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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

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

-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

7/25/2023

INVESTIGATIONS/JOE BIDEN: “So far this ‘prosecutor,’ Jack Smith(?), handpicked by Biden, Merrick Garland, and rabid Trump Hater, Lisa Monaco, has spent more than $28 Million TARGETING me. When you add the Mueller Witch Hunt, it’s over $100 Million. Almost nothing has been spent on Crooked Joe Biden, by far the most corrupt President in the History of the United States. There is no longer ‘Justice’ in the U.S.A., it’s all about persecuting your political opponent, me. But we will WIN, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 25, 2023

7/24/2023

GOP/JOE BIDEN: “Joe Biden is the most corrupt President in the history of the United States, which is being undeniably proven in the House of Representatives every single day. But with all of these horrible revelations and facts, why hasn’t Republican ‘leadership’ in the Senate spoken up and rebuked Crooked Joe Biden and the Radical Left Democrats, Fascists, and Marxists for their criminal acts against our Country, some of them against me. How long does America have to wait for the Senate to ACT?”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 24, 2023

7/23/2023

MEDIA: “Tremendous Media Censorship going on in the USA. What they don’t cover is almost as bad as how dishonestly they do cover events, people, and ‘things.’ This is a very DARK TIME IN AMERICA!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 23, 2023

7/23/2023

INVESTIGATIONS/ROBERT MUELLER: “Just think of it! Between Mueller, Deranged Jack Smith, and Congressional Committees, over 100 Million Dollars has been spent investigating me since I came down the escalator in Trump Tower. Biden is a criminal, and almost no money, by comparison, has been spent investigating him. Get smart, Republicans, they are trying to steal the Election from you!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 23, 2023

7/23/2023

INVESTIGATIONS/MEDIA/RUSSIA: “Every time you see these Radical Lunatics and their partners in the Fake News Media talking about the ‘Trials and Tribulations’ of President Donald J. Trump, please remember that it is all a coordinated HOAX, just like Russia, Russia, Russia, the ‘No Collusion’ Mueller Witch Hunt, the Fake Dossier, FISA Fraud, and all of the rest, in order to STEAL ANOTHER ELECTION through PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT at levels never seen before in the U.S. Deranged Jack Smith has already spent over $25,000,000!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 23, 2023

7/21/2023

CHILDREN: “STOPPING CHILD TRAFFICKING #AGENDA47”
-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 21, 2023

7/21/2023

MEDIA/RON DESANTIS: “Fox is down 58%, at least, all because they don’t treat ‘TRUMP’ and ‘MAGA’ well. They are focused on someone who can’t win, Ron DeSanctimonious, who will never be able to bring it home. The only reason DeSanctus won in Florida is because I Endorsed him, and Campaigned for him—He would have lost by 40 points. The sadder part is, he TOTALLY forgot! He also forgot he wanted to close down Social Security, Ethanol, and obliterate Medicare…

…Fox is gone, just like in 2016, and the only way they come back is if they go ‘ALL TRUMP ALL THE TIME.’ Our people have had it! MAGA and America First are stronger than ever before, but we want and deserve support like the Radical Left Democrat Fascists get from so many sources, including the Fake News Media and Law Enforcement. Bring back Fox, before it’s too late!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 21, 2023

7/19/2023

2024 ELECTION/DEMS: “THE DEMOCRAT PROSECUTORS WAITED YEARS TO BRING CHARGES SO THAT THEY COULD INTERFERE WITH THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. THEY ARE GETTING, HOWEVER, BIG BLOWBACK!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 19, 2023

7/17/2023

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/JOE BIDEN: “IF I’M BEING PROSECUTED OVER DOCUMENTS, AND I SHOULDN’T BE IN THAT I COME UNDER THE PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ACT, WHY IS JOE BIDEN NOT BEING PROSECUTED??? HE WAS EGREGIOUS!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 17, 2023

7/17/2023

UKRAINE/RUSSIA: “Months after claiming he could end Russia’s war on Ukraine in 24 hours, former president Donald Trump has finally offered an explanation for why he thinks it’d be so simple for him…

‘I know Zelensky very well, I know Putin very well—even better—and I had a very good relationship with both of them,’ he said.

