Trump News Today: Ex-president refers to nukes as ‘the n-word’ in Fox interview

US Deputy Health Secretary Rachel Levine – the first openly transgender four-star officer in the US – is a frequent target among right-wing transphobic and anti-LGBT+ figures. She was recently honored by USA Today as one of the publication’s Women of the Year.

Twitter has suspended the account of right-wing satire website Babylon Bee for posting “Babylon Bee’s Man of the Year is Rachel Levine”.

CEO Seth Dillon suggested he wouldn’t delete the post to gain access to the account.

“They could, of course, delete the tweet themselves. But they won’t. It is not enough for them to erase it. They want us to bend the knee and admit we engaged in hateful conduct,” he tweeted.

Last week, Twitter flagged a similar post from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton — whose state is seeking to prosecute gender-affirming health care for minors as “child abuse” — but the platform has left the message with a warning tag.

Trump’s Save America PAC raised $110 million in late February after raising millions that month but spending only $1.2 million, according to FEC filings.

His PAC war chest is larger than those of the Democratic and Republican National Committees combined.

So far, Trump appears to be keeping the money to himself, with no new donations or independent spending supporting Trump-endorsed candidates. according to Policy.

But the documents “reveal substantial payments to two law firms representing high profile witnesses” sought by the House Select Committee investigating the Capitol attack.

In an interview with Fox Business on Monday, Donald Trump – who was asked if he believed the climate crisis was happening – said in his ‘opinion’ that there was ‘a thing called the weather’. .

“The climate has always changed,” he says.

Meanwhile, Florida – home to the Trump Mar-a-Lago resort – is at the center of the country’s sea level rise.

Even with cautious projections of sea level rise, water could lap onto the manicured lawns of his home from the intracoastal waterway within the next 30 years, according to Climate’s Coastal Hazard Screening Tool. Central based on latest NOAA data.

In an interview with the right-wing cable network Newsmax, Rudy Giuliani claimed that Trump once threatened Putin with a campaign of church bombings.

In an interview with Fox Business, Trump said Vladimir Putin continued to use the ‘n-word’ – as in ‘nuclear’ – and claimed the Russian president was a ‘different’ man than the one he interacted with during his stay in the White Loger.

“I constantly listen to him use the n-word, it’s the n-word, and he constantly uses it, the nuclear word,” he said Monday.

New York Attorney General Letitia James, whose office is presiding over a broad civil investigation into the Trump family business, said she was undeterred by their latest attempt to delay or quash a subpoena request. to appear for their testimony.

“Despite continued efforts to prevent this investigation, no one can stop our quest for justice, however powerful it is,” she said in a statement. “We will continue to follow the facts without fear or favor.”

New Mexico County Commissioner Couy Griffin is expected to be removed from office and disqualified from future office under the 14th Amendment after participating in the events surrounding the Capitol attack. according to a trial deposited by a group of inhabitants.

Griffin — founder of Cowboys for Trump — is currently on trial on two misdemeanor charges (entering a restricted area of ​​the Capitol and disruptive or disorderly conduct) related to the assault. He is not accused of entering the building.

Noah Bookbinder, president of the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics watchdog group in Washington, said Griffin “used his public platform to spread the false narrative that the election was stolen from Donald Trump and to defend the attack. against our Capitol,” and that “his actions on January 6 were part of and contributed to an insurrection, and his tenure in government continues to be a threat to our democracy.

“It’s time Couy Griffin was removed from his position,” he said.

As Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson delivered her opening statement during her Senate confirmation hearings for the United States Supreme Court, her husband, Dr. Patrick Jackson, was understandably emotional behind her.

The IndependentJohn Bowden in Washington says more about the historic moment:

U.S. Representative from Alabama Mo Brooks, who is in a three-way primary for the Republican nomination to replace incumbent Senator Richard Shelby, has accused Mitch McConnell of being a ‘debt addict and weak knees’ in a new campaign ad.

His announcement comes just days after Trump said he could withdraw his endorsement of Brooks, who said the former president was in ‘a war for the heart and soul of the Republican Party’ against the Senate leader. of the GOP.

The IndependentBevan Hurley has more on the Senate hopeful’s attempts to bring Trump back in his favor and the GOP’s battle over insufficient deference to the ex-president.

Ketanji Brown Jackson closed the first day of her confirmation hearings by pledging to remain transparent and serve without “fear or favor” if confirmed as the 116th justice of the United States Supreme Court.

“If confirmed, I pledge to you that I will work productively to uphold and defend the Constitution and this great experiment in American democracy that has endured for these past 246 years,” she told the beginning of his speech.

“I assess the facts and interpret and apply the law to the facts of the case before me without fear or favor consistent with my judicial oath,” she said.

More follows from The Independentfrom Eric Garcia in Washington: