Trump calls for ‘giant red wave’ in midterms and rants about justice system

1667529906Justice Clarence Thomas was, from the beginning, the member of the Supreme Court’s nine-justice bench whom the Trump campaign identified as an ally, according to new documents.A court’s release of emails between two of Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign legal team members illustrates how the masterminds of the effort to delay the certification of election results in Georgia and other states thought that Mr Thomas stood apart from his colleagues and would keep an open mind to the campaign’s baseless and evidence-free claims of fraud.It’s a revelation that may be less stunning than it would have been had his wife, Ginni Thomas, not found herself at the centre of the January 6 committee’s investigation into persons who helped Donald Trump try and pressure state legislatures around the country to subvert the election results.John Bowden has the full story.Thomas’s involvement in Trump’s election scheme deepens Oliver O’Connell4 November 2022 02:451667528135Donald Trump took the stage in Sioux City, Iowa, at roughly 8.30pm ET on Thursday and almost immediately began denigrating the country he led two years ago, calling the Hawkeye State ‘under siege’ by a rogue’s gallery of familiar villains including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senator Chuck Schumer, and President Joe Biden.He interspersed canned lines about inflation and the cost of Americans’ thanksgiving dinner with racialised attacks on the New York State Attorney General who is currently suing him, his family, and his eponymous real estate company to recoup millions of dollars her office alleges were defrauded from New York financial institutions.Read Andrew Feinberg’s full report:Twice-impeached ex-president delivers rambling, grievance-laded, hour-long monologue as he calls for a red wave to sweep Republicans back to power in Congress Oliver O’Connell4 November 2022 02:151667526986Trump concludes his remarks.Oliver O’Connell4 November 2022 01:561667526602Donald Trump again claims that Russia’s war on Ukraine would not have happened if he was still president as it had not happened in his one term in office.He went on to say that China would move in on Taiwan next.The former president covered this topic while the creepy music with which he closes out his speeches plays in the background and he jumps from topic to topic.Oliver O’Connell4 November 2022 01:501667526021Donald Trump has again repeated his false claims that there was massive voter fraud in the 2020 election. He reiterated his call for only same-day voting and only on paper ballots for everyone except the genuinely sick.Oliver O’Connell4 November 2022 01:401667524836’I will very, very, very probably do it again,’ teases the former president regarding a 2024 run ‘Get ready!’For context: Iowa is the first caucus state, so crucial in any presidential run.More from the Associated Press on preparations for a possible third run for the White House: Former President Donald Trump has been teasing another presidential run since before he left the White HouseOliver O’Connell4 November 2022 01:201667524543Oliver O’Connell4 November 2022 01:151667524340Former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally on a cold night in Sioux City, Iowa, on 3 November 2022Oliver O’Connell4 November 2022 01:121667523621’Your favorite president – excuse me to all those young people – your favorite president got screwed.’Oliver O’Connell4 November 2022 01:001667523374On today’s ruling that the Trump Organization will be overseen by an independent monitor, Donald Trump complains that ‘a radical left lunatic judge in New York City who is totally controlled by my worst enemies in the Democrat Party … started a process of property confiscation that is akin to Venezuela, Cuba, and the old Soviet Union’.Oliver O’Connell4 November 2022 00:56