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Politico reports: John Eastman, the attorney who helped former President Donald Trump pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 election, has asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, according to a letter he delivered to the Jan. 6 committee explaining his decision not to testify. “Dr. Eastman hereby asserts his Fifth Amendment right not to be a witness …

Mediaite reports: On Wednesday morning The Guardian reported that a new book by former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows reveals that Trump did in fact test positive for Covid-19, but then tested negative. Trump said via statement, “The story of me having COVID prior to, or during, the first debate is Fake News. In fact, a test revealed that I …

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump tested positive for Covid-19 three days before his first debate against Joe Biden, the former president’s fourth and last chief of staff has revealed in a new book. Mark Meadows also writes that though he knew each candidate was required “to test negative for the virus within seventy two hours of the start time … …

The Guardian reports: Hours before the deadly attack on the US Capitol this year, Donald Trump made several calls from the White House to top lieutenants at the Willard hotel in Washington and talked about ways to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s election win from taking place on 6 January. The former president first told the lieutenants his vice-president, …

Not at all surprising: The US intelligence community “struggled” to brief President-elect Donald Trump in 2016, achieving “only limited success” in educating and developing a relationship with the incoming president, according to a newly released unclassified history of the transition period published by the CIA’s in-house academic center. Trump rarely, if at all, read the daily classified briefing book prepared …

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump said he was recently visited at his Palm Beach, Florida, resort by Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager who was acquitted last week on all charges after fatally shooting two people and wounding a third during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last summer. “He called. He wanted to know if he could come over, say hello, because …

Politico reports: As Donald Trump builds out a presidential-campaign-in-waiting, his team is focusing on an electoral strategy that relies on recapturing the five states that flipped to Joe Biden in 2020. The five states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — delivered a total of 73 electoral votes in 2020, enough to produce a decisive Electoral College victory for …

The Washington Post reports: The United States for the first time was added to a list of “backsliding democracies” in a report released Monday by the Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. “The United States, the bastion of global democracy, fell victim to authoritarian tendencies itself, and was knocked down a significant number of steps on the democratic …

Just in from world’s most famous riot-inciter: Friend, GREAT NEWS FOR KYLE RITTENHOUSE, who we knew was innocent all along. This trial was nothing more than a WITCH HUNT from the Radical Left. They want to PUNISH law-abiding citizens, including a CHILD, like Kyle Rittenhouse, for doing nothing more than following the LAW. Biden and his cronies are trying to …

Axios reports: Former President Trump plans his first post-presidency book — “Our Journey Together,” featuring 300+ official White House photographs. Don Jr. tells Axios: “My father picked every single photo in this book, wrote all the captions, including some by hand.” The coffee-table book includes Trump at the border wall and with Kim Jong-un, and behind-the-scenes family photos. The book …

Yahoo News reports: Embattled MyPillow CEO and Trump ally Mike Lindell has had the best endorsement yet for his peculiar plan to melt voting machines and turn them into prison bars: Donald Trump himself. Mr Lindell told the one-term president during an almost hour-long interview that melting down voting machines would solve the alleged problem of a rigged 2020 election …

Just in from the world’s most famous liar: From Election Day, November 3rd, the day I realized that the 2020 Presidential Election was rigged, I would never have agreed to go to Joe Biden’s Inauguration. This decision was mine, and mine alone. The old broken-down Crow, Mitch McConnell, had nothing to do with it. According to third-rate reporter Jonathan Karl …

ABC News reports: Shortly after the Jan. 6 insurrection, Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell did something extraordinary: He decided to disinvite Donald Trump from President Joe Biden’s upcoming inauguration because he was worried Trump could use the occasion to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power, according to a new book by ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl. McCarthy, Karl …

The Insider reports: Former President Donald Trump called January 6, the day of the Capitol riot, “a very beautiful time” in a March interview with ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl, according to Karl’s forthcoming book. During the interview at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Trump praised the supporters who attended his speech in which he urged his loyalists to …

Axios reports: Ohio Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (R) told CNN’s “State of the Union” in an interview that aired Sunday that former President Donald Trump may try to steal the 2024 election if he decides to run and loses. Gonzalez warned that Trump’s second attempt may be more dangerous, since he’ll have had time to examine why he failed to overturn …

The Hill reports: Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is refusing to say if he would support former President Trump’s possible reelection campaign in 2024, instead arguing that it is too early to make such a statement. Asked by CNN’s Dana Bash if he would support the former president should he lead the GOP ticket in 2024, Christie, a …

Law & Crime reports: Former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos dropped her defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump on Friday, after the former president’s lawyer filed counterclaims under a New York State law punishing litigation meant to chill free speech. The filing marks a precipitous end to a nearly half-decade-old lawsuit, which Trump initially and unsuccessfully tried to dismiss by claiming immunity …

The Hill reports: Top political officials in the Trump White House tried to block public health guidance from the Centers for Disease Control, and tried to eliminate evidence of political interference into scientists’ reports on the coronavirus, according to newly released documents from congressional investigators. The latest documents from a House committee investigating the former administration’s response to the pandemic …

Mediaite reports: In an excerpt from Jonathan Karl’s upcoming book — Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show — published in Vanity Fair Thursday, the ABC News chief White House correspondent reported that many of the president’s campaign staffers blamed themselves for Herman Cain’s death. “We were all trying to figure out who’s testing positive, because we were all …

Axios reports: Former President Trump — in a taped interview with Jonathan Karl of ABC News that was shared with Axios — defended, quite extensively, supporters who threatened to “hang” former Vice President Mike Pence. Jonathan Karl: “Were you worried about him during that siege? Were you worried about his safety?” Trump: “No, I thought he was well-protected, and I …