Speculation surrounding tonight’s address has mounted since Trump promised big announcement without being specificTrump to deliver TV speech amid speculation over elections announcementSign up for the Breaking News US emailMSNOW reports that the White House hosted a briefing for about two dozen pr o-Trump conspiracy theorists and election deniers this week, led by the conservative lawyer Cleta Mitchell, who was on Donald Trump’s notorious phone call with Georgia’s top election official on 2 January 2001, in which the president asked for 11,780 votes for Joe Biden to be tossed out, which would have enabled Trump to win the state’s 2020 presidential election by a single vote.One of the participants told the broadcaster the presentation “was basically all the media reporting that John Solomon and others have done already.”I found him abrasive, condescending, and intentionally noncommittal to survivors – a marked contrast to his public testimony during his confirmation hearing.While quick to point to the failures of previous administrations, he refused to take accountability for mistakes made under his own leadership. Specifically, he would not commit to an inquiry into why my sister Maria Farmer’s 1996 report went uninvestigated; he refused to release documents related to internal discussions about charging Epstein that would provide important clarification about previous errors, and his explanations for his nine-hour interview with Ghislaine Maxwell and her subsequent transfer to a less secure facility were wholly dissatisfactory and contrived. Continue reading... ...read more read less