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10/27/2021

2020 ELECTION/PENNSYLVANIA: “In your editorial ‘The Election for Pennsylvania’s High Court’ (Oct. 25), you [the Wall Street Journal] state the fact that a court wrongly said mail-in ballots could be counted after Election Day. ‘This didn’t matter,’ you add, ‘because Mr. Biden won the state by 80,555, but the country is lucky the election wasn’t closer. If the election had hung on a few thousand Pennsylvanians, the next President might have been picked by the U.S. Supreme Court.’

Well actually, the election was rigged, which you, unfortunately, still haven’t figured out…

Highly respected Audit the Vote PA found numerous data integrity problems the Pennsylvania Statewide Uniform Registry of Electors (SURE) system… This is why Democrats and the Fake News Media do not want a full forensic audit in Pennsylvania. In reality, 80,555 ballots are nothing when there is this much corruption or voter irregularities.”

-Donald Trump, “President Trump Responds on Pennsylvania’s 2020 Election,” wsj.com, October 27, 2021

10/27/2021

IRS/TRUMP TAXES: “Lawyers for former President Donald Trump urged a federal judge late Tuesday to block the Treasury Department and the IRS from giving his tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee…

The committee sued the Treasury Department when it refused to hand over the returns during the Trump administration. But the Biden administration changed positions and agreed to provide the returns, so the committee sought to dismiss the lawsuit. Trump and his companies then intervened, seeking to block the release.”

-Pete Williams, “Trump urges judge to block IRS from handing over his tax returns to Congress,” nbcnews.com, October 27, 2021

10/28/20

2020 ELECTION: “The statement that I made a few weeks ago saying that Republicans will not vote if the Election Fraud of 2020 is not fixed, was in no way meant to imply that I would tell them not to vote, but rather that they may not have the incentive to vote if the election process is not fully remedied, and quickly. It was the Crime of the Century. We are working on solving that problem every day—it will be done! People do not want to spend their time and money to have a SCAM like that happen again. Regardless of anything or anyone, we must get out the Republican and SANE VOTE!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, October 29, 2021

10/29/2021

2020 ELECTION/CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/TARIFFS: “The Wall Street Journal just did a white-washed statement, so incorrectly, almost as incorrect as their views on tariffs against China, a country that has been ripping off the United States for years (not even including the disaster of the China Virus), trying to justify the fraud of an election in Pennsylvania, but also saying ‘even if’ we are right, ‘Mr. Trump would be two states short of victory.’

Wrong! We were only talking about Pennsylvania, we weren’t talking about other states, which are also wrapped up in large scale fraud or election improprieties…

We are not talking about one state, Pennsylvania, we are talking about numerous states, far more than is necessary to win, which we did, but which the Fake News media and the Wall Street Journal refused to talk about and are doing everything within their power to cover up. They don’t want the facts because if they had them, we win!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, October 29, 2021

10/30/2021

SPORTS: “Former United States President Donald Trump said in a message to his email list that MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred and New York Yankees president Randy Levine invited him to attend Game 4 of the World Series between the visiting Houston Astros and host Atlanta Braves on Saturday.

However, MLB officials sent an email to Yahoo Sports’ Hannah Keyser disputing that claim, saying that Trump requested to attend the matchup.

That aligns with remarks made by Atlanta Braves CEO Terry McGuirk to Bob Nightengale of USA Today:

‘He called MLB and wanted to come to the game. We were very surprised. Of course, we said yes.'”

-Paul Kasabian, “MLB Says It Didn’t Invite Donald Trump to Game 4 of World Series at Truist Park,” bleacherreport.com, October 30, 2021

10/31/2021

BIDEN-HARRIS ADMIN: “Former President Donald Trump called out the Biden administration and Democratic former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe Saturday on ‘Justice with Judge Jeanine,’ saying the Biden administration is an ’embarrassment.’

‘I think you have to say an F, and not an F+. It would be an F,’ Trump said when grading the Biden administration.

‘It’s a failed administration. It’s a disaster. I’ve never seen anything like it.'”

-Kelsey Koberg, “Donald Trump calls out Biden administration, predicts Virginia gubernatorial race,” foxnews.com, October 31, 2021

10/31/2021

IRAN/JOE BIDEN/NUCLEAR: “President Joe Biden said Sunday that the United States is ‘continuing to suffer’ from former President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal…

The Iran nuclear deal was abandoned by the US under the Trump administration… The Biden administration has pledged to reenter the deal, but the President’s negotiators have been faced with tough talks and decisions on how to do so. At the same time, Iran began enriching uranium again once the Trump administration pulled the US out of the deal.”

-Allie Malloy, “Biden says US ‘continuing to suffer’ from Trump’s decision to pull out of Iran nuclear deal,” cnn.com, October 31, 2021

11/1/2021

CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN: “Even Biden couldn’t stand hearing so much about the Global Warming Hoax, the 7th biggest Hoax in America, followed closely behind by the 2020 Presidential Election Scam, Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax #2 and, of course, the ‘No Collusion’ finding of the Mueller Report. Biden went to Europe saying Global Warming is his highest priority, and then promptly fell asleep, for all the world to see, at the Conference itself. Nobody that has true enthusiasm and belief in a subject will ever fall asleep!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, November 1, 2021

11/1/2021

ELECTION/ENDORSEMENT/FAKE NEWS: “Trump released a statement on Twitter on November 1 via his spokesperson Liz Harrington, denying that there was a rift between them.

‘The Fake News media, together with some of the perverts doing ads ad nauseam on primarily Fox (Fox shouldn’t take those ads!), are trying to create an impression that Glenn Youngkin and I are at odds and don’t like each other,’ Trump wrote in the statement…

In a separate statement on November 1, Trump added that Youngkin had had his ‘complete and total endorsement for many months.’ He also encouraged ‘every MAGA voter’ to give Youngkin their support.”

-Cheryl Teh, “Trump blames ‘perverts’ for making it look like he and Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin don’t like each other,” businessinsider.com, November 1, 2021

11/1/2021

2020 ELECTION/GEORGIA: “Donald Trump was threatening Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger when he asked him to help ‘find’ enough votes to overturn his loss in Georgia to Democratic President Joe Biden, Raffensperger writes in a new book.

The book, ‘Integrity Counts,’ was released Tuesday. In it, Raffensperger depicts a man who defied pressure from Trump to alter election results, but also reveals a public official settling political scores as he seeks to survive a hostile Republican primary environment and win reelection in 2022.”

-Jeff Amy, “Georgia official: Trump call to ‘find’ votes was a threat,” news.yahoo.com, November 1, 2021

11/2/2021

CONGRESS/ISRAEL: “Former US president Donald Trump said ‘Israel literally owned Congress’ in an interview with Ari Hoffman on 570 KVI Friday [October 29, 2021]…

‘Well, you know the biggest change I’ve seen in Congress is Israel literally owned Congress – you understand that, 10 years ago, 15 years ago – and it was so powerful, it was so powerful, and today it’s almost the opposite,’ Trump said.”

