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

Ted Cruz has produced a book looking at the “evidence of election fraud and voter fraud in November 2020 which the Democrats and the corporate media insist doesn’t exist” – and “walking the reader” through the events of the attack on the US Capitol, before and after which Mr Cruz objected to the certification of certain swing states’ electoral votes in line with the plans of the Trump administration.

Mr Cruz has begun promoting the book on right-wing outlets including Fox News, but outside the pro-Trump echo chamber has met with the sort of response one might expect.

Among those calling him out in response: Joe Walsh, a former congressman and Tea Partier who has long been one of Donald Trump’s most furious right-wing critics:

As the Trump Organization prepares to face trial on tax fraud charges, it’s worth taking a look back at the indictment and subsequent guilty plea of CFO Allen Weisselberg in the same case.

It was in August that the Trumpworld veteran agreed to a plea deal that will see him sentenced to five months behind bars and five years of probation, but will not require him to testify against his lifelong boss. But he will be required to give evidence in the upcoming trial.

His testimony could help the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office prosecutors secure convictions, which in turn could result in massive fines that might bankrupt Mr Trump’s family business.

Here’s Andrew Feinberg’s report from the time.

Newsmax host Rob Schmitt has claimed that former president Donald Trump “looks like a priest” compared to Joe Biden.

He made the comments during a segment on Democrats “murdering” the US economy in favour of promoting green initiatives, with Rep Ronny Jackson as a guest.

Schmitt is an open supporter of Trump and recently commented on leaked audio tapes shared by CNN: “After the last 18 months of Biden’s foreign policy, find one real American who doesn’t think that’s exactly how we should be handling our enemies.”

Donald Trump repeated one of his favourite rants about US airports at his latest rally in Texas, after flying to the state on his newly-repaired jumbo jet dubbed “Trump Force One”.

Speaking at a “Save America” rally in Robstown on Saturday night, Mr Trump griped that America’s “once revered airports are a dirty, crowded mess”.

“You sit and wait for hours, then are notified that the plane won’t leave, and they have no idea when they will,” he said.

“Ticket prices have tripled, they don’t have the pilots to fly the planes, they don’t have qualified air traffic controls, and they just don’t know what they’re doing.”

The remarks are almost verbatim to those Mr Trump gave at another rally in Michigan earlier this month.

Megan Sheets and Lucy Thackray report.

President Joe Biden heaped praise on Liz Cheney, the Republican vice chair of the January 6 committee, in an interview that aired on Sunday.

Speaking with MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart, the president identified Ms Cheney as one of the so-called “rational Republicans” he has sought to reach common ground with and in fact pledged to do so during his 2020 campaign for office.

Others, he argued, remain aligned with Donald Trump’s “Maga” movement and hostile to America’s very rule of law.

“Look, I don’t agree with anything that Liz Cheney believes about the substantive issues, but I admire the hell out of her,” said Mr Biden.

“She means what she says, she doesn’t support the notion of use of violence, she doesn’t support the notion, she insists that there are basic fundamental rules.”

John Bowden reports.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched another attack against Donald Trump on Sunday, effectively daring the onetime president to testify before the Jan 6 committee.

She made the comments during an interview with MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart, predicting that Mr Trump would attempt to fight the January 6 panel’s subpoena for his testimony by whatever means possible.

Asked both whether Mr Trump would testify and what it would mean for the country if he didn’t, Ms Pelosi responded: “I don’t think he’s man enough to show up”.

John Bowden reports on the speaker’s remarks.

After years of investigation by New York authorities, the Trump Organization has been indicted for allegedly engaging in what prosecutors have described as a criminal tax fraud scheme. In a nutshell, the indictment against the company and its CFO, Allen Weisselberg, focuses on a method of tax evasion that revolved around compensating executives via “off the books” gifts rather than taxable income.

Here’s an explainer of what’s at issue in the case:

Donald Trump has repeated his claim that he will sue the Pulitzer Prize board, this time saying it will happen within the next two weeks.

The former president has previously threatened to sue the organisation if it does not rescind awards for reporting on Russian 2016 election collusion by The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Mr Trump first made the threat in late 2021, and repeated it on Saturday night in a speech at a “Save America” rally in Robstown, Texas, as one of the many grievances he mentioned during his rambling remarks.

Donald Trump suggested that a person who leaked a draft of a US Supreme Court opinion to overturn Roe v Wade, as well as the journalists who published it, should be imprisoned, despite not breaking any laws.

The former president suggested that publishers should be threatened with the possibility of being raped in prison in an effort to draw out the “leaker” for a violation that does not exist.

Alex Woodward reports.

Donald Trump held his first rally since being subpoenaed in the congressional investigation into January 6 on Saturday, where the enthusiastic crowd interrupted him by breaking out in song.

John Bowden reports.