Trump news today: Jared Kushner appears before Jan 6 committee
Trump calls for Putin to release dirt on the Biden family
Donald Trump’s son-in-law and former White House adviser Jared Kushner has appeared virtually before the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot. His testimony is said to have been “really valuable”.
The meeting comes as White House records turned over to the committee by the National Archives and Records Administration do not include any calls made or received by Mr Trump between the hours of 11.17am and 6.54pm on the day of the storming of Congress.
The panel is now probing whether Mr Trump or his advisers used untraceable “burner phones” to evade official record-keeping systems which documented the president’s inbound and outbound phone calls that day. Mr Trump denied doing so in a statement in which he claimed to have “no idea what a burner phone is” and has never used the term. However, law suits filed on his behalf and a statement by former national security adviser John Bolton indicate otherwise.
Meanwhile, the current administration blasted Mr Trump’s request for Russian President Vladimir Putin to release potentially damaging information on President Joe Biden’s son in the middle of the war in Ukraine.
“What kind of American, let alone an ex-president, thinks that this is the right time to enter into a scheme with Vladimir Putin and brag about his connections to Vladimir Putin? There is only one, and it’s Donald Trump,” White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield said to reporters on Wednesday.
Trump tells supporter ‘you don’t look gay’
Former president Donald Trump told someone in the crowd during a fundraising event at Mar-a-Lago, “You don’t look gay.”
Mr Trump was speaking at an event for the Republican congressional candidate and former Trump administration Housing and Urban Development Department official John Gibbs.
Someone in the crowd shouted “Gays for Trump!” and Mr Trump responded by saying “you don’t look gay.”
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Maroosha Muzaffar1 April 2022 06:20
Trump tried to take profits from book of photos published by White House photographer, report says
Former President Donald Trump reportedly tried to muscle his way into the profits generated by a book of images taken by the official White House photographer during his tenure.
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Maroosha Muzaffar1 April 2022 05:51
Debunking Donald Trump’s false claim that he ‘built up’ oil reserves
Former president Donald Trump’s recent claim that his administration “built up” US strategic petroleum reserves that were “virtually empty” for a half-century is a complete falsehood, according to US Department of Energy records.
Andrew Feinberg explains.
Oliver O’Connell1 April 2022 05:30
Trump won’t change says GOP senator
North Dakota Senator Kevin Cramer dismisses Donald Trump again asking Vladimir Putin to release dirt on his political foes as just Trump being Trump.
“Donald Trump is Donald Trump. He hasn’t changed. He’s not going to change,” he tells MSNBC’s Chuck Todd.
Oliver O’Connell1 April 2022 04:45
ICYMI: Jared Kushner was set to meet with Jan 6 committee today
Jared Kushner is today expected to meet virtually with the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot.
Committee chairman Bennie Thompson told ABC News Mr Kushner is of interest “because he was an integral part of the administration. It’s, I think, important for us to find out if he knew anything about the planning before January 6, and to get it from him.”
The committee has no evidence that he was involved in the planning for the events of 6 January 2021 and has not sought to obtain his email or phone records, Mr Thompson further told reporters.
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Oliver O’Connell1 April 2022 04:00
ICYMI: Trump hits out at Morning Joe hosts over condemnation for Putin favour
Donald Trump once again launched an attack on an all-too-familiar target for the former president: Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, the husband and wife duo who co-host MSNBC’s popular Morning Joe programme alongside Willy Geist — this time about their reporting about his request to Vladimir Putin.
Johanna Chisholm reports on the former president’s latest angry statement.
Oliver O’Connell1 April 2022 03:15
What we still don’t know about the Trump White House call logs from Jan 6
Bombshell reporting from CBS News and The Washington Post published this week revealed that a mysterious gap exists in the Trump White House call logs from the day of the Captiol riot on 6 January 2021.
While rioters attempted to sack the US Capitol, chanted “hang Mike Pence”, and delayed the certification of Joe Biden’s victory, Donald Trump was holed up in the White House with his staff. We now know that several top officials, including chief of staff Mark Meadows, were fielding calls and texts from desperate lawmakers on…
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