Trump holds rally in New Hampshire: Latest news

The frontrunner for the GOP nomination is holding a campaign rally in New Hampshire weeks before the first-in-the-nation Republican primary.

It’s his first visit to the state in more than a month.

He seeks to maintain a sizeable lead among his GOP rivals, including Nikki Haley, who recently received the endorsement of New Hampshire’s popular Republican governor Chris Sununu.

Mr Sununu told reporters Tuesday that he believed the race for the Republican nomination was “a race between two people: Nikki Haley and Donald Trump.”

“That’s it … with all due respect to the other candidates,” he said.

Shaye Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman delivered prepared remarks outside the federal courthouse in Washington DC on Friday after an eight-member jury determined that Rudy Giuliani owes them nearly $150m for his smears against them.

Here are their statements:

My name is Shaye Moss. I spent 10 years as an election worker in Fulton County, Georgia.

The lies Rudy Giuliani told about me and my mommy after the 2020 presidential election have changed our lives, and the past few years have been devastating.

The flame that Giuliani lit with those lies and passed to so many others to keep that flame blazing, changed every aspect of our lives: our homes, our family, our work, our sense of safety, our mental health — and we’re still working to rebuild.

As we move forward and continue to seek justice, our greatest wish is that no one – no election worker or voter or school board member or anyone else – ever experiences anything like what we went through. You all matter, and you are all important. We hope no one ever has to fight so hard just to get their name back.

We’re very grateful to the jury for taking the time out of your busy lives to do your civic duty – to listen to everything that we’ve been going through.

I know I won’t be able to retire from my job with the county like my grandmother did, but I hope by us taking these big steps – these very big steps – towards justice that I can make her just as proud.

Today is a good day. A jury stood witness to what Mr Giuliani did to me and my daughter and held him accountable. For that, I am thankful.

Today is not the end of the road. We still have work to do. Mr Giuliani was not the only one who spread lies about us, and others must be held accountable, too. But that is tomorrow’s work.

For now, I want people to understand this: money will never solve all of my problems. I can never move back to the house I called home. I will always have to be careful about where I go, and who I choose to share my name with.

I miss my home, I miss my neighbors, and I miss my name.

I’ve heard some of you. Don’t be sad for me. Don’t waste your time being angry at those who did this to me and my daughter. We are more than conquerors. Pray for us, as we continue to fight the good fight of faith.

I tell my attorneys often – my friends say that God knew who to give this assignment to because ain’t no way we could do this. God chose me to go through this because he knows that I would tell everyone whose path I cross about Jesus. I am strong and my faith shall not waver.

If you remember one thing I say today, remember this: faith is what carried me through the most difficult years of my life, and faith will carry you through hardship, too.

Know that faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things unseen.

Understand that the devil is a liar, he is defeated and no weapon formed against you shall prosper.

Trust that God will keep and protect you.

Believe that right makes might, because it does.

And give thanks that injustice always surrenders in the glorious kingdom of God, and that he will always lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. Peace that surpasses all understanding.

Within eight months, in just two cases, the financial fallout from 2020’s election lies has reached more than $935m.

That figure does not include potential settlements and verdicts in other lawsuits, nor does it include the costs surrounding the hundreds of cases surrounding January 6 and the attack on the US Capitol, nor the federal and state-level criminal cases against Trump and his allies for their alleged attempts to overturn 2020 election results, an effort fuelled by the ongoing false narrative that the outcome was stolen from and rigged against him.

Donald Trump has been known to pick rather random targets in his long-winded speeches – but the latest rant to go viral is, indeed, a fake.

On Friday, screenshots quoting Mr Trump on a tirade against Panera’s “Charged Lemonade” spread like wildfire across the internet following a post by comedian Keaton Patti.

The fast-casual restaurant chain is currently facing two lawsuits blaming its caffeinated Charged Lemonade for the deaths of two people.

Hours after he appeared in federal court on Friday to face a $148m verdict in a defamation case, Rudy Giuliani jokingly turnd to Newsmax host Greg Kelly for help.

“Got any money you can loan me, Greg?” he asked.

His remarks came after an attorney for the two election workers he defamed told MSNBC that they intend to collect “every nickel” that a jury found he owes them.

“We’ve already put the pieces in motion for that. We are intending to collect every nickel of it,” attorney Von Dubose said on Friday. “We’ll see how much we ultimately find and how much we ultimately recover. But we are putting the pieces together right now.”

Donald Trump and his associates allegedly repeatedly contacted a former Mar-a-Lago employee who knew of key conversations and moments in the federal classified documents case against the former president.

According to multiple human sources and other material accessed by CNN, Mr Trump took a rare step and reached out to the employee a few days after he quit working at the Florida estate to inquire why he was leaving.

Mr Trump’s associates later allegedly offered the former employee free tickets to a golf tournament.

The former employee, who later told the federal special counsel’s office investigating the documents case about the communications, even allegedly got an offer from Mr Trump’s lawyer for assistance in finding legal representation, with the lawyer mentioning in a voicemail that he was aware the former employee had been subpoenaed to provide information to a grand jury.

The Independent has contacted the Justice Department and a lawyer for the former president in the documents case for comment.

Without the privileges and prestige of the presidency to protect him, Mr Trump is facing serious lawsuits and criminal indictments across New York, Florida, Georgia and Washington.

Federal officials, local prosecutors and individuals are going after him for everything from his private conduct to his political maneuvering during the 2020 election.

If even one of these efforts proves successful, the US could see its first-ever former president behind bars.

A tweet from comedy writer Keaton Patti depicting, hilariously, Donald Trump talking about Panera’s Charged Lemonade during a campaign stop has gone viral across social media platforms. He obviously did not say any of this.

But that didn’t stop right-wing meme accounts and other gullible readers from sharing the post believing it was real.

For the record: It’s not. It’s a joke.

Ruby Freeman was forced to sell her home and live out of her car. Her church members were afraid to be around her. Her daughter Shaye Moss lost friends and relationships. She cries all the time. She’s rarely alone. When she’s not, she’s nauseous from fear that someone is watching and waiting to kill her. Most days she prays to God that she doesn’t wake up.

Racist and threatening abuse arrives in a barrage of social media messages and phone calls. People have threatened to hang them and fantasized about snapping their necks. A group of men barged into a family home to try to arrest them.

Life for two Black former election workers from Georgia turned completely upside down in the volatile aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, after Rudy Giuliani’s lies about the work they did handling ballots came out of Donald Trump’s mouth and poured gasoline on a fire of violent and racist conspiracy theories that are still fuelling his campaign.

Those women are not alone, and those threats haven’t gone away. Mr Giuliani is merely the highest profile figure yet facing accountability for them.

Donald Trump’s civil fraud lawsuit follows a three-year civil investigation into at least 23 of his properties and assets, with Ms James’s office finding at least 11 of Mr Trump’s annual financial statements included more than 200 false and misleading asset valuations.

So what more did we learn about Mr Trump’s real estate holdings during the trial? There were a lot of numbers as the attorney general’s counsel laid out its case, and a lot of hyperbole from the Trump family as the defence laid out its argument — including Donald Trump Jr taking the court through a timeline of the real estate business, praising his father for the “boundaries he pushed” and calling him an “artist with real estate” who has “incredible vision where other people don’t”.

Here’s a look at the key Trump properties that were discussed the most over the 11 weeks in court.