New transcripts of closed-door testimony to the Jan. 6 committee show Donald Trump and his allies had a direct hand in the Nevada GOP's scheme to send a phony electoral certificate to Congress in a last-ditch attempt to keep the former president in power.
#Trump #FakeElectors #Nevada #GOP #TheBigLie
https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-committee-trump-nevada-election-transcripts-7aa0f2e582778b7beb0f5172c91d7fa9
LAS VEGAS (AP) — New transcripts of closed-door testimony to the Jan. 6 House committee show Donald Trump and his allies had a direct hand in the Nevada Republican Party’s scheme to send a phony electoral certificate to Congress in 2020 in a last-ditch attempt to keep the former president in power.
Michigan attorney general re-opens criminal probe into fake electors for Trump
#Election2020 #Michigan #FakeElectors #Trump
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/06/politics/michigan-fake-electors-attorney-general-dana-nessel-investigation
16 Michigan GOP electors sued over documents claiming Trump won 2020 election
#Election2020 #Michigan #FakeElectors #Trump
https://thehill.com/homenews/3812384-16-michigan-gop-electors-sued-over-documents-claiming-trump-won-2020-election/
A number of Michigan GOP electors were named in a lawsuit after they falsely declared in official documents that former President Trump won the 2020 presidential election. In the lawsuit filed Wednesday in Kent County Circuit Court, three Democratic presidential electors accused the 16 Republicans of submitting fraudulent election certificates in a scheme “to steal…
Fox News got election fraud info from woman who claims she got it through 'time travel': lawsuit
Fox News got some of its information on "election fraud" allegations against Dominion Voting Systems from a woman who claims she got the information through a form of "time travel," the election equipment company's lawsuit alleges.This detail of the Dominion lawsuit was first flagged by NBC News' Be...
'Like a coup': Michigan Republicans raise alarms at militant far-right takeover of their party
Moderate Republicans in Michigan are growing increasingly alarmed at the antics of far-right members of their party who are making major inroads at taking over the party using methods including armed intimidation at GOP events.According to a report from Reuters, the extremist members of America Firs...
Sean Hannity 'had been privately disgusted by Trump for weeks': court docs
Behind the scenes at Fox News after the 2020 election, it was becoming clear that conservative prime-time hosts were saying one thing to viewers and another thing privately. According to court filings by Dominion Voting Systems in their lawsuit against Fox News, the hosts of the network knew ver...
Trump mocks Fox News' Dominion lawsuit woes: 'They look scared and frightened'
Former President Donald Trump slammed Fox News for not doing more to stand up for the validity of its false "voter fraud" claims in the $1.6 billion Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit, in a furious rant on his Truth Social platform on Tuesday."There was so much Voter Fraud & Irregularities in the 2020 ...
Donald #Trump can be sued by injured #CapitolPolice officers and Democratic lawmakers over the #January6th, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the #JusticeDepartment said Thursday in a federal court case testing Trump's legal vulnerability for his speech before the riot.
The Justice Department told a Washington federal appeals court in a legal filing that it should allow the lawsuits to move forward, rejecting Trump's argument that he is immune from the claims.
'Racist' Trump is blowing up because he can't stand being prosecuted by Black lawyers: Former GOP strategist
Upon learning that he could be facing indictment in New York over hush payments to an adult film star, former President Donald Trump immediately attacked Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis — all o...
#Trump publishing private letters from #OprahWinfrey, other celebrities
Winfrey wrote to Trump after he sent her a book excerpt, from his 2000 book, "The America We Deserve," in which he wrote that his "first choice for vice president would be Oprah Winfrey."
