Trump News Live: Latest Twitter updates as president says he will “definitely” leave the White House

The partner of the arrested activist and whistleblower Julian Assange has asked Donald Trump to forgive him so he can go home for Christmas and see his two children.

In an appeal to the president the day after Trump announced he had forgiven disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn, Stella Morris posted a photo of their young children.

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

I missed this when I picked up Donald Trump’s tweets late in the evening.

His rant about Twitter trending topics was in response to the hashtag #DiaperDon, apparently.

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

Donald Trump’s pardon to his former National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn, convicted of lying to the FBI, understandably provoked indignation, writes Sean O’Grady.

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

Donald Trump will hold an election campaign in Georgia to support Republicans in the Senate runoff election.

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

The Republican incumbents are David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.

One of the reasons Republicans stood by Trump’s side and his unsubstantiated claims of fraud was to keep his loyal base energized ahead of the January 5 ballots. But the president, in his Thanksgiving press conference, openly questioned whether that election would be fair.

Donald Trump said “the race is far from over” as he finally answered media questions about the 2020 US election, 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 was the victim of a “rigged election”.

He also said he would be heading to Georgia this weekend to campaign for two Republican Senate candidates in contests that will determine which party controls the upper house of Congress.

Donald Trump hit some of his favorite notes in a late-night Thanksgiving tweetstorm. Maybe a big roast dinner gave him extra energy.

He first claimed that news outlets had “coordinated” to obliterate the true message of his press conference, which he had used to push other false claims about the election.

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

He signed with the claim that Section 230, a piece of legislation that gives websites immunity from third party posts, should be scrapped because “national security” required it.

Responding to reporters’ questions for the first time since the election late Thursday evening, Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter who questioned his claims about voter fraud by saying, “Never talk to the president like this.” .

In a White House briefing on Thanksgiving, Trump addressed reporters’ questions after speaking with troops serving overseas. For the first time, the president acknowledged that he will step down “if” the constituency formalizes the victory of President-elect Joe Biden. writes Stuti mishra.

“I certainly will, and you know it,” Trump said when a reporter asked him to leave the White House when Biden was declared the winner on December 14.