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Donald J. Trump After the White House - Page 17
Trump's “very special” people sacked the capitol of the United States of America, wanted to harm and/or kill people in congress and hang Mike Pence. Trump called them “very special” people, Republicans called them tourist but tourists do not sacked the capitol or plan to harm or kill people.

Joe DePaolo

Former President Donald Trump promoted the long-deleted video message he tweeted on Jan. 6 under the apparent belief it bolsters his case that his conduct was above board. In a statement on Saturday night, Trump shared a Twitter link to the video which the social media platform deleted shortly after it was posted late in the the afternoon of January 6th. The former president questioned why the House January 6th committee isn’t talking about the video. “Why did Twitter quickly take down this video that I made on January 6th, and why isn’t the Unselect Committee of political hacks talking about it?” Trump wrote. In the minute-long video — a clip which he evidently considers a boon to his argument — Trump referred to the attackers who breached the Capitol as “very special” people, and railed about the 2020 election having been rigged against him.
The nasty, personal debate between Republicans former Sen. David Perdue and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Sunday evening only further highlighted how poorly Trump’s plan has gone.
Sam Brodey

LOUISVILLE, Georgia—It may have taken Gov. Brian Kemp a good half-hour to get there, but during his speech at a recent campaign stop in this small east Georgia town he allowed himself to acknowledge the truth about the state of his Republican primary contest against former Sen. David Perdue. “I know some are getting a little confident,” Kemp said. “Which worries me.” Laughs rang out from the room, which was packed with local luminaries and Kemp supporters tucking into sliced ham and bright pink cake, courtesy of the governor. Not too long ago, however, there was little in this race for Kemp to laugh about. In December, Perdue launched a campaign to primary him—backed by the full might of Donald Trump—based almost entirely on the governor’s refusal to illegally overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 win in Georgia.
“I go back and forth to thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon ... or that he’s America’s Hitler," the GOP Senate candidate reportedly wrote.
By  Mary Papenfuss

Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance is happily touting his new endorsement from former President Donald Trump — even though he once wondered whether Trump is “America’s Hitler,” according to a Georgia state lawmaker who attended law school with Vance. “It is time for the entire MAGA movement ... to unite behind J.D.’s campaign,” Trump said last week about the venture capitalist and “Hillbilly Elegy” author who has never held public office. Vance is featuring the endorsement in a new statewide campaign ad — even though he once railed against Trump as “noxious” and an “idiot.” But the most damning dig to surface is Vance’s apparent comparison of Trump to Adolf Hitler (and Richard Nixon).
The former president went on several laughable rants during his speech on Saturday night. He also waxed about his ongoing efforts to cut the legs out from under the democratic process
By Ryan Bort

Donald Trump has been holding rallies rallies to prop up his preferred 2022 congressional candidates for a while now. There isn’t much that differentiates one from another. He stirs up fear about immigrants. He rants about the 2020 election, claiming falsely that it was stolen. He bashes President Biden as incompetent. He teases that he’s going to run again in 2024. He throws a few brief nods to the local Republican or Republicans he’s supporting. On Saturday night in Delaware, Ohio, it was J.D. Vance, whom he recently endorsed for Senate. “He said some really bad shit about me,” Trump said, referencing Vance’s past criticism before calling him the party’s best chance to beat the “radical Democrat nominee.” t’s a familiar routine for Trump, and on Saturday he seemed a little more bored than usual at whatever was scrolling across his teleprompter. His coif fluttering in a light breeze for the duration of his time onstage, the former president went on multiple extended, incredibly bizarre rants about topics that don’t really have much to do with anything.
Graham Kates

New York Attorney General Letitia James urged a judge Friday to "coerce" former President Donald Trump into complying with a subpoena demanding searches of three of his mobile devices and multiple document storage sites. Trump failed to meet a court-ordered March 31 deadline to turn over subpoenaed material, claiming he had none of the documents demanded by James' office as part of its investigation into his company's financial practices. A week later, James asked the judge overseeing her office's investigation to issue a contempt citation and fine Trump $10,000 per day until he complied with the subpoena. "The Court should put an end to Mr. Trump's intransigence and subterfuge," attorneys working for James wrote in the Friday evening filing. Trump attorney Alina Habba said in a filing Tuesday that Trump's eponymous company may have the documents being sought, but Trump himself does not. The attorney general said Friday that Trump cannot "pass off" responsibility for complying with the subpoena to his company.
ashoaib@insider.com (Alia Shoaib)

Former President Donald Trump made governors flatter him personally for federal aid after natural disasters, a new book says. The revelations are made in an upcoming book, "This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future," by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns, according to The Independent. In the book, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, a Republican, said Trump told governors who wanted aid: "You have to call and ask me nicely." Hogan claimed that Trump had a policy in which only Texas and Florida, two states with governors Trump considered close allies, would be given federal aid when needed without question. Governor Ned Lamont of Connecticut, a Democrat, recounted a similar experience, The Independent reported.
Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns, authors of "This Will Not Pass", share audio from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) about then-President Donald Trump following the attack on the Capitol on January 6.
by Caroline Vakil

Former President Trump stumped for Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance on Saturday, while acknowledging during his rally that Vance has “said some bad sh– about me.” “He’s a guy that said some bad sh– about me, he did,” Trump said. “But, you know what? Every one of the others did also.” “[In] fact, I went by that standard, I don’t think I would have ever endorsed anybody in the country … They all said bad, but they all came back,” the former president continued. “But I will tell you he was tough … but the others were tough and they all — a lot of them — said some really bad things. And ultimately I put that aside.”
Ayana Archie, Claudia Grisales

U.S. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy had planned to get former President Donald Trump to resign after the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, The New York Times revealed in an audio recording Thursday. In the recorded conversation, McCarthy, a Republican, reportedly told a group of Republican leaders that he didn't believe Trump would voluntarily step down, and contemplated rallying Congress to have him impeached a second time, saying that he believed the measure would pass both the House and Senate. "I'm seriously thinking of having that conversation with him tonight," McCarthy said. "From what I know of him — I mean, you guys know him too — do you think he would ever back away?" McCarthy said he would alert the former president of his plans to begin an impeachment trial if he did not resign.
By Aaron Blake and Michael Birnbaum

Former president Donald Trump on Thursday offered his most explicit statement to date that he threatened not to defend NATO allies from attacks by Russia. Appearing at an event held by the Heritage Foundation in Florida, Trump claimed that he told fellow NATO leaders that he might not abide by NATO’s Article 5 collective-defense clause if those countries didn’t pay more for the alliance.
CNBC's Tyler Mathisen reports a new book alleges that both House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wanted former President Trump out of the White House following the Jan. 6 riots.
By Melanie Zanona, CNN

(CNN) In the days following the January 6 insurrection, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told Republican lawmakers on a private conference call that then-President Donald Trump had admitted bearing some responsibility for the deadly attack, according to new audio -- a significant admission that sheds light on Trump's mindset in the immediate aftermath of the US Capitol riots. A readout of that conversation, which took place on January 11, 2021, had been previously reported by CNN. But two New York Times reporters obtained an audio recording of the conference call for their upcoming book, "This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America's Future," and shared it with CNN. "But let me be very clear to you and I have been very clear to the President. He bears responsibility for his words and actions. No if, ands or buts," McCarthy told House Republicans on January 11, 2021, according to the audio obtained by CNN. "I asked him personally today, does he hold responsibility for what happened? Does he feel bad about what happened? He told me he does have some responsibility for what happened. And he needs to acknowledge that."
Jake Lahut

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday joked about being depicted as "a dictator" by the press, which he assumed was the result of the cognitive test he has repeatedly bragged about passing in 2018. "Which would you rather be, a dumb person or a dictator?" Trump said Thursday night at the Heritage Foundation's annual leadership conference in Florida at the Ritz-Carlton resort on Amelia Island. "Perhaps a dictator would be better," he continued. "I don't want to be a dumb person."
Martin Pengelly

Donald Trump’s campaign has been ordered to pay his former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman more than $1.3m in legal fees, closing a case over her alleged violation of a non-disclosure agreement. Celebrating the ruling, Manigault Newman compared herself to David and the former president to Goliath. John M Phillips, an attorney for Manigault Newman, tweeted pictures of the ruling by a court arbitrator, Andrew Brown. The total due to be paid by the Trump campaign was $1,310,873.48. Phillips wrote: “$1.3m attorney fee and cost order against the Trump campaign issued! (Highest known prevailing party attorney fee assessment against a president or presidential campaign). Huge thanks to Omarosa for believing in us during this three-year ordeal of weaponised litigation.”
New texts revealed in the investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection show militia leaders trying to connect with former Trump doctor and Republican Congressman Ronny Jackson. Meanwhile, Trump’s former lawyer is hiding more than 37,000 pages of Trump-related emails from the Jan. 6 committee, asserting attorney-client privilege. MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports on the latest in the investigation.
Ankita Rao in Washington

Donald Trump attempted a coup on 6 January 2021 as he tried to salvage his doomed presidency, and that will be a central focus of for forthcoming public hearings of the special House panel investigating events surrounding the insurrection at the US Capitol, the congressman Jamie Raskin has said. Raskin is a prominent Democrat on the committee and also led the House efforts when Trump was impeached for a historic second time, in 2021, accused of inciting the storming of the US Capitol by his extremist supporters who were trying to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s victory. “This was a coup organized by the president against the vice-president and against the Congress in order to overturn the 2020 presidential election,” Raskin said in an interview with the Guardian, Reuters news agency and the Climate One radio program.
Jeremy Stahl

