Trump Lies

The Washington Post reports: Today, after a drawn-out legal fight, Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) is scheduled to appear before an Atlanta-area grand jury investigating whether attempts by Donald Trump and his associates to overturn the 2020 presidential election results amounted to criminal activity. Prosecutors in Fulton County, Ga., want to hear about conversations that Graham had with Georgia officials …

The Hill reports: Voters and Republican operatives alike are labeling former President Trump the biggest loser of the midterms, raising questions about his strength heading into 2024. In a Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released exclusively to The Hill on Monday, 20 percent of voters said Trump was the clear loser after the Nov. 8 election, while 14 percent said MAGA Republicans …

Law & Crime reports: The South Carolina Supreme Court will hear an appeal requested by former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows that questions whether or not he should be forced to testify in Georgia about the 2020 election. Meadows directly sought the High State Court’s review after a South Carolina circuit court judge ordered him testify in …

The Hill reports: Only one Republican senator has announced publicly that he will support former-President Trump’s 2024 reelection bid, a sign of the uphill battle Trump faces in his quest to win the Republican presidential nomination and a second term in the White House. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) told reporters this week that he will support Trump’s candidacy for president …

The Daily Beast reports: Ivanka Trump tried and failed last week to slink out of having a court-appointed monitor watch her financial moves, as New York prosecutors worry the Trump Organization and its executives may quietly try to relocate assets in anticipation of law enforcement action. In private letters, Ivanka’s attorneys tried to exclude her—and only her—from a New York …

“We’re a third-world country in our elections, and our borders are wide open with unknown people, many of them many, many millions, millions and millions. “Criminals, terrorists pouring into our country. Millions. And don’t believe when you hear two million or three million, I believe it’s ten million people. I believe it’s ten million. Our country is changing before our …

Mediaite reports: Plenty on the right remain loyal to Trump and the former president continues to share, via his political action committee, articles praising him — like Jeffrey Lord writing, “YES! The Return of Trump is Essential” in The American Spectator. Trump’s support in Congress, however, is notably soft — particularly for the de facto leader of the party. On …

“I have been going through this for six years — for six years I have been going through this, and I am not going to go through it anymore. “And I hope the Republicans have the courage to fight this. I have been proven innocent for six years on everything – from fake impeachments to Mueller who found no collusion, …

The New York Times reports: Attorney General Merrick Garland will announce on Friday that he is appointing a special counsel to take over two major criminal investigations involving former President Donald J. Trump, including his role in events leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and his handling of sensitive government documents. The announcement, which a senior …

CNBC reports: GOP megadonors Robert and Rebekah Mercer have no current plans to help former President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign for the White House, according to people familiar with the matter. The Mercers, a father and daughter who were one of Trump’s major benefactors during his first run for president in 2016, are distancing themselves from the ex-president’s third White …

NPR reports: Three years ago, Donald Trump tweeted an image that left intelligence experts gobsmacked. The picture was of a rocket that had exploded on a launch pad deep inside of Iran. It was so crisp, that some initially thought it may not have been taken by a satellite. Now, three years after Trump’s tweet, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) …

The New York Daily News reports: Allen Weisselberg, former chief financial officer at the Trump Organization, testified Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court that he kept a handwritten list detailing the brazen tax fraud he committed in his top drawer at Trump Tower. During his first full day on the witness stand, the convicted 75-year-old talked about keeping two sets of …

The Daily Beast reports: E. Jean Carroll, the writer who three years ago accused former President Donald Trump of raping her in a department store dressing room, plans to bring a new civil suit against him, according to a Thursday court filing made by her lawyer. Carroll, a one-time magazine columnist, plans to sue Trump for defamation over a social …

The Washington Post reports: A Republican political strategist was convicted of illegally helping a Russian businessman contribute to Donald Trump’s campaign in 2016. Jesse Benton, 44, was pardoned by Trump in 2020 for a different campaign finance crime, months before he was indicted again on six counts related to facilitating an illegal foreign campaign donation. He was found guilty Thursday …

“I can’t enter into specific details about this testimony. But I will tell you that from everything we’ve learned, we know that the former president was incensed and enraged when he was not being taken to the Capitol. “He was adamant that he be able to join the mob and approach and enter the Capitol with them. Again, everything that …

CNBC reports: Billionaire and GOP megadonor Ronald Lauder won’t help finance Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign for president, his spokesman told CNBC on Wednesday. Lauder, an heir to the Estée Lauder fortune, is the latest Republican megadonor to distance himself from Trump as the former president launches a third bid for the White House. Lauder has known Trump since college, and …

“I highly disagree with that. Look, for Donald Trump, from the very beginning, from the first day he came down the escalator in 2015 in Trump Tower, it’s never been about elected officials, politicians, people in the swamp in D.C. “It’s been about the American people and if you look around the room last night, you had people from all …

The Washington Post reports: Republican office holders conspicuously avoided Mar-a-Lago for Trump’s “special announcement.” Even Trumpophilic Rep. Matt Gaetz (Fla.) begged off, claiming bad weather kept him from flying from Washington to Palm Beach, when in fact air travel Tuesday was normal. Reporters spotted only one current member of Congress: Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina — and he was …

From the article buried on page 26: With just 720 days to go before the next election, a Florida retiree made the surprise announcement Tuesday night that he was running for president. In a move no political pundit saw coming, avid golfer Donald J. Trump kicked things off at Mar-A-Lago, his resort and classified documents library. Trump, famous for gold-plated …

Newsweek reports: A video shows supporters of former President Donald Trump denouncing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis outside New York City’s Trump Tower before the former president’s 2024 campaign announcement. Two men in the group are then shown stomping on top of a flag featuring an image of DeSantis, before one of the men suggested that they would be “taking out” …