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9/7/2023

LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Peter Navarro, a trade adviser to former United States President Donald Trump, has been convicted of two misdemeanour counts of criminal contempt after prosecutors said he defied a congressional subpoena compelling him to submit evidence about the 2021 Capitol attack.

A 12-member jury deliberated for four hours on Thursday [September 7, 2023] before handing in the verdict in a federal district court in Washington, DC.

Navarro is now the second major Trump ally to be convicted of contempt, after former White House adviser Steve Bannon was likewise convicted in July 2022 for dodging a subpoena.”

-Al Jazeera, “Trump adviser Peter Navarro guilty of contempt for dodging Jan 6 subpoena,” aljazeera.com, September 7, 2023

9/7/2023

JOE BIDEN/POLLS: “The devastating verdict voters deliver on President Joe Biden in a new CNN poll is especially stark ahead of the most unprecedented election in modern times. Fourteen months before his fate is decided, Biden’s unpopularity may be brewing the only possible conditions in which a disgraced and anti-democratic ex-president, who might be a convicted felon by Election Day, would be able to squeeze back into power.

It begs the question of how GOP front-runner Donald Trump, whose administration was a four-year cacophony of chaos, scandal and fury, and who tried to cling to power after losing the 2020 election, could be locked in a statistical tie (47% to 46% among registered voters) with Biden after facing 91 criminal charges across four cases.”

-Stephen Collinson, “Biden’s unpopularity could give Trump his shot at reclaiming power,” cnn.com, September 7, 2023

9/7/2023

CONGRESS/GEORGIA: “The Georgia prosecutor in U.S. President Donald Trump’s case has accused a Republican congressman of interfering in a state criminal matter, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Thursday.

Fani Willis, the district attorney in Georgia’s Fulton County, made the allegation in a letter to Representative Jim Jordan, a staunch Trump ally who heads the U.S. House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee, the newspaper reported.”

-Katharine Jackson, “Georgia prosecutor in Trump case accuses Republican lawmaker of interference – newspaper,” reuters.com, September 7, 2023

9/7/2023

2024 ELECTION/CHRIS CHRISTIE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is firing back at 2024 presidential rival Donald Trump after the former president dismissed him as a ‘crazed lunatic’ during a radio interview on Wednesday…

Christie said Trump made him chair of the opioid commission, offered him Cabinet-level jobs as homeland security secretary and labor secretary. He also helped prep Trump for presidential debates in 2016 and 2020.

‘If I was so useless and dumb and deranged, how did all that stuff happen?’ Christie asked.”

-Ed Mazza, “Chris Christie Hits Trump With Receipts After ‘Lunatic’ Attack,” news.yahoo.com, September 7, 2023

9/7/2023

CHRIS CHRISTIE/CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS: “Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie accused former President Donald Trump of being “sick to his stomach” after a witness made a deal with prosecutors in the case accusing Trump of mishandling classified documents.

Mar-a-Lago IT employee Yuscil Taveras struck an agreement with special counsel Jack Smith’s office in which he said he would testify in order to avoid being prosecuted, according to multiple reports. Trump was indicted earlier this year on charges of illegally keeping classified documents after his term in the White House, among other allegations.”

-Marina Pitofsky, “Christie says Trump is ‘sick to his stomach’ after Mar-a-Lago worker strikes deal with prosecutors,” usatoday.com, September 7, 2023

9/6/2023

JOE BIDEN/MIKE PENCE/POLLS: “For 7 years Mike Pence only spoke well of me. Now he’s decided to go to the “Dark Side.” Why didn’t he do this years before, just like why didn’t DOJ and Deranged Jack Smith bring these Fake Indictments three years ago. Why did they wait until the middle of my Campaign where I am beating DeSanctimonious and all others badly, and beating Biden in almost every Poll?”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, September 6, 2023

9/6/2023

MIKE PENCE: “Was just watching Mike Pence make up stories about me, which are absolutely false. I never said for him to put me before the Constitution—I don’t talk that way, and wouldn’t even think to suggest it. Mike failed badly on calling out Voter Fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election, and based on the fact that he is at approximately 2% in the Polls, with no money or support, he obviously did the wrong thing. His advisors have led him down a very bad path!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, September 6, 2023

9/6/2023

IMPEACHMENT/RUSSIA: “They spied on my Campaign, Impeached me twice, had the Russia, Russia Hoax, the Fake Dossier Hoax, FISA Fraud, Election Fraud, the “No Collusion” Mueller Hoax, and so much more. I was innocent on all counts. If I am elected, they will be brought to JUSTICE, something that Republicans have always been afraid to do.”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, September 6, 2023

9/6/2023

CONGRESS/GOP: “Right now Republicans in Congress and the Senate have to get tough, and put everything together in one big, neat package, because I will be President in one and a half years, and we will pick the strongest, toughest, and most respected Attorney General, and if guilty, we will put them all in jail where they belong, just as they are trying to do to me based on NOTHING.”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, September 6, 2023

9/6/2023

2024 ELECTION/COLORADO: “Six Colorado voters filed a lawsuit on Wednesday [September 6, 2023] seeking to keep former President Donald J. Trump off the state’s [2024 election] ballots under the 14th Amendment, which says anyone who ‘engaged in insurrection or rebellion’ against the Constitution after taking an oath to defend it is ineligible to hold office.”

-Maggie Astor, “Colorado Lawsuit Seeks to Keep Trump Off Ballots Under 14th Amendment,” nytimes.com, September 6, 2023

9/6/2023

LEGAL: “A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that Donald Trump is civilly liable for defamatory statements he made about writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019 when she went public with claims he had raped her decades earlier.

Judge Lewis Kaplan, as part of that ruling, said the upcoming trial for Carroll’s lawsuit against Trump will only deal with the question of how much the former president should pay her in monetary damages for defaming her.”

-Dan Mangan, “Trump suffers big loss in E. Jean Carroll defamation case, judge says he’s liable,” CNBC.com, September 6, 2023

9/5/2023

DEMS: “INDICT YOUR POLITICAL OPPONENT,THE NEWEST TOOL IN THE DEMOCRATS TOOLBOX OF CORRUPTION!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, September 5, 2023

9/5/2023

2024 ELECTION: “Donald Trump is weighing in on a brewing legal battle over whether he should have access to the ballot in 2024.

While he has denied all wrongdoing, a growing number of conservative scholars have raised the constitutional argument that Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election make him ineligible to hold federal office ever again…

He claimed in a new social media post, late Monday, that ‘almost all legal scholars have voiced opinions that the 14th Amendment has no legal basis or standing relative to the upcoming 2024 Presidential Election.’

However, some conservative scholars suggest otherwise, including two members of the conservative Federalist Society; William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen and retired conservative federal judge J. Michael Luttig. Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Laurence Tribe joined Luttig in making the case.”

