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1/11/2023

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/JOE BIDEN/KARL ROVE: “Karl Rove was, as usual, wrong when he stated that then V.P. Biden’s HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL papers, which were in his office for many years, were in any way similar to the Secret Service guarded, & otherwise very secure, Mar-a-Lago papers. Biden was not then President, had no power to declassify, & came under the very tough Federal Records Act. I come under the much more generous Presidential Records Act, was having productive discussions with Radical Left NARA, & did everything right. A giant Scam”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 11, 2023

1/12/2023

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/JOE BIDEN: “Former Assistant Secretary of State Robert Charles said on ‘Fox & Friends First’ Thursday [January 12, 2023] that there are major questions surrounding the nature of classified materials that were in President Biden’s possession. He said the need for a special counsel in this case is even stronger than in the case of documents seized by the FBI from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.”

-Fox News Staff, “Case for Biden documents special counsel much stronger than with Trump, says ex-State Dept official,” foxnews.com, January 12, 2023

1/12/2023

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/JOE BIDEN: “The revelation that classified materials were discovered at think tank offices formerly used by President Joe Biden, as well as at the president’s Delaware home, has prompted questions on how the circumstances compare with the seizure last year of hundreds of documents marked as classified from Mar-a-Lago, the Florida residence of former President Donald Trump…

It’s unclear precisely how many classified materials have been obtained from Biden’s office and home. Richard Sauber, special counsel to the president, said Monday that “a small number of documents with classified markings” were discovered on Nov. 2, 2022, in a locked closet at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, a think tank in Washington, as Biden’s personal attorneys were clearing out the offices…

Roughly 300 documents with classification markings — including some at the top secret level — have been recovered from Trump since he left office in January 2021.”

-Meg Kinnard, “A side-by-side look at the Trump, Biden classified documents,” apnews.com, January 12, 2023

1/12/2023

NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR: “Behind closed doors in 2017, President Donald Trump discussed the idea of using a nuclear weapon against North Korea and suggested he could blame a U.S. strike against the communist regime on another country, according to a new section of a book that details key events of his administration.”

-Rebecca Shabad, “Trump discussed using a nuclear weapon on North Korea in 2017 and blaming it on someone else, book says,” nbcnews.com, January 12, 2023

1/12/2023

2024 ELECTION/IMPEACHMENT/UKRAINE: “House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Thursday [January 12, 2023] that he’s willing to take a look at expunging an impeachment of former president Donald Trump by the Democratic-led House.

Trump — now a 2024 candidate — was impeached twice during his four-year presidency: in 2019, for withholding military aid from Ukraine in exchange for political favors; and in 2021, for inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.”

-John Wagner, “McCarthy says he’s willing to look at expunging a Trump impeachment,” washingtonpost.com, January 12, 2023

1/12/2023

INVESTIGATIONS/JOE BIDEN: “Merrick Garland has to immediately end Special Counsel investigation into anything related to me because I did everything right, and appoint a Special Counsel to investigate Joe Biden who hates Biden as much as Jack Smith hates me.”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 12, 2023

1/12/2023

INVESTIGATIONS/JOE BIDEN/WILLIAM BARR: “Page 1. The Special ‘Prosecutor’ assigned to the ‘get Trump case,’ Jack Smith(?), is a Trump Hating THUG whose wife is a serial and open Trump Hater, whose friends & other family members are even worse, and as a prosecutor in Europe, according to Ric Grenell, put a high government official in prison because he was a Trump positive person. Smith is known as ‘an unfair Savage,’ & is best friends with the craziest Trump haters, including Lisa Monaco who runs ‘Injustice.’ The Boxes Scam is a HOAX…

Page 2. For seven years, from the day I came down the escalator in Trump Tower, the Democrat Party has WEAPONIZED the ‘Legal’ System, using City, State, and Federal Law Enforcement against me and the Republican Party as though they were a Private Protection Agency. The greatest Witch Hunt in American History must end now. I beat the Fake Impeachments, the disgraceful Mueller Persecution, and much else that the Fake News doesn’t want to write or talk about, but this charade MUST STOP NOW!!!

Page 3. Fire a man who may very well turn out to be a criminal, Jack Smith. His conflicts, unfairness, and mental state of derangement make him totally unfit for the job of ‘getting Trump.’ Go after Biden and the Biden Crime Family instead. Like Bill Barr, the U.S. Attorneys in Delaware and Illinois are weak, ineffective, and afraid to do what must be done. The Election was RIGGED, and we are now losing our Country. We can’t let that happen. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 12, 2023

1/17/2023

ABORTION/RELIGION: “After long claiming that evangelicals would never abandon him, former President Donald Trump is now accusing one of his most prized voting blocs of ‘disloyalty.’

In a Monday interview with Real America’s Voice, Trump called hesitance from evangelical leaders to endorse his campaign a ‘sign of disloyalty.’ ‘Nobody has ever done more for right to life than Donald Trump,’ he said, accusing leaders of the anti-abortion movement of not capitalizing on the overturning of Roe v. Wade to secure better results in the November midterm election.”

-Nikki McCann Ramirez, “Trump Bashes Evangelical Leaders Withholding Endorsements as ‘Disloyal,’” rollingstone.com, January 17, 2023

1/17/2023

CHINA: “China should permanently shut down the Wuhan Lab, the place where the greatest tragedy in World history began!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 17, 2023

1/18/2023

2024 ELECTION/GOP/POLLS/RON DESANTIS: “Former President Trump holds at 17-point lead over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in a hypothetical GOP primary match-up, according to a new poll.

A Morning Consult poll released Wednesday showed Trump with 48 percent support among potential Republican primary voters, followed by DeSantis with 31 percent.”

-Jared Gans, “Trump trounces DeSantis in potential GOP primary match-up, new poll finds,” thehill.com, January 18, 2023

1/18/2023

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS: “Former President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that the government documents the FBI recovered from Mar-a-Lago last summer were just empty folders marked “classified” or ‘confidential.’

‘When I was in the Oval Office, or elsewhere, * ‘papers’ were distributed to groups of people & me, they would often be in a striped paper folder with ‘Classified’ or ‘Confidential’ or another word on them,’ he wrote on his Twitter-esque social media site Truth Social. ‘When the session was over, they would collect the paper(s), but not the folders, & I saved hundreds of them.’

He added: ‘Remember, these were just ordinary, inexpensive folders with various words printed on them, but they were a ‘cool’ keepsake.’”