Letters from #RichardNixon #RonaldReagan #BillClinton #PrincessDiana #HillaryClinton #TedKennedy #NorthKorea's #KimJongUn #MarioCuomo #ArnoldPalmer #JayLeno #LizaMinnelli #RegisPhilbin and many more are included.
https://www.axios.com/2023/03/09/trump-book-oprah-private-letters-celebrities
Jay Leno Says He Never Gave Donald Trump Permission to Use His Letter
https://www.newsweek.com/jay-leno-never-gave-donald-trump-permission-use-his-letter-1786926
#Trump Gets Caught Trying to Play Judges to Manufacture Trial Delays
#DonaldTrump is in so much trouble that his trials are starting to run into one another, and now his lawyers might get in trouble for fooling judges into delaying them all.
Faced with an onslaught of expensive lawsuits ranging from fraud to racketeering, Trump is desperately trying to delay several trials well into the 2024 presidential election season—and he was just called out for the scheme.
Combative Trump attorney refuses to answer question if Trump authorized Stormy Daniels payoff
Appearing on ABC's "Good Morning America," an attorney for Donald Trump was asked whether the former president would accept an invitation to testify before a Manhattan grand jury as part of an investigation into paying hush money to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election. However,...
Trump: 'World War III is looming' and we are 'doomed' if you don't put me back in the White House
Donald Trump is warning if Republicans don’t elect him President again we will have a third World War.“This is the most dangerous time in the history of our country,” Trump claims in a short video (below). “World War III is looming like never before in the very dark and murky background. Lack of lea...
Trump fires back at Oprah over Raw Story report that she’s soured on ex-president
Oprah in an interview Tuesday said, "I might have thought it back then. I might have thought it 23 years ago," she said. "I'm not thinking it today."
The feeling is apparently mutual.
"Neither am I!" Trump wrote on his Truth Social website Tuesday, which included a link to the Raw Story's coverage titled “Oprah on letter she wrote praising Trump: 'I'm not thinking it today'"
Trump plans to publish Oprah’s letter in an upcoming coffee table book of letters he’s received from dignitaries and celebrities including Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, Princess Diana and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. It’s expected to hit the stores priced at $99.
Melania Trump's ex-friend says former First Lady knew about Trump's affair with Stormy Daniels
A former friend of Melania Trump said this Tuesday that the former First Lady was aware of Donald Trump's alleged 2006 sexual encounter with porn star Stormy Daniels before his then-personal lawyer Michael Cohen sent her a $130,000 hush money payment just before the 2016 election. "‘Melania Defense’...
The Manhattan District Attorney offered to let Donald #Trump speak to a grand jury—but only if he waived the immunity that would come with his testimony. That’s bad news for Trump.
#Manhattan #StormyDaniels
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-an-offer-to-testify-before-a-new-york-grand-jury-signals-trouble-for-trump
Trump fundraises off possible indictment
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3911468-trump-fundraises-off-possible-indictment/
Former President Trump is taking advantage of his possible indictment coming this week by sending out numerous fundraising emails asking his supporters to donate to his third presidential campaign. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has signaled that he is prepared to bring charges against the former president in connection to a hush-money payment made to adult film…
CNN Exclusive: Communications between #StormyDaniels and #Trump attorney #JoeTacopina turned over to Manhattan DA
The exchanges – said to date back to 2018, when Daniels was seeking representation – raise the possibility that attorney Joe Tacopina, could be sidelined from his defense of the former president in a case pertaining to Trump's alleged role in a scheme to pay hush money to Daniels.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/21/politics/joe-tacopina-trump-lawyer-stormy-daniels
Trump mocked over his newly unveiled 'grand plan' to dismantle the 'deep state'
In the wake of the recent launch of his 2024 campaign, Donald Trump has shared his plan to “shatter the deep state and restore government that is controlled by the people.” But in an op-ed for the conservative Washington Examiner this Wednesday, columnist Zachary Faria asks why Trump didn't do that ...
Trump Claims Without Evidence That District Attorney 'Already Dropped' the Stormy Daniels Case
The former president has also started denying the affair with the adult actress ever occurred
Donald #Trump #indicted; 1st ex-president charged with crime
Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, his lawyers said Thursday, making him the first former U.S. president to face a criminal charge and jolting his bid to retake the White House next year.
