Trump Lies

Dictator Playdate: Orban Visits Trump At Mar-A-Lago

The Associated Press reports: Viktor Orbán is taking his blueprint on dismantling democracy to Mar-a-Lago. The Hungarian prime minister first won power through a democratic election, then proceeded to weaken the institutions of that democracy by eroding the legal system, firing civil servants, politicizing business, attacking the press and intimidating opposition parties and demagoguing migration. Former President Donald Trump has …

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Trump Posts $91.6 Million Bond In E. Jean Carroll Case

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump has posted a $91.6 million bond as he appeals the judgment against him in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case. The notice of Trump’s bond and appeal was made with the federal court in New York on Friday. In January, a federal jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million in damages as a result of Trump’s …

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TODAY: Trump’s Takeover Of RNC Becomes Official

CNN reports: Donald Trump is wasting little time putting his imprint on the Republican Party just days after becoming its presumptive presidential nominee. As the Republican National Committee meets here Friday for its spring meeting, members are set to elevate Trump’s endorsed candidates – North Carolina GOP chairman Michael Whatley and the former president’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump – to serve …

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Trump Claims Biden Was On “Drugs” During SOTU

The Telegraph reports: Donald Trump accused Joe Biden of being on drugs as he furiously attacked the president’s “angry, polarising, and hate-filled” State of the Union address. Mr Trump posted live commentary of Mr Biden’s speech on his social media platform Truth Social on Thursday night. In one post, he wrote: “THE DRUGS ARE WEARING OFF!” in an apparent dig …

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Deep State Crashes Truth Social During Biden’s SOTU

Forbes reports: Former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform was plagued with a barrage of outages just minutes into President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech—impairing Trump’s plans for a live rebuttal of the president’s annual address. Truth Social users flagged outages on the website just after 9 p.m. Thursday, according to the Downdetector outage tracker website that recorded …

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DENIED: Trump Loses Bid To Delay Paying Carroll Bond

CNBC reports: Donald Trump on Thursday lost a bid to delay paying an $83.3 million civil defamation judgment to writer E. Jean Carroll. The denial of Trump’s request by Manhattan federal court Judge Lewis Kaplan means the former president by Monday must either pay that amount to Carroll, or put up a bond or assets to cover the value of …

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Judge Shields Info On Trump’s NYC Jurors Due To The “Likelihood Of Bribery, Tampering, Or Physical Injuries”

Bloomberg News reports: New York state court judge Juan Merchan on Thursday ruled the names, homes and businesses addresses of the jurors in Donald Trump’s upcoming hush-money trial will not be released publicly to prevent tampering. Prosecutors have demonstrated that Trump “has an extensive history of publicly and repeatedly attacking trial jurors and grand jurors,” the judge wrote in his …

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US Spy Agencies Fear Briefing Trump Upon Nomination

Politico reports: U.S. intelligence officials are planning to brief Donald Trump on national security matters if he secures the GOP nomination this summer — despite concerns about his handling of classified information. The decision would be in keeping with a tradition that dates back to 1952, but it would mark the first time an administration has volunteered to share classified …

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Stormy Daniels: Trump Cornered Me The Night We Met

The Los Angeles Times reports: Stormy Daniels goes into new detail in a documentary about her alleged 2006 sexual encounter with former President Trump, saying she was cornered by him in his hotel room the night they met and that she blames herself for not stopping him. The adult filmmaker makes the revelation in “Stormy,” a nearly two-hour documentary premiering …

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Trump Hit With Huge Bill In Failed Steele Dossier Suit

The BBC reports: Donald Trump has been told to pay the six-figure legal costs of a company he sued over claims of “perverted” sex acts and bribes to Russian officials. Mrs Justice Steyn threw out the case against Orbis Business Intelligence, a consultancy founded by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele, last month. She found that Mr Trump’s compensation claim was …

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Subpoenas Issued In Arizona Fake Electors Probe

CNN reports: Prosecutors in Arizona have issued several grand jury subpoenas in recent weeks to people connected to efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election in that state, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. The subpoenas suggest the state-level probe is accelerating ahead of the 2024 presidential election, when Trump is …

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Habba Begs Judge For More Time To Pay Carroll Bond

MSNBC reports: In a new letter tonight, Alina Habba is asking Judge Lew Kaplan — who has yet to rule on Trump’s request to stay enforcement of the $83.3 million E. Jean Carroll judgment as his post-trial motions are resolved — for some mercy. Specifically, she notes that the existing stay expires Monday and asks that if Kaplan does not …

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SCOTUS To Hear Trump’s Immunity Case On April 25

CNN reports: The Supreme Court will hear arguments on April 25 in the blockbuster case over whether former President Donald Trump may claim immunity from prosecution in the federal election subversion case. The court previously said it would hear arguments in the case during the week of April 22. On Wednesday, it announced that it would hear the case during …

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NYT: Musk Met Privately With Trump At Mar-A-Lago

The New York Times reports: Donald Trump, who is urgently seeking a cash infusion to aid his presidential campaign, met on Sunday in Palm Beach, Fla., with Elon Musk, one of the world’s richest men, and a few wealthy Republican donors, according to three people briefed on the meeting who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private …

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Trump Demands New Trial In Carroll Defamation Case

Courthouse News reports: Former president Donald Trump on Tuesday asked a federal judge for a new trial in writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation suit against him, claiming the trial’s outcome was “infected” by the judge’s errors. Following a trial in the Southern District of New York, a nine-person jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million in damages. According to Trump, U.S. District …

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Carroll’s Lawyer Rips Trump’s Bid To Delay Paying Up

Law & Crime reports: In response to Donald Trump‘s continued promises to a judge in New York that he will pay the $83.3 million he owes to writer E. Jean Carroll for defaming her — without posting security — Carroll’s lawyer has offered a taut reply: Once again, Trump offers nothing to credit him but his “unsubstantiated say so.” Not …

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Mark Cuban Blasts “Snake Oil Salesman” Trump

“I don’t want a snake oil salesperson as President. I’m voting for Biden/Harris over Trump all day every day. It’s the snake oil salesperson vs the incumbent, traditional politician. One will tell you his snake oil will cure everything that ails you. The other will show you the details of his policies through charts, graphs and statements. “He [Biden] is …

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Trump: I’ll Give Cops Immunity To Rough Up Migrants

“Day one. We have no choice. And we’ll start with the bad ones. And you know who knows who they are: local police. Local police have to be given back their authority, and they have to be given back their respect and immunity. We’re going to give them immunity. “And they know them by their first name, the middle name, …

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Trump: Migrants Have Ended All Sports In New York

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump compared migrants Monday to the character Hannibal Lecter in the film “The Silence of the Lambs” as he ramped up anti-immigrant rhetoric that has become a mainstay of his campaign remarks. “They’re rough people, in many cases from jails, prisons, from mental institutions, insane asylums,” he said of migrants who enter the country …

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Trump Seeks To Block Gag Order In Hush Money Trial

The Hill reports: Former President Trump’s legal team has asked the New York judge presiding over his hush money case to block a limited gag order proposed by state prosecutors just weeks before the historic trial is set to get underway. Trump attorneys Susan Necheles and Todd Blanche wrote in a new court filing Monday that the former president’s status …

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