Trump Lies

Axios reports: Rudy Giuliani plans to defend himself in an upcoming legal ethics case — and he’ll have help from a number of 2020 election deniers. Giuliani could lose his ability to practice law in Washington, D.C., if he loses the case, similar to how he can’t practice in the state of New York over his election fraud claims. Giuliani’s …

The Wall Street Journal reports: The aides, Walt Nauta and Will Russell, are witnesses in the Justice Department’s investigation into the handling of presidential and classified records taken from the White House but aren’t formally cooperating with the probe. Federal officials have expressed concern about whether Mr. Trump took documents on flights as he traveled from Mar-a-Lago to his other …

Politico reports: A federal judge on Friday denied an effort by John Eastman, the attorney who helped devise Donald Trump’s last-ditch effort to subvert the 2020 election, to reclaim his phone from the Justice Department. New Mexico-based Senior U.S. District Court Judge Robert Brack ruled that Eastman had failed to show that the government’s seizure of his phone — by …

CNN reports: The Justice Department officially appealed the appointment of the special master, who is overseeing the review of documents seized from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, in a brief filed with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday. The Justice Department centered their brief on sweeping criticism of lower court Judge Aileen Cannon’s actions, arguing she had …

Fox News reports: Former President Trump ramped up his fight against the Pulitzer Prize Board on Thursday with a letter informing individual members they could be exposed to a defamation suit.The letter said they could be liable over the 2018 National Reporting prizes given to The New York Times and Washington Post for “totally debunked” coverage of alleged collusion between …

The Washington Post reports: A former top aide to Vice President Mike Pence returned before a grand jury Thursday to testify in a criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election after federal courts overruled President Donald Trump’s objections to the testimony, according to people familiar with the matter. In a sealed decision that could clear the way for …

The Hill reports: Former President Donald Trump on Friday skirted the question of whether he would testify under subpoena in a 14-page response to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol, instead doubling down on his disproven claims that the 2020 election was stolen. Trump posted a letter to committee chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) one day …

The New York Times reports: Mr. Trump believes he is his own best spokesman and can explain his actions to anyone, and he often ignores the counsel of lawyers, who would almost certainly tell him not to appear voluntarily. Since it became public that the House select committee planned to subpoena Trump for his testimony, the former president has been …

Gizmodo reports: What kinds of promises does it take for Truth Social, a platform renowned for spreading misinformation and falsehoods by its most prolific and influential users, to get approved on Google Play Store? Apparently, all it takes is a vague promise to actually adhere to its existing terms of service. Late on Wednesday Trump Media & Technology Group, the …

Posted this afternoon to Trump’s Truth Social account: The Unselect Committee knowingly failed to examine the massive voter fraud which took place during the 2020 Presidential Election – The reason for what took place on January 6th. Why didn’t the Unselect Committee ask me to testify months ago? Why did they wait until the very end, the final moments of …

The New York Times reports: Huddling with congressional leaders in a secure location as the Capitol was under siege, Speaker Nancy Pelosi was emphatic: There had to be a way to show the public that the government could function and the transfer of power could continue. Was there a way to return to the Capitol and continue certifying the election, …

The Hill reports: “So, to the best of my recollection I recall him wanting to, saying that he wanted to physically walk and be a part of the march and saying he would ride the Beast if he needed to. Ride in the presidential limo,” former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told the committee in footage shared at Thursday’s …

From the New York Times live blog: Thompson is delivering a scorching indictment of Trump as he lays the groundwork for a subpoena. Multiple times today, committee members called Trump “the center” of the Jan. 6 events. Cheney just motioned for a vote to subpoena Trump. “He must be accountable. He is required to answer for his actions,” Thompson said. …

CNN reports: The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an emergency request from former President Donald Trump to intervene in the dispute over classified documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate in August. Trump had asked the justices to reverse a federal appeals court and allow a special master to review about 100 documents marked classified, a move that could have opened …

ABC News reports: The House Jan. 6 committee will once again dive into Donald Trump’s efforts to undermine the outcome of the 2020 presidential race in a public hearing just 25 days before Election Day. The panel will reconvene at 1 p.m. on Thursday for what could be its final hearing before it releases a final report on its findings …

NBC News reports: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol plans to vote to subpoena former President Donald Trump, sources familiar with the committee’s plans told NBC News Thursday. Members of the panel, which held what was expected to be its final hearing before the midterm elections Thursday, had previously said that they were still considering …

Via press release from New York AG Letitia James: New York Attorney General Letitia James took action today to stop Donald Trump and the Trump Organization from continuing to engage in the significant fraudulent and illegal business activity outlined in Attorney General James’ September 2022 lawsuit pending trial. In a motion for a preliminary injunction filed today, Attorney General James …

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: I don’t know this woman, have no idea who she is, other than it seems she got a picture of me many years ago, with her husband, shaking my hand on a reception line at a celebrity charity event. She completely made up a story that I met her at the doors …

The Washington Post reports: A Trump employee has told federal agents about moving boxes of documents at Mar-a-Lago at the specific direction of the former president, according to people familiar with the investigation, who say the witness account — combined with security-camera footage — offers key evidence of Donald Trump’s behavior as investigators sought the return of classified material. The …

The Associated Press reports: Former President Donald Trump will have to sit for a deposition next week in a defamation lawsuit filed by a writer who says he raped her in the mid-1990s, a judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan rejected a request by Trump’s lawyers that the planned testimony be delayed. The deposition is now scheduled …