Trump repeats Biden ‘border bloodbath’ claim at bizarre Wisconsin rally: Live

Democratic Georgia senator Raphael Warnock slammed Trump for selling Bibles over the Easter weekend, saying the Good Book “doesn’t need his endorsement”.

Gustaf Kilander has the story.

Donald Trump told supporters in Wisconsin that 2024 was “our final battle”.

“It was hard working patriots like you, Wisconsin, who built this country, and its hard working patriots like you who are going to save our country at a very, very perilous time,” he said.

“We will fight for America like no one has ever fought before. 2024 is our final battle and with you at my side we will demolish the deep state, we will expel the war mongers.

“With your support we will go on to victory the likes of which no one has ever seen before. We will evict crooked Joe Biden the worst president in the history of our country from the White House, and we will take back our country on November 5 2024 – the most important day in the history of our country.”

As the interest ticked ever-upwards at 9 per cent or $120,000 a day, the exact total he owed as the deadline arrived was closer to $468.1m, with his lawyers arguing that he had been unable to find a surety company willing to stump up the cash – after approaching more than 30 – given the sheer scale of the money involved.

Mr Trump subsequently pledged on Truth Social that he would “abide by the decision of the Appellate Division, and post either a bond, equivalent securities or cash”.

This means that New York Attorney General Letitia James cannot yet begin seizing the former president’s assets – including some of the most prized property in his real estate empire.

Here’s what could happen next:

At his rally in Wisconsin, Donald Trump poked fun at President Joe Biden’s golfing ability, while claiming the Mr Biden excelled at “cheating at elections and disinformation”.

“You know if pilots come in, he says I used to fly planes. If truckers come in he says I used to truck. I used to drive a nice truck,” he said. “His biggest lie of all he said… did you ever see him swinging a golf club he’s like this.”

Mr Trump, a keen golfer, then performed a doddering impression of Mr Biden golfing.

“He said he was a six handicap… He’s not a 36 handicap,” he said.

Mr Biden previously challenged Mr Trump to a game of golf.

Mr Trump posted the video with little added commentary on Truth Social. It shows two passing trucks decked out with flags and messages including “Trump 2024”.

On the back of one of the trucks is an image of President Biden with his hands and feet tied.

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Killing of aid workers adds bloody backdrop to Wisconsin ‘uninstructed’ vote, writes The Independent’s John Bowden:

Two ballot measures in Wisconsin passed on Tuesday that largely served to soothe fears among GOP voters perpetuated by their own leaders.

Republicans in the state supported both questions put to voters in the state, which sought to set new clarifiying language regarding election workers into the state constitution while also banning private donations from being used to supplement state funding for the management and administration of elections in the state.

Passage of neither referendum is expected to have real, tangible effects on state politics. Both were directly linked to fears spread by Republican elected officials who also aided Donald Trump in spreading conspiracies and mistrust regarding the US election system in 2020.

Democrats had opposed both referendums but did not expend political capital to oppose them in the same way that activists have rallied around ballot questions that touched on more pressing issues such as reproductive freedoms.

As another slew of states held primary elections on Tuesday, President Joe Biden faced his latest scorecard from Democratic voters.

With both parties having concluded the “competitive” portions of the primary season and Mr Biden having wrapped up his party’s nomination the same as his opponent, Donald Trump, attention has shifted to down-ballot races and a growing protest vote movement centred around progressive resistance to the president’s handling of the war in Gaza.

Tonight, the battleground shifted to Wisconsin, a bastion of progressive organising in the Midwest. It’s the latest arena where supporters of calls for a permanent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip are urging Democratic voters to turn out and vote “uninstructed” in their party’s primary — an essentially ceremonial protest vote that will still send a message to the Biden campaign, one way or the other, regarding his support from key demographics.

As polls closes across the state, it was clear that thousands of voters had selected the “uninstructed” option; it was chugging along with about 10 per cent of the vote. There was no sign of a massive rebellion against Joe Biden, but the makings of a sustained feeling of disatisfaction were there.

House Republican lawmakers are pushing to rename Washington DC’s international airport after former president Donald Trump, who is no stranger to having his name plastered onto the side of large buildings.

Rep Guy Rechenthaler of Pennsylvania, the party’s chief deputy whip in the House, introduced bill HR 7845 on Friday, which proposes changing the airport’s name to “Donald J Trump International Airport”.

Not everyone’s happy with the idea: