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John WrightBrianna Keilar, co-host of CNN's "New Day," on Thursday morning detailed former president Donald Trump's long history of frivolous lawsuits. Keilar's segment came in the wake of Trump's lawsuit against Facebook, Google and Twitter accusing them of violating his First Amendment rights — by banning him for inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection — even though the tech companies aren't government actors."This lawsuit strategy is same old, same old for Trump," Keilar began. "The art of the frivolous lawsuit has been his MO for decades. He does it for publicity. He does it to delay legitimate legal challenges. He does it to bury workers on his building projects — who just want to get paid for their manual labor — in legal bills. And in this case, he's doing it to raise money. One hour later, he sent fundraising emails."
Story by Tom BoggioniADonald Trump rally in the tiny town of Pickens, South Carolina, on July 1 left the community with $40,000 in expenses which community leaders are debating absorbing, reports WSPA/Fox8. The former president is headed to Erie, Pennsylvania, this Saturday still owing $35,000 for expenses incurred when the city hosted his Oct. 10, 2018, Make America Great Again rally at Erie Insurance Arena. City officials are still trying to have him settle that tab before he shows up for a new rally.As for Pickens, local officials are pleased that the former president visited their small town with a population of under 4,000 and drew a crowd estimated to be over 50,000, although the former president claimed 75,000 showed up which was, in turn, disputed by the Secret Service.That massive turnout caused the city to shell out about $30,000 to first responders who worked the event as well as an additional $10,000 for setup costs. According to the WSPA report, "While many said they wonder why Trump’s campaign didn’t pay those costs, the county said it would have been foolish to send the campaign a bill."
Story by Matthew ChapmanFormer President Donald Trump's supporters have developed a worldview that is essentially the polar opposite of reality, argued political scientist Brian Klaas in a new Substack article examining the results of a new survey. These results, argued Klaas, give insight into a "warped bizarro world reality" that supporters of the former president has created for himself, even as he is facing criminal prosecution on several fronts.But even more than that, Klaas said, the survey shows how dangerous it is for journalists to simply act as stenographers, detachedly reporting on claims politicians make without offering value judgements about their veracity — something that some political pundits have insisted is the best way to go about covering Trump and the GOP. "The Brightline Watch survey compares answers across two waves, one from October 2022 and another from June/July 2023. That way, you can see how some attitudes have changed across time," wrote Klaas.
By Robert Legare, Melissa Quinn, Kathryn WatsonWashington — Prosecutors with special counsel Jack Smith's office have added new charges against former President Donald Trump in the case involving documents with classified markings discovered at his Florida resort of Mar-a-Lago, according to court papers filed in federal court Thursday evening.A superseding indictment unsealed by the Justice Department lists multiple new counts against Trump, including: altering, destroying, mutilating, or concealing an object; and corruptly altering, destroying, mutilating or concealing a document, record or other object; and an additional charge of willful retention of national defense information.Trump was previously charged with 37 felony counts, including 31 counts of willful retention of classified documents and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice. He has pleaded not guilty and claimed the prosecution is a politically motivated "witch hunt" against him. Speaking Thursday with Breitbart, Trump called the charges "harassment" and "election interference."
Story by Areeba ShahAt least two more fake electors have been subpoenaed in special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into former President Donald Trump's attempts to challenge and overturn the 2020 election results, NBC News reported. The electors are scheduled to appear in early August before the grand jury in Washington, marking their first testimony, a source told the outlet.These individuals were part of groups of fake electors operating in seven battleground states. Most of them signed documents falsely claiming that Trump had won in states won by President Joe Biden. Numerous witnesses have already testified before the Washington-based grand jury as part of the investigation, including two electors from Nevada who appeared before the same grand jury last month.
Opinion by Christopher R. BrowningFor some years, a variety of news commentators and academics have called Donald Trump a fascist. I was one of those who resisted using that term. I thought it had long been abused by casual, imprecise applications, and as a historian of Nazi Germany, I did not think Trumpism was anywhere close to crossing the threshold of that comparison. I still deny that Trump’s presidency was fascist; but I’m concerned that if he wins another trip to the White House, he could earn the label.Fascism was most fully exemplified by the regimes of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. These regimes combined totalitarian dictatorship, wars of imperial conquest, and outright genocide in the case of Hitler (of Jews, Slavs, Roma) or ethnic mass murder in Mussolini’s case (of Libyans, Ethiopians, Slovenes). Placing Trumpism in the same category seemed to me trivializing and misleading.
