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

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

John Bowden reports.

In talking about election fraud during his speech at Robstown, Texas, on Saturday night, Donald Trump alluded to a long-debunked and strange conspiracy theory that satellites changed votes from him to Joe Biden.

Republican US Rep Liz Cheney has warned that the vast number of candidates who have refused to accept the outcome of the 2020 presidential election pose a grave threat to democracy.

In an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” on 23 October, the Wyoming congresswoman – who lost a GOP primary to a candidate who falsely claimed the election was “rigged” – said she refuses to support or vote for candidates who cast doubt on the legitimacy of the 2020 election.

“No one of any party should be voting for people who are election deniers,” she said.

Alex Woodward reports.

More than three years after Manhattan prosecutors started investigating Donald Trump — after going to the Supreme Court twice to gain access to his tax records — the only criminal trial to arise from their efforts is about to begin.

No, the former president isn’t going on trial. His company is.

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Raising the stakes on its extraordinary subpoena to Donald Trump, the House committee investigating the Capitol riot indicated it would not consider letting the former president testify live on television about the direct role that congressional investigators say he played in trying to overturn the 2020 election.

While Mr Trump has reportedly said he would appear if it were broadcast live, Representative Liz Cheney, the committee’s vice chair, rejected the possibility.

Any takers?

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.

Speaking in Robstown, Texas, the ex-president addressed a crowd of supporters and once again railed against what he called an unfair investigation by partisans in Congress.

John Bowden reports.

Is something untoward afoot at the elite agency charged with safeguarding the life of President Joe Biden?

Adam Kinzinger certainly thinks so.

Andrew Feinberg looks at the evidence.

A meme of Donald Trump that has resurfaced online purportedly showing Jesus massaging Donald Trump’s shoulders actually depicts infamous cult leader and criminal Charles Manson.

Snopes.com notes that the image has been around since August 2020 and was altered from an image that actually depicted Jesus.

Nevertheless, whenever it circulates it amuses the former president’s foes.

A right-wing group founded by prominent conspiracy theorists and Donald Trump allies ran a covert nationwide campaign to fuel the former president’s plans to upend the nation’s elections after his 2020 defeat.

An investigation from Reuters discovered that the influential America Project surveyed more than 260 election officials in eight battleground states without revealing the group’s agenda and its founders’ explicit attempts to seize voting machines.

According to Reuters, interviewers told election officials that they were nonpartisan observers conducting the surveys only for educational purposes.

Alex Woodward has the details.