Trump news: DoJ asks Supreme Court to stay out of Mar-a-Lago classified documents case

The nearly 20 major lawsuits and investigations facing Donald Trump are draining millions of dollars away from supporting other GOP candidates, according to campaign filings.

Democratic incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock took the lead in Georgia in his race against Republican Herschel Walker, a new Emerson College poll showed.

The poll showed that 48 per cent of likely supporters would cast their vote for Mr Warnock, compared to 46 per cent who said they would vote for Mr Walker, a former running back for the University of Georgia. The survey showed that Mr Warnock’s support increased by four points while Mr Walker’s support declined by about two points.

The Department of Justice has asked the Supreme Court to refrain from intervening in an ongoing dispute between the government and former president Donald Trump over classified documents found during the 8 August search of his Mar-a-Lago property.

Andrew Feinberg has the latest.

Madison Cawthorn appears to be done with Congress, both in the electoral and literal senses.

The first-term House member from North Carolina lost his primary to Chuck Edwards, a member of the state’s Senate, after a series of embarrassing videos leaked and Mr Cawthorn lost the support of his party’s leaders in the House and Senate thanks to comments he made about his colleagues supposedly using drugs and having sex parties.

Now, The Washington Post reports that Mr Cawthorn has virtually ceased operations in his district office, which is described as no longer being regularly staffed, including vital constituent work which includes the more mundane but still important duties like helping residents of his district obtain federal services or report problems in the area.

Former president Donald Trump‘s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, reportedly suggested having a “healing church service” led by Kanye West to ease tensions after the killing of George Floyd, a new book claims.

The New York Times‘ Maggie Haberman details the strange suggestion in her book “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.”

The exchange happened in the weeks after Mr Floyd was murdered by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

Graig Graziosi has the details.

With the next House select committee hearing on the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol scheduled for Thursday lunchtime, here is everything you need to know about what has transpired so far.

Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman is not backing down from his meme offensive.

Even as the race tightens and Mr Fetterman faces a surge of attacks from Fox News hosts and other GOP-aligned sources, the brash lieutenant governor is pressing on with his efforts to paint his opponent as a carpetbagging New Jerseyan.

The latest salvo from Mr Fetterman comes in the form of a billboard placed outside of Lincoln Financial Field in south Philadelphia. The message, viewable from I-95, declares that his opponent Dr Mehmet Oz is a fan of the Dallas Cowboys (rivals of Philadelphia’s Eagles) and urges voters to “elect a real Pennsylvanian”.

John Bowden has the story.

The United States could assassinate Vladimir Putin if Russia uses a nuclear weapon in its conflict with Ukraine, former National Security Adviser John Bolton has claimed.

Mr Bolton, a Republican who served under Donald Trump, made the claims during an interview with Andrew Marr on UK radio station LBC News.

Graeme Massie has the story.

Donald Trump has shared a bizarre video clip of himself during his presidential days – but with a voiceover imitating a nature documentary valorising the lion.

The clip, roughly one minute and 20 seconds long, was posted on his Truth Social account late on Monday and shows him waving to people while the narrator can be heard saying, “This lion, he’s the king of the jungle… huge mane, he’s so big, he’s so hot”.

Maroosha Muzaffar reports.

In the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd by police officers in May 2020, White House staff wanted to show that then-president Donald Trump was engaged in the broader national conversation about racial discrimination, according to Maggie Haberman’s new book.

This reportedly included the suggestion that Kanye West lead a “healing church service on the South Lawn” of the White House.

Chief of Staff Mark Meadows pushed back saying that Trump supporters did not like the rapper, Haberman writes, and so the idea went nowhere.