Story by Alex HendersonFormer President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results have been the focus of two separate criminal investigations: one by special counsel Jack Smith for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the other by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for the State of Georgia. If Trump is indicted in both cases, he will be facing four criminal prosecutions altogether; Trump's team of lawyers is already battling a 37-count federal indictment and a 34-count indictment in New York State.All of this comes at a time when Trump is the clear frontrunner in the 2024 Republican presidential primary. Never before in U.S. history has an ex-president faced so many legal problems while seeming to be his party's most likely presidential nominee — assuming his poll numbers continue to hold up.
Story by Bart Jansen, USA TODAYKelly Ruh, a 2020 Republican elector for then-President Donald Trump, said she was "pissed." She had scheduled a day off from her accounting job to do her political duty and help secure her state of Wisconsin for the president. But the popular vote didn't add up for him, so she didn't understand why her party insisted on dragging her to the state Capitol in an attempt to make him the winner. “I was not expecting to prevail in the courts and was obviously pissed that I would be using a personal day off to go and complete that process,” Ruh, who was then a DePere city council member, told congressional investigators.Ruh was among several dozen Republican electors for Trump across the country who didn’t see themselves as criminals, as gleaned from thousands of pages of congressional testimony, hearings and court records. In many cases, the electors were state party leaders, lawyers and political activists. They unabashedly took pictures of themselves and tweeted out the results of their meetings – despite warnings from Trump campaign aides to avoid the press. Several participants groused about the futility of meeting, but acquiesced to keep Trump’s legal options open.
Story by Tom BoggioniThe mayor of Erie, Pennsylvania is making an all-out effort to get Donald Trump to pay up tens of thousands of dollars he has refused to cough up for almost five years before the former president returns this weekend for another rally.With Trump headed to Erie on Saturday as part of his campaign for the 2024 Republican Party presidential nomination, Mayor Joe Schember (D) told the Erie Times-News that pleas for the $35,000 owed have gone unheeded and city administrators are looking at ways to get him to pay before he hits town in less than a week.According to the report, the $35,000 is for expenses incurred when the city hosted an Oct. 10, 2018, Make America Great Again at Erie Insurance Arena, which went to pay city workers assigned to the event, as well as police officers who worked overtime.
Story by Brandon GageUnited States Representative Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) on Sunday reminded the public that the events involving former President Donald Trump and his associates on and around January 6th, 2021 constituted "a very carefully orchestrated and choreographed plot to overthrow the election" and that "nothing spontaneous or out of control about" what went down that day. Raskin's remarks came as he was urging the American people to avoid downplaying the criminal nature of what occurred."Trump and his followers would invite us to believe that all of this was some kind of spontaneous eruption at a rally that just got a little bit out of control," Raskin said on The Katie Phang Show. "No. This was a very clear concerted plot that took place over many weeks to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election."
Story by Carrie McCabeAnewly unredacted version of the search warrant used in the Mar-a-Lago investigation relating to Donald Trump‘s classified documents trial revealed that the Department of Justice has obtained security camera footage that “reflects that evidence has been moved recently”after a subpoena was issued by the DOJ for access to any classified documents and that “the current location of the boxes that were removed from the storage room area but not returned to it is unknown.”The footage is quite relevant in the case against former president Trump, as it pertains to several of the counts against him in the indictment, including conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document or record, corruptly concealing a document or record, concealing a document in a federal investigation, and a scheme to conceal.
Story by Josephine Harvey • 4h agoMSNBC’s Joe Scarborough tore into Donald Trump on Friday after the former president said it would be “dangerous” for special counsel Jack Smith to send him to jail. Trump had told an Iowa radio station this week that the possibility of jail time is a “very dangerous thing to even talk about, because we do have a tremendously passionate group of voters — much more passion than they had in 2020 and much more passion than they had in 2016.” Scarborough said Trump was “talking like a mobster.”
