Tag Archives: Trump lies

The Daily Beast reports: Rudy Giuliani’s consulting firm hasn’t paid its phone bill, and the carrier is dragging the disgraced former New York City mayor’s company to court over the outstanding charges. That’s according to a summons filed in New York state court by Momentum Telecom, a company that sells internet-based calling technology. The Atlanta-based company says it was stiffed …

“So if India charges our companies a hundred, we charge their companies a hundred. It’s very simple, and yet we have people in Congress that say, ‘No, I don’t think that’s good.’ “Lindsey Graham, the progressive from South Carolina – [audience boos] – no, he’s a progressive, but he’s got some good things too, OK? “Lindsey Graham, I said to …

The New York Times reports: In the last few minutes of questioning in the defamation trial involving the writer E. Jean Carroll on Thursday, Donald J. Trump’s lawyer Joseph Tacopina asked Ms. Carroll about the dress she wore on the day she says Mr. Trump raped her decades ago. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who is presiding over the civil trial …

NBC News reports: Former Vice President Mike Pence appeared Thursday before the federal grand jury convened as part of the special counsel investigation into former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss and remain in power, according to a source familiar with the matter. The testimony is a significant development in the special counsel’s probe, as Pence …

The Washington Post reports: Former president Trump’s campaign quietly commissioned a second firm to study election fraud claims in the weeks after the 2020 election, and the founder of the firm was recently questioned by the Justice Department about his work disproving the claims. Ken Block, founder of the firm Simpatico Software Systems, studied more than a dozen voter fraud …

The Associated Press reports: A federal appeals court on Wednesday night moved former Vice President Mike Pence closer to appearing before a grand jury investigating efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election, rejecting a bid by lawyers for former President Donald Trump to block the testimony. It was not immediately clear what day Pence might appear before …

Law & Crime reports: Wasting little time to cut to the heart of her allegations, writer E. Jean Carroll launched into her testimony on Wednesday by telling a jury: “I’m here because Donald Trump raped me, and when I wrote about it, he said it didn’t happen.” “He lied and shattered my reputation, and I’m here to try to get …

ABC News reports: The Manhattan district attorney’s office has asked the judge overseeing the criminal case against former President Donald Trump to prevent him from publicizing evidence obtained during discovery. In a new motion, prosecutors said Trump’s defense attorneys “will not consent to a protective order” so they asked the judge to impose one. Prosecutors said they want to make …

The Daily Beast reports: “God willing, nobody will ever know your names,” U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan told them all, noting that not even he would know who they are. The judge also noted that, unlike most trials where jurors simply show up in court with the rest of the public, U.S. Marshals in this case would meet jurors away …

Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: I see that everybody is talking about the Republican Debates, but nobody got my approval, or the approval of the Trump Campaign, before announcing them. When you’re leading by seemingly insurmountable numbers, and you have hostile Networks with angry, TRUMP & MAGA hating anchors asking the “questions,” why subject yourself to being libeled …

The New York Daily News reports: The first of three bombshell cases facing Donald Trump in his home state will head to trial this week in a civil rape lawsuit brought by writer E. Jean Carroll — including allegations waiting five years to make it before a panel of New Yorkers. Jury selection starts Tuesday in Manhattan federal court in …

Mediaite reports: Trump stopped at a pizza joint in Florida shortly after delivering a speech in Fort Myers on Friday night. At one point he asked fellow patrons if anyone wanted a previously-enjoyed slice of pie. CNN’s Kate Sullivan posted a video of Trump in which he asked if anyone would like a slice, but with a twist. “Does anybody …

Bloomberg News reports: The judge overseeing E. Jean Carroll’s civil sexual-assault lawsuit against Donald Trump is barring the former president’s lawyers from telling jurors that security concerns are to blame if he doesn’t show up at a trial starting next week. While defendants in such cases aren’t required to attend their trials, Trump is incorrect that the court and the …

CNN reports: Donald Trump’s attorney on Wednesday said the former president “wishes” to appear at next week’s civil trial where a jury will hear columnist E. Jean Carroll’s assault and defamation claims against him – but his attendance should not be necessary because it would be a “burden” on the city and court. The letter to the judge, from attorney …

Reuters reports: Former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg was released from jail on Wednesday, according to New York City Department of Correction records. Weisselberg was sent to New York’s Rikers Island jail on Jan. 10 for helping engineer a wide-ranging 15-year tax fraud scheme at former President Donald Trump’s family business. He was sentenced to five months behind …

From the far-right Washington Times: Former President Trump has a plan to fix the homeless problem, saying he will work with states to outlaw urban camping and give street people the choice between going to rehab in tent cities or face jail time. “We want to take care of them, but they have to be off our streets,” Mr. Trump …

The Washington Post reports: Donald Trump’s campaign team is preparing for a state-by-state legal battle later this year over untested claims that a Civil War-era clause in the U.S. Constitution bars the former president from appearing on Republican primary ballots because of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Two nonprofit groups, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington …

The Independent reports: A federal judge in New York City has rejected former president Donald Trump’s 11th-hour attempt to once again postpone his long-delayed civil defamation and rape trial on the grounds that publicity surrounding his recent indictment necessitated a “cooling-off” period to ensure an impartial jury. Judge Lewis Kaplan on Monday ordered the trial, which stems from two civil …

Mediaite reports: On the popular Weekend Update segment with Colin Jost and Michael Che, this week featured a montage of clips starring Trump talking about people crying over him that was longer than you’d expect. He does it a lot. “In an interview, Donald Trump claimed that New York police and court employees were crying when they arrested him. Why …

Trump invented superman thieves in his NRA speech today: You see these gangs of hundreds of young, usually young people go and attack a department store, department stores in San Francisco and Los Angeles and Chicago, and they run in by the hundreds and they’re running out carrying refrigerators and carrying air conditioners and big stuff. Big little everything. Fur …