-Isabella Murray, Olivia Osteen, and Adam Carlson, “Trump challenges argument 14th Amendment disqualifies him in 2024, and more trail takeaways,” abcnews.go.com, September 5, 2023

9/4/2023

2024 ELECTION/LEGAL: “Almost all legal scholars have voiced opinions that the 14th Amendment has no legal basis or standing relative to the upcoming 2024 Presidential Election. Like Election Interference, it is just another ‘trick’ being used by the Radical Left Communists, Marxists, and Fascists, to again steal an Election that their candidate, the WORST, MOST INCOMPETENT, & MOST CORRUPT President in U.S. history, is incapable of winning in a Free and Fair Election. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, September 5, 2023

9/3/2023

LEGAL: “The Fake Indictments and lawsuits against me, 8 of them, all come out of the Biden Campaign for purposes of Election Interference. This is their new way of Rigging the Election, and it won’t hold up. The Fascists & Marxists are destroying our once great Country but, WE WILL WIN & MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, September 3, 2023

9/3/2023

2024 ELECTION/GEORGIA: “Almost all legal scholars have voiced opinions that the 14th Amendment has no legal basis or standing relative to the upcoming 2024 Presidential Election. Like Election Interference, it is just another ‘trick’ being used by the Radical Left Communists, Marxists, and Fascists, to again steal an Election that their candidate, the WORST, MOST INCOMPETENT, & MOST CORRUPT President in U.S. history, is incapable of winning in a Free and Fair Election. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, September 3, 2023

8/30/2023

JOE BIDEN: “Crooked Joe Biden’s only campaign strategy is Indicting me—That’s all they can do!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 30, 2023

8/30/2023

DOJ/JOE BIDEN: “WE HAVE A DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICE RIGGING THE ELECTION FOR CROOKED JOE!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 30, 2023

8/30/2023

2024 ELECTION/NEW HAMPSHIRE: “New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary is quickly becoming the leading edge for an unproven legal theory that Donald J. Trump is disqualified from appearing on the [2024 election] ballot under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

A long-shot presidential candidate has filed a lawsuit in state court seeking an injunction to keep Mr. Trump off the ballot. And a former Republican candidate for Senate is urging the secretary of state to bring a case that could put the issue before the U.S. Supreme Court.”

-Nick Corasaniti and Jonathan Weisman, “Is Trump Disqualified? Republicans Prepare to Fight Long-Shot Legal Theory.,” nytimes.com, August 30, 2023

8/30/2023

LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Former President Donald Trump routinely overstated his net worth — sometimes by more than $2 billion — during years when the actual values of his real estate holdings were far less than he claimed, according to a court filing Wednesday by the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James.

The attorney general’s office included the numbers in a motion for summary judgement that asks the court to resolve a civil fraud claim before the AG’s $250 million civil suit against Trump goes to trial.”

-Aaron Katersky, “Trump inflated his net worth by $2.2 billion, NYAG says in filing,” abcnews.go.com, August 30, 2023

8/30/2023

2024 ELECTION/ARIZONA: “Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D) said he does not have the ability to bar former President Donald Trump from running for president [in the 2024 election] in his state Wednesday [August 30, 2023].

There have been calls to bar the former president from being able to run in 2024 related to language in the 14th amendment where it states those who ‘have engaged in insurrection or rebellion’ against the government cannot hold office. Fontes said despite those claims, he cannot do so by way of a previous Arizona Supreme Court case.”

-Tara Suter, “Trump can’t be barred from Arizona’s 2024 ballot, says Democratic secretary of state,” thehill.com, August 30, 2023

8/29/2023

DEMS/LEGAL: “These Indictments and lawsuits are all part of my political opponents campaign plan. It is Election Interference, and they are going to use the DOJ/FBI to help them, which is illegal. Crooked Joe pushed this litigation hard to get it done. This is a new low in Presidential Politics. To the Democrats, I say, ‘be careful what you wish for.'”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 29, 2023

8/29/2023

DEBATES/POLLS: “My Poll numbers are UP since the very boring, record setting low (ratings!), Debate. Leading by BIG numbers. I made the right decision, and broke all records with the Tucker Carlson Interview!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 29, 2023

8/29/2023

2020 ELECTION: “In 2020, we got more votes from Hispanic Americans, African Americans, and Asian Americans than any Republican in more than 50 years, and we won the Texas Border Counties that no Republican Candidate had won in more than a Century!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 29, 2023

8/29/2023

2020 ELECTION/GEORGIA/SOCIAL MEDIA: “The Trump campaign has released its longest video yet — a 10-minute dive into Democrats questioning election results.

The video, posted to Truth Social on Monday evening, claims that Trump is being prosecuted by ‘for raising questions about the accuracy of the 2020 election,’ in reference to the indictments he faces over election interference in Fulton County, Georgia, and Washington, D.C. Notably, Trump’s charges in these cases are not for questioning the election results but for allegedly using unlawful means in an attempt to subvert the 2020 election results.”

-Jake Traylor, “Trump releases 10-minute video of Democrats questioning past elections,” nbcnew.com, August 29, 2023

8/29/2023

GOP/LEGAL/SHUTDOWN: “Four criminal indictments of Donald Trump have ignited his followers and spurred his House Republican allies to try to use the upcoming government funding deadline of Sept. 30 as leverage to undermine the prosecutions.

The bad news for them: A government shutdown wouldn’t halt the criminal proceedings against the former president.

Trump’s indictments in New York and Georgia would not be affected, while his federal indictments — for allegedly mishandling classified documents and for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection — are criminal matters that have been exempted from shutdowns in the past…

As a result, Republicans are looking at ways to insert provisions in government funding legislation that would hinder federal and state prosecutors who have secured indictments of Trump, based on unproven claims that he’s being politically targeted.”

-Sahil Kapur, A shutdown wouldn’t halt Trump’s trials, so Republicans seek to rein in his prosecutors,” nbcnews.com, August 29, 2023

8/28/2023

JOE BIDEN/POLLS: “The division, anger, and hatred that Crooked Joe Biden, the worst and most corrupt President in the history of the United States, has caused by Indicting his Political Opponent, who is leading him in the polls, all for the sake of Election Interference, and getting even for the very fertile investigations of him by the Republican Congress. It will only get worse because these deranged lunatics know no bounds. Someday, however, Sanity will again prevail. MAGA!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 28, 2023

8/28/2023

IMPEACHMENT: “I NEVER HAD AN IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY, I HAD AN IMPEACHMENT, WHICH I WON! IT WAS STARTED IMMEDIATELY, NO MEETINGS, NO STUDY, NO DELAYS. THE LUNATIC FASCHISTS & MARXISTS PLAY THE GAME DIFFERENTLY. THEY ARE OUT TO DESTROY AMERICA. MAGA!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 28, 2023

8/28/2023

JOE BIDEN/LEGAL: “Deranged Jack Smith & his team of Thugs, who were caught going to the White House just prior to Indicting the 45th President of the United States (an absolute No No!), have been working on this Witch Hunt for almost 3 years, but decided to bring it smack in the middle of Crooked Joe Biden’s Political Opponent’s campaign against him. Election Interference! Today a biased, Trump Hating Judge gave me only a two month extension, just what our corrupt government wanted, SUPER TUESDAY. I will APPEAL!