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, a historic reckoning after years of investigations into his personal, political and business dealings and an abrupt jolt to his bid to retake the White House.
AP sources: #Trump facing at least 1 felony charge in NY case
Former President #DonaldTrump is facing multiple charges of falsifying business records, including at least one felony offense, in the indictment handed down by a Manhattan grand jury, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Friday.
Trump will officially be arraigned at a court in Manhattan next Tuesday.
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is facing multiple charges of falsifying business records, including at least one felony offense, in the indictment handed down by a Manhattan grand jury, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Friday.
Right-wing Trump supporters demand 'civil war' after indictment
In the wake of Donald Trump's indictment, some of his supporters took to extremist message boards to threaten the former president's opponents and warn of a coming civil war, Vice News reported. In a post on The Donald, one member wrote, “This cannot go unpunished,” adding that Manhattan D.A. Alvin ...
Trump makes it embarrassingly clear he doesn't know the difference between NATO and NAFTA
Former President Donald Trump recently conducted a television interview where he appeared to not know the difference between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).During a recent appearance on Fox News, Trump spoke with conservative host Se...
Donald Trump set to speak from Florida after arraignment
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-set-to-speak-from-florida-after-arraignment/
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump will speak in Florida on Tuesday evening, his office said, after his arraignment in New York City on historic charges brought after an investigation into a 2016 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Trump is expected to be arraigned...
Trump hires new lawyer in Stormy Daniels case – with Joe Tacopina expected to take a back seat
Donald Trump has hired a new lawyer to assist in his defense on criminal charges brought by the Manhattan district attorney.The former president brought on former federal prosecutor Todd Blanche, who was until recently a partner at law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, as part of his defense team ...
Judge warns Trump not to incite violence — and leaves door open for gag order
New York Judge Juan Merchan warned former President Donald Trump to tamp down his violent rhetoric in preparation for a criminal fraud trial.During an arraignment on Tuesday, Merchan reportedly declined to impose a gag order after the former president pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying bu...
Donald #Trump's historic court appearance in 60 seconds
Donald Trump made history on Tuesday, becoming the first #UnitedStates president to ever be criminally #indicted
CNN reporter Manu Raju tweets:
Prosecutors said they expect to produce discovery in next 65 days. Trump team has until August 8 to file any motions.
Prosecutors have until Sept. 19 to respond
Judge will rule on motions at Dec. 4 hearing.
Schedule could change.
- @Lauren_delvalle reporting
Trump holds 'emergency prayer call' to boost 'supernatural wisdom'
Former President Donald Trump participated in an "emergency prayer call" after he was arraigned over hush money payments to cover up an affair with a porn star.In a call-in event with Intercessors for America on Tuesday, Trump began by thanking spiritual adviser Paula White."We've had a long time fr...
GOP lawmakers flee questions about Trump's demands to defund FBI
GOP House members representing districts ripe for Democratic pick-up in the 2024 general election want no part of Donald Trump's latest jihad against the FBI.Fresh off being indicted in a Manhattan courtroom on 34 felony counts, the former president lashed out at the Department of Justice and the FB...
Marjorie Taylor Greene warns Trump against hiring Laura Loomer
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) warned former President Trump against hiring far-right activist Laura Loomer, calling her “mentally unstable” and a “documented liar.” Greene tweeted on Friday that Loomer, a former congressional candidate who has repeatedly made anti-Muslim remarks, attacked her for supporting Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) bid for House speaker and for not endorsing Loomer…
Former President Donald #Trump has consistently claimed without evidence that #elections are being rigged against him. He's using the criminal case against him to do it again.
#TheBigLie
https://apnews.com/article/trump-2024-election-indictment-election-interference-d97cb9d12f8bdda292deb19ccf14ecc2
NEW YORK (AP) — Legally, the most important words former President Donald Trump said after he was charged with 34 felonies by the Manhattan District Attorney last week were “not guilty.” But, politically, the most significant may be “election interference.”