Opinion by Chauncey DeVegaDonald Trump has repeatedly demonstrated, through the many direct and implied threats of violence that he has made during his decades of public life, that he is a very violent man.The many recent examples of Trump's violent ways include wishing death upon Hunter Biden and inciting his followers to assassinate former president Barack Obama by sharing what is presumed to be the latter's home address online. One of Trump's followers acted on those de facto commands last month and was apprehended by the Secret Service near Obama's Washington, D.C. home. The would-be assassin was armed with two guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.Just this week, in a post on his Truth Social disinformation platform, Trump shared audio of his 2020 interview with the late right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh, in which Trump says, "If you f**k around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before."
Trump has done things that have never been done before: Impeached twice in one term, attempted a coup, incited insurrection and sedition that caused the sacking of our capitol to name a few.Story by SuchitraFormer president Donald Trump posted a threatening new video on his Truth Social account, ahead of his indictment. He threatened to “do things that have never been done before” to people who “f*** around with us.” An audio from the former president's interview on the late Rush Limbaugh's radio show three years ago is included in the MAGA.com video. The tape is from a radio event where Trump was speaking about Iran. Now, the clip has been repurposed just as Trump is set to receive another federal indictment on charges of attempting to rig the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. The video seems to be a response to that, as per Independent.
Story by Ben BlanchetRep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) pointed out what she thought the House Oversight Committee “should be prosecuting” as she shifted the focus of a hearing on the Biden family and called into question former President Donald Trump receiving payments from China in 2017.The first-term Democrat, in remarks at the hearing Wednesday, called on the Republican-led committee to look at the payments as she read from an NBC News report on Trump’s tax returns that went public in December. “We should be looking at the fact that ‘in 2017, Trump’s first year in office, he also made $6.5 million from China, his tax returns show,’” she said, adding that the source of the payments “is not clear from the returns.”
Story by Igor DeryshJudge Aileen Cannon, the Trump appointee overseeing his Mar-a-Lago documents case, on Tuesday appeared skeptical of special counsel Jack Smith's request for a December trial but also seemed disinclined to push the trial schedule beyond the 2024 election as the former president's legal team had asked. Smith's team urged Cannon to schedule a trial before the end of the year while Trump's lawyers asked her to delay the trial indefinitely, citing his presidential campaign.Cannon on Tuesday directly asked Trump attorney Christopher Kise whether he wanted to delay the trial after the election, according to The New York Times. Kise acknowledged that he did and fellow Trump lawyer Todd Blanche later said that if Cannon must schedule a trial date, it should be in mid-November 2024. David Harbach, a top Smith deputy, told Cannon that the rule of law should apply to Trump as it would to any defendant.
Story by By ERIC TUCKER, Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he has received a letter informing him that he is a target of the Justice Department's investigation into efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election.Trump made the claim in a post on his Truth Social platform, saying he received the target letter on Sunday night. Such a letter can precede an indictment; Trump got one ahead of being charged last month in a separate investigation into the mishandling of classified documents.
Story by MillaE. Jean Carroll’s case against Donald Trump ended with the jury finding the former president liable for assault and defamation. The civil lawsuit brought up another alleged story on the surface. Carroll, in her lawsuit, alleged that Trump raped her in a New York City department store in the 90s. However, she sued over calling her “a liar.”One lawsuit never got enough attention and was quickly dropped since the alleged victim was a 13-year-old virgin. The charges were dropped in 2016, and the woman remained Jane Doe or Katie Johnson, likely her real name. However, the severity of this case was never truly examined since the elections occupied the media.Wild and Graphic AccusationsThe initial allegations, brought by attorney Lisa Bloom claimed Johnson was violently raped in 1994. The assault allegedly happened when the 13-year-old attended org..s organized by Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein allegedly lured Johnson by promising her a modeling career. In the withdrawn lawsuit, Johnson claimed she met Trump four times.One encounter was described as a “savage sexual attack.” Allegedly, Johnson “loudly pleaded” for the former president to stop when he started “violently striking Plaintiff in the face with his open hand and screaming that he would do whatever he wanted.”