Last week, ABC News reported that John Eastman—the former Trump attorney at the center of the plot to overturn the 2020 election—was still at it. Indeed, video from a closed-door event in March showed Eastman rousing a crowd to pressure Wisconsin legislators to decertify the state’s 2020 election results. “If they’re not going to exercise [that power], then we need to find people who will,” Eastman told the crowd. Eastman does not appear at all chastened by the threat of legal consequences for his actions. Among the ringleaders of the attempted 2020 coup, this cavalier attitude is not unusual. Steve Bannon, for instance, has spent recent months helping to organize hundreds of fellow coup supporters to take over local election apparatuses ahead of the 2024 election , despite being under indictment for contempt of Congress. Other leaders in Trump’s coup attempt, like former Roger Stone associate Jason Sullivan, continue to push the Big Lie and threaten violence against political opponents.
Jason Lemon

Former U.S. Army prosecutor Glenn Kirschner contended on Saturday that former President Donald Trump and his allies "inarguably committed" crimes in what he described as their effort to carry out a "coup" by attempting to overturn President Joe Biden's election win. Trump and a number of his allies have openly discussed their efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, claiming that Biden won due to widespread voter fraud. This conspiracy theory has been discredited and debunked by Republican and Democratic election officials and experts. No evidence has come to light corroborating the allegations.
David Smith

He has long held that the true measure of a man is his TV ratings. So perhaps it came as no surprise when Donald Trump endorsed a celebrity doctor for a US Senate seat in Pennsylvania. “They liked him for a long time,” Trump said of Mehmet Oz at a rally in Pennsylvania last week. “That’s like a poll. You know, when you’re in television for 18 years, that’s like a poll. That means people like you.” Trump stunned his own party by his decision to back Oz, who is struggling in the real polls and far from certain to win the Republican primary.
Did Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes misrepresent the account?
By Matt Binder

Donald Trump's social media platform, Truth Social, could really use a win right now. Downloads of the app are way down, two major tech executives recently left the company. Even Trump himself is refusing to use his own social network until things get better. And, earlier this week, it looked like that much-needed win for Truth Social and its parent company, Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), had arrived: Fox News officially joined the platform.
Alex Griffing

President Donald Trump joined Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Wednesday night for a lengthy conversation that at times hit on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which Hannity asked Trump if he would characterize as being “evil.” “Mariupol is 95 percent wiped out. It’s all rubble today,” Hannity told Trump, referring to the embattled Ukrainian city where tens of thousands of people are reportedly dying as basic supplies remain cut off. “I asked you the last time you were on whether you think that this is evil in our time. Do you believe this is evil in our time?” Hannity asked Trump, what many would consider a softball question. Trump, however, did not respond directly to Hannity’s question and instead went on a long rant about NATO:
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The Donald's bad decisions
From lending his name to all sorts of flop products to unsuccessful companies, read on as we look at some of Donald Trump and his organization's worst past business moves over the years.
Zeeshan Aleem

Anewly revealed multibillion deal between Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump’s son-in-law and former senior adviser, Jared Kushner, shows that the scale of apparent corruption and brazen misuse of power during the Trump White House was even more audacious than we previously thought. According to The New York Times, a Saudi sovereign wealth fund led by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, often referred to as MBS, invested $2 billion in Kushner’s fledgling private equity firm six months after Trump left office. And it’s blisteringly clear from the details that while MBS’s expenditure did not make financial sense, it made political sense as payback for favorable treatment. The episode vividly illustrates how the Trump era was marked by particularly naked forms of self-enriching power plays, signaling to the world that American diplomacy was on sale to the highest bidder. And it sets a shameful precedent that our government has inadequate safeguards to protect against in the future.
The Daily Beast

Are you or a loved one feeling serpentine lately? The QAnon-right thinks your COVID-19 vaccine might have been laced with snake blood to inject you with Satan’s DNA. The false claim is the subject of a new documentary by a far-right bounty hunter turned podcast host. It’s just as baseless as other vaccine conspiracy theories before it (remember the 5G hoax?), but the fraud is going viral on right-wing social media. “There’s a lot of debate whether it’s cobra DNA, is it crate snake DNA,” says Fever Dreams host Will Sommer. “But this sort of gives you a glimpse at the ideas that are taking off.
Opinion by Chauncey DeVega

The American news media has collectively decided to ignore Donald Trump's threats of white supremacist violence and sedition. If you believe this will keep you safe from his schemes and machinations, or from what his legions of followers may do, you are greatly mistaken. Apparently, the gatekeepers of the approved public discourse have convinced themselves that they are somehow serving the public interest by ignoring these escalating threats. In reality, these gatekeepers are doing exactly the opposite: They are normalizing American fascism by minimizing its dangers. In a moment when the news media as an institution should sound the alarm even more loudly about the threat to American democracy, safety and security represented by Trumpism and neofascism a choice has been made to mock or whitewash the imminent danger.
Ewan Palmer

