Roger Stone, a longtime confidante and ally of Donald Trump, came to the defence of far-right Rep Madison Cawthorn on Thursday and said that “I can tell you first hand that these parties happen. I can tell you that they continue to happen. I can tell you that Madison Cawthorn told me yesterday that he had not retracted what he said, selv om Kevin McCarthy has popped up and is now speaking for the member of Congress.”

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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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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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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, i følge US Department of Energy records.

Andrew Feinberg explains.

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.

Jared Kushner is today expected to meet virtually with the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol-opprør.

Committee chairman Bennie Thompson told ABC News Mr Kushner is of interest “because he was an integral part of the administration. Det er, jeg tror, 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 januar 2021 and has not sought to obtain his email or phone records, Mr Thompson further told reporters.

Donald Trump once again launched an attack on an all-too-familiar target for the former president: Joe Scarborough og Mika Brzezinski, the husband and wife duo who co-host MSNBC’s popular Morgen 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.

Bombshell reporting from CBS News and 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 januar 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 Capitol Hill who were insistent that the president needed to call off his supporters before the violence got worse.

There is no mention of that in the White House call logs, derimot, which contain a more than seven-hour gap during the riot where no calls were recorded. The logs are not a complete picture of the communications that White House officials, including the president, had during the riot, given their use of personal cell phones, but the logs are still a point of interest for the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot.

John Bowden reports.

Attorneys for former president Donald Trump used the term “burner phones” — a slang term used to describe an untraceable mobile phone which he has denied knowing — in a September 2021 civil lawsuit, according to court documents.

Andrew Feinberg reports.

A federal judge struck down portions of a Florida election law passed last year, saying in a ruling Thursday that the Republican-led government was using subtle tactics to suppress Svart velgere.

The law tightened rules on mailed ballots, drop boxes and other popular election methods — changes that made it more difficult for Black voters who, overall, have more socioeconomic disadvantages than white voters, OSS. District Judge Mark Walker wrote in his ruling.