Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will launch his 2024 presidential campaign on May 24 in a Twitter Spaces interview with Elon Musk, The Epoch Times confirmed. The news of the campaign launch follows months of speculation about the Florida governor’s formal entry into the 2024 race. DeSantis is jumping into the expanding GOP field currently dominated by former President Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, Trump appeared remotely in the Manhattan Criminal Court on May 23 to hear a judge’s instructions on his handling of discovery evidence in the criminal case brought against him by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The hearing was Trump’s first appearance after the former president pleaded not guilty in April to 34 counts of felony-level falsifying business records related to alleged hush money payments to adult entertainment actress Stormy Daniels.
The mother of a young woman who was allegedly killed by an illegal immigrant MS-13 gang member tells her story at a congressional hearing. A group of lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have come together to introduce an immigration reform bill.