Fox News host says Trump must ‘learn to lose’
Lawyers for former president Donald Trump and the Trump Organization asked a federal judge to bar New York State Attorney General Letitia James’ office from investigating them or order her to recuse herself from any investigation into the real estate company.
The twice-impeached ex-president sued Ms James last month in hopes of stopping a long-running probe into whether he or his company violated New York tax laws.
The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of New York, claims Ms James’ efforts “are in no way connected to legitimate law enforcement goals, but rather, are merely a thinly-veiled effort to publicly malign Trump and his associates”.
Meanwhile the one-term president’s middle son, Eric Trump, lashed out at Ms James, claiming that her probe was unconstitutional.
The younger trump made the incorrect statements during an appearance on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News in which he claimed Ms James’s investigation into whether his family business violated New York tax laws is meant to keep his father from running for president in 2024 and amounts to “effectively handing” that election to President Joe Biden.
Meanwhile, US Senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota has said he stands by his comments that Mr Trump lost the 2020 election, after Trump called his fellow Republican a “jerk” for his comments.
Mr Rounds said he was “disappointed but not surprised” by Mr Trump’s attack.
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Trump tries to use Abrams’ absence from Biden’s voting rights speech against president
As Joe Biden gave one of the most forceful speeches of his presidency on the importance of passing voting rights legislation, his predecessor attacked him not on substantive grounds but on his supposed clash with other Democrats over the issue. In particular, he seized on the news that Stacey Abrams would not attend Mr Biden’s address in her own state.
“Stacey Abrams helped Biden steal the 2020 Election in Georgia,” Mr Trump falsely claimed, “but now she won’t even share a stage with Joe. Stacey knows that Biden actually lost BIG in Georgia, and in the 2020 Presidential Election as a whole, and he’s been so terrible she now wants nothing to do with him. Even the woke, radical left realizes that Joe Biden’s Administration is an embarrassment!”
Mr Trump may face legal charges for pressuring Georgia officials to “find” votes for him after it became clear he had lost the state to Mr Biden.
Ms Abrams and Mr Biden claim that she missed the speech because of a scheduling conflict. Many Democrats have criticized Mr Biden’s address as insufficient given the challenges presented by the Senate.
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