{"id":5245,"date":"2026-07-17T01:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/2026\/07\/17\/trumps-speech-rumored-to-feature-elections-or-iran-after-president-teases-really-big-news-live-updates\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T01:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:02:15","slug":"trumps-speech-rumored-to-feature-elections-or-iran-after-president-teases-really-big-news-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/?p=5245","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s speech rumored to feature elections or Iran after president teases \u2018really big news\u2019 \u2013 live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/news\/election-denial-activists-briefed-at-white-house-ahead-of-trumps-prime-time-speech\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">MS Now reports<\/a> that the White House hosted a briefing for about two dozen pro-Trump conspiracy theorists and election deniers this week, led by the conservative lawyer <strong>Cleta Mitchell<\/strong>, who was on Donald Trump\u2019s notorious phone call with Georgia\u2019s 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\u2019s 2020 presidential election by a single vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">One of the participants told the broadcaster the presentation \u201cwas basically all the media reporting that John Solomon and others have done already.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Solomon, a former Associated Press reporter turned far-right media figure, became a special government employee of the White House last month. He has reportedly been working with Bill Pulte, Trump\u2019s acting director of national intelligence, to declassify documents on alleged efforts by foreign nations to interfere in US elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MS Now reports that the White House hosted a briefing for about two dozen pro-Trump conspiracy theorists and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}