12/27/2021

COVID-19/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Donald Trump’s loss-making Scottish golf resorts claimed in excess of £3.3m in emergency support from the UK government, to help furlough staff during the Covid pandemic…

Other government data shows Trump Turnberry and Trump International Scotland in Aberdeenshire then made further claims this year while the UK government’s job retention scheme was still in force.

The BBC reported those claims, not yet included in the Trump companies’ accounts, were worth between £520,000 and £1.3m, leading to a total claim for furlough funding of between £3.3m and £4.1m overall.”

Severin Carrell, “Donald Trump golf resorts claimed at least £3.3m in UK furlough support,” theguardian.com, December 27, 2021

12/29/2021

CONGRESS/INVESTIGATIONS/SUPREME COURT: “Lawyers for former President Donald Trump told the Supreme Court on Wednesday [December 29, 2021] that a Washington Post interview with the chairman of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol shows the committee is trying to establish a criminal complaint against Trump, something the lawyers say is beyond the committee’s authority…

Lawyers for Trump have asked the justices to put on hold a unanimous ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which rejected his assertions of executive privilege and his request to keep secret roughly 800 pages of his papers. President Joe Biden determined the material could be released to the committee.

Trump said the high court should take the case to determine whether that is proper.”

-Robert Barnes, “Trump asks Supreme Court to consider Jan. 6 chairman’s interview with Washington Post in bid to block records,” washingtonpost.com, December 29, 2021

12/29/2021

2020 ELECTION/COVID-19: “More cases of COVID-19, sometimes referred to as the China Virus, are recorded in the U.S. today than ever before—not even close, and the Fake News Media refuses to print the real numbers. Do you remember when the Democrats campaign was based on the fact that they would quickly and easily get rid of the China Virus? Their whole campaign was a lie from Religion, to the Border, to the Military, to the Economy, to Inflation, to the loss of Energy Independence and, of course, most embarrassing of all, to the inept, grossly incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan. All of those things, together with the Rigged 2020 Presidential Election, are the REAL BIG LIE!”

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

12/31/2021

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “The United States just set a record high for coronavirus infections. Remember when Biden said that he would quickly and easily solve this problem? How’s he doing? He now says that it is up to the states, not the Federal Government, exactly the opposite of what he said during the campaign!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, December 31, 2021

1/3/2022

SOCIAL MEDIA/TWITTER: “Twitter is a disgrace to democracy. They shouldn’t be allowed to do business in this Country. Marjorie Taylor Greene has a huge constituency of honest, patriotic, hard-working people. They don’t deserve what’s happened to them on places like low-life Twitter and Facebook. Everybody should drop off of Twitter and Facebook. They’re boring, have only a Radical Left point of view, and are hated by everyone. They are a disgrace to our Nation. Keep fighting, Marjorie!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, January 3, 2022

1/4/2021

2020 ELECTION/DEMS: “In light of the total bias and dishonesty of the January 6th Unselect Committee of Democrats, two failed Republicans, and the Fake News Media, I am canceling the January 6th Press Conference at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday, and instead will discuss many of those important topics at my rally on Saturday, January 15th, in Arizona—It will be a big crowd! What has become more and more obvious to ALL is that the LameStream Media will not report the facts that Nancy Pelosi and the Capitol Sergeant-at-Arms denied requests for the D.C. National Guard or Military to be present at the Capitol. Their emails and correspondence with the Department of Defense exist, but the media won’t ask for this evidence, or report the truth!…

Also, why is the primary reason for the people coming to Washington D.C., which is the fraud of the 2020 Presidential Election, not the primary topic of the Unselect Committee’s investigation? This was, indeed, the Crime of the Century.”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, January 4, 2022

1/4/2022

CIVIL UNREST/RALLY: “Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday [January 4, 2022] canceled a news conference he had scheduled for Jan. 6, the one-year anniversary of his supporters’ deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Trump said in a statement that he would instead discuss many of the same topics he would have addressed at the news conference at a rally in Arizona on Jan. 15.”

-Reuters, “Trump cancels planned Jan. 6 news conference,” reuters.com, January 4, 2022

1/5/2022

CHILDREN/COVID-19/EDUCATION: “What is happening in Chicago with all the school closures [due to COVID-19] is devastating. Democrats are congregating in mass tomorrow to fan the flames of a divide that THEY created, while our kids sit at home watching their futures vanish. It must stop. Educate our children in person or give every dollar spent on education directly to the students so they can get out of these failing government schools!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, January 5, 2022

1/6/2022

2020 ELECTION/BORDERS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “Biden is working hard to try and deflect the incompetent job he is doing, and has done, on the horrible Afghanistan withdrawal (surrender), the Borders, COVID, Inflation, loss of Energy Independence, and much more. Everything he touches turns to failure. That’s what you get when you have a rigged Election.”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, January 6, 2022

1/6/2022

2020 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN: “To watch Biden speaking is very hurtful to many people. They’re the ones who tried to stop the peaceful transfer with a rigged election. Just look at the numbers. Does anybody really think that Biden beat Obama with the Black population in select Swing State cities, but nowhere else? That he would lose 18 out of 19 bellwether counties, and 27 out of 27 “toss up” House races, but somehow miraculously receive the most votes in American history with no coattails? That he would lose Florida, Ohio, and Iowa and win, even though it has never been done before?…

Never forget the crime of the 2020 Presidential Election. Never give up!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, January 6, 2022

1/6/2021

CIVIL UNREST: “A jailed Capitol-riot defendant said he was disappointed in Donald Trump for canceling his January 6 press conference and suggested that the former president had abandoned his supporters…

[Edward Jacob] Lang then addressed Trump directly, saying: ‘January 6 you better do a press conference, man. We are rotting in jail because we stood up for what you told us to stand up for.’”

-Sophia Ankel, “Jailed Capitol-riot defendant blasts Trump for canceling his January 6 press conference, saying he abandoned his supporters,” businessinsider.com, January 6, 2022

1/6/2022

JOE BIDEN: “Former President Donald Trump responded to President Biden’s sharp criticism in a Jan. 6 speech, saying his Democratic successor is trying to distract from his record.

Biden ‘used my name today to try to further divide America,’ Trump said in a statement. ‘This political theater is all just a distraction for the fact Biden has completely and totally failed.’”

-Ronn Blitzer and Paul Conner, “Jan. 6: Trump hits back, saying Biden trying to ‘further divide America’ to distract from failures,” foxnews.com, January 6, 2022

1/6/2022

2020 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN: “President Joe Biden on Thursday marked the first anniversary of the January 6 insurrection by forcefully calling out former President Donald Trump for attempting to undo American democracy, saying such an insurrection must never happen again…

‘For the first time in our history, a President had not just lost an election. He tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power as a violent mob reached the Capitol,’ Biden said in a speech from the US Capitol that lasted just under 30 minutes. ‘But they failed. They failed. And on this day of remembrance, we must make sure that such an attack never, never happens again.’”

-Maegan Vazquez, Clare Foran, and Kate Sullivan, “Biden condemns Trump as a threat to democracy in speech marking one year since January 6 attack,” cnn.com, January 6, 2022

1/10/2022

2020 ELECTION: “Former president Donald Trump lashed out Monday at Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), calling him a ‘jerk,’ a day after the GOP senator said the 2020 election was ‘as fair as we have seen’ and dismissed Trump’s widely debunked allegations of extensive voter fraud…

‘Is he crazy or just stupid?’ Trump asked of Rounds. ‘The only reason he did this is because he got my endorsement and easily won his state in 2020, so now he thinks he has time, and those are the only ones, the weak, who will break away. Even though his election will not be coming up for 5 years, I will never endorse this jerk again.'”

