3/19/2024

TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro, who was convicted of contempt of Congress last year, is set to surrender Tuesday at a federal Bureau of Prisons facility in Miami to begin serving his four-month sentence… Navarro, who was closely involved in Trump’s attempts to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss in the lead-up […]

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10/24/2023

2020 ELECTION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “I don’t think Mark Meadows would lie about the Rigged and Stollen 2020 Presidential Election merely for getting IMMUNITY against Prosecution (PERSECUTION!) by Deranged Prosecutor, Jack Smith. BUT, when you really think about it, after being hounded like a dog for three years, told you’ll be going to jail for the rest […]

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10/24/2023

2020 ELECTION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former President Donald Trump’s final chief of staff in the White House, Mark Meadows, has spoken with special counsel Jack Smith’s team at least three times this year, including once before a federal grand jury, which came only after Smith granted Meadows immunity to testify under oath, according to sources familiar with […]

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10/24/2023

2020 ELECTION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Jenna Ellis, a Trump campaign attorney who worked with Rudy Giuliani to press state legislatures to overturn the 2020 election results, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony charge that she participated in an effort to make false statements to Georgia lawmakers about election fraud. Ellis is the third Trump-aligned attorney in recent […]

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10/23/2023

2020 ELECTION/GEORGIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former President Donald Trump is distancing himself from attorney Sidney Powell in the wake of her guilty plea in the Georgia election interference case. ‘Sidney Powell was one of millions and millions of people who thought, and in ever increasing numbers still think, correctly, that the 2020 Presidential Election was RIGGED & […]

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10/19/2023

2020 ELECTION/GEORGIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Lawyer Sidney Powell, who famously vowed to unleash a mythical sea monster of litigation to prove that Donald Trump didn’t lose the 2020 election, has now struck a deal with Georgia prosecutors admitting she conspired to wrongly interfere with the state’s election results. Her guilty plea Thursday culminates a three-year journey in […]

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10/17/2023

TRUMP PEOPLE: “Jim Jordan lost a vote to become Speaker of the House of Representatives on Tuesday afternoon, after 20 members of his own party voted against the firebrand Ohio Republican and staunch Donald Trump loyalist… Speaking at a Manhattan courthouse, Trump reiterated his endorsement of Jordan, calling the 59-year-old congressman a ‘fantastic young man’ […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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6/27/2023

2024 ELECTION/CHRIS CHRISTIE/PAC/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The news that former President Donald Trump is steering donations away from his 2024 presidential campaign and into a political action committee he has previously used to pay his legal fees may have come as a surprise to some of his donors. But not so for former New Jersey Gov. Chris […]

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6/27/2023

2020 ELECTION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Supreme Court’s ruling on Tuesday in a major election case was bad news for John Eastman — the lawyer aligned with Donald Trump who pushed a novel legal theory in his bid to overturn the 2020 election. Tuesday’s 6-3 ruling rejected a sweeping version of what has been dubbed the […]

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6/14/2023

2024 ELECTION/CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Donald Trump’s former vice president, Mike Pence, has joined the growing list of 2024 Republican candidates who are now starting to attack him over criminal charges that he hoarded sensitive classified documents and defied a grand jury subpoena to give them back. ‘The very prospect that what is alleged here […]

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5/30/2023

POLLS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Kayleigh ‘Milktoast’McEnany just gave out the wrong poll numbers on FoxNews. I am 34 points up on DeSanctimonious, not 25 up. While 25 is great, it’s not 34. She knew the number was corrected upwards by the group that did the poll. The RINOS & Globalists can have her. FoxNews should only use […]

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5/16/2023

PARDONS/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A new lawsuit from a woman who says she worked for Rudy Giuliani during Donald Trump’s presidency contains a series of shocking claims, chief among them sexual assault and harassment by Trump’s then-personal lawyer, which Giuliani has denied. But Noelle Dunphy’s civil complaint, filed Monday in New York state court, also contains […]

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4/12/2023

MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Donald Trump sued his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen on Wednesday [April 13, 2023] seeking at least $500 million in damages, as the former U.S. president steps up attacks on his onetime loyal “fixer” after Cohen testified before the Manhattan grand jury that indicted Trump. In a complaint filed in federal court in Miami, […]

