Trump news today latest: Ex-president says Musk won’t buy Twitter at ‘ridiculous price’ as Pence backs Gov Kemp & More Trending News

White House press secretary Jen Psaki is at present giving her remaining briefing earlier than stepping down from the function. It is her 224th briefing.

Here’s our compilation of clips of her key moments behind the lectern within the briefing room.

As hardcore right-winger Kathy Barnette surges within the Pennsylvania Senate main, supporters of Donald Trump and his chosen candidate, Dr Mehmet Oz, are beginning to activate her. Among essentially the most visibly incensed is Fox News host Sean Hannity, who has blasted out a remarkably bilious thread attacking Ms Barnette head-on:

Donald Trump says Elon Musk is not going to buy Twitter at “such a ridiculous price” after the billionaire introduced he had paused his $44bn buy of the platform.

The Tesla boss says he’s “still committed” to purchasing Twitter however that the deal is on maintain till he had gathered extra details about the spam and faux accounts on the platform.

Mr Musk has vowed to let Mr Trump again onto the platform as soon as he has taken management of it, however the one-term president solid doubt on that ever occurring in a put up on his personal Truth Social platform.

A bespoke social media platform (albeit a beleagured one) is all very nicely, however Donald Trump now appears to be pursuing one other enterprise to offer a “refuge” for the president’s followers: a right-wing different to Netflix.

The Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) is recruiting workers for the brand new enterprise. In an advert posted on Wednesday, the group introduced that the streaming service, named TMTG+, can be “a ‘Big Tent’ platform offering broad-based entertainment rooted in free speech”.

It added that “in addition to the Social Media platform Truth Social, our SVOD [Subscription Video on Demand] platform TMTG+ will be the home for a wide variety of non-scripted, scripted, and original content”.

Sravasti Dasgupta has extra.

Former President Donald Trump has taken to his personal social media website, Truth Social, to share some ideas on Elon Musk’s intention to buy Twitter.

He wrote (truthed?): “There is no way Elon Musk is going to buy Twitter at such a ridiculous price, especially since realizing it is a company largely based on BOTS or Spam Accounts. Fake anyone?”

The former president continued: “By the time you get rid of them, if that can even be done, what do you have? Not much? If it weren’t for the ridiculous Billion Dollar breakup fee, Elon would have already been long gone. Just my opinion, but Truth Social is MUCH better than Twitter and is absolutely exploding, incredible engagement!”

Mr Musk had beforehand mentioned he would enable Mr Trump again on Twitter, from which he has been banned since 6 January 2021. Earlier today Mr Musk mentioned his buy of the micro-blogging social media website was “on hold” whereas a assessment was carried out into what number of bots and spam accounts existed on the platform.

Having been subpoenaed by the 6 January choose committee, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy seems to be conserving a lower-than-usual profile as he goes about his day on Capitol Hill:

Elon Musk despatched Twitter shares right into a dive with an in a single day tweet saying he was placing a pause on his plans to buy out the corporate whereas he evaluated its estimates of what number of accounts are pretend or spam.

Since then, nevertheless, he has sought to calm issues down:

Mr Musk has reiterated that he wish to see Donald Trump’s Twitter account restored, although the previous president has mentioned (for now) that he intends to stay on his personal platform, the problem-stricken Truth Social.

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham was not flattered by the current launch of audio recordings from after the 6 January riot on which he mentioned Donald Trump bore accountability for the occasions of the day and mentioned Joe Biden could be “maybe the best person to have” within the White House.

Now, Mr Graham has gone again on his feedback, telling Fox News host Jesse Watters that he was “wrong” about Mr Biden.

“I’ve known Joe for 30 years. He’s a nice guy, but he’s been a disaster as president,” he mentioned. “Nobody fears Joe Biden abroad, and at home his policies are failing.”

Eric Garcia has the story.

Donald Trump’s endorsee within the Georgia governor’s race, David Perdue, has failed dismally to meet up with the Republican incumbent, Brian Kemp. And with the vote set for twenty-four May, Mr Kemp has attracted a high-profile supporter of his personal: Mike Pence.

While Mr Pence has not explicitly condemned Mr Trump for his actions after the 2020 election, Mr Trump has primarily dominated out together with him on a future presidential ticket. For his half, Mr Pence has continued a schedule of talking engagements and campaign-style appearances across the nation, elevating some hypothesis that he may make a tilt at the presidency if Mr Trump doesn’t or can not run.

It has emerged that in the course of the Trump administration, the Department of Justice issued a subpoena for the telephone information of an investigative reporter wanting into its household separations coverage at the US border.

The journalist in query was The Guardian’s Stephanie Kirchgaessner – and the paper itself was apparently not made conscious of the subpoena at the time it was issued.

Gino Spocchia has the news.