Story by Thom HartmannKentucky MAGA Republican James Comer, Chair of the House Oversight Committee, has been exposed as basically a con man with his phony Hunter Biden bribe witness. Now he is trying to rewrite the history of Trump and Covid.Comer’s latest stunt to try to whitewash Trump’s role in the unnecessary death of at least a half-million Americans is to argue — nonsensically — that the virus came out of the Wuhan virology lab and therefore something, something, something Trump is not responsible. He’s doing this with House Oversight Committee hearings this week.The reason Comer and other MAGA Republicans are working so hard to push this perennial theory (which may be true, but so what?) is that they think directing the nation’s attention to the Wuhan lab — which got collaboration and minor funding from Anthony Fauci’s realm of the government — will point us at Fauci and thus distract us all from how many Americans Trump let die and why.
Story by MillaThe 44th President Barack Obama is not known for using profanities to go after his political opponents, but Donald Trump reportedly changed that.Allegations come from a senior reporter for CNNA book by Edward-Isaac Dovere, a senior reporter for CNN, titled “Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’ Campaigns to Defeat Donald Trump,” revealed some astonishing moments and comments, including Obama’s quite clear opinions on former President Trump. Trump used Obama, in a way, to launch his political career after repeating that the 44th President was born outside the USA, which, even Trump admitted, was not valid.
Story by Alexandra StoneFormer President Barack Obama was known and respected for his calm demeanor and his ability to stay cool under pressure, but that doesn't mean he hasn't made his strong opinions about controversial ex-prez Donald Trump loud and clear.According to Edward-Isaac Dovere's book, Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’ Campaigns to Defeat Donald Trump, Obama told foundation donors that Trump was a "madman", a "racist, sexist pig", a "lunatic" and all-in-all a "corrupt motherf*****."The night prior to the 2016 election, he called the now-77-year-old "uniquely unqualified" and "temperamentally unfit to be commander-in-chief" while speaking at a rally in Ohio. “Don’t take my word for it," he said at the time. "Take the word of a lot of the Republicans who were saying this before they decided, politically, that it was convenient to support him."
Story by David McAfeeDonald Trump is a danger to every single American citizen because of the way he mishandles classified misinformation, according to former New Hampshire Republican Party Chairwoman Jennifer Horn.Horn, who previously wrote an op-ed excoriating her party for its loyalty to Trump, appeared on MSNBC on Saturday. The host was asking Horn about reports that Trump allegedly mishandled classified information while he was president, in addition to after he lost the 2020 election."Just how big of a threat of a dangerous that this country?" the host asked. Horn replied: "Well, it's an extraordinary danger," she said, adding that she thinks it's "really important that were very direct and clear that Donald trump is dangerous."
Explosive Revelation: Melania Trump’s Ex-Aide Exposes Classified Document Showcasing by Donald TrumpStory by Malik GraystoneFormer aide to Melania Trump, Stephanie Grisham, unveils a jaw-dropping revelation about ex-president Donald Trump’s alleged exhibition of classified documents without proper security clearances. In an exclusive interview with MSNBC’s Alex Witt, Grisham divulged a separate incident that sheds light on Trump’s disregard for protocols and respect for classified information. Get ready for an eye-opening account of a dining room spectacle at Mar-a-Lago that exposes Trump’s audacious behavior.Breaching the Boundaries: Trump’s Reckless Display of Classified MaterialGrisham, who served as the Communications Director and Press Secretary for the Trump administration, did not hold back when questioned about Trump’s handling of classified documents. Revealing her personal experience, she recounted witnessing Trump showcasing classified material to individuals at Mar-a-Lago’s dining patio. This shocking display of carelessness raises serious concerns about the ex-president’s commitment to national security.
Story by Mara LafontaineWhite-collar criminal defense attorney Michael Bauchner shed light on the severity of the charges against former President Trump aide Waltine “Walt” Nauta. Nauta’s charges include obstruction and unlawful retention of defense information, which are linked to the alleged handling of classified documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.Michael Bauchner elaborated on the seriousness of the situation during a recent interview on Fox News. Bauchner explained, “The Espionage Act also just punishes people who retain documents that are confidential, that belong to the United States of America and haven’t returned them upon appropriate request.”
Story by MillaTrump’s federal trial is set for AugustWhile the trial date was revealed to be August 14, the delay is almost inevitable, experts claim, and the conclusion of the trial should not be expected well after the 2024 elections. Regardless, Trump vowed to stay in the race even if convicted, as he told Politico, “I’ll never leave.”Trump also called for lengthy sentences for mishandling classified documentsCNN’s KFile reminded last September that the former president tweeted that former FBI Director James Comey should be “prosecuted” for allegedly leaking disclosed classified information. in April 2018, Trump tweeted, “He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted.” In another tweet, he claimed Comey should be jailed.