-Mariana Alfaro, “Trump calls GOP senator a ‘jerk’ after he rejects former president’s false claims of widespread election fraud,” washingtonpost.com, January 10, 2022

1/11/2022

2020 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/STACEY ABRAMS: “Stacey Abrams helped Biden steal the 2020 Election in Georgia but now she won’t even share a stage with Joe. Stacey knows that Biden actually lost BIG in Georgia, and in the 2020 Presidential Election as a whole, and he’s been so terrible she now wants nothing to do with him. Even the woke, radical left realizes that Joe Biden’s Administration is an embarrassment!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, January 11, 2022

 

1/12/2022

COVID-19/VACCINES: “Former President Donald Trump this week blasted other politicians — most if not all of whom are Republicans — who have been vague on their COVID-19 vaccine status. Trump called them ‘gutless’ and implored them to open up about whether or not they’ve received the shots and booster…

‘I’ve had the booster. … I watched a couple of politicians be interviewed and one of the questions was, ‘Did you get the booster?’ — because they had the vaccine — and they’re answering like, in other words, the answer is ‘yes’ but they don’t want to say it,’ Trump, 75, told OAN. ‘Because they’re gutless.'”

-Virginia Chamlee, “Donald Trump Bashes ‘Gutless’ Politicians Who Won’t Confirm Whether They’ve Had COVID Booster: ‘Say It,'” people.com, January 12, 2022

1/12/2022

IRAN/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “White House press secretary Jen Psaki shifted blame Wednesday for the ‘aggressive actions’ being taken by Iran, claiming the country is ‘rapidly accelerating’ due to former President Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal.

In 2018, Trump announced he would be withdrawing the United States from the Iran nuclear deal, saying at the time that the agreement was ‘defective at its core.'”

-Kyle Morris, “White House claims Iran ‘rapidly accelerating’ due to Trump’s removal of US from Iran nuclear deal,” news.yahoo.com, January 12, 2022

 

1/13/2022

LINDSEY GRAHAM/MITCH MCCONNELL: “Former President Donald Trump is the ‘captain’ of the Republican ‘team’ going into 2022, whether or not intraparty critics or detractors agree, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told Fox News on Thursday [January 13, 2022].

Graham was reacting to comments he made on ‘Hannity’ Wednesday when he called for party unity and said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will not have his support for his caucus leadership post if he cannot work with Trump…

McConnell and Trump have shared a frosty relationship as of late, trading barbs with the former president dubbing the Kentucky lawmaker ‘the Broken Old Crow.'”

-Charles Creitz, “Lindsey Graham urges McConnell truce, says Trump is ‘indispensable’ GOP leader, ‘like it or not,'” foxnews.com, January 13, 2022

1/13/2022

2020 ELECTION/ELISE STEFANIK/ENDORSEMENT: “President Donald Trump predicted at a closed door fundraiser on Tuesday [January 11, 2022] that Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-NY, will ‘be president in about 6 years.’…

Stefanik voted against certifying the 2020 election results on the day of the January 6 insurrection.”

-Jake Lahut, “Trump predicts Rep. Elise Stefanik will be president ‘in about 6 years,'” businessinsider.com, January 13, 2022

1/13/2022

JOE BIDEN/POLLS: “President Joe Biden’s approval rating is now lower than former President Donald Trump’s was at the same point in his presidency, according to a new Quinnipiac poll.

The poll, released on Wednesday [January 12, 2022], showed that the president’s approval rating stands at 33 percent, while 53 percent of Americans disapprove of the job Biden is doing…

A Quinnipiac survey released in January 2018 gave Trump an approval rating of 36 percent, while 59 percent of respondents disapproved of the job he was doing.”

-Darragh Roche, “Joe Biden’s Approval Lower Than Donald Trump’s at Same Stage of Presidency: Poll,” newsweek.com, January 13, 2022

1/15/2022

CENSUS/TRUMP ADMIN: “Former President Donald Trump’s administration alarmed career civil servants at the Census Bureau by not only ending the 2020 national head count early, but also pressuring them to alter plans for protecting people’s privacy and producing accurate data, a newly released email shows…

On Tuesday, the Biden administration’s Scientific Integrity Task Force… issued a report warning that the bureau and other federal statistical agencies ‘must protect against interference in their efforts to create and release data that provide a set of common facts to inform policymakers, researchers, and the public.’ […]

The report presented the Trump administration’s decision to end 2020 census counting early as a case study, noting that the bureau’s internal watchdog, the Commerce Department inspector general’s office, concluded that the rushed schedule put the quality of the results at risk.”

-Hansi Lo Wang, “Trump officials interfered with the 2020 census beyond cutting it short, email shows,” npr.org, January 15, 2022

1/16/2022

2024 ELECTION/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Donald Trump is trashing Ron DeSantis in private as an ingrate with a ‘dull personality’ and no realistic chance of beating him in a potential 2024 showdown, according to sources who’ve recently talked to the former president about the Florida governor.

Why it matters: The two are among the most popular Republicans in the country, and as the former president eyes another run in 2024, he’s irked by DeSantis’ popularity and refusal to rule out running against him.”

-Jonathan Swan, “Trump dogs ‘dull’ DeSantis ahead of potential 2024 matchup,” axios.com January 16, 2022

1/18/2022

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

The committee is continuing to widen its scope into Trump’s orbit, this time demanding information and testimony from Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell and Boris Epshteyn. All four publicly pushed Trump’s baseless voter fraud claims in the months after the election.”

-Farnoush Amiri and Collen Long, “Rudy Giuliani among Trump allies subpoenaed by Jan. 6 panel,” news.yahoo.com, January 18, 2022

1/18/2022

2020 ELECTION/CONGRESS/SUPREME COURT: “Former President Trump’s lawyers told the Supreme Court that the House committee probing the Jan. 6 attack would suffer no harm if the justices delayed the transfer of Trump administration records to congressional investigators.

The bold assertion came amid an ongoing legal clash between Trump and the House panel over whether a trove of records that investigators say would shed light on the deadly Capitol riot is covered by the former president’s assertion of executive privilege…

Trump turned to the Supreme Court last month after lower federal courts in Washington, D.C., rejected his request to halt the National Archives from passing along the records. His attorneys have asked the justices to shield the disputed materials from disclosure while they consider his formal appeal.”

-John Kruzel, “Trump lawyers to Supreme Court: Jan. 6 committee ‘will not be harmed by delay,’” thehill.com, January 18, 2022

1/21/2022

2020 ELECTION/VOTING: “A draft of an executive order prepared for then-President Donald Trump and obtained Friday [January 21, 2022] by Politico would have authorized the secretary of defense to send National Guard troops to seize voting machines around the country in the weeks following the 2020 election…

The draft executive order [which was never signed by Trump] appears to be among the files the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was seeking to obtain from the National Archives.”

-Dareh Gregorian, “Trump draft executive order would have authorized National Guard to seize voting machines,” nbcnews.com, January 21, 2022

1/21/2022

2020 ELECTION/CONGRESS/INVESTIGATIONS/SUPREME COURT: “The select House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot has received more than 700 pages of Trump White House documents that it had sought for several months, NBC News reported Friday.

The panel received those records from the National Archives less than two days after the Supreme Court refused a request from former President Donald Trump to block their release.

The House committee is investigating the days leading up to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, the events during it, and its aftermath.

The invasion of the halls of Congress by a mob of Trump supporters came after weeks of false claims by Trump that he had actually won the 2020 election.”

