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Former President Donald Trump, who's campaigning for another term in the White House, will be the keynote speaker at an Oakland County Republican Party event on June 25, the county GOP announced Wednesday.

In an email, the Oakland County Republican Party said Trump will participate in its Lincoln Day dinner, which the party described as "celebrating the man of the decade." The former president has previously claimed he was named Michigan's "man of the year," but it's been unclear what honor he's referring to.

"Save the date for June 25th, 2023, as this will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear directly from one of the most influential figures in modern American politics," the email from the Oakland County GOP said. "President Trump's unparalleled leadership, unwavering dedication to conservative values, and relentless pursuit of American greatness have left an indelible mark on our country and the world."

Trump spoke at the Oakland County Republican Party's Lincoln Day Dinner in 2013, addressing a crowd of 2,300 to 2,400 attendees.

Meshawn Maddock, former co-chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party, said she submitted the request to have Trump return to Oakland County.

"...I am thrilled to welcome the president back to Michigan," she said.

Trump is expected to speak at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi. Oakland County Republicans are hoping the former president will help them raise money for their field work in the 2024 election.

Its going to be a great fundraising mechanism to get acountyback on track that has been lacking for the past several years, said Amber Harris, executive director of the Oakland County Republican Party. He is still very popular amongst a lot of people in Michigan.

Although a field of Republican challengers is taking shape, Trump is the favorite for the GOP nomination to take on Democratic President Joe Biden in 2024.

Already, the other GOP candidates include Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador, and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence could also join the race.

DeSantis visited Michigan in April. Pence came in March.

In 2020, Trump lost Michigan to Biden by 3 percentage points or 154,000 votes.

Oakland County, once a Republican stronghold, is Michigan's second largest county and has swung heavily in Democrats' favor in recent years. Biden won the county by 14 percentage points over Trump in 2020.

Trump last came to Michigan on Oct. 1 when he campaigned for the Republican nominees for governor, attorney general and secretary of state in Macomb County.

Those GOP nominees Tudor Dixon, Matt DePerno and Kristina Karamo, were all endorsed by Trump and all lost in November 2022.

In 2016, Trump won Michigan against Democrat Hillary Clinton by less than 1 percentage point or about 11,000 votes.

In April, New York prosecutors charged Trump with 34 felonies related to payments made in 2016 to silence claims of an alleged extramarital sexual encounter.

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Donald Trumps in the UK at his Scotland golf course this week and he took the chance to take swings at Meghan Markle, Joe Biden, China and trans athletes in a wide ranging interview on GB News.

Questioned on Farage: The Trump Interview by Brexiteer politician-turned-broadcaster Nigel Farage, he twice claimed the Duchess of Sussex Meghan had disrespected the UKs late Queen Elizabeth. He also commented on Prince Harrys plan to attend his father King Charles Coronation on Saturday.

Its going to be a great day and theyll do a great job. [Charles] really loves the country and he loved his mother and thats why I thought she was treated so disrespectfully by Meghan, he said. There was just no reason to do that. I was actually surprised Harry was invited, to be honest.

Trump agreed with Farage that the Queen was the most popular human being in the world during her lifetime and commended her for going through years and decades without controversy. She passed away in September last year, leading to Charles ascension to the throne.

Harry and Meghan stepped down from frontline royal family work in 2020 and now live in the U.S., where they made the controversial Netflix doc Harry & Meghan, which leveled several incendiary allegations at the royal family. Harry also authored Spare, an autobiography that revealed more about thew split between his family and the rest of the royal contingent.

He said some terrible things in the book, said Trump. To me, it was horrible.

[Meghan] has been very disrespectful to the Queen, he added. People make mistakes but I cant think of one mistake [the Queen] made. She went through years and decades without controversy. You cannot be disrespectful to her.

Trump also slammed President Joe Biden for choosing not to attend the Coronation, though this is a tradition that American leaders have always held. First Lady Dr Jill Biden will lead a U.S. continent at the event on Saturday morning.

I dont think he can do it physically. Its hard for him physically, said Trump. Certainly, he should be here as a representative of our country. I was surprised when I heard he wasnt coming. Its very disrespectful for him not to be there.

