Trump news – live: Ex-president faces backlash from GOP after endorsing TV’s Dr. Oz in Senate race

The prospect of Dr. Mehmet Oz becoming a US senator is a major concern for his many longtime critics, who have been trying for years to sound the alarm over the sometimes flawed medical advice he gives to viewers.

Like Julie Charnet wrote when announcing his campaign, his intentions are one thing, but his judgments are another:

Mr Cawthorn, who uses a wheelchair after being injured in a car accident, addressed a crowd in Selma ahead of Mr Trump’s speech on Saturday evening. The freshman Republican, who is the youngest elected member of Congress, was speaking to the crowd about the upcoming midterm elections.

“My friends, this country can change very quickly and it can seem impossible, people tell me it’s impossible,” he said before walking to the lectern and, with the help of two assistants, lean on metal supports. Read the full report

Government ethics experts say they are stunned after the US State Department said it lacked records of gifts Donald Trump received while president.

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Some of former President Donald Trump’s loudest Twitter allies are in open revolt after the ex-president made his endorsement during the US Senate race from Pennsylvania over the weekend.

In a statement released Saturday night while attending a campaign-style rally in North Carolina, the 45th president made his second attempt at kingship in the Republican Senate primary, following his previous endorsement and retraction for his support of Sean Parnell.

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GOP strategist Susan Del Percio said the sparse crowd at Donald Trump’s Selma rally shows a “very small base” and his supporters are done with him.

“That’s what you saw there,” she told MSNBC’s Cori Coffin a day after Mr. Trump addressed the crowd in Selma, North Carolina.

“These crowds are getting smaller and people aren’t buying into them, mostly because Republicans want to move on. They don’t want to talk about the big lie,” she said. “People in this country don’t want to hear about it anymore.”

Only 1,000 to 2,000 people attended the event, according to a report, compared to 15,000 at the same venue in 2016 for Mr Trump’s speech.

“They’re done with Donald Trump and his lies, except for a small group we see there,” she said.

A Canadian steel tycoon is set to pay a ‘record’ fine imposed by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) after being found responsible for directing nearly $2 million in donations to a super PAC supporting the President Donald Trump and candidates aligned with his platform.

The FEC announced the decision last week in response to a complaint against the businessman filed by the Campaign Legal Center in 2019. The initial complaint was based on information originally published in The New York Times.

Barry Zekelman of Zekelman Industries “has been involved in Wheatland Tube’s decision-making process to help [America First Action]said the FEC decision.

Liz Cheney dismissed reports of a dispute among members of the Jan. 6 committee over Donald Trump’s criminal referral to the Justice Department, describing the panel as “the most collaborative committee.”

“There really isn’t a dispute on the committee,” Ms. Cheney replied when asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper.

“The committee is working in a really collaborative way to discuss these issues, as we are with all the issues we address, and we will continue to work together to do so. So I wouldn’t say it’s a dispute within the committee,” she added.

“I am very proud of the bipartisan way we operate and I am confident that we will work to reach agreement on all the issues we face. So I wouldn’t say it’s accurate to say now that there’s a dispute over this issue,” she added.

The committee investigating the January 6, 2021 riots at the United States Capitol is made up of seven Democrats and two Republicans.

She said the panel has yet to make a decision on Mr. Trump’s criminal removal.

Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser to the former president, had secured a $2 billion investment from the Saudi crown prince despite concerns and objections from fund advisers to the deal, according to a report. New York Times report.

Previously undisclosed documents show that the investment selection panel for the Saudi prince raised objections to the “inexperience” of Mr Kushner’s new private equity firm, Affinity Partners, and concerns that the Saudis hold “most of the investment and risk”.

They also found the company’s operations “unsatisfactory in every respect” and pointed to proposed asset management fees which “appear excessive”.

The prince, who headed the board of his public investment fund, dismissed concerns from his screeding panel, according to the report.

In a statement about its relationship with the Saudi Public Investment Fund, a spokesperson for Mr. Kushner’s company told the Time“Affinity, like many other leading investment firms, is proud to have PIF and other leading organizations that have careful selection criteria, as investors.”

Liz Cheney, vice chair of the panel investigating the Capitol riots, said the House committee had enough evidence to prove the criminal charges against Donald Trump in what she called “the insurrection”.

“It is absolutely clear that what President Trump was doing, what a number of people around him were doing, that they knew was illegal. They did it anyway,” Ms. Cheney said on Sunday. CNN.

She said the committee has yet to decide whether to criminally refer Mr. Trump to the Justice Department, following reports that the panel has enough evidence.

“I think what we’ve seen is a massive, well-organized, well-planned effort that used multiple tools to try to overturn an election,” Ms Cheney said.

She said those involved in planning the obstruction of congressional proceedings “knew they were going to attempt to use violence to stop the transfer of power.”

“That’s the definition of an insurgency,” she said.

She said the panel had “a considerable amount of testimony and material that I think demonstrates very, very clearly the extent of the planning, organization and purpose.”

Republicans on Tuesday blocked a Democratic attempt to open a debate in the Senate on a $10 billion COVID-19 compromise, urging to entangle the bipartisan package with an election-year showdown over immigration restrictions that will poses a politically uncomfortable fight for Democrats.

A day after Democratic and GOP negotiators reached an agreement on providing the money for treatments, vaccines and tests, a Democratic decision to push the measure past a procedural hurdle has failed 52 -47 Tuesday. All 50 Republicans opposed the move, leaving the Democrats 13 votes short of the 60 they needed to win.