Donald Trump remains a popular Republican in a number of key election states, although voters' positive view of him has waned slightly in places where his endorsed candidates are seeking primary elections, according to a poll. A Morning Consult survey found that Trump has a strong favorability rating with Republicans in Georgia (86 percent), North Carolina (87 percent), Ohio (80 percent) and Pennsylvania (77 percent). However, the results show that Trump's favorability has fallen slightly in Georgia and Ohio compared to January 2021, where Trump was polling at 89 percent and 81 percent respectively. In both Georgia and Ohio, Trump also saw his unfavorable rating increase slightly from last January, up four points in Georgia to 14 percent, and two points in Ohio to 19 percent.
An attorney for Dustin Thompson argued that "vulnerable" people like his client "believed the lies that were fed to them" by Trump.
By Ryan J. Reilly

WASHINGTON — An attorney for a man who took a coat rack and a bottle of liquor during the U.S. Capitol attack argued to a jury Tuesday that former President Donald Trump "authorized" the assault on the building on Jan. 6, 2021, by convincing "vulnerable" people like his client that the election had been stolen. Dustin Thompson, 38, of Ohio, is the third Jan. 6 defendant to face a trial by jury after the convictions of Guy Reffitt and former police officer Thomas Robertson. Thompson faces six charges, including obstruction of an official proceeding and theft of government property. His co-defendant, Robert Lyon, pleaded guilty last month, admitting that he and Thompson traveled to Washington together and saying stole the coat rack and fled from police when they were confronted on the grounds of the Capitol.
Summer Concepcion | MSN

Former President Trump on Tuesday knocked his old friend Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate — who Trump once appointed as a U.S. attorney — for doing “absolutely nothing” to push his bogus claims of widespread election fraud. In a statement riddled with baseless claims of election fraud, Trump declared that he will not endorse Bill McSwain in the upcoming GOP primary in the Pennsylvania governor’s race.  “He was the U.S. Attorney who did absolutely nothing on the massive Election Fraud that took place in Philadelphia and throughout the commonwealth,” Trump said. “Do not vote for Bill McSwain, a coward, who let our Country down,” he added. “He knew what was happening and let it go. It was there for the taking and he failed so badly.”
Jose Pagliery, Asawin Suebsaeng

The Manhattan District Attorney’s investigation into former President Donald Trump seems doomed, but a little-known New York law is buying time for prosecutors to build a better case against him and convince the hesitant new DA to act—or wait until he’s replaced. Law enforcement in New York has five years from the date of an alleged crime to officially file charges for most felonies, but under New York law § 30.10(4)(a)(i), that clock stops for up to five more years when a defendant is outside the state. That 10-year grace period means Trump’s time in the White House and his post-presidential political exile at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida may be gifting prosecutors much-needed extra time. According to sources familiar with the investigation, prosecutors there have been poring over thousands of spreadsheets and financial records from the Trump Organization and slowly building a case against Trump for allegedly inflating property values, lying on business forms, dodging taxes, duping banks, and running his company like a mob.
Oliver O'Connell, Maroosha Muzaffar

Donald Trump has launched a personal attack against former National Security Council Director Fiona Hill after the publication of a New York Times interview in which the Russia expert accused him of “pulling a Putin” after the 2020 election. In a rageful statement, Mr Trump ranted that if Ms Hill didn’t have her British accent “she would be nothing”. Meanwhile, Mr Trump has raised eyebrows by endorsing Dr Mehmet Oz to represent Pennsylvania in the US Senate. “I have known Dr. Oz for many years, as have many others, even if only through his very successful television show,” Mr Trump said in a statement. “He has lived with us through the screen and has always been popular, respected, and smart.” The announcement outraged many conservatives, including the previous Trump-endorsed candidate for that seat.
Jared Kushner Saudi Revelations Compared to Hunter Biden Laptop
Giulia Carbonaro

As news emerged that Jared Kushner—Donald Trump's son-in-law and former senior adviser—received a $2 billion investment from a fund led by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman not long after leaving the White House, many on Twitter have raised their eyebrows. "After leaving the White House, Jared Kushner cashes in on being 'foreign policy adviser' to his father-in-law with a $2 billion investment from a fund led by the Saudi crown prince," Berkeley professor Robert Reich wrote on Twitter."Who wants to talk more about Hunter Biden's lap top?""The next time somebody asks you about Hunter Biden getting $3 million from Russia, Ukraine or China, ask them what they think about Jared and Ivanka getting a billion…," tweeted talk show host Thom Hartmann.
2022 is shaping up to be a legal nightmare for Trumpworld. Here's a timeline of upcoming court cases and legal obstacles.
Jacob Shamsian, Camila DeChalus, C. Ryan Barber