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3/6/2023

INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Hope Hicks, a trusted aide to Donald J. Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign, met with the Manhattan district attorney’s office on Monday [March 6, 2023] — the latest in a string of witnesses to be questioned by prosecutors as they investigate the former president’s involvement in paying hush money to a porn […]

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3/1/2023

KELLYANNE CONWAY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “On Wednesday [March 1, 2023], former Trump White House adviser Kellyanne Conway met with prosecutors from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office as part of their criminal investigation into Trump and the alleged hush payment to Stormy Daniels, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. Conway is the latest witness to meet […]

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2/14/2023

2024 ELECTION/NIKKI HALEY/POLLS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Tuesday kicked off her campaign for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, a tough challenge as her former boss Donald Trump holds a strong lead in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll… Haley, a former South Carolina governor who served as the U.N. ambassador […]

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1/25/2023

2024 ELECTION/STEVE BANNON/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former Trump White House strategist Stephen Bannon has said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) ‘sees herself on the short list’ to be named former President Trump’s running mate in his 2024 bid to retake the Oval Office… Greene’s name is among a number of people rumored to be under consideration, including […]

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1/24/2023

2024 ELECTION/NIKKI HALEY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Nikki Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under former President Donald Trump, has hired key staff and is canvassing potential donors as she explores a presidential run against her former boss in 2024, according to people briefed on her plans.” -Brian Schwartz and Kevin Breuninger, “Former Trump UN […]

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1/20/203

TAXES/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Donald Trump asked whether the tax fraud offenses which Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization’s longtime chief financial officer, was recently jailed for should even be considered a crime. In an early morning post on Truth Social on Friday, the former president described Weisselberg as a ‘casualty of the greatest Witch Hunt of […]

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1/19/2023

IVANKA/JARED KUSHNER/MIKE POMPEO/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In a new memoir peppered with broadsides at potential rivals in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, Mike Pompeo, the former secretary of state, accuses Nikki Haley of plotting with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump to be named vice-president, even while she served as Donald Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations. Describing […]

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1/4/2023

GOP/MITCH MCCONNELL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “If Republicans are going to fight, we ought to be fighting Mitch McConnell and his domineering, China loving BOSS, I mean wife, [omitted]. The harm they have done to the Republican Party is incalculable. Today, he couldn’t be elected ‘Dog Catcher’ in Kentucky (Sadly, he only won because of my Endorsement, went […]

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12/29/2022

MITCH MCCONNELL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and her husband, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, generally have stayed mum when former President Donald Trump slams them online, but on Thursday she responded after her ex-boss repeated a racist nickname he has used for her before. When asked about it during a televised interview […]

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12/21/2022

INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Cassidy Hutchinson gave some of the most damning testimony the Jan. 6 committee heard about former President Donald Trump. CNN reported on Tuesday [December 20, 2022] that a Trump-connected lawyer who had been representing the former Mark Meadows aide advised her to lie to the committee. The lawyer, Stefan Passantino, served as the […]

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12/20/2022

TRUMP PEOPLE: “Nick Luna, a former White House aide to President Donald Trump, told the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol that he witnessed Trump ‘tearing’ documents, according to audio files of Luna’s deposition that were obtained by CBS News… According to the Presidential Records Act, federal law requires […]

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12/19/2022

2020 ELECTION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former White House communications director Hope Hicks told the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, that she insisted to President Trump there was no evidence of election fraud. In testimony, Hicks said she was concerned Trump would damage his legacy, and he responded, ‘Nobody will care about […]

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12/12/2022

2020 ELECTION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was forced to hand over 2,319 text messages to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The trove of text messages were obtained by Talking Points Memo [TPM], which on Monday reported on the extent to which Meadows was communicating with members […]

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12/8/2022

2020 ELECTION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Sidney Powell and other conservative lawyers who sued to overturn President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in Michigan asked a U.S. appeals court on Thursday to overturn an order sanctioning them for pressing ‘frivolous’ election claims. During oral arguments that lasted more than two hours, the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals pressed […]

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11/29/2022

DOJ/LAWSUITS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A spate of major court rulings rejecting claims of executive privilege and other arguments by Donald Trump and his top allies are boosting investigations by the US justice department (DoJ) and a special Georgia grand jury into whether the former US president broke laws as he sought to overturn the 2020 election results. […]

