10/26/2022

CHINA/SOCIAL MEDIA: “Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner this week praised former President Donald Trump’s strong stand against TikTok’s ties to communist China.

Warner, D-Va., told an Australian newspaper Tuesday during a visit to the country that TikTok posed privacy and national security concerns to the American public.

‘This is not something you would normally hear me say, but Donald Trump was right on TikTok years ago,’ Warner told The Sidney Morning Herald. ‘If your country uses Huawei, if your kids are on TikTok … the ability for China to have undue influence is a much greater challenge and a much more immediate threat than any kind of actual, armed conflict.'”

-Haris Alic, “Democrat praises Trump for calling out TikTok as a national security risk,” foxnews.com, October 26, 2022

10/27/2022

LAWSUIT/NEW YORK/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP FAMILY: “Donald Trump’s namesake company urged a New York judge to reject a demand by the state’s attorney general to appoint a monitor to oversee its financial practices, after she accused it of ‘staggering’ fraud.

The Trump Organization’s filing on Wednesday night [October 26, 2022] came in connection with Attorney General Letitia James’ civil lawsuit accusing the former U.S. president and three of his adult children of lying to banks and insurers by fraudulently overvaluing his real estate assets and net worth.”

-Jonathan Stempel, “Trump’s company: We don’t need a monitor,” reuters.com, October 27, 2022

10/27/2022

2022 MIDTERM ELECTION/CAMPAIGN FINANCE: “With Election Day fast approaching and some Donald Trump-endorsed Republican nominees battling in highly competitive and high-profile races, the former president is dipping into his massive war chest to make some sizable investments to back those candidates.

After facing complaints that the GOP’s most ferocious fundraiser had failed to spread his wealth to help fellow Republicans in crucial Senate and gubernatorial contests, Trump over the past three weeks has opened his wallet to back MAGA-friendly Republican nominees in six key battleground states.”

-Mark Meredith and Paul Steinhauser, “Trump putting his money where his mouth is in midterm elections,” foxnews.com, October 27, 2022

10/31/2022

HILLARY CLINTON/LAWSUIT: “Hillary Clinton asked a federal judge to sanction former President Donald Trump and his lawyers for filing an allegedly frivolous lawsuit accusing them of conspiring to undermine his term in office.

Trump and his attorneys should be ordered to pay $1.06 million in legal fees and costs that were racked up by Clinton, her 2016 presidential campaign and several other Democratic-linked defendants for filing the suit as a ‘political stunt,’ according to a filing Monday in federal court in Florida.”

-Erik Larson, “Hillary Clinton Seeks Sanctions on Trump Over Failed Conspiracy Suit,” bloomberg.com, October 31, 2022

10/31/2022

2020 ELECTION/MIKE PENCE/RUDY GIULIANI: “A post-election meeting at which advisers led by Rudy Giuliani attacked campaign lawyers and urged Donald Trump not to accept his election defeat was ‘a new low’ for a president ‘well acquainted with rough-and-tumble debates’, Mike Pence writes in a forthcoming memoir…

By openly blaming Trump for events leading to the January 6 insurrection, when a pro-Trump mob attacked the US Capitol in an attempt to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory, Pence risks angering Republicans he must court as he considers the next nomination for president.”

-Martin Pengelly, “Pence blames Trump for events leading to January 6 in new memoir,” theguardian.com, October 31, 2022

10/31/2022

CRIME/VENEZUELA: “President Donald Trump dug deep in an exclusive interview with Americano Media…

‘Look at what’s happened to San Francisco generally,’ Trump said, speaking to the uptick in violent crime in American cities. ‘Look at what’s happening in Chicago. It was far worse than Afghanistan, okay? We have Chicago. When I had Afghanistan…18 months we went without one soldier being shot. And you look at what happens in Chicago in one weekend – last weekend was brutal; it was like a warzone.’ …

In his interview with Americano, Trump posited that he had warned American voters that if ‘we don’t straighten this country out’ you’re ‘going to end up – you are literally going to end up with a Venezuela on steroids.'”

-Summer Lane, “‘Venezuela on Steroids’: Trump Warns What Will Happen if We Don’t ‘Straighten This Country Out,’” rsbnetwork.com, October 31, 2022

10/31/2022

TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP TAXES: “The criminal tax fraud trial of Donald J. Trump’s family business kicked off in Manhattan on Monday [October 31, 2022]…

The two entities, the Trump Corporation and Trump Payroll Corp., which employ and pay Mr. Trump’s top executives, are accused of 17 counts of tax fraud, conspiracy, scheme to defraud and falsifying business records…

If the corporations are convicted, the company faces the maximum $1.62 million penalty, a rounding error for Mr. Trump, who routinely collected hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue during his presidency.

Other than the money and reputational damage, there might be limited fallout for Mr. Trump’s business.”

-Jonah E. Bromwich, Ben Protess, William K. Rashbaum, and Maggie Haberman, “Prosecutor Says Trump’s Company Evaded Taxes on Lavish Perks to Executives,” nytimes.com, October 31, 2022

11/1/2022

SUPREME COURT/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP TAXES: “Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday [November 1, 2022] temporarily blocked the House Ways and Means Committee from obtaining years of federal income tax returns of former President Donald Trump and related business entities from the IRS…

Trump wants the Supreme Court to block the committee from getting his tax returns and those of the related entities for the years 2015 through 2020 until he formally asks the high court to allow him to appeal lower court rulings that cleared the way for the records to be handed over.

The Democratic-controlled Ways and Means Committee has said it wants the returns as part of a probe of how the IRS audits presidential taxes.”

-Dan Mangan, “Supreme Court temporarily blocks Congress from getting Trump income tax returns,” cnbc.com, November 1, 2022

11/1/2022

NANCY PELOSI: “Former President Donald Trump has joined a chorus of conservative voices who have shared baseless conspiracy theories about the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi.

During an appearance on the Chris Stigall radio show that aired Tuesday morning in Philadelphia, Trump called the attack a ‘sad situation’ but questioned if there was more to the story being detailed by law enforcement…

[Trump said,] ‘The glass it seems was broken from the inside to the out so it wasn’t a break in, it was a break out … The whole thing is crazy, and if there’s even a little bit of truth to what’s being said. The window was broken in and it was strange the cops were standing there practically from the moment it all took place. So, you’re going to have to explain that to your audience, including me.’”

-Meridith McGraw, “Trump joins conspiracists stoking doubts about Pelosi attack,” politico.com, November 1, 2022

11/9/2022

2020 ELECTION/MIKE PENCE: “In a Dec. 5 call, the president [Donald Trump] for the first time mentioned challenging the [2020] election results in Congress…

Early on New Year’s Day, the phone rang. Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert and other Republicans had filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to declare that I had “exclusive authority and sole discretion” to decide which electoral votes should count. ‘I don’t want to see ‘Pence Opposes Gohmert Suit’ as a headline this morning,’ the president said. I told him I did oppose it. “If it gives you the power,” he asked, ‘why would you oppose it?’ I told him, as I had many times, that I didn’t believe I possessed that power under the Constitution.

‘You’re too honest,’ he chided. ‘Hundreds of thousands are gonna hate your guts. . . . People are gonna think you’re stupid.’ …

The president laid into me. ‘You’ll go down as a wimp,’ he said. ‘If you do that, I made a big mistake five years ago!'”

