Donald Trump speech today – latest: Trump calls for ‘massive red tide’ vote as he rails against ‘armored’ justice system

On Thursday morning, Donald Trump called for the impeachment of Mitch McConnell: “Mitch McConnell should be impeached… they have something against him.

An immunity deal for Donald Trump aide Kash Patel could put the former president in legal jeopardy, experts say.

Mr. Patel appeared before a grand jury in October when he invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

Sravasti Dasgupta reports.

But in the year While a November 2020 loss to Joe Biden may have soured the one-time president’s pride and 18 months of lies about rigged ballot boxes, it now seems almost certain that Mr. Trump will run for the White House in 2024.

What if something gets in the way of the plans?

Playing to a packed crowd in Robstown, Texas, former President Donald Trump drew cheers as he talked about his first two runs for the White House — and teased a third.

“I probably have to do it again to make our country successful, safe and respectable,” he said last month.

That carefully placed “maybe” may soon disappear from Trump’s stump speech. Aides are quietly gearing up for the 2024 presidential campaign, which will begin soon after next week’s midterm elections, as Trump tries to capitalize on expected Republican victories to boost his bid for the party’s nomination.

Justice Clarence Thomas was a member of the Supreme Court’s nine-judge bench, which he identified as an ally of the Trump campaign from the start.

Emails released by a court between two members of Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign legal team show that the leaders of the effort to delay the certification of election results in Georgia and other states thought Mr. Thomas would be different and open-minded from his colleagues. The campaign’s baseless and evidence-free accusation of fraud.

It’s a revelation that would have been less surprising than if his wife, Ginny Thomas, had not found herself at the center of the committee’s January 6 investigation into the people who helped Donald Trump pressure state legislators around the country to rig the election. Results.

John Bowden has the full story.

Donald Trump took the stage at about 8:30 p.m. Thursday in Sioux City, Iowa, and immediately began disparaging the country he led two years ago, calling the Hawkeye state a rogues’ gallery, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi, Senator Chuck Schumer, and President Joe Biden.

The New York state attorney general has cut loose lines about inflation and the cost of Americans’ Thanksgiving dinners, launching a racial tirade against the New York state attorney general, who is currently suing him, his family and a real estate company that bears his name, alleging that his office defrauded him of millions of dollars. New York financial institutions.

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Donald Trump says that Russia’s war on Ukraine did not happen during one of his terms, so if he were still president, it would not have happened.

He then said that China would invade Taiwan.

The former president covered this topic as he jumped from topic to topic while the eerie music he used to close his speech played in the background.

Donald Trump They repeated their false claim that there was massive voter fraud in the 2020 elections. He reiterated his call for same-day voting and only paper ballots for everyone except genuine patients.

“I’ll probably do it again,” he mocks the former president, referring to a 2024 run.

For context: Iowa is the first caucus state, the most critical in any presidential election.

More on the preparations for a third run for the White House from The Associated Press: