Trump Lies

The Daily Beast reports: Of all the inane moments of Trump’s Oval Office tenure, perhaps none was more humiliating—and thus encapsulated his administration better—than the press conference held by his team on Nov. 7, 2020, four days after the presidential election. At that infamous affair, Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani spoke to the media in front of a garage door at …

The New York Times reports: As the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot fights to extract testimony and documents from Donald J. Trump’s White House, an Atlanta district attorney is moving toward convening a special grand jury in her criminal investigation of election interference by the former president and his allies, according to a person with direct knowledge …

The Hill reports: Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chair of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, said he would not rule out contempt charges against Jeffrey Clark, a former Trump Department of Justice official implicated in the former president’s efforts to forward his election fraud claims. “It’s under consideration, absolutely,” Thompson said. Thompson’s comments came …

CNN reports: Retiring Rep. Anthony Gonzalez has a warning for his fellow Republicans: former President Donald Trump will try to steal the next election. With Trump appearing to prepare for another presidential run in 2024, Gonzalez told CNN he will try to stop Trump from running the same 2020 playbook to overturn another election, but he warned that Trump could …

CNN reports: Allies of former President Donald Trump testified under oath that they had done little to verify debunked claims of fraud in the 2020 election before spreading them on the national stage, according to tapes of their depositions obtained exclusively by CNN. The video details responses from the Trump allies as a lawyer representing former Dominion Voting Systems executive …

Politico reports: A federal judge on Thursday sharply questioned former President Donald Trump’s effort to block the congressional Jan. 6 select committee from obtaining his White House records, casting doubt on the notion that the former president can overrule his successor’s decision to release them to investigators. “There is only one executive,” said District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan during a …

The Washington Post reports: The Manhattan District Attorney has convened a second long-term grand jury to hear evidence about the Trump Organization’s financial practices, and potentially to vote on criminal charges, according to people with knowledge of the matter. An earlier grand jury — convened this spring in Manhattan — previously handed down felony indictments against two Trump companies and …

Rolling Stone reports: Top allies of Donald Trump are putting together a legal fund to support rally organizers who’ve been subpoenaed as part of Congress’ investigation into the attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to multiple people familiar with the effort. The legal fund demonstrates how wealthy and powerful people within Trump’s inner circle are looking out for the president’s …

CNN Business reports: Smartmatic filed suit against Newsmax Media in Superior Court of the State of Delaware. The lawsuit charged that Newsmax “published dozens of reports indicating that Smartmatic participated in a criminal conspiracy to rig and steal the 2020 U.S. election and that its technology and software were used to switch votes from former President Trump to now President …

Reuters reports: Voting technology company Smartmatic on Wednesday sued right-wing U.S. television network One America News for libel and slander, according to court records. Smartmatic’s complaint against OAN has not yet been posted to the court’s docket. The case is in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. A representative from OAN did not immediately respond to a …

Politico reports: The supervisor of a voting machine warehouse in the Philadelphia suburbs is suing Donald Trump and top political advisers in a Philadelphia-based county court, saying the former president slandered him during a months-long effort to overturn the 2020 election results. In a 60-page lawsuit, James Savage, the voting machine warehouse custodian in Delaware County, says that in the …

Israel’s Haaretz has the transcript: The biggest change I’ve seen in Congress is Israel literally owned Congress, you understand that, ten years ago, 15 years ago. And it was so powerful. It was so powerful. And today it’s almost the opposite. You have between AOC and Omar and these people that hate Israel, they hate it with a passion, they’re …

Insurance Business reports: The Trump Organization filed a highly exaggerated claim of nearly $1.3 million for damages to a golf course that cost only a fraction of the payout, insiders familiar with the matter have claimed. Sources that asked not to be identified reached out to Rolling Stone, saying that when a flood occurred at Trump National Golf Club Westchester …

The Hill reports: When asked by host George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week” if his retirement announcement handed Trump a win, Kinzinger said it “potentially” did, before criticizing Republicans who have “put their head in the sand.” “It’s not really handing a win as much to Donald Trump as it is to the cancerous kind of lie and conspiracy not …

Yahoo Sports reports: Before the World Series arrived in Atlanta, the Braves announced that former president Donald Trump would be attending Saturday night’s Game 4. Saturday afternoon, just before 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time, Trump sent an email to his mailing list, which read, in full: “Looking forward to being at the World Series in Atlanta tonight. Thank you to the …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump is looking to withhold 770 pages of documents from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to court documents filed by the National Archives. In a court document filed on Saturday, John Laster, who runs the National Archive’s White House Liaison Division, says the former president is looking …

The New York Times reports: A little-known Miami banker named Patrick Orlando had been discussing a deal with Mr. Trump since at least March, according to people familiar with the talks and a confidential investor presentation reviewed by The New York Times. That was well before his SPAC, Digital World Acquisition, made its debut on the Nasdaq stock exchange last …

Politico reports: Sixty-six former lawmakers, including two dozen Republicans, have signed on to a legal brief urging a federal judge to reject former President Donald Trump’s effort to block Jan. 6 investigators from accessing his White House’s records. The brief, which is slated to hit the docket in the D.C. federal District Court on Friday, contends that no possible argument …

From the Wall Street Journal editorial board: The progressive parsons of the press are aflutter that we published a letter to the editor Thursday from former President Trump, objecting to our editorial pointing out that he lost Pennsylvania last year by 80,555 votes. We trust our readers to make up their own minds about his statement. And we think it’s …

NBC News reports: Lawyers for former President Donald Trump urged a federal judge late Tuesday to block the Treasury Department and the IRS from giving his tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee. Trump’s taxes have long been the Democrats’ “white whale,” the lawyers said. The committee sued the Treasury Department when it refused to hand over the …