-Mike Pence, “Mike Pence: My Last Days With Donald Trump,” wsj.com, November 9, 2022

11/9/2022

2020 ELECTION/FLORIDA/RON DESANTIS: “Now that the Election in Florida is over, and everything went quite well, shouldn’t it be said that in 2020, I got 1.1 Million more votes in Florida than Ron D got this year, 5.7 Million to 4.6 Million? Just asking?”

-Donald Trump, truthsocial.com, November 9, 2022

11/10/2022

PENNSYLVANIA: “You know the sticker in Pennsylvania that says, ‘I voted’? Some people are wearing them saying, ‘I thought I voted.’ Pennsylvania is a very corrupt State with voting, but nobody ever wants to check that. How does Oz (smart guy!) lose to a guy who can’t string together two sentences? They don’t want to check, because they don’t want to make me right. It happened to me in 2020, I lost one million votes with possibly one of the biggest drops in History, happening in the middle of the night.”

-Donald Trump, truthsocial.com, November 10, 2022

11/10/2022

2024 ELECTION/MEDIA/RON DESANTIS: “Ron DeSanctimonious is playing games! The Fake News asks him if he’s going to run [in the 2024 election] if President Trump runs, and he says, ‘I’m only focused on the Governor’s race, I’m not looking into the future.’ Well, in terms of loyalty and class, that’s really not the right answer…

This is just like 2015 and 2016, a Media Assault (Collusion!), when Fox News fought me to the end until I won, and then they couldn’t have been nicer or more supportive. The Wall Street Journal loved…

…Low Energy Jeb Bush, and a succession of other people as they rapidly disappeared from sight, finally falling in line with me after I easily knocked them out, one by one. We’re in exactly the same position now. They will keep coming after us, MAGA, but ultimately, we will win. Put America First and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

-Donald Trump, truthsocial.com, November 10, 2022

11/10/2022

HILLARY CLINTON/LAWSUIT: “A federal judge on Thursday [November 10, 2022] excoriated and sanctioned several members of Donald Trump’s legal team, saying the former president’s massive lawsuit against his former rival, Hillary Clinton, and dozens of other adversaries amounted to an intentional abuse of the legal system.

‘These were political grievances masquerading as legal claims,’ said U.S. District Court Judge Donald Middlebrooks, a Florida-based jurist who dismissed Trump’s lawsuit in September. ‘This cannot be attributed to incompetent lawyering. It was a deliberate use of the judicial system to pursue a political agenda.’”

-Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney, “Judge slaps sanctions on Trump lawyers for ‘frivolous’ Clinton lawsuit,” politico.com, November 10, 2022

11/11/2022

CHINA/CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/IRAN: “Donald Trump’s lawyers provided a more detailed explanation in a court filing Thursday evening [November 10, 2022] as to why they say the former president had the authority to personally declassify sensitive government documents, though they again stopped short of saying Trump actually declassified materials that he kept after leaving the White House…

The president, they said in the filing, would be considered the supervisor of whoever classified any of the documents, some of which deal with the most sensitive government secrets involving countries including Iran and China.”

-Perry Stein, “In filing, Trump lawyers again claim he had right to declassify documents,” washingtonpost.com, November 11, 2022

11/11/2022

ENDORSEMENTS: “I had such great success on Endorsements, perhaps success like no one has had before, both for Republican Nominations and the General Election itself, and I continue to get Fake News, RINO, and Radical Left criticism, but seldom congratulations or praise. That’s the way it is, and that’s the way it will always be!”

-Donald Trump, truthsocial.com, November 11, 2022

11/11/2022

2024 ELECTION/RON DESANTIS: “Donald Trump is keeping up his attacks on GOP rival Ron DeSantis following the Florida Governor’s impressive showing in the midterm elections and increased discussion of his potential as a 2024 presidential candidate.

In a long and at times surreal statement last night, Mr Trump claimed that in 2018, he single-handedly saved Mr DeSantis’s first gubernatorial campaign – and that he dispatched the FBI and US Attorneys to protect the governor from defeat in the face of supposed electoral fraud in key counties. There is no evidence that his story is true.”

-Io Dodds, Andrew Naughtie, Oliver O’Connell, and Gustaf Kilander, “Trump news – live: Trump claims he sent FBI to save DeSantis in 2018 in bizarre Truth Social rant,” independent.co.uk, November 11, 2022

11/15/2022

2024 ELECTION/GOP/FLORIDA: “Former President Donald Trump announced that he is running for the 2024 Republican nomination for president, seeking to stage a dramatic return to the White House after having lost his bid for re-election to Joe Biden in 2020.

Trump, a Republican and the leader of the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement, announced his third presidential bid on Tuesday during a speech at his Mar-a-Lago, Florida, home after having teased a bid since leaving office in 2021.”

-Brooke Singman, “Donald Trump announces 2024 re-election run for president,” foxnews.com, November 15, 2022

11/18/2022

2020 ELECTION/DOJ/INVESTIGATIONS: “Attorney General Merrick Garland tapped longtime federal prosecutor Jack Smith as special counsel to oversee a multi-pronged investigation into former President Donald Trump’s efforts to subvert the 2020 election and the unauthorized transfer of highly classified government documents to his Florida estate after exiting the White House.

Garland’s appointment is an attempt to shield the Justice Department from conflicts of interest in an unprecedented criminal investigation after Trump recently announced a bid to retake the White House now occupied by Garland’s boss, President Joe Biden.”

-Kevin Johnson, “AG Merrick Garland appoints special counsel to oversee Trump criminal investigations,” usatoday.com, November 18, 2022

11/21/2022

SOCIAL MEDIA/TWITTER: “Donald Trump is allowed back on his longtime social media app of choice: Twitter. Musk announced the Trump decision in a tweet on Saturday evening, reversing Twitter’s permanent ban on the former president after his supporters stormed the capitol on January 6, 2021. The decision comes just days after Trump announced his candidacy for president in the 2024 election…

So far, though, Trump seems to have snubbed his old platform of choice. As of Monday afternoon [November 21, 2022], he had not posted any new tweets since his account was reinstated and has recently said that he has ‘no intention’ of returning to the platform.”

-Shirin Ghaffary, “Trump’s return to Twitter prompts outrage and confusion,” vox.com, November 21, 2022

11/22/2022

CONGRESS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP TAXES: “The Supreme Court cleared the way on Tuesday [November 22, 2022] for a House committee to obtain former President Donald J. Trump’s tax returns, refusing his request to block their release after a yearslong fight…

The decision means the Treasury Department is likely to soon turn over six years of his tax returns to the House, which has been seeking his financial records since 2019.”

-Charlie Savage, “In Blow to Trump, Supreme Court Permits House to Obtain His Tax Returns,” nytimes.com, November 22, 2022

11/22/2022

LAWSUIT: “Former President Donald Trump faces an unwelcome Thanksgiving Day entrée – a new lawsuit accusing him of battery in the alleged assault of E. Jean Carroll, a former magazine advice columnist…

Carroll, who’s already suing Trump for defamation over his denials and comments about her following the assault allegations, will file the new battery lawsuit in Manhattan federal court on Thanksgiving Day, according to a court filing last week.

That’s when New York state’s recently approved Adult Survivors Act opens a one-year window for survivors of sexual assault that occurred when they were past age 18 to sue alleged abusers, no matter when an assault may have occurred.”

