Trump News Today: Ivanka distances herself from family legal issues as Hope Hicks meets with Manhattan prosecutors

Democratic Representative Maxwell Frost criticized his home state governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, saying the potential Republican presidential nominee is engaging in “fascism.”

The freshman Democratic congressman, currently the youngest member of the House of Representatives, spoke to Jim Acosta on CNN about Mr. DeSantis’ plan to ban the use of preferred pronouns and gender studies in the state of Florida.

“He’s not acting on education, we have to be clear,” Frost said. “He acts by scapegoating vulnerable communities for his failures.”

Erik Garcia has the story.

Donald Trump went on the defensive bright and early on Monday morning when he was annoyed by the coverage of his speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington DC over the weekend.

The former president claimed that “you couldn’t get into the building,” insisting that the seats for his speech were full and that his supporters had flocked to CPAC to see him.

Friday at midnight, Donald Trump dropped a new song with the J6 Prison Choir. No, that’s not an onion head. That just happened. Who needs SNL when we have reality?

I’ll save you time. The number is as bad as you’d expect.

Many struggle to define the concept, such as Erik Garcia discovered at CPAC over the weekend.

In his keynote CPAC speech, Donald Trump once again demonstrated why his leadership of the Republican Party has led to electoral loss after electoral loss. His rambling speech was unlikely to appeal to anyone who wasn’t already firmly entrenched in the Conservative bubble. If he did turn to a coherent statement, it was more often than not a vicious attack on his Republican rivals.

Donald Trump has been mocked by Chris Christie for poor attendance at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this weekend.

Fox News is on an unlikely collision course with two leading contenders for the Republican presidential nomination over journalists’ rights.

To defend itself against a massive defamation lawsuit over how it covered false claims surrounding the 2020 presidential election, the network is relying on a nearly 60-year-old Supreme Court ruling that makes it difficult to successfully sue media organizations for libel.

Former President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, two favorites of many Fox News viewers, have called for the court to revisit the default, which is considered the foundational case in US libel law.

“Absolutely, I wouldn’t even think about leaving,” the former president told reporters ahead of his speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, speculating that being targeted by a criminal charge could actually “raise” his polls .

During his remarks, Trump vowed to retaliate against the Democrats, the media, and even against his fellow Republicans.

John Bowden And Josh Marcus report.

Two suspects in the Capitol riot are wanted by the FBI after they went missing.

A Florida woman disappeared before going on trial Monday after being charged for her actions during the January 6, 2021, riot in Washington, D.C., when supporters of former President Donald Trump violently tried to prevent Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s election victory in 2020.

Last week, a federal judge in Washington issued warrants for the arrest of Joseph Hutchinson III and Olivia Pollock after revealing they had tampered with or removed the ankle monitors used to track them, according to the Associated Press.

Gustav Kilander has the story.

Former Donald Trump senior adviser Hope Hicks was spotted entering the Manhattan district attorney’s office yesterday in a signal of a possible escalation of the investigation into the former president’s alleged involvement in hush money payments to a porn star during his presidential campaign. campaign.

Prosecutors from District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office have been presenting evidence to a grand jury since January, with Ms. Hicks the seventh witness to meet with them, the New York Times reported.

It remains unclear whether she was simply answering questions or will be asked to testify before the grand jury.

Trump has labeled the investigation a “witch hunt” and it is not known whether the prosecutor will press charges against him.