Trump news – live: Vance slated for ‘kissing Trump’s ass’ as new details of McCarthy’s Jan 6 call emerge

Donald Trump, who once posed for photos with Kanye West at Trump Tower after the rapper embraced the then-president-elect and invited him to the White House while in office, is privately rebuking the artist’s recent public tirades against Jewish people, according to Rolling Stone.

The former president has reportedly confided in multiple people close to him that the rapper’s social media blasts, in which he said he planned to go “death con 3” on “JEWISH PEOPLE,” have led him to believe that West is acting too “crazy” and he should seek out professional “help”.

Two sources familiar with the matter confirmed to Rolling Stone that the one-term president is intentionally avoiding commenting on the scandals that have erupted since the rapper began railing against the Jewish community.

Oliver O’Connell reports.

Donald Trump’s loathing of Mitch McConnell is hardly a secret, but he has steadily grown more and more openly aggressive in it. His current beef is Mr McConnell’s reported opposition to most of Mr Trump’s chosen Senate candidates, many of whom are struggling to catch up or stay even in the polls in what werre once thought eminently winnable races.

Court proceedings are underway in the seditious conspiracy trial of several members of the extremist Oath Keepers, who are accused of plotting to commit acts of violence against the federal government. Among the most disquieting evidence is footage of the group’s members mustering at a hotel in the DC area where they are alleged to have stored weapons for the use of what they called a “Quick Reaction Force”.

And it seems there is plenty of footage for the prosecution to point to...

The jury have also been shown evidence of a very different kind.

Donald Trump is awake and truthing, and has kicked off his day with a rant against a Colorado Senate candidate who is trying to distance himself from the former president as he takes on incumbent Democrat Michael Bennet.

But the argument Mr Trump is putting forward doesn’t make exactly the case he intended.

Donald Trump is still catching flak for his suggestion that American Jews owe him more credit for his Israel policies and should start extending it “before it is too late”. Here’s a take on the import of his words from Jonathan Greenblat, head of the Anti-Defamation League:

Donald Trump is to give one of his periodic campaign rallies in Texas this Saturday, per an email sent out by his Save America PAC. He will appear in Robstown at 7pm ET and will presumably be joined by at least some of the state’s Republican candidates and incumbents, though their names are not mentioned.

Instead, the email simply promises that Mr Trump will deliver “remarks in support of his unprecedented effort to advance the MAGA agenda by energizing voters and highlighting the slate of 33-0 Trump Endorsed America First candidates in the Great State of Texas.”

Former Trump White House aide turned right-wing podcaster Steve Bannon deserves a six-month custodial sentence for having pursued a “bad-faith strategy of defiance and contempt” after receiving a House January 6 committee subpoena, the Department of Justice has said

In a sentencing memorandum filed before US District Judge Carl Nichols, prosecutors said Mr Bannon should be hit with the maximum sentence recommended under federal guidelines, six months in custody of the Bureau of Prisons “for his sustained, bad-faith contempt of Congress”.

The Justice Department also asked Judge Nichols to impose a $200,000 fine because Mr Bannon refused to cooperate with a pre-sentencing probe into his finances.

Andrew Feinberg reports.

Appearing on ABC News yesterday, Adam Kinzinger revealed that members of Donald Trump’s Secret Service detail who called Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony a lie still have not testified to his panel despite offering to do so months ago.

“They claim they’d come and speak to us,” he said. “They won’t do it. They have yet to come in.”

Watch his interview below.

Even as he faces criticism himself for demanding gratitude from American Jews, Donald Trump is reportedly concerned that his erratic supporter Kanye West may have gone off the deep end with his far more disturbing comments in recent weeks – specifically that he intends to go “death con 3” on “JEWISH PEOPLE”.

According to a report from Rolling Stone, people close to Mr Trump say he has been concerned for Mr West’s state of mind, saying he has been acting “crazy” and needs “professional help”.

Read the report here.

Donald Trump’s loathing of all things wind power well predates his presidency, and appears to stem in large part from a row with the Scottish Government over an offshore wind farm built near his Aberdeenshire golf course. Yesterday, amid all the other controversies swirling around him, he found time for another rant against his least favourite form of energy, which he has previously suggested can cause cancer (it does not).