Trump Corruption

Ivanka Contradicts Her Own Testimony In Interview Clip

The New York Times reports: Ivanka Trump, the elder daughter of former President Donald J. Trump, told a documentary film crew in the middle of December 2020 that her father should “continue to fight until every legal remedy is exhausted” because people were questioning “the sanctity of our elections.” The video, which was played for The New York Times by …

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GOP Official: Giuliani Admitted He Had “No Evidence”

Law & Crime reports: In emotional testimony, Bowers testified that Giuliani asked him to replace Arizona’s electors from Joe Biden’s victory with illegitimate pro-Trump electors and that the suggestion offended him to the core. “It’s a tenet of my faith that the Constitution is divinely inspired — of my most basic, foundational beliefs,” Bowers said. “And so for me to …

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RNC Head Testifies Trump Pushed Her On Fake Electors

CNN reports: The head of the Republican Party testified to the House select committee that former President Donald Trump called her as part of an effort to use fake electors to support him. The new detail links Trump directly to efforts to put forward rogue, alternate slates of electors in states that he lost, even though his top lawyers in …

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GOP Official Debunks Trump’s Latest Lie In Real Time

Mediaite reports: Arizona Speaker of the House Rusty Bowers (R) shut down new claims from Donald Trump that they both agreed the 2020 election was stolen. Schiff asked Bowers “Did you have such a conversation with the president?” Bowers said, “I did have a conversation with the president. That certainly isn’t it. “Anywhere, anyone, anytime has said I said the …

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Ron Johnson Pushed Pence To Accept Fake Electors

The Washington Post reports: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) offered to hand-deliver certificates of fake electors to Vice President Mike Pence as part of the Trump campaign’s broader effort to overturn the 2020 election result, according to evidence released by the House Jan. 6 committee. In texts obtained by the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, a …

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How Cultists Harassed And Doxxed PA House Speaker

ABC News reports: “Mr. Speaker, this is Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis. We’re calling you together because we’d like to discuss, obviously the election,” Giuliani said in a Nov. 26, 2020 voicemail. “Hello Mr. Speaker, this is Jenna Ellis, and I’m here with Mayor Giuliani,” Ellis said in a Nov. 27, 2020 voicemail. “Hey Bryan, it’s Rudy, I really have …

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Trump World Plotting To Make Eastman Their Fall Guy

Rolling Stone reports: With the Justice Department and Jan. 6 committee taking a close look at Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, he and his cronies could certainly use a fall guy, and it looks like they’ve found their patsy: right-wing lawyer John Eastman. Eastman worked for Trump as the attorney devised legal strategies to overturn the election …

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LIVE VIDEO: House January 6th Hearings Day Four

CBS News reports: The House select committee examining the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol will convene Tuesday for its fourth public hearing this month. This session will focus on President Trump’s efforts to pressure state officials as part of his broader campaign to remain in office for a second term after losing the 2020 election. Expected to appear …

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Book Spotlights QAnon Ginni’s Ties To Husband’s Clerks

The Hill reports: In a new book out Tuesday, Ginni Thomas provided a window into her years-long effort to cultivate and nurture relationships with and among her husband’s former Supreme Court clerks. Among Clarence Thomas’s former clerks is lawyer John Eastman, a key figure in the House Jan. 6 select committee’s probe, whose communications with Ginni Thomas after the 2020 …

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Pence: Biden Lies More Than Any President [VIDEO]

Mediaite reports: “Have you ever seen a president who refuses to accept blame, and I want to add to that, commits so many falsehoods?” Kudlow asked Pence. “I’m being very polite here, calling it falsehoods – falsehoods, you know, on any given day. He’s out there saying stuff that just ain’t true. Have you ever seen anything like that?” Pence …

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Report: Trump Helped Coordinate Fake Electors Scheme

The Guardian reports: The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack is expected to show at its fourth hearing on Tuesday that Donald Trump and top advisers coordinated the scheme to send fake slates of electors as part of an effort to return him to the White House. The panel is expected to also examine Trump’s campaign to …

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Riot Committee Subpoenas Clips By Trump Filmmaker

Politico Playbook reports: The House select committee investigating Jan. 6 sent a subpoena last week to Alex Holder, a documentary filmmaker who was granted extensive access to President Donald Trump and his inner circle, and who shot interviews with the then-president both before and after Jan. 6. The existence of this footage is previously unreported. A source familiar with the …

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Schiff: Tomorrow’s Hearing Will Focus On Meadows

Talking Points Memo reports: Ahead of the Jan. 6 Select Committee’s hearing on Tuesday, member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) told the Los Angeles Times that the panel plans to demonstrate Mark Meadows’ “intimate role” in the then-President’s scheme to pressure Georgia state legislators into overturning the election results. Additionally, Schiff said the committee is set to release new information about …

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Ex-Watergate Prosecutor: Trump Has “Zero Defense” In Call To Georgia Official, Could Actually Face Prison Time

Axios reports: Former President Trump’s taped phone call pressing Georgia’s Republican secretary of state in January 2021 to “find 11,780 votes” should be “enough” to indict him, a former Watergate prosecutor told MSNBC on Sunday. While Trump has dismissed both the Fulton County investigation and the Jan. 6 committee hearings as “witch-hunts,” former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman told MSNBC’s “The …

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Rep. Zoe Lofgren: Trump Wanted Mob To Attack Pence

The Hill reports: Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) on Sunday said that former President Trump intended to “accelerate the violence” against his vice president, Mike Pence, during the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021. “You know, when he sent out the tweet attacking his vice president, he already knew that the violence was underway,” Lofgren said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” …

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Trump: I Haven’t Endorsed Kevin McCarthy For Speaker

The right wing Washington Examiner reports: Former President Donald Trump made it clear that he has not endorsed anyone, including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), for speaker of the House. Toward the end of a recent interview, Trump interjected to correct conservative talk show host Wayne Allyn Root after he said Trump endorsed McCarthy for speaker. “No, I haven’t,” Trump …

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Arizona GOP Leader To Testify At Tuesday Riot Hearing

CNN reports: Rusty Bowers, a Republican and Arizona state House speaker, will testify at a Tuesday hearing focusing on former President Donald Trump’s pressure on state officials to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in 2020,. Bowers will join Georgia’s election officials — Brad Raffensperger and Gabe Sterling — who will be part of a panel before the January 6 committee detailing …

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POLL: 54% Want Criminal Charges Against Trump

Mediaite reports: In a poll taken as the Jan. 6 hearings rolled out, Americans approve of criminally charging former President Donald Trump for his role in the attack — by a whopping 17-point margin. Respondents to a Navigator Research poll released this week were asked “Do you support or oppose the Department of Justice filing criminal charges against Donald Trump …

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Newsmax Loses Bid To Dismiss $1.6B Dominion Lawsuit

ABC News reports: A federal judge on Friday ruled that a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion — a voting machine company at the heart of a number of “Big Lie” conspiracy theories — against far-right news outlet Newsmax is allowed to proceed. Judge Eric M. Davis denied Newsmax’s motion to dismiss the $1.6 billion civil suit. In the original complaint …

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Analysis: Proud Boys Led Breach Of Capitol [VIDEO]

The New York Times reports: Over and over, at key moments when the Capitol was breached, the group used the same set of tactics: identifying access points to the building, riling up other protesters and sometimes directly joining in the violence. When met with resistance, leaders of the group reassessed, and teams of Proud Boys targeted new entry points to …

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