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On November 3, 2024, American voters chose between Republican incumbents President Donald Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence, and Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris. Despite winning both the popular vote and the Electoral College, Biden's claim to the White House was challenged multiple times in court by the Trump campaign and members of the Republican party - without success.
Many were expecting the investigation into the 2021 attack to simply repeat the obvious – that Trump lied to try to stay in power – but it goes much further.
As Biden and the Democrats mull the likely failure of their attempt to protect voting rights, Trump’s hold on the Republican Party and the popular imagination shows no sign of easing.
As a national commission sheds new light on the January 6 insurrection, Trump’s Republican wall of defence has weakened – but not collapsed.
The vote in the House of Representatives showed there will be no attempt by the Republicans to reconcile themselves with what Trump did on January 6. In fact, the many steps ahead will offer Republicans numerous opportunities to spread misinformation.
While some thought the certification of Biden’s win after the ransacking of the Capitol would be the beginning of the end for Trump, the opposite has occurred as shown by Senator Chuck Grassley’s appearance alongside Trump at a rally over the weekend.
A bipartisan, independent January 6 commission could potentially halt the mutation of the Republican Party and stop a civil war.
- China has made advances in AI, big data analytics and deepfakes; its initiatives already detected in elections in Australia, Canada and Taiwan, says Avril Haines
- Senator Mark Warner says TikTok poses risks, ‘with ownership based in a country assessed to conduct election influence campaigns’
US Senator Bob Menendez went on trial in Manhattan federal court, accused of accepting bribes of gold and cash to use his influence to deliver favours that would help three New Jersey businessmen.
Donald Trump’s one-time fixer and the star prosecution witness at the former president’s criminal trial testified how the then-Republican candidate directed him to pay a porn actress to bury revelations of an alleged tryst.
The decision comes a day after a Florida judge postponed the classified documents trial indefinitely, as the list of stalled cases against the ex-US president grows.
Jailing Trump would almost certainly inflame his already loyal base of supporters and in their minds further Trump’s narrative that he is being politically persecuted.
The judge in the criminal hush money trial of Donald Trump said he will consider prison time for the former president for additional violations of the gag order.
Former US president Donald Trump has sharpened his allegation that his Democratic successor has weaponised the US justice system against him, comparing Joe Biden’s tactics to those of Hitler’s secret police.
Trump was held in contempt of court, a stinging rebuke for the former US president, who had insisted he was exercising his free speech rights.
The meeting marked a thaw in relations between the former rivals after a brutal Republican primary contest marked by insults and bruised ego.
Such a delay would be significant because of the broad expectation that, should the ex-US president reclaim the White House, he would order the case dropped.
The felony indictments, which allege a conspiracy to award Arizona’s slate of electors to Donald Trump, are the latest effort by a state to hold accountable those who backed Trump’s false claim that he won the 2020 presidential vote.
New York prosecutors portrayed US$130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels as a criminal effort to deceive voters when Trump was facing other accusations of crude sexual behaviour.
Donald Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records as part of a scheme to conceal a US$130,000 pay-off made to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Donald Trump is being investigated over his role in hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016. Jury selection expected to resume on Tuesday.
Trump called his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen and porn star Stormy Daniels ‘two sleaze bags who have, with their lies and misrepresentations, cost our Country dearly!’ on his Truth Social platform.
Donald Trump faces 34 counts of allegedly falsifying business records for paying ‘hush money’ to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election to cover up a sexual encounter.
Trump said he favours exceptions for cases of rape, incest and saving life of the mother. Call for national ban could have hurt his chances in states likely to determine November election.
The ex-US president suffered legal setbacks in both his Georgia election interference case and his Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.
Willis’ first day in office coincided with the news that Trump asked Georgia’s state secretary to ‘find votes’, but she was nearly pulled from the case due to an improper romantic relationship
Former president Donald Trump won the North Dakota Republican Party’s March 4 presidential caucuses, taking all 29 delegates.
Biden and ex-presidents will take part in discussion moderated by Stephen Colbert at Radio City Music Hall. Event will raise US$5 million more than Trump drummed up during all of February.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to falsifying business records to hide US$130,000 payment to porn star before the 2016 election to silence her about alleged sexual encounter a decade earlier.
If Trump puts up US$175 million, it will stop clock on collection of US$454 million judgment and prevent state from seizing former US president’s assets while he appeals.
Former US president Donald Trump is suing TV journalist George Stephanopoulos and ABC News for defamation for saying he raped advice columnist E Jean Carroll.
US President Joe Biden on Donald Trump: ‘Don’t tell him, he thinks he’s running against Barack Obama’.
In an appeal to minority voters, Trump claims many illegal immigrants have crossed the US-Mexico border since Biden took office.
Trump had tried to pressure Pence to help him overturn his 2020 election defeat to Biden, attacking him on social media when he wouldn’t go along with the plan.
Trump and his co-defendants in the racketeering case had been seeking to have District Attorney Fani Willis removed following revelations she had a romantic relationship with her lead prosecutor.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll found 39 per cent of people would vote for Biden if the election were held today, compared with 38 per cent who picked Trump – the lead was within the survey’s 1.8 percentage point margin of error.
