Trump vows to ‘take over’ Washington DC: ‘We’re going to make it stunning’
Donald Trump used President Joe Biden’s 81st birthday to tout his personal obvious weight reduction and “glorious” total well being.
The previous president posted a letter from his physician Bruce Aronwald on Reality Social on Monday, studying: “His bodily exams had been properly inside the regular vary and his cognitive exams had been distinctive.”
The letter added that Mr Trump has “diminished his weight by an improved eating regimen and continued every day bodily exercise, whereas sustaining a rigorous schedule”.
The previous president’s boasts about his obvious good well being got here the identical day that his authorized group was in federal court docket in Washington DC for oral arguments regarding the partial gag order in his federal election interference case.
Decide Tanya Chutkan dominated that Mr Trump can not make “disparaging or “inflammatory” feedback about folks or entities concerned within the case introduced by Particular Counsel Jack Smith.
Mr Trump’s group argued that restrictions throughout his 2024 marketing campaign would violate his proper to free speech.
A panel of judges didn’t seem to purchase that argument, however an official ruling is but to be made.
In the meantime, his New York civil fraud trial enters its eighth week. The gag order has been paused in that case.
Not sufficient meals for Trump at Texas Thanksgiving lunch
Whereas at a Thanksgiving dinner occasion commending US troops serving on the Southern Border, former President Donald Trump jokingly complained that organisers didn’t save him a plate of meals.
“The meals regarded excellent,” the previous president stated at a luncheon for Texas State Patrol officers. “I wished to have some however they didn’t have any for me.
“They’d none left. That’s not good. That’s my sort of meals too.”
Mr Trump later took to Reality Social, his social media platform, to thank the officers.
Oliver O’Connell21 November 2023 09:45
Yesterday in court docket: Judges aren’t shopping for Trump’s gag order attraction
However the judges additionally seem prone to slender the scope of the order, hoping to steadiness First Modification protections and political speech towards the wave of threats and harassment unleashed by Mr Trump and his supporters in the direction of the prosecutors, judges, witnesses and potential jurors concerned with a rising listing of litigation towards him.
The gag order imposed by US District Decide Tanya Chutkan final month blocked Mr Trump from launching a “pretrial smear marketing campaign” as he seeks the 2024 Republican nomination for president, the choose wrote.
That order was paused by the appeals court docket in Washington DC, which heard arguments within the case on Monday throughout a listening to that lasted almost three hours. A ruling is just not instantly anticipated.
Oliver O’Connell21 November 2023 08:45
Tim Ryan: Democrats should repair their ‘model’ – and ditch Biden – to win in 2024
Left-leaning activists in Virginia and Ohio particularly appeared energised by their victories, a much-needed enhance to their confidence and optimism after heartbreaking defeats for the occasion in 2022 and 2021. Ohioans noticed the election of writer and Trump convert JD Vance to the US Senate, whereas Virginians witnessed the downfall of Terry McAuliffe, their state’s former governor, as he sought to defeat Republican Glenn Youngkin. Each had been thought-about blows to Joe Biden for various causes — in Virginia, Mr McAuliffe ran aligned with Mr Biden and was overwhelmed soundly simply months into the latter’s presidency, and in Ohio the president misplaced a much-needed alternative to select up a vote for his agenda within the US Senate.
However 2024 is on the horizon, and Democrats are waiting for the longer term — although not with out some appreciable sense of unease. Their incumbent president stays in deep trouble, if the polling is to be believed, primarily based on issues about his age and talent to signify America by a time of a number of world crises. On the similar time, the prospect of a Trump victory — with the previous president brazenly plotting to unleash the powers of the federal authorities on his political enemies — presents an actual purpose to be involved in regards to the nation’s future.
Enthusiastic as they’re in regards to the occasion’s victory on a poll initiative enshrining abortion rights within the state’s structure, Ohio Democrats are cognizant of the truth that no such subject might be as straight on the poll subsequent yr. What meaning for Joe Biden and different Democrats is easy: they’ll be operating on their very own political reputations, and that of the nationwide Democratic Get together.
