Tag Archives: Donald Trump

Trump Took Boxes Of Classified Docs On Foreign Trips

The Washington Post reports: “Any documents that made it to the White House residence were these boxes Trump carried around with him,” explained Stephanie Grisham, a former senior White House staffer. “Usually the body man would have brought them upstairs for Trump or someone from the outer-Oval at the end of the day. They would get handed off to the …

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WaPo: Trump’s Truth Social Is In “Financial Peril”

The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump’s Truth Social website is facing financial challenges as its traffic remains puny and the company that is scheduled to acquire it expresses fear that his legal troubles could lead to a decline in his popularity. The company has seen its stock price plunge nearly 75 percent since its March peak and reported …

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Junior Posts Meme About His Father’s Genitals

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump Jr. responded to the release of the heavily redacted affidavit that provided justification for the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago by posting a meme on his Instagram account of his father, former President Donald Trump, with a comically large black bar over his crotch. “Redact this!!!” Trump Jr. captioned the photo. The meme follows similarly …

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Trump Files Request For “Special Master” In FBI Search

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump’s legal team has asked a federal judge to appoint a “special master” to ensure the Justice Department returns any of his private documents seized during the search of Mar-a-Lago two weeks ago. Trump is asking for a special master — a third-party attorney — to oversee the review of evidence gathered from the beach …

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Trump Donates To Smithsonian For Portrait Of Himself

The Insider reports: A $650,000 “charitable contribution” former President Donald Trump’s political committee made to the Smithsonian Institution will fund portraits of Donald and Melania Trump for the National Portrait Gallery, a Smithsonian official confirmed to Insider. The contribution, which Trump’s Save America PAC disclosed without explanation in a Federal Election Commission filing Saturday, will “support the artists’ fees, shipping, …

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Election Officials Brace For Violence Over Midterms

Bloomberg News reports: State elections officials say they’re seeing an uptick in a new kind of social media-fueled danger to US midterms: online anger that threatens to spill over into real-world violence. In Arizona, online conspiracy theories resulted in so many harassing phone calls to the secretary of state’s office, employees had to take a break from answering. In Michigan, …

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REPORT: Trump Is Now Regretting Oz Endorsement

Rolling Stone reports: As the critical Pennsylvania Senate race between Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman and Donald Trump-backed TV celebrity Dr. Oz rages on, the former president is coming to the same conclusion that numerous party consultants and conservative bigwigs arrived at earlier this summer: Oz is very likely doomed. He’s going to “fucking lose,” unless something drastically changes, Trump …

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BOOK: Kushner Knew Trump Was Recovering From COVID When He Asked For Food From McDonald’s

The Hill reports: Former White House senior adviser Jared Kushner in his new memoir offers few details about former President Trump’s battle with COVID-19 in 2020, but he did pinpoint a moment when he knew his father-in-law was on the mend. “I knew he was feeling better when he requested one of his favorite meals: a McDonald’s Big Mac, Filet-o-Fish, …

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18 Former Top Trump Officials Call “Bullshit” On His Claim Of A “Standing Order” To Declassify Documents

CNN reports: In the days since the FBI seized classified and top secret documents from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, the former President and his allies have claimed that Trump had a “standing order” to declassify documents he took from the Oval Office to the White House residence. But 18 former top Trump administration officials tell CNN they never heard any …

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DOJ Argues “Evidence Of Obstruction” Found In Search

CNN reports: Obstruction of justice was one of the three statutes listed on the search warrant for Mar-a-Lago, which was unsealed last week, and Judge Bruce Reinhart said during the hearing Thursday that he “found there is probable cause” that the statutes had been violated. DOJ attorney Jay Bratt made the comments about obstruction being investigated while he was trying …

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Trump May Release Surveillance Video Of FBI Search

CNN reports: Some allies of former President Donald Trump are urging him to publicly release surveillance footage of FBI agents executing a search warrant on his Mar-a-Lago residence, a proposal that has drawn mixed reaction inside his orbit, CNN has learned. The CCTV footage has been so closely held that aides to the former President aren’t sure if he has …

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Alex Jones: I’m Dumping Trump For DeSantis [VIDEO]

The Insider reports: Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has thrown his backing behind Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, withdrawing his support for former President Donald Trump. During an Infowars broadcast this week, Jones declared that he would no longer “pigheadedly” support Trump. Jones said he disagreed with Trump over Operation Warp Speed — the former president’s initiative launched in May 2020 …

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Trump Rakes In Millions With FBI-Related Money Begs

The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump bombarded his supporters with more than 100 emails asking for money based on the FBI’s search of the Mar-a-Lago Club for classified materials last week. They paid off. Contributions to Trump’s political action committee topped $1 million on at least two days after the Aug. 8 search of his Palm Beach, Fla., …

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DOJ Official: We’ve Given Trump Back His Passports

NBC News reports: Passports belonging to Donald Trump have been returned to the former president after last week’s FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago home, a Justice Department official told NBC News. The FBI acknowledged it had had the passports the same day Trump said on his social media platform that FBI agents who conducted the search on Aug. 8 took …

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Bolton: Trump’s Lies Show His “Level Of Desperation”

The New York Times reports: First he said that he was “working and cooperating with” government agents who he claimed had inappropriately entered his home. Then, when the government revealed that the F.B.I., during its search, had recovered nearly a dozen sets of documents that were marked classified, he suggested the agents had planted evidence. Finally, his aides claimed he …

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Trump Claims He Wants To Defuse Anger He Stoked Against FBI: The Temperature Has To Be Brought Down

Fox News reports: Former President Trump said he “will do whatever” he can “to help the country,” after the FBI’s raid of his Mar-a-Lago home last week, telling Fox News Digital that the “temperature has to be brought down,” while stressing that the American people are “not going to stand for another scam.” In an exclusive interview with Fox News …

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Lawsuit: Delta Fired Employee For Anti-Trump FB Post

CNN reports: An employment discrimination lawsuit filed by a former Delta Air Lines flight attendant says she was fired for posting an image of former President Donald Trump wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood on her personal Facebook page. The plaintiff, Leondra Taylor, who is Black, admitted she posted a cartoon image on her personal Facebook page. The image was …

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Trump Promotes Multiple QAnon Attacks On FBI

The Insider reports: Former President Donald Trump took Truth Social to his social media platform over the weekend to lash out at the FBI over its raid of Mar-a-Lago. He also repeated the baseless allegation that the FBI could have planted evidence at Mar-a-Lago: “There was no way of knowing if what they took was legitimate, or was there a …

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Fox Guest: Trump Could Face “Heavyweight” Charges

“These are heavyweight statutes. The first, statute, [18 U.S.C. §§] 793, is basically the espionage statute. It talks about things that he may have done with the documents that would result in injury to this country and… he did these things willfully. “That is serious enough that is a ten-year penalty if he’s convicted. Now, the third statute, which is …

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DOJ Investigates Trump For Violating Espionage Act

The Insider reports: The Justice Department is investigating if former President Donald Trump violated three federal laws involving the handling of national security information when he moved government records from the White House to Mar-a-Lago upon leaving office. That’s according to the right-wing news website Breitbart, which appeared to have obtained the warrant the FBI got to search Trump’s Mar-a-Lago …

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