-Kevin McCoy, “Donald Trump faces new lawsuit from E. Jean Carroll, who’s already suing him for defamation,” usatoday.com, November 22, 2022

11/22/2022

2024 ELECTION/POLLS/RON DESANTIS: “Ex-President Donald Trump would defeat Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by a wide margin in a hypothetical 2024 Republican presidential primary, according to a new poll.

Trump received 55% of Republican registered voters’ support, while DeSantis, his potential rival for the White House nomination, received just 25%, the Emerson College poll found.”

-Ashley Capoot, “Trump would beat DeSantis in 2024, as Biden approval rate remains underwater, new poll finds,” CNBC.com, November 22, 2022

11/23/2022

TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP TAXES: “Donald Trump reported losses on his tax returns every year for a decade, including nearly $700 million in 2009 and $200 million in 2010, his longtime accountant testified Tuesday [November 22, 2022], confirming long-held suspicions about the former president’s tax practices.

Donald Bender, a partner at Mazars USA LLP who spent years preparing Trump’s personal tax returns, said Trump’s reported losses from 2009 to 2018 included net operating losses from some of the many businesses he owns through his Trump Organization.”

-Michael R. Sisak, “Accountant testifies Trump claimed decade of huge tax losses,” apnews.com, November 23, 2022

11/23/2022

DEMS/JOE BIDEN/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP TAXES: “Former President Trump on Wednesday [November 23, 2022] ripped the Supreme Court after it rejected his emergency appeal seeking to shield his tax returns from House Democrats…

‘Why would anybody be surprised that the Supreme Court has ruled against me, they always do!’ Trump wrote on Truth Social. ‘It is unprecedented to be handing over Tax Returns, & it creates terrible precedent for future Presidents. Has Joe Biden paid taxes on all of the money he made illegally from Hunter & beyond.’”

-Zach Schonfeld, “Trump rips Supreme Court after ruling he hand over tax records,” thehill.com, November 23, 2022

11/25/2022

ANTISEMITISM/CELEBS: “Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, was asking me for advice concerning some of his difficulties, in particular having to do with his business. We also discussed, to a lesser extent, politics, where I told him he should definitely not run for President, ‘any voters you may have should vote for TRUMP.’ Anyway, we got along great, he expressed no anti-Semitism, & I appreciated all of the nice things he said about me on ‘Tucker Carlson.’ Why wouldn’t I agree to meet? Also, I didn’t know Nick Fuentes.”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 25, 2022

11/26/2022

CELEBS: “So I help a seriously troubled man, who just happens to be black, Ye (Kanye West), who has been decimated in his business and virtually everything else, and who has always been good to me, by allowing his request for a meeting at Mar-a-Lago, alone, so that I can give him very much needed ‘advice.’ He shows up with 3 people, two of which I didn’t know, the other a political person who I haven’t seen in years. I told him don’t run for office, a total waste of time, can’t win. Fake News went CRAZY!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 29, 2022

11/27/2022

2020 ELECTION: “January 6th was all about a highly CORRUPT [2020] ELECTION, which is the only thing the Unselects refused to investigate!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 29, 2022

11/28/2022

2022 MIDTERMS/ARIZONA: “Donald Trump on Monday [November 28, 2022] declared the Arizona midterm election ‘yet another criminal voting operation’ and demanded that defeated gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake be ‘installed Governor of Arizona.’ …

Lake, who lost her bid for governor to Democrat Katie Hobbs, has refused to acknowledge the election results…

An investigation by the Associated Press found that election certifications in most states were conducted ‘smoothly’ and with ‘few complaints.’ Despite this the former president has seized on Lake’s loss to revive his own conspiratorial claims. As previously reported by Rolling Stone, Trump had been making preparations amongst supporters and allies to challenge the results of the midterms months before they took place.”

-Nikki McCann Ramirez, “Trump, Done with Democracy, Calls on Kari Lake to Be ‘Installed’ as Arizona’s Governor,” rollingstone.com, November 28, 2022

11/28/2022

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/DOJ: “Former President Donald Trump boasted on Monday [November 28, 2022] about how he ‘openly and transparently’ moved government records from the White House to Mar-a-Lago upon leaving office.

‘…When will you invade Bill and Hillary’s home in search of the 33,000 emails she deleted AFTER receiving a subpoena from the U.S. Congress?’ Trump wrote on his social media website, Truth Social. ‘When will you invade the other Presidents’ homes in search of documents, which are voluminous, which they took with them, but not nearly so openly and transparently as I did?’

The Justice Department is currently investigating whether Trump broke federal law by moving documents to Mar-a-Lago after leaving the White House.”

-Sonam Sheth, “Trump brags that he ‘openly and transparently’ took government documents from the White House to Mar-a-Lago,” businessinsider.com, November 28, 2022

11/29/2022

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

Former prosecutors say the upshot of these court rulings is that key Trump backers and ex-administration lawyers – such as ex-chief of staff Mark Meadows and legal adviser John Eastman – can no longer stave off testifying before grand juries in DC and Georgia. They are wanted for questioning about their knowledge of – or active roles in – Trump’s crusade to stop Joe Biden from taking office by leveling false charges of fraud.”

-Peter Stone, “US courts ruling in favor of justice department turns legal tide on Trump,” theguardian.com, November 29, 2022

11/29/2022

ANTISEMITISM/GOP/RELIGION: “[L]ast week, Mr. Trump dined at his Palm Beach palace, Mar-a-Lago, with the performer Kanye West, who had already been denounced for making antisemitic statements, and with Nick Fuentes, an outspoken antisemite and Holocaust denier, granting the antisemitic fringe a place of honor at his table. Now, even some of Mr. Trump’s staunchest supporters say they can no longer ignore the abetting of bigotry by the nominal leader of the Republican Party.”

-Jonathan Weisman, “Jewish Allies Call Trump’s Dinner With Antisemites a Breaking Point,” nytimes.com, November 29, 2022

11/29/2022

2024 ELECTION/ANTISEMITISM/GOP/RELIGION: “Just two days before Thanksgiving, Donald Trump was planning to have a private, uneventful dinner with an old friend: Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West…

Ye arrived with three guests, including white nationalist and antisemite Nick Fuentes.

Trump has since said he didn’t know Fuentes or his background when they dined together, a claim Fuentes confirmed in an interview, but others at the crowded members-only club figured out his identity. News of the meeting prompted an avalanche of criticism, from some Republican rivals and allies of Trump and his then-week-old presidential campaign…

The uproar underscores long-standing issues with Trump as Republicans consider whether they want him back as president again in 2024.”

-Marc Caputo, “The inside story of Trump’s explosive dinner with Ye and Nick Fuentes,” nbcnews.com, November 29, 2022

11/29/2022

CELEBS: “During an interview with Timcast IRL on Monday night, November 28, the artist formerly known as Kanye West decided to speak out after Trump reportedly called the Donda rapper ‘a seriously troubled man’ in a post on his Truth Social app. He also reportedly told the Yeezy founder that it was a waste of time to run for president because he ‘can’t win.’ Ye, who previously said Trump talked down on his ex-wife Kim Kardashian, responded by saying Trump is ‘known for lying.’

‘Look at Pence,’ West said in reference to the former vice president who condemned his and Fuentes’ presence at the dinner. ‘He sold Trump out. You know what I’m saying? I would’ve never wanted to do anything that hurt Trump. I’m on Trump’s side. Trump said things that hurt me. He lied about me, but I mean, he’s known for lying. And when people used to tell me that he’s a liar, it’s like, you know I went into the trenches for Trump. There was no one else in my position that wore that hat.’”

