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 […]
Category: Legal
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
7/17/2023
2020 ELECTION/GEORGIA/INVESTIGATIONS/LEGAL: “The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a long shot legal bid from former President Donald Trump to essentially shut down the Fulton County criminal probe into his attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in Georgia. The court said in a five-page opinion that Trump hadn’t demonstrated the ‘extraordinary circumstances’ that would […]
7/13/2023
DOJ/LEGAL: “The Justice Department urged a judge Thursday to reject Donald Trump’s efforts to postpone his classified documents trial, saying there was no basis for an ‘open-ended’ delay sought by the former president’s lawyers. Federal prosecutors last month proposed a Dec. 11 trial for Trump, who is charged with 37 felony counts related to the […]
6/28/2023
2024 ELECTION/LEGAL: “IF I WASN’T RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT [in the 2024 election], OR IF I WAS LOSING BADLY IN THE POLLS (I AM WINNING BY RECORD NUMBERS, & AGAINST BIDEN ALSO!), I WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN FAKE INDICTED. LIKEWISE, IF THE VERY CORRUPT DEMOCRATS TRULY WANTED TO RUN AGAINST ME, I WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN INDICTED. […]
6/26/2023
INVESTIGATION/LEGAL: “A federal judge on Monday [June 26, 2023] rejected a request from special counsel Jack Smith to keep secret a list of 84 potential witnesses in the prosecution of former President Donald Trump over his handling of classified documents. Federal prosecutors had asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, to keep under […]
6/19/2023
LEGAL: “NOTHING ABOUT THE WITCH HUNT CASES BEING BROUGHT AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH LEGAL MERIT, ONLY WHERE THE CASE COULD BE TRIED BY UNFAIR COURTS AND MAXIMUM PUBLICITY. ELECTION INTERFERENCE!” -Donald Trump, Truth Social, June 19, 2023 […]
6/14/2023
2024 ELECTION/CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/LEGAL: “Former President Donald Trump’s 2024 White House campaign said on Wednesday he had raised $7 million since being indicted on federal charges last week [related to classified documents], as his message of political persecution continues to resonate with die-hard supporters… He has sought to frame the charges as a Democratic-led attack to […]
6/14/2023
CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/LEGAL: “Former President Donald Trump appeared somber and quiet in a Miami courtroom, hands clasped and leaning back in his chair at times, speaking aloud only to utter the words ‘not guilty’ to 37 federal counts stemming from his handling of classified documents. Astoundingly, it was the second time in three months that Trump […]
6/1/2023
LEGAL: “Donald Trump’s legal team for months has weathered deep distrust and interpersonal conflict that could undermine its defense of the former president as the criminal investigation into his handling of classified documents and obstruction of justice at Mar-a-Lago nears its conclusion. The turmoil inside the legal team only exploded into public view when one […]
5/23/2023
2024 ELECTION/LEGAL: “Just had New York County Supreme Court hearing where I believe my First Amendment Rights, ‘Freedom of Speech,’ have been violated, and they forced upon us a trial date of March 25th, right in the middle of Primary season. Very unfair, but this is exactly what the Radical Left Democrats wanted. It’s called […]
5/23/2023
2024 ELECTION/LEGAL: “Donald Trump will face a criminal trial in New York on March 25, 2024, a judge said on Tuesday [May 23, 2023], meaning the former U.S. President will be on trial as his campaign for the 2024 Republican nomination is in full swing. Trump, who is charged with falsifying business records to conceal […]
5/8/2023
LEGAL/NEW YORK/SOCIAL MEDIA: “The New York state judge presiding over the criminal hush money case against Donald Trump issued an order Monday restricting the former president from posting about some evidence in the case on social media. Judge Juan Merchan largely sided with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg by limiting what Trump can publicly disclose […]
5/1/2023
LEGAL: “Lawyers for Donald J. Trump on Monday [May 1, 2023] pushed back against an effort by the Manhattan district attorney’s office to limit the former president’s ability to publicly discuss evidence in the criminal case against him. The district attorney’s office last week asked the judge in the case to restrict Mr. Trump’s access […]
4/30/2023
LEGAL/NEW YORK: “This Article, as written in The Wall Street Journal, is a truthful and very important one. The whole New York Judicial System is RIGGED against me, and everyone knows it. It’s a disgrace, and not only this Judge, there are others that are just as bad or, believe it or not, worse! It’s […]
4/19/2023
