Kanye West releases 2024 campaign video after meeting with Trump
A federal judge has dismissed Donald Trump’s claim that he has “presidential immunity” from a lawsuit about his actions around the 2020 election – in the latest blow to the former president as the fallout over a meeting with Kanye West and a white supremacist continues.
Civil rights groups including the NAACP are suing Mr Trump and the Republican National Committee for trying to disenfranchise voters, intimidate election officials and undermine lawfully cast votes in violation of both the federal Voting Rights Act and the Ku Klux Klan Act.
While Mr Trump’s lawyers claimed that he has “absolute immunity, on Monday, DC District Judge Emmet Sullivan disagreed.
The ruling comes as criticism continues to pour in after the former president hosted a meeting at Mar-a-Lago with Mr West, who has gone on an antisemitic rampage of late, and his associate Nick Fuentes, one of the US’s most notorious white supremacist activists.
Marco Rubio branded Mr Fuentes a “nasty, disgusting person” and “an a** clown” and said he hopes Mr Trump will come out to condemn him in the aftermath of the controversial meeting – which is said to have unfolded despite pleas from Mr Trump’s advisers.
