3/1/2023

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/DOJ/FBI: “Months of disputes between Justice Department prosecutors and FBI agents over how best to try to recover classified documents from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club and residence led to a tense showdown near the end of July last year, according to four people familiar with the discussions.

Prosecutors argued that new evidence suggested Trump was knowingly concealing secret documents at his Palm Beach, Fla., home and urged the FBI to conduct a surprise raid at the property. But two senior FBI officials who would be in charge of leading the search resisted the plan as too combative and proposed instead to seek Trump’s permission to search his property.”

-Carol D. Leonnig, Devlin Barrett, Perry Stein and Aaron C. Davis, “Showdown before the raid: FBI agents and prosecutors argued over Trump,” washingtonpost.com, March 1, 2023

3/1/2023

POLLS: “GREAT POLL NUMBERS. LEADING BIDEN, DESANCTUS, AND ALL OTHERS BY A LOT. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, March 1, 2023

3/1/2023

2020 ELECTION: “If Rupert Murdoch honestly believes that the Presidential Election of 2020, despite MASSIVE amounts of proof to the contrary, was not Rigged & Stolen, then he & his group of MAGA Hating Globalist RINOS should get out of the News Business as soon as possible, because they are aiding & abetting the DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA with FAKE NEWS. Certain BRAVE & PATRIOTIC FoxNews Hosts, who he scorns and ridicules, got it right. He got it wrong. THEY SHOULD BE ADMIRED & PRAISED, NOT REBUKED & FORSAKEN!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, March 1, 2023

3/2/2023

2020 ELECTION/DOJ/LAWSUIT: “The Justice Department said Thursday [March 2, 2023] former President Donald Trump doesn’t deserve absolute immunity from three civil lawsuits accusing him of inciting the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021 [following the 2020 election].

‘No part of a President’s official responsibilities includes the incitement of imminent private violence,’ department lawyers said in an appeals court filing. ‘By definition, such conduct plainly falls outside the President’s constitutional and statutory duties.’

A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals will decide whether to allow the lawsuits to continue.”

-Bart Jansen, “DOJ to appeals court: Donald Trump can be sued for inciting Jan. 6 Capitol riot,” usatoday.com, March 2, 2023

3/2/2023

2024 ELECTION/MIKE PENCE: “Twice given a chance to say he would support Donald Trump if he was the Republican nominee for president in 2024, Mike Pence, Trump’s former vice-president, declined to do so.

‘I’m very confident we’ll have better choices come 2024,’ Pence told CBS on Wednesday [March 1, 2023]. ‘And I’m confident our standard-bearer will win the day in November of that year.'”

-Martin Pengelly, “Pence declines to support Trump if he’s 2024 nominee: ‘I’m confident we’ll have better choices,’” theguardian.com, March 2, 2023

3/2/2023

2020 ELECTION/FAKE NEWS: “Rupert Murdoch should apologize to his viewers and readers for his ridiculous defense of the 2020 Presidential Election. How many forms of cheating and rigging does he have to see? He should also apologize to those anchors who got it right, and fire the ones who got it wrong, or were afraid to speak up (of which there were many!). It’s time to get rid of Fake News, and call it like it is!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, March 2, 2023

3/2/2023

2020 ELECTION/PAUL RYAN: “Rumors are flying high that idiot RINO Paul Ryan, who has greatly hurt the ‘credibility’ of Rupert Murdoch with his ridiculous stance that the 2020 Election was all ‘peaches and cream,’ will be fired ‘like a dog’ from the Fox Board. Fox is going in the wrong direction, ratings are heading down, and Murdoch just threw certain very good people, who were correct, under the bus. He played right into the enemies camp. Viewers, and MAGA, are not happy!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, March 2, 2023

3/2/2023

CPAC: “The only reason certain ‘candidates’ won’t be going to CPAC is because the crowds have no interest in anything they have to say. They’ve heard it all before, and don’t want to hear it again. But my speech, on Saturday night, is already a sold out ‘monster.’ They are trying to expand the room and space. We’ll have a great time at CPAC, we always do. See you there, and don’t forget to vote in the important Straw Poll!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, March 2, 2023

3/2/2023

CPAC: “I will be at CPAC on Saturday, talking about the fact that, obviously, our Country is going to ‘HELL,’ and how to fix it. Also, the Democrats use of Radical Left Prosecutors and the WEAPONIZATION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT. It is illegal, has never been used and abused like this, and has the potential to bring down our once fair and wonderful Country. These Marxist Thugs have been after me for years, only to help them win elections. In just Two Years, we have become a Third World Failing Nation. MAGA!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, March 2, 2023

3/4/2023

CPAC/DEMS/JOE BIDEN: “For seven years, you and I have been engaged in an epic struggle to rescue our country from the people who hate it and want to absolutely destroy it. The sinister forces trying to kill America have done everything they can to stop me, to silence you, and to turn this nation into a socialist dumping ground for criminals, junkies, Marxists, thugs, radicals, and dangerous refugees that no other country wants…

We’re a nation in decline. Our enemies are desperate to stop us because they know that we are the only ones who can stop them… That’s why I’m standing before you, because we are going to finish what we started. We started something that was America. We’re going to complete the mission. We’re going to see this battle through to ultimate victory. We’re going to make America great again. With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state. We will expel the warmongers…

We will drive out the globalists, we will cast out the communists… We will beat the Democrats. We will route the fake news media. We will expose and appropriately deal with the rhinos. We will evict Joe Biden from the White House. And we will liberate America from these villains and scoundrels once and for all.”