He said he would tell Mr Zelensky: ‘No more, you gotta make a deal,’ and Mr Putin: ‘If you don’t make a deal, we’re gonna give them a lot. We’re gonna give more than they ever got.’”

-Kelly Rissman, “Trump finally reveals how he thinks he could end Russia’s war in Ukraine in a day,” independent.co.uk, July 17, 2023

7/17/2023

2024 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN FINANCE: “A wave of big-dollar Wall Street donors are putting their money against former President Trump in the Republican presidential primary, according to Federal Elections Commission reports covering the past three months.

The donors have made significant contributions to Trump’s opponents, namely Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. Dozens of Wall Street executives have given the maximum primary donation of $3,300, or the election cycle maximum of $6,600, to Trump’s opponents, according to an analysis by NBC.”

-Anders Hagstrom, “Wave of Wall Street donors bet against Donald Trump in GOP primary,” foxnews.com, July 17, 2023

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 require their intervention at this time. Trump had asked the Georgia justices to throw out the wide array of evidence collected so far in the Fulton County investigation and to block state prosecutors from ever using that material in any future criminal or civil proceedings.”

-Marshall Cohen, “Georgia Supreme Court dismisses Trump bid to shut down Fulton County probe,” cnn.com, July 17, 2023

7/17/2023

JOE BIDEN: “Former President Donald Trump says a lot of things on his social media site, many of them recycled bits from past speeches or interviews.

But since cocaine was found in an area of the White House trafficked by visitors, Trump has oddly and repeatedly made a new claim — that President Joe Biden has used or currently uses cocaine, even though there’s no evidence Biden, who’s held federal office almost continuously since 1973, has ever touched the stuff.

And Trump didn’t just make the claim once — he’s made it at least four times on his social media site, Truth Social, and at least once in an interview.”

-Jonathan Nicholson, “Donald Trump Is Calling Joe Biden A ‘Crackhead.’ Republicans Are Just Sighing.,” news.yahoo.com, July 17, 2023

7/17/2023

2024 ELECTION: “Donald Trump is considering his Republican 2024 rivals as potential running mates should he win the GOP nomination.

The former president told Fox News on Sunday that his running mate could ‘possibly’ be among those in the 2024 field.

He said that Vivek Ramaswamy has ‘done a very good job’ and Senator Tim Scott is a ‘very good guy’ but stopped short of saying who he would pick if the time came.”

-Oliver O’Connell and Alex Woodward, “Trump news – live: Manchin run could help Trump as ex-president eyes two of his GOP 2024 rivals for VP,” independent.co.uk, July 17, 2023

7/17/2023

TRUMP ADMIN: “Trump acknowledged over the weekend he made mistakes with personnel appointments during his term in office, saying they were insufficiently loyal to him. GOP primary opponents and commentators, meanwhile, said he simply failed to follow through on his pledge to ‘drain the swamp’ of the federal bureaucracy…

While Trump described some of his his hires as ‘weak,’ ‘pathetic,’ and ‘incompetent,’ Bartiromo asked why he hired these people in the first place.

Trump said he lacked Washington experience when he was elected in 2016 and did not know how the government worked.”

-David Jackson, “Maria Bartiromo tells Donald Trump he didn’t drain the swamp. He blames ‘weak’ and ‘pathetic’ Cabinet,” usatoday.com, July 17, 2023

7/17/2023

2024 ELECTION: “Donald J. Trump and his allies are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government if voters [in the 2024 election] return him to the White House in 2025… Mr. Trump and his associates have a broader goal: to alter the balance of power by increasing the president’s authority over every part of the federal government that now operates, by either law or tradition, with any measure of independence from political interference by the White House, according to a review of his campaign policy proposals and interviews with people close to him…

He intends to strip employment protections from tens of thousands of career civil servants, making it easier to replace them if they are deemed obstacles to his agenda. And he plans to scour the intelligence agencies, the State Department and the defense bureaucracies to remove officials he has vilified as ‘the sick political class that hates our country.’”