Story by Areeba ShahSpecial Counsel Jack Smith's team has shown an increasing interest in examining the involvement of former Donald Trump's attorneys and other individuals, who plotted to overturn the 2020 election, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.Prosecutors issued subpoenas focusing on several prominent individuals involved in the post-election efforts, according to the WSJ. These figures include conspiracy theorist and lawyer Sidney Powell, who propagated unsubstantiated allegations of extensive voter fraud. The subpoenas have also sought communications involving Emily Newman, a lawyer who collaborated with Powell, as well as Mike Roman, a Republican operative responsible for overseeing Election Day operations for the Trump campaign and deploying lawyers to key battleground states prior to November 2020.
Story by Rhonna MoralaIn a bold and controversial move, former President Donald Trump has announced his intention to dismantle all “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI) programs across the federal government. This announcement comes in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling that struck down affirmative action in college admissions, citing violations of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. Trump’s remarks, obtained exclusively by Breitbart News, reveal his determination to enforce the Court’s decision rigorously. Brace yourself as we delve into the details of Trump’s pledge to eliminate DEI initiatives and pursue civil rights claims against institutions engaging in what he deems as “unlawful racial discrimination.”
Story by Stephen SilverDonald Trump says he might appoint nine more Supreme Court justices: Trump’s appointment of three Supreme Court justices in his single term has led to a series of landmark conservative decisions. Trump said this week that he has even bigger plans if he gets a second term.What Did Donald Trump Say Now?After several presidents in a row, including those who served two terms, appointed exactly two Supreme Court justices each, Donald Trump managed to put three justices on the court in his four years as president. It wasn’t quite under traditional circumstances, as Senate Republicans kept one seat open for a year, and Trump was able to make a third appointment in his final weeks as president, following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.The court, with Trump’s three appointments, has issued a series of landmark conservative decisions, on affirmative action and other issues. And now, Trump is proposing even more, should he gain another term as president.
Story by Colby HallStephanie Grisham revealed that she witnessed her former boss, former President Donald Trump, show classified documents to people at his Florida residence Mar-a-Lago. Grisham served as both Communications Director and Press Secretary under the Trump administration and appeared Saturday on MSNBC’s Alex Witt Reports, and was asked to comment on Trump’s second indictment surrounding his alleged mishandling of classified documents.Witt: Look, you know, Donald Trump, is it plausible Trump was showing classified documents to people in private meetings? Grisham: The short answer is yes. I watched him show documents to people at Mar a Lago on the dining room patio. So he has no respect for classified information. Never did. You know, listening to that exchange every time, it just makes me so angry. He he talks specifically that he should have declassified it, but he didn’t. So there, I think, is proof. I believe also there’s a portion of that audio where he says, you know, this is off the record.
Story by Aaron JohnsonApersonal aide to Donald Trump — who faces prison for allegedly helping him conceal boxes and lying to investigators — remains firmly in the former president’s orbit despite a court order barring him from talking about the landmark case, photos obtained by RadarOnline.com reveal.Walt Nauta, a personal aide to Trump indicted over the alleged mishandling of classified documents alongside the former president, was snapped in South Philadelphia on Friday, where the pair grabbed a cheesesteak at legendary eatery Pat's King of Steaks.Trump was in town for the Moms for Liberty Summit in Center City, attended by other Republican presidential hopefuls, including Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.
By Sarah K. BurrisMSNBC's Nicolle Wallace noted that one of President Donald Trump's biggest problems in the coronavirus crisis is that he's spent the entirety of his presidency lying to the American people. During a panel discussion mere hours before Trump's address, Wallace explained that it was the Trump administration that said he had the largest inauguration crowd size when it was clear from photos that it was a lie.
Story by Tom BoggioniDuring an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning, former Donald Trump attorney Micheal Cohen pointed to a "mess-up" by a high-ranking Trump Organization executive that has ended up helping out investigators in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office.Speaking with host Katie Phang, the former Trump "fixer" agreed with the host that exec Alan Garten didn't do the former president any favors when he confirmed payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels which is at the center of the Manhattan tax fraud indictments."A federal judge heard testimony from Alan Garten, who you know, the chief legal officer of the Trump Organization," Phang began. "Alan testified that there's no evidence that you worked on anything other than the hush money in exchange for the payments from Donald Trump, so there is no link to any official act of the presidency for Donald."