Judge refuses to loosen anonymous jury rules in Trump case citing his recent attacks
Judges appear to be paying attention to Donald Trump's behavior in other cases, tweeted Law&Crime; reporter Adam Klasfeld, who saw a recent refusal of the federal court to hear one of Trump's appeals. In March, Senior U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled that the jurors in the defamation suit with...
Trump sues Michael Cohen for $500 million
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-sues-michael-cohen-500-million/
Former President Donald Trump is suing his ex-attorney Michael Cohen for $500 million, claiming "multiple breaches of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment, conversion, and breaches of contract by virtue of Defendant’s past service as Plaintiff’s employee and attorney."Cohen was disbarred in 2019 after ...
'He told me he voted for me': Trump throws tantrum after Elon Musk admits backing Biden
Former President Donald Trump complained on Tuesday after billionaire Elon Musk revealed that he had voted for President Joe Biden. During an interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday, Musk said he had voted for the current president in the 2020 election. "I didn't vote for Trump," ...
'Nobody got my approval': Trump furious he wasn't consulted about GOP debates — he's out
Former President Donald Trump intends to leave the Republican Party debates to his opponents, giving them all a free hour of media and all of the attention that follows, according to his latest post on Truth Social. The RNC announced their 2024 debates, stating that their first will be held in Milwa...
'Entirely inappropriate': Judge in rape trial calls out Trump's Truth Social rants
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-called-inappropriate-by-judge/
It didn't take long for Donald Trump to be reprimanded in court for his rants on Truth Social. Trump sounded off Wednesday against writer E. Jean Carroll, moments before she was expected to testify in her civil rape case against him."The E. Jean Carroll case, Ms. Bergdorf Goodman, is a made up SCAM,...
Appeals court denies #Trump bid to block #Pence testimony to #January6th grand jury
The former president was seeking an emergency order.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/26/appeals-court-trump-pence-testimony-grand-jury-00094122
Trump kept quiet on the Bud Light boycott. It turns out he owns Anheuser-Busch stock
'If his schedule allows': Trump reportedly might not attend Melania's 53rd birthday celebration
Former president Donald Trump will reportedly attend his wife Melania Trump's 53rd birthday celebration "if his schedule allows."Trump, who is currently facing a defamation suit, multiple felony counts for his alleged hush-money payments in the ramp-up to the 2016 election, as well as several other ...
MSNBC's Mika mocks Donald Trump for forgetting Melania's birthday
Trump hugs convicted Jan. 6 rioter who called for executing members of Congress: report
Former President Donald Trump met with convicted January 6 Capitol rioter, Micki Larson-Olson in New Hampshire Thursday, praising her and giving her a hug before signing her backpack, reported The Washington Post. "Listen, you just hang in there. You guys are gonna be okay," Trump told Larson-Olson,...
Trump dodges question on whether he would sign nationwide abortion ban
Former President Trump dodged a question Thursday on whether he would sign a national 15-week abortion ban as 2024 Republican contenders are facing increasing pressure to clarify their stance on curtailing abortion access at the federal level. During an interview with New Hampshire-based WMUR, Trump was asked if he would sign a 15-week abortion ban…
Two-thirds of Americans want Trump's documents trial televised
https://www.rawstory.com/two-thirds-of-americans-want-trump-s-documents-trial-televised/
As a date has been set for the trial of former President Donald Trump over the classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago, a new poll shows that most Americans want to watch the trial on their TVs. A new Quinnipiac University poll asked a number of questions about the upcoming trial, which is set ...
Trump has been 'quietly diverting' money away from his 2024 re-election campaign: report
RNC could rescind Trump's nomination if he gets convicted of a felony: experts
Would the Republican Party stick with former President Donald Trump in 2024 even if he gets convicted on felony charges?Experts who spoke with The Guardian suggested that it's possible the GOP would find a way to back out of making Trump its nominee if he becomes a convicted felony ahead of the 2024...