For those who hearken to former Congressman Tim Ryan, that’s an actual downside.
Oliver O’Connell21 November 2023 06:45
How outdated is Trump and the way does that evaluate to different presidents?
When Donald Trump was inaugurated in January 2017, he grew to become the oldest commander-in-chief sworn in on the age of 70 years and 220 days outdated.
That was surpassed by his successor Joe Biden, who was 78 years and 61 days when he grew to become the nation’s forty sixth president in January 2021.
Earlier than Mr Trump, Ronald Reagan was the oldest individual to imagine the presidency at 69 years and 349 years outdated at his first inauguration in 1981.
Reagan was the oldest president when he left workplace on the age of 77 in 1989, simply 22 days away from turning 78.
However relying on who wins the 2024 presidential election, a brand new report might be set as each Mr Biden and Mr Trump are operating for reelection.
Oliver O’Connell21 November 2023 04:45
ICYMI: Trump reshares Melania’s response to ‘golden bathe’ claims
Talking in Fort Dodge on Saturday, the previous president introduced up the mostly-debunked 2016 file during which ex-British spy Christopher Steele alleged Mr Trump had paid intercourse staff to urinate on him in a Moscow lodge.
Oliver O’Connell21 November 2023 03:45
DeSantis: Each Trump and Biden are too outdated to run the nation
Talking to CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday, the Florida governor and 2024 hopeful claimed that he’s within the “prime of my life” whereas his two rivals are removed from it.
“I simply suppose that that’s one thing that has been proven with Joe Biden. Father Time is undefeated. Donald Trump is just not exempt from any of that,” he stated.
Mr DeSantis, 45, stated that operating the White Home is “not a job for any individual that’s pushing 80”.
“I’ll serve two phrases, ship large outcomes, and get the nation shifting once more,” he instructed CNN.
Oliver O’Connell21 November 2023 02:45
At present in court docket: Judges aren’t shopping for Trump’s gag order attraction
However the judges additionally seem prone to slender the scope of the order, hoping to steadiness First Modification protections and political speech towards the wave of threats and harassment unleashed by Mr Trump and his supporters in the direction of the prosecutors, judges, witnesses and potential jurors concerned with a rising listing of litigation towards him.
The gag order imposed by US District Decide Tanya Chutkan final month blocked Mr Trump from launching a “pretrial smear marketing campaign” as he seeks the 2024 Republican nomination for president, the choose wrote.
That order was paused by the appeals court docket in Washington DC, which heard arguments within the case on Monday throughout a listening to that lasted almost three hours. A ruling is just not instantly anticipated.
Oliver O’Connell21 November 2023 01:45
Trump posts physician be aware claiming he’s misplaced weight as Biden marks 81st birthday
In a physician’s be aware shared on Monday, Donald Trump boasted he was in “glorious well being, as each he and his potential 2024 opponent Joe Biden face continued questions on their age and psychological health for the White Home.
The letter added that Mr Trump was exhibiting improved outcomes on sure assessments, doubtless due to “weight discount.”
Josh Marcus has the complete story:
Mike Bedigan21 November 2023 01:15
Meet Argentina’s new MAGA-like chief
Oliver O’Connell21 November 2023 00:45
Evaluation: Trump un-gagged may prime his fraud trial for extra chaos
For six weeks, legal professionals with New York Legal professional Normal Letitia James put greater than two dozen witnesses on the stand and launched dozens of paperwork to attach Donald Trump and his enterprise empire to a decade of fraud allegations.
When the lawyer basic handed the case to his group of legal professionals on 13 November, their first witness was Donald Trump Jr, who spent a number of hours testifying to his father’s “artistry” and “attractive” properties.
Two days later, Mr Trump’s attorneys demanded a mistrial. They misplaced. His attorneys additionally sued the choose overseeing the case, hoping to strike down a gag order that has blocked the previous president from attacking court docket employees. They received.
Oliver O’Connell20 November 2023 23:45