GEORGIA/LEGAL: “The Fulton County District Attorney’s office said some fake electors for Donald Trump have implicated each other in potential criminal activity and is seeking to disqualify their lawyer, according to a new court filing. The district attorney’s office is requesting that attorney Kimberly Bourroughs Debrow be disqualified from representing a group of 10 Republicans […]
4/12/2023
LEGAL: “Trump claimed during a sit-down interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson that Manhattan court workers cried during his arrest and apologized to him. ‘They were incredible,’ Trump said in the interview that aired Tuesday [April 11, 2023]. ‘When I went to the courthouse which is also a prison in a sense, they signed […]
2/21/2023
LEGAL/PAC: “Former President Donald J. Trump, who throughout his business career had a reputation for not paying lawyers, spent roughly $10 million from his political action committee on his own legal fees last year, federal election filings show. The money that went to Mr. Trump’s legal bills was part of more than $16 million that […]
7/28/2022
LEGAL: “Former President Donald Trump is claiming ‘absolute immunity’ in all civil suits pertaining to the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Trump’s preliminary statement to the court has been released, in which the former president’s legal team dismisses the possibility of civil suits against Trump entirely, citing presidential immunity. ‘This appeal requires the adjudication of a […]
7/28/2022
2022 MIDTERMS/2024 ELECTION/GOP/LEGAL: “The Republican National Convention would stop paying for former President Donald Trump’s legal expenses if he announces he’s running for president in 2024, according to a Thursday report. The RNC is currently bankrolling several legal cases for Trump, including personal lawsuits and government investigations into him. That flow of cash would end […]
6/30/2022
INVESTIGATIONS/LEGAL: “Former President Donald J. Trump’s political organization and his allies have paid for or promised to finance the legal fees of more than a dozen witnesses called in the congressional investigation into the Jan. 6 attack, raising legal and ethical questions about whether the former president may be influencing testimony with a direct bearing […]
9/21/2020
LEGAL/TRUMP TAXES: “The Manhattan district attorney’s office, which has been locked in a yearlong legal battle with President Trump over obtaining his tax returns, suggested for the first time in a court filing on Monday that it had grounds to investigate him and his businesses for tax fraud… [P]rosecutors listed news reports and public testimony […]
9/14/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/DEMS/LEGAL/PENNSYLVANIA/SHUTDOWN/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTER FRAUD/VOTING: “Next up, the Ballot Hoax! RT @marklevinshow Federal judge slaps down PA’s crackpot Democrat governor’s radical shutdown orders“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 14, 2020 10:58 am […]
9/14/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/LEGAL/PENNSYLVANIA/SHUTDOWN/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTER FRAUD/VOTING: “Congratulations Pennsylvania. Now we await the decision on the Rigged Ballot Scam, which is so bad for our Country! RT @hollandcourtney BREAKING A Trump appointed federal judge just ruled that Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s (D) & Secretary of Health Rachel Levine’s (D) coronavirus orders, which shut down the state, closed businesses […]
9/1/2020
LEGAL/TRUMP TAXES: “A federal appeals court on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Manhattan district attorney from getting access to President Donald Trump’s tax returns… The appeals court granted the stay so it can consider Trump’s argument that a subpoena for the documents is overbroad and was issued in bad faith… In July, the Supreme Court rejected […]
8/3/2020
DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP BUSINESS: [Reporter: “[I]n New York today, the city prosecutor, sort of, confirmed a criminal investigation into the Trump Organization. Do you have any reaction to that?”] “This is just a continuation of the witch hunt. It’s Democrat stuff. They failed with Mueller. They failed with everything. They failed with Congress. They failed at […]
7/16/2020
BERNIE SANDERS/COURTS/CRIME/JOE BIDEN: “The Biden-Bernie plan would also use the weapon of federal regulation to tie the hands of our police departments by abolishing cash bail — think of that. Think of that: bail. ‘No problem. They killed somebody? Let them out…’ So by getting rid of bail, they are incentivizing jail and prison closures […]
6/17/2020
COURTS/LEGAL/NOMINATIONS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We’re going to have potentially close to 300 judges including DC it’ll be close to 300. Nobody’s close. They’re all conservative, highly respected judges. They’re going to be there for many years. They’re all young. They’re all conservative. They’re all very smart. And they’re getting great reviews. If I did nothing […]