MSNBCThe DOJ ramps up its probe into Trump’s fake elector plot. CNN reporting that a former top campaign official, "Mike Roman is cooperating with prosecutors from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team". It comes amid reporting Rudy Giuliani also met with Smith. National Security lawyer Bradley Moss joins Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber to discuss the development.
Story by Samantha BenitzAtop Trump campaign adviser who allegedly got a glimpse of a classified map of an unidentified foreign country has a high-ranking role at a lobbying firm serving Chinese entities. RadarOnline.com has learned that Susie Wiles, who will be leading his second reelection effort, is the individual singled out in Smith's indictment, sources alleged.The New York Post reported she is the co-chair of the lobbying firm Mercury Public Affairs, which has taken millions of dollars over the years from China-based companies, including Yealink, Hikvision, and Alibaba. It was noted the firm serves entities that could pose a national security threat and help Beijing commit human rights abuses.
Story by Matthew ChapmanDonald Trump's fingerprints analysis to build a clearer picture of how widely classified information was exposed at former President Donald Trump's document stashes, former FBI agent Pete Strzok detailed on Twitter Thursday. Strzok, who became a fixation of Trump allies' anger after an investigation about his text messages while he worked on the Russia case, was responding to a new report that Susie Wiles, a GOP campaign strategist close to Trump, was identified as a person whom Trump showed a classified map."Something not mentioned in news reporting: I really hope the FBI has sent all of the original classified docs from Mar-a-Lago to the lab for fingerprint analysis," wrote Strzok. "All clearance holders are fingerprinted, meaning a couple of things: Investigators should be able to get an idea of: 1) who with a clearance handled the docs and 2) ID fingerprints not matching any clearance holder IDing who is associated with the latter can be hard because most people have never been fingerprinted."
Story by Haley GunnA woman convicted for her role in the January 6 insurrection fired back at Donald Trump after he tried to use her story for political gain, RadarOnline.comhas learned. Idaho grandmother Pamela Hemphill, 70, was convicted for participating in the Capitol riot that aimed to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Trump's favor.After Trump posted about Hemphill's conviction on Truth Social, she clapped back at the embattled GOP frontrunner and told him to "Stop The Spin." Hemphill's exchange with Trump began on Monday after the ex-president reshared a post on Truth Social that compared the grandmother's charges to Hunter Biden."AMERICAN JUSTICE: 69-Year-Old Grandma with Cancer Given More Prison Time for Walking Inside US Capitol than Hunter Biden for Sharing Classified Documents with Foreign Regimes and Multi-Million Dollar Bribery Schemes. THE GATEWAY PUNDIT," read the original post. Trump endorsed his share by quoting the post, "Horrible!"
Story by Jaclyn RothFormer White House press secretary turned MSNBC host Jen Psaki shared her thoughts on why Donald Trump may have taken classified documents from the White House."As you just alluded to, I mean reading the itemized list of 31 documents and the clearance levels as a former ranking member on the Intelligence Committee, there were Five Eyes classifications there, there were some of the highest level classifications. And knowing what you know about former president Donald Trump, we know he has an affection for dictators. Do you have concern, without us knowing at this point, what he may have wanted to do with those documents?" she said while speaking with ex-House speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday, June 25.
Story by Brad ReedAwoman who stormed the Capitol on former President Donald Trump's behalf is now repentant for her actions -- and she now thinks the former president is the leader of a "cult." In an interview with The Daily Beast, 70-year-old Idaho resident Pamela Hemphill said she was horrified when Trump recently used her case to argue that Capitol rioters faced unfair prosecutions.Although she was once a dedicated MAGA devotee, she now says that she regrets getting sucked into the former president's orbit. “You don’t see it as a cult when you’re in it,” she said. “You don’t recognize it.” Hemphill would go on to spend 60 days in prison for breaking into the Capitol, but it wasn't until she returned home to her family that she received an intervention that pulled her out of total dedication to the former president."[My family was] telling me, ‘Pam, you’re in a cult. You really need to get out of that… We really care about you, but this is a cult. You’re trapped in a cult,’" she said. After his, she tells The Daily Beast that she started to see more of Trump's flaws.