-Natan Khodorkovsky, “Trump says ‘Israel literally owned Congress’ in interview,” jpost.com, November 2, 2021

11/4/2021

INVESTIGATION/LAWSUIT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The Manhattan district attorney has convened a second long-term grand jury to hear evidence about the Trump Organization’s financial practices and potentially to vote on criminal charges, according to people with knowledge of the matter…

Another person familiar with the case said staffers for District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. (D) and New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) were working together closely on this phase of the investigation. Prosecutors recently inquired about the initiation fees Trump golf courses charged new members, the person said, and Trump’s role in setting those fees for individual customers.”

-Shayna Jacobs, David A. Fahrenthold and Jonathan O’Connell, “Manhattan DA convenes new grand jury in Trump Org. case to weigh potential charges,” washingtonpost.com, November 4, 2021

11/4/2021

ENDORSEMENT/NAZI/QANON: “Kari Lake, the Arizona gubernatorial candidate recently endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has embraced fringe far-right figures in her campaign events, including publicly thanking a Nazi sympathizer for his support and appearing with figures linked to the QAnon conspiracy, a CNN KFile review of her appearances has found.”

-Em Steck and Andrew Kaczynski, “Trump-endorsed gubernatorial candidate appears with Nazi sympathizer and QAnon-linked activists at campaign events,” cnn.com, November 4, 2021

11/4/2021

2016 ELECTION/INVESTIGATION/RUSSIA: “A Russia analyst who contributed key research to the so-called Steele dossier that detailed alleged ties between ex-President Donald Trump and Russia during the 2016 election was arrested Thursday as part of a probe by special counsel John Durham…

Danchenko, 43, is the third person criminally charged in Durham’s investigation, which is focused on the origins of the federal probe into the Trump campaign’s suspected coordination with Russian agents to influence the outcome of the 2016 race for the White House.”

-Dan Mangan and Kevin Breuninger, “Durham probe: Analyst charged with lying to FBI about Christopher Steele’s Trump-Russia dossier,” CNBC.com, November 4, 2021

11/5/2021

CHILDREN/CORONAVIRUS/VACCINES: “On Thursday [November 4, 2021], Trump told Chris Stigall, host of Philadelphia’s Morning Answer, that he doesn’t agree with the CDC’s recommendation that kids get the [coronavirus vaccination] shot.

‘Their immune systems are strong,’ Trump said. ‘They’re not affected, especially like older people who have some kind of problem … children are different.’ […]

An estimated 6.4 million American children tested positive for COVID-19 since the pandemic began, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, with 1.3 million cases occurring after the beginning of September.”

-Jenni Fink, “Trump Pushes Back on Vaccines for Kids After Ben Carson Calls Shots ‘Giant Experiment,'” newsweek.com, November 5, 2021

11/8/202

2020 ELECTION/ARIZONA: “The great Patriots of Arizona are anxiously awaiting the Attorney General’s review of the large-scale Election Fraud that took place during the 2020 Presidential Election. The findings of the Forensic Audit Report were clear and conclusive. The results from the Congressional Election Integrity hearing that just took place in Washington, D.C., upon cross examination, were devastating to the other side. The Arizona Legislature (and other States!) should, at a minimum, decertify the Election. The American people deserve an answer, now!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, November 8, 2021

11/9/2021

DEMS/JOE BIDEN/MITCH MCCONNELL: “Why is it that Old Crow Mitch McConnell voted for a terrible Democrat Socialist Infrastructure Plan, and induced others in his Party to do likewise, when he was incapable of getting a great Infrastructure Plan wanting to be put forward by me and the Republican Party? He continuously said he couldn’t get it passed, just like I had to go around him to get the very popular Southern Border Wall built (which caused great delay—but could now be completed in one month by Biden). All of the Infrastructure money, $2 Trillion, would have gone into real Infrastructure (roads, bridges, tunnels, airports, etc). Also, why did Mitch give the Democrats a two-month hiatus, just long enough for them to figure it all out, when they were completely ready to fold?”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, November 9, 2021

11/9/2021

2020 ELECTION: “The Unselect Committee of politically ambitious hacks continues to subpoena people wanting to know about those protesting, on January 6th, the insurrection which took place during the Presidential Election of November 3rd. There is so much proof, but the Fake News Media refuses to print it or show it in any way, shape, or form. Just read the findings of the Arizona report, or look at what’s happening in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and numerous other States. That’s right, the Committee is studying the PROTEST when it should be studying the Fraudulent Election that led to the protest. As the LameStream Media knows, the facts are there for all to see!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, November 9, 2021

11/9/2021

2020 ELECTION: “CNN just aired a Fake documentary on the Presidential Election Fraud of 2020. The only thing they didn’t discuss were the tremendous number of findings indicating what a complete Sham the Election was. Would’ve been nice to have discussed the facts that have been pouring in from each of many States concerning the Crime of the Century. Are we supposed to have a Fraudulent Election that is allowed to stand while our Country is being simultaneously destroyed?”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, November 9, 2021

11/11/2021

2020 ELECTION/KAMALA HARRIS/LIZ CHENEY: “With an approval rating at 19% in Wyoming, people are wise to Liz Cheney. She is a threat to Free and Fair elections, which are the cornerstone of our Country, because she caved so easily on the Crime of the Century. She is happy to join the Democrats in the Unselect Committee (the next RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA Hoax), and spread more of their lies. Cheney is far more unpopular than her father, who just lost his position as the least popular Vice President in American history to Kamala Harris. Democrats would never put up with a Liz Cheney in their ranks. If we had a Free and Fair media, instead of a corrupt media, those [2020] election results would never have been allowed to happen. The proof of irregularities and fraud is massive!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, November 11, 2021

11/12/2021

APPRENTICE/LAWSUIT: “The lawsuit brought by a woman who made up false accusations against President Trump for publicity or money has just been dropped in its totality. The Fake News Media totally and completely distorted the facts—they are corrupt. President Trump has been totally vindicated. No money of any kind, or legal fees, were paid by President Trump, who stated, ‘It is so sad when things like this can happen, but so incredibly important to fight for the truth and justice. Only victory can restore one’s reputation!'”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, November 12, 2021

11/12/2021

APPRENTICE/LAWSUIT/MICHAEL COHEN: “Former President Donald Trump scored two big legal victories Friday and avoided having to sit for a deposition in a defamation lawsuit after former ‘Apprentice’ contestant Summer Zervos agreed to drop her claims, according to a court filing, and a New York judge granted Trump’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by his former personal attorney Michael Cohen against the Trump Organization.”