-Tony M. Centeno, “Ye Walks Out Of Interview After He Claimed Donald Trump ‘Lied’ About Him,” iheart.com, November 29, 2022

11/29/2022

2020 ELECTION/2022 MIDTERMS: “I was 232-22 in the MIDTERM ELECTIONS, and still have to listen to DEMS, RINOS, and the Fake News explain how poorly I did (Also, 98.6% in Republican Nomination Endorsements!). Without my Endorsement of Republican Candidates, the numbers would have been a disaster. Same for 2018 and the CORRUPT ELECTION OF 2020, where almost everyone won because, and with the help of, ME – EXCEPT ME – and that’s because the Presidential Election was RIGGED & STOLEN!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 29, 2022

11/29/2022

BORDER/MEXICO/WALL: “The USA will be paying a very big price, perhaps the biggest price of all, because of what is being allowed to happen at our Southern Border, which just two years ago was the most secure, by far, in history! I built hundreds of miles of desperately needed WALL, was able to get 28,000 Mexican Soldiers (free!) to guard the Border, and created, and got approved, the incredible STAY IN MEXICO POLICY. Now it has all gone to ‘dust,’ our Country is rapidly being destroyed. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 29, 2022

12/3/2022

2020 ELECTION/SOCIAL MEDIA/TWITTER: “Former President Trump on Saturday falsely cited election fraud as a reason to terminate the Constitution, after Elon Musk released information about Twitter’s role in limiting access to a story about Hunter Biden.

What he’s saying: ‘So, with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democrat Party, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION?’ Trump wrote on Truth Social.

‘A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,’ he continued. ‘Our great ‘Founder’ did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!'”

-Sareen Habeshian, “Trump: Constitution should be terminated due to ‘massive’ election fraud,” axios.com, December 3, 2022

12/3/2022

2020 ELECTION: “UNPRECEDENTED FRAUD [in the 2020 election] REQUIRES UNPRECEDENTED CURE!”

-Donald Trump, truthsocial.com, December 3, 2022

12/5/2022

2020 ELECTION/SOCIAL MEDIA: “Former President Donald Trump on Monday [December 5, 2022] denied he wanted to “‘terminate’ the Constitution,” two days after suggesting ‘the termination of all rules … even those found in the Constitution.’

‘The Fake News is actually trying to convince the American People that I said I wanted to ‘terminate’ the Constitution. This is simply more DISINFORMATION & LIES,’ Trump said on Monday on his own social media platform, Truth Social.

The post seemed to be a complete denial of his post from Saturday, which remained online as of Monday afternoon.”

-Olivia Olander, “Trump denies he suggested ‘termination’ of Constitution, without deleting post,” politico.com, December 5, 2022

12/6/2022

2020 ELECTION/ARIZONA/INVESTIGATIONS/MICHIGAN/WISCONSIN: “Special counsel Jack Smith has subpoenaed local officials in Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin — three states that were central to former president Donald Trump’s failed plan to stay in power following the 2020 election — for any and all communications with Trump, his campaign and a long list of aides and allies…

The subpoenas, at least three of which are dated Nov. 22, show that Smith is extending the Justice Department’s examination of the circumstances leading up to the Capitol attack to include local election officials and their potential interactions with the former president and his representatives.”

-Amy Gardner, Isaac Stanley-Becker, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Patrick Marley, “Justice Dept. subpoenas Ariz., Mich., Wis. officials for Trump communications,” washingtonpost.com, December 6, 2022

12/6/2022

2024 ELECTION/MITCH MCCONNELL: “Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell pushed back on Tuesday against former president and current 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump’s calls to terminate the Constitution.

‘Anyone seeking the presidency who thinks that the Constitution could somehow be suspended or not followed, it seems to me would have a very hard time being sworn in as president of the United States,’ McConnell said at the top of his remarks to reporters on Capitol Hill.”

-Deepa Shivaram, “McConnell criticizes Trump’s calls to terminate the Constitution,” npr.org, December 6, 2022

12/6/2022

TRUMP BUSINESS: “Donald Trump failed to disclose a $19.8m loan from a company with historical ties to North Korea while he was the US president, according to a report.

Documents obtained by the New York attorney general, and reported by Forbes, indicate a previously unreported loan owed by Trump to Daewoo, a South Korean conglomerate and the only South Korean company allowed to operate a business in North Korea during the mid-1990s.”

-Mattha Busby, “First Thing: Trump did not disclose $19.8m loan while president,” theguardian.com, December 6, 2022

12/6/2022

TRUMP BUSINESS: “A Manhattan jury has found former President Donald Trump’s namesake real estate company guilty of criminal tax fraud, three weeks after Trump announced a third presidential run.

The jury found the two entities of the Trump Organization guilty as charged on all counts, including scheme to defraud, conspiracy, criminal tax fraud and falsifying business records.

The two entities — the Trump Corporation and the Trump Payroll Corporation — were accused of paying the personal expenses of some executives without reporting them as income, and of compensating them as independent contractors instead of full-time employees.”

-Aaron Katersky, “Jury finds Trump Organization guilty of tax fraud on all counts,” abcnews.go.com, December 6, 2022

12/6/2022

CRIME/NEW YORK: “Murder and Violent Crime is at an all time high in NYC, and the D.A.’s office has spent almost all of its time & money fighting a political Witch Hunt for D.C. against ‘Trump’ over Fringe Benefits, something that in the history of our Country, has never been so tried in Court before. Two weeks at trial, yet no MURDER CASE has gone to trial in 6 years, much to the consternation of victims mothers and families who are devastated that NOTHING is being done to bring JUSTICE. Too busy on ‘Donald.’

-Donald Trump, truthsocial.com, December 6, 2022

12/6/2022

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS: “The respected Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, when asked on NBC Fake NEWS what she would do about the Mar-a-Lago Boxes Hoax, smiled & laughed along with the studio audience, responding, ‘Please don’t do that.’ In other words, she viewed this investigation as a ‘joke.’ Under the Presidential Records Act which governs, you negotiate, but there is no crime. Under the Clinton Socks Case, taking records is allowed by law. This is a continuation of the greatest WITCH HUNT of all time!”

-Donald Trump, truthsocial.com, December 6, 2022

12/8/2022

2020 ELECTION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Sidney Powell and other conservative lawyers who sued to overturn President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in Michigan asked a U.S. appeals court on Thursday to overturn an order sanctioning them for pressing ‘frivolous’ election claims.

During oral arguments that lasted more than two hours, the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals pressed Powell to defend her November 2020 Michigan lawsuit, which sought to declare then-President Donald Trump winner of the state’s presidential election…

U.S. District Judge Linda Parker in Detroit rejected Powell’s lawsuit in December 2020, saying it was filled with ‘speculation and conjecture that votes for President Trump were destroyed, discarded or switched.’

Parker sanctioned Powell, L. Lin Wood and other lawyers in December 2021 for bringing the case… She fined them $175,000 and ordered them to complete 12 hours of continuing legal education classes.”

-David Thomas, “Trump ally Sidney Powell asks court to overturn sanctions over election lawsuit,” reuters.com, December 8, 2022

12/9/2022

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/DOJ: “The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to hold Donald Trump in contempt of court for failing to comply with a subpoena issued this summer ordering the former president to turn over records marked classified, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

The development comes after Trump’s legal team said it conducted searches at four locations just before Thanksgiving, finding two documents with classified markings at a storage facility in Florida. The Trump team turned over those two documents to the FBI and announced to a federal judge in Washington, DC, that they believed Trump was now in compliance with a 6-month-old subpoena.”