-Donald Trump, “Trump Speaks at CPAC 2023 Transcript,” rev.com, March 6, 2023

3/4/2023

CPAC/NATO/UKRAINE: “We’re taking care of the problems of the rest of the world that they’re not taking care of themselves. They have us put up the money. You know what I’m talking about. If you look at Ukraine, and we all feel so badly about it, but why isn’t NATO putting up dollar for dollar with us? We put up $140 billion and they put up just a tiny fraction of that. And we all want to see success, but it’s far more important to them than it is to us because of that location.”

-Donald Trump, “Trump Speaks at CPAC 2023 Transcript,” rev.com, March 6, 2023

3/4/2023

2024 ELECTION/CPAC/JOE BIDEN/KAMALA HARRIS/POLLS: “First of all, we’re leading every Republican by massive numbers [for the 2024 election]. And very importantly, perhaps more importantly, we’re leading Biden by a lot, and we’re leading Kamala by a lot. And every time the polls go up higher and higher, the prosecutors get crazier and crazier. We got to stop these guys. Says, ‘We have to stop Trump now. We got to stop him now because we can’t stop him at the ballot box.’ They tried that in 2016. How did that work out? Not too good. And we actually, and I have to say this, I hope Fox doesn’t turn up, but we did much better in 2020 than we did in 2016, much better.”

-Donald Trump, “Trump Speaks at CPAC 2023 Transcript,” rev.com, March 6, 2023

3/4/2023

CPAC/DONALD ON DONALD: “A lot of people say, ‘How do you do it, sir?’ I had a man come up to me the other day, one of the toughest, strongest people that you can imagine. You all know his name, big businessman, a lot of money, a lot of success, tough as hell.

And he said, ‘Could I ask you a question, president?’ A friend of mine, used to call me Donald, now he calls me president. ‘Could I ask you a question, president?’ ‘What?’ ‘How do you do it? How do you do it every day? They sent you subpoenas every day. There’re after you. They’re looking to take you down at levels that nobody’s ever put up with before.’

Seven years I’ve gone through this. We beat them all, but it continues. And he said to me, ‘Seriously, how do you do it? I could never do it.’ This is one of the toughest guys. I said, ‘Maybe you could.’ He said, ‘Nope, I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t get out of bed in the morning.’ But I do it for you, and that’s what I’m doing it for. I do it for you.”

-Donald Trump, “Trump Speaks at CPAC 2023 Transcript,” rev.com, March 6, 2023

3/4/2023

CPAC/REFUGEES: “Refugee numbers are through the roof. And spies and terrorists are infiltrating our country totally unchecked like never before. When I’m back in the White House, the very first reconciliation bill I will sign will be for a massive increase in Border Patrol and a colossal increase in the number of ice deportation officers…

Other countries are emptying out their prisons, insane asylums and mental institutions and sending all of their problems right into their dumping ground, the USA. Think of it, they’re emptying out their prisons, and you’ve heard me say that, but they’re also emptying out their mental institutions and to use a strong couple of words, insane asylum.

Insane asylum, that’s where… Anybody see Silence of the Lamb? That’s where they come from. Insane asylum. That’s a stronger word than a mental institution.”

-Donald Trump, “Trump Speaks at CPAC 2023 Transcript,” rev.com, March 6, 2023

3/4/2023

CPAC/JOE BIDEN/SPORTS: “I will revoke every Biden policy promoting the chemical castration and sexual mutilation of our youth and ask Congress to send me a bill prohibiting child sexual mutilation in all 50 states. That should be easy. We will keep men out of women’s sports. How ridiculous. That will take place on day one. I will destroy the illegal censorship regime and bring back free speech in America because we do not have free speech.”

-Donald Trump, “Trump Speaks at CPAC 2023 Transcript,” rev.com, March 6, 2023

3/6/2023

INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Hope Hicks, a trusted aide to Donald J. Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign, met with the Manhattan district attorney’s office on Monday [March 6, 2023] — the latest in a string of witnesses to be questioned by prosecutors as they investigate the former president’s involvement in paying hush money to a porn star.

The appearance of Ms. Hicks, who was seen walking into the Manhattan district attorney’s office in the early afternoon, represents the latest sign that the prosecutors are in the final stages of their investigation.”

