Trump accuses Biden of ‘border bloodbath’ as he fails to secure $464m bond in fraud case: Latest

Unsurprisingly, the former president also spent his evening online fuming after his lawyers revealed on Monday that finding a lender to help him out with his humungous $464m bond is proving a “practical impossibility”.

Meanwhile, this month-old clip of a not-entirely-convincing Alina Habba has not aged at all well.

Here’s more on the “billionaire” businessman’s money troubles from Alex Woodward.

Donald Trump has attempted to turn the tables on Joe Biden amid the furore surrounding his use of the phrase “bloodbath” by releasing a new campaign video compiling lurid news reports about “migrant crime” incidents to argue that the illegal immigration crisis at America’s southern border is the real “bloodbath”.

However, the president has beaten him to it, posting an earlier video of his own incorporating Trump’s latest controversial line in a montage of other awful things he has said.

The former president’s attorneys argued that finding a company to back a bond in excess of $454m plus millions of dollars in interest is a “practical impossibility,” and one that raises the possibility that New York Attorney General Letitia James can being seizing his assets unless the court intervenes.

Mr Trump faces “insurmountable difficulties” securing a bond, according to his attorneys. The former president has approached “about 30 surety companies through four separate brokers” to no avail – one week before Ms James can begin collecting.

Alex Woodward has the details:

A former FBI informant has been charged with lying about President Joe Biden and his son’s business dealings — but his reputation as a “liar” dates back to at least 2016, according to a report.

But long before these recent revelations, Mr Smirnov’s credibility was called into question.

Kelly Rissman has the details…

In a Fox News interview on Sunday, Media Buzz host Howard Kurtz asked Mr Trump, “Why do you use words like ‘vermin’ and ‘poisoning of the blood?’ The press, as you know, immediately reacts to that by saying, ‘Well, that’s the kind of language that Hitler and Mussolini use.’”

The 2024 frontrunner retorted, “That’s what they say. I didn’t know that, but that’s what they say.” However, he then said that he uses these terms “because our country is being poisoned.”

Here’s Jon Sopel’s take on where complacency is leading us.

Former president Donald Trump has accused the media of willfully misinterpreting his prediction during a rally appearance over the weekend that his defeat in November’s election would result in a “bloodbath”.

Speaking in Dayton, Ohio, on Saturday evening as he stumped for Republican primary candidate Bernie Moreno, Mr Trump used the phrase as he warned of dire economic consequences for an American auto industry under pressure from China without him back in the White House.

“If I don’t get elected it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country,” he declared.

Joe Sommerlad has the story:

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.