Trump news: President rebuked by judge for 'totally inappropriate' tweets as Roger Stone met with ‘Lock Him Up’ chants following sentencing
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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump was called out for his “totally inappropriate” tweets by the judge presiding over Roger Stone’s trial as she handed down a 40-month sentence for the president’s longtime friend, saying his crimes should cause universal “dismay and disgust”.
The comments came just before he took to the stage in Colorado Springs for a "Keep America Great Again" rally, as a part of a string of events he is doing this week across the country.
Colorado stands out as an important battleground state this year, with the Republican Senate majority potentially on the line as GOP senator Cory Gardner faces stiff competition in his reelection campaign.
The president has meanwhile been live-tweeting attacks towards his Democratic 2020 rivals after the latest debates, as well as deriding them on the campaign trail in at an Arizona rally where he also called the FBI “dishonest scum” and complained that Conan, the US military’s war hero dog, “got more publicity” than him over the killing of Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Mr Trump’s rally coincided with the latest primary debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, where Michael Bloomberg was attacked from all sides, with Elizabeth Warren characterising him as a “a billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse-faced lesbians”.
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Here's The Independent's John Bennett with more on Roger Stone's 40-month sentence:
Judge Jackson said there should be universal condemnation over Roger Stone's crimes, telling the court: "The dismay and disgust at the defendant’s belligerence should transcend party."
The press is now waiting outside the courthouse for Roger Stone to appear after his sentence of 40-months was handed down by the judge presiding over his case.
Demonstrators have also showed up outside of the courthouse, as one man shouts in defence of Roger Stone and says "Roger Stone will be pardoned". Others outside of the courthouse are chanting in response: "Lie! Lie!"
Donald Trump attacked Mike Bloomberg on Twitter once again, saying he hopes the billionaire presidential hopeful wins the Democratic nomination after his debate performance on Wednesday night:
Mike Bloomberg’s campaign acknowledged the presidential hopeful's shortcomings during his debate performance in Las Vegas on Wednesday night, saying the candidate was “just warming up” while adding: "Mike's got to get his legs under him."
Kevin Sheekey, Mr Bloomberg’s campaign manager, said in a statement after the former New York mayor was eviscerated by his opponents on Wednesday night: “You know you are a winner when you are drawing attacks from all the candidates.”
“Everyone came to destroy Mike tonight,” he added. “It didn’t happen.”
In his statement defending Mr Bloomberg’s debate performance, Mr Sheekey said the former mayor “was just warming up tonight”. However, he later conceded in an interview with MSNBC that Mr Bloomberg could have defended himself better from the various attacks on his record.
“Certainly he had a better second half of the debate than the first, I will admit that," the campaign manager said, adding at one point: “Mike's got to get his legs under him.”
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Donald Trump is using Mike Bloomberg's own words against him in the president's latest attack against one of his Democratic presidential opponents:
Donald Trump praised a former hockey star and disgraced NBC contributor who was fired from his role after appearing on a podcast and discussing having a threesome with his co-worker.
At a rally in Phoenix, Arizona, the president called Jeremy Roenick a "friend" who will "beat you physically" in golf. Mr Roenick was attending the rally.
"He doesn't care", he said. "He was the toughest hockey player. He was one of those guys who could beat you one way, and if he couldn't, he'd just beat them up."
Here's my story on those bizarre comments Mike Bloomberg made about his daughter in 1999:
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