Trump, who is standing for the Republican Presidential nomination, also criticized Biden for his handling of the Ukraine War, saying: Putin never would have gone into Ukraine if it wasnt for the incompetence of this administration.

The former President claimed he could end that war in one day, adding: I know Zelenskyy well and Putin well. It would be easy. That war has to be stopped, that war is a disaster.

Trump also railed on China over role in the Covid-19 pandemic. The disease was first found in Wuhan province in 2019 and soon spread around the world, leading to many conspiracy theories and much debate over how it emerged.

What they did to the world is unacceptable, he said, claiming the country owes trillions of dollars in reparations.

The number is $50 to 60 trillion dollars. They can never pay that, nobody can. You could have ten Chinas and they couldnt pay it. Im not even talking about the lives, which are far more important. Millions and millions and millions of people dead.

And [it was] probably a mistake, [though] there are many people who believe it wasnt. I know how to make them pay. You have to deal with them I took in hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes from China.

He added that until Covid came along had gotten along very well with Chinas President Xi and Russian President Putin.

A final clip shared on Twitter showed Trump calling out trans athletes competing in womens sports competitions. When I see men participating in womens sports and records being broken pretty easily, its very unfair and very disrespectful to women, he said. I talk about it all the time and I dont do it for applause but one of the biggest hands I get is when I say we will not allow men to compete in womens sports.

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Former President Donald Trump talked about throwing dirt in the faces of journalists while breaking ground on a new golf course at his resort in Aberdeen, Scotland, on Monday.

And we throw it at the press, right in their faces. We throw it right in their faces, the 2024 GOP presidential candidate said while holding a shovelful of soil in a video shared as an Instagram story by Margo Martin, his deputy director of communications.

The clip was posted on Twitter by the PatriotTakes account.

Laughter broke out following Trumps comment.

The dig came during his first trip abroad since his indictment in the Stormy Daniels hush-money case. Meanwhile, his civil trial is ongoing involving allegations he raped former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll in a New York department store in 1996.

Trumps attacks on the press are a mainstay. He has repeatedly labeled journalists and media outlets who dont write flattering stories about him as fake news and enemies of the people.

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Pro Football Hall of Famer Brett Favre sought help from then-President Donald Trump in 2019 when he was seeking funding for an experimental concussion drug that has become part of the welfare fraud cause in Mississippi.

Per ESPN.com's Anthony Olivieri, former Mississippi governor Phil Bryant released text messages on Thursday showing he had communication with Favre about enlisting Trump's help to secure money.

The texts from Oct. 2019 show Bryant asking Favre if he "heard from Trump about going to his rally," and the former president asked Bryant to "make sure you were attending."

"We need him to champion treatment of Brain Injuries among NFL players," Bryant wrote to Favre in a text. "He can make all the difference with your help...we have a cure."

Olivieri noted it's unclear if Favre attended the rally.

Per a November report from Ken Dilanian and Laura Strickler of NBC News, Favre was a major investor in Odyssey Health and partnered with a neuroscientist to promote a nasal spray drug they said was "designed to quickly treat brain injuries from a concussion."

Court records obtained by Dilanian and Strickler said Favre successfully lobbied Mississippi state government officials for a grant of $2.1 million in federal welfare money that was intended to help families in need.

According to Olivieri, texts from Bryant sent a few weeks after the initial messages show he and Favre, along with Prevacus founder Jacob VanLandingham, discussed a potential White House summit that VanLandingham said "could be huge" for the company on Nov. 22, 2019.

Olivieri noted the trio talked in text exchanges about inviting athletes like Tom Brady, Herschel Walker and Tiger Woods to the summit, which they wanted to "take place before the Super Bowl and include Trump greeting them in the Oval Office."

There's no evidence any of those athletes were contacted or that the summit actually took place, per Olivieri.

On Nov. 8, ESPN's Mark Fainaru-Wada reported the companies backed by Favre and founded by VanLandingham "exaggerated the known effectiveness of their drugs" in an attempt to raise money.

The Mississippi Department of Human Services filed a civil lawsuit against 38 individuals or entities in May 2022 in an attempt to get back roughly $24 million in federal funds that were meant to aid poverty in the state.