By Max Matza | BBC NewsAn audio recording in which Donald Trump appears to acknowledge keeping a classified document after leaving the White House has been obtained by US media.In the recording, the former president is heard riffling through papers and saying: "This is highly confidential." It was first obtained by CNN, but the BBC's US partner CBS also has the clip. Mr Trump has pleaded not guilty to federal charges of mishandling sensitive documents.CNN was the first to publish the roughly two-minute recording, which it said came from a July 2021 meeting at Mr Trump's Bedminster, New Jersey golf club between him and several people working on the memoir of his former chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Story by Tom BoggioniReflecting back on the two-part Fox News interview Donald Trump granted to host Bret Baier, columnist Ann Marie Cox came away with the impression that the normally combative ex-president has all but thrown in the towel and is just going through the motions as he runs for president a third time.Writing for MSNBC. the longtime political observer suggested that, after watching the interviews, it is apparent Trump is "pantomiming the same old manic exaggerations and empty boasts, but if you listen closely, you’ll hear the whisper of a deflating airbag."As she noted, the former president didn't seem to be up to the task of steadfastly defending his record as president and equivocated when pressed to defend some of his previous comments and actions.
Story by Tatyana TandanpolieFormer President Donald Trump erupted on social media early Thursday after special counsel Jack Smith began turning over evidence Wednesday from his investigation into Trump's handling of classified documents and alleged attempts to obstruct government retrieval efforts.A Wednesday court filing signals that investigators obtained several recordings from "interviews" of Trump "conducted by non-government entities" — not just the previously reported audio of Trump during an interview for former chief of staff Mark Meadows' memoir.The first batch of evidence produced in the case's discovery period, which is comprised of unclassified materials, also includes transcripts of witness testimony before grand juries in Florida and Washington, D.C., subpoenaed and seized materials, memos describing other witness interviews given in the investigation through mid-May, and copies of surveillance footage obtained in the inquiry, according to CNN.
Major Blow For Trump as Judge Sends Ex-FBI Analyst Who Kept Classified Documents in Her Bathroom to Four Years in Prison
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A former FBI intelligence analyst who kept hundreds of classified documents at her home was sentenced to nearly four years in prison on Wednesday, RadarOnline.com has learned. U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Bough gave his verdict on Kendra Kingsbury, 50, of Garden City, Kansas, this week, sentencing her to three years and 10 months in federal prison without parole. She must surrender to federal authorities by July 21. Many now question what may come for former president Donald Trump, who is currently facing similar charges.
Story by Tommy ChristopherAnew filing in the bombshell criminal case against ex-President Donald Trump shows multiple recordings of Trump among the evidence turned over to the defense. One of the most explosive pieces of evidence to emerge in the 37-count indictment against Trump on Espionage Act charges was the audio recording on which Trump discussed a classified document that he had taken with him when he left the White House — a tape in which Trump acknowledged he can’t show the document to his visitors because of the classification attached to it.But a new filing in the case is raising eyebrows. It details the first batch of evidence that has been provided to Trump’s attorneys through the discovery process, which includes “interviews” — plural — that match the description of the tape we already know about:
Opinion by Hayes BrownThere was a lot of time spent in the weeds during Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing with special counsel John Durham. Lawmakers burned hours trying to spin, parse and unpack the dense, 300-page report he issued last month into the origins of the FBI’s 2016 investigation of former President Donald Trump. Names that nobody who hasn’t been glued to the coverage of the Russia probe and its aftermath would recognize got thrown around to a degree that at several points even I was left wondering, “Who?”It wasn’t the most riveting of hearings, but here’s the bottom line: John Durham found nothing to discredit special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. At no point in his testimony did he take the bait from Republicans to give credence to Trump’s “Russia hoax” rhetoric. If anything, Durham went out of the way to praise his predecessor — even if his grasp on what Mueller found proved to be a bit shaky.
