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Merrick Garland appoints peculiar counsel to oversee Trump investigations
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Donald Trump is facing a 2nd suit from writer E Jean Carroll, who accuses him of raping her successful a New York section store successful the 1990s.
Availing herself of a caller authorities instrumentality that comes into effect today, Ms Carroll is suing Mr Trump for rape and intersexual battle arsenic good arsenic defamation implicit caller comments helium made calling her a “con job” and accusing her of lying astir her allegations.
Meanwhile, the Justice Department is reportedly seeking to question Mike Pence arsenic portion of its ongoing probe into January 6 and Donald Trump’s months-long effort to overturn the 2020 election.
Mr Pence was presiding implicit successful the ceritfication of the predetermination results astatine the clip the Capitol was attacked by a horde of Trump supporters and right-wing extremists. His beingness was straight threatened by rioters during the attack, and his information squad was forced to unreserved him distant to a unafraid presumption conscionable a fewer feet from wherever attackers had breached the building.
GOP megadonor splits with Trump: Time for ‘new procreation of leaders’
An influential blimpish donor has announced that helium was not supporting Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican statesmanlike nomination, a stance that shows conscionable however heavy the fractures wrong the GOP whitethorn tally aft past week’s midterms.
In presumption of wide monetary support, the stroke to Mr Trump’s run finances volition beryllium minimal. But there’s a greater value astatine play here; the announcement from a large GOP donor came the greeting aft Mr Trump officially entered the 2024 statesmanlike race.
John Bowden looks into the increasing GOP fractures for The Independent:
John Bowden25 November 2022 05:20
The emergence of the ‘crazy caucus’: All the ways the GOP could upend America present that they’ve won the House
How atrocious could things get for the US present that Republicans – arsenic expected – volition instrumentality power of the House of Representatives successful January aft the midterm elections?
The Independent’s Andrew Feinberg looked astatine each the ways that the GOP, with a far-right faction feeling progressively emboldened acknowledgment to their quality to hijack the party’s agenda, could gum up the works and origin a two-year headache for Joe Biden.
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John Bowden25 November 2022 04:20
Trump accused of ‘stealing’ from Herschel Walker run with deceptive fundraising emails
Republican Senate campaigner Herschel Walker’s run has accused Republicans, including erstwhile president Donald Trump, of “deceptive” fundraising.
Scott Paradise, Mr Walker’s run manager, called retired Republicans who advertised fundraising for Mr Walker and called connected them to stock much of the money, NBC News reported.
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John Bowden25 November 2022 03:20
Georgia prohibition connected Saturday voting earlier Warnock vs Walker runoff would ‘irreparably harm’ voters, justice rules
Raphael Warnock’s run was victorious past week successful a important suit against a authorities instrumentality banning aboriginal in-person voting connected the Saturday aft a holiday, allowing voters to caput backmost to the polls connected the play aft Thanksgiving.
Senator Warnock remains successful a nailbiter against Herschel Waklker, a erstwhile pro footballer-turned Trump acolyte and GOP campaigner for US Senate. Should Mr Warnock win, Democrats volition grow their bulk by 1 spot successful the precocious enclosure successful a last refutation of the “red wave” predicted by Republicans this year.
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John Bowden25 November 2022 02:20
Herschel Walker tells bizarre communicative astir vampires and werewolves
Herschel Walker veered into a unusual and seemingly inexplicable tangent astir vampires, werewolves and religion portion the Republican Senate campaigner rallied successful Georgia up of his runoff predetermination successful December against Sen Raphael Warnock.
The erstwhile nonrecreational shot subordinate delivered the bizarre commentary portion lasting astatine the pulpit astatine an lawsuit held successful McDonough, Georgia connected Wednesday.
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John Bowden25 November 2022 01:20
Less than 20 Kari Lake supporters crook retired for statehouse protestation against her Arizona politician predetermination loss
A tiny but vocal radical of predetermination deniers rallied extracurricular the authorities capitol successful Arizona to protestation Kari Lake’s nonaccomplishment successful the gubernatorial contention against Democratic campaigner Katie Hobbs.
Approximately 15 radical gathered astatine the Arizona authorities capitol connected Tuesday, with immoderate waving flags emblazoned with pro-Trump messages and “SOS”.
Ms Lake has refused to concede her contention and raised allegations of elector suppression — but she does not person the backing of different Republicans successful the state, including, crucially, Gov Doug Ducey.
John Bowden25 November 2022 00:20
Arizona’s Republican politician congratulated the Democratic victor of the state’s gubernatorial contention this week aft her decision of Kari Lake, a Trump-backed Republican campaigner who made headlines for battling with reporters and insisting that the 2020 predetermination was stolen.
Ms Lake continues to importune that her contention was the people of elector suppression tactics aft immoderate Lake supporters complained astir agelong lines and issues with printers astatine precincts — though precise fewer person said they were incapable to ballot entirely.
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John Bowden24 November 2022 23:20
Trump holds comfy pb implicit DeSantis successful 2024 superior poll
Donald Trump inactive holds a comfy pb implicit Ron DeSantis successful the archetypal large post-midterms canvass of the hypothetical 2024 Republican superior field, but don’t number the Florida politician retired yet.
The ex-president led his hostile by 30 points successful an Emerson College survey of apt GOP superior voters released connected Tuesday. Mr DeSantis was supported by 25 per cent of respondents to Mr Trump’s 55 per cent, a motion of some the ex-president’s continued governmental spot arsenic good arsenic the rapidly increasing prima powerfulness of the Florida politician successful GOP circles.
John Bowden dives into the poll’s value for The Independent:
John Bowden24 November 2022 22:20
Former President Donald Trump has been invited backmost to Twitter by the platform’s caller CEO, Elon Musk, but has frankincense acold declined to return. Instead he’s spending his clip connected his ain societal media site, Truth Social, wherever helium has posted immoderate genuinely unusual things successful the past respective months.
Mr Trump regularly "re-truths" posts that sing his praises, but 1 of his astir caller posts includes an edited video featuring a bizarre mashup of scenes from movies successful which characters ticker successful rapturous glee arsenic the erstwhile president gives speeches and brags astir himself.
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John Bowden24 November 2022 21:18
Pro-Trump conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell begs Elon Musk to interaction him arsenic helium remains banned from Twitter
Pillow vendor and 2020 conspiracy mogul Mike Lindell publically appealed to Elon Musk this week for his Twitter relationship to beryllium reinstated.
The MyPillow CEO was banned from the level earlier this twelvemonth aft helium created a 2nd relationship to evade a impermanent prohibition handed down by the platform’s moderators, who had flagged his relationship for spreading misinformation astir the 2020 election.
In a broadcast arsenic portion of his “Lindell TV” programme connected a right-wing streaming site, helium called connected Mr Musk to marque interaction with him and claimed that the billionaire Tesla laminitis was ignoring him.
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John Bowden24 November 2022 20:21
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