-Kate Christobek, Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich and William K. Rashbaum, “Hope Hicks Meets With Manhattan Prosecutors as Trump Inquiry Intensifies,” nytimes.com, March 6, 2023

3/6/2023

2020 ELECTION/DOJ: “At least 1,000 people so far have been arrested on charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters [related to the 2020 election], the Department of Justice said Monday [March 6, 2023].

About 518 people have pleaded guilty to federal crimes so far, the DOJ said in an update marking 26 months since the riot.

Around one third of Capitol riot defendants have been charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding police during the attack, the DOJ said. About 420 defendants have already been adjudicated and sentenced for their criminal activity. Another 53 people were found guilty at trials, DOJ said.”

-Dan Mangan, “DOJ says at least 1,000 Trump supporters arrested for Jan. 6 Capitol riot,” cnbc.com, March 6, 2023

3/6/2023

2024 ELECTION/NIKKI HALEY/RON DESANTIS/SOCIAL MEDIA/TWITTER: “Over the past 11 months, someone created thousands of fake, automated Twitter accounts — perhaps hundreds of thousands of them — to offer a stream of praise for Donald Trump.

Besides posting adoring words about the former president, the fake accounts ridiculed Trump’s critics from both parties and attacked Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and U.N. ambassador who is challenging her onetime boss for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

When it came to Ron DeSantis, the bots aggressively suggested that the Florida governor couldn’t beat Trump, but would be a great running mate.”

-David Klepper, “Thousands of pro-Trump bots are attacking DeSantis, Haley,” apnews.com, March 6, 2023

3/9/2023

CHINA/RON DESANTIS: “Remember FARMERS, I got China to pay you 28 Billion Dollars as an adjustment for how unfairly they treated you. This was part of the great Trade Deal I made for you with China (Biden is not properly enforcing it!). No other President could have done this. No other President was as PRO FARMER as me. Tell that to Ron DeSanctimonious when he shows up to your door, hat in hand. Tell him to go home!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, March 9, 2023

3/12/2023

RON DESANTIS: “Ron DeSanctimonious totally caved in his public relations inspired battle with Disney. That’s the only reason he went after them in the first place, to show Mr. Tough Guy. Disney maintained complete exemption from property & sales tax, tax-free bonds, and their incredible fast track permitting. They also gave big political contributions to DeSanctus. The whole thing is a Hoax – They probably worked together to make him look like a fighter. Read Rick Foglesong, preeminent authority on Disney.”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, March 12, 2023

3/12/2023

COVID-19: “We did great things on Covid, but never got the credit from the Fake News!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, March 12, 2023

3/12/2023

ECONOMY/JOE BIDEN/TAXES: “With what is happening to our economy, and with the proposals being made on the LARGEST AND DUMBEST TAX INCREASE IN THE HISTORY OF THE USA, TIMES FIVE, JOE BIDEN WILL GO DOWN AS THE HERBERT HOOVER OF THE MODRRN AGE. WE WILL HAVE A GREAT DEPRESSION FAR BIGGER AND MORE POWERFUL THAN THAT OF 1929. AS PROOF, THE BANKS ARE ALREADY STARTING TO COLLAPSE!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, March 12, 2023

3/12/2023

BANKING/BERNIE SANDERS/REGULATIONS: “Let’s be clear. The failure of Silicon Valley Bank is a direct result of an absurd 2018 bank deregulation bill signed by Donald Trump that I strongly opposed. Five years ago, the Republican Director of the Congressional Budget Office released a report finding that this legislation would ‘increase the likelihood that a large financial firm with assets of between $100 billon and $250 billion would fail.’”

-Bernie Sanders, “NEWS: Sanders Statement on Silicon Valley Bank,” sanders.senate.gov, March 12, 2023

3/13/2023

INVESTIGATIONS/RUSSIA/UKRAINE: “These Four Radical Left investigations of your all time favorite President, ME, is just a continuation of the most disgusting Witch Hunt in the HISTORY of our Country. No different than the RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA HOAX, the UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE IMPEACHMENT SCAM, the SPYING ON MY CAMPAIGN, the ‘NO COLLUSION’ MUELLER REPORT, etc. Whether it’s the MAR-a-LAGO RAID, the UNSELECT COMMITTEE HOAX, the PERFECT GEORGIA PHONE CALL, or the STORMY ‘HORSEFACE’ DANIALS EXTORTION PLOT, ALL SICK, FAKE NEWS!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, March 13, 2023

3/14/2023

2024 ELECTION/MIKE PENCE: “Former Vice President Mike Pence… speaking Saturday [March 11, 2023] at the Gridiron Dinner in Washington, denounced his former boss over the insurrection, according to accounts from reporters in the room.

‘History will hold Donald Trump accountable for Jan. 6,’ said Pence, who has been considering running against Trump for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. ‘Make no mistake about it: What happened that day was a disgrace, and it mocks decency to portray it in any other way. President Trump was wrong. His reckless words endangered my family and everyone at the Capitol that day.’”