Former President Donald Trump has had a number of surprising legal victories ever since he left the White House — though his greatest potential battles are still looming. In November, Summer Zervos, who had accused Trump of sexual assault following her appearance on "The Apprentice," dropped her lawsuit against him before he was forced to sit for a deposition. At around the same time, a New York state judge dismissed a lawsuit from Michael Cohen seeking to have the Trump Organization reimburse his legal fees for work he did on Trump's behalf. But greater dangers loom. The Trump Organization is the subject of a sprawling investigation from the Manhattan district attorney's office and the New York attorney general's office into alleged financial misconduct. In Atlanta, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is weighing charges over his conduct in the 2020 election. Those investigations are proceeding as the Justice Department comes up on the five-year deadline to prosecute Trump over acts of possible obstruction that former Special Counsel Robert Mueller III scrutinized as part of his investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election.

Zachary Leeman

Arally held by Donald Trump in Selma, NC only managed to draw a fraction of the massive crowd the former president attracted to the same venue in 2016, according to a local report. Besides Trump, Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) and congressional hopeful Bo Hines also spoke at the rally. Trump has endorsed both men as he continues to throw his support behind various Republicans running, including recently Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania. Cawthorn has caused plenty of controversy recently, even among the GOP, but he did not temper his language at the rally, calling for the impeachment of President Joe Biden and for Dr. Anthony Fauci to be arrested.
Ed Mazza

Donald Trump has long equated crowd size with success ― reportedly even bragging of the size of the mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an attempt to block the certification of the election and keep him in power. GOP strategist Susan Del Percio said Trump’s now falling short by that measure as his rally crowds shrink. “That’s what you saw there,” she told MSNBC’s Cori Coffin one day after Trump addressed a surprisingly sparse crowd in Selma, North Carolina. “A very shrinking base.” Local newspaper The News & Observer said Trump spoke to about 1,000-2,000 people ― a far cry from the 15,000 that turned out for him at the same venue in 2016. “Those crowds are getting smaller and people aren’t buying into it, mostly because Republicans want to move on. They don’t want to talk about the Big Lie,” Del Percio said in a clip posted by Raw Story. “The people of this country don’t want to hear about it anymore.”
Jason Lemon

Former U.S. Army prosecutor Glenn Kirschner assessed Friday that Ivanka Trump's testimony before the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack against the U.S. Capitol "incriminated" her father. Ivanka Trump, former President Donald Trump's eldest daughter, who served as a White House adviser, testified before the House commission on Tuesday. Representative Bennie Thompson, a Democrat who chairs the select committee, described her testimony as cooperative in comments to reporters. Kirschner, who has repeatedly called on the Justice Department to indict the former president, argued during an episode of The Stephanie Miller Show that Ivanka Trump's testimony was bad for her father. He also explained that it's been previously reported that she attempted multiple times on January 6, 2021 to convince her father to call off his supporters as they wreaked havoc at the U.S. Capitol.
Republican on House select committee, however, refuses to say whether Trump should be referred for criminal charges
Martin Pengelly

A key Republican on the House January 6 committee disputed a report which said the panel was split over whether to refer Donald Trump to the Department of Justice for criminal charges regarding his attempt to overturn the 2020 election, leading to the Capitol attack. “There’s not really a dispute on the committee,” the Wyoming representative Liz Cheney told CNN’s State of the Union. The New York Times said otherwise on Sunday, in a report headlined: “January 6 Panel Has Evidence for Criminal Referral of Trump, but Splits on Sending.” “The debate centers on whether making a referral – a largely symbolic act – would backfire by politically tainting the justice department’s expanding investigation into the January 6 assault and what led up to it,” the paper said.
jzitser@businessinsider.com (Joshua Zitser)

Speaking at a rally in Selma, North Carolina on Saturday evening, former President Donald Trump claimed that he is one of the most honest human beings to walk on earth. "I've got to be the cleanest sheriff," Trump said. "I think I'm the most honest human being, perhaps, that God ever created." There were ripples of laughter from his supporters as he said it. Trump commented in reference to a story in which a friend supposedly complimented him on how "clean" his administration had been, according to Newsweek. "You know, you've been investigated years and years, millions and millions of pages of documents, they found nothing," the friend said, according to Trump, per Newsweek.
ktangalakislippert@insider.com (Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert)

