Trump is writing a book on how presidency was stolen from him
Former president Donald Trump is facing a bipartisan backlash after he shared a post on his social media platform Truth Social seemingly calling for “civil war” in the United States.
Mr Trump “retruthed” a user’s “civil war” comment on former Fox Nation host Lara Logan’s post, which was a screengrab of El Salvadorian president Nayib Bukele‘s criticism of America.
“The most powerful country in the world is falling so fast, that it makes you rethink what are the real reasons,” Mr Bukele wrote on Twitter. “Something so big and powerful can’t be destroyed so quickly, unless the enemy comes from within.”
Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans tore into the 45th president for “calling for a civil war” following the 6 January Capitol insurrection.
“Any of my fellow Republicans wanna speak out now? Or are we just wanting to get through ‘just one more election first’,” asked Rep Adam Kinzinger.
Pence breaks with Trump in Georgia primary
Mike Pence is joining the effort aimed at halting Donald Trump’s attempts to oust Georgia’s governor and install David Perdue, the state’s former US senator who has maintained that victory was “stolen” from Mr Trump in the state in 2020.
The former vice president is on the ground in the state on the eve of Georgia’s primary elections stumping for incumbent Brian Kemp, who earned Mr Trump’s ire in 2020 by refusing to call on the state legislature to launch an investigation into the 2020 election or overturn the state’s results.
Mr Perdue’s campaign appears to be trailing the incumbent by a significant margin and as a result Tuesday could represent the first major defeat of the former president in the 2022 election season.
John Bowden23 May 2022 18:30
Mo Brooks claims ‘honest mistake’ for mailers touting Trump endorsement
Mo Brooks’s campaign in Alabama is claiming an “honest mistake” after a state news site obtained two mailers from the candidate that were received by voters in recent days touting an endorsement from former President Donald Trump, who pulled his support for Brooks after the candidate called on voters to move on from complaints about the 2020 election.
Mr Trump’s Save America PAC issued a statement about the issue on Monday, writing: “Can’t do that, Mo!”, in a press release.
Mr Brooks’s campaign responded to the Alabama Political Reporter: “No mail would be or has been approved to go out with old or inaccurate information. The only letters using the endorsement were approved way before anything changed. Either the mail-house messed up sending an old mailer or USPS messed up delivering something that was supposed to be delivered months ago. Either way, it’s an honest mistake that wasn’t supposed to happen.”
John Bowden23 May 2022 17:36
From North Carolina: How a swing state Democrat is campaigning
Cheri Beasley is the Democratic nominee to take a run at North Carolina’s open Senate seat, and having made it through last week’s primary, she is now on the air with an ad funded by Senate Democrats’ campaign operation.
The ad is a glimpse at the kind of messaging Democrats are using in states and districts Donald Trump won or nearly won in the last election. Many in the party are worried that slogans like “defund the police” have hurt them among voters who rank crime high on their list of concerns, and Ms Beasley’s ad takes the opposite approach to say the least…
Andrew Naughtie23 May 2022 17:10
Kinzinger lays into Trump fans alluding to “civil war”
Adam Kinzinger, who aside from being one of Donald Trump’s staunchest Republican critics is also a military pilot, has called out fans of the former president who are defending him after he shared a Truth Social post about “civil war”…
Andrew Naughtie23 May 2022 16:41
Fashion police: Trump rants at Birx about credibility and scarves
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