Trump tries to spin Libertarian Convention as success after being booed and jeered by crowd: Live

The Justice Department special counsel has asked Judge Aileen Cannon, overseeing the classified documents case against Trump, to bar him from public statements that “pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents” participating in the prosecution of the classified documents case.

The request to Judge Cannon follows a false claim by Trump last week that the FBI agents who searched his home in August 2022 were “authorized to shoot me” and were “locked and loaded ready to take me out and put my family in danger”.

Here’s Jon Sopel’s take on what promises to be a momentous week.

So what will the 12 jurors be looking at when they weigh their verdict and decide whether to make history by convicting a former US president on criminal charges?

Gustaf Kilander spoke to the legal experts to find out.

The Republican presidential candidate’s fate could be in the hand of the jury as soon as Wednesday this week.

Here’s how we can expect the week to play out, courtesy of IndyTV.

Ahead of closing statements at Manhattan Criminal Court tomorrow, the defendant continued to lash out at the judge and prosecutor on his social platform over the weekend.

The Republican attended the Coca-Cola 600 in Concord, North Carolina, on Sunday, flying past Charlotte Motor Speedway in “Trump Force One” beforehand and going on to meet Gold Star families as part of his latest grip-and-grin operation.

But even that was not entirely as it seems…

Here’s John Bowden’s report on Trump’s appearance in DC, which was rather less well received than the man himself would have you believe.

Donald Trump has been working overtime on Truth Social to insist his appearance at the Libertarian National Convention in Washington DC on Saturday night was a success, despite his being loudly booed and jeered by the audience.

The Republican presidential contender talked up “the enthusiasm of the crowd” as he insisted he could have won the party’s nomination for the White House if he had wanted it and derided rival independent candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr by saying he has “destroyed everything he’s touched” and adding: “Only a FOOL would vote for him!”

Trump was the first president, either current or former, to attend one of the third party conferences when he spoke in DC but was mocked and insulted when he appealed to Libertarians to support him.

“Maybe you don’t want to win, only do that if you want to win,” Trump retaliated. “If you want to lose, don’t do that. Keep getting three per cent every four years.”

Republican attorneys general in 19 states have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block several Democratic-led states from pursuing climate change lawsuits against the oil and gas industry in their own state courts.

The unusual request comes as dozens of states and local governments have filed lawsuits alleging that fossil fuel companies deceived the public about the risks of their products contributing to climate change. The lawsuits claim billions of dollars of damage from such things as severe storms, wildfires and rising sea levels.

The Republican action specifically seeks to stop lawsuits brought by California, Connecticut, Minnesota, New Jersey and Rhode Island, though lawsuits also have been filed by other states, tribes, counties and cities.

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The direction of the Republican National Committee is clear from the last name of its new second-in-command.

“My No. 1 goal is making sure that Donald Trump is the 47th president,” said Lara Trump, the RNC co-chair, in an s interview with Associated Press.

It’s one more step in solidifying Trump‘s hold over the Republican Party. The daughter-in-law of the former president has wasted no time in rebranding the typically staid committee in Trump‘s image, embracing her own version of his pugilistic politics and brash management style in ways that affirm his sway over the Republican establishment.

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