Trump Lies

CNBC reports: Donald Trump on Saturday took aim at two likely witnesses in his upcoming New York hush money trial, testing the boundaries of a gag order that prohibits such public statements. “Has Mark POMERANTZ been prosecuted for his terrible acts in and out of the D.A.’s Office. Has disgraced attorney and felon Michael Cohen been prosecuted for LYING?” the …

Politico reports: A majority of voters believe former President Donald Trump has committed “serious federal crimes,” according to the latest New York Times/Siena College poll. Fifty-three percent of likely voters said they believe this, while 39 percent of those surveyed said they did not believe that Trump committed serious crimes. Nine percent said they didn’t know or didn’t answer the …

Axios reports: Donald Trump is moving part of his campaign operation to New York this weekend, and a massive security operation will descend around a courthouse in Lower Manhattan for what could be two months or so. The trial isn’t expected to be televised, per New York law. But it will reshape the presidential campaign in unprecedented ways. For at …

The Associated Press reports: The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money criminal case on Friday turned down the former president’s request to postpone his trial because of publicity about the case. It’s the latest in a string of delay denials that Trump has gotten from various courts this week as he fights to stave off the trial’s start Monday with …

Raw Story reports: “Do you plan to testify in your trial in New York,” a reporter asked the former president at his Mar-a-Lago press conference. “Yeah, I would testify,” Trump said. “That’s not a trial, that’s a scam.” Trump also accused Justice Juan Merchan, the criminal court judge overseeing the case, of political bias. Asked if it would be risky …

Newsweek reports: A Black woman who went viral after hugging Donald Trump this week says meeting the former president was a “learning experience.” On Friday, Michaelah Montgomery, the founder of the Conserve the Culture organization, spoke with Fox News’s Fox & Friends co-host Lawrence Jones about her recent meeting with the former president at a Chick-fil-A in Atlanta, Georgia. Earlier …

CNN reports: The transcript of an FBI interview made public late Thursday details how an aide to former President Donald Trump characterized the boxes of sensitive documents that are now at the center of the special counsel’s case into the mishandling of classified documents from the Trump White House. The new court documents also reveal how agents outlined the stakes …

“That’s a picture of him when he’s trying to look his absolute best in his campaign video, which in his mind includes a face partially covered in some form of homemade bronzer in which he always forgets the ears. “He always forgets his ears are visible, showing the real color of Donald Trump. In contrast to the mud brown that …

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The Hill reports: Senate Republicans vented their frustration after former President Trump helped derail a compromise House bill to extend Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authority, sending lawmakers scrambling to find a Plan B to keep the nation’s intelligence agencies from losing their ability to spy on adversaries and terrorists. Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) warned that …

The Daily Beast reports: When the questionably leveraged company that rescued Donald Trump with a last-minute $175 million court bond insured itself with its own parent company, it raised concerns about how the company was playing with its finances. But now, as even more details come out about that parent company—particularly that it’s based in the Cayman Islands, a notorious …

CNN reports: The hallmark of the strategy is a combination of extra staffing, strategically placed frozen zones, high-tech deployments and intelligence, which includes monitoring social media for anything ranging from lone wolf threats to major politically themed protests and disturbances, the officials said. “Obviously, the threat picture is bigger,” said New York Police Department Assistant Chief John Hart, commanding officer …

NBC News reports: Donald Trump’s campaign is calling for more presidential debates to be held between him and President Joe Biden, and for the proposed face-offs to begin as early as possible to ensure that more Americans “have a full chance” to see the candidates in action before they cast their ballot. “While the Commission on Presidential Debates has already …

CNBC reports: One of the largest donations to Rudy Giuliani’s legal defense fund is at the center of a new lawsuit that argues the $100,000 contribution rightfully belongs to victims of an alleged online fraud scheme. The donation by Matthew Martorano in September accounted for nearly 13% of all the money that Giuliani, the former attorney for Donald Trump and …

Politico Magazine reports: There’s another, less explored route that Trump’s team could try: asking the judge to give the jury the option of convicting him on lesser, misdemeanor offenses instead of the felony counts that have actually been brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his team of prosecutors. A person familiar with Trump’s legal strategy told me that …

The New York Daily News reports: Former president, presumptive 2024 GOP nominee and fast food lover Donald Trump stopped by an Atlanta Chick-fil-A on Wednesday, where he reportedly ordered 30 milkshakes and gave them out to patrons in an apparent attempt to woo local voters. The 77-year-old right-winger made his lunchtime visit en route to a fundraiser. “Hello everybody,” Trump …

CNBC News reports: Investment firms led by the former CEO of the SPAC that merged with Donald Trump’s media company allege that their files were hacked and stolen by a current member of the media company’s board of directors. In a federal civil lawsuit filed in South Florida last month, the firms accuse board member Eric Swider of plotting a …

The Associated Press reports: Speaking in Atlanta ahead of a fundraiser, the presumptive Republican nominee renewed his running criticism of Biden’s reaction to the Israel-Hamas war and the administration’s support for the rights of LGBTQ Americans, including transgender persons. “Biden has totally lost control of the Israel situation,” said Trump, whose rise in 2016 depended heavily on white Christian conservatives. …

Reuters reports: A New York appeals judge on Wednesday denied Donald Trump’s third last-ditch attempt this week to delay his April 15 criminal trial on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, paving the way for the first-ever trial of a former U.S. president. During an earlier hearing, Trump lawyer Emil Bove said the trial should be …

NBC News reports: House Speaker Mike Johnson will travel to Mar-a-Lago Friday for remarks on “election integrity” with former President Donald Trump, two sources directly familiar with the plans confirmed to NBC News. Asked by NBC News what his press conference with Trump will focus on, Johnson said, “You’ll have to see. I look forward to going down there.” When …