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10/21/2022

CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS/TRUMP PEOPLE/STEVE BANNON: “Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon railed against the ‘Biden regime’ after being sentenced to four months in jail for contempt of Congress. Bannon, 68, was convicted in July on two counts – for refusing to provide either testimony or documents to a committee probing the 6 January 2021 riot at the […]

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10/14/2022

2020 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former president Donald Trump’s communications director recounted popping into the Oval Office roughly a week after the 2020 election to find a morose Trump watching TV: ‘Can you believe I lost to this f—ing guy?’ Trump lamented, referring to then-President-elect Joe Biden. A young aide to Trump’s former chief of staff […]

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10/4/2022

STEVE BANNON/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “Former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon will stand trial in November 2023, a judge in New York said Tuesday [October 4, 2022]. Bannon is charged with defrauding donors to the ‘We Build the Wall’ campaign, which was an independent effort intended to raise money for former President Donald Trump’s signature policy […]

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10/3/2022

SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Mike Lindell, a prominent ally of former President Donald Trump, must face a $1.3 billion lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems Inc accusing him of defamation for pushing false claims that its voting machines rigged the 2020 presidential election, with the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday [October 3, 2022] turning away his appeal. […]

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9/7/2022

NEW YORK/STEVE BANNON/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “Former United States President Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon has been indicted in a new criminal case in New York, and is expected to turn himself in on Thursday [September 8, 2022]… The Washington Post, citing people familiar with the situation, reported the indictment was expected to ‘mirror aspects’ of earlier […]

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8/18/2022

TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “One of Donald J. Trump’s most trusted executives pleaded guilty on Thursday to conspiring with Mr. Trump’s company to carry out a long-running tax scheme, an admission that painted a damning picture of the former president’s family business but did not advance a broader investigation into the man himself… Under the terms […]

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8/2/2022

2020 ELECTION/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Pat A. Cipollone, the White House counsel under former President Donald J. Trump who tried to stop some of his more extreme efforts to overturn the 2020 election, has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury investigating activities in the lead-up to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, a person familiar […]

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7/8/2022

ANDREW MCCABE/FBI/IRS/JAMES COMEY: “The New York Times… reported Wednesday [July 6, 2022] on James Comey and Andrew McCabe facing unusual IRS audits. It raised the prospect of Donald Trump engaging in Nixonian abuses: Both the former FBI director and his deputy drew the ire of the Republican president, and it seemed like it’d be an […]

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7/5/2022

GEORGIA/LINDSEY GRAHAM/RUDY GIULIANA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Seven advisers and allies of Donald J. Trump, including Rudolph W. Giuliani and Senator Lindsey Graham, were subpoenaed on Tuesday [July 5, 2022] in the ongoing criminal investigation in Georgia of election interference by Mr. Trump and his associates. The move was the latest sign that the inquiry has entangled a […]

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6/28/2022

TRUMP PEOPLE: “I hardly know who this person, Cassidy Hutchinson, is, other than I heard very negative things about her (a total phony and ‘leaker’), and when she requested to go with certain others of the team to Florida after my having served a full term in office, I personally turned her request down. Why did she want to go with […]

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6/27/2022

DOJ/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “John Eastman, the Trump-allied lawyer who wrote memos urging then-Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 election results, said in a court filing Monday that federal agents seized his phone last week… Eastman’s suit said that the federal agents at first refused to show him the warrant and that when they […]

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6/14/2022

2020 ELECTION/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rudy Giuliani denied Tuesday [June 14, 2022] that he was drunk when he urged former President Donald Trump to declare victory on election night as votes were still being counted, and said he was ‘disgusted’ by a Trump aide who’d testified otherwise before the Jan. 6 committee. ‘I REFUSED all alcohol […]

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6/10/2022

2020 ELECTION/DEMS/TRUMP PEOPLE/WILLIAM BARR: “Bill Barr was a weak and frightened Attorney General who was always being ‘played’ and threatened by the Democrats and was scared stiff of being Impeached. How do you not get impeached? Do nothing, or say nothing, especially about the obviously RIGGED & STOLEN Election or, to put it another way, THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY! The Democrats […]

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5/26/2022

SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP ADMIN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Scott Pruitt, while in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency during the Trump administration, repeatedly pressured his federal security officers to drive at excessive and sometimes dangerous speeds on routine trips, with sirens and emergency lights on, because he had a habit of running late, according to a federal report released […]

