Trump to discover Georgia criminal charges fate in summer, as he ridicules Don Lemon

ICYMI: Tucker Carlson has parted ways with Fox News, the network that hosted his widely popular and controversial show Tucker Carlson Tonight.

The announcement comes as a surprise for many as Fox News recently settled a multi-million dollar defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems.

Carlson, a known supporter and advocate of Mr Trump, had been enthralled in controversy after several of his communications in the aftermath of the 2020 election were revealed during discovery in the lawsuit.

In his communications, Carlson questioned statements and facts made on Fox News about the former president’s call for election fraud.

It seems every week another individual is throwing their hat into the ring of candidates running for president in 2024.

On Monday, Corey Stapleton, former Secretary of State of Montana, announced he was making a bid for the GOP nomination for president.

Mr Stapleton is the fifth Republican candidate to announce their intent to run for president. Others include former president Donald Trump, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.

Here’s what else you need to know about the people running for president this year.

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Ms Willis’s pre-announcement came on Monday afternoon, along with a request for law enforcement agencies in the state and elsewhere to take extra steps to prepare for the risk of violence. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution first reported the news, which came in the form of a notification from Ms Willis’s office to the county sheriff.

The decision will drop between 11 July and 1 September, according to the DA. And while she officially gave no indication of which way her office was leaning, Ms Willis asked that local law enforcement practice “heightened security and preparedness” as the announcement “may provoke a significant public reaction”.

“Please accept this correspondence as notice to allow you sufficient time to prepare the Sheriff’s Office and coordinate with local, state and federal agencies to ensure that our law enforcement community is ready to protect the public,” she wrote.

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Abbe Lowell, the lawyer for President Joe Biden’s son, sent a letter to the Office of Congressional Ethics asking for an investigation.

“Representative Greene’s unethical conduct arises from her continuous verbal attacks, defamatory statements, publication of personal photos and data, and promotion of conspiracy theories about and against Robert Hunter Biden,” the letter said. “None of these could possibly be deemed to be part of any legitimate legislative activity, as is clear from both the content of her statements and actions, and the forums she uses to spew her often unhinged rhetoric.”

Tomorrow, jury selection begins in E Jean Carroll’s civil suit against former president Donald Trump.

Ms Carroll, a former columnist for Elle magazine, author and journalist, is suing Mr Trump for battery and one count of defamation.

She alleges that the former president sexually assaulted her in the dressing room of a department store in the mid-1990s. Mr Trump denies the claim.

But before the trial between Mr Trump and Ms Carroll begins, it’s important to know who Ms Carroll is and what she is alleging.

As Donald Trump ran for and served as president, over a dozen women publicly accused him of sexual assault and harassment. Most of those claims — all denied by Trump — were never taken to court. None has gone to trial. But that is about to change.

Jury selection starts tomorrow in E Jean Carroll’s rape lawsuit in a New York federal court. The former columnist alleges that Trump raped her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.

Ms Carroll’s civil case comes as Trump is seeking to return to the White House and battling a roster of legal problems, including his recent indictment on charges of doctoring his business’ records to conceal hush-money payments to a porn star.

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Fox News star host Tucker Carlson has left the popular right-wing cable news network. Fox announced Carlson’s shocking departure in a brief statement on Monday 24 April, saying both sides had “agreed to part ways”.

While the exact reason for Carlson’s departure is not yet clear, Carlson’s name had cropped up in court filings by Dominion Voting Systems, the company that launched a massive defamation suit against Fox News.

The filings showed Mr Carlson bemoaning the criticism he has personally received from viewers over the network’s correct decision to call Arizona for Joe Biden on election night 2020 and calling Trump lawyer and regular guest Sidney Powell a “f***ing b****” and accusing her of lying.

Voices: “It’s all too easy to fall into the trap of ranking the ‘badness’ of allegations, but this misses the point entirely. You cannot compare the impact of rape to those of ineffective international policies. Suggesting that a president paying off a woman to keep them quiet about an affair is incomparable to a woefully incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan may be true, but is not the conclusion I strive for when suggesting people don’t care enough about this civil rape trial.”

Texas pastor and businessman Ryan Binkley announced that he is seeking the Republican nomination for president in 2024, The Dallas Morning News reported.

Mr Binkley, who holds no elected office and has little political experience, is the latest candidate to throw their hat in the ring for the GOP nomination.

Among others in the running is the former president, former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson, former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy.

In addition, Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina announced an exploratory committee for a 2024 bid earlier this month.