Trump Lies

The Daily Beast reports: Truth Social CEO and ex-congressman Devin Nunes stumbled with wild speculation and ridiculous claims during a Fox Business Network grilling on Thursday morning, all while bad news and ridicule of the Trump-owned social-media platform continue to pile up. “It’s clear that Twitter is kind of a ghost town,” Nunes declared. “There’s not very much activity over …

CBS News reports: New York’s attorney general asked a state judge Thursday to issue an order of contempt against former President Donald Trump, claiming he has failed to comply with a previous ruling requiring him to turn over documents by March 31 as part of an investigation into his company’s financial practices. The office of New York Attorney General Letitia …

The Washington Post reports: The Justice Department has begun taking steps to investigate former president Donald Trump’s removal of presidential records to Mar-a-Lago — some of which were labeled “top secret,” people familiar with the matter said. The department is facing increasing political pressure to disclose its plans in the case. On Thursday, House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney …

NBC News reports: Donald Trump used to bank with the big guns. Now he’s borrowing from Axos Financial, an obscure, internet-only institution based in San Diego and Las Vegas. In mid-February, Axos refinanced a $100 million Trump Tower mortgage due in September, a New York City Finance Department document shows. The new loan was made just days after The Trump …

The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump voiced regret Wednesday over not marching to the U.S. Capitol the day his supporters stormed the building, and he defended his long silence during the attack by claiming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others were responsible for ending the deadly violence. “I thought it was a shame, and I kept asking why …

Politico reports: A federal judge — nominated to the bench by President Bill Clinton in 1996 — on Wednesday emphatically rejected Donald Trump’s demand that he recuse from Trump’s sprawling lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, declaring that there’s no legitimate basis to demand that he step back from the case. In a five-page order, Judge Donald Middlebrooks emphasized that he has …

The Insider reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has been served with another lawsuit — this time, from Eric Coomer, a former Dominion Voting Systems employee whom Lindell once accused of being a national traitor. Lawyers for Coomer, who worked as Dominion’s director of product strategy and security, filed a court complaint against Lindell on Monday to kick off a defamation …

Forbes reports: Donald Trump, master of reinvention, has a new title: tech entrepreneur. It’s a stretch for the 75-year-old, who doesn’t even use email, preferring instead to scrawl notes in marker. But he doesn’t mind jumping into ventures in which he has little previous experience—and this gig should prove far more lucrative than the presidency. In fact, it has already …

NPR reports: Ivanka Trump will appear remotely before the Jan. 6 committee on Tuesday morning. The daughter and one-time adviser to former President Donald Trump will speak to the Democratic-led House panel about the events surrounding the Capitol insurrection, appearing less than a week after her husband Jared Kushner. His testimony was considered “helpful” to the committee. Committee Chairman Bennie …

The Hill reports: Attorneys representing former President Trump asked that a judge appointed by former President Bill Clinton recuse himself from Trump’s recent lawsuit accusing Hillary Clinton of being part of a conspiracy claiming his 2016 campaign was colluding with Russia. In a motion filed Monday, Trump attorneys Alina Habba and Peter Ticktin argued that U.S. District Court Judge Donald …

NBC News reports: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol interviewed its first Trump family member and the highest-ranking official from the previous administration, meeting with Jared Kushner on Thursday for more than six hours, a source in the room said. The panel met virtually with Kushner — Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a former top White …

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump used an official White House phone to place at least one call during the Capitol attack on January 6 last year that should have been reflected in the internal presidential call log from that day but was not, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The former president called the phone of a Republican …

The New York Times reports: Official photographers from every White House since President Ronald Reagan’s have published their own books. Barack Obama and George W. Bush were so supportive that they wrote forewords for them. But like so much else involving Mr. Trump, the plan by his chief photographer, Shealah Craighead, did not follow this bipartisan norm. First, aides to …

The Macomb Daily reports: At a special meeting of the Washington Township Board of Trustees, officials approved a temporary agreement for vehicles to park on township owned land for a political rally to be held at the Michigan Stars Sports Center. “This is farmland, this is not residential drivable land and things could get ugly quickly,” said Treasurer Mike Nicley. …

The right wing Town Hall reports: Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he does not have any desire to take House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) place as the leader of the chamber should Republicans retake the House following the 2022 elections. During an interview with Just the News‘ John Solomon and Amanda Head, Trump said he is uninterested in …

Politico reports: The White House said on Tuesday it would not invoke executive privilege over the testimony of Jared Kushner or Ivanka Trump, as former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law is expected to voluntarily appear before the Jan. 6 select committee this week. “The president has spoken to the fact that Jan. 6 was one of the darkest days in our …

Law & Crime reports: Long before its namesake became president, the Trump Organization calculated the value of rent-stabilized units at more than $49.5 million—more than 66 times higher than the $750,000 that an outside appraiser believed them to be worth, New York’s top prosecutor alleged. New York Attorney General Letitia James’s (D) office made that allegation in an eye-popping footnote …

The Washington Post reports: In a statement Monday night, Trump said, “I have no idea what a burner phone is, to the best of my knowledge I have never even heard the term.” One former Trump White House official disputed that. In an interview Tuesday afternoon, former national security adviser John Bolton said that he recalls Trump using the term …

The Washington Post reports: Internal White House records from the day of the attack on the U.S. Capitol that were turned over to the House select committee show a gap in President Donald Trump’s phone logs of seven hours and 37 minutes, including the period when the building was being violently assaulted. The lack of an official White House notation …

CBS News reports: The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol unanimously voted Monday night to recommend that former Trump aides Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino be held in contempt of Congress for failing to cooperate with subpoenas. The committee referred the matter to the full Democratic-controlled House, which will decide to schedule a vote …