Former President Donald Trump said a Republican-led Congress "will end the woke war on women and children" in a series of comments he made about transgender people during a rally in Selma, North Carolina, on Saturday. "A Republican Congress must stand up for parental rights and parental choice. I think that's a good idea. No teacher should ever be allowed to teach far left gender theories to our children without parental consent," Trump said. "It's truly child abuse. Plain and simple." He continued: "Last week, the Biden administration sent Congress a budget crammed with billions and billions of dollars of transgenderism and so-called equity provisions that are nothing more than government sponsored racism. The Republican Congress will end the woke war on women and children, we will stop illegal government discrimination, we will restore the sacred American principle of equality under the law."
Jason Lemon

As former President Donald Trump heads to North Carolina Saturday to campaign for Republican candidates he's endorsed in the southeastern state—a video of one of those GOP lawmakers saying President Joe Biden is the "legitimate" president has resurfaced. Despite numerous audits and court rulings rejecting the claims, Trump continues to insist that the 2020 election was "rigged" or "stolen" in favor of Biden. The former president has made the issue a test of loyalty, recently withdrawing his endorsement of Representative Mo Brooks of Alabama in his Senate bid after he told supporters they should move on from the last presidential election and look to the future. Although North Carolina's Representative Ted Budd joined 146 other Republican lawmakers in an effort to overturn Biden's electoral college win in key swing states on January 6 and 7, 2021, the GOP lawmaker admitted in a September 2021 interview with the Associated Press that the 2020 results were accurate. In that interview, which was resurfaced by The Daily Mail on Saturday, Budd is asked, "Joe Biden 2020—did he win the election fair and square?" "He did. He's the legitimate president," the North Carolina Republican responded without hesitation. "Do you accept the fact Trump got 7 million fewer popular votes?" the journalist asked as a follow-up. "I do," Budd replied.
Jason Lemon

Former President Donald Trump will arrive in North Carolina for a "Save America" rally on Saturday as he and his allies—including his son Donald Trump Jr.—face accusations of "treason" and planning a "coup." Supporters of the former president are converging on Selma to attend the right-wing event at The Farm at 95, which is about 30 miles southeast of Raleigh. While thousands of Trump supporters regularly attend his rallies, the venue for this event can only hold about 400 attendees. The rally, which is scheduled to start at 7 p.m., will be live-streamed on YouTube by Right Side Broadcasting Network as well as through the website Rumble. On Friday afternoon, CNN first reported that Donald Trump Jr.—the former president's eldest child—sent a text message to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows just two days after the November 3, 2020 presidential election, outlining strategies to subvert President Joe Biden's win. At that time, multiple states were still counting ballots and Biden would not be determined as the winner until November 7.
Patricia McKnight

Former President Donald Trump attacked a prosecutor who formerly worked on the investigation into alleged tax fraud by the Trump Organization, calling the attorney a "low-life" for his part in the probe. Former Manhattan District Attorney Mark Pomerantz resigned abruptly from the tax fraud case in February after another attorney allegedly decided not to pursue criminal charges against Trump. Pomerantz called the investigation suspension "misguided and completely contrary to the public interest" in his resignation letter published by The New York Times. On Thursday, prosecutor Alvin Bragg announced that the criminal investigation into Trump and his business practices is continuing "without fear or favor," prompting the former president to speak out against the prosecutors. In a press release email, the former president claimed the investigation is unjust and called Pomerantz "a low-life attorney" and a "Never Trumper."
Erik Larson

(Bloomberg) -- A real-estate services firm long used by Donald Trump’s company is refusing to comply with subpoenas for records about appraisals on three properties at the center of a state probe into the former president’s business, New York investigators told a judge. Cushman & Wakefield, which severed ties with Trump last year, is wrongfully challenging demands for records issued in September and February, New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a Manhattan court filing Friday. The state is investigating Trump’s use of potentially misleading asset valuations for financial gain. James asked a state-court judge to issue an order forcing Cushman to comply with the subpoenas. Her request comes a day after the attorney general asked the same judge to hold Trump in contempt of court and fine him $10,000 a day until he complies with a subpoena for his own records. A hearing on the contempt issue was set for April 25.
By Ryan Nobles, Zachary Cohen and Annie Grayer, CNN

Washington (CNN) Two days after the 2020 presidential election, as votes were still being tallied, Donald Trump's eldest son texted then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows that "we have operational control" to ensure his father would get a second term, with Republican majorities in the US Senate and swing state legislatures, CNN has learned. In the text, which has not been previously reported, Donald Trump Jr. lays out ideas for keeping his father in power by subverting the Electoral College process, according to the message reviewed by CNN. The text is among records obtained by the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021. "It's very simple," Trump Jr. texted to Meadows on November 5, adding later in the same missive: "We have multiple paths We control them all."
Sean Hannity Cleverly Trolls Donald Trump | Jimmy Kimmel Live
Now that Trump is out of office, Sean Hannity has been going hard at President Biden, but the truth is, he has been speaking in signals and sending very cleverly coded messages. Narrating the brazen and unchecked hypocrisy we are being bombarded with every day. He’s been saying things that seem to be about Biden but are quite cleverly about someone else.
After Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, Trump's pro-Putin comments are dividing his GOP base. Could this be what causes the 'cult of Trump' to crack? CNN senior global affairs analyst Bianna Golodryga joins John Avlon on this week's Reality Check to give her perspective on whether the GOP might rediscover its commitment to freedom.
By Bob Brigham | Raw Story