Page 2: How do you have an Indictment that is based almost entirely on the findings of the January 6th Unselect Committee of Marxists, Fascists, and Political Hacks, when these same lowlifes, who have been caught lying for years about Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, FISA, the Fake Dossier, & much more, purposely & Illegally DESTROYED & DELETED all of the Evidence, Findings, & Proof of the January 6th Committee? When will Deranged Jack Smith Criminally Charge the Committee?”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 28, 2023

8/28/2023

2020 ELECTION/2024 ELECTION/LEGAL: “Donald Trump will stand trial in March 2024 for trying to overturn his 2020 presidential election defeat, one day before Republican voters in more than a dozen U.S. states will decide whether to give him a chance to recapture the White House [in the 2024 election].

U.S. Judge Tanya Chutkan on Monday set a trial date of March 4 for the federal case in Washington, one of four criminal prosecutions the former president faces.”

-Sarah N. Lynch, “Trump DC trial set for March 2024, in thick of GOP presidential fight,” reuters.com, August 28, 2023

8/27/2023

IMPEACHMENT/JOE BIDEN/UKRAINE: “The Republicans in Congress, though well meaning, keep talking about an Impeachment ‘Inquiry’ on Crooked Joe Biden. Look, the guy got bribed, he paid people off, and he wouldn’t give One Billion Dollars to Ukraine unless they ‘got rid of the Prosecutor.’ Biden is a Stone Cold Crook-You don’t need a long INQUIRY to prove it, it’s already proven. These lowlifes Impeached me TWICE (I WON!), and Indicted me FOUR TIMES – For NOTHING! Either IMPEACH the BUM, or fade into OBLIVION. THEY DID IT TO US!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 27, 2023

8/26/2023

CAMPAIGN FINANCE/LEGAL: “Donald Trump has turned his Georgia mugshot into a record-breaking fundraising haul.

The former president has raised $7.1 million since he was booked at an Atlanta jail Thursday evening, according to figures provided first to POLITICO by his campaign. On Friday alone, Trump raised $4.18 million, making it the single-highest 24-hour period of his campaign to date, according to a person familiar with the totals.”

-Alex Isenstadt, “Trump raised $7.1 million after Georgia booking, mugshot,” politico.com, August 26, 2023

8/25/2023

2020 ELECTION/GEORGIA/LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former President Donald Trump and the 18 people indicted along with him in Georgia on charges that they participated in a wide-ranging illegal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election have all turned themselves in to a jail in Atlanta before the deadline at noon Friday.

After Trump was booked Thursday evening [August 24, 2023] — scowling at the camera for the first-ever mug shot of a former president — seven co-defendants who had not yet surrendered did so Friday morning. All but one of those charged had agreed to a bond amount and conditions with Fulton County District Fani Willis ahead of time, and they were free to go after booking.”

-Kate Brumback, “Donald Trump and 18 others indicted in Georgia election case meet the deadline to surrender at jail,” pbs.org, August 25, 2023

8/25/2023

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/JOE BIDEN/MIKE PENCE: “The Security Tapes from Mar-a-Lago that evil and sinister prosecutor, Deranged Jack Smith, ‘leaked’ or otherwise stated were deleted or altered were, in fact, NOT deleted or altered. It was a Fake Story put out by the government THUGS. Those tapes were openly handed over, without protest or litigation, and then the ‘Deranged One’ makes me look as bad as possible. The whole case is FAKE because I come under the Presidential Records Act. Biden or Pence did not!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 25, 2023

8/25/2023

2020 ELECTION: “[A] growing body of conservative scholars have raised the constitutional argument that Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election make him ineligible to hold federal office ever again.

That disqualification argument boils down to Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment, which says that a public official is not eligible to assume public office if they ‘engaged in insurrection or rebellion against’ the United States, or had ‘given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof,’ unless they are granted amnesty by a two-thirds vote of Congress.

Advocacy groups have long argued that Trump’s behavior after the 2020 election fits those criteria.”

-Hannah Demissie and Laura Gersony, “14th Amendment, Section 3: A new legal battle against Trump takes shape,” abcnews.go.com, August 25, 2023

8/24/2023

2020 ELECTION/GEORGIA/SOCIAL MEDIA: “231,000,000 Views, and still counting. The Biggest Video on Social Media, EVER, more than double the Super Bowl! But please excuse me, I have to start getting ready to head down to Atlanta, Georgia, where Murder and other Violent Crimes have reached levels never seen before, to get ARRESTED by a Radical Left, Lowlife District Attorney, Fani Willis, for A PERFECT PHONE CALL, and having the audacity to challenge a RIGGED & STOLEN [2020] ELECTION. THE EVIDENCE IS IRREFUTABLE! ARREST TIME: 7:30 P.M.”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 24, 2023

8/24/2023

CRIME/GEORGIA: “Why is there so much MURDER in Atlanta? Why is there so much Violent Crime? People are afraid to go outside to buy a loaf of bread! One big reason is that failed District Attorney, Fani Willis, who is campaigning and fundraising off ‘get Trump’ (much like the others!), doesn’t have the Time, Money, or Interest to go after the real criminals, even the REALLY Violent ones, that are destroying Atlanta, and its once beautiful culture and way of life. This is yet another SAD DAY IN AMERICA!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 24, 2023

8/24/2023

LEGAL/SOCIAL MEDIA/TWITTER: “Former President Donald Trump has returned to X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, firing off his first message in more than 2 1/2 years shortly after he surrendered at an Atlanta jail on charges he conspired to overturn his election loss.

He posted a photo of his mug shot and the words ‘Election interference. Never surrender!’ along with a link to his website, which directs to a fundraising page.

It was Trump’s first post since Jan. 8, 2021, when Twitter suspended his account indefinitely, citing fears he would incite additional violence following the deadly storming of the U.S. Capitol building.”

-Jill Colvin, “Trump returns to site formerly known as Twitter, posts his mug shot shortly after Georgia surrender,” apnews.com, August 24, 2023

8/24/2023

GEORGIA/LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE/TWITTER: “The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office has released the mug shot of former President Donald Trump that was taken shortly after he turned himself in to authorities in Georgia Thursday evening following his election interference indictment.

Trump is the first former U.S. president to have his mug shot taken…

The eleven other defendants who have surrendered in the case so far — including former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Trump’s former attorneys, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell — have all had their mug shots publicly released.

