Tag Archives: Trump lies

The Washington Post reports: A Trump employee has told federal agents about moving boxes of documents at Mar-a-Lago at the specific direction of the former president, according to people familiar with the investigation, who say the witness account — combined with security-camera footage — offers key evidence of Donald Trump’s behavior as investigators sought the return of classified material. The …

The Associated Press reports: Former President Donald Trump will have to sit for a deposition next week in a defamation lawsuit filed by a writer who says he raped her in the mid-1990s, a judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan rejected a request by Trump’s lawyers that the planned testimony be delayed. The deposition is now scheduled …

The Washington Post reports: The probably final public hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol is expected to highlight newly obtained Secret Service records showing how President Donald Trump was repeatedly alerted to brewing violence that day, and he still sought to stoke the conflict. The committee plans to share in Thursday’s …

Axios reports: The Justice Department on Tuesday said President Trump’s appeal for the Supreme Court to weigh in on the ongoing Mar-a-Lago probe should be denied. Driving the news: Trump’s legal team previously asked in a filing to the Supreme Court for the special master be allowed to review the near 100 documents marked as classified that were found at …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump posted a video message that suggested he is preparing to “run like the wind” and “tear the shit out of” opponents like Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and the January 6 committee. Trump is still banned from Twitter — for the time being — but on Monday night, he posted a bizarre video …

The Washington Post reports: Donald Trump’s political operation has spent more money since he left office on lawyers representing the former president and a pair of nonprofits staffed by former Cabinet members than it has on Republican congressional campaigns, according to a review of financial filings. Trump’s leadership PAC, Save America, has blitzed supporters in recent days with fundraising solicitations …

NBC News reports: Christina Bobb, the attorney who signed a letter certifying that all sensitive records in former President Donald Trump’s possession had been returned to the government, spoke to federal investigators Friday and named two other Trump attorneys involved with the case, according to three sources familiar with the matter. The certification statement, signed June 3 by Bobb, indicated …

The Hill reports: About 39 percent of Republicans will blame election fraud if the GOP doesn’t win control of Congress in the November midterm elections according to a new Axios/Ipsos poll. The poll documents the widening divide between Democrats and Republicans, who appear to be growing less and less likely to accept the outcome of an election if their party …

CNN reports: During a private meeting last summer, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told two police officers who defended the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, and the mother of a third who died after the riot, that former President Donald Trump had no idea his supporters were carrying out the attack, according to newly obtained audio of the conversation. …

The Insider reports: Former President Donald Trump addressed the FBI’s raid on his Mar-a-Lago resort at a Sunday rally in Arizona, making a series of misleading claims as he sought to portray the investigation as part of a plot against him. Trump baselessly claimed that other presidents, including Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, had mishandled classified information yet faced …

The Daily Beast reports: At a rally Sunday evening in Arizona, Trump claimed that George H.W. Bush “took millions and millions of documents to a former bowling alley pieced together with what was then an old and broken Chinese restaurant.” “They put them together. And it had a broken front door and broken windows. Other than that, it was quite …

Raw Story reports: MyPillow founder Mike Lindell begged Speaker Nancy Pelosi to let him testify before the House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Lindell was interviewed by Right Side Broadcasting ahead of Trump’s rally in Minden, Nevada. “I’m going to tell you, that fake Jan. 6 charade that’s going on, shame on them,” Lindell …

Mediaite reports: At his Saturday rally in Nevada, ex-president Donald Trump spent a lot of time telling the crowd that former presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, and Barack Obama — not to mention Hillary Clinton — were all much worse about retaining documents, and that the Mar-a-Lago raid and subsequent investigations are a “hoax.” “When will …

The New York Times reports: Late last year, as the National Archives ratcheted up the pressure on former President Donald J. Trump to return boxes of records he had taken from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago club, he came up with an idea to resolve the looming showdown: cut a deal. Mr. Trump, still determined to show he had …

The New York Daily News reports: The tough talking former mayor who made his name putting lawbreakers in jail ran up against a tough talking judge who’s ready to do the same — to him. Rudy Giuliani has been warned: Either produce the records of payments he says he made to his ex-wife or expect a deputy to haul him …

“They spy, they illegally seize. Look what they did to Mike Lindell. Look what they did to the pro-life activists in Pennsylvania. Raiding his home for, you know, not even a real crime here. A misdemeanor shoving that was thrown out of court. “If you have a thought crime, not actual crime, they’re going to show up at your door, …

The New York Times reports: A top Justice Department official told former President Donald J. Trump’s lawyers in recent weeks that the department believed he had not returned all the documents he took when he left the White House, according to two people briefed on the matter. The outreach from the official, Jay I. Bratt, who leads the department’s counterintelligence …

Posted this afternoon to Trump’s Truth Social account: Great news for the United States Senate, and our Country itself. Liddle’ Ben Sasse, the lightweight Senator from the great State of Nebraska, will be resigning. If he knew he was going to resign so early in his term, why did he run in the first place? But it’s still great news! …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump told the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) Hispanic Leadership Conference in Miami, Florida on Wednesday a pollster once told him he could defeat George Washington and Abraham Lincoln on the same ticket. Trump, not known for his modesty, made the off claim during a free-wielding speech in which he falsely claimed former presidents like …

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to intervene in the dispute over materials the FBI seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate this summer. His emergency request with Supreme Court is the latest example of the former President seeking to involve the justices in investigations that entangle him – at a time when the high court’s legitimacy …