-Tal Axelrod, “Pence denounces Trump over Jan. 6 and Trump slams his standing in the polls,” abcnews.go.com, March 14, 2023

3/15/2023

2024 ELECTION/FLORIDA/PAC/RON DESANTIS: “Donald Trump’s allies are stepping up their battle with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, formally accusing him of violating state ethics and election laws with his ‘shadow [2024 election] presidential campaign.’

Make America Great Again Inc. is filing a 15-page complaint Wednesday with the Florida Commission on Ethics…

Trump’s allies face a tall order in getting the commission to investigate DeSantis, considering he appointed five of the nine members.”

-Matt Dixon, “Ron DeSantis hit with an ethics complaint from Trump super PAC,” nbcnews.com, March 15, 2023

3/15/2023

INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP BUSINESS/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Federal prosecutors in New York involved in the criminal investigation into Donald Trump’s social media company last year started examining whether it violated money laundering statutes in connection with the acceptance of $8m with suspected Russian ties, according to sources familiar with the matter…

Towards the end of last year, federal prosecutors started examining two loans totaling $8m wired to Trump Media, through the Caribbean, from two obscure entities that both appear to be controlled in part by the relation of an ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin, the sources said.”

-Hugo Lowell, “Federal investigators examined Trump Media for possible money laundering, sources say,” theguardian.com, March 15, 2023

3/15/2023

BANKING/REGULATIONS/TRUMP ADMIN: “Some critics have blamed the failure of SVB, and the subsequent collapse of cryptocurrency-focused Signature Bank and Silvergate Capital, on the Trump administration’s easing of rules aimed at ensuring financial institutions can withstand serious economic shocks.

Other economists have argued the regulations that existed would have done little to save SVB, which collapsed after panicked customers began withdrawing funds in response to the California-based lender suffering steep losses from the sale of US government bonds.”

-John Power, “Why Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse put the spotlight on Trump,” aljazeera.com, March 15, 2023

3/18/2023

CRIMINAL JUSTICE: “IT’S TIME!!! WE ARE A NATION IN STEEP DECLINE, BEING LED INTO WORLD WAR III BY A CROOKED POLITICIAN WHO DOESN’T EVEN KNOW HE’S ALIVE, BUT WHO IS SURROUNDED BY EVIL & SINISTER PEOPLE WHO, BASED ON THEIR ACTIONS ON DEFUNDING THE POLICE, DESTROYING OUR MILITARY, OPEN BORDERS, NO VOTER I.D., INFLATION, RAISING TAXES, & MUCH MORE, CAN ONLY HATE OUR NOW FAILING USA. WE JUST CAN’T ALLOW THIS ANYMORE. THEY’RE KILLING OUR NATION AS WE SIT BACK & WATCH. WE MUST SAVE AMERICA!PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST!!!

NOW ILLEGAL LEAKS FROM A CORRUPT & HIGHLY POLITICAL MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE, WHICH HAS ALLOWED NEW RECORDS TO BE SET IN VIOLENT CRIME & WHOSE LEADER IS FUNDED BY GEORGE SOROS, INDICATE THAT, WITH NO CRIME BEING ABLE TO BE PROVEN, & BASED ON AN OLD & FULLY DEBUNKED (BY NUMEROUS OTHER PROSECUTORS!) FAIRYTALE, THE FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE & FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK. PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, March 18, 2023

3/19/2023

INVESTIGATIONS: “Former President Donald Trump said Saturday [March 18, 2023] he expects to be arrested in connection with the yearslong investigation into a hush money scheme involving adult film actress Stormy Daniels and called on his supporters to protest any such move.

In a social media post, Trump, referring to himself, said the ‘leading Republican candidate and former president of the United States will be arrested on Tuesday of next week’ – though he did not say why he expects to be arrested. His team said after Trump’s post that it had not received any notifications from prosecutors.”

-Kaitlan Collins, Kristen Holmes and Paula Reid, “Trump says he expects to be arrested Tuesday as New York law enforcement prepares for possible indictment,” cnn.com, March 19, 2023

3/19/2023

JOE BIDEN: “Biden wants to pretend he has nothing to do with the Manhattan D.A.’s Assault on Democracy when, in fact, he has ‘stuffed’ the D.A.’s Office with Department of Injustice people, including one top DOJ operative from D.C. who is actually running the ‘Horseface’ Witch Hunt. Bragg is a (Soros) Racist in Reverse, who is taking his orders from D.C. I beat them TWICE, doing much better the second time, and despite their DISINFORMATION campaign, they don’t want to run against ‘TRUMP’ or my GREAT RECORD!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, March 19, 2023

3/20/2023

CRIMINAL JUSTICE: “He would be fingerprinted. He would be photographed. He could even be handcuffed.

And if Donald J. Trump is indicted by a Manhattan grand jury in the days ahead for his role in a hush money payment to a porn star, the former president of the United States of America will be read the standard Miranda warning: He will be told that he has the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney.

