Trump news today: Giuliani and Lindell attend Trump’s new year party even as his own children skip it

Profile of the rising Republican i The New York Times House Republican Elise Stefanik, who is in third place, has reportedly earned a reputation for her dedication to “advancing the party’s message” and her “relentless” outreach to garner support as she goes on face in the lower chamber of Congress.

But sources close to the former president said The Rising that any stories she cast as “potential current confederates [to Trump] Her own staff regards them as clumsy plants, and she encourages amusement and ridicule.”

“She liked Trump, they said, and he liked watching her defend him. But even he didn’t trust her,” according to the report.

The Rising describes the rapid evolution of Ms. Stefanik, a staunch supporter of the former president, from a moderate to a prominent figure on the GOP’s far right with a self-described “ultra-MAGA” agenda, taking on a story Mr. Trump’s election. fraud and acceptance of conspiracy theories that appeal to a reactionary base.

Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, who has not yet decided whether to enter the 2024 presidential race, says Trump is disqualified from office after the events of January 6, 2021.

He told ABC’s This week on January 1 that the Republican Party and the Republican National Committee should “move beyond” Trump in 2024.

“I don’t believe that Donald Trump should be the next president of the United States,” he said. “I think January 6th really disqualifies him for the future. And so we move beyond that.”

He said it would be a “mistake” for the RNC to force candidates to unite behind a single candidate, if Trump ultimately wins the nomination.

“Let’s not put barriers on one united party,” he said.

Donald Trump donated nothing to the Department of Health and Human Services during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, despite publicly claiming he did, his tax returns revealed on Friday.

The picture painted by the recently released documents is clear: He claimed zero charitable donations during 2020, which means that his tax burden was not reduced at all (at least in that respect). He would still continue to pay $0 in income tax for the entire year.

If his returns are accurate, they would contradict a statement made by her chief press secretary in the White House, Kayleigh McEnany, in March 2020.

Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republicans on a House select committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol, blamed GOP leader Kevin McCarthy for giving Donald Trump political life after the uprising, as he opened the doors for “crazy elements” in the story early on. The House of Representatives is under Republican control.

“The reason is that Donald Trump is still a factor,” Mr. Kinzinger told CNN on January 1. “It’s because some of the crazy aspects of the House are still there.”

The release of Trump’s tax records shows that the former president had foreign bank accounts in China, the UK, Ireland and St Maarten during his presidency, and in his first year in the White House he paid more foreign tax than the US .

The sheer complexity of the former property mogul’s business empire means it will take time to scrutinize nearly 6,000 pages of figures but what is immediately clear is that he actively pursued legal but creative accounting strategies to ensure his tax contributions federal kept the same. as low as possible.

While Mr. Trump paid $641,931 in federal income tax in 2015, he paid just $750 in 2016 and 2017 and nothing in 2020.

He paid almost $1m in 2018 and $133,445 in 2019 but, in proportion to his earnings, these are small amounts.

The IndependentJoe Sommerlad explains how he did it.

George Santos is set to take office this week as the newly elected Republican congressman from New York, assuming a new GOP majority in the House of Representatives.

But he will be entering office facing a wave of allegations that he has bulked up his resume and filled his profile with false claims about his life and career. In recent weeks questions have surfaced about his employment history, his personal finances, allegations of fraud and whether he lied about his own mother’s death.

One of those allegations includes a 2008 claim that Mr. Santos, then 19, stole a checkbook and was accused of making fraudulent purchases in Brazil.

The IndependentEric Garcia breaks down some of the highlights from hundreds of pages of long-awaited tax documents related to the former president.

We learned that Trump made no charitable contributions in his final year as president, despite his promise, that he had foreign bank accounts while in office, and claimed taxable income or losses in China, Israel, Canada and in other foreign countries.

A statue of the late fellow and civil rights leader John Lewis will replace the space where the Georgia congressional monument once stood.

A 16-foot tall statue will be erected in the congressional district in Decatur that Lewis represented for 17 terms. Previously in that location, a Consolidated Obelisk stood there for more than 100 years until it was removed in 2020.

In 2010, Trump’s eldest son started Titan Atlas Manufacturing, which provided cast panels for prefabricated homes. But the company fell heavily into debt by 2017. As a result the former president set up a company called DB Pace to take over.

The release of his tax returns shows the president suffered a $1m loss bailing out his son’s mining venture.