-Sonam Sheth, “Trump claims documents found at Mar-a-Lago were empty folders labeled ‘classified’ that he’d kept because they were ‘cool,’” businessinsider.com, January 18, 2023

1/18/2023

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/HILLARY CLINTON/JOE BIDEN/OBAMA: “Why aren’t they asking President Obama what’s going on with his Administration? Crooked Hillary took and illegally deleted and acid washed 33,000 Emails AFTER getting a Subpoena for those Emails from the United States Congress, and who knows how many Classified Documents Joe took, especially pertaining to Ukraine and China. Maybe Trump Hating Special ‘Prosecutor’ Jack Smith, who is doing the dirty work for his Marxist Democrat friends, should do the right thing for our Country!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 18, 2023

1/18/2023

CHINA: “When I’m president, I will ensure that America’s future remains firmly in American hands, not in China’s. We need to enact aggressive new restrictions on Chinese ownership of any vital infrastructure in the United States, including energy, technology, telecommunications, farmland, natural resources, medical supplies, and other strategic national assets.”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 18, 2023

1/18/2023

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/JOE BIDEN: “Page 1: The Fake News Media & Crooked Democrats (That’s been proven!) keep saying I had a ‘large number of documents’ in order to make the Biden Classified Docs look less significant. When I was in the Oval Office, or elsewhere, & ‘papers’ were distributed to groups of people & me, they would often be in a striped paper folder with ‘Classified’ or ‘Confidential’ or another word on them. When the session was over, they would collect the paper(s), but not the folders, & I saved hundreds of them…

Page 2: Remember, these were just ordinary, inexpensive folders with various words printed on them, but they were a ‘cool’ keepsake. Perhaps the Gestapo took some of these empty folders when they Raided Mar-a-Lago, & counted them as a document, which they are not. It’s also possible that the Trump Hating Marxist Thugs in charge will ‘plant’ documents while they’re in possession of the material. As President, and based on the Presidential Records Act & Socks Case, I did NOTHING WRONG. JOE DID!

Page 3: Biden is being treated so smuch better than me, I’m shocked (not really!). Why aren’t they raiding his house, & how come his representatives and lawyers are allowed to work together with the Gestopo in looking for documents, when my lawyers & representatives were not allowed anywhere near the search. We weren’t even allowed to know what they took when they raided my home. ‘Please leave the premises,’ they said, & then lugged out everything they could, including my Passports & Med Recs.”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 18, 2023

1/19/2023

ABORTION/SUPREME COURT: “The Supreme Court has just announced it is not able to find out, even with the help of our “crack” FBI, who the leaker was on the R v Wade scandal. They’ll never find out, & it’s important that they do. So, go to the reporter & ask him/her who it was. If not given the answer, put whoever in jail until the answer is given. You might add the publisher and editor to the list. Stop playing games, this leaking cannot be allowed to happen. It won’t take long before the name of this slime is revealed!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 19, 2023

1/19/2023

LAWSUIT: “Former President Donald Trump recently mistook his rape accuser E. Jean Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples when being questioned about a decades-old photo of him and Carroll by her attorney for a defamation lawsuit, a newly public court filing shows.

Trump’s belief that Carroll, a writer, was actually his second wife Maples sharply undercuts the New York real estate mogul’s repeated claims that he would not have even had sex with Carroll because she is ‘not my type.’”

-Dan Mangan, “Trump mistook rape accuser E. Jean Carroll for ex-wife Marla Maples in deposition about photo,” cnbc.com, January 19, 2023

1/19/2023

IVANKA/JARED KUSHNER/MIKE POMPEO/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In a new memoir peppered with broadsides at potential rivals in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, Mike Pompeo, the former secretary of state, accuses Nikki Haley of plotting with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump to be named vice-president, even while she served as Donald Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations.

Describing his own anger when Haley secured a personal Oval Office meeting with Trump without checking with him, Pompeo writes that Haley in fact ‘played’ Trump’s then chief of staff, John Kelly, and instead of meeting the president alone, was accompanied by Trump’s daughter and her husband, both senior advisers.”

-Martin Pengelly, “Nikki Haley plotted with Kushner and Ivanka to be Trump vice-president, Pompeo book says,” theguardian.com, January 19, 2023

1/19/2023

CHINA/COVID-19/MIKE POMPEO: “Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in his forthcoming memoir that former President Trump told him to ‘shut the hell up’ about China in the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak, Semafor reported on Thursday…

Xi had warned Trump on the call that his secretary of State was endangering the recently signed ‘phase one’ trade deal, which sought to rein in the trade war between Washington and Beijing.

The call came one day after Pompeo created a stir at a meeting of foreign ministers from the Group of Seven, accusing China of engaging in a disinformation campaign on COVID-19 and calling for the virus to be named after the Chinese city of Wuhan where it was first detected.”

-Julia Shapero, “Pompeo says Trump told him to ‘shut the hell up’ about China,” thehill.com, January 19, 2023

1/19/2023

2024 ELECTION/RALLY: “Making a big political speech today at TRUMP DORAL, in Miami. The Fake News says I am not campaigning very hard. I say they are stupid and corrupt, with the Election still a long time away. But do not fear, MANY GIANT RALLIES and other events coming up soon. It will all be wild and exciting. We will save our Country from DOOM and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 19, 2023

1/19/2023

FBI/TWITTER: “So with the FBI being caught red handed in Twitter Files, totally influencing the Election, on top of all of the other fraud and irregularities, the Fake News Media is finding it harder and harder to use the term ‘Big Lie’anymore. It actually angers people to do very bad things. The Radical Left should be careful in its use of that ridiculous term. The [2024] Election was Rigged and Stollen [sic], the Unselect Committee of political Hacks and Thugs refused to discuss it, and so it goes. People want answers!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 19, 2023

1/20/203

TAXES/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Donald Trump asked whether the tax fraud offenses which Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization’s longtime chief financial officer, was recently jailed for should even be considered a crime.

In an early morning post on Truth Social on Friday, the former president described Weisselberg as a ‘casualty of the greatest Witch Hunt of all time,’ after he pleaded guilty to 15 felonies in August 2022 over his role in Trump’s real estate business carrying out a 15-year-long tax fraud scheme…

‘He didn’t pay taxes on the use of a company car—does anyone? The use of a company apartment—does anyone? Or the Education of his grandchildren—Wow! Are these things really criminal, or even a crime?'”

-Ewan Palmer, “Donald Trump Questions Whether Not Paying Taxes Is ‘Really Criminal?,'” newsweek.com, January 20, 2023

1/20/2023

HILLARY CLINTON/LAWSUIT: “A federal judge on Thursday [January 19, 2023] ordered former President Donald Trump and his attorney, Alina Habba, to jointly pay nearly $1 million in sanctions.

The pair were fined for filing a ‘frivolous’ lawsuit against former Secretary of State and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, as well as 30 other perceived political enemies.

In a scathing 46-page order, US District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks wrote that Trump and his lawyer attempted to ‘dishonestly’ advance a political narrative with the lawsuit, adding that no ‘reasonable lawyer’ would have filed it.

Middlebrooks went on to accuse Trump and Habba of filing the lawsuit in bad faith, for an ‘improper purpose,’ and, ultimately, abusing the legal system for political purposes.”

-Joshua Zitser, “Judge fines Trump and his lawyer almost $1 million over ‘frivolous’ lawsuit targeting Hillary Clinton and others,” businessinsider.com, January 20, 2023

1/23/2023

2024 ELECTION/LAWSUITS: “Former President Donald Trump is trotting out a new argument against everyone suing him: They’re trying to distract him.

