Trump News Live: Latest Twitter Updates When President Says He Will “ Certainly ” Leave The White House

The partner of detained activist and whistleblower Julian Assange has asked Donald Trump to forgive him so that he can return home at Christmas and see his two children.

In an appeal to the president a day after Trump announced he was pardoning former national security adviser Michael Flynn, Stella Morris posted a photo of her young children.

“These are the children of Julian, Max and Gabriel. They need their father. Our family needs to be whole again, ”he wrote.

I missed this before rounding out Donald Trump’s late night tweets.

His spiel on trending Twitter topics was in response to the #DiaperDon hashtag.

Twitter users joked that he was wearing a diaper while sitting behind his small press conference table. Calling that a national security threat might be an exaggeration.

Donald Trump’s pardon of his former national security adviser, Gen. Michael Flynn, convicted of lying to the FBI, has understandably sparked outrage. writes Sean O’Grady.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has publicly condemned it as “an act of grave corruption and a blatant abuse of power.” Fair or not, Trump’s controversial act of clemency is unprecedented. Over the centuries, the traditional power of forgiveness has benefited the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Donald Trump will hold a campaign event in Georgia to support Republicans in the Senate runoff elections there.

Those votes will decide which party will control the Senate when Joe Biden takes office.

The Republican incumbents are David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.

One of the reasons Republicans have supported Trump and his unfounded claims of fraud has been to keep their loyalist base energized ahead of the January 5 runoff. But the president, in his Thanksgiving press conference, openly questioned whether that choice would be fair.

Donald Trump has claimed that “the race is far from over” as he finally answered media questions about the 2020 US elections, writes Andrew Buncombe.

In a notable outburst that followed a videoconference with members of the US military, the president claimed, again without evidence, that he had been the victim of “a rigged election.”

He also said he will head to Georgia over the weekend to campaign on behalf of two Republican Senate candidates, in elections that will determine which party controls the upper house of Congress.

Donald Trump hit some of his favorite notes in a tweet storm late in the afternoon on Thanksgiving. Maybe a big roast gave it extra energy.

He first claimed that news organizations had “coordinated” to erase the true message from his press conference, which he had used to push for more false claims about the elections.

Then he accused Twitter of making up his trending topics to make him look bad.

He signed on with a claim that Section 230, a piece of legislation that grants immunity to websites from third-party posts, should be removed because “national security” required it.

Answering questions from reporters for the first time since Thursday night’s elections, Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter who questioned his claims about voter fraud, saying, “Never talk to the president like that.”

At a White House briefing on Thanksgiving, Trump faced questions from reporters after speaking with troops serving overseas. For the first time, the president acknowledged that he will leave office “if” the electoral college formalizes the victory of president-elect Joe Biden. writes Stuti mishra.

“I certainly will, and you know it,” Trump said when asked by a reporter about his departure from the White House when Biden is declared the winner on December 14.