Donald Trump’s financial disclosures reveal post-White House earnings – latest

Mike Pence’s reception at the NRA’s event on Friday was in sharp contrast to that for the former president, who pressured Mr Pence to reject the results of the 2020 presidential election while overseeing a joint session of Congress on 6 January 2021 as a mob of Mr Trump’s supporters stormed the halls of the US Capitol.

“I hope you gave Pence a good, warm approval,” Mr Trump said in his remarks. “No, because he is a nice man, if you want to really know the truth, he is. He’s a good man. And I heard it was very rough.”

Donald Trump’s keynote address to the NRA’s conference in Indiana this week came just four days after a gunman used an AR-15 rifle to murder five people and wound eight in a mass shooting at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky.

His labelling of Joe Biden’s “war” on guns comes after the president announced a sweeping executive order to “accelerate” the White House’s efforts on gun reform and combat the proliferation of firearms. There have been more than 150 mass shootings and more than 12,000 Americans have died from gun violence in this year alone.

Mr Trump called actions to curb the spread of guns “crazy”.

Financial disclosures show that the former president has more than $200m in total debts, though he paid off six outstanding loans since leaving the White House, including one valued at more than $50m on Trump Tower and Trump Doral golf club in Florida, the organisation’s biggest money maker, according to The New York Times’ review of his 101-page filing with the FEC.

He also took out some new loans on each of those properties, totaling $50m each.

Mr Trump also paid off a loan valued at more than $50m on the Washington hotel he sold last year.

Most of the loans are from Deutsche Bank, where he once had a balance of more than $295. His still owes $45m.

In a video released by his campaign, Trump said he wants “every federal employees to pass a new civil service test” if he is elected.

His test appears to run through a checklist of conservative ideological bulletpoints, including an understanding of “our constitutional, limited government,” the role of federalism, “religious liberty,” and “unreasonable search and seizure,” mentioning the FBI’s lawful search of his Mar-a-Lago property connected to long-running investigation into his withholding of classified documents.

Mike Pence’s reception at the NRA’s event on Friday was in sharp contrast to that for the former president, who pressured Mr Pence to reject the results of the 2020 presidential election while overseeing a joint session of Congress on 6 January 2021 as a mob of Mr Trump’s supporters stormed the halls of the US Capitol.

“I hope you gave Pence a good, warm approval,” Mr Trump said in his remarks. “No, because he is a nice man, if you want to really know the truth, he is. He’s a good man. And I heard it was very rough.”

Trump’s personal financial disclosure reports with the Federal Election Commission offer the first public glimpse into his earnings and financial state since leaving the White House in 2021.

His campaign also said he raised more than $15m between the announcement of criminal charges against him and the end of the filing deadline, with a massive $34m haul within the first few months of the year alone.

In his remarks to a National Rifle Association event on Friday, Donald Trump vowed to use the full force of the federal government to investigate gender-affirming care for transgender Americans, a statement that elevates his anti-trans rhetoric and Republican threats to LGBT+ people ahead of 2024 elections.

There have been more than 155 mass shootings and more than 12,000 gun-related deaths in 2023, which the GOP presidential candidate blamed on a “mental health problem” and a “spiritual problem” in his remarks in Indiana on 14 April.

He said he would direct the US Food and Drug Administration to study the effects of gender-affirming healthcare and so-called “trans ideology” on mental health and “violence”, should he be elected.

Far-right congressmember and staunch Trump ally Marjorie Taylor Greene reportedly spent more than $65,000 of her campaign funds installing a fence at her home, according to Federal Election Commission records.

The federal judge appointed by Donald Trump presiding over a challenge to a widely used abortion drug reportedly failed to disclose to members of Congress that he authored an article attacking abortion rights and transgender healthcare in a right-wing legal journal.

US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, then an attorney for an influential conservative Christian legal group, removed his name from the article before a judicial nomination process under then-President Donald Trump, according to The Washington Post.

The article did not come up during his testimony to the US Senate, which ultimately approved his appointment to the federal bench in 2019.

Evan Corcoran will no longer be representing the former president in the federal case involving classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, according to The Washington Post.

Federal prosecutors have recently won a court battle that allows them to question Mr Corcoran in the Justice Department special counsel investigation, with judges determining that he could not use attorney-client privilege to avoid discussing his communication with the former president.

Trump lawyer Tim Parlatore told the newspaper in a statement that “the legal team handling all matters involving the special counsel – myself, James Trusty, John Rowley, Lindsey Halligan, and Evan Corcoran is intact and we continue to work closely with Evan as we do with the entire team to protect our client.”

Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung told The Post that reports about Mr Corcoran’s recusal are inaccurate. Mr Corcoran’s lawyer declined to comment.