Jonathan Swan, Charlie Savage and Maggie Haberman, “Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025,” nytimes.com, July 17, 2023

7/16/2023

POLLS: “Just heard that I (WE!) won the big Turning Point Straw Poll in a BLOWOUT, getting 85.7% of the Vote. Ron DeSanctimonious came in a solid 3rd with 4.3%, Vivek got 2%, and Sloppy Chris Christie, as usual, got a big, fat, ZERO! Turning Point put on a GREAT event in West Palm Beach, setting all kinds of records, including in attendance!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 16, 2023

7/16/2023

INVESTIGATIONS: “THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME. PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 16, 2023

7/16/2023

2024 ELECTION/POLLS/RON DESANTIS: “On the home turf of his chief Republican rival and in his adopted state, former President Donald J. Trump told a sprawling conservative gathering in Florida on Saturday night that it was futile for Gov. Ron DeSantis to keep battling him for the party’s presidential nomination…

Mr. Trump, who leads Mr. DeSantis by roughly 30 percentage points in national polls, dismissed Mr. DeSantis’s early momentum before he officially entered the race in May as a mirage.”

-Neil Vigdor, “In Florida, Trump Says DeSantis Has No Path to Victory,” nytimes.com, July 16, 2023

7/15/2023

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/JOE BIDEN: “Whatever happened to the Biden Documents Case? 20 times more documents than I have, and I’m allowed to have under the Presidential Records Act, he’s not. What about the Classified Docs he had in Chinatown, and on his garage floor in Delaware. Is he being charged under the Espionage Act? What about Penn Center, which receives China money, or the 1850 boxes that he is not wanting to release? Was Obama, Clinton, Bush, or others so charged? No, only ‘TRUMP,’ because I am illegally being targeted!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 15, 2023

7/13/2023

DONALD ON DONALD: “‘TRUMPISM,’ as some call AMERICA FIRST, is very simple: Low Taxes and Regulations, the most powerful Military, Tariffs & Taxes on other countries who have taken advantage of the United States and which will make the USA rich and debt free again (if countries want to ‘take’ from the U.S., they must pay for the privilege!), protection of our under siege 2nd Amendment, GREAT Healthcare, Low Energy Prices through Energy Independence, PARENTAL POWER on School Boards, ‘LIFE,’ STRONG Borders, & more!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 13, 2023

7/13/2023

JOE BIDEN/POLLS: “I’m beating Biden in the Polls by the biggest margins ever. I assume that means there’ll be another Indictment & Arrest coming down the tracks very soon. These Radical Left Democrats, Communists, Marxists, and Fascists are destroying our Country but, have no fear, we will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 13, 2023

7/13/2023

JOE BIDEN: “I never thought I would say that, as the leading political opponent of Crooked Joe Biden, getting Indicted and Arrested by sick government ‘Thugs’ would be my great honor. I am doing it for our Country, to show how evil and sinister a place it has become. MAGA!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 13, 2023

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 mishandling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate, though the actual date will be up to the judge.

Trump’s lawyers countered this week with a request for an indefinite delay.”

-Eric Tucker, “Justice Department urges judge to not postpone Trump’s classified documents trial,” apnews.com, July 13, 2023

7/12/2023

DOJ/LAWSUIT: “Page 1: The DOJ will not defend me in the E. Jean Carroll civil case, which is all part of the political Witch Hunt, lawyered up by a political operative who I just beat in another case, financed by a big political funder, and ‘judged’ by a Clinton appointee who truly hates ‘TRUMP.’ The statements that I made about Carroll are all true. I didn’t Rape her (I won that at trial) and other than for this case, I have NO IDEA WHO SHE IS, WHAT SHE LOOKS LIKE, OR ANYTHING ABOUT HER….

Page 2: The Carroll civil case against me is a Miscarriage of Justice and a total Scam. The trial was very unfair, with the other side being able to do and present virtually anything they wanted, and our side being largely and wrongfully shut down by an absolutely hostile, biased, and out of control judge. My lawyers, due to their respect for the Office of the President and the incredulity of the case, did not want me to testify, or even be at the trial…..

