Trump Lies

Mediaite reports: Rudy Giuliani claimed on Tuesday that he has evidence that proves Hillary Clinton spied on Donald Trump following the 2016 election. Claims that special counsel John Durham’s filing offer any new evidence, or prove that Clinton’s campaign hired someone to spy on Trump, have been widely dismissed. “I can’t tell you exactly how, but I know how he …

The New York Times reports: President Biden is opposing another effort by former President Donald J. Trump to withhold information from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, ordering the National Archives to hand over White House visitor logs the committee is seeking. In a letter to the National Archives, Mr. Biden’s White House counsel, Dana …

CNN reports: The Trump campaign officials subpoenaed by the committee are Michael Roman, who was in charge of Election Day operations in 2020, and his deputy, Gary Michael Brown. Both “reportedly participated in efforts to promote allegations of fraud in the November 2020 election and encourage state legislators to appoint false ‘alternate’ slates of electors,” according to the committee. The …

The New York Times reports: Donald J. Trump’s longtime accounting firm abruptly cut ties with his family business last week amid ongoing criminal and civil investigations into whether Mr. Trump illegally inflated the value of his assets, court documents filed on Monday show. In a letter to the Trump Organization on Feb. 9, the accounting firm notified the company of …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump is asserting his role as a Republican kingmaker, pushing back against claims from some corners of the GOP that his influence within the party is waning. In a statement on Sunday, Trump insisted that the power of his endorsement in races up and down the ballot “is much stronger today than it was even …

Politico reports: Attorney John Eastman, a close ally of Donald Trump amid his effort to subvert the 2020 election, has attempted to shield more than 10,000 pages of emails and counting from congressional investigators, citing attorney client or attorney work-product privileges. In a court filing early Monday, Eastman said he has reviewed about 46,000 pages — nearly half the total …

CNN reports: The difficulty for the committee in tracking down just whom Trump spoke with — and when — is dealing with his unorthodox phone habits while in office: According to multiple sources formerly in the administration, the ex-President often used other people’s telephones (or multiple phones of his own, sometimes rotated in and out of use) to communicate with …

The New York Times reports: Rudolph W. Giuliani, who as former President Donald J. Trump’s lawyer helped lead the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election, is in discussions with the House Jan. 6 committee about responding to its questions, according to three people familiar with the matter. The extent of any assistance that Mr. Giuliani might provide …

From the world’s most famous liar: The latest pleading from Special Counsel Robert Durham provides indisputable evidence that my campaign and presidency were spied on by operatives paid by the Hillary Clinton Campaign in an effort to develop a completely fabricated connection to Russia. This is a scandal far greater in scope and magnitude than Watergate, and those who were …

The New York Times reports: The event had all the trappings of a typical high-end fund-raiser: a giant American flag, a lectern, chandeliers and an open bar. Frank Stallone’s band provided the music; an anti-Biden “Let’s Go Brandon” banner hung from the rafters. But the money raised did not go to Mr. Trump’s political operation. Instead, Mr. Trump’s share of …

The world’s most famous liar called into Fox & Friends this morning to furiously deny reports that he clogged White House toilets by flushing documents. An excerpt from his rant: It’s fake news and she’s a fake writer. She got a Pulitzer Prize for Russia, Russia, Russia, and then they found out it was a hoax. And so did others. …

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports: A rural Nevada county has renamed its justice complex after former President Donald J. Trump. About 50 people attended the formal dedication of the Donald J. Trump Justice Complex in Yerington on Saturday, Lyon County Manager Jeff Page said. The complex, which opened in 2013, houses the sheriff’s office, jail, Third Judicial District Court and …

The Washington Post reports: Some of the White House documents that Donald Trump improperly took to his Mar-a-Lago residence were clearly marked as classified, including documents at the “top secret” level, according to two people familiar with the matter. The existence of clearly marked classified documents in the trove — which has not previously been reported — is likely to …

The New York Times reports: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has discovered gaps in official White House telephone logs from the day of the riot, finding few records of calls by President Donald J. Trump from critical hours when investigators know that he was making them. Investigators have not uncovered evidence that any official …

From the world’s most famous liar: Following collaborative and respectful discussions, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) openly and willingly arranged with President Trump for the transport of boxes that contained letters, records, newspapers, magazines, and various articles. Some of this information will someday be displayed in the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library for the public to view my …

Axios reports: While President Trump was in office, staff in the White House residence periodically discovered wads of printed paper clogging a toilet — and believed the president had flushed pieces of paper, Maggie Haberman scoops in her forthcoming book, “Confidence Man.” The revelation by Haberman, whose coverage as a New York Times White House correspondent was followed obsessively by …

The New York Times reports: The National Archives and Records Administration discovered what it believed was classified information in documents Donald J. Trump had taken with him from the White House as he left office, according to a person briefed on the matter. The discovery, which occurred after Mr. Trump returned 15 boxes of documents to the government last month, …

The Daily Beast reports: Throwing a little shade at former President Donald Trump on Wednesday during a roundtable meeting with energy executives, President Joe Biden mocked his predecessor’s long-running war on windmills. While addressing one of the meeting’s attendees, Biden wondered: “Are you getting less resistance when you start talking about wind and the windmills? I know they cause cancer.” …

The Washington Post reports: The National Archives and Records Administration has asked the Justice Department to examine Donald Trump’s handling of White House records, sparking discussions among federal law enforcement officials about whether they should investigate the former president for a possible crime. The referral from the National Archives came amid recent revelations that officials recovered 15 boxes of materials …

The Washington Post reports: In the weeks after the 2020 election, Rudolph W. Giuliani and other legal advisers to President Donald Trump asked a Republican prosecutor in northern Michigan to get his county’s voting machines and pass them to Trump’s team.  Antrim County prosecutor James Rossiter said in an interview that Giuliani and several colleagues made the request during a …