Trump later posted his mug shot to X, formerly known as Twitter, in his first post on the platform since Jan. 8, 2021. The post linked to Trump’s 2024 campaign website, where he also posted the mug shot as part of a fundraising pitch.”

-Ivan Pereira and Luke Barr, “Trump mug shot released by Fulton County Sheriff’s Office,” abcnews.go.com, August 24, 2023

8/24/2023

2020 ELECTION/GEORGIA/LEGAL: “Former President Donald J. Trump was booked at an Atlanta jail on Thursday [August 24, 2023] in his fourth criminal arrest this year, this time in a sweeping racketeering case accusing him and his allies of conspiring to reverse his 2020 election loss in Georgia.

Mr. Trump flew to Atlanta in a private plane from Newark, N.J., and was whisked to the Fulton County Jail in a motorcade with a police escort, arriving at 7:35 p.m. He was then fingerprinted and photographed like other people accused of state crimes and released on bond…

Mr. Trump’s bond was set at $200,000 on Monday [August 21, 2023]… Mr. Trump was listed in the Fulton County booking system as having “blonde or strawberry” hair, a height of 6 foot 3 inches and weight of 215 pounds. That weight is 24 pounds less than the White House doctor reported Trump weighed in 2018.”

-Richard Fausset and Danny Hakim, “Trump Surrenders at Atlanta Jail in Election Interference Case,” nytimes.com, August 24, 2023

8/24/2023

2024 ELECTION/GEORGIA/LEGAL: “Trump was going to do something no other president has ever done — surrender for booking on criminal charges and have a mug shot taken.

As word spread that Trump was on his way, demonstrators near the main entrance on the Rice Street side of the jail lined security barricades two to three deep. There were more Trump supporters than opponents braving the intense Georgia summer heat, but both groups were outnumbered by media…

It was the fourth time this year that Trump, the early front-runner in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, was booked on criminal charges.”

-Sudhin Thanawala and Kate Brumback, “Dozens of Trump supporters cheer him on as former president turns himself in at Georgia jail,” apnews.com, August 24, 2023

8/23/2023

2020 ELECTION: “For the first time in three years, brave American Patriots will be able, in Court, to show how the Presidential Election of 2020 was RIGGED & STOLLEN. For those RINOS, Radical Left Democrats, Communists, Marxists, Fascists , & others who say, ‘Don’t Look Back, Look Forward,’ they either do not want to reveal the answers because they ‘got away with murder,’ or are FOOLS & COWARDS because we now know the answers to all of the Fraud, Irregularities, & Cheating, & WE CANNOT LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 23, 2023

8/23/2023

ELECTION/GEORGIA: “NOBODY HAS EVER FOUGHT FOR ELECTION INTEGRITY LIKE PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP. FOR DOING SO, I WILL PROUDLY BE ARRESTED TOMORROW AFTERNOON IN GEORGIA. GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 23, 2023

8/23/2023

JOE BIDEN/POLLS: “I AM LEADING BIDEN IN ALMOST ALL POLLS! LEADING REPUBLICANS BY 50 POINTS. FOX NEWS REFUSES TO POST OR DISCUSS. BRIT HUME, WORKING WITH RINO BRET BAIER, IS DELUSIONAL!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 23, 2023

8/23/2023

BORDER/MEXICO/WALL: “Three years ago we had the safest Border in History. Built almost 500 miles of Wall. Got 28,000 soldiers from Mexico, FREE! Today it is the WORST!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 23, 2023

8/19/2023

JOE BIDEN: “Just think of it! They (Crooked Joe Biden and his Thugs!) Indict me, and their whole campaign is that “Trump is Indicted.” Does that sound fair to anyone? Am I allowed to do such a horrible and unconstitutional thing if, and when, I win the Presidency? We are entering really dangerous territory!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 24, 2023

8/17/2023

2024 ELECTION/POLLS: “Nearly two-out-of-three Americans said they would probably not or definitely not support former President Donald Trump in a new poll ahead of the 2024 race for the White House.

The poll, conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, found that 53% of Americans say they would definitely not support Trump if he is the Republican nominee next year, and 11% say they probably wouldn’t support him in November 2024.”

-Sudiksha Kochi, “Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they wouldn’t support Donald Trump in 2024, poll says,” usatoday.com, August 17, 2023

8/17/2023

2024 ELECTION/LEGAL: “Former President Donald Trump has ramped up his rhetoric and vowed to keep speaking out in opposition to his criminal indictments as he campaigns for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination…

Trump has targeted judges, prosecutors and potential witnesses in posts railing against his four active criminal cases, prompting some legal experts to predict that a gag order may be in Trump’s future.

But even if that doesn’t happen, his aggressive criticism could incentivize judges to bring his cases to trial more quickly. That would be a blow to Trump, who has argued that his trials should be postponed until after the November 2024 presidential election.”

-Kevin Breuninger, “Trump keeps sounding off on his indictments. His attacks could hasten the criminal trials,” CNBC.com, August 17, 2023

8/17/2023

2020 ELECTION/GEORGIA/LEGAL: “Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis centers her case on the idea that Trump and 18 others worked together ‘knowingly and willfully’ as part of a broad conspiracy to attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.

As part of this conspiracy, prosecutors claim, the 19 defendants committed a total of more than 160 individual ‘overt acts’ to further their plan. Those actions include tweets and speeches made by Trump and others, phone calls and meetings…

Trump has already claimed these charges are part of an effort to criminalize political speech and a violation of his First Amendment rights — a regular political rallying cry for the former president.”

-Jaclyn Diaz, “Trump’s tweets count as an ‘overt act’ in the Georgia case. What does that mean?,” npr.org, August 17, 2023

8/17/2023

JOE BIDEN/LEGAL: “Remember, all of these Indictments, Federal, State, and Local, were conceived and generated by Crooked Joe Biden and his staff of Radical Left Lunatics and Thugs for purposes of interfering with the 2020 Presidential Election. None of these trials should be allowed to begin prior to the Election. Republicans must get tougher and smarter, FAST!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 17, 2023

8/17/2023

DEBATE/MEDIA: “Why doesn’t Fox and Friends show all of the Polls where I am beating Biden, by a lot. They just won’t do it! Also, they purposely show the absolutely worst pictures of me, especially the big ‘orange’ one with my chin pulled way back. They think they are getting away with something, they’re not. Just like 2016 all over again…And then they want me to debate!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 17, 2023

8/17/2023

MEDIA: “Why did it take the Washington Compost over two months to correct their Story where, just like Adam Schiff, they MADE UP MY WORDS on a ‘PERFECT’ phone call? Why did nobody come forward sooner to correct the record? Fani Willis impaneled her ‘Special Purpose Grand Jury’ BEFORE the Washington Post was forced to issue a retraction. THIS IS A FAKE NEWS-BASED WITCH HUNT!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 17, 2023