In a deposition taken in October and unsealed this month, Trump lashed out at the attorney interviewing him. His perceived enemies were trying to ‘defeat’ him by keeping him busy, said Trump, who has announced he’ll run for president in 2024…

The deposition was taken for a lawsuit brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll, who has alleged that Trump raped her in the 1990s and defamed her by calling her a liar when she went public with her claims.”

-Jacob Shamsian, “Trump claims lawsuits are a conspiracy to ‘keep him busy’ ahead of 2024. He’s the one making lawsuits political, judges say.,” businessinsider.com, January 23, 2023

1/23/2023

DEBT/MITCH MCCONNELL: “Mitch McConnell is either the WORST negotiator in the history of politics, or a stone cold CROOK. There can be no other explanation as to why he has become such a rubber stamp for the Democrats. Republicans, use Debt Ceiling to get it all back!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 23, 2023

1/23/2023

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/JOE BIDEN: “Biden [classified] Documents were stored in Chinatown, REALLY? Why aren’t the Thugs and Marxists that Raided Mar-a-Lago, looking to find the TRUTH about all of this, and completely exonerating former President Donald J. Trump and all of the many people that have been harassed and brutalized by the Special ‘Prosecutor’ and his gang of Angry, Radical Left Democrats, looking only to further destroy our Country!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 23, 2023

1/24/2023

GOLF/SPORTS: “Trump announced on his social media platform on Tuesday that he won the Senior Club Championship at Trump International Golf Club in unincorporated West Palm Beach last weekend, despite not playing the first round of the tournament.

Members arrived the second day surprised to see Trump with a five-point lead, according to the Daily Mail. But Trump never played the first round as he was attending a funeral in North Carolina of ardent supporter Lynette Hardaway, known by the moniker ‘Diamond’ of the conservative political commentary duo Diamond and Silk.

Trump told tournament organizers he played a strong round on the course Thursday, two days before the tournament started, and decided that would count as his Saturday score for the club championship.”

-Tom D’Angelo, “Trump declares himself winner of his own golf club championship – despite missing a round,” usatoday.com, January 24, 2023

1/24/2023

2020 ELECTION/GEORGIA/RUDY GIULIANI: “Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis suggested Tuesday that the special grand jury investigating Donald Trump and his allies’ efforts to upend the 2020 election in Georgia has recommended multiple indictments and said that her decision on whether to bring charges is ‘imminent.’” […]

The special grand jury, barred from issuing indictments, penned the highly anticipated final report as a culmination of its seven months of work, which included interviewing witnesses from Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani.”

-Sara Murray, Jason Morris, and Devan Cole, “‘Decisions are imminent’ on charges in Trump’s effort to overturn 2020 election in Georgia, Fulton County DA says,” cnn.com, January 24, 2023

1/24/2023

LAWSUIT/NEW YORK: “Donald Trump has ended his appeal of a court ruling that let New York state’s attorney general investigate his real estate business and eventually file a $250 million civil fraud lawsuit against the former U.S. president.

A stipulation of voluntary dismissal signed by Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba and a lawyer for state Attorney General Letitia James was filed on Tuesday with the federal appeals court in Manhattan. No reason was given.”

-Jonathan Stempel, “Donald Trump ends another legal challenge to N.Y. attorney general probe,” reuters.com, January 24, 2023

1/24/2023

2024 ELECTION/NIKKI HALEY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Nikki Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under former President Donald Trump, has hired key staff and is canvassing potential donors as she explores a presidential run against her former boss in 2024, according to people briefed on her plans.”

-Brian Schwartz and Kevin Breuninger, “Former Trump UN ambassador Nikki Haley gears up for likely 2024 run for president,” CNBC.com, January 24, 2023

1/24/2023

MIKE PENCE: “Mike Pence is an innocent man. He never did anything knowingly dishonest in his life. Leave him alone!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 24, 2023

1/24/2023

FBI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION: “The FBI SleazeBag who was in charge of ‘investigating’ me on RUSSIAGATE was JUST ARRESTED FOR RECIEVING MONEY FROM, get this, RUSSIA!!!These are the people I inherited from the corrupt FBI, including Comey and his crooked band of Misfits and Thugs. Now, the ‘Gestapo’may be even worse, with the RAID on Mar-a-Lago, the Horrible and Unconstitutional treatment of January 6 PATRIOTS, and the lack of action on ANTIFA, BLM, & the rest. Shameful!!! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 24, 2023

1/24/2023

DONALD ON DONALD: “I did a GREAT job as President, maybe the best: STRONG BORDERS WITH WALLS (best ever!), REBUILT MILITARY, BIGGEST TAX & REGULATION CUTS & STRONGEST ECONOMY, WITH NO INFLATION & BEST EMPLOYMENT NUMBERS IN HISTORY, NO WARS, DEFEAT OF ISIS, TOTAL RESPECT ALL OVER THE WORLD! I Ran twice, did much better the second time (Rigged Election!), and now running again while I fight off the RACIST, MARXIST, RADICAL LEFT DEMOCRATS & RINOS WHO HAVE COMPLETELY WEAPONIZED OUR CORRUPT LAW ENFORCEMENT. MAGA!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 24, 2023

1/25/2023

2024 ELECTION/STEVE BANNON/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former Trump White House strategist Stephen Bannon has said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) ‘sees herself on the short list’ to be named former President Trump’s running mate in his 2024 bid to retake the Oval Office…

Greene’s name is among a number of people rumored to be under consideration, including Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) and failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (R). Trump hasn’t indicated that a vice presidential announcement is imminent.”

-Julia Mueller, “Bannon: Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘sees herself on the short list for Trump’s VP,’” thehill.com, January 25, 2023

1/25/2023

COVID-19/TRUMP ADMIN: “One of the greatest privileges I had as President was firing Deborah Birx. The only thing she had going was nice scarves. I remember so well when she was lecturing the American people not to leave their homes for Thanksgiving [due to COVID-19], and then she traveled hundreds of miles to visit her family, who incredibly turned her into the police. The only one who thought highly of her was herself!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 25, 2023

1/30/2023

LAWSUIT/MEDIA: “Former President Donald Trump is suing journalist Bob Woodward for releasing recordings of interviews that he gave to the journalist in 2019 and 2020, claiming he never agreed to those tapes being shared with the public.

In a lawsuit filed Monday against Woodward, Simon & Schuster Inc., and the publisher’s parent company Paramount Global, Trump claimed that although he had given Woodward consent to record their conversations ‘for the sole purpose of a book,’ that didn’t extend to packaging those recordings as an audiobook.”

-Mario Parker and Zoe Tillman, “Trump Sues Journalist Bob Woodward for Releasing Interview Recordings,” bloomberg.com, January 30, 2023

1/30/2023

EDUCATION: “Former President Trump on Friday released a video blasting public education for being taken over by ‘radical left maniacs’ and vowed to give power back to the parents.