-Katelyn Polantz, Kaitlan Collins, Evan Perez and Zachary Cohen, “Justice Department seeking to hold Trump in contempt over classified documents,” cnn.com, December 9, 2022

12/9/2022

ISRAEL/RELIGION: “Former President Trump accused Jewish leaders of a lack of ‘loyalty’ on Friday [December 9, 2022], amid the ongoing fallout from his dinner with white nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes.

‘How quickly Jewish Leaders forgot that I was the best, by far, President for Israel,’ Trump said in a post on Truth Social. ‘They should be ashamed of themselves. This lack of loyalty to their greatest friends and allies is why large numbers in Congress, and so many others, have stopped giving support to Israel.'”

-Julia Shapero, “Trump accuses Jewish leaders of a lack of ‘loyalty,'” thehill.com, December 9, 2022

12/12/2022

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

[T]he TPM report identifies a startling message from Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) to Meadows, sent on Jan. 17, 2021, just three days before Joe Biden was scheduled to take office.

In the text, Norman appears to propose that then-President Trump impose martial law — or, as Norman put it, ‘Marshall Law’ — during his final hours of office to overturn the election in his favor…

The series also shows that Meadows was at the center of hundreds of incoming discussions among 34 members of Congress about plans to help Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.”

-Charisma Madarang, “GOP Congressman Wanted Trump to Invoke ‘Marshall Law’ to Stay in Office: Leaked Texts,” rolling stone.com, December 12, 2022

12/12/2022

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS: “The federal judge who granted former President Donald Trump’s request for a special master in the Mar-a-Lago case just tossed his lawsuit challenging the FBI’s raid of his South Florida estate.

US District Judge Aileen Cannon wrote in a one-page Monday order that she was dismissing the case because of a ‘lack of jurisdiction.’

The ruling came after a three-judge federal appeals court issued a scathing opinion on December 1 overturning Cannon’s initial decision to side with Trump and grant him a special master to review materials seized in the FBI’s search. Less than week later, a federal appeals court in Atlanta formally ended the review.”

-Jake Epstein, Kimberly Leonard, and Sonam Sheth, “The federal judge who appointed Trump’s special master just threw out his lawsuit challenging the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search,” businessinsider.com, December 12, 2022

12/13/2022

2020 ELECTION/VOTING: “A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday [December 13, 2022] upheld nearly $187,000 in monetary sanctions against two lawyers who filed and lost an ‘utterly baseless’ lawsuit challenging Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential win over his Republican rival Donald Trump.

The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Colorado said Denver attorneys Gary Fielder and Ernest Walker must pay the legal fees of election equipment maker Dominion Voting Systems Inc, Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc and other defendants accused in the lawsuit of meddling in the election.”

-Mike Scarcella, “Attorney sanctions upheld in ‘utterly baseless’ lawsuit challenging 2020 election,” reuters.com, December 13, 2022

12/13/2022

LAWSUIT/RUSSIA: “Former President Trump filed a defamation lawsuit on Tuesday against the Pulitzer Prize Board over the 2018 National Reporting prizes given to The New York Times and Washington Post for coverage of ‘now-debunked theory’ of alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.”

-Brian Flood, “Trump files defamation suit against members of Pulitzer Prize Board for defending ‘debunked’ Russiagate honors,” foxnews.com, December 13, 2022

 

12/13/2022

TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP TAXES: “Donald J. Trump’s family business lost a criminal contempt trial that was held in secret last fall, according to a newly unsealed court document and several people with knowledge of the matter, with a judge ruling against the company almost exactly a year before it was convicted of a tax fraud scheme last week…

The order, dated Dec. 8, 2021, was unsealed by the judge who presided over the tax fraud trial of the Trump Organization, which ended last week with the conviction of the company. It redacted the name of the entities on trial in October, but the people with knowledge of the case confirmed that those entities were the Trump Organization corporations that later went on trial for tax fraud. The judge, Juan Merchan, convicted the two corporations of criminal contempt of court and fined them $4,000, the maximum under the law.”

-Jonah E. Bromwich, William K. Rashbaum and Ben Protess, “Trump Organization Was Held in Contempt After Secret Trial Last Year,” nytimes.com, December 13, 2022

12/14/2022

POLLS: “About a month after launching his 2024 presidential campaign, former President Donald Trump’s standing with voters has hit its lowest point in over seven years, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday.

Just 31% of registered voters surveyed hold a favorable view of Trump, versus 59% who have an unfavorable opinion of him, the poll found. That’s the lowest rating Trump has received since July 2015, shortly after he launched his first presidential bid, according to Quinnipiac.”

-Kevin Breuninger, “Trump hits 7-year low in new national poll as Biden approval climbs,” CNBC.com, December 14, 2022

12/14/2022

2024 ELECTION/RON DESANTIS/POLLS: “In a poll regarding potential Republican nominees for president in 2024, the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, led Donald Trump by a whopping 23 points.

Republican and Republican-leaning voters dealt the significant blow to the former president’s ego in a survey carried out by USA Today and Suffolk University and released on Tuesday [December 13, 2022].

Worse was to come for Trump on Wednesday [December 14, 2022], with the release of a Wall Street Journal survey which gave DeSantis a 14-point lead, 52%-38%, in a hypothetical primary matchup, and a CNN poll that said 62% of Republicans wanted their party to nominate someone else in 2024.”

-Martin Pengelly, “Trump ‘is in trouble’, says insider after DeSantis surges in 2024 polls,” theguardian.com, December 14, 2022

12/15/2022

CRYPTOCURRENCY/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Former President Trump on Thursday announced a line of digital trading cards [NFT] bearing his likeness after teasing a day earlier that he would be making a ‘major announcement.’

While some speculated the announcement would be related to the Speaker race playing out among House Republicans or Trump’s largely inactive 2024 presidential campaign, it was instead about a new commercial opportunity for the former president.”

-Brett Samuels, “Trump’s ‘major announcement’ tease is for release of digital card collection,” thehill.com, December 15, 2022

12/16/2022

CRYPTOCURRENCY: “Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s non-fungible token (NFT) digital trading card collection sold out early Friday [December 16, 2022], the day after its initial release.

According to data from OpenSea, at time of writing, the collection’s trading volume is 900 ETH, or about $1.08 million. Its floor price is about 0.19 ETH, or about $230 – more than double the original price of $99.”

-Cam Thompson, “Donald Trump NFT Collection Sells Out, Price Surges,” coindesk.com, December 16, 2022

12/19/2022

2020 ELECTION/INVESTIGATIONS: “The House select committee examining the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol has held its final public meeting.

The panel voted to approve criminal referrals for former President Donald Trump regarding his failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election…

[M]embers point to Trump as the main instigator behind the Capitol attack.

‘That evidence has led to an overriding and straight-forward conclusion: the central cause of January 6th was one man, former President Donald Trump, who many others followed. None of the events of January 6th would have happened without him,’ the summary said.”

