Former president Donald Trump claims he can declassify top secret documents just ‘by thinking about it’
Donald Trump tore into New York Attorney General Letitia James at his campaign-style rally in North Carolina on Friday night, days after she filed a $250m lawsuit against the former president and his business empire for a host of allegedly fraudulent business practices.
Ahead of the rally, Mr Trump appeared to fall further into the world of QAnon after he reposted a video on his own Truth Social network containing images and slogans associated with the fringe conspiracy.
Mr Trump has previously denied having knowledge of the sprawling conspiracy theory but has amplified Q-supporting influencers and followers on his social media platform. At his rally, supporters raised their fingers in an apparent salute, continuing a trend at his events that security staff have tried to stop from happening.
His attorneys, meanwhile, have been ordered to say one way or the other whether they actually believe the FBI planted incriminating evidence in the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago – or whether the former president is merely bluffing to save face.
Writer behind Trump rally song compared to QAnon theme rejects association with conspiracy theory movement
Trump aides were quick to deny that a song that has played at Trump rallies is a QAnon theme after playing a royalty-free track called “Mirrors” by composer Will Van De Crommert.
The song bears some resemblance to the song “Wwg1wga”, an abbreviation for the QAnon slogan “Where we go one, we go all.”
Mr Van De Crommert is not pleased with the association and has sought to distance himself from the campaign and conspiracy theorist movement
Writer behind song used in Trump rally and similar to QAnon theme hits out at its use
Writer says he is not happy with use of his song ‘Mirrors’ and disassociates from QAnon
Alex Woodward24 September 2022 20:00
Breyer refuses to condemn Ginni Thomas’s efforts to overturn election
Former US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has refused to weigh in on the controversy surrounding Ginni Thomas’s involvement in efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
The now-retired Breyer told CNN that the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas can make her own decisions about her political activity and whether it could impact the nation’s highest court – as he insisted that he “likes” both her and his conservative counterpart.
“I don’t go through that in that I strongly believe that women who are wives, including wives of Supreme Court justices, have to make the decisions about how to lead their lives, careers, what kind of career, etc., for themselves,” he said.
Ex-Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer refuses to condemn Ginni Thomas
Wife of Justice Clarence Thomas agreed this week to sit down for a voluntary interview with the January 6 committee
Alex Woodward24 September 2022 19:45
White House condemns ‘catastrophic’ decision allowing Arizona’s 1864 anti-abortion law to take effect
The White House has warned of “catastrophic, dangerous and unacceptable” consequences to follow a judge’s decision upholding Arizona’s 158-year-old anti-abortion law, initially drafted 48 years before Arizona was even a state.
In a statement on 24 September, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre warned the judge’s decision will “set Arizona women back more than a century.”
White House condemns Arizona’s 150-year-old abortion ban allowed to take effect
The state can enforce a 150-year-old abortion ban that predates statehood, judge rules
Alex Woodward24 September 2022 19:30
Trump-backed Ohio congressional candidate can’t explain disputes over his military service records
Ohio Republican congressional candidate JR Majewski wildly exaggerated his military and professional background, including record as a “combat veteran” in Afghanistan despite only…