Trump Lies

The Wall Street Journal reports: Manhattan prosecutors are intensifying their investigation into Donald Trump’s businesses, taking aim at a Westchester County, N.Y., estate that the former president unsuccessfully tried to develop, according to people familiar with the matter. In recent weeks, according to the people, the Manhattan district attorney’s office has issued new subpoenas and requested recordings of local government …

CNN reports: The Manhattan district attorney’s office subpoenaed documents from an investment company that loaned the Trump Organization millions of dollars for its Chicago skyscraper in a sign that the investigation into the former president’s finances continues to expand. Prosecutors issued the grand jury subpoena to Fortress Investment Management late last year, the people said, as part of their wide-ranging …

The Palm Beach Post reports: Former President Donald Trump is set to fulfill his civic duty as a private citizen and vote in the town of Palm Beach’s municipal election. Despite his false claims about mail voting during the 2020 election cycle, Trump requested a mail ballot on Friday for the third time in his Palm Beach County voter history. …

NBC News reports: The Supreme Court on Monday denied an appeal by Trump ally and conspiracy theorist Lin Wood that had sought to prevent the Senate election runoffs in Georgia from taking place on Jan. 5. The justices turned down the request in an unsigned order with no noted dissents, some two months after the races produced a pair of …

The New York Daily News reports: Donald Trump is in New York City this week to get up to speed about the ins-and-outs of his embattled namesake company, a person close to him said Monday, as the former president and his business associates remain in the cross-hairs of multiple state prosecutors. The Queens-born ex-president, who was spotted arriving at his …

Bloomberg News reports: The U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider former President Donald Trump’s challenge to the presidential election results in Wisconsin, rejecting the last remaining appeal that sought to overturn Joe Biden’s victory. The rebuff came without comment or published dissent. It follows the court’s Feb. 22 rejection of a group of appeals that sought to reverse Biden’s win …

Axios reports: Nearly every big news site saw its traffic decline in February, compared to a tumultuous January that included the Capitol insurrection and Biden’s inauguration. Publishers’ traffic was down across the board, and many major sites saw traffic dip more than 20%, according to data from traffic analytics company SimilarWeb. Politics consumption dropped most dramatically, tumbling 28%. News consumers …

Reuters reports: The district attorney investigating whether former U.S. President Donald Trump illegally interfered with Georgia’s 2020 election has hired an outside lawyer who is a national authority on racketeering, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has enlisted the help of Atlanta lawyer John Floyd, who wrote a national guide on prosecuting …

Law & Crime reports: Despite publicly welcoming a court fight over his false claims about voting machines being used to steal the 2020 election from Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani doesn’t seem to be in much of a rush to respond to the billion-dollar defamation lawsuit filed against him by Dominion Voting Systems. After repeatedly dodging process servers last month, the …

“It turns out QAnon didn’t invade Washington because neo-liberal cable news anchors successfully defended our country. “Have you ever noticed how all like the scary internet conspiracy theorist radical QAnon people and you actually see them on camera or in jail cells — as a lot of them now are — maybe they’re kind of confused, maybe they’ve got the …

Mediaite reports: Jason Miller, a senior adviser to former President Donald Trump, joined me on this week’s episode of The Interview podcast. We spoke on Thursday afternoon, a few days after CPAC, where Trump was the headline act. Trump delivered a lengthy speech on Sunday to close out the conference, the first of his post-presidency. Trump also made clear he …

From the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal: Former Presidents and Vice Presidents have told us how psychologically difficult the early months of lost political power can be. We can therefore empathize if former President Trump is frustrated these days, and perhaps that explains his attack on us Thursday over his role in the GOP’s loss of the Senate. …

Just in via email: Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America The Wall Street Journal editorial page continues, knowingly, to fight for globalist policies such as bad trade deals, open borders, and endless wars that favor other countries and sell out our great American workers, and they fight for RINOS that have so badly …

CNN reports: A criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia is set to intensify this week, as a grand jury convenes, offering the local district attorney her first shot at seeking subpoenas for records and interviews. Two grand juries are set to convene in Fulton County on Thursday. A person familiar …

The Washington Post reports: Former vice president Mike Pence stokes claims of “significant voting irregularities” in the 2020 election and attacks a voting-access bill that House Democrats are poised to pass Wednesday in his debut column for the Daily Signal, a publication of the conservative Heritage Foundation. “Many of the most troubling voting irregularities took place in states that set …

Mediaite reports: Laura Ingraham baselessly contradicted Tuesday’s testimony of FBI Director Christopher Wray during a curious segment focused on the Capitol Insurrection on The Ingraham Angle; the segment opened with a highly edited portion of his testimony. She appeared to forgive many involved for getting “kind of swept up in” the Capitol attack, saying “people were just walking around and …

The New York Daily News reports: What would Kayleigh McEnany would do? The same thing all over again. The former White House spokeswoman said Tuesday that she was moved by “Christ” to defend President Trump’s administration after his supporters stormed the Capitol. McEnany spent her first extensive interview since leaving the White House offering an odd spiritual explanation for her …

Bloomberg News reports: YouTube said it suspended Rudy Giuliani for the second time in two months after the former New York City mayor lied again in videos that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former U.S. President Donald Trump. Giuliani, who sought to overturn November’s results as Trump’s attorney, will not be allowed to upload new videos for two …

Politico reports: Former press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Tuesday that the Trump White House scuttled plans for a parting press conference in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. McEnany, in her first extended public interview since former President Donald Trump left office, told Fox News that she intended to have a final briefing as a send-off of sorts …

NBC News reports: Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany will officially join Fox News, the network announced Tuesday. The news, which was announced by Fox News host Harris Faulkner, comes after weeks during which the network had equivocated about McEnany’s role at the network. It was not immediately clear what her role will be at the company. “It is …