These are among the routine steps for felony arrests in New York. But the unprecedented arrest of a former commander in chief — one whose devoted supporters once staged a violent attack on the Capitol — will be anything but routine.

Last week, senior officials from the district attorney’s office and the state agency that runs the courts had preliminary discussions to plan for a possible indictment and arraignment.”

-William K. Rashbaum, Jonah E. Bromwich and Alan Feuer, “N.Y. Authorities Prepare for Unprecedented Arrest of an Ex-President,” nytimes.com, March 20, 2023

3/20/2023

CRIMINAL JUSTICE/INVESTIGATIONS/MICHAEL COHEN/RON DESANTIS: “Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis slammed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Monday as a ‘Soros-funded prosecutor’ who is ‘pursuing a political agenda and weaponizing the office’ as he reportedly considers indicting former President Donald Trump on charges related to alleged hush-money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016.

‘I’ve seen rumors swirl, I have not seen any facts yet, and so I don’t know what’s going to happen,’ DeSantis said in Florida when asked about the potential indictment of the former president…

The potential charges against Trump stem from the $130,000 hush-money payment that then-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen made to Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, in the weeks leading up to the 2016 presidential election in exchange for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump in 2006.”

-Brooke Singman, “DeSantis slams ‘Soros-funded’ Manhattan DA for ‘weaponizing the office’ as Trump rumors swirl,” foxnews.com, March 20, 2023

3/20/2023

PAUL RYAN/POLLS/RON DESANTIS: “Ron DeSanctimonious is dropping in the Polls so fast that he soon may be falling behind young Vivek Ramaswamy. People are beginning to find out that Ron wanted to destroy Social Security, and raise its minimum age to at least 70. He also had strong plans for cutting Medicare, and still does. Nothing good happens when you are a disciple of Super RINO Paul Ryan. Also, Florida did great long before DeSanctus came along, got my ‘coveted’ Endorsement, shot up like a rocket, and won!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, March 20, 2023

3/21/2023

LAWSUIT/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP FAMILY: “A judge declined Tuesday to move the trial date for a civil lawsuit filed against former President Donald Trump, his eldest children and his company by New York Attorney General Letitia James, alleging they duped banks and insurers by inflating the value of Trump’s real estate portfolio.

Trump’s legal team sought the delay but Judge Arthur Engoron said there was no need to postpone what he called a ‘seemingly simple case’ of whether Trump’s disclosures to his lenders and insurers, known as statements of financial condition, were accurate or not.”

-Aaron Katersky, “Judge rejects Trump legal team’s request to delay NY AG’s civil trial,” abcnew.go.com, March 21, 2023

3/23/2023

INVESTIGATIONS/NEW YORK: “New York City prosecutors on Thursday said Donald Trump created a false expectation of his arrest and led fellow Republicans in Congress to interfere with a probe of his hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.

On Saturday, the former president forecast he would be arrested on Tuesday in the probe by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office.

On Monday, three Republican committee chairmen in the U.S. House of Representatives from went on the offensive against District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, accusing him of abusing prosecutorial authority…

As of Wednesday, a grand jury hearing evidence in the Stormy Daniels case had yet to issue an indictment.”

-Karen Freifeld and Luc Cohen, “Manhattan DA: Trump created false expectation of arrest, Republicans interfered,” reuters.com, March 23, 2023

3/26/2023

LAWSUIT: “I won a Federal lawsuit for almost $500,000 against Stormy ‘Horseface’ Danials. Never had an ‘affair’ with her, and would never have wanted to!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, March 26, 2023

3/26/2023

DEMS/VOTE BY MAIL: “The Democrats used Covid inspired Mail In Ballots to CHEAT. Even Jimmy Carter’s Commission said that Mail In Ballots will lead to massive cheating, which they they have. France, and others, gave up on them — MASSIVE FRAUD. Now they are using PROSECUTORS to CHEAT — No shame. They are the lowest of the low!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, March 26, 2023

3/28/2023

2024 ELECTION/CHRIS CHRISTIE: “Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is seriously considering a 2024 presidential campaign, told Axios that he will never support Donald Trump for president again — even if he wins the Republican nomination.

Why it matters: No potential GOP candidate has made such an explicit pledge, underscoring the degree to which Christie is betting on the viability of an anti-Trump lane in the primary.

The big picture: Christie was one of the first top Republicans to back Trump in 2016 after the reality TV star emerged as the front-runner in the presidential race — and even helped the former president prepare to debate Joe Biden during the 2020 campaign.”

-Josh Kraushaar, “Scoop: Christie pledges never to support Trump again,” March 28, 2023

3/28/2023

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/MEDIA: “Donald Trump’s long-awaited return to Fox News’s airwaves on Monday night [March 28, 2023] after a months-long absence occasioned an altogether familiar exercise: His longtime ally Sean Hannity helpfully tries to coach him to give the right answers, and Trump utterly fails to oblige. A telling exchange results, but not in the way the host intends.