-Alexandra Hutzler and Libby Cathey, “Jan. 6 committee refers Trump to DOJ for criminal charges,” abcnews.go.com, December 19, 2022

12/19/2022

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

-Yahoo! News, “Hope Hicks told Donald Trump there was no evidence of election fraud and he was ‘damaging his legacy.'” news.yahoo.com, December 19, 2022

12/19/2022

2020 ELECTION/INVESTIGATIONS: “STATEMENT ON JAN 6 COMMITTEE REFERRAL

These folks don’t get it that when they come after me, people who love freedom rally around me. It strengthens me. What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. Americans know that I pushed for 20,000 troops to prevent violence on Jan 6, and that I went on television and told everyone to go home….”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 19, 2022

12/19/2022

2020 ELECTION/AFGHANISTAN/DEMS/JOE BIDEN: “Think of it! The Radical Left Democrats (Communists), SPIED on my campaign, lied to the FISA COURT, lied to CONGRESS, allowed an INVASION of our COUNTRY on the Southern Border, EMBARRASSED us in Afghanistan, gave away our Energy Independence, killed us on job losing Regulations, wouldn’t use the 10,000 plus soldiers I recommended for Jan 6th, refused to look into Election Fraud-the reason for Jan 6th, Rigged & Stole the 2020 Election, allowed Ballot Stuffing, FBI/Facebook/Twitter & Biden CRIME!

….continued from previous TRUTH… And I’m the one that the Corrupt and Partisan Unselect Committee goes after. A two tiered ‘Justice’ System … And, by the way, what ever happened with the Massive number of CRIMES committed by JOE & HUNTER BIDEN? They’re right there, documented and 100% certain. Also,where is the prosecutor from Delaware? What happened to him? Is he friends with the Ukrainian Prosecutor who didn’t prosecute after Biden held up the $BILLION PAYMENT to Ukraine? I DID NOTHING WRONG!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 19, 2022

12/19/2022

2024 ELECTION/IMPEACHMENT/INVESTIGATIONS: “The Fake charges made by the highly partisan Unselect Committee of January 6th have already been submitted, prosecuted, and tried in the form of Impeachment Hoax # 2. I WON convincingly. Double Jeopardy anyone!

….The people understand that the Democratic Bureau of Investigation, the DBI, are out to keep me from running for president [in the 2024 election] because they know I’ll win and that this whole business of prosecuting me is just like impeachment was — a partisan attempt to sideline me and the Republican Party.”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 19, 2022

12/20/2022

CONGRESS/GOP/TRUMP TAXES: “A House committee voted Tuesday to publicly release some of Donald Trump’s tax returns, despite Republican threats to retaliate against President Joe Biden and other Democrats…

Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee said releasing the Trump tax returns is in the public interest, and part of an effort to improve auditing procedures at the Internal Revenue Service…

Republicans denounced the move as a purely political precedent and said it could be used in the future to target many Americans.”

-Donovan Slack, David Jackson, and Kevin McCoy, “House panel votes to release Trump tax information despite threats from Republicans,” usatoday.com, December 20, 2022

12/20/2022

MELANIA/TRUMP TAXES: “The amount of income, deductions and taxes paid by or refunded to former President Donald Trump while serving in the White House was detailed in a new report released Tuesday night [December 20, 2022].

The report reveals that Trump on his federal tax returns declared negative income in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2020, and that he paid a total of $1,500 in income taxes for the years 2016 and 2017.

On their 2020 income tax returns, Trump and his wife Melania paid no federal income taxes and claimed a refund of $5.47 million, according to the report by the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation.”

-Dan Mangan, “Read how much Trump paid — or didn’t pay — in taxes each year,” CNBC.com, December 20, 2022

12/20/2022

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

According to the Presidential Records Act, federal law requires that presidential records are carefully preserved and then handed over to the National Archives.”

-Robert Costa, Chrissy Hallowell, and Grace Kazarian, “Exclusive: Trump aide testified he saw Trump ‘tearing’ documents; Meadows also once told him, ‘Don’t come into the room,'” cbsnews.com, December 20, 2022

12/20/2022

IRS/TRUMP TAXES: “The Internal Revenue Service failed to audit former President Donald J. Trump during his first two years in office despite a program that makes the auditing of sitting presidents mandatory, a House committee revealed on Tuesday after an extraordinary vote to make public six years of his tax returns…

Starting in 2018, the I.R.S. was run by a Trump appointee, Charles P. Rettig, who left the post last month. In 2016, Mr. Rettig, then a tax lawyer in Beverly Hills, Calif., published a column in Forbes that defended Mr. Trump’s decision not to release his taxes as a candidate.”

-New York Times, “I.R.S. Didn’t Audit Trump for 2 Years in Office, House Committee Says,” nytimes.com, December 20, 2022

12/21/2022

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

The lawyer, Stefan Passantino, served as the top White House ethics lawyer under Trump and previously represented the Trump Organization. Sources told CNN he was allegedly paid by Trump’s Save America PAC to represent Hutchinson, but she dropped him before testifying. She apparently ignored his advice to mislead the committee, as her bombshell public testimony provided insight into Trump’s behavior on the day of the Capitol riot.”

-Nikki McCann Ramirez, “Trump-Connected Lawyer Told Key Jan. 6 Witness to Lie to Committee,” rollingstone.com, December 21, 2022

12/21/2022

IRS/JOE BIDEN/OBAMA: “The I.R.S. subjected both President Donald J. Trump’s predecessor and his successor to annual audits of their tax returns once they took office, spokespeople for Barack Obama and President Biden said on Wednesday, intensifying questions about how Mr. Trump escaped such scrutiny until Democrats in the House started inquiring.

Late Tuesday [December 20, 2022], a House committee revealed that the I.R.S. failed to audit Mr. Trump during his first two years in office despite a rule that states that ‘the individual tax returns for the president and the vice president are subject to mandatory review.’ But its report left unclear whether that lapse reflected general dysfunction or whether Mr. Trump received special treatment.”

-Charlie Savage and Alan Rappeport, “I.R.S. Routinely Audited Obama and Biden, Raising Questions Over Delays for Trump,” nytimes.com, December 21, 2022

12/22/2022

2020 ELECTION/MEDIA: “Fox News star Sean Hannity – one of former President Donald Trump’s strongest allies on the air and one of his closest advisers off it – admitted under oath that he never believed the lie that Trump was cheated of victory in the 2020 presidential election by a voting tech company.

That stands in contrast to what played out on some of Fox’s biggest shows – including Hannity’s…

Hannity and a top Fox News executive who oversees prime-time programs told a different story about Trump’s false claims of fraud under oath and in front of attorneys, during separate depositions in a $1.6 billion defamation suit.”

-David Folkenflik, “Fox News’ Sean Hannity says he knew all along Trump lost the election,” npr.org, December 22, 2022

12/22/2022

INVESTIGATIONS: “Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper testified that he and others had to dissuade then-President Donald Trump from using active-duty military troops to quell the racial protests breaking out in the summer of 2020.

Trump was upset about the civil unrest around the country in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota, believing it made the US look weak, Esper said, according to a transcript of his April 1, 2022 deposition by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.”

-Billy House, “Trump Asked About Troops to Quell Racial Protests, Esper Told Jan. 6 Panel,” bloomberg.com, December 22, 2022

12/26/2022

DOJ/INVESTIGATIONS: “After 18 months of investigating Donald Trump’s drive to overturn his 2020 election loss, the House committee on the January 6 insurrection has provided the Department of Justice (DoJ) with an exhaustive legal roadmap as it pursues potential criminal charges against the former US president…

The wealth of evidence against Trump compiled by the panel spurred its unprecedented decision to send the DoJ four criminal referrals for Trump and some top allies about their multi-track planning and false claims of fraud to block Joe Biden from taking office.”