Page 3: The net result of this horrible INJUSTICE, where a completely unknown to me woman made up a ridiculous story, wrote it in a book to increase publicity and sales, I correctly disputed the story and got sued for Defamation, whereupon a hostile Judge and Jury shockingly awarded a woman who I don’t know, have never known, and don’t want to know, $5,000,000, while at the same time throwing out the Fake Rape claim. WE ARE STRONGLY APPEALING THIS TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 12, 2023

7/11/2023

2024 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/UKRAINE: “Joe Biden should not be dragging us further toward World War III by sending cluster munitions to Ukraine—he should be trying to END the war and stop the horrific death and destruction being caused by an incompetent administration. These unexploded cluster munitions will be killing and maiming innocent Ukrainian men, women, and children for decades to come, long after the war—we pray—has ended. If, as Biden inadvertently admitted, the reason for sending cluster bombs now is that the United States is ‘running out of ammunition’ (a great breach of classified information), that only further emphasizes the urgency of immediately deescalating this bloody, dangerous, and out of control conflict. It certainly means we should not be sending Ukraine our last stockpiles at a time when our own arsenals, according to Crooked Joe Biden, are so perilously diminished.

There could be no more vivid proof that Joe Biden’s policy of endless war in Ukraine has tremendously weakened the United States than the humiliating admission that the USA is now out of ammo, something our enemies are undoubtedly salivating over. This ‘admitted’ weakness is an invitation to enemies all over the world. Joe Biden is needlessly and dangerously leading us into World War III, which would be a nightmare beyond imagination—obliteration!

We must stop this insanity, immediately end the bloodshed in Ukraine, and return to a focus on America’s vital interests. Most importantly, we must completely rebuild our depleted military so it is once again so strong—like it was just 3 years ago when I rebuilt it—that no nation would even think of threatening our people. We must have ‘PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH’ and in a short time, the Presidential election of 2024 will produce that result.”

Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States,” donaldjtrump.com, July 11, 2023

7/11/2023

DOJ/FBI/JOE BIDEN: “Crooked Joe Biden’s Targeted, Weaponized DOJ & FBI are a grave threat to our Democracy! They are doing Crooked’s DIRTY WORK in attacking and persecuting ‘TRUMP,’ and only doing so because I am CRUSHING DeSanctimonious and Biden in the Polls. This is planned Election Interference of the highest magnitude, and used to only happen in Third World Countries. Now, sadly and terribly, it is happening right here in America, and must be stopped if our Country is to survive. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 11, 2023

7/10/2023

FBI/DOJ/DRUGS/JOE BIDEN: “Was Crooked Joe Biden on Cocaine when he instructed the FBI/DOJ to illegally invade my home, Mar-a-Lago, in complete and total violation of my 4th Amendment Rights? Was he on Cocaine, or various other substances, when he, for the first time in U.S. history, had his political opponent, who is leading him in the Polls by a lot, indicted and arrested (twice, if you include the DOJ run Manhattan D.A.’s Office)? WE ARE A NATION IN DECLINE!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 10, 2023

7/10/2023

DRUGS/JOE BIDEN: “The public is demanding to know the White House ‘Cocaine Story.’ Just like I QUICKLY PROVIDED SECURITY TAPES FROM MAR-a-LAGO on the BOXES HOAX, the White House has Security Cameras (far more than Mar-a-Lago!) all over the place, especially the location in question. THEY 100% KNOW WHO IT IS. If they don’t release information, it means they destroyed the tapes & the Cocaine was for use by Hunter, & probably Crooked Joe, in order to give this total disaster of a President a little life and energy!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 10, 2023

7/5/2023

BORDER/CRIME: “MASSIVE PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT IS CURRENTLY TAKING PLACE IN AMERICA. THE WEAPONIZATION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN. CRIME & INFLATION ARE RAMPANT, OUR BORDERS ARE OPEN, OUR ELECTIONS ARE RIGGED, OUR ECONOMY IS IN SHAMBLES, OUR ENERGY INDEPENDENCE IS GONE, OUR ‘LEADER’ IS MERCILESSLY MOCKED, & OUR COUNTRY IS BEING DESTROYED BOTH INSIDE & OUT. DO THE PEOPLE OF THIS ONCE GREAT NATION EVEN HAVE A CHOICE BUT TO PROTEST THE POTENTIAL DOOM OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA??? 2024!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 5, 2023

