Trump news today – live: Donald Trump sues NY’s Letitia James as Kash Patel ‘to testify’ in Mar-a-Lago case

Donald Trump announced on his Truth social account that he has filed a lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James, accusing her of pursuing an “unrelenting, deadly, public and dishonest crusade” against her.

The former president also claimed in a lawsuit filed in Florida Circuit Court that New York’s attorney general is violating his privacy and property rights.

He said that Mrs. James Donald J Trump was violating his rights as the grantor and beneficiary of the revocable trust.

Mr. Trump further said that Ms. James has done too little to protect New York against rampant crime.

The attorney general’s goal, the lawsuit states, is to “destroy them [Donald Trump] personally, financially and politically.”

Marusha Muzaffar Reports:

As prosecutors wrapped up their case in the trial of leading members of the Oath Keepers on treason conspiracy charges, they showed the jury yesterday a message written by military leader Stuart Rhodes for the attention of Donald Trump.

In it, Mr. Rhodes wrote that if Mr. Trump does not invoke the Sedition Act, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will “turn all that power on you, your family and all of us,” meaning “you and your family will be imprisoned and killed.” Gone. You and your children will die in prison.”

The message was not ultimately sent, but it is already known that Mr. Rhodes tried to reach Mr. Trump through contacts in his inner circle after an attempt to block Joe Biden’s victory certificate on January 6 ended in failure.

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The Texas senator called out the one-term president during Tuesday’s episode of his podcast judgment, Claiming they are sitting on “hundreds of millions of dollars” instead of using it to support pro-Trump candidates on ballots across the country.

“I wish Trump would spend some of his money,” he said.

“Trump has received hundreds of millions of dollars and is spending almost none of it to support these candidates.”

Mr. Trump is a relentless and effective small-donor fundraiser, but since he left the White House it has become clear that much of the money he has been pulling in has gone toward the ever-increasing legal bills of himself and his inner circle.

Johanna Chisholm reports.

As the country faces its first high-profile election since the presidential race in November 2020, which was marred by unfounded claims of a re-election spurred by Donald Trump and a surprising percentage of Republican leaders, the political divide is wide.

“This habit of demonizing political opponents creates a dangerous environment,” said former President Barack Obama. “If that’s the environment we create, more people will be hurt.”

The right-wing former TV anchor is in a competitive race with Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, to become the state’s governor.

“I want you to meet and welcome to greater Arizona one of my favorite people in the world, one of the most patriotic people I know, I call him a modern day George Washington, Steve Bannon,” she told the crowd. Tuesday night.

Frustrated by what he believes to be Donald Trump’s inadequate response to the 2020 presidential election, the leader of a far-right anti-government group that allegedly plotted to storm the US Capitol wrote a message to the president four days after the coup attempt.

Oath Keepers leader Stuart Rhodes reportedly called on the president to invoke the Sedition Act, activate the group to protect the nation from their political enemies, and imprison members of Congress and state legislators. the message which was shared in court on November 2 in the ongoing treason conspiracy trial involving Mr Rhodes and members of his militia.

Alex Woodward reports on what else Rhodes told Trump.

Banned users won’t return to Twitter “for weeks,” Elon Musk has said, meaning former President Donald Trump and other users blocked from the platform won’t return before the Nov. 8 midterm elections.

Tesla completed its $44bn purchase of the social media platform last week after the CEO failed to back out of the deal.

“Twitter will not allow anyone who has been de-platformed for violating Twitter’s rules [the] platform until we have a clear process for doing so, which will take at least a few more weeks,” Mr Musk Tweeted on Wednesday.

But while losing to Joe Biden in November 2020 may have damaged the one-term president’s pride and sparked an 18-month lie, it now seems almost certain that Mr. Trump will run for re-election to the White House in 2024.

So what, if anything, can stop it?

Graeme Massey and Gustaf Kilander report.

As he played to a crowd of supporters in Robstown, Texas, former President Donald Trump talked about his first two runs for the White House — and teased a third.

“To make our country successful, safe and proud again, I may have to do it again,” he said last month.

That carefully placed “maybe” may soon be gone from Trump’s stump speech. Aides to the former president are making quiet preparations for a 2024 presidential campaign that could begin as soon as next week’s midterm elections as Trump tries to take advantage of an expected Republican victory to propel himself toward becoming the front-runner for his party’s nomination.

Donald Trump has settled a lawsuit filed by a group of Mexican protesters who say they were harassed by the Republican’s private security guards during his 2015 presidential campaign.

Both parties settled as a jury in a New York courtroom for a civil trial, part of a series of legal complications involving the former president.

Details of the settlement were not disclosed in the plaintiffs’ lawsuit.

“Although we were eager to proceed to trial to demonstrate the frivolity of this case, the parties were ultimately able to come to an amicable resolution,” said Alina Habba, Mr. Trump’s lawyer. “We are very pleased with this outcome and are happy to finally put this matter to rest once and for all.”