Trump news today: Trump campaign calls Hunter Biden trial ‘nothing more than a distraction’ after guilty verdict

A Georgia Republican congressional candidate who was convicted over his half within the US Capitol riot stormed out of a reside televised debate on Sunday evening only a week earlier than his get together’s major runoff.

Chuck Hand, who’s battling GOP rival Wayne Johnson for the prospect to tackle 16-term Democratic incumbent Sanford Bishop in November, left the stage on the Atlanta Press Membership after declaring that he refused to debate Johnson.

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…as a result of they’re each convicted felons.

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Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg has agreed to testify earlier than Congress on July 12, a day after former President Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush cash trial.

A spokesperson for Bragg’s workplace confirmed Tuesday that he’ll seem earlier than the Home Choose Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Authorities alongside Matthew Colangelo, the previous high-ranking Justice Division official who was employed by Bragg in 2022 and helped lead the Trump investigation.

Bragg and Colangelo will face what’s more likely to be a hostile, Republican-controlled listening to the place the chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio has accused each males of conducting a “political prosecution” within the case in opposition to the previous president. It would mark the newest effort by Trump’s closest allies in Congress to discredit the current 34-count conviction by going after native and federal prosecutors who’ve charged him.

Trump, the GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee, was convicted final month of falsifying information to cowl up hush cash paid to a porn actor in the course of the 2016 presidential marketing campaign and is scheduled to be sentenced on July 11. Earlier than then, prosecutors can be making suggestions to a decide about what sort of punishment Trump deserves.

Bragg, a Democrat, sued Jordan final yr, looking for to halt a Home Judiciary Committee inquiry into Trump’s indictment. He later agreed to let the Republican-led committee query ex-prosecutor Mark Pomerantz, who as soon as oversaw the investigation however left the job after clashing with Bragg over the path of the case.

Trump’s lead legal professional Todd Blanche was allowed to be on the decision to advise his shopper, which isn’t customary observe however was permitted since Choose Merchan didn’t object.

Frederick Trump III — Donald Trump’s nephew, and brother of Mary Trump — is releasing a brand new memoir on July 30 that may reveal “the darkish corners of the Trump household”, Individuals stories.

The memoir known as All within the Household: The Trumps and How We Received This Method and covers his ties and separations from the household.

In a press launch, Fred Trump III says: “Silence is golden solely the place there’s nothing that must be mentioned.”

He’ll talk about his relationship with the previous president and convicted felon, in addition to household patriarch Frederick Sr.

Fred III is the son of Fred Jr, who died in 1981, and Linda Clapp. His sister Mary has been a vocal opponent of their uncle for some years now.

Home Republicans will meet privately with Donald Trump on Thursday, as the previous president who’s now the get together’s presumptive nominee returns to Capitol Hill for the primary time since his supporters attacked the constructing on Jan. 6, 2021, in an try and overturn President Joe Biden’s election.

Trump was already scheduled to satisfy with Senate Republicans behind closed doorways, and he’ll now maintain a separate session with colleagues within the Home. Home GOP Convention Chairwoman Rep. Elise Stefanik suggested lawmakers early Tuesday of the upcoming assembly with Trump.

It’s a pivotal second for the indicted former president, weeks earlier than he’s to be sentenced after being discovered responsible within the hush cash trial and forward of the Republican Nationwide Conference when he’s anticipated to change into the formal GOP nominee for president.

The Trump marketing campaign didn’t verify the assembly with Home Republicans, however the senior marketing campaign official mentioned the Senate assembly can be centered on coverage points — together with tax cuts.

Trump’s return to the GOP marketing campaign workplaces throughout from the Capitol, his first because the mob of supporters rioted on the Capitol in 2021, comes as he faces different authorized fees, together with the four-part federal indictment introduced by Justice Division Particular Prosecutor Jack Smith within the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election outcomes.

Most Republicans have endorsed Trump within the anticipated rematch in opposition to Biden, together with Senate Republican Chief Mitch McConnell and different leaders who have been crucial of him within the aftermath of the 2021 assault.

Lots of the Republicans in Congress have joined Trump in attacking the U.S. justice system for the circumstances in opposition to him. Home Speaker Mike Johnson led lawmakers in rallying to Trump’s protection exterior the New York courthouse final month within the hush cash trial.

The decision made Trump the primary former American president discovered responsible of felony crimes when a New York jury convicted him on all fees in a scheme to illegally affect the 2016 election with a hush cash fee to a porn actor.

Donald Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba is defending her supposedly hardscrabble background as her detractors on social media query whether or not she is concocting a false rags-to-riches story.

Habba appeared on Turning Level USA founder Charlie Kirk’s present on the right-wing channel Actual America’s Voice on Monday and defended remarks she had remodeled the weekend at a summit held by Kirk’s group.