7/5/2023

RON DESANTIS: “Ron DeSanctimonious is getting absolutely “demolished” for yesterday’s performance in New Hampshire. No crowds, no enthusiasm, no interest. His Campaign is in total disarray. He’s hurting himself very badly for 2028. See, loyalty does matter with Patriots!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 5, 2023

7/5/2023

HOLIDAY: “Donald Trump was criticized online after sharing an image of himself standing in front of a burning White House on the morning of the Fourth of July holiday.

Throughout the day, the former president shared dozens of Truth Social posts that ranged from memes mocking President Joe Biden, attacking Special Counsel Jack Smith, polls showing him as the frontrunner in the 2024 GOP primary, and positive news stories featuring himself.”

-Ewan Palmer, “Donald Trump Shares Image of White House in Flames on 4th of July,” newsweek.com, July 5, 2023

7/4/2023

JOE BIDEN/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “When Biden said that Putin is ‘losing the war in Iraq,’ twice, everybody knew, through confirmation, that we have a confirmed, and very dangerous, Idiot in the White House. The USA cannot have this go on!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 4, 2023

7/4/2023

DOJ/FBI/JOE BIDEN/POLLS: “As my Poll numbers go higher & higher, the Communists, Marxists, & Fascists get more & more CRAZY with their ridiculous Indictments & Election Interference plans & plots, all controlled by an out of control, & very corrupt, DOJ/FBI. They have WEAPONIZED Law Enforcement in America at a level not seen before. Deranged Jack Smith, who is a sick puppet for A.G. Garland & Crooked Joe Biden, should be DEFUNDED & put out to rest. Republicans must get tough or the Dems will steal another Election. MAGA!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 4, 2023

7/4/2023

2024 ELECTION/HOLIDAY/JOE BIDEN: “Former President Donald Trump kicked off his Independence Day activities early on Tuesday by resharing a vulgar meme attacking Joe Biden and the people who voted for him…

Mr Trump’s early morning Truth Social post signed off with another image, of a flag which read: ‘Fk Biden and fk you for voting for him’…

The twice-impeached, twice-indicted ex-president posted a more traditional Independence Day greeting roughly seven hours later, writing: ‘Happy FOURTH OF JULY to everyone. We are working hard, we will take back our Country, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN’.

He added that the 2024 election would be ‘our LAST GREAT CHANCE’ to do so.”

-Andrew Feinberg, “Trump marks Independence Day by sharing vulgar attack on Biden and ominous 2024 warning,” independent.co.uk, July 4, 2023

7/3/2023

DOJ/INVESTIGATIONS: “Jack Smith is a major SleazeBag put up by the corrupt DOJ to damage the Republican Party. He is all about ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 3, 2023

6/29/2023

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/SUPREME COURT: “This is a great day for America [the Supreme Court outlawed affirmative action in college admissions]. People with extraordinary ability and everything else necessary for success, including future greatness for our Country, are finally being rewarded. This is the ruling everyone was waiting and hoping for and the result was amazing. It will also keep us competitive with the rest of the world. Our greatest minds must be cherished and that’s what this wonderful day has brought. We’re going back to all merit-based—and that’s the way it should be!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, June 29, 2023

6/28/2023

DOJ/FBI/JOE BIDEN: “Please remember that the only reason I was indicted (ELECTION INTERFERENCE) is because the Democrats don’t want to run against me. They weaponized the DOJ & FBI. I am beating Crooked Joe Biden in virtually every poll, and easily beat him in the last election, but the election was RIGGED. In 2016 it was the same thing, spewed from the mouths of the same failed pundits and losers. They said I couldn’t beat Hillary – How did that work out??? Doug Schoen of FoxNews should get a new playbook!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, June 28, 2023

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. IT IS ALL A BADGE OF HONOR & COURAGE. I AM BEING INDICTED FOR YOU!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, June 28, 2023

6/28/2023

2024 ELECTION: “Despite his large lead in a crowded Republican primary field, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he does not know if Donald Trump is the ‘strongest’ candidate to take on President Joe Biden in the 2024 election.