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5/8/2022

TRUMP PEOPLE: “Trump called [Mark] Esper’s claims [in his new book about being Defense Secretary under Trump] a ‘complete lie’ in a statement to 60 Minutes, saying that 10 witnesses would back him up. ‘Mark Esper was weak and totally ineffective, and because of it, I had to run the military. I took out ISIS, […]

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5/5/2022

MEXICO/PROTESTS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald J. Trump in 2020 asked Mark T. Esper, his defense secretary, about the possibility of launching missiles into Mexico to ‘destroy the drug labs’ and wipe out the cartels, maintaining that the United States’ involvement in a strike against its southern neighbor could be kept secret, Mr. Esper recounts in his […]

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5/3/2022

RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A top Trump political appointee delayed a report on Russian election interference in the 2020 election in a way that created the perception that intelligence was politicized, according to a new report by the Department of Homeland Security watchdog… The report also found that the appointee, acting Secretary Chad Wolf, who is […]

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4/27/2022

LAWSUIT/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former President Donald Trump denied under oath knowing anything about a 2015 scuffle his security guards had with protesters outside Trump Tower, but his former lawyer Michael Cohen said Trump ordered the confrontation, according to newly filed court papers… The protesters filed suit against Trump over the altercation, and the case was […]

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4/18/2022

2020 ELECTION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In the chaotic days following the 2020 US election, Donald Trump’s chief of staff received a flurry of text messages from one of the president’s most ardent and well-connected supporters. ‘Help this great president stand firm!’ Ginni Thomas texted Mark Meadows… ‘The majority knows Biden and the left [are] attempting the […]

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4/14/2022

2020 ELECTION/INVESTIGATIONS/STEPHEN MILLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former Trump White House adviser Stephen Miller on Thursday testified virtually for roughly eight hours before the House select committee investigating the US Capitol insurrection, a source familiar with the meeting told CNN… Miller is under subpoena by the committee and had resisted attempts to appear, including by suing to block […]

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4/8/2022

2020 ELECTION/DONALD JR/TRUMP FAMILY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Donald Trump Jr., former President Donald Trump’s eldest son, texted then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows ideas to overturn the 2020 results before most major news networks had called the election… ‘It’s very simple,’ Trump Jr. wrote in a text message to Meadows on November 5, 2020, two days […]

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3/24/2022

2020 ELECTION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in 2020 urged then-President Donald Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows to work to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory in a series of text messages sent shortly after the election, a person familiar with the investigation confirmed to NBC News… After […]

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3/23/2022

PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE/UKRAINE: “Former Trump adviser Paul Manafort was removed from a plane at Miami International Airport before it took off for Dubai because he carried a revoked passport, officials said Wednesday [March 23, 2022]… Manafort, 72, led former President Donald Trump’s campaign for several months during the 2016 presidential race but was ousted in […]

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3/6/2022

2020 ELECTION/TRUMP PEOPLE/VOTER FRAUD: “Mark Meadows, who was former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, may have committed voter fraud when he registered a 14-by-62-foot mobile home in Scaly Mountain, North Carolina, as his residential address. Meadows has never owned that property and there is absolutely no evidence to suggest he may have spent time […]

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1/18/2022

2020 ELECTION/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection issued subpoenas Tuesday to Rudy Giuliani and other members of Donald Trump’s legal team who filed bogus legal challenges to the 2020 election that fueled the lie that race had been stolen from the former president. The committee is continuing to widen its […]

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12/21/2021

2020 ELECTION/CONGRESS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Scott Perry, a Pennsylvania Republican and the first sitting member of Congress to be requested to provide documents and sit for an interview with the committee investigating the Capitol riot, said on Tuesday he would not comply with the panel… Perry’s refusal to appear sets up a potentially fraught battle if the […]

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12/17/2021

2020 ELECTION/INVESTIGATION/ROGER STONE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Roger Stone, longtime adviser to former President Donald Trump, appeared Friday before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, where he said he invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in response to every question asked of him… The committee on Nov. 22 subpoenaed Stone for records and […]