-Dan Mangan, “January 6 riot probe gets over 700 pages of Trump White House documents after Supreme Court ruling,” cnbc.com, January 21, 2022

1/21/2022

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY: “Former President Donald Trump is reviving an old feud: one with wind power, which he frequently criticized during his tenure in the White House…

‘Stop with all of the windmills all over the place that are ruining the atmosphere. They’re killing the birds,’ Trump said, adding: ‘You look at what’s happening to these beautiful prairies and plains and these gorgeous areas of our country where they have these rusting hulks put up all over the place where— that are noisy, they’re killing the birds.’”

-Virginia Chamlee, “Trump Revives Gripe About Wind Power in Rambling Call to Sean Hannity: ‘Stop with All of the Windmills,’” people.com, January 21, 2022

1/21/2022

2020 ELECTION/GEORGIA/INVESTIGATIONS: “So let me get this straight, I am being investigated in Georgia for asking an Attorney General with many lawyers and others knowingly on the phone to look for corruption, which definitely took place in the Georgia [2020] Presidential election—but the people who committed the crime are in no way, shape, or form under investigation and are instead being protected? The people looking for the crime are being hounded and the people who committed the crime are being protected. This is not the American way.”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, January 21, 2022

2/1/2022

2024/INVESTIGATIONS/RACISM: “Trump alleged during a rally in Texas over the weekend that Black prosecutors investigating him are ‘racist,’ and he is again flirting with mob violence, calling for mass protests if they do anything he deems to be ‘wrong or illegal.’

And after teasing a 2024 run — ‘to take back that beautiful, beautiful house that happens to be white’ — he said one of his actions as president could be to pardon those convicted as a result of their actions during last year’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. More than 750 people and counting have been charged with crimes.”

-Domenico Montanaro, “Trump escalates racist rhetoric and plays on white grievance at recent rallies,” npr.org, February 1, 2022

2/1/2022

2024 ELECTION: “If I run and I win [the 2024 election], we will treat those people from Jan. 6 fairly. We will treat them fairly. And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons, because they are being treated so unfairly.”

-Donald Trump via Domenico Montanaro, “Trump escalates racist rhetoric and plays on white grievance at recent rallies,” npr.org, February 1, 2022

2/4/2022

2020 ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE/MIKE PENCE/MITCH MCCONNELL: “Just saw Mike Pence’s statement on the fact that he had no right to do anything with respect to the Electoral Vote Count, other than being an automatic conveyor belt for the Old Crow Mitch McConnell to get Biden elected President as quickly as possible. Well, the Vice President’s position is not an automatic conveyor if obvious signs of voter fraud or irregularities exist. That’s why the Democrats and RINOs are working feverishly together to change the very law that Mike Pence and his unwitting advisors used on January 6 to say he had no choice. The reason they want it changed is because they now say they don’t want the Vice President to have the right to ensure an honest vote. In other words, I was right and everyone knows it. If there is fraud or large scale irregularities, it would have been appropriate to send those votes back to the legislatures to figure it out. The Dems and RINOs want to take that right away. A great opportunity lost, but not forever, in the meantime our Country is going to hell!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, February 4, 2022

2/4/2022

NANCY PELOSI: “If Nancy Pelosi does her job on security, there is no ‘January 6.’ So the corrupt Unselect Committee should stop its work immediately! The Committee is nothing but a cover up for Pelosi’s failure to act and Biden’s failed Administration. The more time the Fake News Media spends talking about this, the less time they have to talk about Inflation, the horrendously implemented Afghanistan withdrawal, rising gas prices, loss of energy independence, Woke military leaders, etc. That’s what the Radical Left Dems want!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, February 4, 2022

2/4/2022

SOCIAL MEDIA: “Facebook’s number of daily users has plunged for the first time in Facebook history. This means people are tired of Fake News and abuse and especially tired of their political shenanigans. It could also be that people are waiting for TRUTH—the highly sophisticated platform that we look forward to opening in the not too distant future. Time to straighten out what is happening in our Country!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, February 4, 2022

2/4/2022

2020 ELECTION/MIKE PENCE: “Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday rejected former President Donald Trump’s claim that he could have ‘overturned’ the results of the 2020 election…

‘I heard this week that President Trump said I had the right to overturn the election. President Trump is wrong,’ Pence said.

Trump had publicly and privately urged Pence to use his constitutionally mandated position overseeing the counting of the Electoral College votes in the Capitol on Jan. 6 to stop Joe Biden’s victory from being officially certified and either reject states’ votes or somehow send them back to be reconsidered.”

-Dareh Gregorian, “’President Trump is wrong’: Pence rejects claim he could have ‘overturned the election,’” nbcnews.com, February 4, 2022

2/5/2022

DEMS/GOP/MITCH MCCONNELL: “Republicans are getting absolutely creamed with the phony redistricting going on all over the Country. Even the Fake New York Times is having a hard time believing how ridiculous things have gotten. We were expecting to do well in New York and now, we’ll lose 4 seats and the Old Broken-Down Crow, Mitch McConnell, sits back and does nothing to help the Party. The only thing the Democrats are good at is cheating on elections, and the proof is out for everybody to see but hold on, you haven’t seen anything yet!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, February 5, 2022

2/5/2022

2020 ELECTION/MIKE PENCE/MITCH MCCONNELL: “Mike Pence said he had no authority other than to send the [2020 election] votes forward to the Old Crow, Mitch McConnell. If so, why are the Dems and RINOs fighting so hard to make it impossible for a VP to do so in the future?”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, February 5, 2022

2/5/2022

2020 ELECTION/DEMS: “The [2020 election] ballot harvesting scam will go down as the biggest political scandal in history. It is totally determinative, and the Democrats are doing everything they can to stop the news from coming out. Republicans must be strong and unified in order to save our Country!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, February 5, 2022

2/7/2022

TRUMP ADMIN: “Former President Donald Trump had to return 15 boxes of documents that were improperly taken from the White House, the National Archives said Monday [February 7, 2022]…

[A]mong the items Trump had to return were correspondence with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that Trump has described as ‘beautiful letters’ and a handwritten letter that former President Barack Obama had left behind in the Oval Office for his successor…

The National Archives said they were items that under the Presidential Records Act should have been turned over at the end of the Trump administration.”

-Dareh Gregorian and Daniel Barnes, “National Archives says Trump took 15 boxes of White House records to Florida,” msnbc.com, February 7, 2022

2/10/2022

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former President Donald Trump denied Thursday [February 10, 2022] that he had flushed documents down a toilet when he served in the White House…

The detail, which comes from New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman’s forthcoming book, “Confidence Man,” was reported by Axios.

Haberman tweeted, ‘Here’s some reporting from the book’s later years — White House residence staff periodically found papers had clogged a toilet, leaving staff believing Trump had flushed material he’d ripped into pieces.'”

-Rebecca Shabad, “Trump denies he flushed records down White House toilet,” nbcnews.com, February 10, 2022

2/10/2022

2020 ELECTION/INVESTIGATIONS: “The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol [over the 2020 election] has discovered gaps in official White House telephone logs from the day of the riot, finding few records of calls by President Donald J. Trump from critical hours when investigators know that he was making them.

Investigators have not uncovered evidence that any official records were tampered with or deleted, and it is well known that Mr. Trump used his personal cellphone, and those of his aides, routinely to talk with aides, congressional allies and outside confidants.”