This time, the subject was the Mar-a-Lago documents search.

In a lengthy interview that often landed on Trump’s legal troubles, Hannity dug in on a big one. He suggested both that Trump wouldn’t deliberately possess the documents and that he didn’t prevent federal authorities from searching for them. In both cases, Trump repeatedly declined to confirm Hannity’s thesis.”

-Aaron Blake, “Sean Hannity’s attempt to coach Trump backfires — again,” washingtonpost.com, March 28, 2023

3/28/2023

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS: “The Fox News host Sean Hannity said Monday he could not imagine Donald Trump taking sensitive documents with him upon leaving the White House. But in a telling interview, Trump quickly corrected him and said that he had the right to ‘take stuff’ as he saw fit.

‘;I can’t imagine you ever saying, um, ‘Bring me some of the boxes that we brought back from the White House, I’d like to look at them,” Hannity told Trump during the interview that aired Monday night. ‘Did you ever do that?’

‘I would have the right to do that, there’s nothing wrong with it,’ Trump claimed.

‘I know you,” Hannity cut in. “I don’t think you would do it.’

Trump replied that he doesn’t ‘have a lot of time,’ but ‘I would have the right to do that.’

‘I would do that,’ the former president added.”

-Sonam Sheth, “Trump says ‘I would do that’ after Sean Hannity says he ‘can’t imagine’ Trump taking classified records from the White House,” businessinsider.com, March 28, 2023

3/28/2023

USA: “LOOK WHAT’S HAPPENED TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SINCE I LEFT OFFICE? IT’S NOT EVEN POSSIBLE TO BELIEVE!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, March 28, 2023

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3/28/2023

DONALD ON DONALD: “How do you indict an innocent man, a former very successful President who is now running and leading in the polls, that every legal scholar, and virtually every ‘hater,’ says, ‘Don’t do it, there is no case here?’ This is what happens in Third World countries which sadly, the USA is rapidly becoming!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, March 28, 2023

3/29/2023

CRIMINAL JUSTICE/CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS: “The Manhattan grand jury investigating hush money paid on Donald Trump’s behalf is scheduled to consider other matters next week before taking a previously scheduled two-week hiatus, a person familiar with the matter said Wednesday. That means a vote on whether or not to indict the former president likely wouldn’t come until late April at the earliest.

The break, which was scheduled in advance when the panel was convened in January, coincides with Passover, Easter and spring break for the New York City public school system…

In a statement released through a lawyer, Trump said: ‘I HAVE GAINED SO MUCH RESPECT FOR THIS GRAND JURY.'”

-Michael R. Sisak, “Trump grand jury poised to take pre-planned break from case,” apnews.com, March 29, 2023

3/29/2023

2024 ELECTION/MIKE PENCE: “Former Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday he’s weighing how to proceed after a federal judge ruled one day earlier he must testify to a grand jury investigating efforts by former President Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 election.

Pence, who is considering running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, said he’s unsure whether he’ll appeal the order for him to reveal more details about his conversations with Trump while vowing he has ‘nothing to hide’ about Jan. 6.”

-Brittany Shepherd, “Pence says ‘nothing to hide’ from grand jury in Trump Jan. 6 probe,” abcnews.go.com, March 29, 2023

3/29/2023

POLLS: “80% of the public think that former President Donald J. Trump is being treated very unfairly, for political reasons, and due to the fact that he is leading in the Polls. 20% disagree with that. I say these Prosecutorial Scams and Hoaxes are all about Election Interference, and Republicans must get Tough and Smart!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, March 29, 2023

3/29/2023

JOE BIDEN/POLLS: “Polls can be worse than the written word. The new Quinnipiac Poll that has me 2 points behind Biden is FAKE, because they didn’t sample nearly enough Republicans. These Polls are FAKE, just like most of the Media is FAKE. They all work together. We’re not going to let it be taken away again!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, March 29, 2023

3/29/2023

CRIMINAL JUSTICE: “I HAVE GAINED SUCH RESPECT FOR THIS GRAND JURY, & PERHAPS EVEN THE GRAND JURY SYSTEM AS A WHOLE. THE EVIDENCE IS SO OVERWHELMING IN MY FAVOR, & SO RIDICULOUSLY BAD FOR THE HIGHLY PARTISAN & HATEFUL DISTRICT ATTORNEY, THAT THE GRAND JURY IS SAYING, HOLD ON, WE ARE NOT A RUBBER STAMP, WHICH MOST GRAND JURIES ARE BRANDED AS BEING, WE ARE NOT GOING TO VOTE AGAINST A PREPONDERANCE OF EVIDENCE OR AGAINST LARGE NUMBERS OF LEGAL SCHOLARS ALL SAYING THERE IS NO CASE HERE. DROP THIS SICK WITCH HUNT, NOW!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, March 29, 2023

3/30/2023

CRIMINAL JUSTICE/NEW YORK: “They only brought this Fake, Corrupt, and Disgraceful Charge against me because I stand with the American People, and they know that I cannot get a fair trial in New York!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, March 30, 2023

3/30/2023

2016 ELECTION/INVESTIGATIONS: “Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, prosecutors and defense lawyers said Thursday, making him the first former U.S. president to face a criminal charge and jolting his bid to retake the White House next year.