-Kara Scannell, “Trump scores legal wins with one lawsuit dropped and another dismissed,” cnn.com, November 12, 2021

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 asserted. The past cases involved defendants whose testimony was sought regarding their government service. Bannon, by contrast, left his White House job in 2017, well before the period of interest to the House committee.”

-Pete Williams and Dartunorro Clark, “Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon indicted by federal grand jury for contempt of Congress,” news.yahoo.com, November 12, 2021

11/12/2021

CDC/CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP ADMIN: “The latest documents from a House committee investigating the former administration’s response to the [coronavirus] pandemic shed additional light on the efforts of some of former President Trump’s political appointees to blunt or even block the messages of career officials because they did not align with Trump’s rosy projections…

Trump officials tried to stop the CDC from publishing what the White House felt was negative information about the pandemic. Officials specifically tried to interfere with the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR) to make them better align with the White House’s more optimistic messaging about the state of the virus.”

-Nathaniel Weixel, “Documents reveal new details of Trump political interference in COVID-19 response,” thehill.com, November 12, 2021

11/12/2021

2020 ELECTION/MIKE PENCE: “Donald Trump defended rioters at the Capitol on 6 January who threatened to ‘hang Mike Pence’, his vice-president, according to recorded remarks released on Friday [November 12, 2021]…

Trump was speaking to the ABC chief Washington correspondent, Jonathan Karl, for his book Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show… The recording was released by Axios…

Karl said: ‘They were saying ‘hang Mike Pence’.’

‘Because it’s common sense, Jon,’ Trump said, repeating baseless claims about election fraud. ‘It’s common sense that you’re supposed to protect. How can you – if you know a vote is fraudulent, right? – how can you pass on a fraudulent vote to Congress? How can you do that?'”

-Martin Pengelly, “Trump defended rioters who threatened to ‘hang Mike Pence’, audio reveals,” theguardian.com, November 12, 2021

11/14/2020

STEVE BANNON: “This Country has perhaps never done to anyone what they have done to Steve Bannon and they are looking to do it to others, also. If they would be so tough with China, Russia, and the world, who no longer respects us, maybe our Country would not be failing at a level at which we have never seen before. We never talk about making our Country great, and it is now heading in an unthinkable direction with the Afghanistan withdrawal, open Borders, Inflation, Woke everything, and so much more. The USA is a radicalized mess!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, November 14, 2021

11/14/2021

2020 ELECTION: “Why aren’t they investigating the people and states who cheated on the election causing the protest of January 6th? Why aren’t they investigating the people who ruthlessly and violently burned down and took over Democrat-run cities, beating and murdering people along the way? Instead they are viciously investigating those who protested the November 3rd Presidential Election, the Crime of the Century. No investigations on Election Fraud, but if anybody was near the Capitol waving an American flag, they’ve had nothing but trouble. American Patriots are not going to allow this subversion of justice to continue, including the use of prosecutors, local, state, and federal, to torment and destroy innocent people. All this, while our Country is going to hell!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, November 14, 2021

11/15/2021

JOHN KELLY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “John Kelly, Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff, did not mince words about his ex-boss as rioters violently stormed the Capitol on January 6, according to a new book.

‘If he was a real man, he would go down to the Capitol and tell them to stop,’ Kelly said of Trump to ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl during a phone call as the insurrection was taking place…

Kelly added that he believed the riot — led by Trump supporters while Congress met to certify President Joe Biden’s 2020 election win — was enough to invoke the 25th Amendment, a process to remove a president unable to fulfill their duties.”

-Oma Seddiq and John Haltiwanger, “Ex-chief of staff John Kelly said if Trump was a ‘real man’ he would’ve gone to the Capitol on January 6 to stop the rioters: book,” businessinsider.com, November 15, 2021

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 these people leave with respect and adoration for me and others in the White House, but as soon as CNN or other cameras get shoved in their face, or the losers from the The View ask a question, or money gets thrown at them, or someone writes a fake book, inglorious lightweights like Farah change so quickly. I watched this clown on television saying exactly what they wanted her to say and I watched the lies. Was she paid by low-ratings CNN?”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, November 15, 2021

11/15/2021

2020 ELECTION: “By the way, as soon as the Crime of the Century happened on November 3rd, I knew the [2020] Election was Rigged and Stolen, and never changed my view on that one bit. I did not go soft on the ‘Real’ Big Lie, the Election Scam, and never will… Anybody who ever says that I thought the Election was legit, even for a moment, is wrong. All you have to do is look at the thousands of pages of documents and evidence—which continues to mount.”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, November 15, 2021

11/16/2021

DOJ/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP TAXES: “U.S. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden suggested it was strange that last July — about six months after President Joe Biden was sworn in — the Justice Department concluded the Treasury Department was legally obligated to turn over Trump’s tax returns to the House.

That opinion reversed one DOJ issued in 2019 authorizing the Treasury Department to withhold the returns.

McFadden, a Trump appointee, implied that the reversal was driven by politics and he said the new stance might dictate that Congress could be entitled not only to Biden’s returns — which have already been made public — but even the taxes filed by Biden’s son Hunter.”

-Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney, “Judge questions why Justice reversed course on Trump taxes,” politico.com, November 16, 2021

11/16/2021

AFGHANISTAN/MILITARY/TALIBAN: “A very sad sight watching yesterday as the Taliban had a major Military parade displaying much of the $85 Billion of Military equipment the United States surrendered to them. The handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal was the greatest embarrassment in the history of our Country!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, November 16, 2021

11/17/2021

MITCH MCCONNELL: “Former President Trump ripped into Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) once again on Wednesday [November 17, 2021], giving the leader an invective-filled ultimatum to stand firm against raising the debt ceiling and keep his conference unified against President Biden’s spending agenda…

Trump’s scathing statement follows several similar attacks in recent days in which he lashed out at ‘Old Crow’ McConnell for voting for the hard infrastructure bill along with 18 other Senate Republicans and 13 House Republicans…

Trump argued that McConnell should have used the October expiration of the debt limit to bring Biden’s agenda to a grinding halt by refusing to help Democrats extend the nation’s borrowing authority for two months.”

-Alexander Bolton, “Trump gives McConnell insult-filled ultimatum on Biden agenda,” thehill.com, November 17, 2021

11/17/2021

2020 ELECTION/CIVIL UNREST: “Jonathan Karl’s new book ‘Betrayal,’ released Tuesday [November 16, 2021], documents the historic presidential election, unprecedented claims of fraud, the January insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and the stirrings of the novel COVID-19 virus that marked the final days of former President Donald Trump’s presidency…

Trump looks back on Jan. 6 ‘fondly,’ Karl wrote, ‘and believes that if events just had played out a little differently, he’d still be president.’”

