Tag Archives: Trump lies

CNN reports: Judge Juan Merchan reprimanded lawyers for the Trump Corporation for filing motions and new exhibits late Sunday night that they want to introduce Monday morning when they question Mazars accountant Donald Bender, telling them he will no longer accept any motions from the attorneys. Defense attorneys had submitted 18 exhibits to the prosecution around midnight. “It’s inconsiderate at …

From a 2:18AM post to Trump’s Truth Social account: Massive numbers of “BROKEN” voting machines in Republican Districts on Election Day. Mechanics sent in to “FIX” them made them worse. Kari had to be taken to a Democrat area, which was working perfectly, to vote. Her opponent ran the Election. This is yet another criminal voting operation – SO OBVIOUS. …

The Associated Press reports: “Gaslighting” — mind manipulating, grossly misleading, downright deceitful — is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year. Lookups for the word on merriam-webster.com increased 1,740% in 2022 over the year before. But something else happened. There wasn’t a single event that drove significant spikes in the curiosity, as it usually goes with the chosen word of the year. The …

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump repeatedly refused to disavow the outspoken antisemite and white supremacist Nick Fuentes after they spoke over dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort, rejecting the advice from advisers over fears he might alienate a section of his base, two people familiar with the situation said.” The former US president was urged publicly and privately to denounce Fuentes …

“The last time I met with the a white supremacist, it was in an armed standoff. I had a bulletproof vest on. We arrested them, prosecuted them, sent them to prison. “And so, no, I don’t think it’s a good idea for a leader that’s setting an example for the country or the party to meet with an avowed, racist …

Mediaite reports: Donald Trump took to Truth Social to rage against Jack Smith, the special counsel assigned by Attorney General Merrick Garland to oversee criminal probes into the former president. In posts that took full advantage of caps lock, Trump called Smith “compromised” and accused him of having a “soft name.” “Jack Smith (nice, soft name, isn’t it?), is a …

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: So I help a seriously troubled man, who just happens to be black, Ye (Kanye West), who has been decimated in his business and virtually everything else, and who has always been good to me, by allowing his request for a meeting at Mar-a-Lago, alone, so that I can give him very …

The Hill reports: Members of President Biden’s party are openly pining for Trump to become the 2024 Republican nominee, believing he is just too flawed to win a general election. They argue that the situation today is markedly different from 2016, not least because voters now know what they get with Trump in office. And Democrats are eager to have …

The Guardian reports: John Bolton, former national security adviser to Donald Trump, has described the former US president’s act as “old and tired” and said the Republican party is ready to move on to a “fresh face”. “There are a lot of reasons to be against Trump being the nominee but the one I’m hearing now as I call around …

The Washington Post reports: It followed them from Washington to their home in the Indianapolis suburbs. They felt it when he was exploring jobs in academia, where he would receive polite rejections from university officials who worried that someone who served in the administration of the former president would be badly received by their left-leaning student bodies. They felt it …

The New York Times reports: Mr. Trump on Tuesday night had dinner with Nick Fuentes, an outspoken antisemite and racist who is one of the country’s most prominent young white supremacists, at Mr. Trump’s private club in Florida, advisers to Mr. Trump conceded on Friday. A Holocaust denier and unabashed racist, Mr. Fuentes openly uses hateful language on his podcast, …

Axios reports: Former President Trump dined and conversed with white nationalist Nick Fuentes and rapper Ye at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Tuesday night, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Trump’s direct engagement with a man labeled a “white supremacist” by the Justice Department, one week after declaring his 2024 candidacy, is likely to draw renewed outrage over the …

Salon reports: The former leader of the free world lashed out on Thursday at one of the prosecutors investigating alleged misconduct. “The Manhattan D.A. Case should never have been brought,” Trump posted to his Truth Social website. He also attacked the Mazars Group, which used to handle the accounting for the Trump Organization. Two minutes later, he returned to Truth …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: What are they doing in Arizona about the large number of voting machines in Republican areas that just happened to be “BROKEN” on Election Day, with tens of thousands of voters, standing in line for hours, unable to vote. They left the voting lines in complete exasperation, unable to return. When “mechanics” went in …

The Associated Press reports: A writer who accused former President Donald Trump of rape filed an upgraded lawsuit against him Thursday in New York, minutes after a new state law took effect allowing victims of sexual violence to sue over attacks that occurred decades ago. E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer filed the legal papers electronically as the Adult Survivor’s Act temporarily …

The New York Times reports: The Justice Department is seeking to question former Vice President Mike Pence as a witness in connection with its criminal investigation into former President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to stay in power after he lost the 2020 election, according to two people familiar with the matter. Mr. Pence, according to people familiar with his thinking, …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: Why would anybody be surprised that the Supreme Court has ruled against me, they always do! It is unprecedented to be handing over Tax Returns, & it creates terrible precedent for future Presidents. Has Joe Biden paid taxes on all of the money he made illegally from Hunter & beyond. The Supreme Court has …

Peter Montgomery reports at Right Wing Watch: Businessman Mike Lindell — aka the MyPillow Guy — poured tens of millions of dollars into spectacularly failed efforts to prove that the 2020 election was stolen from​ former President Donald Trump by fraudulent election machines, while portraying his efforts as a spiritual crusade. The election conspiracy theorist is still at it. A …

The Independent reports: The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the imminent handover of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns to a congressional committee after a three-year legal fight. The court, without comment, rejected Trump’s plea for an order that would have prevented the Treasury Department from giving six years of tax returns for Trump and some of …

Politico reports: When Donald Trump plunged into the 2024 presidential race last week at his Mar-a-Lago club, he was surrounded by sidekicks, superfans and self-described sycophants. Among them was another subset of Trump world figures who look poised to help form the coalition behind his third presidential bid: those sympathetic to or even a part of the riot on the …