Story by MillaBased on his social media posts, several experts warn that what Donald Trump proposes for the military, homeless people, or immigrants is dangerous and, often, illegal. Trust Social posts on Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Trump warned there would be “death and destruction” if he is indicted. Manhattan DA’s office received an alleged death threat, and ...Trust Social posts on Manhattan DA Alvin BraggTrump warned there would be “death and destruction” if he is indicted. Manhattan DA’s office received an alleged death threat, and Trump himself called Bragg a “Soros-backed animal.” in his Truth Social post. Bragg’s family got called out by Trump supporters, and the DA is under constant verbal attacks.
Story by Aurora DeStefanoGOP presidential candidate Chris Christie is talking a big game about holding Donald Trump to account. Newly released video from Fox News makes it apparent that Christie might best follow journalist Bret Baier‘s lead on the Trump interrogation front.Fox and Trump have had a falling out — Trump even knocks Fox’s ratings during the interview — and it looks like the network is now more interested in asking the former President challenging questions about his actions that led to his indictment on 37 federal charges. U.S. Congressman from California Eric Swalwell saw the clip below and asserted that “Trump just confessed to Fox News that he stole and shared classified materials.”
Story by MillaThe former president, who is running again in 2024, Donald Trump promised to “ban urban camping wherever possible.” The statement was issued via video and angered many. Trump’s chilling message In his video, former POTUS said, “Under my strategy, working with states, we will ban urban camping wherever possible.” He continued, “Violators of these bans ...Trump’s chilling messageIn his video, former POTUS said, “Under my strategy, working with states, we will ban urban camping wherever possible.” He continued, “Violators of these bans will be arrested, but they will be given the option to accept treatment and services if they’re willing to be rehabilitated.”
Story by Jose PaglieryIn a baffling turn of events, the Donald Trump-appointed federal judge overseeing his Mar-a-Lago classified documents debacle appears to have placed the case on warp speed—setting a trial just two months away.
Story by Matthew ChapmanFormer President Donald Trump has a complex new real estate deal in Oman — and it could compromise how he approaches U.S. interests if he becomes president once again, reported The New York Times on Tuesday. "Mr. Trump’s name is plastered on signs at the entrance of the project and in the lobby of the InterContinental Hotel in Muscat, the nearby capital of Oman, where a team of sales agents is invoking Mr. Trump’s name to help sell luxury villas at prices of up to $13 million, mostly targeting superrich buyers from around the world, including from Russia, Iran and India," reported Eric Lipton. "Mr. Trump has been selling his name to global real estate developers for more than a decade. But the Oman deal has taken his financial stake in one of the world’s most strategically important and volatile regions to a new level, underscoring how his business and his politics intersect as he runs for president again amid intensifying legal and ethical troubles."
Story by sgrindell@insider.com (Samantha Grindell)On Monday, Donald Trump appeared on Fox News to talk to the anchor Bret Baier about the case brought against him in connection to classified documents taken from the White House. They also discussed Trump's time as president. Baier recalled the former president saying when he ran for office in 2016 that he was "going to surround myself with only the best and most serious people." "Well, I did do that," Trump said. "That's tremendous. Look, we had the best economy we've ever had, the world has ever seen." But Baier then questioned the former president why many of those "best and most serious people" no longer supported him:
Story by Stephen SilverIn a Fox interview, Donald Trump incriminates himself even further:In a move likely to make it even harder for him to find a new lawyer, former President Donald Trump appeared on Fox News Monday night, and seemed to admit that he mishandled classified documents.Donald Trump Has A Big Problem On His HandsLess than a week after he pled not guilty in court to a 37-count federal indictment related to his handling of classified documents, former President Donald Trump sat for his first major network interview since then, with Fox News host Bret Baier.
Motion was filed by prosecutors to restrict storage and use of discovery material turned over to defense in classified papers caseRichard Luscombe in MiamiA Florida judge handed prosecutors in Donald Trump’s classified documents lawsuit a significant victory on Monday by ruling the former president cannot publicly disclose any of the evidence against him. Trump, who was arraigned in Miami last week on a 37-count indictment over his improper storage and handling of classified materials at his Mar-a-Lago resort, can also only view, but not retain, any of the evidence under the direct supervision of his lawyers, the order from the magistrate judge, Bruce Reinhart, stated.The secrecy ruling in particular will thwart Trump, who has been a vocal critic of justice department prosecutors and special counsel Jack Smith on his Truth Social website, from attempting to publicize or spin any of the evidence to his advantage as he continues to insist the case against him is a politically motivated “witch-hunt”.
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