Trump slammed for term ‘riggers’ as he prepares for Fulton County Jail – live

Donald Trump began his day by again blaming his legal woes on President Joe Biden and claiming that none of the trials should be allowed prior to the 2024 election.

Remember, all of these Indictments, Federal, State, and Local, were conceived and generated by Crooked Joe Biden and his staff of Radical Left Lunatics and Thugs for purposes of interfering with the 2020 Presidential Election. None of these trials should be allowed to begin prior to the Election. Republicans must get tougher and smarter, FAST!

He then had another round of media criticism directed at Fox News for showing “the absolutely worst pictures of me, especially the big “orange” one with my chin pulled way back”.

Why doesn’t Fox and Friends show all of the Polls where I am beating Biden, by a lot. They just won’t do it! Also, they purposely show the absolutely worst pictures of me, especially the big “orange” one with my chin pulled way back. They think they are getting away with something, they’re not. Just like 2016 all over again…And then they want me to debate!

It’s almost upon us and there is no word yet as to whether former president Donald Trump will make an appearance but it is nevertheless going to be must see political theatre.

Here’s what you need to know about the upcoming Republican Party primary debate:

In an appearance on CNN This Morning, senior legal analyst Elie Honig explained how Donald Trump’s trial schedule is currently stacking up for 2024 and which legal proceedings might get prioritised ahead of November’s presidential election.

Andrew Feinberg writes that Trumpworld is hanging by a thread as the co-accused in Georgia are pressured to flip on the former president who has long been able to rely on their loyalty.

A filing in the Superior Court of Fulton County for the state of Georgia shows Ms Willis’s office will have the arraignment for Mr Trump and his 18 co-defendants on 5 September 2023.

Eric Garcia has the full story.

The state’s current Republican Lt Governor Burt Jones, who was a sitting state senator at the time of the alleged crimes, was one of 16 “alternate” electors who falsely swore that Mr Trump won the state in the 2020 presidential election. He also pushed for a special legislative session to overturn Joe Biden’s victory.

But he was not among the 19 defendants in the grand jury case from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who was barred by a judge from indicting him.

In an interview published this week with the Atlanta Journal- Constitution, the congresswoman explained why she attacked Gov Brian Kemp on Twitter after he stated, correctly, that Mr Trump had legitimately lost the 2020 election.

“His message should have been against this, not arguing with President Trump about the election and making it about his own ego and pride over Georgia’s election. That’s a bad statement, and I was very upset over it,” she told the newspaper.

Then, she went on to speculate about her own possible future in politics…

Donald Trump conveniently left out several crucial paragraphs when he quoted from Mike Pence’s book in the latest defence of his attempts to subvert 2020 election results.

Alex Woodward reports on what he left out.

A former aide to Donald Trump has condemned his use of the word “riggers”, saying that it is “not a racial dogwhistle” – it’s actually a racist “bullhorn”.

After he was indicted on charges over his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the state of Georgia this week, the former president launched into an angry rant on his Truth Social platform.

In it, he claimed that he would announce a “large, complex, detailed but irrefutable REPORT” proving his election fraud claims in Georgia in a press conference slated for Monday 21 August.

But, in the tirade, he also spewed what appeared to be a racist dog whistle.

Comedian Jay Black writes:

The names on this indictment read like the credits of an under-viewed Battle of the Network Stars, except instead of Klinger from MASH and one of Suzanne Somers’s replacements from Three’s Company, we have the likes of traffic court lawyer Jenna Ellis and leopard-printed, Dr Pepper-enthusiast Sidney Powell. Imagine The Avengers with zero superpowers and a carbon-monoxide leak on the set.