Donald Trump

ABC This Week anchor Jonathan Karl interviewed Mike Pence, during which he played Trump’s defense of rioters’ calls to have him hanged. Via ABC, here’s the transcript of what followed: KARL: I mean, he’s effectively justifying, or excusing, the actions of people who were calling for you to be hanged! PENCE: There is no excuse for the violence that took …

“We are learning that the Manhattan DA’s office has asked for a meeting with law enforcement ahead of a potential Trump indictment, this is coming to Fox News from a source in the courts. “The meeting, which was requested yesterday and has not been set yet, is to discuss logistics for sometime next week, which would mean that they are …

Posted yesterday to Trump’s Trump Social account: Here we go again with the USGA wanting to cut the distance out of a golf ball! Remember, you still have to chip, putt, and do everything else. They really have bigger problems, like LIV. People want to feel and watch the long ball. Also, they want to see the great players hit …

Mediate reports: Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade openly laughed at former President Donald Trump’s attempt to claim the storming of the U.S. Capitol by his supporters was Mike Pence’s fault. Fox & Friends declined to note that Trump’s anger prompted his supporters to chant “Hang Mike Pence” as they broke into Congress, but Kilmeade laughed at Trump blaming Pence for what …

Mediaite reports: Fox News host Tucker Carlson called former President Donald Trump is a “little bit autistic” and dismissed his claim he would end the war in Ukraine in a lengthy and candid interview on the Full Send Podcast. “I saw Trump said he could close that in 24 hours if he wanted to,” host Kyle Forgeard asked. “Do you …

Axios reports: Former President Trump, in a new book, plans to reveal 150 private letters sent to him — including one from Oprah Winfrey in 2000 in which she says: “Too bad we’re not running for office. What a team!” Trump writes that he still considers Winfrey “amazing” — but admits it’s not mutual: “Sadly, once I announced for President, …

Mediaite reports: “Donald Trump is trying to vilify Jeb Bush and Paul Ryan; he says they are a portion of the party that he is trying to link Ron DeSantis to,” Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade said today. “He is also working on a nickname ‘Ron Dishonest, Ron DeEstablishment’ or ‘Tiny D.’” “I don’t know,” Kilmeade continued. “If people …

“I was afraid for my own well-being. I thought I could wind up in Guantanamo Bay. I think I still could. He was ranting about me all last week again. He’s obsessed sometimes. I don’t know. “He went on a tear for about eight months when he was president, every time he’d have a rally. I have a list three …

The New York Post reports: Donald Trump — or should we call him DJ Donnie T? — now has a regular gig spinning at his Palm Beach, Fla., club, Mar-a-Lago. A socially connected insider tells Page Six that “Trump is officially DJing every Thursday night” at the members-only club. The source added, “Members know this, and when they invite guests …

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: Kim Jung Un of North Korea, who I got to know and got along with very well during my years as President, is not happy with the U.S. and South Korea doing big training and air exercises together. He feels threatened. Even I would constantly complain that South Korea pays us very …

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump tried to call into Fox News after his supporters attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, but the network refused to put him on air, according to court filings from Dominion Voting Systems in its defamation case against the company. The House select committee that investigated the January 6 attack did not know …

Politico reports: Leaders of the far-right Proud Boys say they intend to subpoena former President Donald Trump to testify in the ongoing trial pertaining to the group’s alleged conspiracy to forcibly derail the transfer of power from Trump to President Joe Biden. Prosecutors have underscored the group’s repeated responses to Trump’s public statements — from his Sept. 2020 debate-stage exhortation …

“I just let people know, because I believe in loyalty, that he was at like 3%, he was dead in politics, he was never going to be in office. He was getting ready to leave the race and he came over and asked whether or not it would be possible for me to endorse him. “For whatever reason, I did …

Posted this morning to Trump’s Truth Social account: Remember in Helsinki when a 3rd rate reporter asked me, essentially, who I trusted more, President Putin of Russia, or our “Intelligence” lowlifes. My instinct at the time was that we had really bad people in the form of James Comey, McCabe (whose wife was being helped out by Crooked Hillary while …

CBS News reports: The conference, known as the ReAwaken America Tour, had no official lineup of speakers for the May event at Trump’s Doral hotel in Miami, but past events have featured speakers who have echoed conspiracy theories that Trump has supported, including Eric Trump, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, Overstock.com founder Patrick Byrne, Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk, and former …

The Washington Post reports: Republican Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, facing a surprisingly aggressive challenge to her leadership, has argued in recent weeks that she is best positioned to prevent former president Donald Trump from forming a third party if he fails to win the 2024 GOP presidential nomination next year, according to multiple people involved in the conversations. She made the …

The Washington Post reports: The Jan. 6 committee spent months gathering stunning new details on how social media companies failed to address the online extremism and calls for violence that preceded the Capitol riot.But in the end, committee leaders declined to delve into those topics in detail in their final report, reluctant to dig into the roots of domestic extremism …

“I think you can just look at the New York Post or Fox News and remember, when he announced his election campaign, ‘Florida man announces reelection’ page 26. Yeah, there’s no doubt that the majority of conservative media, Fox, first and foremost, has a strong desire to move on from Donald Trump and are not paying enough attention and giving …

NBC News reports: Behind closed doors in 2017, President Donald Trump discussed the idea of using a nuclear weapon against North Korea and suggested he could blame a U.S. strike against the communist regime on another country, according to a new section of a book that details key events of his administration. Trump’s alleged comments, reported for the first time …

The Daily Beast reports: When advisers for former President Donald Trump were helping to set up the Jan. 6 rally outside the White House, Trump’s inner circle tried to prevent “Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander from speaking. Trump confidants were so concerned about associating the president with Alexander that, despite Alexander being a central organizer for the Jan. 6 …