‘Here is my plan to restore power to American parents. First, we will cut federal funding for any school or program pushing critical race theory, gender ideology or other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content onto our children,’ Trump said in the video…

‘The Marxism being preached in our schools is also totally hostile to Judeo-Christian teachings, and in many ways it’s resembling an established new religion. We can’t let that happen. For this reason, my administration will aggressively pursue intentional violations to the establishment clause and the free exercise clause of the Constitution.’

Further details on Trump’s plan warn that the ‘major problem’ is that “we have ‘pink-haired communists teaching our kids.’”

-Joshua Q. Nelson, “Trump says public education taken over by ‘pink-haired communists,’ plans to give power back to parents,” foxnews.com, January 30, 2023

1/30/2023

SCANDAL: “With murders and violent crime surging like never before in New York City, the Radical Left Manhattan D.A., Alvin Bragg, just leaked to the Fake News Media that they are still going after the Stormy ‘Horseface’ Daniels Bull….!Working closely with the Weaponized Justice Department, this is a continuation of the Greatest Witch Hunt of all time. They long ago missed the Statute of Limitations, & I recently won big money against ‘Stormy’ in the 9th Circuit – NEVER HAD AN AFFAIR. This is old news!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 30, 2023

1/30/2023

FAKE NEWS: “Because of the Weaponization, Targeting, and Unprecedented Harassment, I believe that I have more lawyers working for me on this Corrupt Law Enforcement induced Bull…. than any human being in the history of our Country, including even the late great gangster, Alphonse Capone! This is all being done for POLITICAL REASONS in that I am leading everybody, Republicans & Democrats, by big numbers in the Polls. The Disinformation Specialists are at it again, full time. The Fake News is their TOOL!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 30, 2023

1/31/2023

FLORIDA/RON DESANTIS: “Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responded Tuesday [January 31, 2023] to an ongoing series of criticisms leveled at him by former President Donald Trump.

Trump took his latest swing at DeSantis on Saturday [January 28, 2023], claiming that the governor — whom he has previously nicknamed ‘Ron DeSanctimonious’ — was misguided in COVID-19 pandemic policies in Florida…

Speaking at a press conference, DeSantis was asked about Trump’s comments…

‘Well, look, what I would just say is this. I roll out of bed, I have people attacking me from all angles,’ the Florida governor said…

DeSantis continued, ‘And the good thing is that the people are able to render a judgment on that, whether they reelect you or not. And I’m happy to say, you know, in my case, not only did we win reelection, we won with the highest percentage of the vote that any Republican governor candidate has in the history of the state of Florida.'”

-Timothy H.J. Nerozzi, “DeSantis responds to Trump criticism, says ‘verdict has been rendered by’ Florida voters,” foxnews.com, January 31, 2023

1/31/2023

TRANSGENDER: “Former President Trump is promising to radically roll back transgender rights if elected president in 2024.

The big picture: Gender-affirming care would be directly under threat from Trump, who vowed in a video posted to his social network to punish doctors and hospitals who provided the services to trans and nonbinary people.

What he’s saying: In the video, Trump says he will push Congress to pass a law to ban gender-affirming care for minors nationwide.”

-Shawna Chen, “Trump unveils sweeping attack on trans rights,” axios.com, January 31, 2023

1/31/2023

LAWSUIT/NEW YORK: “Attorneys working under New York Attorney General Letitia James on Tuesday asked a judge overseeing the office’s $250 million fraud lawsuit to sanction Trump parties and their attorneys for ‘falsely’ denying facts in recent court filings and rehashing ‘frivolous’ arguments…

Lawyers for the AG’s office pointed to sworn testimony in other recent proceedings, including a deposition in another lawsuit from Trump himself, that contradicts some of what the Trump attorneys claimed in their written formal responses to the lawsuit.”

-Shayna Jacobs, “N.Y. attorney general seeks sanctions against Trump and his legal team,” washingtonpost.com, January 31, 2023

1/31/2023

MEDIA: “The Fake News media like CNN, MSDNC which is sometimes referred to as MSNBC, the Washington Compost which is sometimes referred to as the Washington Post, and the Failing New York Times are all doing really, really badly. The future of the Fake News looks bleak and that’s a positive thing!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 31, 2023

1/31/2023

DEMS: “The Democrat D.A.’s, Attorney Generals, and Prosecutors are very DANGEROUS to the well being of our Country. Many are deranged and only interested in pleasing the Fake News Media and the Democrat Party. Fair and True Justice means NOTHING in our Country anymore. I am being hit by so many DEMOCRAT Prosecutors, LOCAL, STATE, & FEDERAL, all to keep me from ‘running,’ [in the 2024 election] and all because I am leading by sooo much. The great people of our Country aren’t going to take it. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 31, 2023

1/31/2023

2020 ELECTION/GEORGIA: “In Georgia I made a PERFECT phone call about [2020] Election Integrity, with many people on the line, and if it wasn’t PERFECT, why was I not admonished, screamed at, or hung up on, especially with many lawyers listening to each and every word? ANSWER: Because it was PERFECT, and a very appropriate call to make!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 31, 2023

1/31/2023

LAWSUIT: “With respect to the ‘Stormy’ nonsense, it is VERY OLD & happened a long time ago, long past the very publicly known & accepted deadline of the Statute of Limitations. I placed full Reliance on the JUDGEMENT & ADVICE OF COUNCIL, who I had every reason to believe had a license to practice law, was competent, & was able to appropriately provide solid legal services. He came from a good law firm, represented other clients over the years, & there was NO reason not to rely on him, and I did.”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 31, 2023

1/31/2023

LAWSUIT: “Former President Donald Trump could face charges carrying anywhere from no jail to 4 years in prison if indicted in the Stormy Daniels ‘hush money’ matter in New York, a criminal case now being weighed by a grand jury.

That zero-to-four-years potential sentence would be for a possible top charge of first-degree falsifying business records, a low-level felony under state criminal law, according to former Manhattan prosecutors with expertise in complex financial crimes.”

-Laura Italiano, “Trump risks ‘hush money’ charges carrying up to 4 years in prison, say ex-Manhattan prosecutors,” businessinsider.com, January 31, 2023

2/3/2023

DRUGS: “We have more drug DEATHS than ever seen in our Country before, by far. Have run out of Morgue space. Body bags all over certain areas. Compare that to just TWO SHORT YEARS AGO!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, February 3, 2023

2/5/2023

2024 ELECTION: “The conservative political network associated with billionaire Charles Koch won’t be backing former President Trump’s 2024 presidential bid, becoming the latest GOP megadonor to distance themselves from Trump…

Even the Club for Growth, once close to the former president, clashed with Trump in two high-profile Senate primaries in 2022. Club for Growth president David McIntosh told Axios last month that Trump and the group are ‘focused on different things.'”

