Judge in Trump’s 2020 election meddling trial denies former president’s call to

Tanya Chutkan, the federal judge presiding over Donald Trump trial on charges related to trying to overturn the 2020 election, has rejected an effort by the former president to remove her from the case, Politico reports:

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BREAKING: Judge CHUTKAN *denies* Trump's motion to recuse. https://t.co/N3O5MmeO2Z pic.twitter.com/Kt3mdsKgU8

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) September 27, 2023

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CHUTKAN rejects the notion that some of her statements alluding to Trump were based on watching the news, rather than facts she was presented with by Jan. 6 defendants who pinned their conduct on Trump. https://t.co/EtKFH7taJH pic.twitter.com/idI7RuGEVm

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) September 27, 2023

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Trump’s legal team earlier this month had filed the motion asking Chutkan to recuse herself from the case, arguing previous statements she had made about his involvement in the January 6 insurrection were disqualifying.

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Elon Musk’s X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has axed around half of its global team dedicated to tracking election disinformation, according to a report by the Information.

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The cuts, which reportedly include the head of the Dublin-based team, come less than a month after the company said it would expand its safety and election teams.

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X executives told the team last week that “having elections integrity employees based in Europe wasn’t necessary,” according to the report. The team had about two dozen employees before Musk bought the platform, and is now down to less than half of…