Trump sparks fury by claiming Black people like him because of his mugshot: Live

Trump says ‘the Black people’ like him because of his indictments

Donald Trump said Black voters like him because of his mug shot at the Black Conservative Federation Gala in South Carolina.

“A lot of people said that’s why the Black people liked me, because they had been hurt so badly and discriminated against,” Mr Trump said.

“The mug shot, we’ve all seen the mug shot, and you know who embraced it more than anybody else? The Black population,” he continued.

During another speech on Friday, Fox News had to cut coverage of a rally to issue multiple fact-checks to Mr Trump’s speech.

“Even though he’s entitled to his opinion, he’s not entitled to his own set of facts,” anchor Neil Cavuto said as a preface to the corrections list for topics including the stock market and 2020 election.

Earlier, the former president issued a demand that Alabama lawmakers “act quickly to find an immediate solution” to protect IVF in the wake of a shock state supreme court ruling that halted treatments in the state.

Republican officials scrambled to respond to the ruling with a cohesive message, while Democrats linked it to a years-long campaign to undermine reproductive health care and restrict abortion rights.

Eric Garcia writes:

With the Republican presidential primary all but decided for former president Donald Trump, Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference served as an audition to become Mr Trump’s running mate.

Being Trump’s running mate is an inherently dicey prospect. For one, the last person who served in the job, the unflappable and pious Mike Pence, famously broke with Trump for the efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, which resulted in Trump supporters threatening Pence’s life.

By the same token,