-Luke Broadwater, Jonathan Martin, Maggie Haberman, and Michael S. Schmidt, “Investigators Find Gaps in White House Logs of Trump’s Jan. 6 Calls,” nytimes.com, February 10, 2022

2/11/2022

2020 ELECTION/VOTER FRAUD/WISCONSIN: “Even more Voter Fraud was just discovered in Wisconsin. It shows the Election was Rigged and Stolen. A hearing this week revealed at least 50,000 illegal phantom votes were cast in the 2020 Presidential Election, which is more than twice the ‘victory’ margin. Incredible problems were also uncovered within Wisconsin’s voter rolls, including an apartment building with 102 percent turnout rate (not possible), 113 ballots cast from an address where no one lives, 3,713 ‘voters’ registered to U.S. Post Offices, and 625,000 dead people on Wisconsin’s voter rolls. In addition, 46,000 votes were cast on Nov. 3rd based on voter information that was never verified by the state. This is on top of massive ballot harvesting, rigged ‘indefinitely confined’ votes, the Wisconsin Election Commission instructing election officials to break the law, Zuckerberg drop boxes, etc. So who in Wisconsin is leading the charge to decertify this fraudulent Election? It’s time for RINOs to step forward and save our Country!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” February 11, 2022

2/12/2022

HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA/SCANDAL: “The latest pleading from Special Counsel Robert Durham provides indisputable evidence that my campaign and presidency were spied on by operatives paid by the Hillary Clinton Campaign in an effort to develop a completely fabricated connection to Russia. This is a scandal far greater in scope and magnitude than Watergate and those who were involved in and knew about this spying operation should be subject to criminal prosecution. In a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death. In addition, reparations should be paid to those in our country who have been damaged by this.”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” February 12, 2022

 

2/13/2022

2020 ELECTION/FAKE NEWS/MITCH MCCONNELL: “Could somebody please inform the low-rated political shows that plague our Sunday morning programming that my Endorsement of candidates is much stronger today than it was even prior to the 2020 Election Scam. I am almost unblemished in the victory count, and it is considered by the real pollsters to be the strongest endorsement in U.S. political history. There are plenty of existing politicians who wouldn’t be in power now were it not for my Endorsement (like the Old Crow [Mitch McConnell]!). The Fake News does everything within their power to diminish and belittle but the people know, and the politicians seeking the Endorsement really know!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” February 13, 2022

2/13/2022

TRUMP POST-PRESIDENCY: “THEY SPIED ON THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” February 13, 2022

2/13/2022

DEMS/HILLARY CLINTON/MITCH MCCONNELL: “What Hillary Clinton and the Radical Left Democrats did with respect to spying on a President of the United States, even while in office, is a far bigger crime than Watergate. It will be interesting to see how it was covered by the media and what Mitch McConnell and the RINOs will be doing about it. This is an insult to the Republican Party, but a far greater insult to our Nation. Covered very powerfully this morning by Fox and Friends and, of course, Maria Bartiromo.”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” February 13, 2022

2/14/2022

2020 ELECTION: “I was proven right about the spying, and I will be proven right about 2020!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” February 14, 2022

2/14/2022

2020 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN: “Can you imagine that, what should be the biggest story of our time, bigger than Watergate, is getting absolutely no mention, ZERO, in the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC Fake News, NBC Fake News, CBS Fake News, ratings-dead CNN, and MSDNC. This in itself is a scandal, the fact that a story so big, so powerful, and so important for the future of our Nation is getting zero coverage from LameStream, is being talked about all over the world. Just like they wouldn’t talk about the many Biden corruption scandals prior to the [2020] Election, (or for that matter now!), they won’t talk about this, which is potentially even bigger. It shows how totally corrupt and shameless the media is. Can you imagine if the roles were reversed and the Republicans, in particular President Donald Trump, got caught illegally spying into the Office of the President? All hell would break loose and the electric chair would immediately come out of retirement. The good news is, everybody is talking about not only this atrocity against our Nation, but that the press refuses to even mention the major crime that took place.”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” February 14, 2022

2/16/2022

TRUMP BUSINESS/WEALTH: “On Tuesday evening [February 15, 2022], former President Donald J. Trump… issued a statement of self-defense with new claims about his wealth…

Mr. Trump referred to a ‘June 30, 2014 Statement of Financial Condition’ prepared by the accounting firm, Mazars USA, showing that the year before his first presidential run his net worth had been $5.8 billion. But that is not what he said back then.

When he declared his candidacy in 2015, he produced what he called his ‘Summary of Net Worth as of June 30, 2014’ with a very different number: $8.7 billion. A month later, he upped the ante, releasing a statement pronouncing that his ‘net worth is in excess of TEN BILLION DOLLARS.’”

-Mike McIntire, “For Trump, a Perilous Exclamation Point to Years of Wealth Inflation,” nytimes.com, February 16, 2022

2/16/2022

INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “New York’s attorney general on Wednesday pounced on former President Donald Trump’s defense of company’s financial statements, saying the five-page statement Trump issued a day earlier contradicted a court filing by his attorneys…

Attorney General Letitia James is conducting a probe into whether the Trumps inflated real estate values to obtain bank loans, and reduced values to lower tax bills…

On Monday [February 14, 2022], the attorney general’s office made public a Feb. 9 letter from Trump’s longtime accountant, Mazars, which said the Trump Organization’s financial statements for 2011 through 2020 should no longer be relied on and that it would no longer do work for the former president’s New York-based real estate business.”

-Reuters, “N.Y. attorney general fires back at Trump’s defense of financial statements,” nbcnews.com, February 16, 2022

2/16/2022

INVESTIGATIONS/JOE BIDEN: “As the saga of Donald Trump’s White House records continues to unravel, President Joe Biden has determined that call logs from Jan. 6, 2021 — the day a large group of violent Trump supporters breached the U.S. Capitol — should be handed over to investigators looking into the deadly riots.

In a letter sent to the National Archives, White House Counsel Dana Remus said Biden rejected claims by the former president that the logs were subjected to executive privilege.”

-Virginia Chamlee, “Joe Biden Orders Release of Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 Visitor Logs: Executive Privilege ‘Not Justified,'” people.com, February 16, 2022

2/16/2022

CRYPTOCURRENCY/MELANIA: “Funds used to win an auction of Melania Trump’s first NFT were traced back to a wallet that belongs to the creators of the project…

The former first lady delved into the booming world of digital collectibles late last year. And in late January, her website showed the NFT from the ‘Head of State Collection’ auction sold for 1,800 SOL, the Solana blockchain’s native token. The bid’s value was roughly $178,400 during Wednesday’s session.

Bloomberg outlined a series of blockchain transactions showing the cryptocurrency used to purchase the NFT came from a wallet belonging to the entity that originally listed the project for sale.”

-Carla Mozée, “The winning bid in Melania Trump’s NFT auction appears to have come from a wallet associated with Melania Trump,” finance.yahoo.com, February 16, 2022

2/16/2022

HILLARY CLINTON/MEDIA: “Why isn’t the media asking who gave Crooked Hillary Clinton’s ‘plumbers’ their orders? With Watergate it was the coverup that turned out to be the far bigger crime. With Hillarygate it is the Mainstream Media Coverup that is almost as big of a crime as the act of treasonous espionage itself. It is showing the world why our media is truly the enemy of the people!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” February 16, 2022

2/16/2022

2016 ELECTION/2020 ELECTION/DEMS: “Much of the now-uncovered espionage campaign of the Democrats breaking into the White House and my New York City apartment, took place after the 2016 Election as yet another way to undermine the upcoming 2020 Election. This spying into the Oval Office continued for a long period of time and further served to undermine and discredit the 2020 Election, along with massive ballot harvesting, phantom voters, and so many other things that made the Election a sham. The voting numbers were big and determinative!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” February 17, 2022

2/17/2022

INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP FAMILY: “Former president Donald Trump and two of his adult children must give depositions in a long-running civil investigation into the family’s business practices — a ruling that means the trio could face hours of uncomfortable questioning by investigators in the near future…

They accused New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) of trying to circumvent the legal process by seeking evidence for the civil matter that she could also use to build a criminal case against the former president and his businesses.”

