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Donald Trump rallied supporters in North Carolina and Virginia on Saturday ahead of Super Tuesday.
The former president tried out new nicknames and hit President Joe Biden on immigration as he won three contests on Saturday in Missouri, Michigan, and Idaho as he spoke to followers in Greensboro and Richmond.
He won the Michigan and Idaho Republican caucuses, taking all 71 available delegates across both states. Mr Trump is moving towards the Republican presidential nomination, extending his lead against his last remaining rival, Nikki Haley, as his legal troubles rumble on.
On Friday, Florida Judge Aileen Cannon refrained from setting a trial date in the criminal case over Mr Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
Judge Cannon called the prosecution’s request to begin the trial in July “unrealistic”, given the potential for overlap with Mr Trump’s other criminal case, the New York hush-money trial – scheduled for six weeks from 25 March.
Separately in Georgia, Judge Scott McAfee said he would need two weeks to consider whether to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from Mr Trump’s election interference case after a romance between the two top prosecutors.
Jack Smith’s ‘unrealistic’ classified documents trial date may be rejected by Trump appointed judge
Oliver O’Connell3 March 2024 13:45
Trump floats fifteen-week abortion ban during Texas border visit
Oliver O’Connell3 March 2024 11:45
Giuliani takes his Manhattan apartment off the market, despite bankruptcy
Rudy Giuliani, the former lawyer of Donald Trump and the former New York City mayor, has taken his Upper East Side apartment off the market — despite being bankrupt and facing a mountain of legal woes.
In August, Mr Giuliani listed his Manhattan apartment for a whopping $6.5m. By October, he later cut the price tag to $6.1m. In a bankruptcy court filing, he listed his Upper East Side property as being valued at $5.6m, slashing its value by nearly a million from the original listing. Now, it is nowhere to be found on Sotheby’s Realty.
Oliver O’Connell3 March 2024 09:45
Republicans won’t blur faces of Jan 6 rioters in surveillance footage
After announcing that the faces of January 6 rioters would be blurred to avoid their prosecution by the US Department of Justice, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared to reverse course on Friday, saying that it was taking too long.
Last year, Mr Johnson appeared to admit that House Republicans were protecting people who broke into the US Capitol, telling reporters in December that “we have to blur some faces of persons who participated in the events of that day because we don’t want them to be retaliated against, and to be charged by the DOJ, and to have other, you know, concerns and problems.”
On Friday, with the release of 5,000 hours of raw footage, his office announced that rioters’ faces won’t be blurred “given the significant logistic hurdles involved and the importance of getting this work completed as responsibly and efficiently as possible”.
Alex Woodward has the story:
Oliver O’Connell3 March 2024 07:45
Haley calls for Trump’s legal woes to be ‘dealt’ with before November
Nikki Haley, the last Republican rival facing Donald Trump in the 2024 primaries, has called for all of his legal battles to be “dealt with” before the November election.
The former South Carolina governor is yet to win a state primary or caucus. On Thursday, days after losing big in Michigan, she appeared on NBC News’ Meet the Press and said: “I think all of the cases should be dealt with before November.”
“We need to know what’s going to happen before it, before the presidency happens, because after that, should he become president, I don’t think any of it’s going to get heard,” she added.
Oliver O’Connell3 March 2024 05:45
Jimmy Kimmel jokes Trump went to border ‘for the taco bowls’
Oliver O’Connell3 March 2024 03:45
Watch again as Trump visits US border on same day as Biden
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Oliver O’Connell2 March 2024 23:45
Yes, it’s another Trump lawsuit…
Maroosha Muzaffar has the details:
The co-founders of Donald Trump’s media venture sued him on Wednesday, alleging a plot to deny them a significant share in the company potentially worth hundreds of millions, according to reports.
The partnership, United Atlantic Ventures (UAV), alleges that Trump Media & Technology Group engaged in “wrongful 11th hour … maneuvering” to dilute UAV’s minority stake in the media company, a court filing said.
Oliver O’Connell2 March 2024 21:45
