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Trump lawyer to testify in federal secret documents case
Good morning, US politics live blog readers, it may be Friday but there is plenty of action coming up on Capitol Hill and in some of the various criminal cases involving former US president Donald Trump. Stick with us and we’ll bring you the news as it happens.
Here’s what is swirling today:
Evan Corcoran, currently Donald Trump’s main lawyer – who was involved in turning over to the Department of Justice government documents marked as classified and allegedly illegally stored by the former president at his Mar-a-Lago resort after leaving office – is set to testify today to the grand jury examining the federal criminal case.
Meanwhile another grand jury, weighing the New York state criminal case being investigated by Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg over Trump reimbursing his then fixer Michael Cohen over hush money paid to Stormy Daniels, will not meet today but Trump is ranting on his social media platform that there will be “potential death and destruction” if he’s charged.
Joe Biden is staying well out of the fray, in the pleasant environs of Canada, where he’s having bilateral meeting today with prime minister Justin Trudeau and addressing the Canadian parliament, in his first visit there as president.
The House will vote later today on a Republican-initiated bill aimed at boosting parents’ rights over what their children are taught at school, and other matters, amid the battle that has fueled book bans and bitter division in education and politics. We have a separate report coming on this shortly, by our senior politics reporter Lauren Gambino.
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