Trump opens 2024 run, saying he’s ‘more committed’ than ever
Donald Trump is suing journalist Bob Woodward for releasing his interview recordings to the public, claiming that he didn’t give him permission to use them for an audiobook.
Mr Trump also now faces yet another criminal investigation, this time at the hands of the Manhattan district attorney’s office.
The New York Times broke the story of the office’s ongoing grand jury probe into Mr Trump’s 2016 hush payment, via former attorney Michael Cohen, to adult film star Stormy Daniels. The office is presenting evidence to a grand jury in the days ahead, and will soon decide whether Mr Trump or others should face criminal indictments.
The former president is alleged to have paid off Ms Daniels in 2016 to prevent her from spreading claims of an affair between the two. Mr Trump denies this; Ms Daniels and the ex-president’s former “fixer”, Mr Cohen, do not.
Meanwhile, Florida governor Ron DeSantis has dismissed Mr Trump’s recent attacks, noting that he recently got re-elected.
Donald Trump sues Bob Woodward and book publisher over interview tapes
Donald Trump is suing journalist Bob Woodward of the Watergate scandal fame for releasing his interview recordings to the public, claiming that he didn’t give him permission to use them for an audiobook.
The former US president filed a lawsuit on Monday against Woodward, the publisher Simon & Schuster and its parent company Paramount Global for releasing the recorded interviews which took place between December 2019 and August 2020.
Mr Trump claimed in the lawsuit that he consented to be recorded for a series of interviews but only for a book Woodward was working on, rather than for direct publication. Woodward’s “Rage” was published in September 2021.
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John Bowden1 February 2023 01:45
Inside McCarthy’s House: Famous friends and hard realities
Three weeks into the new era of the House Republican majority, the risks of Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s leadership style are clearly taking hold.
Away from the glare of the speaker’s official office, McCarthy is conducting some of the most exhilarating but also difficult business of leadership. Yet McCarthy is also confronting the limits of his slim hold on power as the promises of a new style of running the House run into the hard realities of governing.
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John Bowden1 February 2023 00:45
California may disbar Trump lawyer over 2020 lies
John Eastman, who led Donald Trump’s legal bid to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, could be stripped of his licence to practise law after he was hit with 11 charges stemming from his efforts fuelled by the former president’s election lies.
The State Bar of California’s Chief Trial Counsel George Cardona announced the case against Mr Eastman on Thursday.
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John Bowden31 January 2023 23:45
Stormy Daniels responds to Trump
Adult film star Stormy Daniels has responded to Donald Trump’s Truth Social rant denouncing the Manhattan district attorney’s office over the grand jury investigation impanelled to consider criminal charges against him for a hush payment made to Ms Daniels in 2016.
Mr Trump has long denied the affair which Ms Daniels claims the two were involved in; nevertheless, his attorney Michael Cohen paid Ms Daniels $130,000 out of his own personal funds to apparently buy her silence.
John Bowden31 January 2023 22:45
Ron DeSantis responds to Donald Trump’s recent attacks
Former President Donald Trump took aim at Gov Ron DeSantis’ leadership of Florida during the worst of the Covid-19 crisis during a recent campaign swing through New…