-Ivana Saric, “Koch network indicates it won’t back Trump in 2024,” axios.com, February 5, 2023

2/5/2023

CHINA: “The Chinese would never have floated the Blimp (‘Balloon’) over the United States if I were President!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, February 5, 2023

2/5/2023

AFGHANISTAN/BIDEN-HARRIS ADMIN/CHINA: “The Chinese Balloon situation is a disgrace, just like the Afghanistan horror show, and everything else surrounding the grossly incompetent Biden Administration. They are only good at cheating in elections, and disinformation — and now they are putting out that a Balloon was put up by China during the Trump Administration, in order to take the ‘heat’ off the slow moving Biden fools. China had too much respect for ‘TRUMP’ for this to have happened, and it NEVER did. JUST FAKE DISINFORMATION!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, February 5, 2023

2/5/2023

POLLS: “For all of my many supporters, and the number is higher than ever before, I am pleased to report that ‘our’ Poll numbers are Excellent. Polls are important, but many have proven to be so corrupt, wrong, or incompetent in the past, especially, those of ABC FAKE NEWS/WASHINGTON COMPOST; FOX FAKE NEWS; and NBC FAKE NEWS/GLOBALIST STREET JOURNAL, that they have become somewhat meaningless, just a political weapon. CNN Polls no longer matter in that so few people are watching CNN (and MSDNC) anymore!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, February 5, 2023

2/6/2023

CHINA/TRUMP ADMIN: “The transiting of three suspected Chinese spy balloons over the continental US during the Trump administration was only discovered after President Joe Biden took office, a senior administration official told CNN on Sunday [February 5, 2023]…

After the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was ‘surprised’ by that statement…

Former President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were ‘fake disinformation.'”

-Natasha Bertrand, “Chinese spy balloons under Trump not discovered until after Biden took office,” cnn.com, February 6, 2023

2/6/2023

HILLARY CLINTON/LAWSUIT: “Former President Donald Trump and one of his lawyers said Monday they are appealing nearly $1 million in sanctions imposed on them for what a federal judge called their ‘frivolous’ lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and more than two dozen other defendants…

The appeal will join another one at that court of appeals, which seeks both to reverse the dismissal of Trump’s lawsuit and to overturn an earlier, $50,000 sanctions order imposed against only against Trump’s lawyers.”

-Dan Mangan, “Trump appeals nearly $1 million in sanctions for ‘frivolous’ suit he filed against Hillary Clinton,” CNBC.com, February 6, 2023

2/7/2023

DOJ/GEORGIA/INVESTIGATIONS: “Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said her decision is ‘imminent’ on whether to indict the former president, which would make him the first US president charged with a crime. That decision will have a ripple effect on the Justice Department’s special counsel probe and other investigations circling Trump.

If Willis goes first, that case would road-test possible testimony, helping to determine what evidence holds up in court and providing a blueprint for prosecutions involving other battleground states where Trump and his supporters tried to undermine President Joe Biden’s win.”

-Chris Strohm, Zoe Tillman and Billy House, “Trump Charges in Georgia Over 2020 Could Lead to Bigger Fed Case,” bloomberg.com, February 7, 2023

2/7/2023

CHINA: “So much talk now about the threat of China. Question: Who was the first person, way back in 2015, and before, that brought China to the attention of ALL, with many refusing to accept what was being so strongly and brilliantly stated? Why, surprise, it was Donald J. Trump, of course! BUT, with all of that being said, we can have a great relationship with China, but it has to be one of MUTUAL respect. Right now they have ZERO respect for the USA, two years ago it was at record levels!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, February 7, 2023

2/7/2023

2016 ELECTION/2020 ELECTION/ENDORSEMENT: “The Club For NO Growth, an assemblage of political misfits, globalists, and losers, fought me incessantly and rather viciously during my presidential run in 2016. They said I couldn’t win, I did, and won even bigger in 2020, with millions of more votes than ‘16, but the Election was Rigged & Stollen. They asked to get together on Endorsements of candidates, we did, and had MANY WINS & NO losses. Relationship broke up over my Endorsement of certain great people in Alabama & Ohio. I won them all!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, February 7, 2023

2/7/2023

CHINA: “No Balloons from China flew over the United States, in any way, shape, or form, while I was President. If they did we would have shot them down, immediately!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, February 7, 2023

2/7/2023

BIDEN-HARRIS ADMIN/CHINA/RUSSIA: “So ‘funny’ to watch the Biden folks try to explain the Balloon episode with China and, as always, use Disinformation to try and bring me into it. In the midst of a heated exchange they say ‘this happened during the Trump Administration, that’s right, ya, ya, The Trump Administration, that’s it.’ Just like Russia, Russia, Russia, and all the rest, it’s Democrat disinformation (lies!), IT NEVER HAPPENED!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, February 7, 2023

2/9/2023

INVESTIGATIONS/MIKE PENCE: “Former Vice President Mike Pence has been subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating former President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to cling to office after he lost his bid for re-election…

It was not immediately clear when the special counsel, Jack Smith, sought Mr. Pence’s testimony. The move is among the most aggressive yet by Mr. Smith in his wide-ranging investigation into Mr. Trump’s role in seeking to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election.”

-Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush, “Pence Gets Subpoena From Special Counsel in Jan. 6 Investigation,” nytimes.com, February 9, 2023

2/10/2023

2020 ELECTION/INVESTIGATIONS/MIKE PENCE: “Will Trump Hating Prosecutor Jack Smith be investigating the FACT that they SPIED on my [2020 election] campaign, even as I was in the Oval Office, they Stuffed the Ballot Boxes (per 2000 Mules), used Covid to cheat, that the FBI pushed Twitter & Facebook around, causing massive voter disruption, and so much more? That’s really what he should be looking at, not asking a very decent Mike Pence why he didn’t send the votes back to State Legislatures for scrutinization, which he could have done. Get the RIGGERS!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, February 10, 2023

2/11/2023

GOLF/JARED KUSHNER/SAUDI ARABIA: “The day after leaving the White House, Kushner created a company that he transformed months later into a private equity firm with $2 billion from a sovereign wealth fund chaired by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman…

A year after his presidency, Trump’s golf courses began hosting tournaments for the Saudi fund-backed LIV Golf. Separately, the former president’s family company, the Trump Organization, secured an agreement with a Saudi real estate company that plans to build a Trump hotel as part of a $4 billion golf resort in Oman.

The substantial investments by the Saudis in enterprises that benefited both men came after they cultivated close ties with Mohammed while Trump was in office.”

-Michael Kranish, “After helping prince’s rise, Trump and Kushner benefit from Saudi funds,” washingtonpost.com, February 11, 2023

2/11/2023

2020 ELECTION: “Former president Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign commissioned an outside research firm in a bid to prove electoral-fraud claims but never released the findings because the firm disputed many of his theories and could not offer any proof that he was the rightful winner of the election, according to four people familiar with the matter…

‘They looked at everything: change of addresses, illegal immigrants, ballot harvesting, people voting twice, machines being tampered with, ballots that were sent to vacant addresses that were returned and voted,’ said a person familiar with the work who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private research and meetings. ‘Literally anything you could think of. Voter turnout anomalies, date of birth anomalies, whether dead people voted. If there was anything under the sun that could be thought of, they looked at it.'”

