Donald Trump compares his own Senate candidate to Kim Jong-un in bizarre rally speech
Donald Trump lambasted FBI agents for allegedly walking on his bedroom carpet at Mar-a-Lago with their shoes on last month as he returned to his estate in Southern Florida, and his successor attended the funeral of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II.
The former president also attacked the federal bureau for leaving the scene in a way that meant his Florida home “will never be the same” again, as Axios revealed why his lawyers had chosen Raymond Dearie, a rumoured FBI “skeptic”, as special master in the case brought by the Justice Department against him.
President Joe Biden, who on Monday was attending the funeral of the late Queen in London, said on Sunday that the FBI’s discovery of top-secret documents at Mar-a-Lago in August raised concerns that sensitive data was compromised by Mr Trump holding onto hundreds of documents, and called it “irresponsible”.
Mr Trump meanwhile took to the rally stage in Ohio at the weekend and claimed that he invented the word “caravans” to describe groups of migrants as he dubbed them “murderers and rapers” in a rally speech under fire for its apparent assocaiton with QAnon.
Biden in London for Queen’s funeral
After Joe Biden appeared in an CBS 60 Minutes interview calling his predecessor “totally irresponsible” for the handling of classified documents taken to Mar-a-Lago, the US President was in London on Monday attending the funeral of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II.
Mr Trump was not invited to the service, but could appear at a remembrance event in DC on Wednesday after a reported invitation from the British embassy. That remains to be seen however.
Biden joins world leaders at Westminster Abbey for Queen’s state funeral
The state funeral service will begin at 11am
Gino Spocchia19 September 2022 15:10
JD Vance gets lukewarm reception from rallygoers
On Saturday, the majority of rally attendees who spoke to The Independent expressed significant enthusiasm for Mr Trump’s widely-expected 2024 presidential run, while precious few said they felt a similar ardour for Republican senate nominee JD Vance.
The event has since come under attacked for Mr Trump’s apparent embrace of the QAnon conspiracy theory, which has widely been associated with the far right and his supporters – as well as the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
Trump claims his supporters are threatened with jail for refusing to denounce him
‘They go to people that know me and they threaten them with jail time unless [they] say something bad about Trump’
Gino Spocchia19 September 2022 14:30
Trump lawyers believe special master a FBI ‘skeptic’, report says
Judge Raymond Dearie’s time on the the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is reportedly one reason why Mr Trump’s lawyers selected his as special master in the case brought by the Justice Department, Axios reports.
The former president’s lawyers and advisers are said to believe that Mr Dearie is a deep skeptic of the FBI because of a warrant he approved against a former Trump campaign aid during the FBI’s probe into Russian interference.
While this remains to be confirmed or commented on, however, Mr Dearie is now due to conduct the reviews of 11,000 documents seized by the FBI before 30 November.
Gino Spocchia19 September 2022 13:50
Bedroom carpets at Mar-a-Lago ruined by FBI, Trump claims
Donald Trump lambasted FBI agents for allegedly walking on his bedroom carpet at Mar-a-Lago with their shoes on last month, hours after he arrived into Florida on Sunday night.
Writing in a series of Truth Social posts on Monday morning, the former president went on to challenge the FBI and Justice Department’s investigation into classified documents found at his Florida estate, which he said “will never be the same” after it was “ransacked”.
He wrote: “It was…