Trump news: President attacks congresswomen for 4th consecutive day, hours after video of him ogling young women with paedophile Epstein revealed

Here's a fairly unique Republican stance on those tweets.

Iowa senator Joni Ernst agrees that the president was racist but says she still supports him anyway!

Well, you can't fault her for honesty I suppose.

Here's Colin Drury with more.

Trump's glitzy gold-and-Happy Meals taste in interior decor has been called into question before but his decision to hang a photograph of himself and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un in the West Wing - alongside one of our own dear Queen - is surely one of his most wayward choices yet.

Here's more from Andrew Buncombe.

Trump's former adviser, self-proclaimed "dirty trickster" and Nixon back tattoo owner Roger Stone has been banned from social media after violating a gagging order.

"I've twice given you the benefit of the doubt," said US district judge Amy Berman Jackson, her patience exhausted after Stone posted a pictured of her in the crosshairs of a rifle sight online in February.

Here's Chris Riotta's report.

He's at it again you know - this time quoting the aforementioned clip of Senator John Kennedy on Fox.

On Tuesday, the president claimed not to have a racist bone in his body but a vintage clip has since emerged of him speaking before Congress in October 1993 in which he used blatantly discriminatory language in a discussion about planning permission being approved for Native American-owned casinos that would have been in direct competition with his own in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

The footage, unearthed by MSNBC's Deadline White House, shows Trump arguing that some of the casino owners in question "don't look like Indians" before being sharply rebuked by Democratic congressman George Miller: “Thank God that’s not the test of whether or not people have rights in this country, whether or nor they pass your look test.”

Greg Evans has more.

If you're wondering about the commitment of Trump's hard-line support base or whether his relentless ricocheting from one outrage to the next is damaging his credibility with the MAGA crowd, just take a look at this clip.

"Grab 'em by the p***y"? Twenty-two different women making sexual misconduct allegations? Death threats against E Jean Carroll? These Women for Trump in Pennsylvania don't mind at all and are unwavering in their support.

A case in point: Trump's approval rating has soared among Republicans since tweetgate began.

Here's Adam Forrest's report.

CNN has been criticised for its coverage of the racist tweets furore after the broadcaster invited neo-Nazi Richard Spencer on air to weigh in with an opinion.

Spencer - whom you might remember being punched in the face on live TV at Trump's inauguration - is an avowed white supremacist who has previously quoted Nazi propaganda and called for "ethnic cleansing", prompting outrage that the network should give him so prominent a platform and risk legitimising his point of view.

Here's Conrad Duncan for Indy100.

If you're late to all of this, here's a handy introduction to The Squad and Trump's supremely ill-advised decision to go after them.

Trump is trailing his big night in North Carolina later, seemingly promising he'll have yet more to say about The Squad.