-Josh Dawsey, “Trump campaign paid researchers to prove 2020 fraud but kept findings secret,” washingtonpost.com, February 11, 2023

2/12/2023

2024 ELECTION/COVID-19/RON DESANTIS: “Former President Donald Trump is trying out new nicknames for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, including ‘Meatball Ron,’ per The New York Times.

Trump has used the insult, which is meant as a jab at DeSantis’ appearance, in private conversations…

Trump has also called DeSantis ‘Shutdown Ron’ in private, per The Times. This is a reference to DeSantis’ March 2020 executive order that temporarily closed bars and nightclubs in Florida because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Trump announced his 2024 presidential run in November and has since pre-emptively launched a series of attacks on his would-be rival.”

-Cheryl Teh, “Trump is testing out new nicknames for Ron DeSantis, including ‘Meatball Ron:’ NYT,” businessinsider.com, February 12, 2023

2/12/2023

CELEBS/SPORTS: “Former President Trump doubled down on his attacks on superstar singer Rihanna on Sunday night following her Super Bowl performance…

‘EPIC FAIL: Rihanna gave, without question, the single worst Halftime Show in Super Bowl history — This after insulting far more than half of our Nation, which is already in serious DECLINE, with her foul and insulting language,’ Trump wrote on Truth Social Sunday night.

‘Also, so much for her “Stylist!”‘ he added.

Trump’s comments appear to reference Rihanna spraypainting a car with “F**k Trump” in 2020.”

-Sarah Polus, “Trump bashes Rihanna’s Super Bowl halftime performance,” thehill.com, February 12, 2023

2/13/2023

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS: “A lawyer for former President Donald Trump shared a surprising explanation for what Trump was doing at his Mar-a-Lago resort with a folder bearing ‘classified’ wording that was recently turned over to federal investigators.

The lawyer, Tim Parlatore, was asked in a CNN interview Sunday about what he said was an empty folder labeled “classified evening summary” that was given to investigators…

‘He has one of those landline telephones next to his bed, and it has a blue light on it, and it keeps him up at night,’ Parlatore said. ‘So he took the manila folder and he put it over it so that it would keep the light down so he could sleep at night.'”

-Summer Concepcion, “Trump used folder bearing ‘classified’ wording to block light keeping him awake at night, lawyer says,” nbcnews.com, February 13, 2023

2/13/2023

ARIZONA/SPORTS: “Sorry football fans! Because the Super Bowl was held in Arizona, the results of the game, after a lengthy analysis currently taking place of the ‘holding’ call, will not be known for at least 4 weeks. Thank you for your attention to this matter, and I hope that you thoroughly enjoyed the game!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, February 13, 2023

2/13/2023

FAKE NEWS/RON DESANTIS: “All of the Fake News is reporting that I spend large amounts of my time coming up with a good ‘nickname’ for Ron DeSanctimonious, who is obviously going to give the presidential ‘thing’ a shot. They are all 100% wrong, I don’t even think about it — A very unimportant subject to me!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, February 13, 2023

2/14/2023

2024 ELECTION/NIKKI HALEY/POLLS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Tuesday kicked off her campaign for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, a tough challenge as her former boss Donald Trump holds a strong lead in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll…

Haley, a former South Carolina governor who served as the U.N. ambassador under Trump from 2017 to 2018, is set to lay out her campaign plans in a speech on Wednesday [February 15, 2023] in Charleston, South Carolina.”

-Steve Holland and Susan Heavey, “Nikki Haley takes on Donald Trump for 2024 U.S. Republican nomination,” reuters.com, February 14, 2023

2/14/2023

2024 ELECTION/NIKKI HALEY/PAC: “The top pro-Trump super PAC acknowledged Tuesday former ambassador Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign announcement, dismissing her as a ‘career politician.’

Haley, who served as the US Ambassador to the United Nations, announced Tuesday that she was seeking the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election.

MAGA Inc. executive and former Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich released a statement on behalf of the super PAC mocking Haley and her presidential bid.

‘Nikki Haley is just another career politician,’ Budowich said. ‘She started out as a Never Trumper before resigning to serve in the Trump admin. She then resigned early to go rake in money on corporate boards,’ Budowich wrote.”

-Timothy H.J. Nerozzi, “Trump camp reacts to Nikki Haley becoming first official opponent: ‘Just another career politician,'” foxnews.com, February 14, 2023

2/14/2023

LAWSUIT: “A New York appeals court upheld sanctions against former President Donald Trump totaling $110,000 for failing to respond to a New York state attorney general subpoena for documents…

In a brief decision Tuesday, a panel of three judges said the financial sanction ‘was a proper exercise of the court’s discretionary power and was not excessive or otherwise improper, under the particular circumstances.’

The sanction was the first – of what turned out to be many – facing Trump, or his attorneys, from judges.”

-Kara Scannell, “Trump must pay $110,000 in sanctions to NY attorney general, court rules,” cnn.com, February 14, 2023

2/14/2023

CRIME/JOE BIDEN: “The former president [Donald Trump], if re-elected, is still committed to expanding the use of the federal death penalty and bringing back banned methods of execution, the sources say. He has even, one of the sources recounts, mused about televising footage of executions, including showing condemned prisoners in the final moments of their lives.

Specifically, Trump has talked about bringing back death by firing squad, by hanging, and, according to two of the sources, possibly even by guillotine. He has also, sources say, discussed group executions. Trump has floated these ideas while discussing planned campaign rhetoric and policy desires, as well as his disdain for President Biden’s approach to crime.”

-Asawin Suebsaeng and Patrick Reis, “Trump Plans to Bring Back Firing Squads, Group Executions if He Retakes White House,” rollingstone.com, February 14, 2023

2/14/2023

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/FBI: “Many of the so-called ‘documents’ that the ‘Gestapo’ took in the Raid of Mar-a-Lago, unlike the’No Raids of Biden,’ were merely inexpensive and very common folders with words such as ‘Presidential Reading,’ ‘Confidential,’ ‘Classified,’ or other words stamped on the front cover. There was nothing inside of the folders because, during meetings where information was passed out, say at the Oval Office, when finished the papers inside were taken back, but the empty folders were left behind…..

I would put them in a pile and keep them as momentous. Nothing wrong with that, but sounds to me that the Injustice Department views these as DOCUMENTS – They are not! These people are just out looking for trouble! Should be checking Biden’s unsecured classified docs instead. How about the 1,850 Boxes sent to Delaware. That’s the mother load! Or separately, how about revealing who spied on my campaign, stuffed the ballot boxes, or paid off the FBI? That’s what people want to hear!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, February 14, 2023

2/14/2023

JOE BIDEN/POLLS: “Doing great in poll numbers. Leading all Republicans by a lot, also leading Biden by a very wide margin, which means that our weaponized Injustice Department, local D.A.’s, and Attorney Generals, will step up their illegal and unprecedented attacks in order to disparage me with false ‘bull….’ and statements in the hope that I will be damaged enough to allow a RINO, or Biden, to ‘slip through the cracks.’ But be careful, the American people get it, and don’t like what they are seeing. MAGA!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, February 14, 2023

2/15/2023

2024 ELECTION/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTING: “After years of assailing early voting, Donald Trump is having a change of heart.

