Trump pleads not guilty in revised indictment for election interference
Trump’s lawyer John Lauro has confirmed that Trump has pleaded not guilty to the new charges.
Federal prosecutors and lawyers for Donald Trump are in court today to discuss how to proceed in the case against Trump in the first hearing following the Supreme Court’s decision to grant him broad immunity from criminal charges.
Judge Tanya Chutkan is in federal court in Washington DC, where she will hear arguments from Trump’s lawyers and prosecutors with special investigators Jack Smith, who on Friday filed competing proposals in the case accusing the former president of plotting to overturn the 2020 election results in the run-up to the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021.
Important events
Hugo Lowell
Last week, Donald TrumpGiven the Supreme Court’s decision to grant broad immunity to former presidents, lawyers suggested the judge take a months-long trial to move the case forward.
Judge Tanya Chutkan says she will not set a timetable for the January 6 Trump case at this status conference, but hopes to do so later today.
Chutkan speaks to Trump’s lawyer John Lauro, noted that it had been nearly a year since they were last in a courtroom together, adding that he looked “rested.” Lauro responded:
Life was almost meaningless without you.
Chutkan replied laughing:
Enjoy it while it lasts.
Trump pleads not guilty in revised indictment for election interference
Trump’s lawyer John Lauro has confirmed that Trump has pleaded not guilty to the new charges.
Federal prosecutors and lawyers for Donald Trump are in court today to discuss how to proceed in the case against Trump in the first hearing following the Supreme Court’s decision to grant him broad immunity from criminal charges.
Judge Tanya Chutkan is in federal court in Washington DC, where she will hear arguments from Trump’s lawyers and prosecutors with special investigators Jack Smith, who on Friday filed competing proposals in the case accusing the former president of plotting to overturn the 2020 election results in the run-up to the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021.
Proceedings for Trump’s election interference in 2020 continue
Hugo Lowell
Donald TrumpLawyers Todd Blanche, Emil Bove, John Lauro And Greg Singer are in the courtroom for today’s status conference in the January 6 Trump case, where they will face Judge Tanya Chutkan to accept its delayed timetable for the adoption of the immunity decision.
In addition to the critical swing states Pennsylvania, Michigan And Wisconsin, Donald Trump has also expanded its campaign efforts to North Carolina, Arizona And Nevadawhere, according to Axios reporting, he had a sizable lead in the polls before Harris gave them a leg up.
This is a stark contrast to late July, when the Trump campaign boasted from the Republican convention in Milwaukee that it could expand its reach.
In the days following Joe Bidens disastrous debate performance, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Whatley, laid out an ambitious plan to campaign in the major swing states and also to canvass for votes in the states that Trump lost in 2016 and 2020. Whatley said:
We have started to get involved in Minnesota and in Virginia and in ^ “New Hampshire – The Wonderful World of Living”. So we are on the offensive across the country. The Biden campaign is on the defensive.
Today, New Hampshire is a sign of how Trump’s path to victory is narrowing. A series of polls show: Kamala Harris According to Politico, this puts him ahead of Trump.
In an email on Sunday, a senior Trump volunteer wrote that the campaign “has determined that New Hampshire is no longer a swing state” and advised his supporters to instead focus their attention on Pennsylvania.
Trump is scaling back his campaign activities in some swing states – reports
Donald Trump is reportedly scaling back his campaign in several states he had previously targeted, including some swing states, as a sign that the Republican presidential candidate’s path to victory in his race against ^ “Kamala Harris”.
Trump’s campaign places less emphasis on New Hampshire, Minnesota And Virginia and instead invest resources in Pennsylvania, Michigan And Wisconsin – three states that, according to an Axios report, are considered crucial to both sides’ chances of victory.
In New Hampshire, Trump’s campaign appears to be scaling back its activities. The Republican candidate has not set foot in the state since winning the primary in January, and his campaign has not sent a prominent surrogate there since the spring, Politico reports.
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Donald Trump threw his usual insults and accusations at him Kamala Harris And Tim Walz during a town hall meeting broadcast on Fox News and then falsely claimed that immigrants from all over the world were flocking to the United States.
In the pre-recorded interview, which aired Wednesday night, the former president took the stage at a Pennsylvania arena to cheers, applause and chants of “USA” from his supporters.
The town hall, hosted by Sean Hannity, comes less than a week before Trump and Kamala Harris meet on the debate stage and the election campaigns of both presidential candidates focused on the six so-called swing states of the USA: Nevada, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin And ArizonaElection forecaster Nate Silver predicted that Pennsylvania would likely be the “turning point” for the election.
The full report can be found here: Trump insults Harris and Walz in the same way at the Pennsylvania town hall meeting
Donald Trump, In his typically capricious style, he had threatened to withdraw from the debate on 10 September, arguing that he would not be given a fair chance.
Last week, he posted on his Truth social network that ABC News was “fake news” and attacked its “so-called panel of Trump haters” after seeing the Republican senator Tom Cotton interviewed by Jonathan Karl on ABC’s “This Week.”
On Wednesday, Trump attended a town hall meeting moderated by Fox News host Sean Hannity, He took the opportunity to ridicule ABC News, the host of the debate.
“ABC is the worst broadcaster in terms of fairness,” Trump said.
They’re the most dishonest network. The meanest, the nastiest, but that’s what was presented to me. I was presented with ABC… I think a lot of people are going to watch to see how mean and unfair they are. I agreed to do it because they wouldn’t do it with any other network.
Harris and Trump accept debate rules, including the ability to mute microphones
Kamala Harris And Donald Trump have accepted the rules for the presidential debate in Philadelphia, which is scheduled to air on ABC next week, the network said Wednesday. These include muting the microphones when the other candidate is speaking.
An ABC News press release said Harris and Trump “qualified for the debate according to the established criteria and both accepted the following debate rules.”
The Trump and Harris campaigns had clashed over debate guidelines, including whether microphones should be turned off when a candidate was not speaking. The Harris campaign had previously pushed for live or “hot” mics, arguing that this would “fully enable meaningful exchanges between the candidates.” Trump’s campaign, meanwhile, had pushed for them to be turned off.
The statement released by ABC clarified that the candidates’ microphones will only be turned on for the candidate whose turn it is to speak – and will be muted when it is another candidate’s turn.
It was also said the debate would last 90 minutes, with two commercial breaks, and would be led by two seated moderators, the ABC anchors. David Muir And Linsey Davis, Who are the only ones asking questions? There will be no audience in the room.
Harris travels to Pittsburgh to prepare for an important debate
Good morning, dear readers of US politics. Kamala Harris travels to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania today, where she will prepare for next week’s presidential debate with Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Trump will deliver a speech to the Economic Club of New York and later appear via video conference at a meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas.
On Wednesday, ABC News announced that both Harris and Trump had accepted the rules for the September 10 debate, ending a dispute between the two campaign teams over debate guidelines, including whether microphones should be turned off when a candidate was not speaking.
We are also observing the following:
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A federal judge will hear arguments today to decide how to proceed with the special counsel Michael Smith‘s election fraud case against Donald Trump, in the first hearing since the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling.
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Joe Biden will travel to Westby, Wisconsin, to deliver a speech on his economic agenda.
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Jury selection for Biden’s son is set to begin in Los Angeles. Hunter Bidenin his trial in federal tax court, his second trial this year after being convicted of a weapons offense in June.