-Peter Stone, “January 6 panel’s body of work boosts DoJ case against Trump, experts say,” theguardian.com, December 26, 2022

12/26/2022

INVESTIGATIONS: “Very interesting, because until recently the political Hacks and Thugs of the highly partisan January 6th Unselect Committee were seldom talking about your favorite President, me, as it related to the PROTEST on Election Fraud. NUMBER ONE, as President, I have total Immunity. Number two, I did nothing wrong. Then the Committee members, mostly the same sleaze that pushed the Russia, Russia, Russia HOAX, started saying that ‘Trump’ did it. Even Shifty Schiff got into the act again. SAD!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 26, 2022

12/27/2022

USA: “We are a Nation in serious decline, a failing Nation. Somehow, we will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 27, 2022

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12/28/2022

INVESTIGATIONS: “The Jan. 6 special committee on Wednesday decided to withdraw its subpoena of former President Donald Trump as it concludes its work.

Trump’s testimony was no longer needed, according to the panel’s chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss.

Thompson noted in a letter to Trump’s attorneys: ‘In light of the imminent end of our investigation, the Select Committee can no longer pursue the specific information covered by the subpoena.'”

-John Salvatore, “January 6 committee withdraws Trump subpoena: ‘They knew I did nothing wrong,'” foxnews.com, December 28, 2022

12/28/2022

FBI/INVESTIGATIONS: “Trump took to his social media platform to share the following message [after the January 6 committee withdrew their subpoena in light of the investigation ending]:

‘Was just advised that the Unselect Committee of political Thugs has withdrawn the Subpoena of me concerning the January 6th Protest of the CROOKED 2020 Presidential Election. They probably did so because they knew I did nothing wrong, or they were about to lose in Court. Perhaps the FBI’s involvement in RIGGING the Election played into their decision. In any event, the Subpoena is DEAD!'”

-John Salvatore, “January 6 committee withdraws Trump subpoena: ‘They knew I did nothing wrong,'” foxnews.com, December 28, 2022

12/28/2022

2020 ELECTION: “A federal judge indicated Wednesday that then-President Donald Trump’s remarks on Jan. 6, 2021, telling a crowd to ‘fight like hell’ before the Capitol attack could have signaled to his supporters that he wanted them “to do something more” than just protest [the outcome of the 2020 election].

In a court order in the case against Jan. 6 defendant Alexander Sheppard, U.S. District Judge John Bates ruled that Sheppard could not raise the ‘public authority’ defense at trial after his lawyer argued Trump had authorized his client’s actions at the Capitol that day.”

-Ryan J. Reilly, “Judge says Trump may have been urging supporters to ‘do something more’ than protest on Jan. 6,” nbcnews.com, December 28, 2022

12/28/2022

MITCH MCCONNELL/CHINA: “Something is going on with Mitch McConnell and all of the terrible and virtually automatic ‘surrenders’ he makes to the Marxist Democrats, like on the $1.7 Trillion ‘Ominous’ Bill. Could have killed it using the Debt Ceiling, or made it MUCH better in the Republican House. Nobody can be this stupid. Perhaps it has to do with his wife, [omitted], and their BIG relationships with China – A HISTORIC conflict of interest like no other!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 28, 2022

12/29/2022

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

When asked about it during a televised interview with CNN, Chao called it a ‘racist taunt’ and said he’s ‘trying to get a rise out of us.’

‘He says all sorts of outrageous things, and I don’t make a point of answering any one of them,’ said Chao.”

-Morgan Watkins, “Elaine Chao addresses Donald Trump’s repeated use of ‘racist taunt’ about her,” courier-journal.com, December 29, 2022

12/29/2022

2024 ELECTION/POLLS/RON DESANTIS: “Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday [December 28, 2022] promoted an editorial suggesting that he run as a third-party candidate if the Republican Party does not make him its 2024 presidential nominee…

Although Trump was once the overwhelming favorite to be the GOP’s 2024 nominee, recent polls have shown him losing to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, which has caused him to lash out and accuse the polls of being ‘fake.'”

-Brad Reed, “Trump promotes article urging him to run as third-party candidate if GOP dumps him,” salon.com, December 29, 2022

12/29/2022

2020 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/FBI: “So, if the FBI illegally suppressed all of the really bad information on the Biden family (laptop!) at a level never seen before, (‘it was Russian disinformation,’ they said), while at the same time not letting the many positive things accomplished by ‘Trump’ get out to the public, but would instead put out ‘bad stuff,’ that would be the very definition of the Government’s RIGGING of an Election. Pollsters projected this Scam made a difference of Millions of votes. What are the CONSEQUENCES?”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 29, 2022

1/2/2023

SOCIAL MEDIA: “Facebook has lost over 80 Billion Dollars in Value since ‘deplatforming’ President Donald J. Trump. Also, it has gotten very BORING and UNINTERESTING. That stupid, unnecessary, and probably illegal move is now considered a major business mistake. I agree!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 2, 2023

1/2/2023

BORDER: “Our Southern Border is far beyond HORRIBLE. There is no Country in the World that has such atrocious, unsafe, and disgusting conditions at their Border. We are worse than any Third World Nation! Just think, two years ago we had the safest and most stable Border in U.S. history. Criminals and Drugs entering our once great Country were at a decades low… And now, our beautiful USA is being poisoned from within, a Nation in DECLINE. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, and Fast!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 2, 2023

1/2/2023

DONALD ON DONALD: “‘TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING’” One of most often used current phrases or statements. Wow, such a magnificent compliment. Thank you!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 2, 2023

1/3/2023

BIDEN ADMIN/CHINA: “Why is the Biden Administration so SOFT on China? ‘The problem the Democrats have with China is that they are soft on China from a domestic policy, jobs, economy, trade, point of view…something that President Trump really understood.’ Batya Ungar-Sargon, Newsweek Deputy Opinion Editor, on Maria B (Hey, what’s up with Newsweek? They are getting MUCH better. I guess they found out, like all of the others, that Fake News isn’t working – they’re all going ‘BUST’). CHINA OWNS BIDEN, and now, the USA!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 3, 2023

1/3/2023

TRUMP TAXES: “Democrats released six years’ worth of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns last Friday, confirming earlier findings outlined in a pair of congressional analyses of the records: Trump took hundreds of millions of dollars of questionable business deductions to lower his tax bills, paid a token amount of income tax in two years and paid nothing at all during the final year of his presidency…

He appears to donate little to charity and may not have made good on his promise to give away his presidential earnings…

Trump was the first US president since Gerald Ford to refuse to voluntarily release his tax returns.”

-Timothy L. O’Brien, “Trump’s Tax Returns Are Only Part of the Picture,” bloomberg.com, January 3, 2023

1/4/2023

CONGRESS: “Donald Trump has backed beleaguered congressman Kevin McCarthy for the next Speaker of the House, amid a chaotic battle for power on Capitol Hill…

But his pleas did not make a difference as Mr McCarthy lost two more rounds of voting.

Twenty conservative Republicans – all allies of the former president – refused to back down.

Colorado’s Lauren Boebert told the chamber that Mr Trump had spoken to her and other defectors ‘to tell us to knock this off’.

But in her nomination speech for an alternative Republican candidate, she said Mr Trump should instead call Mr McCarthy and tell him ‘it’s time to withdraw’.”

