Trump Lies

The Meidas Touch reports: Donald Trump has hired a new addition to his communications team, according to reports, to assist his campaign with a very unique request. Natalie Harp is tasked with accompanying Trump on golf trips and to other events “equipped with a laptop and sometimes a printer to show him uplifting news articles, online posts, or other materials.” …

Reuters reports: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is using his hush money trial to squeeze his loyal army of small donors and personally lobby major backers as he scrambles to reduce a major fundraising disadvantage with Democratic President Joe Biden. His campaign has been firing off daily, dramatically worded fundraising appeals to small donors – who rallied to support him …

The Daily Beast reports: Even before Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York began, it was clear that the lengthy and demanding proceedings would fundamentally change his 2024 campaign. But it only took a few days to show that Trump’s hush money trial will be even more damaging, more constraining, and more significant than anyone expected. On Tuesday, The Daily …

Politico reports: Former President Donald Trump’s political operation said Thursday that it plans to deploy more than 100,000 attorneys and volunteers across battleground states to monitor — and potentially challenge — vote counting in November. The initiative — which the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee described as “the most extensive and monumental election integrity program in the nation’s …

Law & Crime reports: The so-called “Kraken” of the legal system has won a personal and professional victory in the Lone Star State. On Thursday, a Dallas-based court of appeals upheld a trial court decision that decided against any form of discipline for attorney Sidney Powell over her November 2020 lawsuits that sought “to prevent the certification of election results …

Variety reports: Netflix reported its first-quarter 2024 earnings Thursday, revealing it added a whopping 9.33 million paid subscribers. Analysts consensus estimates were for Netflix to add 3.93 million paid subs globally in Q1 (to reach 264.21 million), according to StreetAccount. These impressive Q1 results come following a better-than-expected 13.1 million subscribers added for the fourth quarter of 2023, which was …

ABC News reports: A federal judge has rejected an effort by former President Donald Trump to pause several civil lawsuits filed against him seeking to hold him accountable for his actions leading up to the Jan. 6 riot, according to a newly posted ruling. Trump had asked D.C. District Judge Amit Mehta to stay proceedings in the lawsuits — brought …

The Daily Beast reports: Triumph the Insult Comic Dog was spotted engaging with the MAGA faithful outside of Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Downtown Manhattan this week. Triumph starts trying to engaging with “diverse” Trump fans, “a virtual rainbow, representing every kind of mental disorder”—or, “a real who’s who of who’s off their meds”—but can barely get his jokes in …

Raw Story reports: “I’m supposed to be in New Hampshire,” Trump said to reporters after emerging from the courthouse. “I’ve been here all day.” The former president reiterated that he believes the trial against him, for business record fraud to allegedly cover up an affair with an adult film star ahead of the 2016 election, is “very unfair.” He waved …

CNN reports: Judge Juan Merchan said a jury has been seated in the Trump trial. The court is now selecting alternates. Both sides in the courtroom used all their peremptory strikes on potential jurors. The jurors for the Trump hush money criminal trial are coming into the courtroom. Twelve jurors and one alternate have been seated. A potential juror who …

The Daily Beast reports: The second juror, Watters described, is “a nurse from the Upper East Side with a Masters degree.” “She’s not married, has no kids and lives with her fiancé who works in finance,” Watters said, chuckling for some reason. “She gets her news from The New York Times, Google and CNN.” Two items in this juror’s questionnaire …

The right wing Daily Caller reports: John Eastman, once an attorney for former President Donald Trump, was de-banked twice in the span of several months by two prominent financial institutions, Bank of America and USAA, he told the Daily Caller. His accounts were closed as he faced substantial backlash for his work advising Trump around the time of the 2020 …

Raw Story reports: A juror seated in Donald Trump’s criminal hush-money trial was the second to be dismissed on Thursday. As jurors returned to the courtroom for the third day of trial, one woman said she had “concerns about her ability to be fair.” Soon after, prosecutors said another juror, a man, had not disclosed that he had been arrested …

CNN reports: After a paneled juror expressed concerns in court about her ability to serve, Judge Juan Merchan addressed the press in court, telling them “there’s a reason this is an anonymous jury.” “I’m directing that the press simply apply common sense and refrain from writing about anything that has to do with physical descriptions, it’s just not necessary, it …

Deadline Hollywood reports: Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t planning to host the Oscars next year. But now he might. The ABC late-night host was responding to comments from former President Donald Trump on Truth Social. Trump said that Kimmel was “made to look like a FOOL, which he is, and at the same time go down in Television History as the WORST …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump appeared to violate the clear gag order set forth by Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the New York trial over hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. On Wednesday, Trump took to Truth Social and quoted Fox News host Jesse Watters. “They are catching undercover Liberal Activists lying to the Judge …

The Associate Press reports: Donald Trump’s legal team says it tried serving Stormy Daniels a subpoena as she arrived for an event at a bar in Brooklyn last month, but the porn actor, who is expected to be a witness at the former president’s criminal trial, refused to take it and walked away. A process server working for Trump’s lawyers …

CNN reports: Thursday morning, a new panel of 96 jurors, already sworn in, will return to the courtroom. The judge will ask two broad questions: whether any juror feels they can’t be fair or impartial, and whether they are unable to serve on the trial for another reason. The trial is expected to last at least six weeks. The remaining …

The Hill reports: If former President Trump chooses to testify in his hush money trial, New York prosecutors want to cross-examine him about his various civil lawsuits. In court papers signed last month but not made public until Wednesday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) office said it would seek to question Trump about 13 court rulings against him or …

The Meidas Touch reports: Trump visited a Harlem bodega to highlight his campaign’s emphasis on crime. In coverage of the event, New Yorkers could be seen cheering, singing, and chanting for Trump. Pro-Trump, right wing media and MAGA Republicans have used clips of the crowd as evidence that Black and Hispanic voters are turning to Trump in heavily Democratic areas. …