Tag Archives: Donald Trump

Ex-WH Counsel: Trump Ordered Me To Lie To Mueller

The New York Daily News reports: Former President Donald Trump ordered his top White House attorney to issue a false statement at the height of the Mueller investigation even though he knew the lying could carry criminal consequences for both of them, according to newly unearthed congressional testimony. Donald McGahn, who served as Trump’s first White House counsel, told members …

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Interior Dept IG’s Report Claims Lafayette Park Was Not Cleared For Trump To Stage Stupid Bible Photo Op Stunt

NBC News reports: When federal police officers violently cleared protesters from the city’s Lafayette Park in June 2020, they did it so a contractor could install fencing — not to let President Donald Trump hold a photo opportunity at a nearby church, an investigation by the Interior Department’s inspector general has found. That finding, published Wednesday, is likely to surprise …

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Biden Signs Order Revoking Trump’s Ban On TikTok

The Verge reports: President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday revoking the Trump-era bans on TikTok and WeChat. In place of the Trump order, Biden will direct the commerce secretary to investigate apps with ties to foreign adversaries that may pose a risk to American data privacy or national security. The order takes the place of a series of …

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Trump Calls On Countries To Ban Twitter And Facebook

Via press release: Congratulations to the country of Nigeria, who just banned Twitter because they banned their President. More COUNTRIES should ban Twitter and Facebook for not allowing free and open speech—all voices should be heard. In the meantime, competitors will emerge and take hold. Who are they to dictate good and evil if they themselves are evil? Perhaps I …

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Feds: Man Posed As Trump’s Sister To Scam Cultists

NBC News reports: A Pennsylvania man fraudulently used then-President Donald Trump’s relatives’ names and photos – including those of Trump’s teen son – to rip off unsuspecting followers of a fictitious political fundraising operation, the FBI said. Joshua Hall, of Mechanicsburg, Penn., allegedly raised thousands of dollars using Trump family identities on his platforms – claiming those relatives were helping …

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POLL: 51% Support Trump’s Two-Year Ban By Facebook

Politico reports: While the majority of Americans have heard about former President Donald Trump’s Facebook suspension, just over half support the platform’s two-year ban, according to a new POLITICO/ Morning Consult poll released Monday. 71 percent of voters have heard “a lot” or “some” about Trump’s suspension from the social media platform, while 51 percent of Americans strongly or somewhat …

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DOJ Files To Represent Trump In Defamation Lawsuit

The Washington Post reports: The Justice Department’s Civil Division under President Biden is continuing the Trump-era push to represent the former president in a defamation lawsuit brought by author E. Jean Carroll, according to a Monday night appellate court filing. The lawsuit brought by Carroll — who accused Donald Trump two years ago of sexually assaulting her in the 1990s …

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Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer Is Talking To NYC Prosecutors

“I would tell them everything I know. I would tell them I was approached, I would tell them I have evidence that the money came from an account set up at the direction of Donald Trump. “I would tell them that money was traced back to Russian funds. I would give them copies of the bank wires and all of …

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Russian Trolls Still Planting Disinfo On Pro-Trump Sites

Reuters reports: A group suspected of being Russian has remained active on internet services favored by far-right Americans, showing that efforts to interfere in US politics continue after the election, according to the research firm’s reports. social media Graphika and the non-profit association Advance Democracy Inc. The group, which Graphika also believes to be linked to the Russian government, maintains …

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Twitter Has Questions About Trump’s Pants [VIDEO]

The Independent reports: People think that Donald Trump had his trousers on backwards yesterday and they can’t stop laughing. Posting on Twitter, people are sharing screenshots of the former president’s most recent speech and claiming there is no zip on the front of his pants, suggesting he put them on back to front. Trump made a speech before the North …

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Trump Claims West Point Ramp Was “Booby-Trapped”

“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 …

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Radio Host Tells Trump To Run For US House, Become Speaker, Then Lead Impeachment Of Biden [VIDEO]

“Why not, instead of waiting for 2024, and I’m hoping you’ll run in 2024, but why not run in 2022 for the United States Congress? “A House seat in Florida. Win big. Lead us to a dramatic landslide victory. Take the House by 50 seats. “Then you become the Speaker of the House, lead the impeachment of Biden and start …

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Trump Condo Prices Plunge Amid Natl Housing Crunch

The Associated Press reports: An Associated Press review of more than 4,000 transactions over the past 15 years in 11 Trump-branded buildings in Chicago, Honolulu, Las Vegas and New York found prices for some condos and hotel rooms available for purchase have dropped by one-third or more. That’s a plunge that outpaces drops in many similar buildings, leaving units for …

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Lara Trump Denies Reports Of “Reinstatement” Plans

“I think you should take a look at who those networks are and who is pushing that story out. As far as I know, there are no plans for Donald Trump to be in the White House in August. Maybe there’s something I don’t know. But no, I think that that is a lot of folks getting a little worked …

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WaPo: Trump Is Obsessed With QAnon Ballot “Audits”

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 — …

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Trump Had Begged Cultists To Read Now-Dead Blog

The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump’s blog, celebrated by advisers as a “beacon of freedom” that would keep him relevant in an online world he once dominated, is dead. It was 29 days old. Upset by reports from The Washington Post and other outlets highlighting its measly readership and concerns that it could detract from a social media …

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Trump’s Embarrassing Blog Fail Shuts Down For Good

CNBC reports: Former President Donald Trump’s blog — a webpage where he shared statements after larger social media companies banned him from their platforms — has been permanently shut down, his spokesman said Wednesday. The page, “From the Desk of Donald J. Trump,” has been scrubbed from Trump’s website after going live less than a month earlier. It “will not …

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NYT: Trump Claiming He’ll Be Reinstated by August

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 …

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DC Cops Admit Using Tear Gas On Lafayette Protesters

Washington DC’s CBS News affiliate reports: An attorney for DC Police said in court, for the first time, that the department did indeed use tear gas on protesters around Lafayette Square Park last June. Protesters and the ACLU are suing federal police, and MPD, over their use of tear gas. MPD has consistently said that it was “not involved” in …

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DOJ Seeks Dismissal Of Lafayette Square Protest Suit

The Washington Post reports: Lawyers for the Justice Department urged a federal judge on Friday to dismiss lawsuits against former president Donald Trump, former attorney general William P. Barr and other officials for last June’s violent clearing of demonstrators from Lafayette Square by U.S. military and police. Trump and other U.S. officials are immune from civil lawsuits over police actions …

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