8/17/2023

DOJ/FBI/JOE BIDEN: “The only crime committed was Biden’s use of the DOJ and FBI to practice massive Election Interference!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 17, 2023

8/17/2023

DOJ/JOE BIDEN: “So now that I have full Subpoena Power because of the Freedom of Speech Sham Indictment by Crooked Joe Biden, Deranged Jack Smith, and the DOJ, it has just been reported that the Unselect January 6th Committee of Political Hacks and Thugs has illegally destroyed their Records and Documents…”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 17, 2023

8/17/2023

GOP/LEGAL: “I hope Republican D.A.’s and A.G.’s throughout the Country are closely watching the tremendous Weaponization of ‘Justice’ that is being utilized against me!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 17, 2023

8/16/2023

2020 ELECTION/GEORGIA/LEGAL/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former President Donald J. Trump has 10 days to turn himself in to face accusations that he and 18 other people orchestrated a ‘criminal enterprise’ to reverse the results of the 2020 election in Georgia and subvert the will of voters — sweeping charges by a local prosecutor that invoked a law associated with taking down mobsters.

The 41-count indictment also brings charges against some of Mr. Trump’s most prominent advisers, including Rudolph W. Giuliani, his former personal lawyer, and Mark Meadows, who served as White House chief of staff at the time of the election.”

-Richard Fausset and Danny Hakim, “Trump Indicted in Georgia Ex-President Has 10 Days to Surrender for Arraignment,” nytimes.com, August 16, 2023

8/16/2023

2020 ELECTION/GEORGIA/LEGAL: “When a grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, stayed at the courthouse late on Monday [August 14, 2023] after hearing evidence in the election interference case against Donald Trump and his political allies, it seemed likely that an indictment decision was on the horizon.

Later that night — while Trump was reportedly at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club anticipating the news — a 98-page indictment dropped, revealing to the former president that he had been charged with 13 felony counts tied to his attempts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results. Eighteen of his allies were charged in tandem.

‘Donald is livid,’ a political source claims of the latest update in a string of criminal investigations involving Trump. ‘He will always say that he won, that the election was rigged, and this fourth indictment was a political ambush. That is the only way he can face the day.'”

-Linda Marx and Kyler Alvord, “Donald Trump ‘Livid’ amid Georgia Charges, ‘Surrounded by People Who Love and Adore Him,'” people.com, August 16, 2023

8/15/2023

2024 ELECTION/POLLS: “Nearly two-thirds of Republicans — 63% — now say they want the former president to run again, according to new polling from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That’s up slightly from the 55% who said the same in April when Trump began facing a series of criminal charges. Seven in 10 Republicans now have a favorable opinion of Trump, an uptick from the 60% who said so two months ago…

While most Republicans — 74% — say they would support him in November 2024, 53% of Americans say they would definitely not support him if he is the nominee. Another 11% say they would probably not support him in November 2024.”

-Jill Colvin and Linley Sanders, “Trump enjoys strong support among Republicans. The general election could be a different story,” apnews.com, August 15, 2023

 

8/15/2023

2020 ELECTION/GEORGIA/LEGAL/RUDY GIULIANI: “Former President Donald Trump was indicted Monday on racketeering, conspiracy and other charges by a grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, the result of a more than two-year investigation by District Attorney Fani Willis into potential 2020 election interference in that state.

Eighteen other people, including Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, were also indicted, accused of joining Trump in efforts to unlawfully change the outcome of the election.”

-Hannah Grabenstein, “Read the full Georgia indictment against Trump and 18 allies,” pbs.org, August 15, 2023

8/15/2023

LEGAL: “So, the Witch Hunt continues! 19 people Indicated tonight, including the former President of the United States, me, by an out of control and very corrupt District Attorney who campaigned and raised money on, ‘I will get Trump.’ And what about those Indictment Documents put out today, long before the Grand Jury even voted, and then quickly withdrawn? Sounds Rigged to me! Why didn’t they Indict 2.5 years ago? Because they wanted to do it right in the middle of my political campaign. Witch Hunt!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 15, 2023

8/15/2023

2020 ELECTION/GEORGIA: “A Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable REPORT on the Presidential Election Fraud which took place in Georgia is almost complete & will be presented by me at a major News Conference at 11:00 A.M. on Monday of next week in Bedminster, New Jersey. Based on the results of this CONCLUSIVE Report, all charges should be dropped against me & others – There will be a complete EXONERATION! They never went after those that Rigged the Election. They only went after those that fought to find the RIGGERS!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 15, 2023

8/15/2023

2020 ELECTION/GEORGIA/LEGAL: “Can you believe it? This failed District Attorney from Atlanta, Fani Willis, where murders and other violent crime soars daily to new record highs, is charging me with 2020 Presidential Election Interference. No, Fani, the only Election Interference was done by those that Rigged and Stole the Election. Those are the ones you should be going after, not the innocent people that are fighting for Election Integrity!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 15, 2023

8/15/2023

2024 ELECTION/BIDEN-HARRIS ADMIN: “All of these Biden Administration bogus trials and cases, including the locals, should be brought after the 2024 Presidential Election. What they have done is already Election Interference, but if the trials are held before the Election, then it would be Interference on a scale never seen in our Country before.”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 15, 2023

8/15/2023

JOE BIDEN: “I believe we have a compromised president. He was bribed, and now he’s being blackmailed. He’s a Manchurian Candidate. That’s why Crooked Joe is letting other countries walk all over the United States”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 15, 2023

8/14/2023

2020 ELECTION/GEORGIA/LEGAL: “Former president Donald Trump and 18 others were criminally charged in Georgia in connection with efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in the state, according to an indictment made public late Monday night [August 14, 2023].

Trump was charged with 13 counts, including violating the state’s racketeering act, soliciting a public officer to violate their oath, conspiring to impersonate a public officer, conspiring to commit forgery in the first degree and conspiring to file false documents.

The historic indictment, the fourth to implicate the former president, follows a 2½-year investigation by Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D).”

