations following a two-week trial, during which prosecutors working for Special Counsel John Durham sought to prove that Mr Sussmann, an ex-prosecutor who was a partner at the law firm Perkins Coie, lied when he met with FBI officials about the alleged Trump-Russia computer connection.

Andrew Feinberg has more details here:

Former president Donald Trump may lead just about every survey of the potential 2024 Republican primary field, but there’s one key rival he continues to trail: Joe Biden.

The current president would win 42 per cent of the vote, according to a poll conducted by YouGov and Yahoo! News. Mr Trump followed close behind with the support of 39 per cent of respondents.

The results come despite Mr Biden’s underwater approval rating, which was at 42 per cent (with 53 per cent disapproval) in the same survey.

John Bowden has more details on this here:

Former Trump campaign manager and presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway has been mocked by social media users after she said that Donald Trump was “a great girlboss” as president, suggesting that he was a champion of women.

Ms Conway said the former president was “a great girlboss” who championed women despite his very public verbal abuse of prominent female public figures such as former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, vice president Kamala Harris, and the group of young female House lawmakers sometimes referred to as “the Squad”.

“I’ve always had a great relationship with President Trump and I go on and on in the book of how protective he was of me,” Ms Conway said.

“I wish he was still the president,” she added.

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Former president Donald Trump has yet again hit out at the Pulitzer committee in a letter asking them to revoke the awards given to the New York Times and the Washington Post over their 2018 coverage of the Russia investigation.

In a letter dated 27 May which was made public on Tuesday, the former president threatened to take the organisation to court if it declined to revoke its award for that reporting.

Mr Trump cited recent legal proceedings in special counsel John Durham’s investigation to argue that the Pulitzer-winning reporting by the New York Times and the Washington Post was “a distortion of fact and a personal defamation”.

“There is no dispute that the Pulitzer Board’s award to those media outlets was based on false and fabricated information that they published,” Mr Trump wrote in a letter to Pulitzer Administrator Marjorie Miller.

“The continuing publication and recognition of the prizes on the Board’s website is a distortion of fact and a personal defamation that will result in the filing of litigation if the Board cannot be persuaded to do the right thing on its own.”

Former president Donald Trump has criticised the US legal system after Micheal Sussmann, a lawyer who represented Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic Party, was found not guilty of lying to the FBI.

“Our Legal System is CORRUPT, our Judges (and Justices!) are highly partisan, compromised or just plain scared, our Borders are OPEN, our Elections are Rigged, Inflation is RAMPANT, gas prices and food costs are ‘through the roof’, our Military ‘Leadership’ is Woke, our Country is going to HELL, and Michael Sussmann is not guilty,” Mr Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday.

Mr Sussmann was under investigation by a special counsel in relation to the origins of the bureau’s probe of Mr Trump’s 2016 campaign for president. The former president and his allies have long alleged that Mr Sussmann was part of a “deep state” conspiracy to undermine his first presidential campaign.

Former Trump administration trade adviser Peter Navarro has been subpoenaed to give evidence to a federal grand jury that is investigating the events leading up to the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol.

As reported by Politico, the details of the subpoena were made public via a draft version of a lawsuit that Mr Navarro himself has been circulating.

Democrat representative Jamie Raskin, a member of the House 6 January committee, has said that former president Donald Trump will “get his comeuppance” over the attack on the US Capitol.

Suggesting that criminal charges may soon be brought against the former president, Mr Raskin labelled Mr Trump “guilty as sin” and called him a “one-man crime wave” in an interview with Salon.

“Trump will get his comeuppance,” he said in the interview. “I know how maddening and frustrating it is to people. I share that feeling, having been an impeachment manager…He’s as guilty as sin.”

“He’s a one-man crime wave, and it’s amazing that his dad’s money and this pack of lawyers that he travels with have been able get him off everything up until now,” Mr Raskin said.

While the committee can not itself bring criminal charges against Mr Trump, it can refer any criminal findings to attorney general Merrick Garland.

The House committee on the insurrection at the Capitol is set to begin its public hearings this month. A series of eight prime-time televised hearings will begin from 9 June as it tries to uncover what led to the attack, and the role of the former president.