The charges center on payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter…

Trump, who has denied any wrongdoing and has repeatedly assailed the investigation, called the indictment ‘political persecution’ and predicted it would damage Democrats in 2024.”

-Michael R. Sisak, Eric Tucker and Colleen Long, “Donald Trump indicted; 1st ex-president charged with crime,” apnews.com, March 30, 2023

3/31/2023

INVESTIGATIONS: “THEY HAVE CLOSELY STUDIED 11,000,000 PAGES OF DOCUMENTS, FINANCIAL RECORDS, AND TAX RETURNS (SOME GOTTEN ILLEGALLY!), BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF DEALS AND TRANSACTIONS, AND THEY’VE GOT NOTHING. AFTER 8 YEARS OF VARIOUS POLITICALLY MOTIVATED INVESTIGATIONS, HOAXES, SCAMS, AND WITCH HUNTS, THIS MUST MAKE ME THE MOST HONEST AND HONORABLE MAN ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. NOBODY IN HISTORY HAS EVER BEEN THROUGH THE SCRUTINY THAT I HAVE. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, March 31, 2023

4/1/2023

DOJ/FBI/USA: “I want to thank everybody for the tremendous support you have given me against this assault on our Nation. Our once beautiful USA is now a Nation in Decline. Radical Left Thugs & Insurrectionists have taken over our Country, & are rapidly destroying it. They are using the levers of Law Enforcement, and have completely Weaponized the FBI & DOJ to Interfere with, Rigg, and Steal our once SACRED ELECTIONS. We are now living in a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY, but we will Come Back & MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 1, 2023

4/1/2023

RUSSIA/UKRAINE/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Actually, I got along very well with Putin—There would be no Russia-Ukrainian War right now if I were President. All of those lives would have been saved, all of those people would be living and healthy right now! “

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 1, 2023

4/2/2023

CRIMINAL JUSTICE: “I will be leaving Mar-a-Lago on Monday at 12 noon, heading to Trump Tower in New York. On Tuesday morning I will be going to, believe it or not, the Courthouse. America was not supposed to be this way!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 2, 2023

4/3/2023

2024 ELECTION: “Donald Trump and his 2024 White House campaign are quickly capitalizing on the former president’s indictment and Tuesday’s pending arraignment in New York City.

Adviser Jason Miller announced on Monday [April 3, 2023] that the campaign had hauled in $7 million in fundraising since last Thursday, when Trump became the first former president in U.S. history to be charged with a crime.

Trump’s scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday for allegedly giving hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in 2016 to keep her quiet ahead of that year’s presidential election over her claims she had sexual encounters years earlier with Trump. The former president denies sleeping with Daniels and denies falsifying business records to keep the payment concealed.”

-Paul Steinhauser, “Donald Trump cashing in on indictment, as news pays off for his 2024 presidential campaign: ‘witch hunt,'” foxnews.com, April 3, 2023

4/3/2023

CRIMINAL JUSTICE: “Donald Trump and his allies began a two-day effort Monday [April 3, 2023] to make a political spectacle out of an unprecedented legal event: the arraignment of a former president.

Trump jetted from South Florida to New York City during the afternoon, starting a journey that will include his arraignment Tuesday afternoon and a speech that night back in Florida…

Trump did not speak publicly Monday but did spend time on his social media platform Truth Social attacking the indictment and seeking to raise money off it. ‘If you are doing poorly, as so many of you are, do not send anything,’ he said in one post. ‘If you are doing well, which was made possible through the great policies of the Trump Administration, send your contribution.'”

-David Jackson, “Donald Trump plans to turn his arraignment into a political spectacle. Here’s how.,” usatoday.com, April 3, 2023

4/3/2023

JOE BIDEN: “Biden and his ‘people’ knew all about the Radical Left, Soros backed D.A. (Bragg) going after ‘Trump.’ They pushed the Racist D.A., which wasn’t difficult, even putting a top Democrat DOJ official (Matthew Collangelo) into Bragg’s Office (who even sign’s subpoenas!) to push this Witch Hunt forward. The Fake News refuses to report this, but now everyone knows. Election Interference!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 3, 2023

4/3/2023

USA: “WITCH HUNT, as our once great Country is going to HELL!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 3, 2023

Posted in USA

4/4/2023

CRIMINAL JUSTICE: “Former President Trump spoke at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday night, his first remarks after pleading not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with concealing hush money payments.

Trump entered the plea before Judge Juan Merchan during the proceeding Tuesday afternoon in Lower Manhattan, becoming the first former president to be arraigned on criminal charges.”