-Holly Bailey and Amy Gardner, “Trump charged in Georgia 2020 election probe, his fourth indictment,” washingtonpost.com, August 14, 2023

8/14/2023

JOE BIDEN/SOCIAL MEDIA/TWITTER: “How dare lowlife prosecutor, Deranged Jack Smith, break into my former Twitter account without informing me and, indeed, trying to completely hide this atrocity from me. What could he possibly find out that is not already known. Just like the early morning raid of Mar-a-Lago! Why isn’t the DOJ raiding Crooked Joe Biden, the most CORRUPT (and Incompetent!) President in the history of the United States?”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 14, 2023

8/14/2023

2020 ELECTION/GEORGA/LEGAL/MEDIA: “I UNDERSTAND THROUGH ILLEGAL LEAKS TO THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA THAT PHONEY FANI WILLIS, THE D.A. OF FULTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, WANTS DESPERATELY TO INDICT ME ON THE RIDICULOUS GROUNDS OF TAMPERING WITH THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. NO, I DIDN’T TAMPER WITH THE ELECTION! THOSE WHO RIGGED & STOLE THE ELECTION WERE THE ONES DOING THE TAMPERING, & THEY ARE THE SLIME THAT SHOULD BE PROSECUTED. I MADE A PERFECT PHONE CALL OF PROTEST. WHY WASN’T THIS FAKE CASE BROUGHT 2.5 YEARS AGO? ELECTION INTERFERENCE!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 14, 2023

8/14/2023

2020 ELECTION/GEORGIA: “WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE TELL THE FULTON COUNTY GRAND JURY THAT I DID NOT TAMPER WITH THE [2020] ELECTION. THE PEOPLE THAT TAMPERED WITH IT WERE THE ONES THAT RIGGED IT, AND SADLY, PHONEY FANI WILLIS, WHO HAS SHOCKINGLY ALLOWED ATLANTA TO BECOME ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS CITIES ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, HAS NO INTEREST IN SEEING THE MASSIVE AMOUNT OF EVIDENCE AVAILABLE, OR FINDING OUT WHO THESE PEOPLE THAT COMMITTED THIS CRIME ARE. SHE ONLY WANTS TO ‘GET TRUMP.’ I WOULD BE HAPPY TO SHOW THIS INFO TO THE G.J.”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 14, 2023

8/14/2023

2020 ELECTION/GEORGIA: “I am reading reports that failed former Lt. Governor of Georgia, Jeff Duncan, will be testifying before the Fulton County Grand Jury. He shouldn’t. I barely know him but he was, right from the beginning of this Witch Hunt, a nasty disaster for those looking into the [2020] Election Fraud that took place in Georgia. He refused having a Special Session to find out what went on, became very unpopular with Republicans (I refused to endorse him!), and fought the TRUTH all the way. A loser, he went to FNCNN!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 14, 2023

8/14/2023

FBI/RUSSIA: “ONE OF THE MANY THINGS I HAVE DONE AS PRESIDENT, & THEREAFTER, IS TO EXPOSE THE MASSIVE CORRUPTION & FRAUD THAT TAKES PLACE ON A REGULAR BASIS WITHIN THE USA. LOOK HOW CORRUPT THE DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICE HAS TURNED OUT TO BE…& THE FBI, WITH FISA, TWITTER FILES, LIES TO CONGRESS (AND EVERYWHERE), THE LAPTOP FROM HELL, FACEBOOK, THE TOP AGENT IN CHARGE OF THE RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA HOAX JUST BEING ARRESTED, THE ‘INSURANCE POLICY’ & 51 INTEL AGENTS SCAM…I EXPOSED IT ALL, & I WILL CLEAN IT UP. MAGA!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 14, 2023

8/14/2023

GOP: “I just hope Republicans, and the people of our now failing Nation, see what is happening to our Democracy and Freedom. A sitting President has INDICTED, in many different forms and locals, his political opponent, who is substantially leading him in the Polls. NOTHING LIKE THIS HAS EVER HAPPENED BEFORE. OUR COUNTRY CAN NEVER LET THIS STAND!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 14, 2023

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8/8/2023

CHRIS CHRISTIE/POLLS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former President Donald Trump mocked Chris Christie, one of his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, over his eating habits and his weight Tuesday.

‘Don’t call him a fat pig,’ Trump playfully admonished an audience member who shouted out during a speech at a high school gym in Windham, New Hampshire. ‘You can’t do that.’

Trump was apprising the audience of recent polls that show him leading when he first mentioned Christie, the former New Jersey governor, who was once a close adviser.”

-Jonathan Allen, “Trump mocks Chris Christie’s weight: ‘Don’t call him a fat pig,’” nbcnews.com, August 8, 2023

8/8/2023

LEGAL: “A judge has set a hearing for Friday about the parameters of a protective order dictating how former President Donald Trump and his legal team can talk about the evidence in the Jan. 6 criminal case…

Trump’s legal team and federal prosecutors are currently at odds over what details can be publicly disclosed in the Jan. 6 case. Trump and his attorneys have maintained possible restrictions on what the former president can say publicly is an attack on his First Amendment rights.”

-Jaclyn Diaz, “A protective order is unlikely to curb Trump or affect his popularity,” npr.org, August 8, 2023

8/8/2023

2020 ELECTION/LEGAL: “Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday kept up his attacks on special counsel Jack Smith and vowed to continue talking about his criminal cases even as prosecutors sought a protective order to limit the evidence that Trump and his team could share.

In the early voting state of New Hampshire, Trump assailed Smith as a ‘thug prosecutor’ and a ‘deranged guy’ a week after being indicted on felony charges for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the run-up to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.”

-Michelle L. Price and Holly Ramen, “Trump vows to keep talking about criminal cases despite prosecutors pushing for protective order,” apnews.com, August 8, 2023

8/8/2023

JOE BIDEN/LEGAL/VETS: “Former President Donald Trump went to New Hampshire Tuesday to deliver a speech on veterans, but he wound up viciously attacking prosecutors in the legal cases against him and suggesting he would continue to do so even if a judge orders him to stop.

‘They took the gloves off, and we can say whatever we want,’ Trump told cheering supporters at a New Hampshire high school, blaming President Joe Biden and his administration for all of his legal problems and accusing them of wrongdoing instead.

Trump devoted most of his speech to veterans’ health care issues, saying he would lessen waiting times for medical care, reduce veterans’ rates of suicide and homelessness, get rid of ‘woke lunacy’ in the military and generally improve the system for retired military personnel.”

-David Jackson, “Donald Trump was supposed to deliver his pitch to veterans. He unloaded on his indictments.,” usatoday.com, August 8, 2023

8/7/2023

2020 ELECTION/RON DESANTIS: “Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Sunday rejected Donald Trump’s claim that he was the true winner of the 2020 presidential election in his most forceful comments to date on the matter…

DeSantis continued to discuss all the ways he believed the previous presidential election was not perfect. But pressed further, he clearly stated that Trump lost…

‘No, of course he lost,’ DeSantis said, adding, ‘Joe Biden’s the president.'”

-Amanda Terkel, “‘Of course he lost’: Ron DeSantis rejects Trump’s 2020 election claims,” nbcnews.com, August 7, 2023

8/7/2023

JOE BIDEN/SPORTS: “When the United States lost to Sweden in the Women’s World Cup on Sunday [August 6, 2023]… For former President Donald J. Trump, it was a sign of national decline.

The loss was ‘fully emblematic of what is happening to the our once great Nation under Crooked Joe Biden,’ Mr. Trump wrote on his social media platform.

