Trump news today: Trump denies ever having “Iran” newspaper, although Fox took it out in 2020

A petition has been launched in Australia calling for a ban on Donald Trump Jr. visiting the country for a right-wing event next month.

As of Monday, nearly 15,000 people had signed Change.org’s petition to protest the attendance of the former president’s eldest son at the Turning Point Australia event.

Following his arraignment last week on federal charges, Donald Trump targeted President Joe Biden and the Democrats with language that seemed to evoke another era: He was being persecuted by “Marxists” and “Communists,” he said.

On his first day as Attorney General, Merrick Garland promised a return to Justice Department “norms” and said he would work to remove any perception of political interference. But in the two years since he took office, the former federal judge has found himself in the midst of a political firestorm of historic proportions.

Chris Christie became the youngest Republican to publicly rebuke his party’s leadership this week when he made a pledge that GOP citizens would require participants in the 2024 debate cycle to sign.

I speak on CNN state of the nationthe former New Jersey governor appeared to have implied that he signed the pledge – which says every participant in the GOP debates will support the party’s possible nominee – solely to get on the stage while he was on it hinted that he wouldn’t hesitate to break it.

John Bowden Reports from Washington, DC

As the ex-president’s supporters continue to offer their leader a wide array of defenses, ranging from arguments that Mr Trump was allowed to call the materials personal records for his own safekeeping, to the notion that law enforcement is merely a politicized arming Justice Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has given his own assessment of the situation at the US Department of Defense.

John Bowden has the story.

Donald Trump says if he wins a second term, there would be neither Ivanka nor Jared in the White House.

“That’s enough for the family,” he says.

Former President Donald Trump has denied ever possessing a classified document on the attack on Iran, although there is a record of him speaking about a document he kept during his presidency.

Mr Trump spoke in an interview with Fox News host Bret Baier at his estate in Bedminster, New Jersey, less than a week after he pleaded not guilty to 37 counts of his Miami charges in a Miami federal court. A federal grand jury had indicted him on alleged willful mishandling of confidential documents, obstruction of justice and false testimony.