Former US President Donald Trump speaks to the crowd during a rally in South Carolina
Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, is facing further scrutiny over his voting history after it emerged that he registered for the 2020 election at an address in North Carolina that he allegedly has never used.
Mr Meadows, who as a top Trump staffer was a major proponent of the false theory that the election was stolen via massive fraud, registered to vote by absentee ballot citing the address of a rental home to which he has no clear connection. The North Carolina attorney general has now requested a probe into the allegations.
Meanwhile, far-right Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorn has found a new audience on Russian state TV, which has been screening video of recent remarks in which he described Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a “thug”.
The North Carolina representative is one of several GOP members drawing intense criticism for their remarks on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. His colleague Marjorie Taylor Greene was slated this week for repeating Russia-friendly conspiracy theories about the Biden administration and the US in general.