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr. held multiple interviews on Thursday claiming to still be investigating Donald Trump, but a new report suggests has case has been unraveling. "For Mr. Bragg, a series of interviews on Thursday as well as the release of a lengthy formal statement represent an attempt to quell the intense criticism he has faced over his handling of the high-stakes investigation into the former president," The New York Times reported Thursday. "In December, Mr. Bragg’s predecessor, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., directed the two senior prosecutors leading the inquiry, Mark F. Pomerantz and Carey R. Dunne, to present evidence to a grand jury with the goal of seeking an indictment of Mr. Trump," the report continued. "Mr. Bragg, two months into his tenure, halted that presentation after disagreeing with Mr. Pomerantz and Mr. Dunne on the strength of the case."
Isabel van Brugen

Several members of Donald Trump's inner circle are facing contempt claims for refusing to cooperate or comply with subpoenas from the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack of the U.S. Capitol building. On Thursday, New York Attorney General Letitia James pushed to have Trump held in contempt for refusing to turn over documents she ordered as part of a subpoena that stemmed from a New York State civil investigation into his financial dealings. A day earlier, Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino became the latest among Trump's former aides to come under fire for refusing to testify before the January 6 committee. A conviction for contempt of Congress carries a maximum fine of $100,000, and 12 months' imprisonment. Below, a round up of every member of the former president's inner circle facing allegations of contempt of Congress.
By Sarah K. Burris | Raw Story

Former President Donald Trump has faced a crisis in bank lending for his business operations. The Trump Organization was the company behind "The Apprentice" and business leaders clamored to "win" a competition that would legitimize their careers. Now it's Trump who needs help appearing trustworthy to anyone who can lend him money and he's going to a few odd places searching for capital. According to NBC News, Trump Tower was refinanced with a $100 million loan from Axos Financial, an obscure internet-only bank in San Diego and Las Vegas, financial documents from New York City's municipality revealed. According to those documents, the loan was made just days after an auditor from the Trump Organization quit, claiming that none of the financial statements for the past 10 years could be trusted. Trump has filed for bankruptcy six times for five different companies. Despite being a former president of the United States, banks don't want to lend to Trump anymore. Axos, however, stepped up, and they aren't a stranger to different kinds of loans. Ivanka Trump is accused of turning over false information to Deutsche Bank for loans prior to Jan. 2017,the New York Attorney General alleged.
Tim Balk

Atrove of White House records that former President Donald Trump swiped and shipped to Florida came under scrutiny Thursday, as word spread that the Justice Department was in the early stages of an investigation and a powerful New York congresswoman sought access to the files. The documents, held in 15 boxes, were transferred from Trump to the National Archives and Records Administration in January, according to the national archivist. Trump had previously taken the documents, some of which were classified, to his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Palm Beach. The Washington Post reported Thursday that the Justice Department had taken the initial steps in an investigation of the records.
Josh Dawsey

PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former president Donald Trump voiced regret Wednesday over not marching to the U.S. Capitol the day his supporters stormed the building, and he defended his long silence during the attack by claiming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others were responsible for ending the deadly violence. “I thought it was a shame, and I kept asking why isn’t she doing something about it? Why isn’t Nancy Pelosi doing something about it? And the mayor of D.C. also. The mayor of D.C. and Nancy Pelosi are in charge,” Trump said of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot in a 45-minute interview with The Washington Post. “I hated seeing it. I hated seeing it. And I said, ‘It’s got to be taken care of,’ and I assumed they were taking care of it.” The 45th president has repeatedly deflected blame for stoking the attack with false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, and in the interview, he struck a defiant posture, refusing to say whether he would testify before a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault. Trump said he didn’t remember “getting very many” phone calls that day, and he denied removing call logs or using burner phones.
Ex-president also rejects suggestions he used ‘burner phones’ on day of the assault in Washington Post interview
Oliver Laughland

Donald Trump has said he regrets not marching on the US Capitol building with his supporters on the day of the January 6 insurrection and again rejected suggestions he used “burner phones” on the day of the assault. In a defiant interview with the Washington Post the former president said he had pressed to march with his supporters on January 6, but was blocked from doing so by Secret Service agents. “Secret Service said I couldn’t go. I would have gone there in a minute,” Trump told the Post, later bragging about the size of the “tremendous crowd” at the “Save America” rally that day. Last month CBS News and the Post revealed internal White House phone records from the day of the attack on the Capitol showed a seven-hour-and-37-minute gap in Trump’s phone logs including the period in which the assault occurred. The reports revealed the House committee investigating the attack were examining whether Trump had used burner phones – disposable mobile phones – during that period.
Heather Digby Parton

