Trump Lies

The New York Times reports: Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff who was deeply involved in efforts to keep former President Donald J. Trump in power after the 2020 election, was ordered on Wednesday to travel to Atlanta to testify in a criminal investigation into election meddling. Mr. Meadows, 63, has been fighting to avoid appearing before …

Politico reports: Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is resisting a subpoena from Atlanta-area prosecutors investigating efforts by Donald Trump to subvert the 2020 election in Georgia, according to newly filed court records. Meadows is urging a judge in Pickens County, S.C., where he now resides, to reject an effort by Fulton County, Georgia, to subpoena him for …

Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: As he fully understands, writer Bob Woodward never got my permission to release tapes of my various interviews with him.Those tapes were allowed only for purposes of making sure that he got my quotes & statements correct for “the WRITTEN WORD,” in other words, for his, nevertheless, highly inaccurate book. The tapes are …

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: ’60 Minutes’ is not a News Show, it is a Democrat propaganda machine. Their story last night on Election Fraud was a JOKE! The evidence is massive, not to even mention that State Legislatures did not grant necessary approvals, the FBI paid people to, essentially, ‘get Trump,’ and then told Facebook and …

“I don’t think his lawyers will want him to show up. Because he has to testify under oath. But I don’t think he’ll show up. I don’t think he is man enough. “We’ll see if he is man enough to show up. And the public should make their judgment. No one is above the law. If we believe that, then …

The Houston Chronicle reports: As former President Donald Trump hosted a MAGA-palooza near Corpus Christi this weekend, he still hasn’t paid back the city of El Paso the more than $500,000 he owes for hosting his 2019 rally there, a city spokeswoman confirmed. Shortly after the Walmart mass shooting that left 22 dead in El Paso, Trump scheduled a large …

“We are going to proceed in terms of the questioning of the former president under oath. It may take multiple days, and it will be done with a level of rigor and discipline and seriousness that it deserves. “He’s not going to turn this into a circus. This isn’t going to be first debate against Biden and the circus and …

“They don’t want to mention this because I think it’s so terrible. You take the writer because you’re never gonna find another, going through phone records. “It’s been a long time. You take the writer and/or the publisher of the paper, and you say ‘Who is the leaker? National security.’ And they say ‘We’re not gonna tell you.’ They say …

The Washington Post reports: Trump Organization, former president Donald Trump’s namesake company, is set to go on trial Monday for alleged tax crimes — the result of a lengthy investigation into the company and its executives related to fraud and other potentially illegal business practices. Trump is not charged personally and the portion of the investigation for which he still …

Law & Crime reports: Former President Donald Trump continued his longstanding quest to undo Section 230 and deal a blow to Big Tech immunity in the form of an amicus brief Friday, supporting Florida’s parallel efforts at the U.S. Supreme Court. Trump, who was infamously banned from Twitter in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, urged …

Axios reports: A senior White House lawyer expressed concerns to President Trump’s advisers and attorneys about the president signing a sworn court statement verifying inaccurate evidence of voter fraud, according to emails from December 2020 obtained by Axios. Why it matters: The emails shed new light on a federal judge’s explosive finding Wednesday that Trump knew specific instances of voter …

Mediaite reports: In a Friday phone interview with Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on The Brian Kilmeade Show, the former president avoided questions on when he would announce a run, should he choose to, but he also swiped at any potential Republican challengers from his own administration. “Mr. President, when will you decide if you’re going to run in 2024? …

CNBC reports: Former President Donald Trump was issued a subpoena Friday by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. It is not clear whether Trump will comply with the subpoena. The committee, which voted unanimously on the move, is demanding Trump’s testimony under oath and records relevant to the probe into the attack on …

The Washington Post reports: Some of the classified documents recovered by the FBI from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and private club included highly sensitive intelligence regarding Iran and China, according to people familiar with the matter. If shared with others, the people said, such information could expose intelligence-gathering methods that the United States wants to keep hidden from the world. …

The New York Times reports: Former President Donald J. Trump is claiming that nine documents seized by the F.B.I. from his Florida residence are his personal property — but the Justice Department says they are official records that should be deposited with the National Archives. The materials from the initial tranche that Mr. Trump maintains belong to him include six …

ABC News reports: The Jan. 6 committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol has yet to formally subpoena former President Donald Trump, in part because investigators are still trying to find someone authorized to accept service of it. Last week, the committee took the historic step of voting to subpoena the former president, with all nine members of the …

Bloomberg News reports: Lawyers for investors who claim they were defrauded by Donald Trump more than a decade ago finally got a chance to depose the former president about his marketing of a failed videophone venture on “Celebrity Apprentice,” according to a person familiar with the matter. Trump, his company and his three oldest children were sued in 2018 by …

CNN reports: Donald Trump’s legal team is weighing whether to allow federal agents to return to the former President’s Florida residence, and potentially conduct a supervised search, to satisfy the Justice Department’s demands that all sensitive government documents are returned, sources tell CNN. In private discussions with Trump’s team as well as court filings, the Justice Department has made clear …

Politico reports: Former President Donald Trump signed legal documents describing evidence of election fraud that he knew were false, a federal judge indicated on Wednesday. U.S. District Court Judge David Carter wrote in an 18-page opinion that emails from attorney John Eastman, an architect of Trump’s last-ditch effort to subvert the 2020 election, needed to be turned over to the …

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: I once hosted Saturday Night Live, and the ratings were HUUUGE! Now, however, the ratings are lower than ever before, and the show will probably be put to “rest.” It is just not, at these levels, sustainable – A bad show that’s not funny or smart. L.M. is angry and exhausted, the …