Trump News Today: Criminal investigation Jan. 6 reportedly subpoenas former White House deputy counsel

Georgia Republican Herschel Walker has accepted an invitation in his U.S. Senate race to debate incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock, but it is not one of three invitations Warnock had previously accepted, leaving it unclear whether the two will clash indeed in person before the general election in November.

Walker’s campaign said Wednesday that the candidate had accepted an invitation from Nexstar Media Group and other television stations to debate Warnock in Savannah on Oct. 13.

The Jan. 6 panel is preparing to subpoena Alex Jones’ texts and emails that were accidentally sent to an attorney for Sandy Hook victims, according to a report.

Attorney Mark Bankston revealed he accidentally obtained a number of thousands of Jones’ private communications during the Infowars founder’s defamation trial on Wednesday.

Within minutes of the stunning revelation, the House committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol began preparing to subpoena the messages, a source said Rolling rock.

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Peter Navarro, alleging that the former adviser to Donald Trump used an unofficial email account while working at the White House and illegally maintained presidential records.

The lawsuit in Washington federal court alleges Navarro used at least one “unofficial” email account — a ProtonMail account — to send and receive emails. The legal action comes just weeks after Navarro was indicted on criminal charges after refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

The civil case alleges that by using the unofficial email account, Navarro failed to turn over presidential records to the National Archives Administration.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmidt won the Republican Senate primary on Tuesday after former President Donald Trump simply endorsed “Eric,” which is also the first name of one of his opponents.

Mr. Schmitt hit out at disgraced former governor Eric Greitens, as well as conservative activist Mark McCloskey and representatives Vicky Hartzler and Billy Long.

Trump declined to endorse a particular candidate in the race and announced his endorsement of “Eric” on Monday, after which both candidates celebrated his endorsement.

Another Eric, The independentby Eric Garcia, reports.

The US Justice Department has charged five people with threats of violence against election workers amid a growing wave of harassment and intimidation linked to the 2020 presidential election, a top official told US senators on Wednesday.

Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite said one charge has led to a conviction so far through a task force launched last year as reports of threats to election officials, workers and volunteers raise concerns about the safety and security of future elections.

In total, the department has investigated more than 1,000 harassing and threatening messages directed at election officials. About 100 of them have reached the level of possible prosecution. Polite estimates at least three more people have been charged with such threats at the state level.

Joe Arpaio, the 90-year-old former sheriff of metro Phoenix who was ousted in 2016 by voters disenchanted with his tactics and legal troubles, has narrowed his opponent’s lead in the race for mayor of the affluent suburb where he lived. more than two decades.

But the former Republican Maricopa County sheriff was still following through Wednesday in his bid to unseat Ginny Dickey, a Democrat serving her second term as mayor of Fountain Hills on the edge of the Phoenix metropolitan area.

Two far-right candidates running for office in Michigan are taking pages out of Donald Trump’s playbook and crying fraud after losing their respective primaries Tuesday.

Their actions could be a sign of a new normal for Republicans: A flat-out refusal to admit defeat, even in races with other Republicans.

President Joe Biden issued an executive order directing his health secretary to consider measures to support patients who travel out of state for abortion care.

The president’s directive — the second to boost federal support for reproductive health care since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to abortion — comes as anti-abortion state lawmakers are drafting tight restrictions on post-decisional care.

His latest order on Aug. 3 directs U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to consider allowing states with legal access to abortion to use Medicaid waivers to support low-income out-of-state patients who have to travel for their care.

The US Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to approve Finland and Sweden becoming the 31st and 32nd members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, just under three months after President Joe Biden proposed allowing both nations to join the 73-year-old defense alliance.

Andrew Feinberg has the details from Washington, DC.

The chairwoman of the powerful House Oversight Committee, Representative Carolyn Maloney, said Tuesday that she does not believe President Joe Biden will campaign for a second term in 2024.

Speaking during a primary debate about the candidates vying for the Democratic Party nomination in New York’s 12th congressional district, Ms. Maloney and other candidates were asked whether Mr. Biden should run for re-election.

She replied, “I don’t believe he’s running for re-election.”