In an interview on CNBC, Mr McCarthy said Mr Trump can beat Mr Biden but that he’s not sure another Republican couldn’t do better. Later in the day, the speaker appeared to walk back the remarks by telling Breitbart that the former president is ‘stronger today than he was in 2016’.”

-Oliver O’Connell, “Trump news – live: Kevin McCarthy unsure Trump ‘strongest’ Republican candidate against Joe Biden in 2024,” independent.co.uk, June 28, 2023

6/28/2023

LAWSUIT: “Donald Trump has sued E Jean Carroll for defamation, alleging she falsely accused him of rape after a jury in a civil trial found that he sexually abused her.

Trump’s counterclaim against Carroll in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday cited Carroll’s statements on CNN after the verdict, and comes after a jury’s finding in May that he sexually abused and defamed, but did not rape Carroll, a former Elle magazine advice columnist.”

-Reuters, “Trump sues E Jean Carroll for defamation over rape comments,” theguardian.com, June 28, 2023

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 Christie, Trump’s chief detractor in the GOP primary.

Trump is ‘the cheapest S.O.B. I’ve ever met in my life,’ Christie told POLITICO on Tuesday evening. ‘What Donald Trump is good at is spending other people’s money.’”

-Kelly Garrity, “‘He’s the cheapest S.O.B. I’ve ever met’: Christie rips Trump for diverting campaign money to PAC,” politico.com, June 27, 2023

6/27/2023

IVANKA/LAWSUIT/NEW YORK/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP FAMILY: “A New York appeals court on Tuesday rejected Donald Trump’s bid to end the state attorney general’s lawsuit accusing him and his family business of ‘staggering’ fraud, but dismissed all claims against his daughter Ivanka Trump and said the remaining case may be limited further.

Attorney General Letitia James’ civil case filed last September accused Trump of lying from 2011 to 2021 about asset values, including for his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida and Trump Tower penthouse in Manhattan, as well as his own net worth, to obtain better terms from lenders and insurers.

The lawsuit seeks at least $250 million in damages from Trump, his adult sons Donald Jr and Eric, the Trump Organization and others, and to stop the Trumps from running businesses in New York.”

-Jonathan Stempel, “Court says Trump must face New York civil fraud claims, tosses case against Ivanka,” reuters.com, June 27, 2023

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 ‘independent state legislature theory,’ which argues that state legislatures have almost unfettered powers to implement election law, free even of the normal legal review carried out by state courts.”

-Lawrence Hurley, “How the Supreme Court made it harder to overturn the 2024 election,” nbcnews.com, June 27, 2023

6/27/2023

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/IRAN: “CNN has exclusively obtained the audio recording of the 2021 meeting in Bedminster, New Jersey, where President Donald Trump discusses holding secret documents he did not declassify.

The recording… includes new details from the conversation that is a critical piece of evidence in special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump over the mishandling of classified information, including a moment when Trump seems to indicate he was holding a secret Pentagon document with plans to attack Iran…

Trump pleaded not guilty earlier this month to 37 counts related to the alleged mishandling of classified documents kept at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.”

-Jeremy Herb, “Exclusive: CNN obtains the tape of Trump’s 2021 conversation about classified documents,” cnn.com, June 27, 2023

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 seal a list of witnesses who Trump is barred from communicating with directly about the case.

In her order, Cannon said prosecutors failed to explain why it was necessary to keep the names under wraps, or why redacting or partially sealing the document would be inadequate.”

-Zoë Richards, “Judge in Trump docs case denies special counsel’s request to keep list of 84 witnesses under wraps,” nbcnews.com, June 26, 2023

6/25/2023

2024 ELECTION/INVESTIGATION/PAC: “Facing multiple intensifying investigations, former President Donald J. Trump has quietly begun diverting more of the money he is raising away from his 2024 presidential campaign and into a political action committee that he has used to pay his personal legal fees.

