Trump Lies

Trump Seeks Dismissal Of Suit Brought By Capitol Cops

The Financial Review reports: Former President Donald Trump is seeking dismissal of a suit accusing him of sparking the January 6 Capitol riot, arguing that speakers at political rallies don’t have a “legally enforceable duty of care” to adversaries or others “who might find themselves in the path of impassioned supporters”. Trump, sued in August by eight Capitol Police officers …

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Riot Panel To Open Inquiry Into Trump’s Phone Call

The Guardian reports: Congressman Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack, has said the panel will open an inquiry into Donald Trump’s phone call seeking to stop Joe Biden’s certification from taking place on 6 January hours before the insurrection. The chairman said the select committee intended to scrutinize the phone call – revealed …

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Trump Org Snorted Up Millions In British COVID Relief

Newsweek reports: Both of the former president’s resorts in the country—Trump Turnberry in Ayrshire and Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeenshire—suffered substantial losses last year despite receiving millions in government grants, according to financial reports their operating companies filed with the U.K. government this week. Trump Turnberry saw turnover plummet from $26.37 million (£19.7million) in 2019 to $8.97 million (£6.7 …

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NYT Board Blasts Ruling In Project Veritas “Diary” Case

From the editorial board of the New York Times: “Any system of prior restraints of expression comes to this court bearing a heavy presumption against its constitutional validity,” the Supreme Court said in a 1963 case. Such restraints are “the very prototype of the greatest threat to First Amendment values,” Justice Antonin Scalia wrote a generation later. On Friday, however, …

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Trump Spox Claims He’s Cooperating With Riot Panel

The Hill reports: A spokesman for former President Trump said he has cooperated with the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol but is seeking to block his bank records from the panel. Taylor Budowich — who, according to his Twitter profile, is the director of communications for Trump and his Save America PAC — revealed …

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Broke Roger Stone Now Selling Autographed Rocks

The Daily Beast reports: Roger Stone, a longtime GOP operator and friend of Donald Trump, was subpoenaed last month for documents and testimony related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Separately, he is facing a federal lawsuit over an alleged $2 million in unpaid taxes. This month, Stone announced that he’d be auctioning off personal memorabilia from …

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Kerik Claims He’ll Publicly Release Some Riot Docs

CNN reports: Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik says he is planning to publicly release some documents requested by the House select committee investigating January 6. Kerik intends to produce “documents which are not privileged” to the committee by the end of next week. He plans to post the requested materials on a public website despite the committee’s …

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Riot Panel Asks SCOTUS To Expedite Trump’s Appeal

The Hill reports: The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is asking that the Supreme Court respond to former President Trump’s request that the justices block the National Archives from turning over his White House records to the panel by mid-January. The congressional panel filed an expedition request Thursday evening, hours after the former president …

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GA Election Workers Sue Giuliani, OAN For Defamation

Newsweek reports: Two Georgia election workers, Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, filed a defamation lawsuit Thursday against One America News Network and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, saying they were defamed by false claims that they committed ballot fraud in connection to the 2020 election. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., says One America …

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Riot Panel Focuses On Trump’s Inaction During Attack

The Washington Post reports: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is focusing intently on Donald Trump’s actions that day as it begins to discuss whether to recommend that the Justice Department open a criminal investigation into the former president. Committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) said in an interview that of particular interest is why …

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Shady Chinese Outfit Is Behind Trump’s Media Company

The Washington Post reports: A Chinese firm helping former president Donald Trump take his new media company public has been the target of investigations by federal securities regulators, who say the firm misrepresented shell companies with no products and few employees as ambitious, growing enterprises, documents and interviews show. Arc Capital, an investment advisory firm based in Shanghai, has repeatedly …

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Foreign Investors Pour $3B+ Into New Kushner Outfit

Reuters reports: Jared Kushner’s global investment firm, Affinity Partners, has raised more than $3 billion in committed funding from international investors, a person familiar with the fund-raising effort told Reuters on Thursday. Kushner plans to invest in American and Israeli companies that are looking for international expansion opportunities in India, Africa, the Middle East and other parts of Asia. He …

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Reminder: Trump Gave Big Donation To Candace Owens

Raw Story reports: It was just a few years ago that conservative Candace Owens was the CEO of a website that mocked the penis size of Donald Trump and now she’s taking $350,000 from him, and helping to promote him, recalled New York Times reporter Ken Vogel. Owens did an interview with Trump on Tuesday, but the interview came after …

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Trump Appeals To SCOTUS To Stop Release Of Riot Docs

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump appealed to the Supreme Court on Thursday to block the release of documents from his White House to the House committee investigating the January 6 riot at the Capitol, escalating his effort to keep about 700 pages of records secret. At issue are hundreds of documents including activity logs, schedules, speech notes and three …

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Stone Auctions Trump’s Autograph To Pay Legal Bills

Politico reports: Roger Stone, a longtime associate of Donald Trump, is auctioning off a copy of a 1990s magazine cover he says is signed by the former president as part of a larger fundraising campaign to pay for his legal defenses and medical bills. “To Roger YOU ARE THE GREATEST!,” reads a Trump note in his distinct scrawl on the …

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Judge Denies Flynn’s Bid To Block Riot Panel Subpoenas

NBC News reports: A federal judge in Florida on Thursday denied Michael Flynn’s request for a temporary restraining order to block subpoenas from the Jan. 6 committee compelling him to testify and to produce scores of documents. The judge took action the day after Flynn filed his motion in federal court in Florida, which is where he lives. U.S. District …

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Famous Liar Suggests Capitol Riot Was A False Flag

The Daily Beast reports: Trump concurred with alarmist extraordinaire Candace Owens during her radio show that the riot may have been a false flag operation, citing the “reporting” done by acclaimed journalists Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan. “Right, it seems like that,” Trump affirmed. “And you have BLM and you had antifa people. I have very little doubt about that …

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Flynn Sues Pelosi and Riot Committee Over Subpoenas

Fox News reports: Former national security adviser Michael Flynn filed a lawsuit Tuesday requesting a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Jan. 6 House committee. The former Trump official’s suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, alleges that the committee engaged in “outrageous intrusion” by subpoenaing …

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Trump To Hold Mar-A-Lago Presser On Riot Anniversary

The Hill reports: Former President Trump announced he would hold a news conference from Mar-a-Lago on Jan. 6, the one-year anniversary of the riot at the U.S. Capitol that the former president himself was accused of inciting. “Why isn’t the Unselect Committee of highly partisan political hacks investigating the CAUSE of the January 6th protest, which was the rigged Presidential …

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O’Reilly: I Had To Console Trump After He Got Booed

The Daily Beast reports: Bill O’Reilly has revealed that he had to console Donald Trump after he was booed by his own supporters for getting a vaccine booster shot. Trump told MAGA fans that he’d had his COVID-19 booster during Sunday’s final stop on the “History Tour” he co-headlined with the disgraced ex-Fox News star. The revelation prompted a chorus …

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