Trump news latest: Trump Organization fraud trial jury picked as 2024 run teased with Iowa rally announcement

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Donald Trump interrupted by crowd singing national anthem at rally

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Donald Trump has announced four rallies for the home stretch of the midterm elections, taking him to Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida and Iowa. He will campaign alongside various Republican candidates but is snubbing several others including those fighting competitive races in Arizona, Georgia and Nevada.

However, his Florida rally will apparently not feature Governor Ron DeSantis, who is considered his most viable opponent in a hypothetical Republican 2024 presidential primary. Mr. DeSantis himself is up for re-election but is expected to have no trouble winning his race against former governor Charlie Crist.

The former president also shared a post on Truth Social in which Megyn Kelly says she thinks the Republican base wouldn’t leave Mr. Trump to support anyone else unless he picked them personally.

Meanwhile, Mr. Trump’s attorneys have received the January 6 committee subpoena compelling the former president to appear for deposition by November 14 and turn over relevant documents.

In the case against his company, jury selection has been completed and the Trump Organization tax fraud trial will now proceed. Prosecutors noted the difficulty in choosing a fair jury in Manhattan where the former president is especially unpopular.

Key pointsShow latest update 1666909817Trump will be person most worried by DeSantis display of Maga meanness

The Florida governor shows he has bigger political ambitions, writes Andrew Buncombe.

Oliver O’Connell27 October 2022 23:30

1666907100IRS can turn over Trump tax returns to House committee, appeals court rules

CNN reports that the House Ways and Means Committee can now receive former President Donald Trump’s IRS tax returns in one week after a federal appeals court on Thursday declined Mr. Trump’s request to stop their release.

The former president could still appeal to the Supreme Court to intervene.

A three-judge panel on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals decided they won’t put the handover of the former presidents tax returns on hold after the full appeals court rejected Mr. Trump’s request that they review an earlier decision allowing for the release of the returns.

Oliver O’Connell27 October 2022 22:45

1666906217Would Elon Musk allow Donald Trump back on Twitter?

And if he did, what would happen to Truth Social?

Oliver O’Connell27 October 2022 22:30

1666903837Ex-Trump Ambassador hails Biden for doing the impossible on Ukraine

Gordon Sondland, the man whose testimony confirmed Donald Trumps sham investigations for military aid quid-pro-quo, tells Andrew Feinberg that Mr Trumps successor has done the impossible by rallying Nato and the EU in support of Kyiv.

Oliver O’Connell27 October 2022 21:50

1666901587Jan 6 committee to interview top Secret Service agents and officials

CNN reports that the House Select Committee investigating the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol is concluding its review of more than one million pages of Secret Service documents and plans to bring in top agents and officials from the agency to testify in the coming weeks.

The network cites multiple sources who say that about half a dozen witnesses will be called and asked about what the agency knew ahead of the attack and what happened during it, referencing earlier testimony from other witnesses.

Oliver O’Connell27 October 2022 21:13

1666900237Jan 6 rioter sentenced for dragging officer Michael Fanone into Capitol riot mob

A Tennessee man who dragged a police officer into a mob of rioters, initiating one of the most harrowing acts of violence during the US Capitol attack, was sentenced on Thursday to more than seven years in prison.

Albuquerque Cosper Head declined to address the court before US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced him to seven years and six months of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release. The judge said Head was responsible for some of the darkest acts committed on one of our nation’s darkest days.

Read on for the full details of his sentence and crime.

Oliver O’Connell27 October 2022 20:50

1666898829Jury selected in Trump Organization fraud trial, despite difficulties in anti-Trump Manhattan

A prosecutor in the New York criminal tax-fraud trial of the Trump Organization said on Thursday that if every prospective juror who disliked former President Donald Trump was excused from the case, there would not be a jury.

If we were to strike every juror who had a negative opinion about Donald Trump, we wouldn’t be able to get a jury at all, lead prosecutor, Susan Hoffinger, told New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Manuel Merchan, Insider reports.

This is not about Donald Trump, but about his business, stressed Ms. Hoffinger, chief investigator for the Manhattan District Attorneys office.

Defense attorneys for the Trump Organization, Mr Trump’s eponymous real estate company, have already tried to deny a juror a place on the panel because he referred to the former president as narcissistic.

The huge allowed the juror to remain on the panel as he had also said he used to think Mr Trump was funny before he became president, noting that his opinions of the former president referred to how he conducted himself and not about him overall.

Jury selection for the high-profile trial in heavily Democrat Manhattan took three days, but all 12 jurors have now been selected.

Here’s some of our earlier reporting on the case and the difficulty in choosing a fair jury.

Oliver O’Connell27 October 2022 20:27

1666897837Trump teasing 2024 run with Iowa rally

Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to return to Iowa ahead of the Nov. 8 midterms, to headline a rally for Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds and Sen. Chuck Grassley.

The event, set for Nov. 3 in Sioux City, the hub of Iowas conservative northwest, comes as Trump has continued to tease interest in a White House comeback campaign as he has campaigned around the country for Republican candidates.

Returning to Iowa, where the 2024 Republican presidential caucuses are scheduled to launch the GOP nominating sequence, would likely further stoke speculation of Trump’s future.

Oliver O’Connell27 October 2022 20:10

1666896669Trump knocks Biden while teeing off at Saudi-backed golf tournament

Former President Donald Trump joked about his successor Joe Biden while taking part in a golf tournament at the Saudi-backed LIV Invitational Pro-Am in Miami today.

The former president was at the Trump National Doral course alongside a number of professional players this morning when he made the comment.

Mr Trump hit a shot and then said to the camera: Do you think Biden could do that? I don’t think so. I don’t like that.

Oliver O’Connell27 October 2022 19:51

1666895732Trump to hold Florida rally but snubs DeSantis

Typically, when a former president holds a campaign rally in an election year, their attendance is the big story of the day. But when Donald Trumps Save America PAC announced his plans to host the rally in the backyard of rising GOP star Ron DeSantis without the governor in attendance, the potential snub became the headline.

John Bowden has the latest.

Oliver O’Connell27 October 2022 19:35

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