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Trump to rally in Wisconsin after calling Milwaukee ‘horrible’: Live updates
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Donald Trump will stage his latest campaign rally in Racine, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, less than a week after he reportedly dismissed Milwaukee as “horrible” in conversation with congressional Republicans and a month before the city hosts the Republican National Convention at which he will formally be offered the GOP 2024 nomination.
Meanwhile, a new poll conducted by Ipsos shows a decrease in trust in the American legal system among Republican voters since the verdict was handed down in the presidential contender’s hush money trial last month.
A sizable number of US citizens, including independents, questioned whether the outcome was the result of a fair and impartial process.
However, most respondents rejected the idea that the prosecution was brought by Manhattan’s district attorney Alvin Bragg to help President Joe Biden by smearing his opponent and keeping him cooped up in court and away from the campaign trail.
Most significantly, one in five Americans said they were less likely to support Trump for president in November as a result of the verdict.
After some initial caution, the president has finally begun to use the outcome to his advantage, attacking Trump as a “convicted criminal” in a new $50m attack ad.
Ellis and Epshteyn please not guilty in Arizona 2020 election case
They are charged with forgery, fraud, and conspiracy charges in the state based on their Alleged efforts relating to attempts to overthrow the 2020 election results.
Epshteyn was an attorney and adviser to the 2016 and 2020 Trump campaigns. He recently appeared with Trump at his New York hush money trial.
Lamon was one of the then-president’s potential electors leading into the 2020 election.
According to the charging documents, one month after the 2020 election, 11 Trump supporters convened at the Arizona GOP’s headquarters in Phoenix to sign a certificate claiming to be the state’s 11 electors to the Electoral College.
However, Joe Biden won the state by 10,457 votes and state officials certified his electors.
Oliver O’Connell18 June 2024 18:00
House Ethics panel investigating Matt Gaetz sex and drug claims now eyeing new allegations
In an unusual press release, the House Ethics Committee confirmed that it was closing its probe into claims that Gaetz, a three-term congressman representing the Sunshine State’s first district, had showed colleagues pornographic materials while on the House floor, taken bribes, misused Florida identification records and stolen from campaign donors by using campaign funds on himself.
Oliver O’Connell18 June 2024 17:45
‘That f****r Biden’
Donald Trump called Joe Biden “that f*****” in his final conversation with Anthony Fauci and said he would destroy his Democratic rival in the 2020 election, the famed Covid-response doctor revealed.
“I am going to win this election by a f****** landslide,” then-president Donald Trump told Fauci, according to an excerpt from Fauci’s upcoming memoir On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service.
Gustaf Kilander reports on the rest of Trump’s expletive-laden tirade:
Oliver O’Connell18 June 2024 17:30
Mike Johnson vows to sue for Biden special counsel recordings
House Speaker Mike Johnson vowed to federal court to enforce a subpoena against Attorney General Merrick Garland, after the Department of Justice announced it would not pursue a criminal case against the Biden administration official.
“The House disagrees with the assertions in the letter from the Department of Justice, and as Speaker, I will be certifying the contempt reports to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. We will also move to enforce the subpoena of Attorney General Garland in federal court,” Speaker Johnson wrote on X on Friday.
Alex Woodward and Josh Marcus report:
Oliver O’Connell18 June 2024 17:15
Watch: Maddow says Trump and allies running against democracy not Democrats
Oliver O’Connell18 June 2024 17:01
Scammers target Trump supporters after he announced he’d take crypto donations
For instance, donalbjtrump.com was an almost complete copy of the former president’s website.
Gustaf Kilander has the details…
Oliver O’Connell18 June 2024 16:45
![An electronic billboard near Racine, Wisconsin, noting that Donald Trump is a convicted felon](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/06/18/16/SEI209294611.jpg)
Oliver O’Connell18 June 2024 16:30
Full story: Trump’s gag order appeal is shot down by New York’s top court
Alex Woodward reports from New York:
A decision from the New York Court of Appeals on Tuesday said “no substantial constitutional question is directly involved” in his challenge to the gag order.
Oliver O’Connell18 June 2024 16:24
Inside Trump’s deeply weird ‘obsession’ with Debra Messing
According to a new book, the former president admitted to having a crush on actor Debra Messing — praising her “beautiful red hair” — and is still annoyed by her very public rejection of him.
Martha McHardy has the story…
Oliver O’Connell18 June 2024 16:15
New York’s highest court rejects Trump’s gag order appeal
The gag order was imposed to protect the jury, court staff, witnesses and their families from being attacked by Trump during the trial.
Justices at the State of New York Court of Appeals wrote: “Appeal dismissed without costs, by the Court sua sponte, upon the ground that no substantial constitutional question is directly involved.”
Separately from this, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office is expected to respond at some point this week to Trump’s latest attempt to lift the gag order, post-conviction.
An earlier appeal of the gag order was also rejected as Ariana Baio and Alex Woodward reported last month:
Oliver O’Connell18 June 2024 16:04