In a press release Thursday, Trump’s Save America political action committee said the former president has agreed to help House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and the Republican Party reclaim control of the House in 2022. The two men discussed the matter at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago golf resort in Florida in what the PAC described as a “very good and cordial” meeting. “President Trump’s popularity has never been stronger than it is today, and his endorsement means more than perhaps any endorsement at any time,” the release said....

Former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal told MSNBC’s Deadline White House on Thursday that the fifth day of hearings by the House Select Committee investigating January 6, 2021, had painted a picture of Trump as a “third-rate dictator.” The committee heard from former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and former acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue on Thursday, who alleged Trump had pressured the Department of Justice (DOJ) to declare the 2020 presidential election “corrupt....

At a bilateral NATO summit meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel broadcast by NBC News on Wednesday, the president also said that Trudeau was “a very nice guy” but suggested he was not happy about being told to contribute more to the NATO budget. The president’s comments come following a hot mic video in which Trudeau and several other world leaders appeared to be making fun of Trump. Standing in a group with U....

Cheney denounced Trump during a speech in New Hampshire on Tuesday and lamented that some of her fellow Republicans had become “willing hostages to this dangerous and irrational man” by supporting evidence-free assertions of massive fraud. Trump responded on Wednesday by falsely claiming that there was “proof of fraud and irregularities” in the election and slammed Cheney for having “caved so easily on the Crime of the Century.” “With an approval rating at 19% in Wyoming, people are wise to Liz Cheney,” Trump said in a statement....

Loeffler and Perdue are running against Democrats Jon Ossoff and Reverend Raphael Warnock. Trump has harshly criticized Georgia’s election process, baselessly claiming that vote spread allowed President-elect Joe Biden to win the state in November’s presidential election. Georgia’s special election, expected to take place on Tuesday, will decide which political party gains control of the U.S. Senate. “There’s no way we lost Georgia, there’s no way,” Trump said. “That was a rigged election and we’re still fighting it and you’ll see what’s going to happen....

In a typically bullish statement, shared via email on Sunday, former President Trump complained “the fake news media” had demeaned what he called “the real results” of the election. Former President Trump said he would relish the opportunity to debate the claims of election fraud and said it would be “a ratings bonanza.” In the statement, Trump added: “I am willing to challenge the heads of the various papers or even far-left politicians, who have perpetuated the Real Big Lie, which is voter irregularities and fraud on a massive and determinative scale...

The president withdrew his suggestion to host world leaders at one of his own properties on Saturday after a backlash that he described as “crazed and irrational hostility.” Speaking about his now-retracted hosting offer, Trump said in a cabinet meeting on Monday: “Doral was a very simple situation. I own a property in Florida. I was going to do it at no cost or give it for free if I got a ruling — because there’s a question about whether or not you’re allowed to give it because it’s like a contribution to a country....

During her speech at the January 4, 2021, Moms for America “Save the Republic” rally, Miller said, “Hitler was right on one thing. He said, ‘Whoever has the youth has the future.’ Our children are being propagandized. … This is the battle.” After initially defending her comments, she later apologized for them. In his endorsement of Miller, issued last Saturday, Trump wrote, “Congresswoman Mary Miller is doing a fantastic job representing the people of Illinois!...

Glenn Kirschner, a legal analyst for NBC and MSNBC and frequent critic of the former president, was reacting to Trump’s Truth Social post on December 3, in which the Republican wrote that he should be reinstated as president and the results of the last election ignored. While continuing to declare falsely that the 2020 election was rigged against him, Trump wrote that “Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution....

“The biggest threat to the security of American Jews today is, incredibly, the president of the United States,” a voice-over on the ad said. Trump has received mixed reactions from members of the Jewish community. Some praised him for his decision to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and for being a friend to Israel. Others argue his rhetoric, including his comments about Jewish people being disloyal if they vote Democratic, is anti-Semitic and encourages people to harm Jewish people....