-Chelsey Cox and Rick Rouan, “Trump looks back on Jan. 6 ‘fondly’ and wants to settle scores over false election claims, new book says,” usatoday.com, November 17, 2021

11/17/2021

TRUMP BUSINESS: “Donald Trump has said he lost billions of dollars during his time as president and that he ‘expected’ that to happen.

Trump made the claim that he suffered major financial loss while in the White House in an interview with MyPillow CEO and conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell, during which the pair mainly discussed the widely disproven claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election…

Trump did not clarify where he apparently lost his billions during his four years as president.”

-Ewan Palmer, “Donald Trump Reveals He Lost Billions of Dollars as President,” Newsweek.com, November 17, 2021

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 flattery of Putin ‘never ceased and neither did Putin’s ruthlessness,’ Christie writes.”

-Sonam Sheth and Eliza Relman, “Chris Christie says Trump thinks Putin is ‘just like him’ and will ‘behave’ if he’s ‘complimented enthusiastically enough,’” businessinsider.com, November 17, 2021

11/17/2021

DEMS/JOE BIDEN/MITCH MCCONNELL: “When the Broken Old Crow, Mitch McConnell, agreed to a two-month extension, he allowed the Democrats to get their act together and pass the $1.2 Trillion ‘Non-Infrastructure”’Green New Deal Bill…

This was all allowed by Mitch McConnell’s incompetence and now I understand that a couple Republican Senators may get on board so that they can have yet another and even bigger victory, for the Democrats, while at the same time ensuring massive Inflation and the destruction of our Country as we know it. This is what happens when you allow a guy who lost an Election to take over the Office of the President. He [Biden] obviously had no mandate, but they’re changing our Country and everything it stands for…

This is the Broken Old Crow’s fault. He could have won it all using the Debt Ceiling—they were ready to fold. Now the Democrats have a big victory and the wind at their back. McConnell is a fool and he damn well better stop their ‘Dream of Communism Bill’ and keep his Senators in line, or he should resign now, something he should have done a long time ago. Use the Debt Ceiling like it should have been used, you Old Broken Crow, to do so would hurt our Country far less than this horrible Bill.”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, November 17, 2021

11/19/2021

CRIMINAL JUSTICE: “Congratulations to Kyle Rittenhouse for being found INNOCENT of all charges. It’s called being found NOT GUILTY—And by the way, if that’s not self defense, nothing is!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, November 19, 2021

11/19/2021

2020 ELECTION/CONGRESS/MITCH MCCONNELL: “Great job by Kevin McCarthy last night, setting a record by going over 8 hours of speaking on the House Floor in order to properly oppose Communism. We must never forget what the Democrats have done, at the highest level of evil. If Mitch McConnell had fought, you would have a different Republican President right now.”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, November 19, 2021

11/20/2021

CORONAVIRUS/DEMS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Communist Democrats are engaging in yet another Witch Hunt, this time going after my Administration’s unprecedented and incredible coronavirus response, despite the fact that, sadly, more Americans have died this year from Covid than in all of 2020. It is a Witch Hunt that’s been going on for years. Why don’t they investigate Crooked Hillary, when so much has now been proven about her and her campaign’s lies and dealings with Russia to smear me and spy on my campaign? I’m telling Peter Navarro to protect executive privilege and not let these unhinged Democrats discredit our great accomplishments. The Witch Hunts must end!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, November 20, 2021

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 Congress, among other crimes… He implicated Trump at the time in the campaign finance charges, as he did again on Monday when he said that his release from home confinement ‘in no way negates the actions I took at the direction of and for the benefit of Donald J. Trump.’”

-Larry Neumeister, “Michael Cohen ends prison term after Trump-related crimes,” news.yahoo.com, November 22, 2021

11/22/2021

CONGRESS/INVESTIGATIONS: “The select House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack told a federal appeals court on Monday [November 22, 2021] that it urgently needs extensive records from former President Trump’s White House, arguing that more time would hinder its probe…

Trump is appealing the case after a trial judge rejected his lawsuit to block the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) from complying with the select committee’s document requests. The former president argued that the Biden administration’s compliance with the congressional investigation violates his own rights to executive privilege.”

-Harper Neidig, “Jan. 6 panel tells court it urgently needs Trump records,” thehill.com, November 22, 2021

11/22/2021

INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “After the indictment of the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer this summer for income tax fraud, prosecutors now appear to be examining whether the company broke the law by providing low values to property tax officers, while using high ones to garner tax breaks or impress lenders.

New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) has said she is considering a lawsuit, and prosecutors in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office have also convened a new grand jury, which could vote on criminal charges, according to the people familiar with the investigations.”

-David A. Fahrenthold, Jonathan O’Connell, Josh Dawsey, and Shayna Jacobs, “N.Y. prosecutors set sights on new Trump target: Widely different valuations on the same properties,” nytimes.com, November 22, 2021

11/22/2021

2020 ELECTION/FAKE NEWS/RUSSIA: “Fake News refusing to cover the Presidential Election Fraud is the Russia Hoax in REVERSE: No coverage of a real scandal, versus endless coverage of a Democrat Fake News scandal!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, November 22, 2021

11/22/2021

CRIME/WISCONSIN: “The whole world is watching the tragedy which just took place in Waukesha, Wisconsin, it is devastating, horrible, and very very sick! My heart goes out to the people of this great, beautiful, and hardworking community. We must find the answers to this terrible crime, and stop these violent and depraved acts from happening again. I am with you Waukesha, and always will be!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, November 22, 2021

11/24/2021

GOP: “A pair of payments the Republican National Committee made to a law firm representing former President Donald Trump is raising questions among former and current GOP officials about the party’s priorities in a critical election year and its ability to remain neutral — as long-standing RNC rules require — in the 2024 presidential primary.

The separate payments to Fischetti and Malgieri LLP totalling $121,670, listed in the committee’s latest filing to the Federal Election Commission, were first reported on Monday [November 22, 2021]…

A spokesperson for the RNC said the party’s executive committee recently ‘approved paying for certain legal expenses that relate to politically motivated legal proceedings waged against President Trump,’ and defended the payments as ‘entirely appropriate’ as the party ‘continue[s] assisting in fighting back against the Democrats’ never ending witch hunt and attacks on [Trump].'”

-Gabby Orr, “‘Nothing about this is normal’: RNC payments to Trump attorneys irk GOP officials,” cnn.com, November 24, 2021

11/24/2021

RUSSIA INVESTIGATION: “Fox News host Sean Hannity corrected former President Donald Trump live on air on Tuesday [November 23, 2021] during their discussion of a special counsel investigation into the FBI’s Russia probe…

During the interview on Tuesday, Trump told Hannnity: ‘The Durham report—you know, it’s come out. It could have been a little earlier but it’s unbelievably completed. I would imagine…’

Hannity jumped in to say: ‘It’s not even out yet, though.’ […]

Durham has not issued a report on his work yet and the investigation is ongoing.”