-BBC, “Lauren Boebert rejects Donald Trump’s call to back Kevin McCarthy,” bbc.com, January 4, 2023

1/4/2023

CONGRESS/NANCY PELOSI: “Some really good conversations took place last night, and it’s now time for all of our GREAT Republican House Members to VOTE FOR KEVIN, CLOSE THE DEAL, TAKE THE VICTORY, & WATCH CRAZY NANCY PELOSI FLY BACK HOME TO A VERY BROKEN CALIFORNIA,THE ONLY SPEAKER IN U.S. HISTORY TO HAVE LOST THE ‘HOUSE’ TWICE! REPUBLICANS, DO NOT TURN A GREAT TRIUMPH INTO A GIANT & EMBARRASSING DEFEAT. IT’S TIME TO CELEBRATE, YOU DESERVE IT. Kevin McCarthy will do a good job, and maybe even a GREAT JOB – JUST WATCH!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 4, 2023

1/4/2023

GOP/MITCH MCCONNELL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “If Republicans are going to fight, we ought to be fighting Mitch McConnell and his domineering, China loving BOSS, I mean wife, [omitted]. The harm they have done to the Republican Party is incalculable. Today, he couldn’t be elected ‘Dog Catcher’ in Kentucky (Sadly, he only won because of my Endorsement, went up 21 points – SORRY!).”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 4, 2023

1/4/2023

TRUMP TAXES: “FOX Business takes a deep dive into the returns of the president and the former first lady Melania…

The 76-year-old former president is not collecting Social Security, despite paying into the system via self-employment tax…

The Trumps missed the 2020 filing deadline completely and filed the previous five tax years at the last moment….

The Trumps were involved in a wide variety of activities from aviation and acting to management services and modeling. However, they avoided crypto.”

-Ernie Sadashige, “Trump tax returns: Five notable facts,” foxbusiness.com, January 4, 2023

1/5/2023

LAWSUIT: “The longtime partner of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died after the Jan. 6 riot, filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday against former President Donald Trump and two men involved in assaulting Sicknick.

Sicknick, 42, died a day after the attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters on Jan. 6, 2021 [protesting the 2020 election]. Washington’s chief medical examiner ruled in April 2021 that he died of natural causes after having suffered two strokes.

The lawsuit, filed by Sicknick’s partner, Sandra Garza, cites comments from the medical examiner that ‘all that transpired’ on Jan. 6 ‘played a role in his condition.'”

-Daniel Barnes and Phil Helsel, “Trump and 2 others sued over death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick after Jan. 6 riot,” nbcnews.com, January 5, 2023

1/5/2023

2024 ELECTION/BORDER/JOE BIDEN: “Former President Trump said Thursday [January 5, 2023] that if elected again as commander in chief, he will deploy U.S. special forces and other military assets to ‘inflict maximum damage’ on cartels crossing the southern border.

Trump, who announced his 2024 presidential campaign late last year, said drug cartels are ‘waging war on America’ and it is ‘now time for America to wage war on cartels.’

‘Joe Biden has sided against the United States and with the cartels,’ Trump said in a video Thursday. ‘Biden’s open border policies are a deadly betrayal of our nation.'”

-Brooke Singman and Adam Shaw, “Trump vows to deploy US special forces, military assets to ‘inflict maximum damage’ on cartels,” foxnews.com, January 5, 2023

1/6/2023

LAWSUIT/NEW YORK: “A New York judge declined on Friday [January 6, 2023] to throw out the state attorney general’s civil fraud case against former President Donald J. Trump, increasing the likelihood that he will face a trial this fall.

In a sharply worded order, the judge, Justice Arthur F. Engoron of State Supreme Court in Manhattan, denied Mr. Trump’s motion to dismiss the case, granting the attorney general, Letitia James, another victory in the matter. In September, Ms. James filed a lawsuit accusing Mr. Trump, three of his adult children and their family business of overvaluing his assets by billions of dollars.

In his written order, Justice Engoron said that some of the arguments repeatedly made by Mr. Trump’s lawyers were ‘frivolous,’ and had been ‘borderline frivolous even the first time defendants made them.'”

-Jonah E. Bromwich and Ben Protess, “Judge Scolds Trump Legal Team and Lets James’s Lawsuit Proceed,” nytimes.com, January 6, 2023

1/7/2023

CONGRESS: “The Fake News Media was, believe it or not, very gracious in their reporting that I greatly helped Kevin McCarthy attain the position of Speaker of the House. Thank you, I did our Country a big favor!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 7, 2023

1/9/2023

CHINA/CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/JOE BIDEN: “Biden giving China Highly Classified Documents would be a bridge too far. I certainly wouldn’t do that. Not a good situation for our Country to be in!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 9, 2023

1/9/2023

CHINA/JOE BIDEN: “Wow! The Biden Think Tank is funded by CHINA!!! Also, a V.P. cannot Declassify documents, which are covered by the Federal Records Act, which is Criminal and MUCH TOUGHER than the Presidential Records Act, which is NOT Criminal. A President, me, can Declassify. How much more information has China been given?”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 9, 2023

1/9/2023

2020 ELECTION/GEORGIA/IMPEACHMENT/UKRAINE: “As has been stated many times concerning the World’s longest running Witch Hunt, my phone call(s) to Georgia Officials were PERFECT, perhaps even more so than my PERFECT call to the President of Ukraine, which led to complete Victory on Impeachment Hoax #1. Even the Washington Post apologized for their incorrect statements. The call to the Secretary of State challenged [2020] Election Integrity, or lack there of, which is my Right/Duty. Also, many people on the call, & nobody ‘hung up’ or was offended!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 9, 2023

1/9/2023

ENTERTAINMENT: “Wow, those TRUMP Hating Late Night Network ‘Shows’ are doing really badly…The worst ratings that those time slots have had (in Television History!). Why are the untalented fools who ‘host’ paid so much? Does the DNC make a $contribution as a wing of the Democrat Party? They are all a total joke – Not Talent, No Laughs!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 9, 2023

1/10/2023

ENTERTAINMENT: “The lack of talent on Late Night has killed the Ratings of once great (long ago) Television!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 10, 2023

1/11/2023

2020 ELECTION INVESTIGATION: “A wide-ranging subpoena sent to Trump campaign officials last month shows new areas of investigative interest as part of the Justice Department’s extensive Jan. 6 criminal probe, according to a copy reviewed by The Washington Post, and lawyers say a grand jury focused on the day’s events and related fundraising has increased its activities in recent months…

The subpoena seeks any communications or information about Dominion and Smartmatic, two voting technology companies that were subjected to a barrage of false conspiracy theories floated by advisers to President Donald Trump. That request seems designed to gather what campaign officials might have been saying privately at the time Trump backers were publicly disparaging those firms in the wake of Joe Biden’s 2020 victory.”

-Josh Dawsey, Devlin Barrett and Rosalind S. Helderman, “Trump campaign officials got subpoena asking new questions about Jan. 6,” washingtonpost.com, January 11, 2023

1/11/2023

ECONOMY/ELECTION: “All flights have been canceled throughout the Good Ol’ USA due to incompetence and the fact that we are now living in the equivalent of a Third World Nation. I talk about our obsolete airports all the time at our big America First Rallies. We have no Borders, no Energy Independence (anymore!), no airports, no Nothing. We do have Massive Inflation, a Rotten Economy, and RIGGED ELECTIONS. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 11, 2023