Trump Lies

ABC News reports: A federal judge in New York on Thursday rejected former President Donald Trump’s bid for a new trial in a defamation case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll. The ruling upheld the jury’s $83.3 million damage award. “Contrary to the defendant’s arguments, Ms. Carroll’s compensatory damages were not awarded solely for her emotional distress; they were not …

The New York Times reports: The Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed poised on Thursday to narrow the scope of the criminal case against former President Donald J. Trump on charges that he plotted to subvert the 2020 election. Such a ruling, endorsing at least part of Mr. Trump’s argument that he is immune from prosecution, would most likely send the …

The Huffington Post reports: Pecker reiterated that he never intended to publish Karen McDougal’s story, rather, he was motivated by a desire to prevent the story from getting out and influence the 2016 presidential election. He also agreed with Steinglass that he had an obligation to comply with campaign finance laws, yet did not report the $150,000 to the FEC …

Mediaite reports: Justice Samuel Alito asked Sauer if the president is immune from prosecution for unlawful acts if they are committed by the president in his official capacity. “Absolutely, Your Honor,” insisted Sauer. “We have the historical precedent of President Grant sending federal troops to Louisiana and Mississippi in 1876 to make sure that the Republican electors got certified in …

Rolling Stone reports: So what kind of crimes do the former president’s attorneys think should fall under the umbrella of executive immunity? Pretty much everything, apparently, including political assassinations. When asked by Justice Sonya Sotomayor during arguments on Thursday if the president deciding “that his rival is a corrupt person and he orders the military — or he orders someone …

NBC News reports: Tackling an unprecedented and politically fraught issue, the Supreme Court on Thursday considers former President Donald Trump’s assertion of total immunity from criminal charges over his attempt to overturn the 2020 election results. The court will take on the novel legal question of whether a former president can be prosecuted for what Trump’s attorneys say were “official …

ABC News reports: Former President Donald Trump, in a court filing Wednesday, asked the judge overseeing his Georgia election interference case to dismiss two more counts against him. Trump’s filing urges the judge to dismiss counts 15 and 27 of the indictment, which charge him with conspiracy to commit filing of false documents as well as the filing of false …

The Hill reports: Former White House attorney Ty Cobb on Wednesday suggested that Rudy Guiliani “sold his soul” to protect former President Trump following an Arizona grand jury indictment charging him for his alleged role in a “fake elector” scheme. Among those indicted includes Boris Epshteyn, a longtime Trump adviser, whom Cobb noted is still “very much” in Trump’s “inner …

“I don’t have hopes really that high at this moment that the New York courts will do the right thing, that the jury will do the right thing. We’re in a blue state, as you know, Greg. And I think everything’s by design. We’re in a case that was eight years old, over the statute of limitations, was denied by …

The Daily Beast reports: On Wednesday morning, The Daily Beast published a report detailing how Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and four associated PACs have been using a GOP compliance firm to pay legal fees, obscuring who is the ultimate recipient of millions of dollars in legal payments. By Wednesday night, the Trump campaign and the four PACs were facing a …

The New York Times reports: The Supreme Court, in its last argument of the term, will consider on Thursday whether former President Donald J. Trump must face trial on charges that he plotted to subvert the 2020 election. The court’s answer to that question will be a major statement on the scope of presidential power. Depending on its timing and …

Law & Crime reports: The New York City judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s hush-money case has denied a defense request to subpoena several forms of documents from adult film actress Stormy Daniels. In a four-page ruling late Wednesday, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan M. Merchan said the 45th president’s requests were “overbroad” attempts to conduct discovery with a …

The Washington Post reports: Trump’s sense of ownership of the building extended even to a souvenir he had created: a “key to the White House.” In his book “Breaking History,” Trump adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner described the tchotchke. “When Trump met with Netanyahu, he whipped out his signature gift — an oversize bronze ‘key to the White House’ in …

The Detroit News reports: Michigan prosecutors consider former President Donald Trump and some of his top aides co-conspirators in the plot to submit a certificate falsely claiming he won Michigan’s 2020 election, an investigator for Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office testified Wednesday in court. Howard Shock, a special agent for Nessel, said Trump; Mark Meadows, who was Trump’s chief of …

“I see the defendants in the January 6 cases as criminal defendants who are being charged with federal crimes, and are in front of independent courts as part of our legal system. In our country, there are all sorts of people who are upset and angry about all sorts of things, about all sorts of people. “But there is a …

“We now have the ability at the RNC not just to have poll watchers – people standing in polling locations – but people who can physically handle the ballots. “So, there was a moratorium for about 40 years on the RNC actually training people to work in these polling locations and the tabulation centers where the mail-in ballots come in. …

“Thousands of people were turned away from the Courthouse in Lower Manhattan by steel stanchions and police, literally blocks from the tiny side door from where I enter and leave. It is an armed camp to keep people away. “Maggot Hagerman of The Failing New York Times, falsely reported that I was disappointed with the crowds. No, I’m disappointed with …

Politico reports: Details of prosecutors’ battles to obtain testimony from high-level White House aides to Donald Trump may soon become public, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in response to a POLITICO petition to access records related to the investigation of Trump’s bid to subvert the 2020 election. The unanimous ruling from a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court …

“I consider myself to be a proud American. But after sitting in that dirty, disgusting criminal courtroom today watching the former President of the United States being persecuted like a criminal, I don’t know if I’m so proud to be an American anymore. “Meanwhile, there are real criminals running free in the streets of this city every single day, being …

Reuters reports: “I received a call from Michael Cohen telling me that the boss wanted to see me,” David Pecker said, adding that he and Michael Cohen always referred to Trump as “the boss.’” Pecker said that at the meeting, Trump and Cohen asked him what he could do and what his publications could do to help the campaign. “I …