3/15/2020
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Great Job by Judicial Watch. Potentially a treasure trove. Too bad you are not given more help, but it will all work out! https://t.co/rTYq9YCj2Q“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 15, 2020 9:58 am […]
2/21/2020
LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “’She should never have been on that jury. Everything about this stinks.’ @JudgeJeanine @seanhannity @FoxNews” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 21, 2020 1:20 am […]
2/18/2020
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…..would order a new trial, I’m not so sure about Judge Jackson, I don’t know.’ @Judgenap (Andrew Napolitano) @foxandfriends” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 18, 2020 10:31 am […]
2/18/2020
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Judge Jackson now has a request for a new trial based on the unambiguous & self outed bias of the foreperson of the jury, whose also a lawyer, by the way. ‘Madam foreperson, you’re a lawyer, you have a duty, an affirmative obligation, to reveal to us when we selected you the….” […]
2/18/2020
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Judge Jackson now has a request for a new trial based on the unambiguous & self outed bias of the foreperson of the jury, whose also a lawyer, by the way. ‘Madam foreperson, you’re a lawyer, you have a duty, an affirmative obligation, to reveal to us when we selected you the….” […]
2/18/2020
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Judge Jackson now has a request for a new trial based on the unambiguous & self outed bias of the foreperson of the jury, whose also a lawyer, by the way. ‘Madam foreperson, your a lawyer, you have a duty, an affirmative obligation, to reveal to us when we selected you the…..” […]
2/18/2020
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…..would order a new trial, I’m not so sure about Judge Jackson, I don’t know.’ @Judgenap (Andrew Napolitano) @foxandfriends” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 18, 2020 7:58 am […]
2/14/2020
ANDREW MCCABE/FBI/INVESTIGATIONS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Andrew G. McCabe, the former deputy F.B.I. director and a frequent target of President Trump’s, will not face charges in an investigation into whether he lied to investigators about a media leak, his defense team said on Friday [2-14-20]. The decision by prosecutors in Washington ends a case that had left […]
2/14/2020
ATTORNEY GENERAL/LEGAL/ROGER STONE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “US President Donald Trump has tweeted he has ‘the legal right’ to intervene in criminal cases after his attorney general complained White House tweets were making his job ‘impossible’. In his post, Mr Trump also denied he had ever meddled in any cases. America’s top law officer William Barr on […]
2/12/2020
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/ROGER STONE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s post-impeachment acquittal behavior is casting a chill in Washington, with Attorney General William Barr emerging as a key ally in the president’s quest for vengeance against the law enforcement and national security establishment that initiated the Russia and Ukraine investigations. In perhaps the most tumultuous day […]
2/12/2020
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/ROGER STONE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A key witness in Roger Stone’s trial is defending the quartet of prosecutors who withdrew from the federal case against the controversial Republican operative, accusing President Donald Trump of targeting the attorneys with a ‘vile smear job’…Credico’s social media post came after the Justice Department on Tuesday backed off a […]
2/11/2020
CORRUPTION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Prosecutorial Misconduct? https://t.co/ignPtwRQUG“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 11, 2020 10:58 pm […]
2/11/2020
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Who are the four prosecutors (Mueller people?) who cut and ran after being exposed for recommending a ridiculous 9 year prison sentence to a man that got caught up in an investigation that was illegal, the Mueller Scam, and shouldn’t ever even have started? 13 Angry Democrats?” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
2/11/2020
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/ROGER STONE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Four prosecutors abruptly withdrew on Tuesday [2-11-20] from the case of President Trump’s longtime friend Roger J. Stone Jr. after senior Justice Department officials intervened to recommend a more lenient sentence for crimes he committed in a bid to protect the president. In an extraordinary decision overruling career lawyers, the […]
2/11/2020
