Trump news – live: Vance slated for ‘kissing Trump’s ass’ as new details of McCarthy’s Jan 6 call emerge

Kash Patel, a top adviser to Donald Trump, has reportedly testified before the federal grand jury investigating the documents seized from the former president’s Florida estate.

Mr Patel spent several hours on 13 October before the jury at the courthouse in Washington. However, it was unclear if he answered questions or declined citing the Fifth Amendment, CNN reported.

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar reports.

On a crisp fall morning, eager volunteers fanned out in the leafy suburban Atlanta neighborhood to knock on doors, trying to persuade reluctant and skeptical conservatives to register to vote in next month’s midterm elections.

It’s painstaking work anywhere, but especially pivotal in battleground Georgia, as Donald Trump’s lies of a rigged 2020 election have created a new constituency of election deniers -- some wary their votes won’t be counted in November.

Jurors in Washington DC will determine whether the leader of a far-right anti-government militia and four others tied to the group are guilty of seditious conspiracy after plotting an attempt to violently disrupt Congress on 6 January, 2021.

Stewart Rhodes and four other defendants have pleaded not guilty to the charges against them, while federal prosecutors argue that the Oath Keepers spent weeks organising their members and associates for an “attack” fuelled by baseless conspiracy theories that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump.

Here’s what we have learned so far:

While Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes grew frustrated with Donald Trump’s response to the 2020 presidential election, members of the far-right anti-government group roamed the US Capitol grounds, waiting for the president’s call to take up arms against the government.

During the group’s trial on charges of seditious conspiracy, federal prosecutors and FBI investigators revealed the member’s coordinated movements and explicit calls for violence in message after message, video after video, as a mob stormed the Capitol on 6 January, 2021.

Alex Woodward reports.

Donald Trump has responded to the recently released video showing Speaker Nancy Pelosi during the attack on the Capitol on January 6 saying that she would “punch him out”.

“She’s a despicable person, very bad for the country,” Mr Trump said during a phone interview on the Salem News Channel.

Gustaf Kilander reports on what else he said.

The anti-Trump organisation sometimes acted like the man it sought to bring down, new docu-series suggests. Josh Marcus reports for The Independent.

Donald Trump’s refurbished Boeing 757 is back on the move and heading to Texas for tonight’s rally in Robstown.

January 6 committee member Adam Kinzinger thinks something is amiss at the agency tasked with protecting US presidents. Andrew Feinberg looks at the evidence.

Speaking on RSBN, Trump lawyer Christina Bobb says that Cochise County in Arizona has indicated that they will hand-count ballots in the midterms and have signed up enough volunteers to do so.

She is unhappy because she says that Katie Hobbs, secretary of state and Democrat candidate for governor, has said she will sue for them to use the voting machines.

Ms Bobb is also outraged that Arizona’s Republican attorney sent a referral to the FBI for tax evasion for the organisation behind the 2000 Mules election fraud movie of which Donald Trump is such a fan.