Trump rails against federal charges as Pence says he cannot defend allegations – live

He now finds himself in the firing line of Mr Trump’s insult-laden posts and speeches.

Andrew Feinberg profiles the Department of Justice veteran.

Supreme court lawyer Neal Katyal told MSNBC’s Morning Joe today: “In court, you can’t send someone to the witness stand screaming about Hillary’s email, or Biden’s garage. Those aren’t legal arguments. And you can’t start making up mind-declassification powers that don’t exist. Those defences may work for Trump’s base, but not in public opinion.”

Former president Donald Trump’s bond document has been filed and made public. Six of the seven pages have been made public.

It shows that Mr Trump is released on his own personal recognisance but is required to appear at future court dates and must not violate any local, state, or federal law in the meantime.

As reported yesterday, there are no travel restrictions or special conditions other than he is not allowed to discuss the facts of the case with a list of people provided by the government who may be called as other witnesses except through legal counsel.

Perhaps most notable is that the former president appears to have wielded his own Sharpie pen to sign the document, rather than using any other pen that might have been provided or available at the courthouse.

His trademark signature is visible on the final page.

Retired Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz said that the indictment against former president Donald Trump that led to his arraignment on Wednesday is the most serious case against him, comparing it to “a gun with Trump’s fingerprints on it.”

Mr Dershowitz made the comments on Charlie Kirk’s show on Tuesday. Mr Dershowitz served as Mr Trump’s attorney during the former president’s first impeachment trial and also defended other celebrity clients such as OJ Simpson and Mike Tyson.

He also said he would not represent the former president on this case.

The ex-president delivered a roughly 30-minute address to a crowd of fans who descended upon the golf club to hear him swipe at political rivals and anyone else whose own actions he thought could be used to paint his own as harmless.

It was a rambling speech broken up by an impromptu singing of “Happy Birthday” from Mr Trump’s harmonically-challenged fans, whose rendition of the tune dissolved into a slurred mess by the conclusion.

But it was also revealing in that it previewed the roughshod defence that Mr Trump and his legal team apparently hope to make before a judge, as the former president aimed a shotgun-like spray of similar accusations at nearly every other prominent occupant of the White House of the past decade and a half.

So what can we learn from the former president’s remarks?

Former President Donald Trump has finally addressed the reason he allegedly failed to return boxes of classified documents to the federal government: he’d put his clothes in them.

Abe Asher has the details of what he said.

Hours after he was criminally charged in a federal courtroom in Miami, Donald Trump returned to his New Jersey club to deliver a barrage of false statements and declare his innocence in front of a throng of supporters.

The former president, who has routinely used his platforms to project allegations he faces toward his political enemies, lambasted the federal case against him as “the most evil and heinous abuse of power” under President Joe Biden, who Mr Trump falsely suggested was responsible for charging him.

The right-wing network – which agreed to pay $787m in April to Dominion Voting Systems to settle a lawsuit over its promotion of Mr Trump’s 2020 election lies – was the only major cable news network to carry the former president’s speech from his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey on Tuesday night.