-Darragh Roche, “Sean Hannity Corrects Donald Trump Live on Air Over Durham Report,” newsweek.com, November 24, 2021

11/24/2021

INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Trump Organization Chief Operating Officer Matthew Calamari, who was being investigated as part of a wide-ranging probe into former President Donald Trump’s company, is not expected to be charged, his attorney said Wednesday [November 24, 2021]…

The Wall Street Journal, citing people close to the matter, reported in June that Calamari, Trump’s former bodyguard, was being investigated over whether he, too, received tax-free fringe benefits from the company.”

-Tom Winter and Dareh Gregorian, “Trump Organization chief operating officer not expected to be charged in fraud probe, his attorney says,” nbcnews.com, November 24, 2021

11/24/2021

CRIMINAL JUSTICE/DEMS: “Former president Donald Trump told Fox News on Tuesday [November 23, 2021] that he met with Kyle Rittenhouse, calling the teen who was found not guilty last week of homicide, attempted homicide and other charges related to the fatal shootings that rocked Kenosha, Wis., last summer ‘really a nice young man.’ […]

Rittenhouse, 18, visited the former president with his mother at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida on Monday, Trump said — three days after jurors acquitted him on all counts after more than three days of deliberation…

‘He should never have been put through that,’ Trump said of Rittenhouse. ‘That was prosecutorial misconduct, and it’s happening all over the United States right now with the Democrats.'”

-Jennifer Hassan, “Donald Trump meets with Kyle Rittenhouse after verdict, calls him ‘a nice young man,’” washingtonpost.com, November 24, 2021

11/26/2021

INVESTIGATIONS/RUSSIA: “Our Country has been taken over by Scammers and Hoaxsters, and we have to take it back. Just like the Russia, Russia, Russia Scam has now been totally debunked and discredited as a FAKE Democrat/Crooked Hillary Plot, the ‘go to war with China’ story is even more ridiculous. It’s incredible that someone is even allowed to write this stuff. We no longer talk about greatness for our Country, everything is about political investigations, hoaxes, and scams. We will Make America Great Again!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, November 26, 2021

11/28/2021

2020 ELECTION/FAKE NEWS: “The Fake News Media cannot stand the fact that so many people in our Country know the truth, that the 2020 Election was rigged and stolen, yet almost every article written contains the words the “Big Lie” or “unsubstantiated facts,” etc., always trying to demean the real results. I am willing to challenge the heads of the various papers or even far left politicians, who have perpetuated the Real Big Lie, which is voter irregularities and fraud on a massive and determinative scale. This includes members of the highly partisan Unselect Committee of Democrats who refuse to delve into what caused the January 6th protest—it was the Fake Election results! While I am willing to do it, they will never agree because they cannot argue that facts in states including Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, New Hampshire, and others such as New Mexico, where the Democrat Secretary of State changed the voting laws without legislative approval just prior to the Election, making it virtually impossible for the Republican presidential candidate to win. If anyone would like a public debate on the facts, not the fiction, please let me know. It will be a ratings bonanza for television!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, November 28, 2021

11/30/2021

MEDIA/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Great news for television viewers, they have just suspended Chris Cuomo indefinitely! The big question is, was it because of his horrendous ratings, which in all fairness have permeated CNN and MSDNC, or was it because his brother is no longer Governor? Probably both. In any event, Fredo is gone!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, November 30, 2021

11/30/2021

DEMS/MITCH MCCONNELL/NATIONAL DEBT: “Old Crow Mitch McConnell, who is getting beaten on every front by the Radical Left Democrats since giving them a two-month delay which allowed them to ‘get their act together,’ must be fully prepared to use the DEBT CEILING in order to totally kill the Democrat’s new Social Spending (Wasting!) Bill, which will change our Country forever. Mitch and the Republican Senators had them beaten, but didn’t know it, and we ended up with the Unfrastructure Bill, which is only 11% infrastructure. Worse, he allowed a splitting of the Bills (with 19 votes, including himself), which makes the Dems path for the even worse Bill a much easier one. Use the Debt Ceiling, Mitch, show strength and courage. Our Country is being destroyed.”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, November 30, 2021

11/30/2021

ILHAN OMAR: “Congresswoman Ilhan Omar should apologize for marrying her brother, committing large-scale immigration and election fraud, wishing death to Israel, and for essentially abandoning her former country, which doesn’t even have a government—Exactly what she’d like to see for the United States!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, November 30, 2021

11/30/2021

2020 ELECTION: “It’s really interesting, everybody wants me on television, I get the highest ratings by far, they need ratings to survive, and yet I put out a challenge to debate me about the massive election fraud, which took place in the 2020 Presidential Election, and there are no takers—think of it, zero takers for the so-called ‘ratings machine.’ The reason is, they know they can’t win. All I have to do is lay out the facts—they are irrefutable. I’ve supposedly won all my political debates, but this would be the easiest of them all! Swing state by swing state, they get decimated. This is the Hoax and the Scam and the Crime of the Century. Just remember, no takers!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, November 30, 2021

12/1/2021

COVID-19/DEBATES/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Donald Trump tested positive for Covid-19 three days before his first debate against Joe Biden [on September 29, 2020], the former president’s fourth and last chief of staff has revealed in a new book.

Mark Meadows also writes that though he knew each candidate was required “to test negative for the virus within seventy two hours of the start time … Nothing was going to stop [Trump] from going out there.”

Trump, Meadows says in the book, returned a negative result from a different test shortly after the positive…

Trump announced he had Covid on 2 October.”

-Martin Pengelly, “Trump tested positive for Covid few days before Biden debate, chief of staff says in new book,” theguardian.com, December 1, 2021

12/1/2021

BIDEN-HARRIS ADMIN/DOJ/ROBERT MUELLER: “A federal appeals court on Wednesday questioned the Biden administration’s efforts to conceal large portions of an internal legal memo clearing former President Trump of wrongdoing in connection with the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller…

Judge David Tatel suggested that the evidence the government provided to a district court to support its argument that the memo should not be disclosed does not establish that it is protected under exemptions to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)…

The Biden administration is appealing a district court judge’s ruling that the 2019 memo crafted by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) be released in response to a FOIA lawsuit.”

-Harper Neidig, “Appeals court questions Biden DOJ stance on Trump obstruction memo,” thehill.com, December 1, 2021

12/1/2021

CELEBS/UK: “Donald Trump has accused the Duchess of Sussex of ‘using’ Prince Harry and being ‘disrespectful’ to the Queen in a wide-ranging interview.

Speaking to GB News’ Nigel Farage in Florida, the former US president said he hasn’t been a fan of the Duchess of Sussex since ‘day one’.”