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “This is a horrible and very unfair situation. The real crimes were on the other side, as nothing happens to them. Cannot allow this miscarriage of justice! https://t.co/rHPfYX6Vbv“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 11, 2020 1:48 am […]
1/6/2020
LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @ByronYork: The White House can assert executive privilege. It’s not Bolton’s privilege; it’s the president’s. If executive privilege co…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 6, 2020 9:54 pm […]
12/31/2019
IMPEACHMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…on 51 votes, which is procedural. You don’t need two thirds.’ Brad Blakeman @FoxNews A great lawyer & person. Thank you Brad!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 31, 2019 2:41 pm […]
12/16/2019
GOP/INVESTIGATIONS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Twenty former Republican lawmakers, officials and legal experts are urging a federal appeals court to reject President Donald Trump’s claim that his former White House counsel, Don McGahn, can ignore a House subpoena. The slate of prominent GOP figures is arguing that the country’s founders did not intend for presidents and […]
12/13/2019
FBI/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’The FBI declares in a court filing that it has absolutely no records of disciplinary action against any lawyers in Russia Fisa Case despite 17 acts of misconduct. There is nothing noble about their leadership. FISA Court appears to be either corrupt or incompetent.’ @LouDobbs” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 13, 2019 9:13 […]
12/12/2019
DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Call them the Democrats’ impeachment squad. Over the past year, House Democrats have tapped a font of outside legal experts to essentially manage the weighty, historic task of investigating, litigating — and now impeaching — President Donald Trump. Most of them were brought on to investigate Trump’s political and financial ties to […]
12/12/2019
LEGAL/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @RudyGiuliani: Yet another example of the Double Standard which pervades our media and infects and intimidates enforcement of our laws.…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 12, 2019 9:04 am […]
12/12/2019
IRAN/LEGAL/PRISONER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal prosecutors have dropped criminal charges against two more individuals linked to a prisoner swap with Iran announced by the Trump administration on Saturday. An Atlanta-based federal judge on Wednesday [12-11-91] dismissed the sanctions-violation cases against scientists Mahboobe Ghaedi and Maryam Jazayeri. Both women were co-defendants in the prosecution of Masoud Soleimani, […]
12/11/2019
IMPEACHMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @JennaEllisEsq: This is a joke. In the real legal world, opposing parties would have at least 10 days (plus requests for extensions) for…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 11, 2019 9:20 am […]
12/10/2019
CORRUPTION/LEGAL/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Trump has paid $2 million to eight charities as part of a settlement in which the president admitted he misused funds raised by the Donald J. Trump Foundation to promote his presidential bid and pay off business debts, the New York State attorney general said on Tuesday [12-10-19]. The foundation’s giving patterns […]
12/10/2019
COURTS/DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge on Tuesday [12-10-19] heard final arguments in a case brought by Charles M. Kupperman, President Trump’s former deputy national security adviser, who asked for clarity from a federal court about whether he must testify to Congress amid a constitutional clash between House investigators and the White House. During the […]
12/6/2019
IMPEACHMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “More than 500 legal scholars signed on to a letter published Friday [12-6-19] accusing President Donald Trump of having ‘engaged in impeachable conduct’ in his dealings in Ukraine. ‘There is overwhelming evidence that President Trump betrayed his oath of office by seeking to use presidential power to pressure a foreign government to […]
12/4/2019
IMPEACHMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When Corey Lewandowski showed up to testify this summer during an early impeachment hearing, the former Trump campaign manager had two top White House lawyers hovering over his shoulder the whole time. They whispered in his lawyer’s ear. They strategized with Republicans during breaks. In short, the White House was omnipresent. […]
12/2/2019
IMPEACHMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Lawyers for President Trump said on Sunday [12-1-19] that they would not participate in the House Judiciary Committee’s first public impeachment hearing on Wednesday [12-3-19], airing a long list of complaints that they said prevented ‘any semblance of a fair process.’ Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York and the chairman […]