-Shayna Jacobs and Jonathan O’Connell, “Donald Trump and two of his children must be deposed by New York Attorney General, judge rules,” nytimes.com, February 17, 2022

2/17/2022

TRUMP BUSINESS/WEALTH: “Former President Donald Trump said in a court filing Monday [February 14, 2022] that he ‘denies knowledge or information sufficient to form a belief as to the truth’ about his company’s finances.

A day later, he issued a blistering 1,100-word statement in response to his longtime accounting firm Mazars USA dropping the Trump Organization as a client and claiming it could no longer stand by a decade’s worth of tax documents.”

-Jacob Shamsian, “Trump said in court he had no ‘knowledge’ of his company’s finances a day before he issued an 1,100-word statement defending his company’s finances,” businessinsider.com, February 17, 2022

2/17/2022

FAKE NEWS/HILLARY CLINTON/MEDIA: “So, Crooked Hillary Clinton, one of the most corrupt politicians ever to run for President, can break into the White House, my apartment, buildings I own, and my campaign—in other words, she can spy on a Presidential candidate and ultimately, the President of the United States—and the now totally discredited Fake News Media does everything they can not to talk about it.”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” February 17, 2022

2/17/2022

INVESTIGATIONS/NEW YORK: “[F]ailed Gubernatorial candidate, Letitia James, can run for the office of AG on saying absolutely horrendous and false things about Donald Trump, a man she doesn’t know and has never met, go on to get elected, and then selectively prosecute him and his family. After viewing millions of pages of documents over many years, they come up with a “Fringe Benefits” case on a car, an apartment, and on grandchildren’s education. She is doing everything within their corrupt discretion to interfere with my business relationships, and with the political process.

With the rest of the case, even Cy Vance, who just left the DA’s office without prosecuting anything additional, because there isn’t anything additional to prosecute—THERE IS NO CASE! The targeting of a President of the United States, who got more votes while in office than any President in History, by far, and is a person that the Radical Left Democrats don’t want to run again, represents an unconstitutional attack on our Country—and the people will not allow this travesty of justice to happen. It is a continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt in history—and remember, I can’t get a fair hearing in New York because of the hatred of me by Judges and the judiciary. It is not possible!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” February 17, 2022

2/18/2022

FAKE NEWS/HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION: “The National Archives did not ‘find’ anything, they were given, upon request, Presidential Records in an ordinary and routine process to ensure the preservation of my legacy and in accordance with the Presidential Records Act. If this was anyone but ‘Trump,’ there would be no story here. Instead, the Democrats are in search of their next Scam. The Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax turned out to be a Democrat inspired fake story to help Crooked Hillary Clinton. Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax #2, and so much more, has all been a Hoax. The Fake News is making it seem like me, as the President of the United States, was working in a filing room. No, I was busy destroying ISIS, building the greatest economy America had ever seen, brokering Peace deals, making sure Russia didn’t attack Ukraine, making sure China didn’t take over Taiwan, making sure there was no inflation, creating an energy independent country, rebuilding our military and law enforcement, saving our Second Amendment, protecting our Border, and cutting taxes. Now, Russia is invading Ukraine, our economy is being destroyed, our Border is once again overrun, and the mandate continues. Instead of focusing on America, the media just wants to talk about their plan to ‘get’ Trump. The people won’t stand for it any longer!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” February 18, 2022

2/20/2022

TRUMP BUSINESS: “My long-term accounting firm didn’t leave me for any other reason than they were harassed, abused, and frightened by DA’s and AG’s that for years have been threatening them with indictment and ruination. They were ‘broken’ by these Radical Left racist prosecutors, and couldn’t take it anymore. Even the letter they sent stated, ‘Mazars performed its work in accordance with professional standards. A subsequent review of those work papers confirms this.’ Further, their disclaimer clause in the financial statements has for years stated much the same.

My company is incredible with some of the greatest assets in the world and very low debt. Also, we’re loaded with cash. The Fake News Media hates talking about it!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” February 20, 2022

2/22/2022

LAWSUIT/SUPREME COURT: “Now that the National Archives already released records to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, the Supreme Court of the United States unceremoniously jettisoned former President Donald Trump’s petition, which asked whether the committee’s records request ran afoul of the ‘Constitution or laws of the United States.’ […]

In an order list on Tuesday [February 22, 2022], the high court rejected Trump’s petition for a writ of certiorari, without comment.”

-Adam Klasfeld, “Supreme Court Rejects Donald Trump’s Petition to Try to Block Release of Records the Jan. 6 Committee Already Obtained,” lawandcrime.com, February 22, 2022

2/22/2022

JOE BIDEN/UKRAINE/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, ‘This is genius…’ Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine. Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful. So, Putin is now saying, ‘It’s independent,’ a large section of Ukraine. I said, ‘How smart is that?’ And he’s gonna go in and be a peacekeeper. That’s strongest peace force … We could use that on our southern border.

Here’s a guy that says, you know, ‘I’m gonna declare a big portion of Ukraine independent’ — he used the word ‘independent’ — ‘and we’re gonna go out and we’re gonna go in and we’re gonna help keep peace.’ You gotta say that’s pretty savvy. And you know what the response was from Biden? There was no response.”

-Donald Trump via Philip Bump, “‘Genius,’ ‘Savvy’: Trump reacts to Putin’s moves on Ukraine exactly as you’d expect,” washingtonpost.com, February 22, 2022

2/22/2022

SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP POST-PRESIDENCY: [Donald Trump’s] “long-promised social network, Truth Social, has been almost entirely inaccessible in the first days of its grand debut because of technical glitches, a 13-hour outage and a 300,000-person waitlist…

[E]arly glimpses at Truth Social suggest its offerings are almost identical to what Twitter and other sites have offered for years — except tweets are called ‘truths,’ and retweets ‘retruths.’ […]

Trump’s company, the Trump Media & Technology Group, also prohibits anyone from attempting to ‘disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us and/or the Site.’ […]

On Sunday, people who’d ‘preordered’ the app from Apple’s App Store were sent an alert that it was available, sending it sailing to the top of the free-app download charts.

But many who tried to actually sign up to use the app faced obstacles immediately.”

-Drew Harwell, “Trump’s Truth Social’s disastrous launch raises doubts about its long-term viability,” washingtonpost.com, February 22, 2022

2/22/2022

LAWSUIT: “A lawyer for a woman who accused former President Donald Trump of raping her in the mid-1990s and then filed a defamation lawsuit against him said Tuesday she will not seek to depose Trump prior to trial because it would cause unnecessary delay, but she added that a DNA sample was still being sought.

She told reporters outside court that she was looking forward to the trial on behalf of all women ‘who have been grabbed and groped, assaulted and raped by men in power and are silenced.'”

-Larry Neumeister, “Donald Trump’s DNA, not deposition sought in defamation suit,” apnews.com, February 22, 2022

2/22/2022

OIL/RUSSIA/UKRAINE/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “If properly handled, there was absolutely no reason that the situation currently happening in Ukraine should have happened at all. I know Vladimir Putin very well, and he would have never done during the Trump Administration what he is doing now, no way! Russia has become very very rich during the Biden Administration, with oil prices doubling and soon to be tripling and quadrupling. The weak sanctions are insignificant relative to taking over a country and a massive piece of strategically located land. Now it has begun, oil prices are going higher and higher, and Putin is not only getting what he always wanted, but getting, because of the oil and gas surge, richer and richer. The U.S. was energy independent under the Trump Administration, an independence that we had never obtained before, and oil prices would have remained low. Now, what a mess our Country is in!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” February 22, 2022

2/23/2022

INVESTIGATIONS/NEW YORK/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A long-running investigation into Trump’s business practices from the Manhattan district attorney’s office appears to have been derailed, as the two lead prosecutors, Carey Dunne and Mark Pomerantz, resigned Wednesday [February 23, 2022]. A New York Times report suggests they did so because the new district attorney, Alvin Bragg, told them ‘he had doubts about moving forward with a case’ against Trump.