-Sky News, “Donald Trump accuses Meghan Markle of ‘using’ Prince Harry and being ‘disrespectful’ to the Queen,” news.sky.com, December 1, 2021

12/1/2021

COVID-19/DEBATES: “The story of me having COVID prior to, or during, the first debate is Fake News. In fact, a test revealed that I did not have COVID prior to the debate.”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, December 1, 2021

12/1/2021

GEORGIA/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Stacey ‘The Hoax’ Abrams has just announced that she’s running for Governor of Georgia. I beat her single-handedly, without much of a candidate, in 2018. I’ll beat her again, but it will be hard to do with Brian Kemp, because the MAGA base will just not vote for him after what he did with respect to Election Integrity and two horribly run elections, for President and then two Senate seats. But some good Republican will run, and some good Republican will get my endorsement, and some good Republican will WIN!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, December 1, 2021

12/2/2021

INVESTIGATIONS/LAWSUIT: “As Donald Trump’s lawyers try to block the White House from releasing records to the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, the former president faces a flurry of other investigations that could come to a head in the coming weeks and the new year.

That includes two major state criminal investigations — one in New York and one in Georgia — and lawsuits concerning sexual assault allegations, a fight over an inheritance and questions of whether he should be held personally liable for inciting the insurrection.”

-Michael R. Sisak, Kate Brumback, and Jill Colvin, “Trump faces flurry of investigations beyond Jan. 6 probe,” apnews.com, December 2, 2021

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 lawsuit filed on behalf of six Republican voters after Joe Biden’s 154,000-vote victory over Trump in what officials have called the most secure election in US history.”

-Guardian staff and agencies, “Nine pro-Trump lawyers ordered to pay $175,000 for sham election lawsuit,” theguardian.com, December 3, 2021

12/4/2021

2020 ELECTION: “Anybody that doesn’t think there wasn’t massive Election Fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election is either very stupid, or very corrupt!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, December 4, 2021

12/4/2021

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “I thought Joe Biden was ‘put in office’ to eradicate the Coronavirus, despite the fact that he previously had failed so badly with the H1N1 pandemic. Well, I guess that didn’t work out too well because it was just announced that we’ve had more cases than ever before. The only difference is, the Fake News doesn’t like reporting the real facts. They are the enemy of the people and more dishonest than they have ever been before.”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, December 4, 2021

12/6/2021

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “Biden said that he was going to ‘beat the virus,’ but instead, the virus has beaten him—and badly. Far more people died this year than last, despite tremendous help from vaccines and therapeutics developed under ‘Trump.’ He said anybody with his results should leave office. Well Joe, what are you waiting for!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, December 6, 2021

12/6/2021

COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Fake News continues to push the false narrative that I had Covid prior to the first debate. My Chief of Staff Mark Meadows confirmed I did not have Covid before or during the debate, saying, ‘And yet, the way that the media wants to spin it is certainly to be as negative about Donald Trump as they possibly can while giving Joe Biden a pass.’ Biden goes around coughing on people all over the place, and yet the Corrupt News doesn’t even cover it. They continue to shield Biden, who has been a disaster not just on Covid, where we have more deaths this year than last, but on the Border, the Economy, Inflation, Afghanistan, Gas prices, and everything else. Probably because he’s not supposed to be in office in the first place!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, December 6, 2021

12/7/2021

2022 MIDTERM ELECTION/CONGRESS: “Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said Tuesday [December 7, 2021] he’s spoken directly with former President Donald Trump about installing Trump as House Speaker if Republicans win control of the chamber in the midterms…

The speaker of the House doesn’t have to be a member of Congress, but thus far every speaker in U.S. history has been… Republicans need to win just five seats in the 2022 midterms to take control of the House.”

-Nicholas Reimann, “Matt Gaetz Says He’s Talked With Trump About Making Him Speaker Of The House,” forbes.com, December 7, 2021

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 in high school, but because he’d professed that he ‘liked beer’ during his hearings and was, in Trump’s estimation, being too apologetic.”

-Meridith McGraw, “Meadows: Trump considered yanking Kavanaugh over ‘I like beer’ comments and apologetic tone,” politico.com, December 7, 2021

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 testify, arguing that Stone helped spearhead Trump’s crusade to overturn the 2020 election.”

-Dartunorro Clark, “Roger Stone invokes Fifth Amendment in House Jan. 6 probe,” nbcnews.com, December 7, 2021

12/7/2021

AFGHANISTAN/JOE BIDEN/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Vladimir Putin looks at our pathetic surrender in Afghanistan, leaving behind dead Soldiers, American citizens, and $85 billion worth of Military equipment. He then looks at Biden. He is not worried!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, December 7, 2021

12/9/2021

CONGRESS/INVESTIGATIONS: “A federal appeals court ruled on Thursday [December 9, 2021] that Congress is entitled to see White House records related to the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, rejecting former President Donald J. Trump’s claim that he still has the power to keep the material secret.”

-Charlie Savage, “Appeals Court Rejects Trump’s Bid to Shield Material From Jan. 6 Inquiry,” nytimes.com, December 9, 2021

12/10/2021

2020 ELECTION/ISRAEL: “Former President Trump accused Benjamin Netanyahu of disloyalty after the former Israeli prime minister congratulated President Biden on his presidential win earlier this year.

‘I haven’t spoken to him since,’ Trump said, according to comments released from an interview taken by Israeli journalist Barak Ravid. ‘F–k him,’ he added…

‘Nobody did more for Bibi. And I liked Bibi. I still like Bibi,’ he said, referring to the former prime minister by his nickname. ‘But I also like loyalty. The first person to congratulate Biden was Bibi. And not only did he congratulate him, he did it on tape.'”

-Caitlin McFall, “Trump slams Netanyahu in curse-fueled interview for congratulating Biden: ‘F— him,'” foxnews.com, December 10, 2021

12/10/2021

2020 ELECTION/GEORGIA: “Donald Trump and his allies falsely accused [Ruby] Freeman – along with her daughter and co-worker Wandrea ‘Shaye’ Moss – of election fraud…

Offering the first detailed account of their ordeal, the two women told Reuters about threats of lynching and racial slurs, along with alarming visits by strangers to the homes of Freeman and her mother. The intimidation began last December, a month after the 2020 election, when the Trump campaign released surveillance video they falsely claimed showed the two women, who are Black, opening ‘suitcases’ full of phony ballots to rig the vote count in predominantly Black Fulton County, which includes part of Atlanta.”

-Linda So and Jason Szep, “Two election workers break silence after enduring Trump backers’ threats,” reuters.com, December 10, 2021

12/10/2021

2020 ELECTION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows turned over to the House select committee investigating the 6 January Capitol attack a PowerPoint recommending Donald Trump to declare a national security emergency in order to return himself to the presidency.

The fact that Meadows was in possession of a PowerPoint the day before the Capitol attack that detailed ways to stage a coup suggests he was at least aware of efforts by Trump and his allies to stop Joe Biden’s certification from taking place on 6 January.”

