Trump gives rambling Dr Phil interview after staff cemetery clash accusation: Live

don’t mean to sound a thousand years old, but when I was a kid repeating somebody else’s joke over and over until it became interminable wasn’t called a “meme”. It was called “being the most annoying kid in school”, and we all hated that person (I was that person).

Now, though, memes are all the rage. Once the prime tool of communication for always-online basement-dwelling nerds, now everybody and your mother seems to know about being “demure”, or who the “Hawk Tuah” girl is. It’s even gotten to the point that politicians are getting in on the action…

Trump won North Carolina by just over a point in 2020, his closest win out of any state that year. Now, the Tar Heel state is a toss-up and could go to Kamala Harris come November, according to a new report from the nonpartisan organization Cook Political Report.

Katie Hawkinson looked at the numbers.

Donald Trump accused the White House of pressuring Meta to suppress posts about Hunter Biden’s laptop while he was serving as president.

Trump, in a post on Truth Social, falsely claimed, “Zuckerberg admits that the White House pushed to SUPPRESS HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY (& much more!).”

“IN OTHER WORDS, THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WAS RIGGED,” the former president continued.

Katie Hawkinson has the full story.

In the weeks since Vice President Kamala Harris took up the banner against Donald Trump, lots of ink has been spilt on the massive crowds she has been attracting and how they compare unfavorably to those at Trump’s signature political rallies.

Trump, who has always been obsessed with crowd sizes, did something unexpected in response. He reduced the crowd at his most recent event to an audience of one.

The superseding indictment — which was presented to a new grand jury that had not previously heard evidence in the case — retains the same four core charges against the former president, but special counsel Jack Smith notes that the indictment “reflects the Government’s efforts to respect and implement the Supreme Court’s holdings and remand instructions” from the high court’s landmark decision on presidential immunity last month.

Alex Woodward has been following the case for The Independent.

Donald Trump insisted that he is “not a threat to democracy” in an interview with TV personality Dr Phil on Tuesday night, during which he also suggested that he survived an assassination attempt last month because God wanted him to save the US – and possibly the world.

Mike Bedigan watched so you didn’t have to…

A Kentucky man who was the first rioter to enter the US Capitol during a mob’s attack on the building was sentenced on Tuesday to more than four years in prison.

A police officer who tried to subdue Michael Sparks with pepper spray described him as a catalyst for the January 6 insurrection. The Senate that day recessed less than one minute after Sparks jumped into the building through a broken window. Sparks then joined other rioters in chasing a police officer up flights of stairs.

Before learning his sentencing, Sparks told the judge that he still believes the 2020 presidential election was marred by fraud and “completely taken from the American public.”

“I am remorseful that what transpired that day didn’t help anybody,” Sparks said. “I am remorseful that our country is in the state it’s in.”

US District Judge Timothy Kelly, who sentenced Sparks to four years and five months, told him that there was nothing patriotic about his prominent role in what was a “national disgrace.”

“I don’t really think you appreciate the full gravity of what happened that day and, quite frankly, the full seriousness of what you did,” the judge said.

Federal prosecutors recommended a prison sentence of four years and nine months for Sparks, a 47-year-old former factory worker from Cecilia, Kentucky.

Defense attorney Scott Wendelsdorf asked the judge to sentence Sparks to one year of home detention instead of prison.

A jury convicted Sparks of all six charges that he faced, including a felony count of interfering with police during a civil disorder. Sparks didn’t testify at his trial in Washington, DC.

In the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6 attack, Sparks used social media to promote conspiracy theories about election fraud and advocate for a civil war.

“It’s time to drag them out of Congress. It’s tyranny,” he posted on Facebook three days before the riot.