Donald Trump news today: Trump abruptly cancels press conference on Georgia ‘proof’ as he tries to delay trial by years

Her first day as the chief prosecutor for Fulton County got here with news that then-President Donald Trump tried to stress Georgia’s prime election officers to reverse his loss within the state in the course of the 2020 presidential election.

A telephone name between Mr Trump and Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was revealed by The Washington Post late at night time on 3 January, 2021.

Hours later, Fani Willis would stroll into her first day on the job as Fulton County’s district lawyer, an workplace that’s now spearheading a felony investigation into Mr Trump, with the telephone name serving as a central damning piece of proof towards him.

Read extra of Alex Woodward’s profile of the prosecutor on the coronary heart of the Fulton County case.

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Donald Trump appeared at a fundraiser in Nashville on Thursday night time – the place he was joined on stage by Kid Rock.

Rock is a widely known fan of the previous president and as soon as claimed in a 2022 interview with Tucker Carlson that Mr Trump confirmed him secret maps and requested him what he thought “we should do about North Korea”

The video resurfaced on-line after Mr Trump was charged over his dealing with of categorised paperwork on leaving the White House.

Here’s what we learn about what’s subsequent for Donald Trump within the Georgia indictment:

Donald Trump has cancelled a press conference the place he claimed he was going to unveil a report that will clear him of any wrongdoing and fees he tried to intervene with the presidential election in Georgia.

The former president took to Truth Social on Thursday night to say that he wouldn’t be going by with the Friday media occasion – scheduled for 11am est – on the recommendation of his legal professionals.

“Rather than releasing the Report on the Rigged & Stolen Georgia 2020 Presidential Election on Monday, my lawyers would prefer putting this, I believe, Irrefutable & Overwhelming evidence of Election Fraud & Irregularities in formal Legal Filings as we fight to dismiss this disgraceful Indictment by a publicity & campaign finance seeking D.A., who sadly presides over a record breaking Murder & Violent Crime area, Atlanta. Therefore, the News Conference is no longer necessary!” he wrote on Truth Social.

Mr Trump had vowed to maintain the press conference after being indicted this week on 13 felony counts in Georgia, the place he and members of his marketing campaign sought to alter the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election and show baseless claims of voter and election fraud.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, whose workplace is overseeing the prosecution of the previous president in Georgia, has given Mr Trump a give up date of no later than 25 August.

Will the Georgia gang of 18 flip on the previous president?

Andrew Feinberg seems on the prospects.

A biographer who wrote the ebook on the life and profession of “America’s Mayor” has a brand new idea for why Rudy Giuliani stays so doggedly loyal to Donald Trump even after it has been confirmed time and time once more that the 2 by no means had any convincing proof of election fraud from the 2020 contest.

Andrew Kirtzman gave his take on the subject to MSNBC’s Chris Jansing throughout an interview this week; Mr Kirtzman is the creator of Giuliani: The Rise and Tragic Fall of America’s Mayor.

Mr Kirtzman explains that the most important turning level in Mr Giuliani’s political life got here in 2008, when he failed to ship a aggressive efficiency in that yr’s presidential major race, regardless of all expectations for him to achieve this.

In an look on CNN This Morning, senior authorized analyst Elie Honig defined how Donald Trump’s trial schedule is presently stacking up for 2024 and which authorized proceedings may get prioritised forward of November’s presidential election.

The video aired by MSNBC on Wednesday was obtained by Danish filmmaker Christoffer Guldbrandsen for his 2023 documentary A Storm Foretold.

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar reviews.

A Texas girl has been arrested and charged with threatening to kill the choose presiding over Donald Trump’s 6 January indictment.

Abigail Jo Shry, 43, of Alvin, Texas, left a “threatening voicemail message” after calling US district choose Tanya Chutkan’s chambers on 5 August, in accordance to court docket paperwork filed with the South District of Texas Court.