‘Many of our players were openly hostile to America — No other country behaved in such a manner, or even close,’ he added. ‘WOKE EQUALS FAILURE. Nice shot Megan, the USA is going to Hell!!! MAGA.’…

The taunt was an extension of a longstanding feud between Mr. Trump and Megan Rapinoe.”

-Maggie Astor, “Trump Cheers the Defeat of Rapinoe and the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team,” nytimes.com, August 7, 2023

8/6/2023

2020 ELECTION/LEGAL: “John Lauro, one of Donald Trump’s attorneys in the federal case over his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, vehemently defended the former president against allegations Trump knowingly spread false claims of election fraud to remain in power and claimed Trump’s efforts were merely ‘aspirational,’ not criminal.

‘The defense is quite simple,’ Lauro said on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press.’ ‘President Trump believed in his heart of hearts that he had won that election.’”

-Ken Tran, “Donald Trump’s lawyer claims efforts to overturn 2020 election were only ‘aspirational,’ not criminal,” usatoday.com, August 6, 2023

8/6/2023

2020 ELECTION/LEGAL/MIKE PENCE: “If former President Donald Trump committed a ‘technical violation of the Constitution,’ it doesn’t mean he necessarily broke any criminal laws, John Lauro, Trump’s criminal defense attorney, argued Sunday on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press.’…

Pressed by NBC’s Chuck Todd about Trump’s alleged pressure campaign to get former Vice President Mike Pence to reverse the [2020] election, Lauro claimed that Trump and Pence had merely disagreed over whether a vice president could constitutionally take actions that could lead to a presidential election’s being overturned.”

-Adam Edelman, “If Trump committed ‘a technical violation of the Constitution,’ it’s not a crime, his lawyer says,” nbcnews.com, August 6, 2023

8/3/2023

2020 ELECTION/LEGAL: “Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Thursday to trying to overturn the results of his 2020 election loss, answering for the first time to federal charges that accuse him of orchestrating a brazen and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to block the peaceful transfer of presidential power.

The former president appeared before a magistrate judge in Washington’s federal courthouse two days after being indicted by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith.”

-Michael Kunzelman, Eric Tucker, Nomaan Merchant and Lindsay Whitehurst, “Trump pleads not guilty to federal charges that he tried to overturn the 2020 election,” apnews.com, August 3, 2023

8/2/2023

2020 ELECTION/DOJ/LEGAL: “Donald Trump was indicted on felony charges Tuesday [August 1, 2023] for working to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the run-up to the violent riot by his supporters at the U.S. Capitol, with the Justice Department acting to hold him accountable for an unprecedented effort to block the peaceful transfer of presidential power and threaten American democracy.

The four-count indictment, the third criminal case against Trump, provided deeper insight into a dark moment that has already been the subject of exhaustive federal investigations and captivating public hearings. It chronicles a months-long campaign of lies about the election results and says that, even when those falsehoods resulted in a chaotic insurrection at the Capitol, Trump sought to exploit the violence by pointing to it as a reason to further delay the counting of votes that sealed his defeat.”

-Eric Tucker and Michael Kunzelman, “Trump indicted for efforts to overturn 2020 election and block transfer of power,” apnews.com, August 2, 2023

8/1/2023

2024 ELECTION/POLLS/RON DESANTIS: “DeSantis’s deficit in the [2024 Election] GOP presidential primaries stands at more than 37 points in the FiveThirtyEight average, with Trump at 53.1 percent and DeSantis at 15.8 percent.

No nominee has made up that kind of gap since the 1970s, which is when the two parties moved away from deciding their presidential nominees at conventions and toward relying on the will of primary voters.”

-Aaron Blake, “Nobody has lost a primary after holding a lead like Trump’s,” washingtonpost.com, August 1, 2023

8/1/2023

2024 ELECTION/INVESTIGATIONS: “I hear that Deranged Jack Smith, in order to interfere with the Presidential Election of 2024, will be putting out yet another Fake Indictment of your favorite President, me, at 5:00 P.M. Why didn’t they do this 2.5 years ago? Why did they wait so long? Because they wanted to put it right in the middle of my campaign. Prosecutorial Misconduct!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 1, 2023

8/1/2023

RON DESANTIS: “Wow! DeSanctimonious would have lost in a Republican Primary landslide in 2018 without my Endorsement, and then lost in the General Election without my BIG Florida Rallies (for him!). Now he tells Bret Baier of FoxNews that he didn’t need my help. So untruthful! Pollsters are ANGRY! Watch what we put out on TRUTH, even in his own words. Bret should have called him out on this very ‘tame’ interview!!! MAGA WILL NEVER VOTE FOR THIS UNGRATEFUL PERSON.”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 1, 2023

8/1/2023

CONGRESS/IMPEACHMENT/JOE BIDEN: “House Republicans have been talking a lot about impeaching President Joe Biden over what they say is his improper involvement in his family’s business dealings.

But with a long to-do list when lawmakers return to Washington after August recess, for now, it’s all talk.

Former President Donald Trump however, is pressuring GOP lawmakers to put action behind their words and begin the impeachment process against Biden − or face electoral consequences.

‘Any Republican that doesn’t act on Democratic fraud should be immediately primaried and get out,’ Trump told supporters at a campaign rally Saturday in Erie, Pennsylvania. ‘We got a lot of good, tough Republicans around. People are going to run against them and people are going to win.’”

-Ken Tran, “’Get out’: Donald Trump threatens House Republicans to impeach Biden or risk losing their jobs,” usatoday.com, August 1, 2023

8/1/2023

CAMPAIGN FINANCE/LEGAL: “Trump took in over $53 million since the start of 2023, records show, a period in which his two criminal indictments in Florida and New York were turned into a rallying cry that sent his fundraising soaring. Yet the Republican presidential front-runner burned through at least $42.8 million this year, much of it used to cover costs related to the mounting legal peril faced by Trump, his aides and other allies, leaving him with $31.8 million cash on hand…

New campaign finance disclosures made public ahead of Monday night’s filing deadline showed Trump’s network of political committees spent roughly $25 million on legal fees. But according to a person familiar with the situation who insisted on anonymity to discuss the matter, the number is considerably higher: $40 million this year alone.”

-Jill Colvin and Brian Slodysko, “Trump’s campaign finances are strained as legal peril mounts,” apnews.com, August 1, 2023

8/1/2023

2020 ELECTION: “Matthew DePerno, a key orchestrator of efforts to help former President Donald J. Trump try to overturn the 2020 election in Michigan and an unsuccessful candidate for state attorney general last year, was arraigned on four felony charges on Tuesday [August 1, 2023], according to documents released by D.J. Hilson, the special prosecutor handling the investigation.

The charges against Mr. DePerno, which include undue possession of a voting machine and a conspiracy to gain unauthorized access to a computer or computer system, come after a nearly yearlong investigation.”

