Trump Lies

The Hill reports: Israel’s communications minister said recent comments by former President Trump criticizing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and complimenting the Hezbollah militant group “wound the spirit of Israel’s fighters and its citizens.” Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi told his Israel’s Channel 13 it is “shameful that a man like that, a former U.S. president, abets propaganda and disseminates things that …

Law & Crime reports: Attorneys for Donald Trump this week argued that the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause does not and cannot apply to a president, or someone running for president, of the United States. “Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment does not prohibit someone from running for office—it prohibits someone from holding office, and even then, only if Congress chooses …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump claimed that had the 2020 presidential election not been “rigged” against him, Israel would not have been attacked by Hamas over the weekend. The election was not rigged. Speaking in West Palm Beach, Florida on Wednesday night, Trump addressed the attack and said that if he were still president, it would not have happened. …

The Hill reports: Attorneys for former President Trump are seeking a judge’s permission to subpoena the former chair of the House Committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, repeating a disputed claim that the panel failed to turn over all the evidence it collected. The filing from Trump — which also seeks to subpoena six other …

Mediaite reports: On Tuesday, the son of former President Donald Trump got on X and posted a disturbing video of militants shooting into a room filled with bloody and mangled corpses. The Trump scion claimed that he got the video from a “source within Israel,” heavily suggesting that it came from the last five days of Hamas’ murderous atrocities through …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: I hereby demand a full apology from the failing Forbes Magazine, and their third rate psycho writer, Dan Alexander, for the many false and libelous articles they have written about me, and for the cooperation they have given to the Racist and Incompetent A.G. of New York State, Peekaboo James. You see, Forbes is …

The Messenger reports: Special Counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday cited security concerns and Donald Trump’s recent social media activity as reasons to get prospective Washington, D.C., jurors to fill out a written questionnaire ahead of the jury selection process for the former president’s upcoming March 2024 trial. The 11-page motion filed Tuesday from Smith’s office centers around their 2020 election …

The Associated Press reports: As Donald Trump’s longtime finance chief, Allen Weisselberg helped spare the former president’s real estate empire from its last existential threat, staving off insolvency after casino bankruptcies and an airline failure in the 1990s. Now, after a recent jail stint for tax fraud, Weisselberg is front and center again — set to testify Tuesday in the …

Forbes responds to Trump’s latest tirade: Removed from The Forbes 400, Trump responds as he always has—by lying about his net worth and saying he should be higher on the list. We take extraordinary care in valuing his fortune, and our ownership—which does not include China’s wealth fund—plays no role in that effort. Twice a year, we publish a detailed …

The Messenger reports: Trevian Kutti, a one-time publicist for the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, in a since-deleted social media post claimed she’ll be Donald Trump’s next press secretary if he’s elected in 2024. “I look forward to redeeming Black women in politics by becoming Press Secretary to the 47th President of the United States @realDonaldTrump,” Kutti wrote on …

The Messenger reports: There is “no reason” to grant former President Donald Trump’s request to delay his trial in the Mar-a-Lago documents case until after the 2024 election, Special Counsel Jack Smith argued in a court filing Monday. “The defendants provide no credible justification to postpone a trial that is still seven months away,” prosecutors in Smith’s office wrote in …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: China owned (China Investment Corp, the Country’s Sovereign wealth Fund!), and very badly failing, Forbes “Magazine,” which lost most of its relevance long ago, and which knows less about me than Stormy Daniels (who doesn’t know me at all!) or Rosie O’Donnell, took me off their Fake Forbes 400 list, just by a “whisker,” …

Raw Story reports: Trump, who has been criticized for increasingly violent rhetoric as his legal cases have put more pressure on him, began discussing photos of Biden on the beach. “I have a much better body than him,” the former president said at the rally. He then added that he’s “not sure” he would want to “expose it with the …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: The ridiculous story put out today about me talking to a Mar-a-Lago member about U.S. Submarines, is false and ridiculous, other than the fact that I will often state that we make the best Submarines and Military Equipment anywhere in the World—A pretty well known fact! These fake stories are put out by corrupt …

CNBC reports: A New York appeals court on Friday refused to stay the ongoing civil business fraud trial of Donald Trump and his company, but did halt a judge’s order to cancel the business certificates of Trump’s companies in the state. The ruling came after Trump’s business fraud trial ended its first week of proceedings in Manhattan Supreme Court. New …

The Daily Beast reports: A week into his bank fraud trial, Donald Trump late Thursday night dropped his oddly aggressive lawsuit against the judge overseeing the case—a move that had been seen as a last-minute scramble to avert a potential unraveling of the tycoon’s real estate empire. But that happened anyway when Justice Arthur F. Engoron concluded the former president …

The New York Times reports: Shortly after he left office, former President Donald J. Trump shared apparently classified information about American nuclear submarines with an Australian businessman during an evening of conversation at Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence in Florida, according to two people familiar with the matter. The businessman, Anthony Pratt, a billionaire member of Mar-a-Lago who runs …

Bloomberg News reports: Donald Trump gave up on the $500 million lawsuit he filed against his estranged former lawyer Michael Cohen, just four days before the former president was due to answer questions under oath in the case. Trump’s notice of voluntary dismissal was filed Thursday night in federal court in Miami, without giving a reason. It comes at the …

ABC News reports: Months after leaving the White House, former President Donald Trump allegedly discussed potentially sensitive information about U.S. nuclear submarines with a member of his Mar-a-Lago Club — an Australian billionaire who then allegedly shared the information with scores of others, including more than a dozen foreign officials, several of his own employees, and a handful of journalists, …

NBC News reports: A Democratic House member is asking Palm Beach County, Florida, to tax Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property at the rate the former president claims it is worth amid his ongoing civil fraud trial in New York. In a letter provided exclusively to NBC News, Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., issued the request to Dorothy Jacks, Palm Beach County’s property …