-Hugo Lowell, “Capitol attack panel obtains PowerPoint that set out plan for Trump to stage coup,” theguardian.com, December 10, 2021

12/12/2021

DEMS/MITCH MCCONNELL: “Mitch McConnell is giving the Democrats victory on everything. What is wrong with this Broken Old Crow? He’s hurting the Republican Senators and the Republican Party. When will they vote him out of Leadership? He didn’t have the guts to play the Debt Ceiling card, which would have given the Republicans a complete victory on virtually everything. The Dems were ready to fold! Watch, they will use the Debt Ceiling against us at their first opportunity, and they won’t fold. It will not be pretty. GET RID OF MITCH!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, December 12, 2021

12/12/2021

FAKE NEWS: “It’s amazing how inaccurately the Fake News Media covers my statements. They will take something I say and literally write the exact opposite. They truly are a disgrace and disaster for our Country. Make America Great Again!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, December 12, 2021

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 that Meadows’ testimony is protected by executive privilege.”

-Kevin Breuninger, “Jan. 6 panel recommends contempt for Meadows, reveals panicked texts from Trump Jr., Fox hosts over riot,” cnbc.com, December 13, 2021

12/13/2021

CONGRESS/INVESTIGATIONS: “A lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump urged a federal appeals court to quash a congressional subpoena seeking years of financial records from his accounting firm, arguing on Monday [December 13, 2021] that the demand is too broad and could open the door for lawmakers to routinely harass and intimidate future presidents…

The congressional oversight investigation grew out of Mr. Trump’s refusal to make his tax returns public when he ran for president and, once he was in office, his decision not to divest his business dealings or place them into a blind trust while he was president.”

-Charlie Savage, “Lawyers Clash Again Over Subpoena for Trump’s Financial Records,” nytimes.com, December 13, 2021

12/14/2021

TRUMP TAXES: “A federal judge on Tuesday [December 14, 2021] ruled that the Treasury Department can release former President Donald Trump’s tax records to the House Ways and Means Committee.

U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden did put the ruling on hold, as he expects there to be an appeal.”

-Catherine Garcia, “Judge rules Trump can’t shield tax returns from House committee,” theweek.com, December 14, 2021

12/15/2021

INVESTIGATIONS/NEW YORK: “[T]he citizens of New York saw how unfairly and viciously she [Letitia James] and other highly partisan New York Democrat prosecutors were treating President Donald J. Trump. It’s called Prosecutorial Misconduct. Rather than continue to waste her time and taxpayer resources on a long continuing Witch Hunt against the Republican Party and me, she should focus her attention on helping to resurrect the once Great State of New York where crime and poverty continue to wreak havoc, with murder, rape, drug sales, and just about every other form of crime at record levels, and now with a just-announced highest unemployment rate in the Nation. New York is dying before our very eyes, and all the Democrat Prosecutors are focused on is how we can get and punish Donald Trump, who many would say has done, over the years, a spectacular job for New York!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, December 15, 2021

12/15/2021

LEGISLATION/MITCH MCCONNELL: “Mitch McConnell has given away the Unfrastructure Bill and will soon be giving away the Build Back Worse Bill, which will change the very fabric of our society. This was all made possible by the two-month extension he gave the Democrats, the separation of the two Bills, and, most importantly, his lack of courage in playing the Debt Ceiling Card. He has grabbed defeat from the jaws of victory! How this guy can stay as Leader is beyond comprehension—this is coming not only from me, but from virtually everyone in the Republican Party. He is a disaster and should be replaced as ‘Leader’ ASAP!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, December 15, 2021

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 testimony, along with four other people linked to the planning of pro-Trump rallies in Washington on Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, prior to the Capitol attack…

Stone has denied any involvement in the attack on the Capitol and has said he had no ‘advance knowledge’ of the march on the Capitol or efforts to disrupt the counting of electoral votes [in the 2020 election].”

-Benjamin Siegel and Soo Rin Kim, “Trump ally Roger Stone invokes 5th Amendment in appearance before Jan. 6 committee,” abcnews.go.com, December 17, 2021

12/17/2021

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP ADMINISTRATION: “Trump administration officials made ‘deliberate efforts to undermine the nation’s coronavirus response for political purposes,’ the House Select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis led by Democrats said in a report released Friday.

The committee, which spent months working to interview former Trump officials, said the administration worked to undermine the public health response to the coronavirus pandemic by blocking officials from speaking publicly, watering down testing guidance and attempting to interfere with other public health guidance.”

-Lauren Fox and Daniella Diaz, “House oversight committee releases report detailing efforts of Trump administration officials to ‘undermine’ Covid-19 efforts in US,” cnn.com, December 17, 2021

12/17/2021

ISRAEL/RELIGION: “Former President Donald Trump shared what he thought about American Jews in a recent interview with the Israeli journalist Barak Ravid…

‘People in this country that are Jewish no longer love Israel. I’ll tell you, the evangelical Christians love Israel more than the Jews in this country. It used to be that Israel had absolute power over Congress. And today I think it’s the exact opposite,’ Trump told Ravid.

‘I’ve said this for a long time: The Jewish people in the United States either don’t like Israel or don’t care about Israel,’ he said later.

‘The New York Times hates Israel, hates them. And they’re Jewish people that run The New York Times…’”

-Oma Seddiq, “Trump says American Jews ‘no longer love Israel’ and Jewish people ‘run The New York Times,’” businessinsider.com, December 17, 2021

12/18/2021

2020 ELECTION/DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS: “All the Democrats want to do is put people in jail. They are vicious, violent, and Radical Left thugs. They are destroying people’s lives, which is the only thing they are good at. They couldn’t get out of Afghanistan without disgracing our Country. The economy and inflation are a disaster. They’re letting thugs and murderers into our Country—their DA’s, AG’s, and Dem Law Enforcement are out of control. This is what happens in communist countries and dictatorships, and they don’t think they’ll be held accountable for rigging the 2020 Presidential Election. The Jan. 6 Unselect Committee is a coverup for what took place on November 3rd, and the people of our Country won’t stand for it.”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, December 18, 2021

12/19/2021

2020 ELECTION: “Former President Donald Trump downplayed the seriousness of the Jan. 6 insurrection — an attack that led to five deaths and cost millions of dollars in damages to the U.S. Capitol — during stops in Houston and Dallas this weekend.

‘What happened on Jan. 6 was a protest against a rigged election, that’s what it was,’ Trump said to cheers Sunday at American Airlines Center in Dallas. ‘This wasn’t an insurrection.’ […]

During a four-stop tour with former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly revisiting his presidency, Trump hammered on the false insistence that he, in fact, won the 2020 election.”