The big question is why. Did Bragg legitimately conclude that the case against Trump, which he inherited from former district attorney Cyrus Vance, was weak?

Or did he get cold feet about taking on the powerful former president? […]

The truth could also lie in the middle — the case might not be definitively weak or strong but rather somewhere in between. So this could just be a genuine difference of opinion about the case, with no nefarious behavior necessary.”

-Andrew Prokop, “New York investigation into Trump’s business looks imperiled after prosecutors quit,” vox.com, February 23, 2022

2/23/2022

JOE BIDEN/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Putin is playing Biden like a drum. It is not a pretty thing to watch!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, February 23, 2022

2/23/2022

USA: “Our Country has totally lost its self-confidence!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, February 23, 2022

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2/24/2022

UKRAINE: “If I were in Office, this deadly Ukraine situation would never have happened!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, February 24, 2022

2/25/2022

HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA/UKRAINE/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Appearing on ‘Morning Joe,’ [Hillary] Clinton accused Trump of ‘giving aid and comfort’ to Putin amid the ongoing invasion of Ukraine and claimed Republicans were playing into the latter’s ambitions to ‘undermine democracy’ by viewing him as a strong leader who aligned with their values.

‘We have to also make sure that within our own country we are calling out those people who are giving aid and comfort to Vladimir Putin, who are talking about what a genius he is, what a smart move it is, who are unfortunately being broadcast by Russian media, not only inside Russia, but in Europe to demonstrate the division within our own country,’ Clinton told host Mika Brzezinski, referencing Trump earlier this week calling Putin a ‘genius’ and ‘very savvy’ for how he was handling Ukraine.”

-Brandon Gillespie, “Hillary Clinton repeatedly suggests Donald Trump, Republicans enabling Putin aggression during MSNBC interview,” foxnews.com, February 25, 2022

2/25/2022

RUSSIA/UKRAINE/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “As Russia prepared to strike Ukraine and the United States rushed to defend neighboring allies in Europe, former President Donald J. Trump had nothing but admiration for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

He is ‘pretty smart,’ Mr. Trump said on Wednesday [February 23, 2022] at a Florida fund-raiser, assessing the impending invasion like a real estate deal. ‘He’s taken over a country for $2 worth of sanctions,’ he said, ‘taking over a country — really a vast, vast location, a great piece of land with a lot of people — and just walking right in.’ […]

Cold War-era Republicans, historians said, would have repudiated comments like Mr. Trump’s as un-American.”

-David D. Kirkpatrick, Maggie Astor, and Catie Edmondson, “Trump Praises Putin, Leaving Republicans in a Bind,” nytimes.com, February 25, 2022

2/26/2022

JOE BIDEN: “You could take the five worst presidents in history and put them together, and they would not have done the damage that Joe Biden and his administration has done in just a very short 13 months. And no matter how you look at it, our country has totally lost its self-confidence.”

-Donald Trump, “Former President Trump Speaks at Conservative Political Action Conference,” c-span.org, February 26, 2022

2/26/2022

AFGHANISTAN/RUSSIA/UKRAINE/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “The Russian attack on Ukraine is appalling. It’s an outrage and an atrocity that should never have been allowed to occur. It would never have occurred— We are praying for the proud people of Ukraine, God bless them all… As everyone understands, this horrific disaster would never have happened if our [2020] election was not rigged, and if I was the president, very simply, it wouldn’t have happened…

I have no doubt that Putting made his decision to ruthlessly attack Ukraine only after watching that pathetic withdrawal from Afghanistan.”

-Donald Trump, “Former President Trump Speaks at Conservative Political Action Conference,” c-span.org, February 26, 2022

2/28/2022

ENERGY/SAUDI ARABIA/TURKEY: “If my energy policy had remained in place, where we were energy independent, and would have soon been bigger in production than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined, the world would have had no problems whatsoever. This war should never have started in the first place. If the [2020] Election wasn’t Rigged, America would right now continue to have record-low gas prices, as it was under my Administration, and we would be supplying the world with oil and gas. Also, Russia would not have attacked Ukraine. Instead, we have a horribly tragic and unnecessary war, record-high energy prices, Inflation, no Border, crime, and chaos. Make America STRONG Again!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” February 28, 2022

 

3/1/2022

FAKE NEWS/UKRAINE/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “The RINOs, Warmongers, and Fake News continue to blatantly lie and misrepresent my remarks on Putin because they know this terrible war being waged against Ukraine would have never happened under my watch. They did absolutely nothing as Putin declared much of Ukraine an ‘independent territory.’ There should be no war waging now in Ukraine, and it is terrible for humanity that Biden, NATO, and the West have failed so terribly in allowing it to start. Instead of showing strength and toughness, they declared the Global Warming Hoax as the #1 threat to global security, killed American Energy Independence, and then made Europe, the U.S., and the rest of the World dependent on Russian oil. They laid down the welcome mat and gave Russia the opening, now Putin may be getting everything he wanted, with Ukraine and the rest of the World suffering the consequences. It’s terrible, but this is what you get with Biden, the Democrats, and RINO warmongers!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” March 3, 2022

3/3/2022

LINDSEY GRAHAM/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, said on Wednesday that he thinks it ‘was a mistake’ for former President Donald Trump to call Russian President Vladimir Putin a genius.

‘I think that was a mistake. I think I know what he was trying to say, you know, going into the Donbas. But, no. Let’s just make it clear, Putin’s not a genius, he’s a war criminal,’ said Graham, a close Trump ally.”

-Ali Zaslav and Ellie Kaufman, “Lindsey Graham says Trump calling Putin genius was ‘a mistake,’” cnn.com, March 3, 2022

3/3/2022

2020 ELECTION/ARIZONA/DEMS/GEORGIA/WISCONSIN: “The actual conspiracy to defraud the United States was the Democrats rigging the Election, and the Fake News Media and the Unselect Committee covering it up. Few things could be more fraudulent, or met with more irregularities, than the Presidential Election of 2020. They refuse to cover the facts, such as just this week the special counsel in Wisconsin called for the decertification of the 2020 Election because of massive illegality, including election bribery, and the preying on the elderly for votes, which resulted in fraud of ’95-100 percent turnout,’ an impossibility, in at least 91 nursing homes. This is true with many other states, especially swing states. In Arizona, 204,430 mail-in ballots had mismatched signatures that were never sent to review, and 740,000 mail-in ballots had broken chain of custody, all far more necessary than the votes needed, 10,457, for ‘President Trump to win.’ In Georgia, over 240 ballot harvesters have been identified in an illegal operation spanning multiple swing states, all caught on video.”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” March 3, 2022

 

3/4/2022

ATTORNEY GENERAL/WILLIAM BARR: “Former Attorney General William Barr said in an interview aired on Friday that he believes former President Trump is responsible for the Capitol riot ‘in the broad sense of that word.’ […]

‘I do think he was responsible in the broad sense of that word, and that it appears that part of the plan was to send this group up to the Hill. I think the whole idea was to intimidate Congress, and I think that that was wrong,’ Barr responded.

Holt noted during the interview that Trump provided a three-page response to the network over Barr’s remarks, in which he called his former attorney general a ‘coward,’ ‘a big disappointment’ and ‘lazy.’ He also said Barr’s forthcoming memoir, ‘One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General,’ was ‘fake.’

