Mitch McConnell explains why he will still support Donald Trump
Former president Donald Trump has endorsed Dr Mehmet Oz to represent Pennsylvania in the US Senate, angering a number of prominent Republicans.
“I have known Dr. Oz for many years, as have many others, even if only through his very successful television show,” Mr Trump said on Saturday. “He has lived with us through the screen and has always been popular, respected, and smart.”
The announcement outraged many conservatives, including the previous Trump-endorsed candidate for that seat.
“I have enormous respect for President Trump,” tweeted Sean Parnell, who dropped out of the race in November. “But I’m disappointed by this. Oz is the antithesis of everything that made Trump the best president of my lifetime—he’s the farthest thing from America First & he’d be very bad for PA.”
Meanwhile, the US State Department says Donald Trump and other White House officials left office without providing a record of the gifts they received from foreign governments.
And as investigators continue probing the 2021 Capitol riot, one prominent MAGA activist has said he will talk. Ali Alexander, the organiser of several “Stop the Steal” rallies protesting the 2020 election, will cooperate with the Justice Department’s investigation of the January 6 insurrection, his lawyer says.
Liz Cheney says Trump knew efforts to overturn election were ‘unlawful’
US Rep Liz Cheney says it is “absolutely clear” that Donald Trump knowingly broke the law with his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
“I think it is absolutely the case, it is absolutely clear that what President Trump was doing, what a number of people around him were doing, they knew it was unlawful, they did it anyway,” Ms Cheney told CNN on Sunday.
Nathan Place10 April 2022 19:30
Conservative backlash grows over Trump’s Dr Oz endorsement
Some of former President Donald Trump’s loudest allies on Twitter are in open revolt after the ex-president endorsed Dr Mehmet Oz in the Pennsylvania US Senate race this weekend.
“Should we win back the Senate, our margins will be far too slim have someone as liberal as Dr Oz sitting as a Republican,” tweeted right-wing commentator John Cardillo. “Romney, Murkowski, and Collins disappoint us enough. We don’t need one more.”
Nathan Place10 April 2022 19:00
Trump repeats endorsement of Dr Oz at rally
Former president Donald Trump reiterated his endorsement of Dr Mehmet Oz at his rally in Selma, North Carolina on Sunday night.
“By the way, I endorsed another person today: Dr Oz in Pennsylvania!” Mr Trump told a cheering crowd. “Great guy. Good man. He’s a good man. Harvard educated. Tremendous, tremendous career.”
Dr Oz later posted a clip of the video on his own Twitter feed.
Nathan Place10 April 2022 18:30
Dr Oz promotes Trump endorsement with photo composite
Dr Mehmet Oz continued to flaunt his endorsement from Donald Trump on Sunday, celebrating it with a photoshopped image of himself standing with Mr Trump.
“President Trump knows how critical it is to change the kinds of people we send to Washington,” Dr Oz wrote in the caption. “I’m ready to fight and I am proud to receive his endorsement.”
The image of Dr Oz appears to be taken from a video pinned to the top of his Twitter feed, in which Mr Trump is not present.
Nathan Place10 April 2022 18:00
Trump declares himself ‘most honest human being’ God ever created
At his rally on Saturday night, Donald Trump declared himself the most honest person in history.
“I’ve got to be the cleanest sheriff,” Mr Trump told the giggling crowd. “I think I’m the most honest human being, perhaps, that God ever created.”
The former president spent much of the evening claiming he won the 2020 presidential election, which he lost.
Nathan Place10 April 2022 17:30
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