Trump talks assassination, Epstein and US ‘open conflict’ with Tucker Carlson in interview – stay updates

The New York Times has come beneath fireplace for publishing an opinion piece primarily based on a dialog with conservative commentator Ann Coulter, simply over 20 years after she shared her want that the paper’s workplaces be blown up.

Gustaf Kilander has the story.

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has launched a preview of tonight’s interview with former president Donald Trump which airs in competitors to tonight’s Republican Party debate.

The feedback got here after Mr Trump made it clear in a publish on Truth Social that he plans to take a seat out the primary debate within the GOP presidential main race, citing his place as entrance runner and arguing that collaborating would solely present his opponents the prospect to promote themselves by attacking him.

The eight contenders who’re scheduled to attend the Milwaukee debate hosted by Fox News will possible face stress to articulate how they’d differ in type and substance from Trump, who holds a commanding early lead within the race. That may very well be a fragile process, forcing candidates to determine how intently to align themselves with the previous president’s most outlandish positions, together with his lies about widespread fraud through the 2020 election.

The subsequent guide from “Fire and Fury” creator Michael Wolff is each a recounting of the current previous and a prediction for the close to future.

Wolff’s “The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty” will come out Sept. 26, writer Henry Holt introduced Tuesday. A spokesperson advised The Associated Press that Wolff, whose earlier books embody “Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Owns the News,” interviewed “people throughout the Murdoch organization, including many with direct knowledge of Murdoch and his family.”

Wolff will provide behinds-the-scenes accounts of every part from Tucker Carlson’s ousting, to Rupert Murdoch’s clashes with former President Donald Trump to tensions inside the Murdoch household that mirror HBO’s “Succession.” Fox’s decline is inevitable, Wolff contends.

“I have been telling the story of the great power of Rupert Murdoch and Fox News for many years,” he mentioned in an announcement. “This power is now reaching a natural end and ‘The Fall’ brings the story to its closing act.”

Wolff is greatest recognized for “Fire and Fury,” his tell-all concerning the Trump administration that bought thousands and thousands of copies regardless of allegations from some talked about within the guide that he had misquoted or misrepresented them.

A federal courtroom decide has denied former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’s bid to stave off arrest or instantly take away his legal case in Fulton County to federal courtroom.

The same determination was made earlier within the case of Trump administration lawyer Jeff Clark.

They will each be arrested by the top of the week.

Former Vice President Mike Pence has change into way more emboldened in his criticism of his former boss, Donald Trump, in current months, however has refused to stoop to Mr Trump’s on-line admonishments and name-calling ways.

Mr Pence is attempting to pave a pathway again to the White House – with out his identify on a poll subsequent to Mr Trump. But it’s no secret that the previous vp isn’t polling notably nicely, with simply over 5 per cent within the polls, placing him in fourth place in a crowded GOP area.

The man who was as soon as described as “cartoonishly loyal as Trump’s vice president” (and who as soon as praised Trump each 12 seconds for 3 minutes straight throughout a 2017 Cabinet assembly) is now taking harsher stances and thoroughly distancing himself, at occasions, from the previous president.

Mr Pence has a signature type, one which has been nicely curated from many years in the past after shedding a House race; in 1991, he vowed to keep away from detrimental marketing campaign assaults. This promise appeared to tell a whole lot of Mr Pence’s responses to vital occasions during which his former boss discovered himself in scorching water. Rather than pointing fingers, the previous Indiana governor tends to show the dialog to the American public and tread diplomatically.

Alyssa Farah Griffin, the previous Trump and Pence White House staffer who has since cast a broadcast profession on The View and as a commentator for CNN, has reshared her predictions for tonight’s debate. She made the unique publish on Sunday.

-Nikki Haley wins the night time
-DeSantis takes essentially the most blows
-Vivek chips away at RDS’ populist help
-Tim Scott sees a lift
-Christie has essentially the most viral moments & makes progress on margins w/Trump skeptical R’s
-Pence will get most applause on life/ social points

“Doug feels very strongly that his voice is necessary on the stage this evening, and has said he will fight through the pain and challenge standing in order to make that happen,” NBC studies his marketing campaign as saying.