Trump set for court Friday morning after failing to delay hush money sentencing: Live
Incoming commander-in-chief lashes out at long-standing Democratic foe over natural disaster engulfing Hollywood as his expansionist ambitions met with mockery
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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump attended the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter on Thursday, sitting alongside other surviving commanders-in-chief. Much attention was devoted to whom he spoke and there was speculation over a moment where he and Barack Obama appeared to share a joke.
As Trump was in Washington, the Supreme Court declined to stop the sentencing for his New York hush money conviction, which is slated for Friday in a Manhattan courtroom, just 10 days before the inauguration.
Earlier, the president-elect called on California Governor Gavin Newsom to resign over the wildfires currently rampaging through Los Angeles, which have already killed five people, destroyed more than 1,000 structures and forced 150,000 residents to evacuate.
The president-elect accused Newsom, city mayor Karen Bass, and Joe Biden of “gross incompetence” and declared the City of Angeles “a total wipeout” on his Truth Social platform.
Meanwhile, the incoming commander-in-chief’s dreams of using military force to annex Greenland and rename the Gulf of Mexico have been met with ridicule at home and abroad, with Denmark, France, Germany, and Britain declining to take him seriously.
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The actress who played the vice president-elect’s influential grandmother in Ron Howard’s 2020 adaptation of Vance’s memoir says she “doesn’t know what happened to him” in the years between its publication and his embrace of Trump’s MAGA brand of right-wing politics.
Jacob Stolworthy reports.
Hillbilly Elegy star Glenn Close hits out at JD Vance
Actor expressed confusion over Vance’s ‘whole different personality’
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