“Hope Hicks, who has been working so hard without even taking a small break, has just tested positive for Covid 19. Terrible! The First Lady and I are waiting for our test results. In the meantime, we will begin our quarantine process!” Trump tweeted at 10:44 p.m. Earlier on Thursday, the White House circulated the president’s public schedule for Friday which included a rally at the Orlando Sanford International Airport....

The two candidates are statistically neck and neck in North Carolina, Utah, Arizona, Minnesota and Georgia. A North Carolina poll, released Tuesday and conducted by Meeting Street Insights, showed that 45 percent of those surveyed said they would vote for Trump and 45 percent for Biden. The same poll showed that 42 percent of voters have a favorable view of the former vice president, while 48 percent had an unfavorable view....

Speaking to Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld, Trump criticized President Joe Biden for the troop withdrawal in August, during which 13 U.S. service members were killed in a suicide attack at the airport and a number of American citizens were left behind to face Taliban rule. During the light-hearted interview, which had a laughter track played over it, Gutfeld asked the former president whether his approach had worked out better than Biden’s as now “we have a really nice president and the country is in the crapper....

Trump is also rumored to be taking a lap around the track in the presidential limousine—known as “The Beast”—prior to the event, sources told Fox News. The White House has been contacted for comment. According to Associated Press, the president’s reelection campaign will run a television ad during the Fox broadcast of the race and also fly an aerial banner near the speedway. “The DAYTONA 500 is one of the greatest events in sports and the prestigious season-opening event to the NASCAR Cup Series,” said Daytona International Speedway president Chop Wile in a statement....

Navarro makes the claim in his new book Taking Back Trump’s America: Why We Lost the White House and How We’ll Win It Back, which will be published later this month. In the book Navarro recounts an attempt to fire Kushner from the campaign that also involved Home Depot co-founder and Republican donor Bernie Marcus. Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr. and Marcus supported replacing Kushner with Steve Bannon, a former White House adviser who had been a major figure in Trump’s 2016 campaign....

On the eve of the holiday, the former president vowed that the country’s founders “will never be purged from history or canceled from our hearts,” according to conservative news network Newsmax. “Tomorrow we will celebrate 245 years of glorious American Independence: It will not be canceled, by the way,” Trump told the crowd during the “Save America” rally on Saturday evening. He added: “We will teach young people across the country that George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson....

Earlier this month, New York District judge Lewis Kaplan ordered Trump to answer questions under oath in relation to the claims made by magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll. Carroll said that the former president smeared her character when he denied allegations he raped her at a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s. Carroll filed her suit in 2019, with Trump’s legal team spending three years fighting the case....

“We’ll do something, but not just yet,” Trump told the Washington Examiner on Friday as he dined in the Grill Room of the Trump International Golf Club in Florida. An aide to the former president quickly stepped in and ended the conversation. The short remark was his first to a reporter since President Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday. Trump skipped the inauguration of his successor and flew to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland early on January 20, where he addressed a crowd of around 200 people for about 10 minutes....

Trump will first visit New Hampshire, a key early voting state in the presidential primaries, where he will speak at the annual meeting of the state’s Republican Party in Salem. The trip comes as Special Counsel Jack Smith continues his investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. Smith, a career prosecutor, was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to weigh whether charges should be brought....

Trump Jr. and Guilfoyle will receive $50,000, which will be paid for out of student activity fees, according to The Alligator, the student newspaper at UF. The event will be the first Fall event for the ACCENT Speakers Bureau at the university, according to its Facebook announcement Tuesday afternoon. “ACCENT Speakers Bureau is excited to announce our first show of the fall semester featuring Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle next Thursday, October 10th in the University Auditorium!...

Since then, Trump has been sharing several Instagram photos and stories, including one with the words “Guns don’t kill people, Alec Baldwin kills people”, emblazoned on it. The T-shirts are selling in blue, black and green for $27.99 each. Trump, 43, shared another Instagram story showing a photoshopped image of Baldwin wearing the same T-shirt. On Sunday, Trump shared a meme of Homer Simpson that said “Let’s all watch Alex Baldwin blame the gun....