Online mentions of the former commander-in-chief and Google searches for his name spiked around last year’s election and the events of January 6—but have since dropped back significantly. Data supplied by Brandwatch showed more than 355 million mentions of Donald Trump on what it calls the “social web”—including blogs, forums, news sites, and public social media pages and accounts—from the start of June last year to the end of July 2021....

Trump Jr waxed lyrical on Fox News about the ambitions of Truth Social, which had been announced by his father on Wednesday as a response to social media companies that have largely banned him after the deadly January 6 U.S. Capitol riot. “You saw what they did to the president of the United States,” Trump Jr told Fox News, referring to his removal from Twitter and Facebook, “we want to make sure that Americans have a voice....

“With everything that is coming to light, when will @CrownPublishing be canceling @andrewcuomo’s contract?” Trump Jr. tweeted Monday night. The former president’s son later added that only conservatives get “canceled.” He cited Republican Senator Josh Hawley, who lost his book contract after voting to object to congressional certification of two states’ presidential election results following the Capitol assault by a pro-Trump mob on January 6. “Simon & Schuster cancelled their contract with Josh Hawley, but Crown is going to stick by a credibly accused serial sexual harasser just because he’s a Democrat?...

Cheney, who represents Wyoming’s at-large congressional district, pledged to do everything she could to prevent Trump from returning to the Oval Office in comments made on Wednesday. This followed the vote to oust her from her former position as House Republican Conference Chair, which came after criticisms she made of the former president. Trump Jr. tweeted on Thursday: “LOL, What’s Liz Cheney going to do? Take 75,000,000 people quail hunting?...

“Bloodbath!!!” the former president’s eldest son posted on the evening of the elections. However, Trump’s prediction—which was also shared by prominent political pundits—of a red wave sweeping across the country did not come to pass. While Republican candidates notched decisive victories, several key races remained too close to call Wednesday morning, and Democrats managed to overcome GOP challenges in large states such as Pennsylvania and New York. “This tweet aged like milk buddy,” the Lincoln Project, which is a political committee comprised of former and current Republicans who oppose former President Donald Trump, tweeted about Trump Jr....

“I have friends on SEAL teams that tell me they spend more time now in diversity training than they do shooting,” Trump can be heard saying in the clip. Trump—who is a best-selling author in addition to his work in business and political activism—made the comments during an August 18 rally for Carolina Amesty, a conservative candidate who is running for a state House seat in Florida. The video’s circulation on social media has resulted in some people agreeing with Trump, while others have taken the occasion to mock him....

“The Wall Street Journal editorial page continues, knowingly, to fight for globalist policies such as bad trade deals, open borders, and endless wars that favor other countries and sell out our great American workers, and they fight for RINOS [Republicans in name only] that have so badly hurt the Republican Party,” Trump said Thursday. He added: “That’s where they are and that’s where they will always be. Fortunately, nobody cares much about The Wall Street Journal editorial anymore....

Trump made the remarks during a Thursday interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News. Hannity mentioned comments from Dr. Sean Conley, physician to the president, who suggested that Trump may be able to safely return to public events by Saturday, before asking the president if he had recently tested negative for the virus. Trump tossed aside any concerns that he could still be contagious while claiming that he might be able to safely mingle with the public “sooner” than Conley said....

A subpoena dated Friday and received by Raffensperger’s office on Monday demanded that he hand over “any and all communications” involving Trump and his allies from June 1, 2020, to January 10, 2021, according to the Associated Press. Trump called Raffensperger days before the January 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol to demand that he “find” enough votes to overturn his 2020 Georgia election loss to President Joe Biden....

Trump is expected to leave the White House on Wednesday morning, only hours before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. Breaking years of tradition in Washington dating back to 1877, Trump has said that he won’t attend Biden’s inauguration on January 20. Biden has hit back at his rival, saying it was one of the few things he and the outgoing president agreed on. Meanwhile, Trump’s move to Florida has begun....