Don Jr attacks Fetterman at CPAC as Trump releases song with Jan 6 defendants – live

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley made an appeal to potential voters at CPAC on Friday as she declared a war on “wokeness” while reigniting her conflict with CNN’s Don Lemon.

Donald Trump Jr ranted on social media on the stage at CPAC that a bank account associated with his new aggregation company was closed

But PNC bank told The Independent on Friday that the account for the app’s parent company ROCDIGITAL, LLC had been reopened.

Closing out Friday’s speaking events, Nigel Farage summed up CPAC grievances and heroes, from raging at Covid-19 “lockdowns” in the UK to heaping praise on far-right European leaders as well as Twitter CEO Elon Musk, whom Farage hopes will bring “balance” to what conservatives believe is a Big Tech conspiracy against them.

“When laws become enemies of men, men become enemies of laws,” he said of “lockdowns,” the likes of which were not seen in the US during the pandemic. “If any government ever tries to take away my liberties like that again I am going to be a rebel.”

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the potential Republican presidential candidate, has repeatedly said that his state is where “woke goes to die”. Former president Donald Trump has talked about generals being too “woke”.

Speakers and panelists at CPAC, too, spent the last two days raging at “wokeness” from the stage.

But The Independent’s Eric Garcia reports that many conservatives at the conference have struggled to define what that even means.

Former Trump aide and far-right activist Steve Bannon screamed his support for Donald Trump during his speaking slot at CPAC on Friday afternoon.

He said the arrival of Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley as GOP presidential candidates is “fine” but “we don’t have time for on the job training” after “a man who gave us four years of peace and prosperity.”

“Show us what Mitch McConnell has given us. What the Murdochs, a bunch of foreigners have given us,” he said, yelling.

Bannon, who has his own platform through Real America’s Voice, one of CPAC’s sponsors, repeatedly took aim at Fox News and network leadership that privately lambasted the former president’s bogus election claims, uncovered in the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against the company.

“Note to Fox senior management: When Donald J Trump talks it’s newsworthy,” Bannon said.

Trump is “not simply the leader of a politiical party” but “the leader of the most powerful political movement in American history,” he said.

Donald Trump has vowed to issue mass pardons for Capitol riot defendants, and now he has joined them on a song released on streaming platforms.

A group of defendants naming themselves the J6 Prison Choir released a track titled “Justice for All” on 3 March that features their rendition of the national anthem while the former president recites the Pledge of Allegiance.

The Independent’s Richard Hall writes:

A vast majority of American land owned by the federal government is administered by agencies under the Department of Interior, most of which is used for conservation efforts, wildlife preservation and national parks.

Trump, a real estate developer whose business empire has been criminally prosecuted, wants to build “freedom cities” on government-owned land.

In a video released by his campaign, he said he plans to open a contest for proposals to build 10 such cities on federal lands and “reignite American imagination.”

“But today, our country has lost its boldness. Under my leadership, we will get it back in a very big way,” he said in the video. “If you look at just three years ago, what we were doing was unthinkable, how good it was, how great it was for our country. Our objective will be a quantum leap in the American standard of living.”

His campaign asserts that the cities would roughly be the size of Washington DC and could be built using less than one tenth of one percent of the hundreds of million of acres of “empty” government land. The campaign noted that would not include national parks.

White nationalist and virulent antisemite Nick Fuentes took a photograph with election-denying conspiracy theorist and pillow salesman Mike Lindell before he was kicked out, according to a photo on his Telegram account.

In the photo, Lindell flashes a smile and a thumbs up next to Fuentes, who is wearing black sunglasses and raising a fist.

Donald Trump has repeatedly praised the mob that stormed the halls of Congress, fuelled by the former president’s baseless narrative that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

He has vowed to issue mass pardons for Capitol riot defendants, and now he has joined them on a song released on streaming platforms.

A group of defendants naming themselves “J6 Prison Choir” released a track titled “Justice for All” that features their rendition of the national anthem while the former president recites the Pledge of Allegiance.

Mr Trump recorded his portion at Mar-a-Lago, while the J6 Prison Choir recorded their vocals by prison phone, according to Forbes, which first reported the track.

Meanwhile, a CPAC panel titled “True Stories of January 6: The Prosecuted Speak” provided a platform to a group of people who joined the Capitol riots.