Trump heads to Capitol Hill for first time since Jan 6: Live

The State of Georgia has filed a motion to dismiss an appeal by Donald Trump and his co-defendants in the Fulton County 2020 election subversion case on the ruling that allows District Attorney Fani Willis to remain on the case.

Trump and his co-accused have fought hard to have Willis removed from the case over her affair with colleague and lead prosecutor Nathan Wade. After a contentious hearing in February and March, Judge Scott McAfee ruled that while Willis could continue to prosecute the case, Wade would have to resign, which he did.

Last night, Wade spoke with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins about his removal from prosecuting the former president:

Here’s our coverage of Willis accepting Wade’s resignation in March:

Here’s Michelle Del Rey to tell us who is being briefed against as our man prepares to name his new sidekick at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee next month.

Trump is surely waaay too petty and nowhere near magnanimous enough to do this, isn’t he?

Nevertheless, former Trump campaign aide David Urban suggested as much on CNN’s Out Front with Erin Burnett last night, telling the host:

“Listen, what I’d like to see happen is I’d like to see President Trump come out with a statement saying, ‘Look, if Hunter Biden commits to a program of sobriety, inpatient or maybe outpatient, shows up, keeps his sobriety, I’ll pardon him.

“I’d love for President Trump to say that. It would be a magnanimous offer on his part, shows humanity and, and really flip the tables on the Democrats.”

A day after CNN called out Fox’s hypocrisy over the Trump and Hunter Biden verdicts, here’s JD Vance and Laura Ingraham ably demonstrating precisely what Abby Phillip was talking about.

This was also pretty brazen from “Judge” Jeanine Pirro.

Trump opened up a marginal two percentage point lead over Joe Biden this week in the race for the White House, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, as voters consider the recent criminal convictions of both the Republican candidate and the president’s son Hunter Biden.

An estimated 41 per cent of registered voters in the two-day poll, which closed on Tuesday, said they would vote for Trump if the election were held today, while 39 per cent opted for the Democratic incumbent.

Some 20 per cent of voters said they remained undecided, were leaning toward third-party options or might not vote at all on November 5.

The Republican was so angry when the guilty verdict was read aloud at his New York hush money trial last month that he was heard afterwards subjecting Mike Johnson, the speaker of the House of Representatives, to a foul-mouthed rant by phone, according to a new report.

Politico’s Playbook newsletter recounts that the GOP presidential contender was overheard “dropping frequent F-bombs” in his call with Johnson on May 30 as he told the speaker: “We have to overturn this.”