Trump news – live: Ex-president strikes deal to delay deposition as Jan 6

Among the papers newly released by the 6 January committee is Donald Trump’s private schedule from the day of the Capitol riot, which gives further clues as to whom the then-president spoke to as the insurrection was brewing. Among the names is Kelly Loeffler, the GOP Georgia Senator who lost her seat the night before.

John Bowden takes a look at the bombshell dropped yesterday by the 6 January committee and weighs up its potential consequences for the former president.

The court filing, he writes, is “the strongest indication thus far that the committee, which cannot directly issue criminal charges itself, plans to ask the Justice Department to review the evidence it has obtained… and consider issuing charges targeting the ex-president himself”.

President Donald Trump released a 415-word meandering rant in response to the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot on the Capitol accusing him of criminal conspiracy.

Mr Trump’s statement comes after he and his attorney John Eastman, who helped lead Mr Trump’s “war room” to challenge President Joe Biden’s election win, were charged with criminal conspiracy to overturn the election.

The son of a Texas man charged with storming the US Capitol with a holstered gun testified Thursday that he secretly recorded his father proudly describing his role in the riot and gave the audio file to an FBI agent after his father, a militia member, threatened him and his sister. Jackson Reffitt, then 18, said he was terrified and “pretty grossed out” when his father, Guy Wesley Reffitt, told him and his 16-year-old sister that they would be “traitors” if they reported him to law enforcement after the Capitol attack on Jan 6, 2021.

And he told his children that “traitors get shot,” Jackson Reffitt recalled.

Former president Donald Trump has lashed out at the press and much of the party he remains the de facto leader of for reporting on and criticising his decision to praise Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

In a emailed statement sent out by his political action committee because he is banned from most social media platforms, Mr Trump accused “the RINOs [Republicans in Name Only], the Warmongers], and the Fake News” of “continuing[ing] to “blatantly lie and misrepresent my remarks on Putin”.

Lawyers of former President Donald Trump and the New York attorney general have reached an agreement to postpone depositions in the civil investigation, allowing Mr Trump to get at least a few months before he has to testify as part of an investigation into his business.

The deal struck between the two sides agrees on delaying the deposition and for an expedited briefing schedule, with court papers due by 31 March.

The Trumps would be required to sit for depositions, if they lose the appeal, 14 days after a decision.

This comes after an appeal filed by Mr Trump against the order of a New York judge that mandated Mr Trump and his two eldest children, Donald Jr and Ivanka, to appear for a deposition as part of allegations into wrong business practices…