-Joshua Fechter, “Former President Donald Trump downplays Jan. 6 insurrection, doubles down on false election claims on Texas trip,” texastribune.com, December 19, 2021

12/20/2021

COVID-19/VACCINES: “Mr. Trump was in Texas on Sunday as part of a speaking tour with Bill O’Reilly, the author and former Fox News host, when Mr. O’Reilly said that both he and Mr. Trump ‘are vaxxed.’

Mr. O’Reilly then asked, ‘Did you get the booster?’

‘Yes,’ Mr. Trump said.

‘I got it too,’ Mr. O’Reilly said.

The crowd began to boo…

Mr. Trump said that his supporters should get vaccinated because, he suggested, unwillingness to do so represented a victory for liberals. ‘What we’ve done is historic,’ he said of the three Covid vaccines in use in the United States that were developed while he was in office. ‘Don’t let them take away, don’t take it away from ourselves. You’re playing right into their hands when you sort of like, ‘oh, the vaccine.’’”

-Azi Paybarah and Lauren McCarthy, “Donald Trump said he got a booster shot and his supporters booed.,” nytimes.com, December 20, 2021

12/21/2021

COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “Joe Biden was supposedly ‘elected’ because he was going to quickly get rid of COVID-19, sometimes referred to as the China Virus. How’s that working out?”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, December 21, 2021

12/21/2021

2020 ELECTION/DEMS/GOP: “In many ways a RINO is worse than a Radical Left Democrat, because you don’t know where they are coming from and you have no idea how bad they really are for our Country. The good news is there are fewer and fewer RINOs left as we elect strong Patriots who love America. I will be having a news conference on January 6th at Mar-a-Lago to discuss all of these points, and more. Until then, remember, the insurrection took place on November 3rd, it was the completely unarmed protest of the rigged [2020] election that took place on January 6th.”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, December 21, 2021

12/21/2021

2020 ELECTION/INVESTIGATIONS: “Why isn’t the Unselect Committee of highly partisan political hacks investigating the CAUSE of the January 6th protest, which was the rigged Presidential Election of 2020? Does anybody notice that they want to stay as far away from that topic as possible, the numbers don’t work for them, or even come close. The only thing they can do is not talk about it. Look at what is going on now in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, and, to a lesser extent, Michigan where the numbers are horrendously corrupt in Detroit, but the weak Republican RINOs in the Michigan House and Senate don’t want to touch the subject.”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, December 21, 2021

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 panel decides to subpoena him and he – like other Trump allies – decides to ignore that too.”

-Martin Pengelly, “Republican congressman refuses to cooperate with Capitol attack panel,” theguardian.com, December 21, 2021

12/21/2021

COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/VACCINES: “Former President Trump said Tuesday [December 21, 2021] that he is ‘very appreciative’ and ‘surprised’ that President Biden thanked him and his administration for their success in making COVID-19 vaccines available to the public, telling Fox News that ‘tone’ and ‘trust’ are critical in getting Americans vaccinated…

‘Thanks to the prior administration and our scientific community, America is one of the first countries to get the vaccine,’ Biden said Tuesday…

‘I’m very appreciative of that — I was surprised to hear it,’ Trump told Fox News. ‘I think it was a terrific thing, and I think it makes a lot of people happy.’”

-Brooke Singman, “Trump ‘very appreciative’ and ‘surprised’ Biden acknowledged his administration’s COVID vaccine success,” foxnews.com, December 21, 2021

12/22/2021

CDC/COVID-19/TRUMP ADMINISTRATION: “A top official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the Trump White House ‘forced’ the agency to relax its COVID-19 guidance for houses of worships, which left him worried that people would ‘get sick and perhaps die’ as a result, according to a newly unveiled May 2020 email thread.”

-Grace Panetta, “CDC official worried that people would ‘get sick and perhaps die’ after the Trump White House ‘forced’ the agency to relax its worship guidance, emails show,” businessinsider.com, December 22, 2021

12/23/2021

2020 ELECTION/CONGRESS: “Has it been at all noticed that I offered to debate anybody, on television or otherwise, about the RIGGED Presidential Election of 2020. This was a publicly stated challenge—I have been called a ‘ratings machine,’ and therefore would be good for television economics—which have not been doing so well lately. With all the bravado out there, I have not had one credible person willing to stand up and debate me in order to defend the CROOKED election. All involved, like those on the [congressional] Unselect Committee of January 6th, know that it is a losing proposition for them.”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, December 23, 2021

12/23/2021

2020 ELECTION/CONGRESS: “The [2020] election numbers are not defensible. Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, Nevada, and probably New Hampshire, Minnesota, New Mexico, and others were all won, and in some cases big, by a certain Republican Presidential Candidate, me. So, after one month, a very public offer to debate, I have no takers—not even the sleazebags you see on the [congressional] January 6th Commission who speak with such fake reverence about the day. This is Cancel Culture. They think they got away with the Crime of the Century, and they don’t want it to be talked about or discussed. Look at what has happened to our Country, and what a shame it is!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, December 23, 2021

12/23/2021

2020 ELECTION/CONGRESS: “The people being persecuted by the [congressional] January 6th Unselect Committee should simply tell the truth, that they are angry about the RIGGED Presidential Election of 2020. People are entitled to Freedom of Speech, and perhaps there has been no time in our Country’s history where Freedom of Speech has been so totally violated. They don’t want to talk about election results because they know they can’t win.”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, December 23, 2021

12/23/2021

2024 ELECTION/CONGRESS/INVESTIGATIONS: “The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is focusing intently on Donald Trump’s actions that day as it begins to discuss whether to recommend that the Justice Department open a criminal investigation into the former president.

Committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) said in an interview that of particular interest is why it took so long for him to call on his supporters to stand down…

A criminal referral against a former president would be historic and would ratchet up the political tensions that continue to swirl over the congressional inquiry into the worst attack on the Capitol since the War of 1812 as Trump considers running again for president [in the 2024 election].”

-Tom Hamburger, Jacqueline Alemany, Josh Dawsey, and Matt Zapotosky, “Thompson says Jan. 6 committee focused on Trump’s hours of silence during attack, weighing criminal referrals,” washingtonpost.com, December 23, 2021

12/24/2021

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/VACCINES: “’Look, the results of the [coronavirus] vaccine are very good, and if you do get (Covid), it’s a very minor form. People aren’t dying when they take the vaccine,’ he [Trump] said in an interview with The Daily Wire’s Candace Owens that was released Tuesday.

When Owens began raising doubt about the vaccine efficacy, Trump interjected, saying, ‘Well, no, the vaccine works.’

‘The ones that get very sick and go to the hospital are the ones that don’t take their vaccine. But it’s still their choice, and if you take the vaccine, you are protected,’ he said.”

-Veronica Stracqualursi and David Wright, “Trump touts effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccine,” cnn.com, December 24, 2021

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