Trump Lies

Judge Okays Jury Questionnaire In Trump/Docs Case

The Messenger reports: A federal judge on Friday approved Special Jack Smith’s request to start prepping written jury questionnaires ahead of next year’s scheduled trial of Donald Trump in the Florida classified documents case. In a paperless order, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon ordered the two parties, by Feb. 28, to “meaningfully confer and file a joint jury questionnaire for …

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Scaramucci: Trump’s Echoing Of Hitler Is Deliberate

The Hill reports: Former Trump communications director Anthony Scaramucci claimed former President Trump’s remarks that drew comparisons to Adolf Hitler, “Mein Kampf” and Nazi Germany are “a total dog whistle.” Scaramucci, who served on the former president’s campaign team and just 11 days in the administration, said Trump “knows exactly what he’s doing” with his comments. “I do believe him …

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Trump Accuses Catholic Biden Of Persecuting Catholics

“Catholics in particular are being targeted and evangelicals are surely on the watch list as well. Over the past three years, the Biden administration has sent SWAT teams to arrest pro-life activists. “The FBI has been caught profiling devout Catholics as possible domestic terrorists and planning to send undercover spies into Catholic churches, just like in the old days of …

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Rove: Trump And RNC Chair’s Pressuring Of Michigan Election Officials Is What’s Called Election Interference

“I think the former president’s got a problem with this. They had voted to certify the election. He had attempted to force them to change their decision, which they tried to do. I think this is what we would call election interference. “And just as he got into trouble in Georgia over a similar act, calling the secretary of state …

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Trump Claims He Will Peacefully Transfer Power To His 2028 Successor Just Like He Did For Joe Biden In 2020

More insanity from the interview with Hugh Hewitt: In a wide-ranging interview on Friday with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Trump said he would peacefully transfer power to the next president if reelected, despite insisting in the same interview that he peacefully turned over power to President Joe Biden after the 2020 election. Trump has been indicted for his role …

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Trump: We Are Poisoning The Blood Of Our Country, “I Know Nothing About Hitler” Who Didn’t Say It Like Me

“We’re loading up our classes, our school classes with children that don’t speak the language, they don’t speak our language. And nobody knows what’s going on. Now, we are poisoning our country. We’re poisoning the blood of our country. “We have people coming in. Think of it, mental institutions all over the world are being emptied out into the United …

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Jeffrey Clark Loses Bid To Halt Georgia RICO Case

The Messenger reports: Donald Trump’s co-defendant and ex-Justice Department loyalist Jeffrey Clark lost on Thursday in his bid to have his part of the Georgia 2020 election racketeering case immediately put on hold until a federal appeals court decides where he can fight the charges. A three-judge panel from the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, which included a pair …

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Giuliani’s Creditors: Hunter Biden, Dominion Executive, “Back Slap” Man, Staffer Suing For Sexual Harassment

The Messenger reports: One is a debt of unnamed size to Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son. The next is a debt, also of unnamed size, to Eric Coomer, a former executive of Dominion Voting Systems. The bankruptcy filing also says Giuliani owes a debt of unnamed size to Noelle Dunphy, his former director of business development who sued him …

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Willis: No Special Break For Trump On Prison Time

“I know that in the media, and even in the world, we like instant gratification. The judicial process is a long process, and so we’ll be here with that case for a while. I think that everyone in society is the same, and I don’t know why that’s such a difficult concept for people. You can look at the charges, …

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Trump Pressured MI Officials Not To Certify Election

The Detroit News reports: Then-President Donald Trump personally pressured two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers not to sign the certification of the 2020 presidential election, according to recordings reviewed by The Detroit News and revealed publicly for the first time. On a Nov. 17, 2020, phone call, which also involved Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, …

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Trump: “I’m Not An Insurrectionist, Crooked Biden Is”

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that he’s “not an insurrectionist” in an apparent response to the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove him from the state’s 2024 primary election ballot, which President Joe Biden and others have commented on. “I’m not an Insurrectionist (“PEACEFULLY & PATRIOTICALLY”), Crooked Joe Biden is!!!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social …

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Godwin’s Law Creator: Yes, Compare Trump To Hitler

Mike Godwin writes for the Washington Post: When people draw parallels between Donald Trump’s 2024 candidacy and Hitler’s progression from fringe figure to Great Dictator, we aren’t joking. Those of us who hope to preserve our democratic institutions need to underscore the resemblance before we enter the twilight of American democracy. And that’s why Godwin’s Law isn’t violated — or …

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Trump Lawyers Attack DOJ’s Florida Jury Questionnaire

The Messenger reports: Attorneys for Donald Trump responded in a fiery court filing Wednesday night to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s request for a federal judge to approve jury selection steps in the Florida classified documents case against the former president. In the six-page filing, Trump’s attorneys said the request by Smith’s office for U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to authorize …

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Judge: Giuliani Must Immediately Pay Election Workers

The Messenger reports: Former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss won their bid Wednesday night to immediately enforce a $146 million judgment against Rudy Giuliani. In the new filing, U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell, a Barack Obama appointee, lifted an automatic stay of 30 days she’d imposed on the verdict that allows Freeman and Moss to try …

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Trump Asks SCOTUS To Stay Out Of Immunity Battle

NBC News reports: Lawyers for Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to avoid deciding for now the key issue of whether the former president has broad immunity from actions he took challenging the 2020 presidential elections result. The court filing was in response to special counsel Jack Smith’s request last week asking the justices to circumvent the normal …

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Former WH Lawyer: SCOTUS Will Rule 9-0 For Trump

The Hill reports: Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb on Tuesday predicted the U.S. Supreme Court could rule “9-0” in favor of former President Trump in a potential appeal of Colorado Supreme Court’s new ruling that would kick Trump off the state’s ballot. “I think this case will be handled quickly, I think it could be 9-0 in the Supreme …

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Trump: Hitler Said What I Said In A Much Different Way

The New York Times reports: Former President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday doubled down on his widely condemned comment that undocumented immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” rebuffing criticism that the language echoed Adolf Hitler by insisting that he had never read the Nazi dictator’s autobiographical manifesto. He said on Tuesday night in a speech in Iowa that …

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Trump: Biden Isn’t Religious, He Never Mentions Jesus

“Americans of faith are not a threat to our country, Americans of faith are the soul of our country and they have been from the beginning. I will defend religion and I will defend ‘In God We Trust.’ “And you know that very important phrase is under siege, you do know that right? We will defend it 100%. When Joe …

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Trump Spreads False Claim Reporter Is NY Judge’s Son

Ben Kochman writes for the New York Post: Donald Trump keeps sharing a photo on social media featuring a bright-red arrow pointing at the head of a bearded man at his civil fraud trial — claiming he is the son of the judge. The Post can now confirm that the pictured bespectacled, well-groomed target is not the kin of Manhattan …

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Trump Team Blames Soros For Colorado Ballot Ruling

“Unsurprisingly, the all-Democrat appointed Colorado Supreme Court has ruled against President Trump, supporting a Soros-funded, left-wing group’s scheme to interfere in an election on behalf of Crooked Joe Biden by removing President Trump’s name from the ballot and eliminating the rights of Colorado voters to vote for the candidate of their choice. We have full confidence that the U.S. Supreme …

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