CNN reports: Retiring Rep. Anthony Gonzalez has a warning for his fellow Republicans: former President Donald Trump will try to steal the next election. With Trump appearing to prepare for another presidential run in 2024, Gonzalez told CNN he will try to stop Trump from running the same 2020 playbook to overturn another election, but he warned that Trump could …
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Trump DOJ Official Brings Kraken Lawyer To Deposition
Politico reports: A top Trump Justice Department official who aided the former president’s quest to overturn the 2020 election met Friday with congressional investigators probing the Jan. 6 Capitol attack — accompanied by a lawyer who worked on a suit aimed at overturning the Georgia election results. Jeffrey Clark was photographed heading into and out of a brief deposition with …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Homocon Site Claims Dems Are Stealing NJ Gov Race
Media Matters reports: Far-right outlets such as The Gateway Pundit are running with false claims that Bergen County, the state’s most populous, had already reported 100% of all votes counted before the lead was flipped late in the night from Ciattarelli to Murphy. Reading the site’s post, however, makes it clear that such online claims had come from people reading …
Read More »Feds Sift Through Thousands Of Seized Giuliani Files
The Washington Post reports: When FBI agents raided Rudy Giuliani’s home and office earlier this year, carting off his phones and computers, his lawyers expressed outrage, saying the devices seized from Donald Trump’s former lawyer were potentially “replete with material covered by the attorney client privilege.” But after a monthslong review, Giuliani’s legal team has so far asked a court-appointed …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Insiders Accuse Trump Organization Of Insurance Scam
Insurance Business reports: The Trump Organization filed a highly exaggerated claim of nearly $1.3 million for damages to a golf course that cost only a fraction of the payout, insiders familiar with the matter have claimed. Sources that asked not to be identified reached out to Rolling Stone, saying that when a flood occurred at Trump National Golf Club Westchester …
Read More »Famous Liar Lied About Being Invited To World Series
Yahoo Sports reports: Before the World Series arrived in Atlanta, the Braves announced that former president Donald Trump would be attending Saturday night’s Game 4. Saturday afternoon, just before 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time, Trump sent an email to his mailing list, which read, in full: “Looking forward to being at the World Series in Atlanta tonight. Thank you to the …
Read More »Sean Spicer Refuses To Say Trump Lost Election [Video]
Newsweek reports: Bill Maher confronted ex-White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer over unfounded claims that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump, accusing him of being too “afraid” to admit the former president lost. Maher asked Spicer if Trump won or lost the election, to which the former press secretary responded: “I don’t know.” “There you go,” Maher said. …
Read More »Court Filing Lists Documents Trump Is Trying To Hide
The Hill reports: Former President Trump is looking to withhold 770 pages of documents from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to court documents filed by the National Archives. In a court document filed on Saturday, John Laster, who runs the National Archive’s White House Liaison Division, says the former president is looking …
Read More »New Trump Platform May Have Violated SEC Rules
The New York Times reports: A little-known Miami banker named Patrick Orlando had been discussing a deal with Mr. Trump since at least March, according to people familiar with the talks and a confidential investor presentation reviewed by The New York Times. That was well before his SPAC, Digital World Acquisition, made its debut on the Nasdaq stock exchange last …
Read More »66 Ex-Lawmakers To Court: Deny Trump On Riot Docs
Politico reports: Sixty-six former lawmakers, including two dozen Republicans, have signed on to a legal brief urging a federal judge to reject former President Donald Trump’s effort to block Jan. 6 investigators from accessing his White House’s records. The brief, which is slated to hit the docket in the D.C. federal District Court on Friday, contends that no possible argument …
Read More »WSJ Board Defends Running Trump’s “Bananas” Letter
From the Wall Street Journal editorial board: The progressive parsons of the press are aflutter that we published a letter to the editor Thursday from former President Trump, objecting to our editorial pointing out that he lost Pennsylvania last year by 80,555 votes. We trust our readers to make up their own minds about his statement. And we think it’s …
Read More »Riot Panel Frustrated With Stonewalling By Meadows
CNN reports: Members of the House select committee investigating January 6 are losing patience with the pace of talks with former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, and some are considering whether more aggressive steps are needed to force his compliance in the sweeping probe, multiple sources tell CNN. Meadows was first subpoenaed more than a month ago, and …
Read More »Trump Asks Court To Block Tax Returns From Congress
NBC News reports: Lawyers for former President Donald Trump urged a federal judge late Tuesday to block the Treasury Department and the IRS from giving his tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee. Trump’s taxes have long been the Democrats’ “white whale,” the lawyers said. The committee sued the Treasury Department when it refused to hand over the …
Read More »60% Of Republicans: “Overturn” The 2020 Election
ABC News reports: Thirty-five percent of registered voters said the results of the 2020 presidential election should be overturned, according to a new poll, nearly nine months after Congress certified President Biden’s Electoral College win. The poll, conducted by Politico and Morning Consult, found that 22 percent of registered voters said the results of the 2020 presidential election should “definitely” …
Read More »Birx Testifies That Trump Cost Tens Of Thousands Of Lives By Prioritizing Election Over Pandemic Response
Politico reports: As Covid-19 surged last winter, the Trump White House was torn between competing factions on how to manage the pandemic, including whether to let the virus spread unchecked to reach herd immunity, former coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx told congressional investigators. Birx and other doctors pressed the Trump administration to intensify efforts to control disease spread, according to …
Read More »“Cancel-Proof” Company To Host Trump’s Truth Social
Axios reports: RightForge, an internet infrastructure company that courts conservatives, will host former President Trump’s new social media platform, CEO Martín Avila told Axios on Monday. By relying on a web hosting service that won’t cut ties over controversial comments, Trump’s new platform could avoid the problems conservative network Parler faced when Amazon pulled its web services following the Capitol …
Read More »Trump Vows No Censorship On Coming Social Media Platform (Users Are Banned From Criticizing Platform)
The Hill reports: Truth Social, the new social media platform that former President Trump says he is rolling out, will combat censorship and the “self-righteous scolds and self-appointed arbiters” who Trump said decide what everyone else is allowed to “think, say, share, and do.” “The corruption of these platforms cannot be ignored,” Trump said in a statement issued by Trump …
Read More »Biden Again Refuses Trump Demand For Docs Privilege
CNN reports: President Joe Biden has once again refused to assert executive privilege over more documents that former President Donald Trump has sought to keep out of the hands of the committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. According to a letter obtained by CNN, White House counsel Dana Remus informed National Archivist David Ferriero on Monday …
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