Favre was named as a defendant in the lawsuit, though he hasn't been criminally charged. He has sought dismissal from the lawsuit, but Mississippi circuit judge Faye Peterson ruled last week he must remain in the case.

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The presidential race sure does seem like itll wind up coming down to Biden vs. Trump and a whole lot of people would rather have an alternative.

Heres an important early message: Even if you arent thrilled by the Republican and Democratic options come Election Day, dont vote for anybody else.

Were talking here about the attraction of third parties. So tempting. So disaster-inducing.

The lure is obvious. Donald Trumps terrible and Joe Bidens boring. Much more satisfying to go to the polls and announce youre too far above the status quo to vote for either.

The way so many people did in 2016, when Trump won the presidency thanks to the Electoral College votes of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. Which Hillary Clinton would probably have carried if the folks who were appalled by Trump had voted for her instead of the Libertarian or Green Party candidates.

OK, ticked-off swing staters, how did that work for you in the long run?

This brings us to No Labels, a new group thats warning it might launch a third-party candidacy if it isnt happy with the two major party nominees.

We care about this country more than the demands of any political party, No Labels announces on its website. Its founding chairman, Joe Lieberman, told interviewers that his group believes the American people are so dissatisfied with the choice of Presidents Trump or Biden that they want a third alternative.

Yeah. But lets stop here to recall that Lieberman is a former U.S. senator, Democrat of Connecticut. Who ran for vice president with Al Gore on the Democratic ticket in 2000, hurt Gores chances with a terrible performance in a debate with Dick Cheney, then made a totally disastrous attempt to run for president himself four years later.

Hard to think of him as a guy with big answers. And about that business of voters wanting a third choice: A lot of them do, until it turns out that option throws the race to the worse of the top two.

Remember all the chaos in the 2000 Florida vote count? The entire presidential election hinged on the result. In the end, Ralph Nader, the Green Party nominee, got more than 97,000 votes there. In a state that George W. Bush eventually won by 537.

Now Nader had a phenomenal career as a champion of consumer protection and the environment. But this was a terrible finale. His candidacy gave Floridians who felt that Gore was not very exciting a chance to declare their disaffection. It gave them a chance to feel superior. It gave the country a new President Bush. And a war in Iraq.

I talked with Nader about his role much later, and he basically said the outcome was Gores fault for being a bad candidate. This conversation took place when the country was bearing down on the 2016 election, and Nader vowed not to vote for either Trump or Clinton. Theyre not alike, he acknowledged, but added, theyre both terrible.

Think that was the last time I ever consulted Ralph Nader.

The third-party thingy also comes up in legislative races. Remember the 2018 Senate contest in Arizona? No? OK, thats fair. The Democratic candidate was Kyrsten Sinema, who seemed to be in danger of losing because the Green Party was on the ballot, capable of siphoning off a chunk of her supporters. Even though Sinema had a good environmental record! Well, a few days before the election the Green candidate have I mentioned her name was Angela Green? urged her supporters to vote for Sinema. Who did squeak out a win.

As senator, Sinema became an, um, unreliable Democratic vote. Who you might call either principled or egocentrically uncooperative. In any case, it didnt look like shed have much chance of being renominated. So now shes very likely to run as an independent.

Another senator who frequently drives Democratic leaders crazy is Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who hasnt announced his own plans. But hes started to flirt with a presidential run. On a No Labels ticket? I dont rule myself in and I dont rule myself out, he helpfully told an interviewer.

Sigh.

Politicians are perfectly well aware of what effect a third option can have on elections. Back in 2020, a group of Montanans whod signed petitions to put the Green Party on the ballot discovered that the Republicans had spent $100,000 to support the signature-gathering effort undoubtedly in hopes that the Green candidate would take votes away from former Democratic governor Steve Bullock when he ran for the Senate. The irate voters went to court and a judge finally ruled that they could remove their names.

Didnt help Bullock win, but it does leave another message about the way too many options can be used to screw up an election. Really, people, when it comes time to go to the polls, the smartest thing you can do is accept the depressing compromises that can come with a two-party democracy. Then straighten your back and fight for change anyhow.

Dont forget to vote! But feel free to go home after and have three or four drinks.

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