-Neil Vigdor, Alexandra Berzon and Nick Corasaniti, “Trump Meddler in Michigan, Matthew DePerno, Is Charged in Election Breach,” nytimes.com, August 1, 2023

7/31/2023

2024 ELECTION/INVESTIGATIONS: “The Radical Left Democrat Thugs shouldn’t be allowed to investigate me during, and in the middle of, my campaign for President. Why didn’t they file these ridiculous charges 2.5 years ago? They waited because they wanted to illegally and negatively influence the 2024 Presidential Election, arguably the most important Election in the history of the USA. We are going to take our now Third World Nation (Airports, Elections, Roads/Highways, Borders, etc.) and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. BE STRONG!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 31, 2023

7/30/2023

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/INVESTIGATIONS: “MAR-A-LAGO SECURITY TAPES WERE NOT DELETED. THEY WERE VOLUNTARILY HANDED OVER TO THE THUGS, HEADED UP BY DERANGED JACK SMITH. WE DID NOT EVEN GO TO COURT TO STOP THEM FROM GETTING THESE TAPES. I NEVER TOLD ANYBODY TO DELETE THEM. PROSECUTORIAL FICTION & MISCONDUCT! ELECTION INTERFERENCE!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 30, 2023

7/30/2023

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/INVESTIGATIONS: “The Crooked Election Interference ‘Thugs’ from the DOJ, headed by the worst Thug of them all, Deranged Jack Smith, are now admitting that the Mar-a-Lago Security Tapes were NOT DELETED. That’s not what they were illegally leaking to the press. These guys should be prosecuted for MISCONDUCT. Also, whatever happened to Crooked Joe’s Documents? Where are the ones he sent and stored in Chinatown? Is Deranged Jack going to Indict him for this and, at the same time, receiving BRIBES FROM CHINA?”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 30, 2023

7/30/2023

2024 ELECTION/INVESTIGATIONS: “The Radical Left Democrat Thugs shouldn’t be allowed to investigate me during, and in the middle of, my campaign for President. Why didn’t they file these ridiculous charges 2.5 years ago? They waited because they wanted to illegally and negatively influence the 2024 Presidential Election, arguably the most important Election in the history of the USA. We are going to take our now Third World Nation (Airports, Elections, Roads/Highways, Borders, etc.) and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. BE STRONG!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 31, 2023

7/29/2023

2020 ELECTION/LAWSUIT: “A federal judge has thrown out a $475m (£369m) defamation lawsuit brought by Donald Trump against CNN for allegedly likening him to Adolf Hitler.

The US cable network described Mr Trump’s unsubstantiated claim that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen from him as the ‘Big Lie’.

Mr Trump argued the phrase referred to a Nazi propaganda campaign used to justify the persecution of Jews.

US District Judge Raag Singhal ruled CNN’s comments were not defamatory.”

-Alys Davies, “Judge dismisses Donald Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ lawsuit against CNN,” bbc.com, July 29, 2023

7/27/2023

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/JOE BIDEN: “Whatever happened to the Crooked Joe Biden Document’s case? He had 20 times more Boxes than I did, and he wasn’t covered by the Presidential Records Act. I was! When it first came out that Biden had all of these Docs, many Classified, almost everyone, including those on the Left, said, “there goes the case against Trump.” But they waited and waited, got failed prosecutor Deranged Jack Smith, and STRUCK – but did almost nothing on the REALLY BAD Biden Documents case, many stored in Chinatown!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 27, 2023

7/27/2023

DOJ/LEGAL: “Former United States President Donald Trump has said that his lawyers warned the Department of Justice (DOJ) against charging him over the 2021 Capitol riot, during a meeting with federal prosecutors on Thursday [July 27, 2023]…

‘My attorneys had a productive meeting with the DOJ this morning, explaining in detail that I did nothing wrong, was advised by many lawyers, and that an Indictment of me would only further destroy our Country,’ Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Thursday.

‘No indication of notice was given during the meeting — Do not trust the Fake News on anything!’”

-Al Jazeera Staff, “Trump says his lawyers warned prosecutors against January 6 charges,” aljazeera.com, July 27, 2023

7/27/2023

2024 ELECTION/CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/DOJ/POLLS: “Former President Donald Trump, reacting to the latest charges against him from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation, slammed the Justice Department for ‘abuse,’ and said “this is what you get” for leading the polls for the White House in 2024.

Trump, who is atop the 2024 GOP presidential primary field, was charged Thursday with an additional count of willful retention of national defense information and two new obstruction counts as part of a new ‘superseding’ indictment out of Smith’s investigation into his alleged improper retention of classified records.”

-Brooke Singman, “Trump reacts to ‘abuse’ by DOJ: ‘This is what you get’ for leading the polls,” foxnews.com, July 27, 2023

7/27/2023

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/LEGAL: “Former President Donald Trump faced new charges Thursday in a case accusing him of illegally possessing classified documents, with prosecutors alleging that he asked a staffer to delete camera footage at his Florida estate in an effort to obstruct a federal investigation into the records.

The new indictment includes extra charges of obstruction and willful retention of national defense information, adding fresh detail to a criminal case issued last month against Trump and a close aide.”

-Eric Tucker, Zeke Miller, and Alanna Durken Richer, “Trump accused of asking staffer to delete camera footage in Florida classified documents case,” apnews.com, July 27, 2023

7/26/2023

ELECTION: “They don’t go after the people who cheated in the election, they only go after the people who report on, or question the cheating…”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 26, 2023

7/26/2023

IMPEACHMENT/JOE BIDEN: “SO, THEY IMPEACH ME OVER A ‘PERFECT’ PHONE CALL, AND THEY DON’T IMPEACH BIDEN FOR BEING THE MOST CORRUPT PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES???”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 26, 2023

7/26/2023

CHINA/IOWA/POLLS: “Just got my best Polls ever in Iowa, a 35 point lead, and yet they put up fraudulent ads talking to people who say they won’t be voting for me. What kind of ‘stuff’ is that. Remember, I got Farmers 28 Billion Dollars from China, made a 50 Billion Dollar Trade Deal with China, saved Ethanol from certain death, terminated America’s worst ever trade deal, NAFTA, and replaced it with America’s BEST EVER TRADE DEAL, USMCA. Nobody else could have done any of these things. Iowa will vote BIG for TRUMP!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 26, 2023

7/25/2023

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/JOE BIDEN/NANCY PELOSI: “So, let’s get this straight? The Democrat SLIMEBALLS in Congress, then headed by Crazy Nancy Pelosi, Impeached me over a PERFECT PHONE CALL (I Won!), and are now Indicting me over their continuing, illegal, and long running Witch Hunt, but Crooked Joe Biden, who has stolen and extorted millions of dollars, won’t be Impeached or Indicted by a very kind, friendly, and politically correct Republican Congress. Gee, that seems very fair to me? MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 25, 2023