A couple of weeks ago, some Republican senators took to the microphones to declare that the war in Ukraine has shown that Democrats are a bunch of weaklings who can't defend America. What a shocker? One of them even called Joe Biden "Bambi's brother." But despite their fist-shaking, you could see they were just going through the motions. That's because they know their party is hopelessly confused about what they need to do to appeal to their base on foreign policy these days. Elected GOP officials are all over the map on this issue, with a growing faction becoming more hostile to support Ukraine by the day. It's actually not unprecedented for Republicans to vote against military action instigated by Democratic presidents and it isn't even unprecedented for them to refuse to back NATO. Back in the '90s, many of them voted against intervention in the Baltic region after the former Yugoslavia splintered, even in the face of ethnic cleansing and genocide. The House GOP leader at the time, Tom Delay of Texas, said he didn't trust the president and claimed the crisis was "falsely described as a huge humanitarian problem, when in comparison to other places, it was nothing." ( It was not nothing.)
Maria Pierides

Melania Trump's former Chief of Staff and former White House press secretary has already revealed so much about the Trumps in her tell-all memoir, but she is far from done! I’ll Take Your Questions Now author Stephanie Grisham's latest confession involves the 75-year-old former president and Virginia 'Ginni' Thomas, a long-time conservative activist and the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, saying he always enjoyed his meetings with her because he "loved to gossip — all the time." Who knew?! Thomas is currently being investigated by The House Select Committee in relation to alleged text messages with former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows about overturning the 2020 election. The Washington Post reported that the pair exchanged a total of 29 text messages between November 2020 and January 2021, all of which have now been obtained by the panel.
by Kelsey Carolan

Former President Trump is raising eyebrows after he seemingly admitted to losing the 2020 presidential election in a video published by The Atlantic Monday. “I didn’t win the election,” Trump, who has repeatedly rejected President Biden’s victory, said while speaking in July to a panel of historians convened by Julian Zelizer, a Princeton professor and editor of “The Presidency of Donald Trump: A First Historical Assessment.” However, Trump falsely also said the vote was “rigged and lost,” adding that Iran, China and South Korea were happy to see Biden in office.
Will Trump’s Truth Social I go the way of Trump steaks?

Drew Harwell, Josh Dawsey

Here’s a truth former president Donald Trump doesn’t want to hear: His social network, Truth Social, is falling apart. The app — a Twitter look-alike where posts are called “truths” — has seen its downloads plunge so low that it has fallen off the App Store charts. The company is losing investors, executives and attention. And though his adult sons just joined, Trump himself hasn’t posted there in weeks. Devin Nunes, the former member of Congress from California who gave up the seat that he held for 19 years to run the company, had said the app would be “fully operational” by the end of March. But it has been hamstrung by technical issues, including a waiting list that has blocked hundreds of thousands of potential users during its crucial first weeks online. Trump has privately fumed about the app’s slow rollout and has mused about joining other platforms such as Gettr, one of its biggest competitors, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.
Republicans blame democrats for voter fraud but it is Republicans who keep getting caught committing voter fraud.

By BRIAN SLODYSKO and HOLLY RAMER, Associated Press

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A former Trump administration official now running for Congress in New Hampshire voted twice during the 2016 primary election season, potentially violating federal voting law and leaving him at odds with the Republican Party’s intense focus on “election integrity." Matt Mowers, a leading Republican primary candidate looking to unseat Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas, cast an absentee ballot in New Hampshire's 2016 presidential primary, voting records show. At the time, Mowers served as the director of former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's presidential campaign in the pivotal early voting state. Four months later, after Christie's bid fizzled, Mowers cast another ballot in New Jersey's Republican presidential primary, using his parents' address to re-register in his home state, documents The Associated Press obtained through a public records request show.
Cheryl Teh

A Watergate prosecutor on Saturday compared Donald Trump's missing January 6, 2021, phone logs to a minutes-long gap in one of Richard Nixon's calls related to the scandal that cost Nixon his presidency — and she concluded that Trump's case had the potential to be far more serious. "It is often said that Nixon's cover-up was worse than his underlying crime. The reverse is potentially true for Trump," Jill Wine-Banks wrote in an op-ed article published by NBC News. "Trump's records gap is 25 times as long as Nixon's, but his alleged crime could be incalculably worse," she concluded. Trump is under scrutiny over a gap of seven hours and 37 minutes in the White House's call logs on the day of the Capitol riot. The absence of these call records has also prompted the House January 6 committee to investigate what one unnamed lawmaker has called a "possible cover-up."
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