Tag Archives: Donald Trump

Trump Files Last-Ditch Appeal To Block Riot Docs

NBC News reports: Lawyers for former President Donald Trump on Thursday asked a federal appeals court to temporarily block the National Archives from turning over his White House records to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. The committee is set to receive the first batch of documents, which lawmakers say is key to their investigation, …

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Trump Sends Homocon Richard Grenell To Kosovo Border On Foreign Policy Trip As “Envoy Ambassador”

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump revealed via a statement sent Thursday morning that Ric Grenell is currently visiting the Kosovo-Serbia border to highlight a peace agreement brokered under his administration. “Today, my Envoy Ambassador Ric Grenell visited the Kosovo-Serbia border to highlight this important agreement,” Trump wrote via his Save America PAC, revealing that he has an Envoy Ambassador, …

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Feds Indict Three “Trump-Era Scam PAC” Operators

Politico reports: For the last five years or more, Matt Tunstall has used the name and likeness of Donald Trump and other politicians to ostensibly raise money for a network of political action committees. But he’s been accused of pocketing most of the money himself and on Wednesday, his so-called scam PAC operation finally caught up to him. In an …

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Trump: Boycott Companies That Don’t Believe In GOP

Mediaite reports: In excerpts shared by the Trump team Wednesday, the former president told Republicans at the National Republican Congressional Committee event they should “ban critical race theory” and “save America’s suburbs from Biden’s CRT-inspired housing agenda.” Later on he got around to calling for massive boycotts: “We need nationwide boycotts of companies that don’t believe in Republican and conservative …

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Trump Loses Third Attempt To Block Capitol Riot Docs

CNN reports: A federal judge on Wednesday night said she would not help former President Donald Trump as he attempts to buy time in his argument to keep secret records from his presidency, pointing him instead to an appeals court to seek help. Judge Tanya Chutkan’s latest decision comes a day after she ruled against Trump in a historic case …

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2024 Watch: Christie Taunts Trump For Losing [VIDEO]

Axios reports: Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, lacing up for a possible presidential run in 2024, told “Axios on HBO” he won’t back down from a fight with former President Donald Trump, taunting his longtime friend for losing the last election. “I’ve never walked away from an argument, no matter who stood on the other side,” Christie told me …

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Judge Rules Riot Committee Can Have Trump’s Docs

The Washington Post reports: A federal judge in Washington ruled late Tuesday that hundreds of pages of Trump White House records can be turned over to a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol despite the former president’s objections. The decision by U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan clears the way for the release of government …

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Loser Mocks “Old Crow McConnell” Over Infrastructure

The Hill reports: “Why is it that Old Crow Mitch McConnell voted for a terrible Democrat Socialist Infrastructure Plan, and induced others in his Party to do likewise, when he was incapable of getting a great Infrastructure Plan wanting to be put forward by me and the Republican Party?” Trump vented in a statement. Trump promised a $1 trillion infrastructure …

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NYC To Take Down Trump’s Highway Beautification Sign

The West Side Rag reports: The Donald J. Trump highway beautification sign — on the southbound side of the Henry Hudson Parkway, just north of the West 79th Street exit — is being removed, according to a letter from the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) to Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal, who shared it with WSR. Trump’s name has …

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Trump Loses “Bizarre” Late Night Bid To Block Docs

Politics reports: If you blinked you missed it. Former President Donald Trump filed an emergency request to a federal judge late Monday night to prevent the National Archives from sending sensitive records to Jan. 6 committee investigators by Friday. And just after midnight, Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected it, contending the request itself was legally defective and “premature.” The unusual exchange, …

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Famous Lying Loser Predictably Attacks Chris Christie

Mediaite reports: Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie took a veiled shot at Donald Trump during a speech last weekend, telling a Republican Jewish Coalition audience that winning campaigns are the ones that “look forward, not backwards.” “If we don’t get it, we’re going to lose,” he added as he got a smattering of applause. So, naturally, Trump responded on …

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McConnell Wrote Trump’s Foreword In His Own Memoir

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump once described Mitch McConnell as his “ace in the hole” and wrote, in a foreword to the Senate Republican leader’s autobiography, that he “couldn’t have asked for a better partner” in Washington. Except, according to Trump, he didn’t. Speaking to the Washington Post for a profile of the Senate minority leader published on Monday, Trump …

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Book: Trump Vowed To Leave GOP In Blowup With RNC

ABC News reports: In an angry conversation on his final day as president, Donald Trump told the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee he was leaving the GOP and creating his own political party — and that he didn’t care if the move would destroy the Republican Party, according to a new book by ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan …

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Trump Likely To Face Special Georgia Grand Jury

The New York Times reports: As the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot fights to extract testimony and documents from Donald J. Trump’s White House, an Atlanta district attorney is moving toward convening a special grand jury in her criminal investigation of election interference by the former president and his allies, according to a person with direct knowledge …

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Federal Judge Appears Likely To Deny Trump On Riot Docs: “What Did He Know And When Did He Know It?”

Politico reports: A federal judge on Thursday sharply questioned former President Donald Trump’s effort to block the congressional Jan. 6 select committee from obtaining his White House records, casting doubt on the notion that the former president can overrule his successor’s decision to release them to investigators. “There is only one executive,” said District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan during a …

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New Grand Jury To Hear Evidence About Trump Org

The Washington Post reports: The Manhattan District Attorney has convened a second long-term grand jury to hear evidence about the Trump Organization’s financial practices, and potentially to vote on criminal charges, according to people with knowledge of the matter. An earlier grand jury — convened this spring in Manhattan — previously handed down felony indictments against two Trump companies and …

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Feds Arrest Researcher Of Infamous “Steele Dossier”

The New York Times reports: Federal authorities on Thursday arrested an analyst who in 2016 gathered leads about possible links between Donald J. Trump and Russia for what turned out to be Democratic-funded opposition research, according to people familiar with the matter. The arrest of the analyst, Igor Danchenko, is part of the special counsel inquiry led by John H. …

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PA Official Sues Trump And His Acolytes For Slander

Politico reports: The supervisor of a voting machine warehouse in the Philadelphia suburbs is suing Donald Trump and top political advisers in a Philadelphia-based county court, saying the former president slandered him during a months-long effort to overturn the 2020 election results. In a 60-page lawsuit, James Savage, the voting machine warehouse custodian in Delaware County, says that in the …

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Georgia Sec Of State: Trump’s Call To Me Was A Threat

The Associated Press reports: Donald Trump was threatening Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger when he asked him to help “find” enough votes to overturn his loss in Georgia to Democratic President Joe Biden, Raffensperger writes in a new book. Raffensperger recounts in his book the struggle in Georgia that followed Biden’s narrow victory, including death threats texted to his …

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Trump: “Israel Literally Owned Congress Ten Years Ago”

Israel’s Haaretz has the transcript: The biggest change I’ve seen in Congress is Israel literally owned Congress, you understand that, ten years ago, 15 years ago. And it was so powerful. It was so powerful. And today it’s almost the opposite. You have between AOC and Omar and these people that hate Israel, they hate it with a passion, they’re …

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