Donald Trump dinged by federal regulators for accepting 'apparently excessive contributions'
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/donald-trump-campaign-contributions/
Maybe he's less sleepy than we thought': Trump says he underestimated Biden
'I'd have them taken down': #Trump says he removed #homeless people's tents
"I kept it beautiful," he said. "If I saw one tent or two tents or three tents as I was coming in from the airport, I'd have them taken down immediately because I knew that you'd have 100 tents and 1,000 tents if you don't do it."
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-says-he-removed-homeless-tents/
Donald Trump on Saturday claimed that he had homeless encampment "tents" removed regularly when he was in office, as the former president called for a full federal government takeover of Washington, D.C.Trump, who was speaking at a Turning Point USA event, earlier said he had underestimated Joe Bide...
#BobWoodward's new #tapes reveal #Trump told his son #Barron that #COVID was 'very bad' and he screwed up not revealing it 'months earlier'
New tapes from Bob Woodward's conversations with Donald Trump reveal what the former president was telling his own family behind the scenes. Previously, recordings showed that Trump always wanted to play down the pandemic because, "I don't want to create a panic."In newly revealed recordings shared ...
Trump Roasted For Making Up A Law 'Out Of Thin Air' About Classified Documents
"This was a law that was passed and signed," the former president said of the nonexistent legislation.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-classified-documents-absolute-right_n_64b4f477e4b0ad7b75f3d42e
‘Authoritarianism will be on the ballot’: experts sound alarm over NYT bombshell detailing Trump's plans
Political and legal experts are sounding the alarm after a New York Times deep dive details how Donald Trump and his top allies are planning to massively reorganize the entire executive branch to hand him unprecedented power and decimate the constitutional basis of checks and balances should he win ...
Trump pushed 'incandescently stupid' plan to send cattle over his border wall: former staffer
"Give the ranchers ladders," Trump floated at one point.
"They can use ladders to get to the other side, but not doors. You could use small fire trucks. Call the local fire stations, and use the ladders on their trucks to help them get over."
Miles Taylor found Trump's plan "incandescently stupid" but he nonetheless managed to avoid laughing in the former president's face.
Former Trump White House staffer Miles Taylor claims in his new book that the former president was willing to go to extreme lengths to make sure that his beloved wall on the U.S.-Mexico border had no doors.As Newsweek reports, Taylor writes that Trump in 2019 was upset at reports that Texas ranchers...
Georgia Supreme Court denies Trump bid to derail Fulton County election probe
The former president had asked the high court to disqualify District Attorney Fani Willis from the probe and ban a grand jury report that recommends indictments.
Israel struggles to get Trump to return ancient artifacts stashed at Mar-a-Lago
It seems that former President Donald Trump wasn't just stashing nuclear secrets at his Mar-a-Lago resort.Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that Israeli officials have been trying without success to get the former president to return government-owned antiquities that were sent to the White House in ...
Trump hires GOP consultant he previously pardoned for bribery scheme
Donald Trump's campaign hired a strategist who was previously convicted of campaign finance crimes and then pardoned by the former president.The ex-president's political operation paid JFT Consulting, Inc. -- which is operated by GOP strategist John Tate -- about $13,000 in June, despite the politic...
Georgia GOP's legal bills for 'alternate' Trump electors top $500K: report
The Georgia Republican Party spent more than $500,000 in the first half of this year representing “alternate” electors under investigation by local authorities in connection with Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The party has spent more ...
Trump's fitness to serve called into question amid looming indictment: report
As Donald Trump appears to be poised to be hit with yet another indictment, some are wondering if the former president is fit to serve.Trump, who told the world he received a "target letter" on social media, should be bracing for what could be a crucial indictment, Adam Wren and Natalie Allison of P...
Rep Adam Schiff tweets:
The guardrails around our democracy need to be strengthened, not weakened.
The Protecting our Democracy Act would enshrine those protections into law.
Autocracy is not the answer for America and it never will be.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/politics/trump-plans-2025.html
https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1681027566495203330
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