Trump suffers day of setbacks over Stormy, $464m bond and ex-aide going to jail: Live

Donald Trump is reportedly considering bringing back Paul Manafort, the former campaign manager he pardoned, as a campaign adviser later this year, The Washington Post reports.

A 2020 bipartisan Senate committee report into Russian interference in the 2016 election found that “Manafort’s presence on the campaign and proximity to Trump created opportunities for Russian intelligence services to exert influence over, and acquire confidential information on, the Trump Campaign”.

Here’s our 2022 report on Manafort’s ties to suspected Russian intelligence officer Konstantin Kilimnik:

A former county commissioner in New Mexico who was convicted on charges connected to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol won’t be allowed to return to office.

The nation’s high court on Monday rejected an appeal from Couy Griffin, who was removed by a state judge under a constitutional clause that bans anyone who “engaged in insurrection” from holding public office.

Andrew Feinberg reports from Washington, DC:

Peter Navarro, the former Trump White House trade adviser who later helped him devise a plot to remain in office after losing the 2020 election, will report to a federal prison facility in Florida on Tuesday after the Supreme Court denied his last-ditch bid to stay his sentence pending appeal of his conviction on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress.

In a brief opinion issued from his chambers, Chief Justice John Roberts — the justice responsible for appeals from Washington, DC federal courts — said Navarro had not established that he was entitled to remain free under provisions of the Bail Reform Act while he continued to appeal his conviction on the grounds that he should have been permitted to argue that he was following orders from former president Donald Trump when he defied a subpoena from the House January 6 select committee.

Former Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro is going to prison after Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts turned down his bid to remain free while he appeals his conviction for defying a congressional subpoena from the House January 6 select committee.

Mr Navarro becomes the first member of the Trump White House to face jail for his involvement in efforts related to interfering in the results of the 2020 election.

On Monday, New York Judge Juan Merchan also rejected Mr Trump’s attempts to block testimony from Michael Cohen, his former attorney who allegedly supported a scheme to bury compromising details of Mr Trump’s affairs leading up to the 2016 presidential election.

Judge Merchan also rejected Mr Trump’s attempts to block testimony from former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who allegedly had an affair with Mr Trump before his presidency.

He just wants to be loved, doesn’t he?

I honestly don’t know why he doesn’t just stick to playing 18 holes and trolling celebrities on his phone and give up on this politics lark altogether.

One person who could well do without him is Liz Cheney, who pushes back angrily against his smears below, which arise from allegations made by his former aide Kash Patel in The Federalist claiming that her January 6 congressional committee deliberately withheld information during its 2022 hearings, a charge she hotly denies.

Here’s Trump claiming the media has willfully misinterpreted his comments over the weekend in order to discredit him.

Alex Woodward looks at what happens if Donald Trump can’t secure a bond to appeal his civil fraud case:

The MediaBuzz host gave the Republican presidential contender a chance to condemn the Russian president, just returned to power in a sham election, over the highly suspicious death of heroic dissident Alexei Navalny in an Arctic prison camp last month and, of course, he flubbed his answer, reluctant to call out a dictator he has repeatedly championed.