Trump claims Biden ‘hates military’ in latest attack ad: Live updates

Speaking of not taking Rudy seriously, this is pretty low.

Here’s Kelly Rissman’s report.

The former New York City mayor’s latest grinning mugshot was released by Arizona’s Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office on Monday as his never-ending slide into disgrace continues.

In late May, Giuliani pleaded not guilty to nine felony charges relating to his alleged role in a 2020 election interference plot on behalf of Trump.

Another 17 other people were also charged in connection with the case.

The Arizona indictment accuses the defendants of interfering with “the lawful transfer of the presidency of the United States, keeping President Donald Trump in office against the will of Arizona voters, and depriving Arizona voters of their right to vote and have their votes counted.”

Here he is expressing no remorse…

…and here’s Alex Lang’s report.

Ariana Baio has this look at how the Biden clan has reacted to Hunter’s ongoing trial (emphatic support) compared to how the Trumps behaved at the hush money circus in New York (going into hiding or making only token appearances).

Here’s Eric Garcia on why things are looking different for the Republican in the Silver State this time around and what that means for 5 November.

You Know Who has claimed that Nevada was stolen from him in the 2020 presidential election, in part due to the state’s former Democratic governor, despite the fact that he lost by thousands of votes.

The former president has lost the state in the previous two election cycles, conceding it to Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020, where he lost by 34,000 votes.

The margin to Biden was larger than the 27,000 votes Trump lost to Clinton by in 2016, but that didn’t stop the president from claiming without proof that he somehow won in Nevada and that the electoral votes were stolen from him.

Speaking to The Las Vegas Review Journal ahead of his rally in Sunset Park on Sunday, Trump said the second loss had come despite his belief he had “won strongly.”

“I won the primaries big, and I actually thought I won twice, and some bad things happened,” he said.

“You had a Democrat governor, and I really believe that bad things happened because we were in a very strong position

“And so when you say lost, I don’t know what the definition of lost is, but I think we’re going to win it big [this time].”

The former president yesterday supplied a brief, pre-recorded message for an event hosted by an extreme anti-abortion group – which denounces the procedure as “child sacrifice” – but managed to dodge the issue altogether.

Trump spoke virtually at the “Life and Liberty Forum” held by the Danbury Institute, a group that has decried abortion as “the greatest atrocity facing our generation today” and has vowed not to rest “until it is eradicated entirely.”

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, however, did not mention “abortion” once.

Here’s more from Kelly Rissman and John Bowden.

Sean Hannity, who interviewed Trump in person last week, casually floated the idea on his show last night that the Republican candidate could refuse to take part in the first debate with Biden (scheduled for June 27 on CNN), seemingly preparing the ground for precisely that to happen.

On the same network, Trump’s favourite conservative legal scholar Jonathan Turley very openly pleaded with Judge Merchan not to put the “elderly” candidate in jail.

Trump’s latest social media dump includes an appeal to Latinos to support him, the usual slew of endorsements for GOP primary candidates, a promotional pitch for Charlie Kirk’s new book (he spoke to Kirk’s Turning Point movement in Phoenix, Arizona, last week), as well as a nasty new attack ad on Joe Biden.

A classic Trump projection effort, he claims that the president “hates the military” in a clear bid to firefight the revival of his own “suckers and losers” comment about fallen soldiers, compiling together clips of aggrieved veterans speaking to conservative media about their apparently negative experiences of interacting with Biden at official events, which, for some reason, is presented on a rickety looking 1970s television set.

Cheap, unconvincing and more than a little desperate, I’d say.

Josh Marcus wrote this on Sunday on Trump’s latest attempt to dissociate himself from the comment, which dates back to his former chief of staff John F Kelly and an article in The Atlantic.

The Republican presidential felon has described the most famous woman in the world as “unusually beautiful” but “liberal”, noting: “She probably doesn’t like Trump.”

The former president was interviewed by Variety editor Ramin Setoodeh last November for a new book about his time hosting The Apprentice entitled Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass, which is set to be published on June 18.

Asked his opinion of Swift, Trump replied: “She’s got a great star quality. She really does.”

Kevin EG Perry has the story.

The former president’s mandatory pre-sentencing interview with a New York City probation officer took place on Monday and ended after less than a half-hour of routine questions, according to the Associated Press.

Trump’s answers will be compiled into a report that will be presented to trial judge Merchan prior to the Republican’s July 11 sentencing in his hush money criminal case.