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“Nobody had ever heard of some of these people that worked for me in D.C. All of a sudden, the Fake News starts calling them. “Some of them — by no means all — felt emboldened, brave, and for the first time in their lives, they feel like ‘something special,’ not the losers that they are — and they talk, …

Wonkette reports: “The First Amendment says Facebook can’t block me” is a take you might expect to hear from a kid arguing with their parents. It’s not, generally, something you would expect to hear from a former president, who should surely know by now that the First Amendment only applies to the government. Well, apparently that’s yet another thing that …

McClatchy reports: More than seven months after the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump appeared to admit his defeat. In an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News, Trump said the results of the 2020 election were “shocking.” President Joe Biden won the election with 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232, but the results continue to be disputed. “We got …

“Now when I made the best speech I’ve ever made, they said it was at West Point. And it was pouring and I had a ramp that was an ice skating rink. “So I walked gingerly down — that was on every newscast in the world and I never went down. I never went down, either, I never went on …

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump has appeared to drop his strongest hint yet at another presidential run in 2024, responding to news of his two-year ban from Facebook on Friday by saying he would not invite Mark Zuckerberg to dinner “next time I’m in the White House”. It has also been widely reported this week that Trump believes he will …

Charles Cooke writes for the National Review: Two days ago, the New York Times’s Maggie Haberman reported that Donald Trump “has been telling a number of people he’s in contact with that he expects he will get reinstated by August.” In response, many figures on the right inserted their fingers into their ears and started screaming about fake news. Instead, …

The Washington Post reports: Advisers say he voraciously watches any television coverage he can find of the Arizona recount and reads “everything he can get his hands on” about the audits, according to one person who speaks to Trump frequently. And he has made supporting his claims of a stolen election — or at least remaining silent about them — …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump now has the notion in his head that he could return to the White House in August. But the twice-impeached former president isn’t getting that idea from constitutional scholars or his attorneys. Instead, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell apparently inspired him. “If Trump is saying August, that is probably because he heard me say it …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump is reportedly telling people that he expects to get reinstated by August, according to New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman. Haberman shared this rather stunning detail in a quote tweet of a CNN segment featured in a tweet from Donie O’Sullivan. The video features a number of QAnon followers lauding a Myanmar-style coup of …

“He won the election. Donald J. Trump is still the guy the military will call for the code if they need a first strike. Joe Biden is not the president of the United States. This is about God. God is getting ready to clean up this world and he’s got a lot of cleaning up to do in America. So …

Raw Story reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell may soon be on the hook for more than $1 billion thanks to a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion – but that’s not stopping him from trying to take on one of the world’s most powerful tech companies. During an appearance on Steve Bannon’s show, Lindell revealed that he’s creating a website called …

“I hope everyone remembers when they’re getting the COVID-19 (often referred to as the China Virus) Vaccine, that if I wasn’t President, you wouldn’t be getting that beautiful ‘shot’ for 5 years, at best, and probably wouldn’t be getting it at all. I hope everyone remembers!” – Donald Trump, in a pathetic statement issued tonight. this is the saddest thing …

Fox News reports: Former President Donald Trump will hammer President Biden on everything from immigration to China when he addresses the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) on Sunday, sources familiar with the speech told Fox News. Meanwhile, Trump is expected to fall just short of announcing a 2024 presidential bid. The sources said he will go between “warming up to …

Mediaite reports: Veteran 60 Minutes producer Ira Rosen claimed on Tuesday that while working for the White House, Steve Bannon concluded that Donald Trump was suffering from “early stage dementia.” Rosen made the allegations while appearing as guest on the podcast Skullduggery. The two allegedly exchanged pages worth of text messages before Bannon finally agreed to an interview once he …

The Daily Beast reports: Saying that the Capitol riot was planned by antifa and “even some right-wing groups that were enemies” of Trump, the ex-mayor wildly claimed that anti-Trump political action committee The Lincoln Project was involved in this supposed scheme. “Hang on! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa—what are you saying ‘working for The Lincoln Project?’ Right-wing groups, like who?” Bannon …

Mediaite reports: “The most important briefcase in the world, carried by the military and never far from the President of the United States,” said CNN’s Barbara Starr, adding, “The case holds the highly classified equipment and authorities needed for our president to order the military to launch a nuclear weapon.” Because Trump is not attending the inauguration, where the briefcase …

Variety reports: As he began his final 48 hours as President, Trump issued an amended executive order Monday that added dozens of names slated to be honored in the the planned statuary park. The location for the park has yet to be determined. Trump first announced the plan on July 3 during his speech at Mt. Rushmore. Among the entertainment-related …

Axios reports: Attorney General Bill Barr stood behind a chair in the private dining room next to the Oval Office, looming over Donald Trump. The president sat at the head of the table. It was Dec. 1, nearly a month after the election, and Barr had some sharp advice to get off his chest. The president’s theories about a stolen …

CNN’s Daniel Dale reports: Trying to pick the most notable lies from Donald Trump’s presidency is like trying to pick the most notable pieces of junk from the town dump. There’s just so much ugly garbage to sift through before you can make a decision. But I’m qualified for the dirty job. The most dangerous lie: The coronavirus was under …

The New York Times reports: Mr. Trump has been dismissive of any suggestion that he leave the presidency early and told White House aides that President Richard M. Nixon, whose influence in the party ended when he resigned, did not have much to show for it. Advisers said that Mr. Trump had to be dissuaded from going to the House …