Tag Archives: Trump lies

The Huffington Post reports: Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that gasoline prices are much higher than they truly are. It was a casual lie presented as hard fact that didn’t get much play during his speech at an Iowa rally. The former president has misrepresented gas prices before to drag President Joe Biden, but Trump’s latest fuel fib merited attention for …

The Hill reports: Rudy Giuliani could face a do-or-die moment Thursday when he’s expected to take the stand to fight a defamation lawsuit brought by two former Georgia election workers, who faced a deluge of threats after he and others baselessly accused them of committing voter fraud in 2020. A Washington, D.C., jury is weighing the workers’ request for upwards …

Bloomberg News reports: A federal appeals court in Washington has agreed to expedite a decision on whether former President Donald Trump should be immune to criminal prosecution for actions he took to allegedly overturn the results of the 2020 election. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued an order late Wednesday setting a schedule under which …

The Insider reports: Four hours after testimony wrapped in the civil fraud trial against Donald Trump and the Trump Organization, the lower Manhattan courthouse was evacuated after someone set papers on fire, then pulled and used multiple fire extinguishers on the same floor as the courtroom. The judge in the case, New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron, was in …

The Messenger reports: Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial in New York drew to a close on Wednesday in the same manner that it began some 11 weeks earlier — with contentious recriminations about proceedings that could put the former president out of business in the Empire State. Court will now stand in recess for nearly a month, until a hearing …

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly called special counsel Jack Smith “deranged” and a “thug.” Now his attorneys are comparing him to the Grinch. Trump’s lawyers made the comparison in a court filing Wednesday urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to rule against Smith’s request for an expedited appeal on whether …

The Messenger reports: A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a temporary halt to any further proceedings that would move the Washington, D.C. election-subversion case against former President Donald Trump toward trial. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said she does not have jurisdiction over the case while the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals considers Trump’s appeal of his denied motion seeking …

The New York Times reports: Bryan Heestand doesn’t work for Mr. Trump, but he belongs to a small circle of video meme-makers who have effectively served as a shadow online ad agency for his presidential campaign. Led by a little-known podcaster and life coach, this meme team has spent much of the year flooding social media with content that lionizes …

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump cannot assert presidential immunity from a defamation lawsuit by E Jean Carroll, the writer who accused him of rape, a US appeals court ruled on Wednesday, dealing him another setback in litigation she has pursued. The second US circuit court of Appeals in Manhattan upheld a federal judge’s decision to reject Trump’s claim of immunity. …

The Daily Beast reports: New documents show that Donald Trump’s trusted advisers were warned that criminal charges could result from the “fake elector” schemes carried out in several states—part of an attempt by the Trump campaign and its allies to overturn the 2020 election that has since led to indictments in a number of states. According to communications given to …

The Washington Post reports: A bogus claim every 12 seconds, on average. That’s what a single five-minute clip of former president Donald Trump speaking in Iowa on Dec. 5 yielded. In the clip, from a Fox News “town hall” hosted by Sean Hannity and brought to our attention by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CFRB), Trump ludicrously asserts …

The Messenger reports: More than 30% of Republicans who responded to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll said they would not vote for former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election if a jury convicts him of a felony. Trump currently faces four criminal trials. These cases have posed a significant risk to his candidacy, especially if he receives a conviction …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: I wanted to testify on Monday, despite the fact that I already testified successfully, answering all questions having to do with the Fake, No Victims, No Jury lawsuit, thrown at me by the Corrupt Racist A.G., Letitia James, and presided over by a Trump hating judge who suffers from a massive case of Trump …

Politico reports: Rudy Giuliani’s defiant public statements outside a Washington, D.C., federal courthouse — just minutes after he departed the first day of his civil trial for defaming two Georgia election workers — may have defamed them yet again, the judge presiding over the proceedings said Tuesday. “Was Mr. Giuliani just playing for the cameras?” wondered U.S. District Judge Beryl …

CNN reports: Three months after the FBI seized classified records from Mar-a-Lago last August, a longtime employee of Donald Trump’s private club quit his job. Within days, the former president did something he rarely did – Trump called the former employee on his cell phone to ask why he was leaving after two decades of working at the resort. But …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump’s cell phone activity around the time of the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot is going to be put under the microscope at his upcoming trial, according to court documents filed Monday. Special Counsel Jack Smith said an expert has reviewed data from a White House cell phone used by Trump and evidence will be …

Courthouse News reports: The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to review a fast-tracked petition asking if Donald Trump can use his status as a former president to claim immunity from criminal charges related to his effort to overturn the 2020 election. The order came only hours after Special Counsel Jack Smith asked the justices to expedite consideration of Trump’s presidential …

Via press release from the Trump campaign: Crooked Joe Biden’s henchman, Deranged Jack Smith, is so obsessed with interfering in the 2024 Presidential Election, with the goal of preventing President Trump from retaking the Oval Office, as the President is poised to do, that Smith is willing to try for a Hail Mary by racing to the Supreme Court and …

The Messenger reports: An eight-person jury in Washington, D.C., was selected Monday for the civil trial of Rudy Giuliani, the iconic former New York mayor and personal attorney for Donald Trump who is on the hook for damages after a judge previously ruled he’s responsible for defaming two 2020 Georgia election workers. At the trial, expected to last up to …

Semafor reports: NBC News has demanded that Donald Trump’s campaign remove a video that includes audio deceptively edited to seem like it comes from an NBC correspondent after the third presidential debate, two people familiar with the exchange told Semafor. The video in question, shared by a top Trump adviser, opens with authentic footage of NBC News senior Capitol Hill …