Eric Trump claims Putin could tell Donald Trump was ‘a very strong person’
Former president Donald Trump has promised to return to the White House at the “American Freedom Tour” in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
“With the support of everyone in this room, we will take back the House, we will take back the Senate and we will take back our country,” he said.
Mr Trump added: “And then most importantly in 2024, we are going to take back our beautiful White House”.
He has continued to drop hints about his 2024 presidential run but has not announced any formal plans so far.
Following his remarks, Congresswoman Liz Cheney on Sunday warned that Mr Trump could face criminal penalties over the 6 January riots at Capitol Hill.
The Republican leader told NBC’s Meet the Press that the House investigating committee is considering whether to recommend criminal punishment for the “kind of supreme dereliction of duty that you saw with President Trump”.
Alabama Senate hopeful Mo Brooks calls for McConnell’s sacking
Alabama Senate hopeful Mo Brooks is joining the ranks of Republican candidates who are calling on Mitch McConnell to be removed from his position as Senate GOP leader.
“America can’t afford a senate leader who is a weak-kneed, debt junkie, open-border RINO Republican and who, worse yet, sells out America for special interest group cash,” Mr Brooks says in a recently released online ad campaign.
There are currently two other Republican candidates who have publicly voiced their support for removing the Kentucky Republican from his post and they include Eric Greitans, who’s running in Missouri, and Kelly Tshibaka, running in Alaska.
Mr Brooks says in the 90-second ad that there’s a “battle” happening in America right now, and RINOs – Republican in name only – are not well suited to that confrontation.
“That’s the battle in America right now. McConnell versus Trump in a war for the heart and soul of the Republican party,” Mr Brooks says, underscoring how he and the two other Republican candidates who have called on Mr McConnell’s firing are closely aligning themselves with Donald Trump and his routine admonishment of the senate minority leader.
At the close of the video, Mr Brooks asks not only his opponents in the Alabama senate race, Katie Britt and Mike Durant, but all Republicans to join him in signing a pledge to oust the Kentucky Republican by heading to a website with an aptly named domain: www.firemcconnell.com.
Johanna Chisholm21 March 2022 12:33
How is Trump’s fundraising looking?
Every successive US presidential election is more extravagantly funded than the last – and courtesy of CATargetBot, which gathers and republishes FEC filings from campaign groups, we can take a glimpse at the balance held by Donald Trump’s Save America PAC.
Based on its cash-in-hand stash of $110,397,144.72 – with relatively puny unpaid bills – it looks to be in rude health.
Andrew Naughtie21 March 2022 11:54
McConnell dismisses “pro-Putin wing” of GOP as “lonely voices”
Mitch McConnell appeared yesterday on Face the Nation, where he was asked about the increasingly loud and strident Republicans – among them representatives Madison Cawthorn and Marjorie Taylor Greene – who are taking anti-Ukraine positions on the war Russia has launched on its neighbouring country.
When prompted to explain why the two and others like them haven’t faced more consequences, Mr McConnell declined to condemn them specifically, instead pointing to the rest of his party.
Ahmed Baba, an Independent Voices commentator, has this take:
Andrew Naughtie21 March 2022 11:24
Giuliani claims “genius” Trump threatened Putin’s “gold bubbles”
Speaking on far-right pro-Trump network Newsmax this weekend, former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani – whose political activities in Ukraine played a key part in his ex-boss’s first impeachment – claimed that the former…