Trump news today: FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before house panel as Christie mocks Trump ‘fantasy situation’ – The Independent

A Republican lawmaker has a bizarre new label for Hunter Biden – glitter.

Speaking at a House Judiciary Committee hearing with FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday, Rep Wesley Hunt compared President Joe Biden’s son to the sparkly stuff.

“Hunter Biden to me, is like glitter. He is on everything and you cannot get rid of him,” he fumed.

Any readers out there who have spent time with drag queens will know this to be a fact.

Annie Grayer of CNN reports Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene as saying that the Secret Service narrowed its list of suspects in the West Wing cocaine scandal down to 500 people who were present over the weekend (the Bidens were out of town).

Rep Lauren Boebert adds that the 500 includes a mixture of staffers and people on tours of the executive complex.

A former White House aide to President Donald Trump who became a prominent congressional witness against him and his allies in the wake of the January 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol has a book deal.

CNN reports that the Secret Service has concluded its investigation into the small bag of cocaine found at the White House and has been unable to identify a suspect.

The network cites two sources familiar with the investigation.

Secret Service officials examined visitor logs and surveillance footage of hundreds of individuals who entered the West Wing in the days preceding the discovery but could not identify a suspect, one of the sources said.

Further, they were also unable to identify the specific moment or even day when the baggie was left inside the cubby near the lower level West Wing entrance where it was discovered.

The second source told CNN that the leading theory is that it was left by one of the hundreds of visitors who entered the West Wing that weekend for tours and were asked to leave their phones and other devices in those cubbyholes.

The Associated Press adds that no fingerprints or DNA were found on the bag.

A former actor and Broadway star has been cleared of all charges related to his involvement in the Jan 6 Capitol riots.

James Beeks, a member of the Oath Keepers, was facing charges of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding and civil disorder.

He was acquitted of both charges on Wednesday, but his co-defendant Donovan Crowl was convicted on both counts.

Maroosha Muzaffar has the story.

Confused about Hunter Biden and the FBI? Let Jim Jordan attempt to explain it:

Fox News’s Jesse Watters longs for a simpler time when the world watched in astonishment and horror as a grown man shoved an allied leader out of the way during a photo op.

Rival Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie spoke out about the criminal case arising from Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents.

Mr Christie told CNN he thinks Mr Trump’s “fantasy situation” is that the trial is delayed until after the 2024 election, he is elected president and then manages to block the investigation.

The former New Jersey governor also says he has met the threshold to participate in the Republican primary debates.

“The problem with Trump is, I think he looks at democracy as enemy territory, to be quite frank,” Mr Woodward told the network’s Ari Melber on Tuesday.

Mr Woodward knows a thing or two about scandal-plagued presidents. He and Carl Bernstein’s reporting on Watergate at the Washington Post helped end Richard Nixon’s presidency more than five decades ago.

A photograph shared on Twitter of Mr Hutchinson’s event on Tuesday in the small Iowa town of Nevada appeared to show just six people in the audience as the former Arkansas governor spoke.