The militant group has seized power in Afghanistan after insurgents stormed across the country and captured major cities in a matter of days. On Tuesday, members of the Taliban gave a press conference from the presidential palace in Kabul. When asked about freedom of speech under Afghanistan’s new government, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid deflected the question, saying it should be posed to Facebook instead. “This question should be asked to those people who are claiming to be promoters of freedom of speech who do not allow publication of full information… I can ask Facebook company,” he said, according to an interpreter....

Trump, despite his impeachment—or perhaps because of it—wrapped 2019 with his strongest fundraising quarter and with $102.7 million cash on hand. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) topped the Democratic field so far, reporting that he raised $34.5 million during the final quarter. He was followed by South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who reported $24.7 million; former Vice President Joe Biden, who reported $22.7 million; and entrepreneur Andrew Yang, who reported $16....

The Twitter page⁠—titled “Trump But About Sharks” with the handle @tbasharks⁠—shared the following tweet on Sunday: “RT @BulldawgDerek: @foxandfriends A Sunday Morning; Amen Mark Levin, Preach Brother! You shut down Ed Henry and the Pro Shark Media with the fac…” The president retweeted the post just before midday amid a series of other retweets praising conservative radio personality Mark Levin’s argument with Fox News host Ed Henry that occurred during a segment on Sunday morning....

Accusing Trump of weaponizing “racism and bigotry,” Green suggested that the president’s comparison of the impeachment process to “a lynching,” a deadly act that has seen thousands of African Americans targeted in racist mob killings, made the U.S. leader “no better” than the Nazis or members of the Ku Klux Klan. “I rise today with a heavy heart and tears welling in my eyes, I rise. I rise because how dare the president compare lynching to impeachment,” Green said in his impassioned speech from the House floor....

The photo, included in a new 36-page court filing released by the Department of Justice on Tuesday night, shows a number of official documents, some of which bear the markings “Top Secret” or “Secret”. Although much of their contents have been redacted, there is some limited information we can use. To that end, Newsweek looked into how the photo adds to what we already know. What We Do Know In all, 184 unique documents obtained from the search contained classification markings, including 67 documents marked “confidential,” 92 documents marked as “secret,” and 25 documents marked “top secret....

Trump’s Chinese business connections, which didn’t stop his administration’s hawkish turn after the COVID pandemic exploded in the United States in early 2020, are likely to be scrutinized further as he presents his credentials for a third run for the White House’s top job while navigating ongoing American skepticism of Beijing, a mood he helped create during his time in office. In 2016, the Republican became the first presidential candidate in decades to refuse to disclose his tax returns, a position he maintained throughout his four years in the Oval Office....

With results still coming in, it is unclear whether the GOP will take the Senate, as had been widely expected, with even control of the House still in contention. Responding to the election results, the New York Post ran a photo of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, along with his family, on the front page, dubbing him “DeFuture.” The publication added: “Young GOP star DeSantis romps to victory in Florida.”...

President Joe Biden’s inauguration prompted many to give up the hope that something would change to put Trump in the White House for a second term. However, some, including several pastors and Powell, believe that Trump can simply take over the reins of the country from Biden. During the “For God & Country Patriot Roundup” conference on Saturday, Powell said Trump can “simply be reinstated.” A comment that elicited cheers from the crowd, Powell said Trump should be “moved back in” to the White House, but noted he wouldn’t be given “credit for time lost....

In the years since that post, his following on the platform has ballooned to more than 87 million accounts and his posts still regularly dominate the news cycle. Trump created his profile in May 2009 and as of today has posted more than 55,000 tweets. Over the past four years, since winning the White House in November 2016, a database called the Trump Twitter Archive shows he has tweeted more than 25,000 times—with the majority of his top 30 most-liked updates published in 2019 and 2020....