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12/13/2021

CONGRESS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot recommended that the House hold former President Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena… Meadows had handed over thousands of records, the committee said, before reversing course and refusing to cooperate, citing Trump’s assertion […]

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12/7/2021

CONGRESS/ROGER STONE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to former President Donald Trump, is refusing to be deposed or to hand over documents to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, his attorney said in a letter dated Monday [December 6, 2021]… Last month, the panel subpoenaed Stone and other Trump allies to […]

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12/7/2021

BRETT KAVANAUGH/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “During Brett Kavanaugh’s controversial 2018 Supreme Court confirmation hearings, President Donald Trump ‘strongly considered’ dropping the nominee and instead going with a ‘stronger candidate,’ according to a new book by Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows. It wasn’t because of accusations that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford while […]

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12/3/2021

2020 ELECTION/MICHIGAN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Nine lawyers allied with Donald Trump were ordered on Thursday to pay Detroit and Michigan a total of $175,000 in sanctions for abusing the court system with a sham lawsuit challenging the 2020 election results… Those sanctioned include Sidney Powell, L Lin Wood and seven other lawyers who were part of the […]

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11/22/2021

MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael Cohen, who was former President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer until his 2018 arrest, said Monday [November 22, 2021] that his three-year prison sentence — mostly spent in home confinement — was over… Cohen was sentenced to prison in December 2018 after pleading guilty to campaign finance charges and lying to […]

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11/17/2021

CHRIS CHRISTIE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie writes in his new memoir that former President Donald Trump believes Russian President Vladimir Putin is ‘just like him.’ Trump thought ‘that if he complimented Putin enthusiastically enough, the Russian president would behave,’ Christie writes… But Trump turned out to be wrong: his […]

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11/15/2021

TRUMP PEOPLE: “Heard that Alyssa Farah was terrible on The View—they could have asked the people who know her and saved a lot of time. She was a ‘backbencher’ in the White House, and is now a nobody again. We put her out there to face the public as little as possible. It’s amazing how […]

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11/12/2021

CONGRESS/STEVE BANNON/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon was indicted by a federal grand jury Friday, charged with contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions from the House Committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. The indictment is a first. No one has been prosecuted before for contempt of Congress when executive privilege was […]

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10/21/2021

CONGRESS/STEVE BANNON/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to hold Steve Bannon, one of former President Donald Trump’s closest allies, in criminal contempt of Congress after he defied a subpoena from the committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. The vote was 229-202.” -Clare Foran, Zachary Cohen, and Ryan Nobles, […]

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9/28/2021

LAWSUIT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former President Donald J. Trump has lost an effort to enforce a nondisclosure agreement against Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former White House aide and a star on ‘The Apprentice’ who wrote a tell-all book about serving in his administration… Mr. Trump’s campaign filed the case shortly after Ms. Manigault Newman published her book, […]

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9/28/2021

MELANIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Stephanie Grisham spent years at the side of the Trumps, serving as then-President Donald Trump’s press secretary and as chief of staff for first lady Melania Trump. She quit her job in protest after the January 6 US Capitol riot and has written a tell-all memoir of her time at the center of […]

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8/11/2021

2020 ELECTION/LAWSUIT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday [August 11, 2021] rejected requests from former Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell that he dismiss lawsuits from Dominion Voting Systems against the three… The ruling by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump nominee, swept […]

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7/20/2021

DOJ/TRUMP PEOPLE/UAE: “Tom Barrack, who chaired former President Donald Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee, was arrested Tuesday [July 20, 2021] on charges that he unlawfully influenced the foreign policy positions of the campaign and administration to advance the interests of the United Arab Emirates, the Department of Justice said… Barrack, a longtime Trump friend, used that […]

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7/11/2021

RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP PEOPLE: “But Rudy Giuliani… He is by far the greatest mayor of the city… But one of the great crime fighters of his generation has had his law license taken away by the radical left, all because he was fighting against an election result that he saw was corrupt. That means you can […]

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7/2/2021

2020 ELECTION/ARIZONA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “New records obtained by The Arizona Republic reveal the behind-the scenes efforts by Trump, his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, and state GOP Chair Kelli Ward to pressure the county supervisors, who make up the elected body that oversees elections in the state’s most populous county. Text messages and voicemails make clear that […]