The change, which went unannounced except in the fine print of his online disclosures, raises fresh questions about how Mr. Trump is paying for his mounting legal bills — which could run into millions of dollars — as he prepares for at least two criminal trials, and whether his PAC, Save America, is facing a financial crunch.”

-Shane Goldmacher and Maggie Haberman, “As Legal Fees Mount, Trump Steers Donations Into PAC That Has Covered Them,” nytimes.com, June 25, 2023

6/21/2023

CONGRESS/INVESTIGATIONS: “The G.O.P.-led House formally censured Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California, on Wednesday over his role investigating former President Donald J. Trump, the first in what could be a series of votes seeking to punish those whom Republicans have deemed the party’s enemies.

The censure passed by a party-line vote of 213 to 209… Before Mr. Schiff, just two members of the House had been censured in almost four decades.”

-Luke Broadwater, “House Censures Adam Schiff Over His Role Investigating Trump,” nytimes.com, June 21, 2023

6/21/2023

RUSSIA/UKRAINE: “Trump also claimed that if he was still president, Russian President Vladimir Putin would not have invaded Ukraine…

‘I thought he might do it,’ Trump said. ‘I talked to him, I said, If you do it, there’s going to be hell to pay. It’s going to be a catastrophe, don’t do it.’…

The former president, however, declined to say whether he would offer Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula to Russian in order to end the war.

‘I don’t talk about those deals because it really would impede a negotiation,’ Trump said.”

-Miles J. Herszenhorn, “Five takeaways from Donald Trump’s Fox News interview on classified docs, China, Ukraine and more,” usatoday.com, June 21, 2023

6/21/2023

2020 ELECTION/2024 ELECTION/WOMEN: “When [Fox News’ chief political anchor Bret] Baier asked Trump what his message would be to win back a hypothetical independent female voters who did not support Trump in 2020 and now disapproves of President Biden, Trump ignored the question.

‘First of all, I won in 2020 by a lot,” Trump said. “Let’s get that straight.’

Trump then got in a testy back and forth exchange with Baier, who told the former president: ‘You lost the 2020 election.’”

-Miles J. Herszenhorn, “Five takeaways from Donald Trump’s Fox News interview on classified docs, China, Ukraine and more,” usatoday.com, June 21, 2023

6/20/2023

JOE BIDEN: “The Hunter/Joe Biden settlement is a massive COVERUP & FULL SCALE ELECTION INTERFERENCE ‘SCAM’ THE LIKES OF WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN IN OUR COUNTRY BEFORE. A ‘TRAFFIC TICKET,’ & JOE IS ALL CLEANED UP & READY TO GO INTO THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION – AND THIS AS CROOKED DOJ, STATE, & CITY PROSECUTORS, MARXISTS & COMMUNISTS ALL, HIT ME FROM ALL SIDES & ANGELS WITH BULL….! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, June 20, 2023

6/20/2023

JOE BIDEN: “A ‘SWEETHEART’ DEAL FOR HUNTER (AND JOE), AS THEY CONTINUE THEIR QUEST TO ‘GET’ TRUMP, JOE’S POLITICAL OPPONENT. WE ARE NOW A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, June 20, 2023

6/20/2023

2020 ELECTION: “Years after their lives were turned upside down by conspiracy theorists, Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea ArShaye ‘Shaye’ Moss, were officially cleared by Georgia authorities on Tuesday.

Georgia’s State Election Board dismissed its yearslong investigation into alleged election fraud at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, more than two years after conspiracy theorists — and then-President Donald Trump — claimed that Freeman and her daughter had committed election fraud in the 2020 presidential election.”

-Jane C. Timm, “Georgia poll workers targeted by Trump are cleared of false election fraud claims,” nbcnews.com, June 21, 2023

6/20/2023

DRUGS: “Former President Trump in a Fox News interview advocated for imposing the death penalty on convicted drug dealers, even as anchor Bret Baier pointed out that the policy would have applied to Alice Johnson, a woman Trump granted clemency to and promoted in a Super Bowl ad for his 2020 campaign.

