Trump latest: Former president’s lawyers in contact with DOJ probe Jan. 6 as Dick Cheney calls him ‘coward’

The former law professor who engineered former President Donald Trump’s failed plan to prevent Congress from certifying his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden has continued to back Trump-loyal Republicans to continue investigations into alleged election fraud after the of Trump’s tenure.

According to New York Times, Former Chapman University law professor John Eastman sent an email to Trump lawyer Rudolph Giuliani on January 20, 2021 — the day Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States — arguing that Republicans are contesting the results of the recent special election in Georgia. Peach State voters had elected two Democratic senators.

Andrew Feinberg has the story from Washington, DC.

Donald Trump ally and former news anchor Cary Lake won Arizona’s Republican gubernatorial primary yesterday, propelling Republicans into the general election sprint.

“Arizona people who have been forgotten by the establishment have just caused a political earthquake,” the former journalist, who left her journalism career and was warmly welcomed by Trump and his supporters, said in a statement after the race was announced.

The Republican nominee’s victory works against the GOP establishment that chose attorney and businesswoman Karrin Taylor Robson in an effort to ride out the tumultuous Trump era.

Ms Lake had said she would not have endorsed Joe Biden winning the 2020 presidential election and supported false allegations of voter fraud during her campaign.

She is poised to face Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs in the November election, who said “the race for governor is not about Democrats or Republicans, but a choice between sanity and chaos.”

A federal grand jury investigating efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election has subpoenaed then-President Donald Trump’s White House counsel and his top aide, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The calls to Pat Cipollone and Patrick Philbin suggest an intensification of the Justice Department’s investigation into the events surrounding the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, when Trump supporters stormed the building in hopes of stopping election certification results. They also suggest prosecutors consider close Trump advisers as potentially vital witnesses.

Republican Rep. Peter Major said he had no regrets about his vote to impeach former President Donald Trump days after he was defeated for re-election in his Michigan congressional primary.

“I’d rather lose office with my character intact than be re-elected having made soul sacrifices,” Mr. Meijer said on the Sirius XM program. Julie Mason Mornings.

Tim Michels is on the attack in the days leading up to Wisconsin’s GOP gubernatorial primary, with an ad this week accusing his opponent of not initially endorsing Donald Trump in 2016 — even though it emerged Thursday that he michels did not vote in this primary.

Michels launched the attack ad against Rebecca Kleefisch just days after she said running negative ads is “just bad politics” and that politicians who do it are “losing.”

The ad accuses Kleefisch of not endorsing Trump in the 2016 primaries and calls her “Madison’s ultimate secret.” Kleefisch, who is endorsed by former Vice President Mike Pence, is a former two-term lieutenant governor. Michels co-owns the state’s largest construction company, Michels Corp.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has suspended a two-time attorney general for his refusal to prosecute abortion providers, doctors and families who provide gender-affirming care to transgender youth and trans people who use gender-conforming bathrooms.

At a news conference surrounded by law enforcement on Aug. 4, the governor also accused 13th Judicial Circuit District Attorney Andrew Warren of failing to prosecute people accused of crimes to the fullest extent of his authority, echoing what the governor called “incompetence and deliberate disregard of his duties”.

The Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate is under fire after a 2017 video resurfaced of him saying the Holocaust “doesn’t even compare” to the abortion issue.

In the video posted on Facebook, current Illinois State Senator Darren Bailey said that “the attempted extermination of the Jews of World War II does not even compare to a shadow of a life lost through abortion.”

Democrats call it the “Cut Inflation Act.” Republicans say it’s a “tax and spend spree.” And they all have a study they say proves it.

Recent bipartisan action in Congress on issues ranging from computer chip production to NATO expansion does not extend to the latest economic package from Democrats, which is creating a dueling battle of statistics and projections over whether it would help or hurt the economy .

Former Vice President Dick Cheney has blasted Donald Trump in a new campaign video for his daughter, Liz Cheney, calling the former president a “coward” and saying there has never been a “greater threat to our democracy.”

The video was released Thursday by Rep. Cheney’s re-election campaign, two weeks before the Republican primary in Wyoming, which the three-term congresswoman is poised to lose.

Without irony, Sean Hannity asks the crowd at CPAC in Dallas if they ever thought the US would have an “lawless president” like it does now.

The Republican Accountability Project was quick to respond…