11/29/2019
IMPEACHMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A U.S. congressional panel on Friday [11-29-19] gave President Donald Trump one week to say whether his legal counsel intends to introduce evidence and call witnesses in upcoming impeachment proceedings that could lead to formal charges of misconduct within a few weeks. The Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee, which is due to begin […]
11/27/2019
COURTS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Critics of President Trump cheered on Monday [12-25-19] when a federal judge ruled that the former White House counsel Donald F. McGahn II must testify to Congress — and scathingly labeled ‘fiction’ the administration’s arguments that top White House aides are immune from congressional subpoenas. Indeed, the outcome was the latest […]
11/27/2019
IMPEACHMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House is reviewing an invitation from House Democrats for President Trump’s legal team to participate in the first Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing next week, even as his lawyers privately question whether to engage with a proceeding his administration branded ‘an illegitimate sham partisan process’ to drive Mr. Trump from […]
11/22/2019
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/NEW YORK/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP TAXES: “The U.S. Justice Department on Friday [11-22-19] backed President Donald Trump in his fight at the Supreme Court to prevent his tax returns from being disclosed to a New York prosecutor. The court filing by Solicitor General Noel Francisco comes a week after Trump filed an appeal in […]
11/22/2019
LEGAL/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WAR: “U.S. Navy Secretary Richard Spencer said on Friday [11-22-19] a Navy SEAL convicted of battlefield misconduct should face a board of peers weighing whether to oust him from the elite force, despite President Donald Trump’s assertion that he not be expelled…A military jury in July convicted Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher of […]
11/21/2019
DEMS/LEGAL/NEW YORK/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP TAXES: “House Democrats and Manhattan’s top prosecutor told the Supreme Court Thursday [11-21-19] that President Donald Trump’s arguments to shield his tax returns and financial records are weak, and not deserving of the justices’ intervention. The Democrats said they should be allowed to enforce their demands for Trump’s financial records from his […]
11/15/2019
DEMS/LEGAL/ROGER STONE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So they now convict Roger Stone of lying and want to jail him for many years to come. Well, what about Crooked Hillary, Comey, Strzok, Page, McCabe, Brennan, Clapper, Shifty Schiff, Ohr & Nellie, Steele & all of the others, including even Mueller himself? Didn’t they lie?….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November […]
11/15/2019
INVESTIGATIONS/LEGAL/ROGER STONE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “For decades, Roger J. Stone Jr. played politics as a kind of performance art, starring himself as a professional lord of mischief, as a friend once called him. He tossed bombs and spun tales from the political periphery with no real reckoning, burnishing a reputation as a dirty trickster. On Friday [11-15-19] […]
11/13/2019
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/ROGER STONE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Focusing squarely on his ties to President Trump, federal prosecutors argued Wednesday [11-13-19] that Roger J. Stone Jr. blatantly obstructed a congressional investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election because the truth ‘would look really bad’ for Mr. Trump. In closing arguments in Mr. Stone’s obstruction of justice […]
11/11/2019
BRITAIN/LEGAL/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The grieving family of the British teenager who was killed in a motorcycle crash involving a US diplomat’s wife has criticized both the US and UK governments for their handling of the incident, accusing the Trump administration of abusing its power. In an interview with CNN’s Hala Gorani, family spokesperson Radd […]
11/11/2019
CONGRESS/LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP TAXES: “A Trump-appointed federal judge decided Monday [11-11-19] that President Donald Trump can’t sue New York state officials in a Washington, DC, court at this time to stop the release of his tax returns to Congress. The case is one of many where the President or his administration have asked federal judges to […]
10/29/2019
DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump’s lawyers would be allowed to present a formal defense of him and cross-examine witnesses once the House Judiciary Committee begins debate over whether to impeach him, under proposed rules House Democrats unveiled on Tuesday to begin the next, more public phase of their inquiry. A vote on the rules […]