-Caroline Vakil, “Barr says Trump responsible for Jan. 6 riot ‘in the broad sense of that word,'” thehill.com, March 4, 2022

3/4/2022

2020 ELECTION/ATTORNEY GENERAL/VOTER FRAUD/WILLIAM BARR: “Former Attorney General Bill Barr wouldn’t know voter fraud if it was staring him in the face—and it was. The fact is, he was weak, ineffective, and totally scared of being impeached, which the Democrats were constantly threatening to do. They ‘broke’ him. He should have acted much faster on the Mueller Report, instead of allowing the fake Russia, Russia, Russia, Hoax to linger for so long, but it was the Election Fraud and Irregularities that he refused to act on because he wanted to save his own hide—and he did. He never got impeached, contempt charges never went forward, and the Democrats were very happy with him—but I wasn’t. The Unselect Committee of Political Hacks continues to spin its wheels in trying to fabricate a narrative that doesn’t exist. The only thing they refuse to look into is the massive Election Fraud that took place in the 2020 Presidential Election.”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, March 4, 2022

3/6/2022

CHINA/RUSSIA/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Former president Donald Trump mused Saturday [March 5, 2022] to the GOP’s top donors that the United States should label its F-22 planes with the Chinese flag and ‘bomb the s–t out of Russia.’ […]

‘And then we say, China did it, we didn’t do it, China did it, and then they start fighting with each other and we sit back and watch,’ he said…

After coming under fierce criticism for praising Putin as ‘savvy’ and ‘brilliant’ for the Russian leader’s moves in Ukraine last month, he struck a tougher tone Saturday — claiming Putin never would have invaded the country if Trump was president of the United States.”

-Josh Dawsey, “Trump muses on war with Russia and praises Kim Jong Un,” washingtonpost.com, March 6, 2022

3/6/2022

2024 ELECTION/GOP: “Trump all but said he planned to run for the presidency again — and that he wasn’t going anywhere…

‘We’ve already won two presidential elections,’ Trump falsely stated. ‘And now I feel obligated that we have to really look strongly at doing it again. … We are looking at it very, very strongly. We have to do it. We have to do it.’

‘We’re doing great as a party,’ he said. ‘The Republican Party is now a fighting party. We are now a winning party. We are never going back to what it was before. It was heading in the wrong direction.'”

-Josh Dawsey, “Trump muses on war with Russia and praises Kim Jong Un,” washingtonpost.com, March 6, 2022

3/6/2022

2020 ELECTION/TRUMP PEOPLE/VOTER FRAUD: “Mark Meadows, who was former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, may have committed voter fraud when he registered a 14-by-62-foot mobile home in Scaly Mountain, North Carolina, as his residential address. Meadows has never owned that property and there is absolutely no evidence to suggest he may have spent time there, according to the New Yorker’s Charles Bethea. That very well means that one of the biggest names in Republican circles who has been pushing the lie that the 2020 presidential election was plagued with voter fraud may have committed voter fraud himself.”

-Daniel Politi, “Report Suggests Mark Meadows May Have Committed Voter Fraud,” slate.com, March 6, 2022

3/7/2022

ATTORNEY GENERAL/WILLIAM BARR: “Former President Trump ridiculed his former attorney general, William Barr, in a letter to NBC News anchor Lester Holt over the weekend.

‘I made many great appointments during my Administration, and we accomplished more than most Administrations could even dream of, but Bill Barr was not one of my better picks,’ Trump wrote. ‘He crumbled under the pressure, and bowed to the Radical Left—And that is not acceptable. Now he is groveling for the media, hoping to gain acceptance that he doesn’t deserve.’ […]

During an interview on NBC’s ‘Today’ show Monday morning [March 7, 2022], Barr called Trump’s letter ‘par for the course.’

‘The president is a man who, when he is told something, he doesn’t want to hear, he immediately throws a tantrum,’ Barr added.”

-Dominick Mastrangelo, “Trump rips Barr in letter to NBC’s Lester Holt,” thehill.com, March 7, 2022

3/9/2022

TRUMP BUSINESS: “Donald Trump has refinanced the $100 million dollar mortgage on his flagship Manhattan skyscraper, Trump Tower, according to New York City records.

The lender is Axos Bank in San Diego; the bank CEO, Greg Garrabrants, donated some $50,000 to Republican campaigns since 2012; $9,600 in donations supported Trump, according to federal election records.”

-Laura Italiano, “Donald Trump takes new $100 million loan on Trump Tower; re-fi was handled by San Diego bank headed by GOP donor,” businessinsider.com, March 9, 2022

3/9/2022

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY/UKRAINE: [Kyle Forgeard: “What do you see happening next then [in Ukraine]? ‘Cause it seems like the tensions are high. How does this all end? Is this going to be like a long-term thing? How do you see it unfolding?”]

“Well, and I said this a long time ago, if this happens, we are playing right into their hands. Green energy. The windmills. They don’t work. They’re too expensive. They kill all the birds. They ruin your landscapes. And yet the environmentalists love the windmills. And I’ve been preaching this for years. The windmills. And I had them way down. But the windmills are the most expensive energy you can have. And they don’t work. And by the way, they last a period of 10 years and by the time they start rusting and rotting all over the place, nobody ever takes them down. They just go on to the next piece of prairie or land and destroy that.”

-Donald Trump via Chris Cillizza, “Donald Trump was asked about the future of Ukraine. He started talking about windmills,” cnn.com, March 10, 2022 [quote was from an interview on March 9, 2022]

3/11/2022

LAWSUIT: “A federal judge in Manhattan has barred Donald Trump from countersuing rape accuser E. Jean Carroll — in a fiery new decision that accuses the former president of ‘dilatory’ and ‘frivolous’ delay tactics…

The ruling puts an end to Trump’s attempt to use New York’s anti-SLAPP law to countersue Carroll and seek attorney’s fees if successful.

Anti-SLAPP laws discourage people from using lawsuits to silence their free speech; Trump had argued that it had been his free speech right to call Carroll’s allegations false and scoff ‘she’s not my kind’ after she accused him of raping her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.”

-Laura Italiano, “Donald Trump barred from countersuing E. Jean Carroll; judge slams his ‘frivolous’ delays,” businessinsider.com, March 11, 2022

3/11/2022

2020 ELECTION/TECHNOLOGY/UKRAINE: “YouTube has continued Big Tech’s crackdown on Donald Trump’s lies around the 2020 presidential election by pulling his video podcast appearance with pranksters the Nelk Boys…

[T]he video was pulled from YouTube over ‘content that advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches changed the outcome of the U.S. 2020 presidential election,’ according to a notice from the service…

After the video was deleted, Trump went on Hannity and likened the removal of his video from YouTube to the way Russian state media censors news about the invasion of Ukraine.”

-Sophie Mellor, “Donald Trump compares YouTube to Russia after it pulls his election lies in appearance on Nelk Boys show,” fortune.com, March 11, 2022

3/11/2022

UKRAINE/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “During a lengthy interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity on Thursday night [March 10, 2022]… Hannity tried to elicit Trump into calling Putin evil or something amounting to it. And repeatedly, Trump declined, instead focusing on tangential issues. When he did lament the atrocious scenes in Ukraine, he talked about it merely as something ‘sad’ or regrettable that was happening, rather than attaching it to Putin…

Trump instead re-upped his claim that this wouldn’t have happened on his watch… Trump’s only mention of Putin: ‘And I know him well, and this was not something that was going to happen at all.’”

-Aaron Blake, “Sean Hannity’s remarkable, failed attempts to get Trump to call Putin ‘evil,’” washingtonpost.com, March 11, 2022

3/12/2022

EDUCATION/RACISM: “Getting critical race theory out of our schools is not just a matter of values, it’s also a matter of national survival. We have no choice, the fate of any nation ultimately depends upon the willingness of its citizens to lay down and they must do this, lay down their very lives to defend their country. If we allow the Marxists and Communists and Socialists to teach our children to hate America, there will be no one left to defend our flag or to protect our great country or its freedom.”

