Trump News for Friday, May 17, 2024
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'No more games': Biden rejects additional debates against Trump
NBC News
President Joe Biden's campaign rejected two additional debates on Friday that former President Donald Trump's campaign says it agreed to do.
May 17, 2024, 11:49 PM
Trump Saluted North Korean General During 2018 Meeting in Singapore?
Snopes.com
Trump appeared to salute a North Korean general in video taken at a summit meeting in Singapore.
May 17, 2024, 11:14 PM
‘Best president for gun owners’ Trump to address National Rifle Association
BreakingNews.ie
Mr Trump has pledged to defend gun ownership and called himself ‘the best friend gun owners have ever had in the White House’.
May 17, 2024, 11:00 PM
Trump falsely tells supporters he won Minnesota in 2020
RTE.ie
Donald Trump has falsely claimed that he won the 2020 presidential election in Minnesota, and said he would win this year in the state that has not voted for a Republican presidential candidate in over 50 years.
May 17, 2024, 11:00 PM
CNN Says It Will Make Presidential Debate Available For Simulcast On Other Networks
Deadline
The June 27 event will be the first debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump this cycle.
May 17, 2024, 10:50 PM
RFK Jr. revs up ballot access campaign in response to sped-up debate criteria
NBC News
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is accelerating plans to get on state ballots after Joe Biden, Donald Trump and CNN agreed on a June debate.
May 17, 2024, 10:44 PM
Trump agrees to VP debate on Fox after Biden campaign accepts CBS invite
The Hill
Former President Trump and President Biden quickly came to terms on two presidential debates during a Wednesday whirlwind. But the campaigns don’t seem to be on the page about the vice presidential contest, or additional debates. In two posts to Truth Social on Friday, Trump said he had agreed to a debate on Fox “on…
May 17, 2024, 10:30 PM
Georgia Republicans plot 2024 comeback with Trump’s appeal to black voters
Washington Examiner
"Democrats need black voters more than black voters need the Democratic Party," former Sen. Kelly Loeffler told the Georgia state GOP in Columbus Friday.
May 17, 2024, 10:12 PM
Can Trump put Minnesota in play?: From the Politics Desk
NBC News
Donald Trump hopes Minnesota becomes a battleground state in the 2024 election against Joe Biden, who is ramping up his Black voter outreach.
May 17, 2024, 9:56 PM
Legal expert draws 'direct line' between Justice Alito's MAGA flag and Trump immunity case
Raw Story
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is under fire after the flag outside of his home was flown upside down, a symbol adopted by the Jan. 6 "Stop the Steal" rallygoers. The U.S. Flag Code outlines: "The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in inst...
May 17, 2024, 9:51 PM
Complaint against Trump Judge Juan Merchan over Biden donations dismissed
New York Post
An ethics complaint filed against Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan over his political donations to President Biden and others has been dismissed, a spokesman for the jurist said Friday.
May 17, 2024, 9:39 PM
Donald Trump Gives Update on Potential Vice President
Newsweek
The former president accepted Fox New Media's debate invitation on behalf of his future running mate.
May 17, 2024, 9:17 PM
Trump allies are planning a "purge" of the Justice Department, hoping to eliminate checks on power
Salon
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May 17, 2024, 9:13 PM
Donald Trump ‘eyes Rwanda-style deportation scheme for illegal migrants'
Evening Standard
Trump’s team said to be drawing up new migration plan ahead of November election
May 17, 2024, 9:01 PM
WATCH LIVE: Trump speaks at annual Minnesota GOP dinner
Washington Examiner
Former President Donald Trump is set to speak at the Minnesota GOP's annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner in St. Paul at 6 p.m.
May 17, 2024, 8:40 PM
In Cannes, Francis Ford Coppola talks Trump, self-financing 'Megalopolis' and why he has no regrets
The Associated Press
Much attention has been paid to the $120 million of his own fortune that Francis Ford Coppola put up to make the futuristic epic “Megalopolis.”
May 17, 2024, 8:38 PM
Bob Good says Republicans went to Trump trial because of gag order
The Hill
Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) said he and fellow Republicans went to former President Trump’s hush money trial in New York City due to a gag order the former president is under. “And they’ve got this gag order against him,” Good said on Fox Business’s “Varney & Co.” Friday. “That’s why we went up there, so…
May 17, 2024, 8:35 PM
Labour's David Lammy resists calls from Sadiq Khan to 'call out' Donald Trump
Evening Standard
Earlier this week the Mayor for London said Britain should call out Mr Trump as a ‘racist, sexist’ and ‘homophobe’
May 17, 2024, 7:51 PM
Video of Barron Trump Receiving Diploma Goes Viral
Newsweek
Donald Trump's youngest son graduated from Oxbridge Academy, a prep school in West Palm Beach, Florida.
May 17, 2024, 7:33 PM
Donald Trump's Chances of Flipping Minnesota, According to Polls
Newsweek
Trump is set to attend a fundraiser in St. Paul as Republicans hope to flip the Democratic-leaning state in November.
May 17, 2024, 7:23 PM
Mary Trump Says Donald Trump Deserves Credit for One Thing
Newsweek
Donald Trump's estranged niece, Mary Trump, says the former president deserves credit for "exposing the weaknesses in our system."
May 17, 2024, 7:08 PM
Taking presidential debates out of commission's hands virtually guarantees fewer viewers
The Associated Press
The two planned presidential debates between Joe Biden and Donald Trump that were swiftly organized this week are good news for CNN and ABC News.
May 17, 2024, 6:39 PM
'John Grisham moment' that Trump supporters say buries court case pulled apart by expert
Raw Story
Trump supporters believe Michael Cohen dropped a bombshell on the stand that could get Donald Trump off the hook in his hush money trial — but some experts aren't so sure.Trump stands accused of 34 felonies for creating false business records to conceal hush money spent to keep an affair quiet. On T...
May 17, 2024, 6:31 PM
"Needed a knockout": The defense team damaged Michael Cohen, but legal experts say that's not enough
Salon
Defense attorney Todd Blanche painted Trump's former fixer as a self-interested liar, but Cohen also landed punches
May 17, 2024, 6:26 PM
Sen. Dick Durbin says Justice Alito should recuse in Trump cases because of upside-down flag
NBC News
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Friday that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito should recuse himself from cases related to the 2020 election after a new report said an upside-down American flag flew outside his home in the days after the Jan.
May 17, 2024, 6:01 PM