10/23/2019
CORRUPTION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/LOBBYING/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A venture capitalist who donated $900,000 to President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee is admitting to several charges, including hiding his work as foreign agent while lobbying U.S. government officials and making illegal campaign contributions, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday [10-22-19]. Imaad Shah Zuberi, who ran a venture capital firm called Avenue Ventures, solicited money […]
10/23/2019
CAMPAIGN FINANCE/IMPEACHMENT/LEGAL/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Two foreign-born Florida businessmen who helped U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, investigate political rival Joe Biden pleaded not guilty on Wednesday [10-23-19] to illegally funneling money to a pro-Trump election committee and other politicians. Ukraine-born Lev Parnas and Belarus-born Igor Fruman entered their not guilty pleas […]
10/10/2019
DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For a president steeped in marketing and branding, impeachment offers new terrain on which to run the Trump playbook of defining an issue, waging war and then never backing down. And the White House’s new strategy of treating impeachment primarily as a political argument puts President Donald Trump directly into his comfort […]
10/9/2019
GOP/INVESTIGATIONS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Trey Gowdy, the former South Carolina congressman who led the committee that investigated the terrorist attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, will join President Trump’s legal team as an outside adviser. The move — which had been widely anticipated — was announced Wednesday [10-9-19] […]
9/23/2019
LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP TAXES: “The Manhattan district attorney’s office on Monday [9-23-19] accused President Trump and his lawyers of trying to invent a “new presidential ‘tax return’ privilege’ by arguing that Mr. Trump should not have to comply with a subpoena seeking eight years of his personal and corporate returns. The district attorney’s office used the […]
9/19/2019
DEMS/INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WHISTLEBLOWER: “For years, lawmakers have argued that intelligence personnel concerned about government actions — like Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning — should go through formal whistleblower channels instead of illegally leaking government secrets. But now, an unprecedented standoff between Congress and the Trump administration over a staffer who did go through the formal […]
9/16/2019
LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP TAXES: “State prosecutors in Manhattan have subpoenaed President Trump’s accounting firm to demand eight years of his personal and corporate tax returns, according to several people with knowledge of the matter. The subpoena opens a new front in a wide-ranging effort to obtain copies of the president’s tax returns, which Mr. Trump initially […]
8/8/2019
LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rod Blagojevich, the former Governor of Illinois, was sentenced to 14 years in prison. He has served 7 years. Many people have asked that I study the possibility of commuting his sentence in that it was a very severe one. White House staff is continuing the review of this matter.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
8/7/2019
HOUSE OF REPS/IMPEACHMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The House Judiciary Committee sued on Wednesday [8-7-19] to force the former White House counsel Donald F. McGahn II to testify before Congress, asking a federal judge to strike down the Trump administration’s claim that top presidential aides are ‘absolutely immune’ from its subpoenas. In a filing in the […]
8/5/2019
LEGAL/TERRORISM/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Cesar A. Sayoc Jr., the fervent supporter of President Trump who rattled the nation last fall when he sent homemade pipe bombs to former President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other prominent Democrats, was sentenced on Monday [8-5-19] to 20 years in prison. Mr. Sayoc pleaded guilty in March to mailing 16 bombs […]
8/2/2019
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rick Gates, one of the most significant cooperators of the Mueller investigation, is poised to testify publicly against two of his former associates and potentially speak about the Trump campaign’s interest in WikiLeaks and the Russian hack of the Democrats in 2016 before he is sentenced in the coming months. Prosecutors […]
8/1/2019
LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP BUSINESS/WOMEN: “The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office sent subpoenas to the Trump Organization and American Media Inc. on Thursday as part of an investigation into the hush money paid to two women who alleged affairs with President Donald Trump. The subpoena to the Trump Organization is seeking communications between the company and representatives for […]
8/1/2019
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Roger Stone has lost his attempts to get rid of his criminal charges, but will get access to some unredacted parts of the Mueller report as he prepares for his trial. Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the US District Court in Washington, DC, declined on Thursday to throw out any part […]
8/1/2019
LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP TAXES: “A federal judge in Washington presiding over a case involving President Donald Trump’s state tax returns said today that he will hear a bid to move the case to New York. District Court Judge Carl Nichols said he agreed to a proposal by New York state to allow it to challenge his […]
8/1/2019
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘A string of court cases that have been run through the legal system that have hit DEAD ENDS….’ @BillHemmer @AmericaNewsroom https://t.co/lQ7tgKWM9u” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 1, 2019 10:55 am […]
8/1/2019
LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP BUSINESS/WOMEN: “State prosecutors in Manhattan subpoenaed President Trump’s family business on Thursday [8-1-19], reviving an investigation into the company’s role in hush-money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to people briefed on the matter. The subpoena, issued by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, demanded the Trump Organization provide documents related to […]
7/31/2019
CRIME/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Plans by President Donald Trump’s administration to resume executions of inmates sentenced to death for federal crimes is set to face a stiff court challenge, but a judge’s decision on the legality of its new protocol for lethal injections may come too late for five men scheduled to die starting in […]
7/31/2019
LEGAL/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WAR: “President Trump intervened Tuesday [7-30-19] once again on behalf of a Navy SEAL who was charged but acquitted of war crimes in the death of a captured Islamic State fighter in Iraq, ordering the military to punish the prosecutors who tried the case in the first place. Mr. Trump angrily lashed out […]
7/30/2019
CALIFORNIA/ELECTION/LEGAL/TRUMP TAXES: “President Donald Trump’s lawyers immediately signaled today they will challenge a California law requiring Trump to disclose his tax returns if he wants to appear on primary ballots in the state…A challenge seemed all but inevitable given Trump’s legal moves to stymie House Democrats and New York officials who are also seeking the […]
7/24/2019
LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP TAXES: “President Donald Trump’s attorneys asked a federal judge Wednesday [7-24-19] to issue a temporary restraining order to prevent the House’s top tax writer from asking New York officials to turn over the president’s state tax returns. Trump filed suit in the District of Columbia on Tuesday to keep House Ways and Means […]
7/23/2019
CAMPAIGN/CRIME/LEGAL/LOBBYING/MICHAEL FLYNN/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal jury on Tuesday [7-22-19] convicted Bijan Rafiekian, a former business partner of Michael Flynn, on a pair of foreign-agent felony charges stemming from work the two men did for Turkish interests during the final months of the Trump presidential campaign in 2016. The verdicts, returned by jurors in Alexandria, […]
7/18/2019
INVESTIGATIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Federal prosecutors’ decision to end an investigation into hush money payments to women claiming affairs with Donald Trump relied at least in part on long-standing Justice Department policy that a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday [7-18-19]. The Justice Department told a federal […]
7/16/2019
LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Gen. Michael Flynn’s former lawyer testified Tuesday [7-16-19] that Flynn’s business partner was upset by the decision to submit a foreign-agent filing for their Turkey-related work and even began talking about a heart condition when told of the plan to make the disclosure. Prosecutors called ex-Flynn attorney Robert Kelner as a […]
7/9/2019
CABINET/LABOR/LEGAL/SEX ABUSE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump said Tuesday [7-9-19] that he feels ‘very badly’ for Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, as the embattled Cabinet official faces an onslaught of calls by Democratic lawmakers to resign for his role in brokering financier Jeffrey Epstein’s 2008 plea deal on sex abuse charges…Last year, former press secretary […]