The embarrassed former director of Donald Trump’s election campaign, Paul Manafort, is being sued by the Department of Justice for $ 3 million owed due to sanctions, after he did not deposit foreign financial interests for many years. Mr. Manafort was sentenced to prison in 2019 after being found guilty of various offenses, such as bank fraud, money laundering and illegal lobbying. The allegations stem from Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s interactions with Russian agents and interests. Meanwhile, Mr. Trump finally posted on the Truth Social app after months of silence. “I’m BACK! #COVFEFE,” he wrote, next to a photo of the former president on the phone at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida. Despite the hopes of various right-wing Republicans, Trump insisted he would not return to Twitter even if Elon Musk re-established his account. In fact, he has said he does not see social platforms as competitors.

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Federal authorities seek nearly $ 3 million from Manafort for unknown accounts

The Justice Department is suing former President Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort, seeking to recover nearly $ 3 million from undeclared foreign bank accounts. Read the full story here: Andrew Naughtie29 April 2022 11:20 1651226412

Tennessee Republicans Support Burning of Books Banned from Schools

Tennessee is one of the leading states in the escalating conservative effort to clear school libraries and curricula of “inappropriate” content, a definition that can include everything from nudity to racial, sexual, and gender equality talk. And a recent moment in the state legislature has highlighted what is happening in some areas. According to Alex Woodward, state spokesman Jerry Sexton introduced an amendment to the bill that, if added to the bill, would require the Commission to review the contents of every public school library in the state and give it the power to reject them outright. Asked by a Democrat what would happen to these books, Sexton said: “I have no idea, but I would burn them.” Among the books in question is Maus, the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, which was notoriously banned by a Tennessee rural school committee, some of whose members admitted never to have read it. The ban made headlines internationally and made the book hit the bestseller lists. Andrew Naughtie29 April 2022 11:00 1651224732

Bill Barr tells Newsmax that Trump should not be a candidate for 2024

While serving Donald Trump extremely faithfully during his tenure as attorney general, constantly raising concerns that the Justice Department’s independence was in serious jeopardy, Bill Barr has since turned against his former boss – and now, speaking to former Trump on Newsmax, has expressed the view that the former president should not be a Republican candidate in 2024. Andrew Naughtie29 April 2022 10:32 1651223114

Member of the Jan. 6 committee on McCarthy’s communications with Trump

Speaking to MSNBC last night, Jan. 6 MP Zoe Lofgren discussed the implications of recently released recordings of Kevin McCarthy discussing Donald Trump’s role in the Capitol Uprising. Ms Lofgren confirmed that the committee would send another letter asking Mr McCarthy for his testimony, which he has so far refused to give – and noted that the private conversations that took place were “not so different” from what he said. publicly immediately after the GOP leader. the revolution. Andrew Naughtie29 April 2022 10:05 1651221039

ICYMI: Missing whistleblower who provided information to the FBI about Trump’s dealings with Deutsche Bank has been found dead in a high school in Los Angeles

Val Broeksmit, 46, was found dead on Woodrow Wilson High School campus at 4500 Multnomah Street on Monday. Read the full story here: Andrew Naughtie29 April 2022 09:30 1651219239

ICYMI: Elon Musk proposes new name for Trump’s Truth Social app

Elon Musk proposed a new name for Donald Trump’s Truth Social app, accusing Twitter, which had just agreed to buy it for $ 44 billion, of censorship. The Tesla boss, whose acquisition of the San Francisco-based platform was announced earlier this week, took to Twitter to compare it to the former president’s own social networking company. “Truth Social (terrible name) exists because Twitter censors freedom of speech,” Musk wrote on Twitter. “It should be called a trumpet!” Read the full story of Graeme Massie here: Maroosha Muzaffar29 April 2022 09:00 1651215630

Trevor Noah reiterates Donald Trump’s claim that “dangerous fruit” could have killed him

Trevor Noah on Thursday night described Donald Trump’s claim that “dangerous fruit” could have killed him, “one of the craziest defenses I’ve ever heard.” The former president made the comments – fearing that protesters might throw fruit at him and possibly kill him with products – in October, court documents released on Tuesday revealed. “No comedy writer is going to find anything funnier than that,” Noah mocked. Maroosha Muzaffar29 April 2022 08:00 1651212939

Trump accuses once close ally Kellyanne Conway of “destroying” her husband George

Conway is a conservative activist and a founding member of The Lincoln Project, and has been one of the strongest Republican critics of the incumbent president, despite his wife’s work in the Trump administration. Mr. Trump made the statement through spokeswoman Liz Harrington in response to a tweet with a photo of Mr. Conway from an appearance on CNN, asking if the lawyer was “OK?” Read the full story here: Maroosha Muzaffar29 April 2022 07:15 1651209732

Trump told the authors of the new book that he would still be in the White House if it were not for Mitch McConnell

In an excerpt from Punchbowl News’ new book This Will Not Pass, Mr. Trump told authors Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns that “if Mitch had stuck with a lot of party members who knew the election was rigged, I think we would not be in Mar-a-Lago “. Read the full story here: Maroosha Muzaffar29 April 2022 06:22 1651206228

Trump finally posts on Truth Social platform – revives one of his most famous phrases

Donald Trump finally posted on the Truth Social app, Twitter’s fighting rival that started earlier this year. “I’m BACK! #COVFEFE,” read the post, which included a photo of Mr. Trump on the phone at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida. Read the full story here: Maroosha Muzaffar29 April 2022 05:23