Trump Lies

Politico: Republicans Brace For Trump The Nominee

Politico reports: Congressional Republicans are steeling themselves for a return to daily life with Donald Trump — which means constant, uncomfortable questions about his erratic policy whims and political attacks.  Trump’s recent call to replace the Affordable Care Act is triggering a particularly unwelcome sense of deja vu within the GOP. Even as many Senate Republicans steered away from Trump …

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Trump Calls On The Cult To “Guard” Polling Places

Reuters reports: Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, told his supporters on Saturday to “go into” Philadelphia and two other Democratic-run cities to “guard the vote” in 2024, repeating his unfounded claims of widespread election fraud in 2020 as justification for the call to action. “So the most important part of what’s coming up is to guard …

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Trump: I Will Not Rest Until Your Family Can Afford A “Beautiful Home And A Brand New Car Of Your Choice”

“I will not rest until your family can afford a beautiful home and a brand new beautiful car of your choice. Combustion, electric, any way you want it, you can have lots of choices. And that’s the way it should be. I’m not saying electric cars are bad. They have problems, they have big problems. There is a danger to …

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How Trump’s Pardon Recipients Are Now Boosting Him

The Washington Post reports: Never before had a president used his constitutional clemency powers to free or forgive so many people who could be useful to his future political efforts. A Washington Post review of Trump’s 238 clemency orders found that dozens of recipients have gone on to plug his 2024 candidacy through social media and national interviews, contribute money …

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Judge Rejects Trump’s Immunity Claim In Jan 6 Case

The Associated Press reports: Donald Trump is not immune from prosecution in his election interference case in Washington, a federal judge ruled Friday, knocking down the Republican’s bid to derail the case charging him with plotting to overturn the 2020 presidential election. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan’s decision tees up a legal fight over the scope of presidential power that …

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Trump Again Attacks NY Judge’s Wife, Calls For Mistrial

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: Judge Engoron’s Wife deleted her account yesterday, because what she said, in any other Court in the Nation, would call for an immediate Mistrial with sanctions against the Judge and the Attorney General. We demand to see her account before it was deleted, and all other Family Members likewise. Judge Engoron is a Trump …

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Appeals Court: Trump Can Be Sued For Inciting J6 Riot

Politico reports: Donald Trump can be sued over claims that he incited violence on Jan. 6, 2021, an appeals court ruled Friday, rejecting the former president’s argument that he is entirely immune from being held liable for incendiary remarks that preceded the attack on the Capitol. The three-judge panel concluded that Trump’s actions as a candidate for president would not …

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Trump Shares Call To Prosecute Capitol Police For J6

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump seemingly endorsed a call for Capitol Police officers who repelled rioters on January 6, 2021 to be prosecuted on Truth Social Thursday. Trump’s post linked to another one from earlier this week on X, which showed officers grappling with and using their batons to pushback on the rioters. “The Capitol cops beat the hell …

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Trump Resumes Attacks On Wife Of New York Judge

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump lashed out at the reinstated gag order in his signature fashion — by quadrupling down on unproven conspiracy claims that Judge Arthur Engoron’s wife has posted hateful memes on social media proving an anti-Trump bias. Trump’s Truth Social account shows many screen-captured anti-Trump social media posts that Trump claims Engoron’s wife posted with the …

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Appeals Court Reinstates Trump’s Gag Order In NY Case

CNBC reports: A New York appeals court Thursday reinstated a gag order on Donald Trump in his $250 million civil business fraud trial. The order bars Trump from making public statements about the staff of Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron, who is presiding over the ongoing trial. Engoron had imposed that order on Trump, and later his attorneys, after …

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Lawyer Warned Trump: Lying About Docs Is A Crime

ABC News reports: One of former president Donald Trump’s current attorneys told special counsel Jack Smith’s team that, within days of the Justice Department issuing a subpoena last year for all classified documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, she “very clearly” warned Trump that if he failed to fully comply — but then swore he did — “it’s going to be …

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Report: Trump Org Moved $40M Without Telling Court

The Daily Beast reports: A court-ordered financial auditor has caught Donald Trump quietly moving $40 million from the Trump Organization into a personal bank account—seemingly so the former president could pay his whopping $29 million tax bill. Trump isn’t supposed to be moving any money around without alerting Barbara S. Jones, a former federal judge in New York tasked with …

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Trump Goes Wild With Cascade Of Truth Social Crazy

Axios has a rundown of today’s crazy:  Nov. 29, 12:36 am: Doubled down on his pledge to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, saying “Obamacare Sucks!!!” Nov. 29, 12:55 am: Accused writer E. Jean Carroll of fabricating sexual assault allegations against him, despite twice being found liable for defamation for similar comments. Nov. 29, 12:50 pm: Posted a link …

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Trump: I Never Swore To “Support” The Constitution

NBC News reports: Among the points backing Donald Trump’s argument that the 14th Amendment doesn’t disqualify him from office is one that, at first glance, is a mix of laughable and disturbing: He never took an oath to “support” the Constitution. Why would the former president emphasize such a thing? That’s because Section 3 of the amendment disqualifies insurrectionists who …

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Trump Tries To Distance Himself From Rioters In Court

The Associated Press reports: Donald Trump has embraced the rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 as patriots, vowed to pardon a large portion of them if he wins a second term and even collaborated on a song with a group of jailed defendants. In his election interference case in Washington, his lawyers are taking a different …

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Trump Again Seeks Dismissal Of New York Fraud Case

The Messenger reports: Former President Donald Trump’s lead attorney on Tuesday asked the New York judge presiding over his client’s civil fraud trial to throw out the lawsuit based on testimony by a high-ranking Deutsche Bank executive. “This witness has again testified that the bank conducted its own due diligence,” said Trump’s lead attorney Christopher Kise, who also represents the …

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Trump Lawyers Accuse DOJ Of Suppressing J6 Records

The Messenger reports: In a pair of late-night court filings Monday, attorneys for Donald Trump accused Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team of withholding records and information they believe is necessary to challenge the facts and assumptions underlying the Washington, D.C. election-subversion felony federal criminal charges against the former president. Trump’s legal team filed the two motions just before a midnight …

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Trump To Be Final Defense Witness In NY Fraud Trial

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump will take the stand in his own defense next month in his $250 million civil fraud trial, his attorneys said in court Monday. Trump will be the defense’s last witness, on Dec. 11, his attorney Chris Kise said. In the week preceding the former president’s testimony, his son Eric Trump is scheduled to …

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Willis Opposes Plea Deals For Trump, Giuliani, Meadows

The Guardian reports: Fulton county prosecutors do not intend to offer plea deals to Donald Trump and at least two high-level co-defendants charged in connection with their efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, according to two people familiar with the matter, preferring instead to force them to trial. The individuals seen as ineligible include Trump, his former White …

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Lara Trump: “This Is America, We Speak English Here”

“You have to be part of a society whenever you, you know, become a citizen of another country, and I think, you know, people are starting to see in a lot of even school systems right now where they’re teaching things in English, and they’re teaching them in Spanish, because we have had so many people coming from South America, …

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