Trump news: Trump returns to Twitter and formally demands Facebook reinstatement - The Independent

Trump poised to instrumentality to Twitter arsenic run demands Facebook reinstatement, study says

While Donald Trump was granted entree to his Twitter relationship backmost connected 19 November pursuing the takeover of the institution by Elon Musk and the determination to reverse the prohibition imposed connected the erstwhile president successful the aftermath of the Capitol riot, helium has to tweet.

That could each alteration according to reporting by NBC News, which states that his 2024 run advisers person been workshopping ideas for his archetypal tweet.

In addition, the run has besides approached Facebook genitor Meta to unblock his relationship connected that level which was besides suspended 2 years ago.

“We judge that the prohibition connected President Trump’s relationship connected Facebook has dramatically distorted and inhibited the nationalist discourse,” Trump’s run wrote successful its missive to Meta connected Tuesday, according to a transcript reviewed by NBC News.

The run would similar a gathering to sermon reinstatement. Meta has said it volition denote a determination successful the coming weeks.

Since his prohibition from the main societal media platforms, Mr Trump founded his ain — Truth Social — but does not bask the assemblage and bully pulpit helium had connected the different sites. While helium has 4.8 cardinal followers connected Truth Social, helium had 88 cardinal connected Twitter and 34 cardinal connected Facebook.

Oliver O'Connell18 January 2023 14:26

Trump calls classified folders ‘cool keepsake’ portion lashing retired astatine ‘Gestapo’ FBI

Another day, different protestation of innocence from erstwhile president Donald Trump regarding the trove of classified documents recovered astatine Mar-a-Lago.

Mr Trump argues that helium kept the inexpensive folders marked “classified” oregon “confidential” arsenic a “cool” keepsake earlier accusing the “Gestapo” — the FBI — of taking these bare folders and counting them arsenic classified documents.

Further, the erstwhile president past floated the conspiracy mentation that “Trump Hating Marxist Thugs’ would “plant documents portion they’re successful possession of the material”.

He ended with a defiant: “I DID NOTHING WRONG. JOE DID!”

Oliver O'Connell19 January 2023 01:30

How ominous is the indebtedness bounds problem?

On the brink of hitting the nation’s ineligible borrowing bounds connected Thursday, the authorities is resorting to “extraordinary measures” to debar a default.

Sounds ominous, right?

But — instrumentality a enactment — the operation technically refers to a clump of accounting workarounds. Yes, accounting.

Oliver O'Connell19 January 2023 00:30

Voices: Why Kevin McCarthy can’t discontinue George Santos

Another day, different George Santos headline. Several of them, actually.

Eric Garcia explains wherefore Kevin McCarthy – fto unsocial the remainder of GOP enactment – apt can’t spend to discontinue Mr Santos for 1 elemental reason.

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Oliver O'Connell18 January 2023 23:30

Renewed Stormy Daniels hush wealth probe spot Cohen conscionable with Trump prosecutors

Donald Trump’s erstwhile lawyer, Michael Cohen, said helium met for 2½ hours Tuesday with Manhattan prosecutors who person revived a years-old probe into payments made to a porn prima to support her quiescent astir an alleged extramarital tryst.

Cohen said helium had been “ordered not to disclose” immoderate of the radical contiguous astatine the gathering oregon to sermon prosecutors’ country of involvement successful immoderate detail.

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Oliver O'Connell18 January 2023 23:00

Voices: The unsafe troll nether the Republican House bridge

Noah Berlatsky writes:

Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy has repeated his volition to support Democratic representatives Eric Swalwell, Adam Schiff, and Ilhan Omar disconnected the House quality committee. The determination is wide seen arsenic revenge for Democrats removing Republicans Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar. It is also, though, a reiteration of Republican committedness to authorities by trolling.

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Oliver O'Connell18 January 2023 22:30

Trump wants Obama questioned connected classified papers

In a engaged time of Truth Social posts, erstwhile president Donald Trump wonders:

Why aren’t they asking President Obama what’s going connected with his Administration? Crooked Hillary took and illegally deleted and acerb washed 33,000 Emails AFTER getting a Subpoena for those Emails from the United States Congress, and who knows however galore Classified Documents Joe took, particularly pertaining to Ukraine and China. Maybe Trump Hating Special “Prosecutor” Jack Smith, who is doing the soiled enactment for his Marxist Democrat friends, should bash the close happening for our Country!

He adds successful a follow-up post:

Our Country has go the Investigation Capital of the World. Actually, that’s each we do, and it’s lone bully for our galore enemies. They could not beryllium happier arsenic they brilliantly crippled our demise!!!

Oliver O'Connell18 January 2023 22:11

Trump claims helium kept classified folders arsenic ‘cool’ keepsakes

Donald Trump insisted connected Wednesday successful posts connected Truth Social that galore of the documents marked “classified” recovered astatine Mar-a-Lago — of much than 300 successful full — were successful information bare folders marked “classified” that helium had taken arsenic “cool” keepsakes.

Mr Trump went connected to reiterate his baseless accusation claiming that national instrumentality enforcement agents would works much classified documents among the seized materials successful bid to further incriminate him.

John Bowden has the details.

Oliver O'Connell18 January 2023 22:00

Kushner warned Trump against going down rabbit spread of bogus predetermination claims

Jared Kushner warned Donald Trump against listening to the extracurricular lawyers he’d gathered astir himself during his effort to overturn the 2020 election, telling his father-in-law that his ineligible squad was sending him connected “a funky ride”.

In his caller publication connected the archetypal 2 years of Joe Biden’s presidency, The Fight of his Life, author Chris Whipple writes that Mr Kushner “chose to marque himself scarce” successful the days starring up to the January 6 onslaught connected the Capitol due to the fact that helium “knew determination was thing there” erstwhile it came to Mr Trump’s claims to beryllium the unfortunate of a stolen election.

Andrew Feinberg reports from Washington, DC.

Oliver O'Connell18 January 2023 21:30

Awkward video shows Trump ducking fan’s precocious five

Donald Trump has been captured connected video awkwardly avoiding a precocious 5 aft taking a photograph with a radical of supporters during what appears to beryllium a circular of play astatine his backstage Florida club.

Lawyer Ron Filipkowski shared the footage connected Twitter, successful which the erstwhile president smiles for the camera and gives a thumbs up earlier climbing backmost into his play cart, without high-fiving the protagonist adjacent to him, whose limb is grabbed by a man, preventing him from touching Mr Trump.

Gustaf Kilander has the story.

Oliver O'Connell18 January 2023 21:00