Trump told Baier that he believed the country had to enact stronger punishments against drug dealers to bring down crime, including the death penalty.”

-Brett Samuels, “Trump calls for death penalty for drug dealers; Fox’s Baier notes it would apply to woman he championed,” thehill.com, June 20, 2023

6/19/2023

JOE BIDEN/POLLS: “The Quinnipiac Poll FoxNews keeps showing on ‘TRUMP’ vs. Biden is not just an old Poll, it is a BAD Poll. It under samples Republicans by 10 points, which means, instead of being down 4 points, I am up 6 points. Other Polls show me much higher than that, but FoxNews will always attempt, as they did in 2016, to only show negatives on MAGA & TRUMP. We’re winning BIG, they don’t like it, the RINOS don’t like it, the Democrats don’t like it but, most of all, the Marxists & Communists don’t like it!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, June 19, 2023

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

6/17/2023

GOP/MEDIA/RON DESANTIS: “Well, it’s happened, just as I predicted. The Golden Goose that was so beautiful is being slaughtered by Fools. MAGA has left Fox for more promising ‘prairies.’ Long live the King. The only solution for Fox News is to bring back Trump Allies and MAGA—Backing No Personality Ron DeSanctimonious has been a disaster….

….Also—Do not broadcast negative ads against Republican and Conservative Candidates by Perverts and Misfits like the Failing Lincoln Project, and others. Roger Ailes never allowed that—And neither should a new and less successful Fox. Big turnoff! MSDNC and Fake News CNN will never allow positive Republican ads or hit pieces on Crooked Joe Biden. Fox must get smart fast before it’s too late. Only ‘TRUMP’ can save Fox News. It is in freefall!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, June 17, 2023

6/14/2023

POLLS: “REALLY BIG FUNDRAISING, EVEN GREATER POLLS, SINCE THE RADICAL LEFT INDICTMENT HOAX WAS INITIATED BY THE MISFITS, MUTANTS, MARXISTS, & COMMUNISTS! THANK YOU !!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, June 14, 2023

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 took place – creating an opportunity where highly sensitive classified material could have fallen into the wrong hands even inadvertently – that jeopardizes our national security,’ Pence told CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box’ on Wednesday.”

-David Jackson, “Mike Pence attacks Donald Trump over ‘serious allegations’ in classified documents indictment,” usatoday.com, June 14, 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 knock him out of the 2024 race – and one ultimately designed to hurt Republicans, 30% of whom are considered unwavering Trump supporters.”

-Reuters, “Trump raises $7 million for 2024 campaign since federal indictment,” reuters.com, June 14, 2023

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 has been indicted. And that’s not counting the $5 million civil judgment against him for sexual abuse at the end of April.”

-Domenico Montanaro, “4 political questions after Trump’s second arraignment on criminal charges,” npr.org, June 14, 2023

6/14/2023

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/DOJ: “The Justice Department unsealed an indictment including more than three dozen criminal counts against Trump for allegedly keeping and hiding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida.

Trump, 77, now faces the most legally perilous moment of his life playing out in a federal court — charges that could bring decades in prison. He pleaded not guilty in Miami on Tuesday [June 13, 2023] and vowed to fight the charges…

Interviews with seven Trump advisers with knowledge of the probe indicate he misled his own advisers, telling them the boxes contained only newspaper clippings and clothes. He repeatedly refused to give the documents back.”

-Josh Dawsey and Jacqueline Alemany, “Trump rejected lawyers’ efforts to avoid classified documents indictment,” washingtonpost.com, June 14, 2023

6/13/2023

CHINA/CUBA: “I HOPE THE ENTIRE COUNTRY IS WATCHING WHAT THE RADICAL LEFT LUNATICS ARE DOING TO AMERICA, AND ALL WE STAND FOR. WE ARE A NATION IN SERIOUS DECLINE, AND IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE. p.s. CHINA JUST, EFFECTIVELY, TOOK OVER CUBA. WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED UNDER THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION!”