‘Get ready’: Trump says he will ‘very probably’ run again for president in 2024
Long-time allies and MAGA enthusiasts began to turn on former US President Donald Trump after the midterms proved to not materialise into a “red wave” as many shifted their focus to the likely challenger for the GOP ticket in 2024, Florida Gov Ron DeSantis.
The Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corp empire – which includes Fox News on TV and the New York Post in print – made clear their feelings about Mr Trump with a scathing cover on Thursday morning.
“TRUMPTY DUMPTY,” read the front page in bold letters as a cartoon of the 45th president showed him appearing as Humpty Dumpty precariously perched on a brick wall.
Elsewhere, a reportedly mercurial Mr Trump spent the day after the midterm elections lashing out at those he believes gave him bad advice as several of the candidates he endorsed in pivotal races came up short.
Mr Trump is reportedly blaming his wife Melania Trump for advising him to back Mehmet Oz in the Pennsylvania senate race, which he lost to Democrat John Fetterman.
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman tweeted on Wednesday that there are people urging Mr Trump to reschedule his expected 2024 presidential campaign announcement that’s currently expected to occur next week.
Trump rants about fictional corruption in outstanding Senate races
This week’s slow counts in Nevada and Arizona were long expected and are mainly a result of a surge in mail-in ballots – but Donald Trump is now attempting to reactivate his 2020 “big lie” that slow declarations are an indication of malfeasance:
Andrew Naughtie10 November 2022 17:20
Mary Trump of worse to come if Trump not indicted soon
Ms Trump was speaking on The Dean Obeidallah Show on SiriusXM, discussing the results of the midterms with the host and the much-teased possibility that the former president will announce another bid for the White House imminently.
She expressed her wish that the Justice Department would now quickly come to a decision on whether or not to indict him.
Oliver O’Connell reports:
Andrew Naughtie10 November 2022 16:55
Ashli Babbitt’s brother faces jail after hate crime conviction
A San Diego jury has convicted the half-brother of a Donald Trump supporter, who was killed by police while trying to reach members of Congress during the January 6 attack on the Capitol, of a hate crime for assaulting and shouting racial slurs at a utility worker last year.
According to the San Diego, California City Attorney’s office, Roger Stefan Witthoeft Jr was found guilty on charges of misdemeanor battery with a hate crime allegation, as well as a charge of violating the Latino utility worker’s civil rights.
City Attorney Mara Elliott said the verdict “sent a clear message that violent, abusive, and racist conduct like this has no place in our community”.
Witthoeft’s sister was shot by a Capitol Police officer as she climbed through a broken window inside the Capitol. Her death has remains the subject of various false conspiracy theories in certain quarters of the hardcore right.
Andrew Feinberg has more:
Andrew Naughtie10 November 2022 16:30
In angry “truth”, Trump rejects reports he’s angry at result
Yesterday and today have seen a blaze of reports that Donald Trump is furious at the outcome of the midterm elections, and at briefings from Republican figures that he is now seen by many of them as a drag on the party’s electoral chances.
Mr Trump has now taken to his semi-cloistered mouthpiece Truth Social to dismiss these reports, angrily insisting he is anything but angry:
Andrew Naughtie10 November 2022 16:08
Allies pressure Trump to delay 2024 announcement
Republican leaders and allies are urging former president Donald Trump to delay his…