Donald Trump news today: US now ‘investigation nightmare’ says Trump as he tells GOP to not give in on debt limit

Two former roommates of New York Republican Representative George Santos have claimed that he stole expensive items from them when they lived together in Queens in 2020.

“I don’t know if it’s much of a legal problem, per se. But I think it’s a huge political problem because you don’t know where the special counsel investigation is going,” Meet The Press host ChuckTodd said on NBC’s Today show this morning in reference to how big of a problem the classified documents are for President Joe Biden.

Todd went on to say that this makes Attorney General Merrick Garland the current most powerful person in Washington in deciding what the 2024 election looks like.

“I think what it — in the short-term — means that the most powerful person in deciding what our presidential race looks like in 2024 is Merrick Garland,” said Todd. “The decisions he’s going to be making going forward about whether or not to prosecute Trump, whether or not to let folks — how far to investigate, whether to prosecute Hunter Biden and things like that, are gonna have huge impacts on Joe Biden.”

He added that furore over the Biden documents has yet again reopened the question as to whether Democrats want Mr Biden to run for re-election.

Rep Adam Schiff was also asked on ABC’s This Week if the White House should have been more forthcoming with information about the found classified documents.

He replied: “I think the administration will need to answer that question. I’m going to reserve judgment until they do.”

Rep Jamie Raskin calls for a “sense of symmetry” and a “sense of proportion” when comparing the Donald Trump and Joe Biden classified documents cases.

Democrat Rep Adam Schiff, a longtime Trump adversary, told ABC’s This Week that there should be intelligence assessments of both the documents found at Donald Trump’s home and those found at Joe Biden’s home and one-time office.

“We have asked for an assessment in the intelligence community of the Mar-a-Lago documents,” Rep Schiff told Jonathan Karl.

“I think we ought to get that same assessment of the documents found in the think tank, as well as the home of President Biden.”

President Joe Biden is set to mark what would have been the 94th birthday of the late Martin Luther King Jr. with a sermon Sunday at Atlanta‘s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church that aims to celebrate the civil rights leader’s legacy while reviving the Biden administration’s call for sweeping voting rights legislation.

House oversight committee chair and Kentucky Rep James Comer spoke with CNN’s Jake Tapper this morning about the upcoming debt ceiling talks and House Republican threats to refuse to raise the limit on the national debt.

Tapper asked him why Republicans weren’t working with Senate Democrats to avoid the economic disaster of hitting the debt ceiling instead of planning how to manage it.

Mr Comer responded: “We hope that the Senate — Democrats and Republicans — will agree to spending cuts … the Senate is gonna have to recognize the fact that we’re not going to budge.”

“Any repeat by the 2024 Trump campaign of the disastrous mistakes in personnel, strategy and tactics of the 2020 Trump campaign may lead to the same 2020 result,” the former White House counsellor wrote in an opinion piece for The New York Times.

Gustaf Kilander reports from Washington, DC.

The appointment of a new special counsel to investigate Joe Biden is actually bad news for Donald Trump, Justice Department veterans tell Andrew Feinberg.

In a follow-up that continues the strange formatting of labelling Truth Social posts as “Page 1”, “Page 2” etc, the former president summed up his argument succinctly: “I DID NOTHING WRONG, AND JOE DID.”

He then complained: “Our Nation has become an “Investigation Nightmare,” despite the many other problems we have, which are many.”

Mr Trump continued: “It is NOW time for the USA to stop these RIDICULOUS INVESTIGATIONS, and that includes those D.C. inspired Local & State Which Hunts, and get back to the business of properly running our Country!”

Protestations of innocence don’t pair well with calls to stop the investigation into the thing you are accused of doing — or all the investigations into the things you are accused of doing — if you are innocent and all the evidence shows that (as he says), then there should be nothing to worry about.

And yes, he misspelled “witch”.