Trump Lies

The New York Times reports: Donald J. Trump and his allies are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government if voters return him to the White House in 2025, reshaping the structure of the executive branch to concentrate far greater authority directly in his hands. Mr. Trump intends to bring independent agencies — like the …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump Jr. on Sunday continued the Turning Point Action Conference’s extended riff on the cocaine found at the White House. “My guys who I stayed in touch with—many of them just dear friends—they’re like, ‘Hey dude, there’s no way you would’ve gotten away with that,’” he animatedly told the crowd. “I go, ‘I know!’ Luckily, …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump in a new interview said he would consider some of his 2024 GOP primary rivals as potential running mates or Cabinet members if he wins back the White House. Trump on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures” singled out entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) for praise, though he did not specify whom …

Raw Story reports: Donald Trump on Saturday claimed that he had homeless encampment “tents” removed regularly when he was in office, as the former president called for a full federal government takeover of Washington, D.C. “I kept it beautiful,” he said. “If I saw one tent or two tents or three tents as I was coming in from the airport, …

CNBC reports: Former President Donald Trump asked two courts in Georgia to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from investigating him and quash the special grand jury report that recommended criminal charges in Willis’ 2020 election interference probe. The requests came in court documents filed overnight in Georgia Supreme Court and Fulton County Superior Court. In both, Trump’s attorneys …

From a motion filed yesterday by the Special Counsel: The United States files this reply in support of its Motion for Continuance and Proposed Revised Scheduling Order (ECF No. 34, “Mot.”). In their response in opposition to the Motion (ECF No. 66, “Resp.”), Defendants Trump and Nauta claim unequivocally that they cannot receive a fair trial prior to the conclusion …

ABC News reports: An attorney for Hunter Biden sent a cease-and-desist letter on Thursday to former President Donald Trump’s legal team, claiming that Trump’s rhetoric on social media and elsewhere “could lead to [Hunter Biden’s] or his family’s injury.” “This is not a false alarm,” Abbe Lowell wrote. “We are just one such social media message away from another incident, …

The New York Times reports: Federal prosecutors investigating former President Donald J. Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election have questioned multiple witnesses in recent weeks — including Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner — about whether Mr. Trump had privately acknowledged in the days after the 2020 election that he had lost, according to four people briefed on the matter. …

The New York Times reports: A super PAC aligned with former President Donald J. Trump paid Melania Trump $155,000 in late 2021, an unusual payment that was not visible in the group’s initial federal reports and came to light only in a new filing by Mr. Trump on Thursday. The money was listed as pay for a “speaking engagement” by …

Republic World reports: Donald Trump claims that the secret ingredient to President Joe Biden’s big speeches is the “cocaine” that is supposedly being “pumped” into him. In an interview with conspiracy theorist Wayne Allyn Root on Wednesday, the 77-year-old said that “I think they pump him up, absolutely,” but casually left out who he was precisely referring to with the …

Politico reports: Amid Donald Trump’s desperate bid to subvert the 2020 election, a top adviser, Boris Epshteyn, sent out an “urgent POTUS request” to a small group of allies. “Need best examples of ‘election fraud’ that we’ve alleged that’s super easy to explain,” he wrote in a Dec. 7, 2020 text message. “Doesn’t necessarily have to be proven but does …

Posted last night to Trump’s Trump Social account: Page 1: The DOJ will not defend me in the E. Jean Carroll civil case, which is all part of the political Witch Hunt, lawyered up by a political operative who I just beat in another case, financed by a big political funder, and “judged” by a Clinton appointee who truly hates …

Rolling Stone reports: Donald Trump is once again mad online, this time because a federal prosecutor he appointed struck a plea deal with Hunter Biden that didn’t involved the president’s son being put to death. “Weiss is a COWARD, a smaller version of Bill Barr, who never had the courage to do what everyone knows should have been done,” the …

The Hill reports: The Justice Department on Tuesday said it will no longer defend former President Trump as being immune in writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit. The DOJ had previously certified that Trump was acting in the scope of his employment as president when he made allegedly defamatory statements denying Carroll’s account that Trump sexually assaulted her in the …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: The selection of two Fulton County grand juries will be made Tuesday, with one of the panels expected to decide whether to hand up an indictment for alleged criminal interference in the 2020 presidential election. One set of jurors is likely to be asked to bring formal charges against former President Donald Trump and other well-known …

CNBC reports: Former President Donald Trump on Monday night asked a federal court to hold off on setting a date for the criminal trial over his handling of classified documents, arguing that the unprecedented case requires “a measured consideration and timeline.” Attorneys for Trump and Walt Nauta, the former president’s valet and co-defendant, also noted that it will be “challenging” …

Posted this afternoon to Trump’s Truth Social account: I love Iowa, protected & expanded Ethanol, got 28 Billion Dollars from China for our great Farmers, ended the Estate (Death!) Tax on farms, made the best TRADE deals in history (USMCA, China, & many more), introduced the World to our FARMERS, & kept Iowa’s “First in the Nation” status. I opened …

Posted this afternoon to Hair Furor’s Truth Social account: Was Crooked Joe Biden on Cocaine when he instructed the FBI/DOJ to illegally invade my home, Mar-a-Lago, in complete and total violation of my 4th Amendment Rights? Was he on Cocaine, or various other substances, when he, for the first time in U.S. history, had his political opponent, who is leading …

The Washington Examiner reports: An attorney for former President Donald Trump was booted from the New York attorney general’s case against Trump, and will now serve in a new role with a Trump-aligned political action committee. Alina Habba will take the lead in a new position for the Save America Leadership PAC, according to a press release on Friday. Habba …

Bloomberg News reports: A federal appeals court tossed out what remained of Donald Trump’s unsuccessful legal fight to stop his former vice president-turned-rival Mike Pence from testifying about efforts to overturn the 2020 election. A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit issued a sealed order on Friday granting a request by Special Counsel Jack Smith’s …