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7/2/2021

LAWSUIT/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer and fixer for ex-President Donald Trump, has moved to sue the U.S. government for $20 million on a claim that he was illegally returned to prison last year in retaliation for planning to write a book about Trump.” -Dan Mangan, “Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen moves […]

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6/25/2021

2024 ELECTION/RUDY GIULIANI: “I’ll be making an announcement [about running for President in 2024] in the not too distant future. Right now, I’m helping a lot of people get into office, and we’re fighting the deep state, and we’re fighting radical left. They’re after me. They’re after Rudy… They’re after anybody. They’re vicious. They’re vicious, […]

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6/25/2021

2020 ELECTION/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Giuliani has been a hard-line Trump supporter since his presidential campaign in 2016. But the former New York mayor was catapulted into the spotlight in 2018 when he took over as Trump’s main defense attorney… On Thursday [June 24, 2021], a New York court suspended Giuliani from practicing law in the […]

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6/1/2021

MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael T. Flynn, a former national security adviser, suggested that a military coup was needed in the United States during a Memorial Day weekend conference organized by adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory, drawing criticism from political scientists, veterans, Democrats and a handful of prominent Republicans… Mr. Flynn — who suggested in […]

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5/17/2021

INVESTIGATIONS/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Lawyers for Rudy Giuliani cited communications he would have had with then-President Donald Trump in a letter to a judge attacking the legitimacy of a 2019 federal search warrant for an iCloud account belonging to the former New York City mayor… In 2019, Giuliani and other allies of Trump had sought damaging […]

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4/28/2021

RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP PEOPLE/UKRAINE: “Federal investigators in Manhattan executed search warrants early Wednesday at the home and office of Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who became President Donald J. Trump’s personal lawyer, stepping up a criminal investigation into Mr. Giuliani’s dealings in Ukraine, three people with knowledge of the investigation said… The […]

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4/23/2021

2020 ELECTION/ARIZONA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The state Senate-ordered recount of Maricopa County ballots begins Friday in the midst of heated disputes over lack of transparency and a fresh legal challenge. It was unclear, for example, who actually would be counting the ballots, who beyond Arizona taxpayers was paying for the audit and why news reporters weren’t allowed […]

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4/9/2021

CORONAVIRUS/HHS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Trump appointees in the Health and Human Services department last year privately touted their efforts to block or alter scientists’ reports on the coronavirus to more closely align with then-President Donald Trump’s more optimistic messages about the outbreak, according to newly released documents from congressional investigators. The documents provide further insight into how […]

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3/29/2021

ANTHONY FAUCI/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Dr. Birx is a proven liar with very little credibility left. Many of her [coronavirus] recommendations were viewed as ‘pseudo-science,’ and Dr. Fauci would always talk negatively about her and, in fact, would ask not to be in the same room with her. The States who followed her lead, like California, had […]

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3/29/2021

ANTHONY FAUCI/CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Based on their interviews, I felt it was time to speak up about Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx, two self-promoters trying to reinvent history to cover for their bad instincts and faulty recommendations, which I fortunately almost always overturned. They had bad [coronavirus] policy decisions that would have left our country open […]

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3/28/2021

CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP ADMIN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator in the Trump administration… said the Trump administration could have prevented hundreds of thousands of Covid-19 deaths had it acted more forcefully to mitigate the pandemic. ‘I look at it this way: The first time, we have an excuse. There were about 100,000 […]

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3/27/2021

MICK MULVANEY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Mick Mulvaney, who stepped down as Trump’s special envoy to Northern Ireland after the insurrection, called Trump’s comments that his supporters were ‘hugging and kissing’ police officers and posed ‘zero threat,’ despite widespread violence, ‘manifestly false.’ […] ‘It’s not right to say there was no risk, I don’t know how you can […]

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3/16/2021

2020 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP PEOPLE/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia authorized extensive efforts to hurt the candidacy of Joseph R. Biden Jr. during the election last year, including by mounting covert operations to influence people close to President Donald J. Trump, according to a declassified intelligence report released on Tuesday [Mar. 16, 2021]. […]

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2/17/2021

2020 ELECTION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “[Rush Limbaugh] was with us in the last election, he felt, like a lot of the people at your network [OAN] feel, that the election was stolen, it was robbed, we were robbed, it was a rigged election… He fought very hard to make it through the election. He was very disappointed […]

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