-Donald Trump on March 12, 2022, transcript via Bess Levin, “Trump Tells Supporters They Must Fight to the Death to Stop Schools from Teaching Kids about Systemic Racism,” vanityfair.com, March 14, 2022

3/12/2022

ENERGY/RUSSIA/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Do you think Putin is going to stop? It’s going to get worse and worse. He’s not going to accept it. And we don’t have anybody to talk to him. You had somebody to talk to him with me; no one was ever tougher on Russia than me…

The U.S. must make clear to Putin that he has two choices: To negotiate peace right now or face blistering consequences, including a push to permanently eliminate dependence on Russian energy.”

-Donald Trump on 3/12/2022 via Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Ben Kamisar, Bridget Bowman, and Alexandra Marquez, “Trump attempts to fix his Putin problem,” nbcnews.com, March 14, 2022

3/12/2022

MEDIA/TECHNOLOGY: “Such Fake News and stories about me on Google. Anything positive does not get reported. Even the NELK Boys record-setting interview with me was taken down because I told the TRUTH, which the Radical Left cannot handle. The Media and Big Tech is doing everything possible to destroy our Country. They are truly the ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, March 12, 2022

3/14/2022

MEDIA: “Time Warner, the owner of Fake News CNN, has just announced that they will be terminating a very popular and wonderful news network (OAN). Between heavily indebted Time Warner, and Radical Left Comcast, which runs Xfinity, there is a virtual monopoly on news, thereby making what you hear from the LameStream Media largely FAKE, hence the name FAKE NEWS! I believe the people of this Country should protest the decision to eliminate OAN, a very important voice. Likewise, Comcast is terrible and expensive. Let them know that you’re sick and tired of FAKE NEWS! In this modern age of technology, they are no longer necessary. Demand that OAN be allowed to stay on the air. It is far bigger and more popular than anyone knows, and importantly, it represents the voice of a very large group of people!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, March 14, 2022

 

3/14/2022

2024 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN FINANCE/PAC: “A Democratic super PAC said it is filing a formal complaint with the Federal Election Commission… The complaint uses Mr. Trump’s own words about a 2024 run — ‘I know what I’m going to do, but we’re not supposed to be talking about it yet from the standpoint of campaign finance laws,’ he said in the fall — to accuse him of improperly using his existing political committees to advance a presidential run.

Federal rules require those who raise or spend more than $5,000 in support of a presidential campaign to register with the Federal Election Commission.”

-Shane Goldmacher, “Democratic Group Says Trump Is Breaking Campaign Law by Not Declaring for 2024,” nytimes.com, March 14, 2022

3/14/2022

ENTERTAINMENT: “’Would you believe it? I love music. I have an aptitude for music,’ the former president insisted during a recent appearance on the Nelk Boys’ Full Send podcast. ‘I’ve always had a high aptitude for music, but I love great music.’

Trump spoke with the podcasters and YouTube creators last week at his private resort, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida…

‘You know what gets them rocking? Y.M.C.A.,’ Trump said, referring the Village People’s 1978 disco classic that was often played — white the former president danced — at his events during his 2020 reelection campaign…

‘Did you ever hear that? They call it the gay national anthem,’ he said on Full Send. ‘But ‘Y.M.C.A.’ gets people up and it gets them moving.’”

-Aaron Parsley, “Trump Takes a Break from Everything Else to Share His Thoughts on … ‘Y.M.C.A.,’” people.com, March 14, 2022

3/16/2022

NATO: “People forget so quickly, with the help of the Fake News, that it was me that got the 20 out of 28 delinquent NATO countries to start paying the money that they owed in order to rebuild a floundering NATO. Nobody knew things would happen so rapidly, but NATO was poor and now it is rich, and all of the Fake News commentators that said Trump was tearing down NATO should be ashamed of themselves for telling lies. Not only was the United States being taken advantage of by the EU on trade, but it was forced to pay the costs of the many delinquent NATO countries. Bush and Obama did nothing but make speeches and talk—I acted, and acted strongly. I said to them, ‘if you don’t pay up, no protection.’ They all paid up, and paid up quickly. It’s a story that’s never reported, but that’s only because we have a corrupt press in our Country!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, March 16, 2022

3/17/2022

2020 ELECTION/UKRAINE/WISCONSIN: “Speaker Robin Vos, of the Great State of Wisconsin, just said there was ‘widespread fraud’ in the 2020 Presidential Election, but that the State Legislature cannot do anything about it. Wrong! If you rob the diamonds from a jewelry store, if you get caught, you have to give the diamonds back, votes should be no different. There is already a very powerful resolution in the Wisconsin State Assembly that calls for the decertification of the 2020 Election and reclaiming of Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes. There is so much fraud, as Vos knows, that this should be done quickly and easily…

Our Country would not be in the mess it’s in if Republicans had the courage to act. We would be energy independent, no inflation, the Ukraine desecration would not be happening, our economy would be strong, there would have been no surrender in Afghanistan, and so much else. Speaker Vos should do the right thing and correct the Crime of the Century—immediately! It is my opinion that other states will be doing this, Wisconsin should lead the way!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, March 17, 2022

3/18/2022

2020 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN: “The New York Times just admitted that it participated in an effort to rig the election for Joe Biden.”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, March 18, 2022

 

3/21/2022

2020 ELECTION/ARIZONA: “Based on the already released information regarding the Rigged and Stolen 2020 Presidential Election, including mail-in ballots without signatures and forgeries, as well as the disgusting refusal to turn over documents, now is finally the time for the Arizona Attorney General to issue warrants and take his investigation to the next level. The supervisors just won’t release the information—it must really be bad!

The American people deserve answers, and there is no time to waste!”

-Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, March 21, 2022

3/23/2022

INVESTIGATIONS/NEW YORK: “One of the senior Manhattan prosecutors who investigated Donald J. Trump believed that the former president was ‘guilty of numerous felony violations’ and that it was ‘a grave failure of justice’ not to hold him accountable, according to a copy of his resignation letter.

The prosecutor, Mark F. Pomerantz, submitted his resignation last month after the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, abruptly stopped pursuing an indictment of Mr. Trump…

Mr. Pomerantz and Mr. Dunne planned to charge Mr. Trump with falsifying business records, specifically his annual financial statements — a felony in New York State.”

-William K. Rashbaum, Ben Protess, and Jonah E. Bromwich, “Trump Is Guilty of ‘Numerous’ Felonies, Prosecutor Who Resigned Says,” nytimes.com, March 23, 2022

3/23/2022

PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE/UKRAINE: “Former Trump adviser Paul Manafort was removed from a plane at Miami International Airport before it took off for Dubai because he carried a revoked passport, officials said Wednesday [March 23, 2022]…

Manafort, 72, led former President Donald Trump’s campaign for several months during the 2016 presidential race but was ousted in August of that year after revelations about his business dealings in Ukraine.”

-AP, “Trump aide Manafort removed from plane for revoked passport,” news.yahoo.com, March 23, 2022

 

3/23/2022

2020 ELECTION: “Former President Donald Trump repeatedly pushed GOP Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama to ‘rescind’ the 2020 election results, ‘remove’ President Joe Biden from office and redo the last presidential election in several conversations last year, Brooks told ABC News on Wednesday [March 23, 2022]…

Brooks first disclosed his conversation with Trump in a statement released after Trump on Wednesday withdrew his endorsement in the Alabama GOP Senate primary.”

-Benjamin Siegel, “Trump repeatedly pressed to ‘remove’ Biden, ‘rescind’ 2020 election results, GOP lawmaker says,” abcnews.go.com, March 23, 2022