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Liz Cheney says new revelations reveal true ‘danger’ of Trump
Mike Lindell, the pro-Donald Trump conspiracy theorist, said Tuesday that the FBI has seized his cell phone at a fast food restaurant.
Mr Lindell, the Minnesota-born CEO of My Pillow and a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, said that his cell phone was taken from him by federal agents in Minnesota.
Earlier, the chair of the powerful House Oversight Committee wants the National Archives and Records Administration (Nara) to determine whether any more records that should have been given to the archives at the end of former president Donald Trump’s term remain missing.
In a letter to Acting Archivist of the United States Debra Wall, Representative Carolyn Maloney raised the possibility that Mr Trump is continuing to harbour stolen government records at properties other than the Florida beach club where he maintains his private residence.
Meanwhile, the Department of Justice has subpoenaed dozens of current and former Trump aides as part of its investigation into the storming of the Capitol, with some even having their phones seized.
The department has also said it is willing to accept one of the Trump team’s candidates to serve as a “special master” who will review the records seized by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago.
Federal prosecutors submitted a legal filing on Monday evening signing off on the suggestion of Raymond Dearie, a 78-year-old former US District Court judge appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1986.
Congresswoman Liz Cheney said Donald Trump’s unwillingness to leave the White House after being defeated in the 2020 presidential election “affirms the reality of the danger” of his efforts to overturn the election.
Ms Cheney made the remarks in response to revelations made in a new book by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, which claimed that the former president told his aides that he would remain in the White House even after Joe Biden‘s inauguration.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar reports.
Cheney is one of the two Republicans on the investigating committee
“They told me not to tell anybody,” said Mr Lindell waving a piece of paper at a camera and explaining his phone was taken at a Hardee’s fast food restaurant.
“Okay, I won’t. Well, I am, so there you go.”
The MyPillow CEO discussed being served a warrant for his phone during his appearance on his Lindell TV streaming network.
Pro-Trump conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell’s phone seized in FBI raid, reports say.
Abe Asher has the story.
The My Pillow CEO has been a staunch ally of the former president
President Biden made a surprise visit to his home state on Tuesday to vote in Delaware‘s primary, which is part of the last round of contests ahead of the November elections.
President Biden is making a surprise visit to his home state to vote in Delaware’s primary, one of the last contests ahead of the November general elections
Kenneth Starr, the former US appellate judge who led the charge to impeach then-president Bill Clinton in the late 1990s but defended Donald Trump against charges that he incited an insurrection during his second impeachment trial, has passed away at age 76.
According to Waco, Texas television station KWTX, Mr Starr died Tuesday following a “lengthy illness”.
Andrew Feinberg reports from Washington, DC.
Mr Starr later served as Jeffrey Epstein’s defence lawyer
If Democrats hold on to the Senate this year, they will have an unlikely ally to thank: Lindsey Graham.
A South Carolina Republican and Donald Trump loyalist who has continued to remain friendly with the former president even as he faces a bevy of criminal investigations, Mr Graham is hardly the person one would expect to hand Senate Democrats a gift roughly a month and a half before control of the Senate is decided for the next two years.
But that’s exactly what happened on Tuesday as Mr Graham, flanked by anti-abortion activists from the Susan B Anthony Pro-Life America group and other opponents of the practice, celebrated the end of Roe vs Wade and vowed to ban abortion after 15 weeks into a woman’s pregnancy should his party retake the Senate.
John Bowden reports.
If Democrats hold on to the Senate this year, they will have an unlikely ally to thank: Lindsey Graham.
Donald Trump embraced QAnon’s “The storm is coming” meme as he went on a “retruthing” spree on his social media website Truth Social.
The one-term president re-posted an image of himself wearing a Q pin on his suit jacket above the “storm” caption and “WWG1WGA.”
Mr Trump has in the past promoted QAnon accounts, though the recent flurry of posts was Mr Trump’s strongest embrace of the right-wing conspiracy theory movement yet.
Graeme Massie reports.
One-term president re-posted an image of himself wearing a Q pin on his suit jacket
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell shot down Republican Senator Lindsey Graham’s bill that would ban abortion at 15 weeks, saying that he would prefer the issue be left to the states.
The Senate minority leader was asked about the ban that Mr Graham proposed on Tuesday during Senate Republicans’ weekly press conference after their policy luncheon.
Eric Garcia reports from Capitol Hill.
‘I think most of the members of my conference prefer that this will be dealt with at the state level,’ the Republican leader says
President Joe Biden gathered a crowd of thousands at the White House Tuesday to celebrate last month’s passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, even as a new government report showed how hard it could be to bring surging prices down near pre-pandemic levels.
Despite its name, the law’s impact on inflation is expected to be modest at best.
President Joe Biden has gathered a crowd at the White House to celebrate last month’s passage of the Inflation Reduction Act
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