The 2024 presidential candidate remains critical of various forms of early voting, advisers say, but his campaign is nonetheless mounting an effort to pursue such votes after Democrats excelled at doing so in recent elections. His team is studying state laws governing absentee and mail-in voting as well as ballot collection…

Mr. Trump highlighted the move in a fundraising email this week, saying, ‘The radical Democrats have used ballot harvesting to cancel out YOUR vote and walk away with elections that they NEVER should have won. But I’m doing something HUGE to fight back.'”

-Alex Leary and Eliza Collins, “Donald Trump Changes Tune on Mail-in Voting, Ballot Collection,” wsj.com, February 15, 2023

2/16/2023

2020 ELECTION/MEDIA: “In the days and weeks after the 2020 elections, the Fox News Channel repeatedly broadcast false claims that then-President Donald Trump had been cheated of victory.

Off the air, the network’s stars, producers and executives expressed contempt for those same conspiracies, calling them ‘mind-blowingly nuts,’ ‘totally off the rails’ and ‘completely bs’ – often in far earthier terms.

The network’s top primetime stars – Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity – texted contemptuously of the claims in group chats, but also denounced colleagues pointing that out publicly or on television…

Those revelations and far more surfaced in legal filings made public late Thursday afternoon as part of Dominion Voting System’s blockbuster $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox and its parent company.”

-David Folkenflik, “Off the air, Fox News stars blasted the election fraud claims they peddled,” NPR.org, February 16, 2023

2/16/2023

GEORGIA/INVESTIGATIONS: “An Atlanta-area special grand jury investigating efforts by President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia concluded that some witnesses may have lied under oath during their testimony and recommended that charges be filed. But those witnesses were not identified in the five-page excerpt of the grand jury report made public Thursday [February 16, 2023].”

-Holly Bailey, “Georgia grand jury: ‘Perjury may have been committed’ in Trump election probe,” washingtonpost.com, February 16, 2023

2/17/2023

PAUL RYAN/RON DESANTIS: “I will never call Ron DeSanctimonious ‘Meatball’ Ron, as the Fake News is insisting I will. Even though FoxNews killing lightweight Paul Ryan is revered by him, Low Energy Jeb Bush is his hero and always at his side, his beaches and State were closed for long periods of time, his testing, testing, testing for the China Virus didn’t work out too well, and his loyalty skills are really weak, it would be totally inappropriate to use the word ‘meatball’ as a moniker for Ron!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, February 17, 2023

2/18/2023

RON DESANTIS: “Ron DeSanctimonious wants to cut your Social Security and Medicare, closed up Florida & its beaches, loves RINOS Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush, and Karl Rove (disasters ALL!), is backed by Globalist’s Club for NO Growth, Lincoln Pervert Project, & ‘Uninspired’ Koch — And it only gets worse from there. He is a RINO in disguise!, whose Poll numbers are dropping like a rock. Good luck Ron!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, February 18, 2023

2/18/2022

ECONOMY: “Inflation is a self inflicted wound. There was NO reason this should be happening to our Country. Name one thing that has gone well for America during the last two years, then add the ravages of inflation. It has been a very tough period for the U.S., but we will quickly MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, February 18, 2023

2/20/2023

RALLY/UKRAINE/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Donald Trump on Monday night [February 20, 2023] touted his great relationship with Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin and defended his past assertion that he trusted the foreign leader over his own intelligence community.

‘Putin never, ever would have gone into Ukraine if I were president,’ Trump told supporters at a Florida rally. ‘I actually had a very good relationship’ with Putin.”

-Asawin Suebsaeng, “Trump Defends Putin as Biden Visits War-Torn Ukraine,” rollingstone.com, February 20, 2023

2/20/2023

JOE BIDEN/UKRAINE: “If you watch and understand the moves being made by Biden on Ukraine, he is systematically, but perhaps unknowingly, pushing us into what could soon be WORLD WAR III. How crazy is that?”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, February 20, 2023

2/21/2023

GEORGIA/INVESTIGATIONS: “A special grand jury that investigated election interference by former President Donald J. Trump and his allies in Georgia recommended indictments for multiple people on a range of charges in its final report, most of which remains sealed, the forewoman of the jury [Emily Kohrs] said…

Asked whether the jurors had recommended indicting Mr. Trump, Ms. Kohrs would not answer directly but said: ‘You’re not going to be shocked. It’s not rocket science.’ In the slim portions of the report that were released last week, the jurors said they saw possible evidence of perjury by ‘one or more’ witnesses who testified before them.”

-Danny Hakim, “Jury in Georgia Trump Inquiry Recommended Multiple Indictments, Forewoman Says,” nytimes.com, February 21, 2023

2/21/2023

MEDIA/RON DESANTIS: “Former President Trump ripped into Fox News on Tuesday [February 21, 2023] over its coverage of the political ascendance of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).

‘So interesting to watch FoxNews cover the small and unenthusiastic 139 person crowd in Staten Island for DeSantis, but stay as far away as possible from coverage of the thousands of people, many unable to get in, at the Club 47 event in West Palm Beach, Florida,’ Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social on Tuesday.

‘I call FoxNews the RINO Network, and their DOWN BIG Ratings accurately reflect the name,’ Trump said, using an acronym referring to the phrase ‘Republican in Name Only.'”

-Dominick Mastrangelo, “Trump labels Fox News ‘RINO’ network over DeSantis coverage,” foxnews.com, February 21, 2023

2/21/2023

LEGAL/PAC: “Former President Donald J. Trump, who throughout his business career had a reputation for not paying lawyers, spent roughly $10 million from his political action committee on his own legal fees last year, federal election filings show.

The money that went to Mr. Trump’s legal bills was part of more than $16 million that Mr. Trump’s PAC, Save America, spent for legal-related payments in 2021 and 2022, the filings show.”

-Maggie Haberman, “Trump Spent $10 Million From His PAC on His Legal Bills Last Year,” nytimes.com, February 21, 2023

2/21/2023

JOE BIDEN/NORTH KOREA: “Kim Jung Un of North Korea, who I got to know and got along with very well during my years as President, is not happy with the U.S. and South Korea doing big training and air exercises together. He feels threatened. Even I would constantly complain that South Korea pays us very little to do these extremely expensive and provocative drills. It’s really ridiculous. We have 35,000 in jeopardy soldiers there, I had a deal for full payment to us, $Billions, and Biden gave it away. Such a shame!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, February 21, 2023

2/21/2023

FLORIDA/RON DESANTIS: “Florida was doing GREAT long before Ron DeSanctus got there. People are fleeing from New York to Florida (and other places) because of high TAXES and out of control CRIME, not because of Governor (thank you President Trump!) DeSanctimonious. Rick Scott did great, and even Charlie Crist had very good numbers. SUNSHINE AND OCEAN, very alluring!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, February 21, 2023

2/21/2023

2024 ELECTION: “ANYBODY running for the Office of President of the United States should agree to take a full & complete Mental Competency Test simultaneously (or before!) with the announcement that he or she is running, & likewise, but to a somewhat lesser extent, agree to a test which would prove that you are physically capable of doing the job. Being an outstanding President requires great mental acuity & physical stamina. If you don’t have these qualities or traits, it is likely you won’t succeed. MAGA!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, February 21, 2023

2/22/2023

2020 ELECTION/GEORGIA/INVESTIGATIONS: “CNN reporters agonized over Emily Kohrs, the forewoman on Georgia’s special grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump, who sat down for multiple interviews with the media about the grand jury’s recommendations.

CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Elie Honig discussed Kohrs’ interview Tuesday night and wondered if her media blitz was ‘responsible.’…

The Fulton County, Georgia, grand jury released portions of their findings from the probe into whether Trump and his allies interfered in Georgia’s electoral process as part of an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.”

-Hanna Panreck, “CNN reporters agonize over Trump grand jury forewoman’s bizarre media blitz: ‘Prosecutor’s nightmare,'” foxnews.com, February 22, 2023

2/22/2023

JOE BIDEN/OHIO/UKRAINE: “Former President Donald Trump is set to visit East Palestine, Ohio, on Wednesday to tour the site of a toxic train derailment amid growing frustration from residents and leaders about the federal government’s response to their safety concerns…

Trump has seized on Biden’s decision to make a surprise visit to Ukraine this week when the president has yet to see the situation firsthand in East Palestine. Biden was traveling back from Poland on Wednesday after marking the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

‘You have people in Ohio that are desperate need of help,’ Trump said Monday during a Presidents Day appearance in Florida. ‘Those are great people and they were abandoned. But now I think they won’t be abandoned any longer,’ he added in an interview the same day with Real America’s Voice.”

-Jill Colvin and John Seewer, “Trump, reprising White House role, to tour train derailment,” apnews.com, February 22, 2023

2/22/2023

OHIO: “Former US President Donald Trump has accused federal officials of ‘indifference’ to an Ohio town that is reeling from a toxic train derailment.

On a visit to East Palestine, Mr Trump claimed his presence had spurred the Biden administration to devote more resources to this month’s crash.

Local residents have expressed frustration at what they saw as a lack of answers from officials…

Mr Trump’s short speech also included a thinly veiled jab at US President Joe Biden, saying that he hopes he has ‘money left over’ after a visit to Ukraine earlier this week.”

-Bernd Debusmann Jr, “Donald Trump says officials ‘indifferent’ after Ohio train derailment,” bbc.com, February 22, 2023

2/22/2023

2024 ELECTION/MIKE PENCE: “Former Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday he would prefer a Republican alternative to former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, while floating reforms to popular entitlement programs as he mulls his own possible White House run.

‘I think we’re going to have better choices’ than Trump, Pence said on CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box’ when asked if the GOP should nominate someone other than the former president next year. Pence did not explicitly rule out supporting Trump if he became the GOP nominee.”

-Kevin Breuninger, “Pence says there are ‘better choices’ than Trump for 2024, calls to put entitlement cuts ‘on the table,’” CNBC.com, February 22, 2023

2/22/2023

GEORGIA: “This Georgia case is ridiculous, a strictly political continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt of all time. Now you have an extremely energetic young woman, the (get this!) ‘foreperson’ of the Racist D.A.’s Special Grand Jury, going around and doing a Media Tour revealing, incredibly, the Grand Jury’s inner workings & thoughts. This is not JUSTICE, this is an illegal Kangaroo Court. Atlanta is leading the Nation in Murder and other Violent Crimes. All I did is make TWO PERFECT PHONE CALLS!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, February 22, 2023

2/25/2023

JOE BIDEN/WAR: “This is the most dangerous time in the history of our Country. World War III is looming, like never before, in the very dark and murky background. ‘Leadership’ is solely responsible for this unprecedented danger to the USA, and likewise, the World. HOPELESS JOE BIDEN IS LEADING US INTO OBLIVION!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, February 25, 2023

2/25/2023

2020 ELECTION/GEORGIA: “There is no case against me in Georgia because I did NOTHING WRONG, but in any event, and everyone agrees, the out of control Foreperson who did an illegal and unprecedented Media Tour DURING the process, makes the case dead for a second reason. Same in New York City, where the Democrat Prosecutor actually wrote and released a book during the Witch Hunt…TAINTED both! TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME coupled with Prosecutorial Misconduct!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, February 25, 2023

2/25/2023

DOJ/JOE BIDEN: “DOJ didn’t need a Search Warrant for my home, but they did need it for Biden, who has not been forthcoming, had no rights to Declassify, had NO SECURITY and many different locations, EVEN CHINATOWN. He won’t give the 1,850 Boxes of Documents stored in Delaware – Why not? I have done everything correctly under the Presidential Records Act, he didn’t. As President, I had the absolute right to Declassify, not Biden. Unfair and unequal treatment under the law. Fourth Amendment Violation, & more!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, February 25, 2023

2/28/2023

2020 ELECTION: “There was so much Voter Fraud & Irregularities in the 2020 Presidential Election that it amazes me how weak and ineffective FoxNews is at portraying itself in the lawsuit against them. They look too scared and frightened to reveal the massive amounts of voter fraud & Irregularities already found, and it would actually help them in the lawsuit. Instead FoxNews wants to silence its anchors and reporters, the reason so many of their viewers fled. The Election was that of a Third World Country!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, February 28, 2023

2/28/2023

JOE BIDEN/POLLS/RON DESANTIS: “Great Poll numbers are springing forth for your favorite President, me, against Ron DeSanctus (& Biden). I guess people are finding out that he wanted to CUT SOCIAL SECURITY & RAISE THE MINIMUM AGE TO AT LEAST 70, at least 4 times. LIKEWISE WITH MEDICARE, WANTED BIG CUTS. HE IS A WHEELCHAIR OVER THE CLIFF KIND OF GUY, JUST LIKE HIS HERO, failed politician Paul Ryan, the FoxNews ratings destroyer who led Mitt Romney’s Presidential Campaign down the tubes. GLOBALIST’S ALL! WE WANT AMERICA FIRST!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, February 28, 2023

3/1/2023

KELLYANNE CONWAY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “On Wednesday [March 1, 2023], former Trump White House adviser Kellyanne Conway met with prosecutors from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office as part of their criminal investigation into Trump and the alleged hush payment to Stormy Daniels, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

Conway is the latest witness to meet with prosecutors. Others include Michael Cohen, Trump’s one time fixer and lawyer who funded the payment, and David Pecker, the former publisher of The National Enquirer who helped arrange it.”

-Aaron Katersky, “Kellyanne Conway meets with Manhattan prosecutors investigating Trump,” abcnews.go.com, March 1, 2023

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