Trump marks Memorial Day with scathing message to ‘Human Scum’: Live updates

The 38-year-old, who has run numerous times for Congress in Georgia, was elected after seven rounds of voting at the party’s convention in Washington DC, on Sunday, beating the likes of Michael Rectenwald and Mike ter Maat to the nod.

Mr Oliver told CNN after his victory that speaking to “as many people as possible” would be key to making an impact in a contest all but certain to be dominated by President Joe Biden and Mr Trump and pledged to be “a fly in the ointment of the two-party system”.

Donald Trump has been working overtime to spin a new story about what happened at the Libertarian National Convention in Washington DC, after being loudly booed and jeered by the audience.

Donald Trump was jeered multiple times within the first few minutes of his speech to a rowdy crowd of roughly a thousand people Saturday evening at the Washington Hilton, where just a few weeks ago his 2024 election opponent Joe Biden spoke at the White House Correspondent’s Association’s (WHCA) annual dinner.

John Bowden reports from the scene:

Libertarian presidential candidate Dr Michael Rectenwald has revealed that he took an edible before taking to the stage at the party’s convention to give a speech where he laid into “buffoonish” Donald Trump.

Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin requested a meeting with Mr Roberts to discuss their concerns about Mr Alito’s impartiality, CBS News reports.

With closing arguments looming, former President Donald Trump took time out of his Memorial Day weekend to blast the judge who presided over his hush money trial in a rant on Truth Social.

The former president trotted out familiar attack lines against Judge Juan Merchan, whom he has regularly accused of being biased against him.

Eric Garcia and Alex Woodward report:

The Trump campaign stirred up controversy last week when it posted a video about the former president with an old-fashioned newsreel style.

On a mock-up newspaper, with the headline, “What’s next for America?,” text could be seen reading, “Industrial strength significantly increased drive by the creation of a unified Reich.”

Trump, it seemed, was openly invoking the history of Nazi Germany as part of his campaign, and he was swiftly condemned by the White House.

His campaign, for its part, insisted a staffer reposted an outside video without noticing the text on the image and now the story has a new wrinkle: the “unified Reich” phrase, along with the entire mock newspaper setup, was part of a motion graphics template created by a Turkish graphic designer.

Enes Simsek, who lives near Istanbul, told CNN he made the template last May and listed it on an online marketplace. The “unified Reich” line was placeholder text, drawn from a description of WWI-era Germany.

Here’s how Donald Trump is marking today’s federal holiday:

Happy Memorial Day to All, including the Human Scum that is working so hard to destroy our Once Great Country, & to the Radical Left, Trump Hating Federal Judge in New York that presided over, get this, TWO separate trials, that awarded a woman, who I never met before (a quick handshake at a celebrity event, 25 years ago, doesn’t count!), 91 MILLION DOLLARS for “DEFAMATION.” She didn’t know when the so-called event took place – sometime in the 1990’s – never filed a police report, didn’t have to produce the “dress” that she threatened me with (it showed negative!), & sung my praises in the first half of her CNN Interview with Alison Cooper, but changed her tune in the second half – Gee, I wonder why (UNDER APPEAL!)? The Rape charge was dropped by a jury! Or Arthur Engoron, the N.Y. State Wacko Judge who fined me almost 500 Million Dollars (UNDER APPEAL) for DOING NOTHING WRONG, used a Statute that has never been used before, gave me NO JURY, Mar-a-Lago at $18,000,000 – Now for Merchan!

Ms Carroll’s lawyers are doubtless paying close attention to posts like this…