-The Hill Staff, “Trump attacks judge in speech after facing 34-count indictment,” thehill.com, April 4, 2023

4/4/2023

2020 ELECTION/BIDEN-HARRIS ADMIN/CRIMINAL JUSTICE/KAMALA HARRIS: “The only crime that I have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it… 

Our elections were like those of a Third World country and now, this massive election interference at a scale, never seen before in our country. Beginning with the radical left to George Soros backed prosecutor Alvin Bragg of New York, who campaigned on the fact that he would get President Trump…

As it turns out, virtually, everybody that has looked at this case, including RINOs and even hardcore Democrats say there is no crime and that it should never have been brought, never have been brought, everybody. Even people that aren’t big fans have said it…

Now, they have really stepped up their efforts by indicting the 45th President of the United States who received 75 million votes [in the 2020 election], which is more than any sitting president in the history of our country…

This is where we are right now. I have a Trump hating judge, with a Trump hating wife and family, whose daughter worked for Kamala Harris and now receives money from the Biden-Harris campaign and a lot of it. We recently had another trial and the same judge told the fine man who worked for me for many, many years that if you admit your guilt, you’ll be in jail for 90 days, but if you don’t, if we go through a trial and you’re found guilty, you’re going away for 10 years and maybe longer, which for a 75-year-old man with a great family, really means life. What the prosecutors and judge did to that man, I will never forget because it’s right out of the old Soviet Union, that’s where we are. They said, ‘You say anything about Trump,’ meaning that’s bad and you won’t even have to serve the 90 days, you’ll walk free…

We are a nation in decline and now, these radical left lunatics want to interfere with our elections by using law enforcement. We can’t let that happen.”

-Donald Trump via Rev, “Trump Makes Statement From Mar-a-Lago Following NY Arraignment Transcript,” rev.com, April 4, 2023

4/4/2023

2020 ELECTION/DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/RUSSIA/UKRAINE: “From the beginning, the Democrats spied in my campaign, remember that? They attacked me with an onslaught of fraudulent investigations. Russia, Russia, Russia. Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine. Impeachment hoax number one. Impeachment hoax number two, the illegal and unconstitutional raid on Mar-a-Lago right here… The FBI and DOJ relentlessly pursuing Republicans. The unconstitutional changes to election laws by not getting approvals from state legislators. The millions of votes illegally stuffed into ballot boxes [in the 2020 election] and all caught on government cameras. And just recently, the FBI and DOJ in collusion with Twitter and Facebook in order not to say anything bad about the Hunter Biden laptop from hell, which exposes the Biden family as criminals in which according to the pollsters, would’ve made a 17 point difference in the election result, and we needed a lot less than that, like about 16.9. It would’ve been in our favor, not my favor, our favor because our country is going to hell.”

-Donald Trump via Rev, “Trump Makes Statement From Mar-a-Lago Following NY Arraignment Transcript,” rev.com, April 4, 2023

4/5/2023

LAWSUIT: “As Donald Trump was in New York for a date with legal jeopardy, a judge in Los Angeles quietly granted him a substantial legal victory.

The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the former president on Tuesday [April 4, 2023], ordering adult film star Stormy Daniels to pay $121,972 in legal fees for a failed defamation suit.

The ruling is not legally connected with the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation that led Trump to be charged with 34 felony counts on Tuesday.”

-Emily Olson, “Judge orders Stormy Daniels to pay Donald Trump another $120,000 in legal fees,” npr.org, April 5, 2023

4/5/2023

CRIMINAL JUSTICE: “In the 24 hours since former President Donald Trump’s arraignment, the presiding judge and his family have received multiple threats, two sources familiar with the matter said.

One official said ‘dozens’ of threats have recently been directed at Judge Juan Merchan and his chambers but did not give an exact time frame for them.

The other source said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and other top officials in his office continue to receive threats. The threats have been in the form of calls, emails and letters.”

-Jonathan Dienst, Rebecca Shabad, Ben Kamisar and Laura Jarrett, “Trump judge and his family receive threats after New York arrest,” nbcnews.com, April 5, 2023

4/9/2023

AFGHANISTAN/BIDEN-HARRIS ADMIN: “Can you believe that the totally corrupt Biden Disinformation Administration is now trying to blame ‘TRUMP’ for their incompetent exit from Afghanistan. They are the worst in history, absolutely terrible people always blaming someone else for their mistakes and blunders – of which there are many!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 9, 2023

4/9/2023

BORDER/HOLIDAY/WALL: “HAPPY EASTER TO ALL, INCLUDING THOSE THAT DREAM ENDLESSLY OF DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY BECAUSE THEY ARE INCAPABLE OF DREAMING ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE, THOSE THAT ARE SO INCOMPETENT THEY DON’T REALIZE THAT HAVING A BORDER AND POWERFUL WALL IS A GOOD THING, & HAVING VOTER I.D., ALL PAPER BALLOTS, & SAME DAY VOTING WILL QUICKLY END MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD, & TO ALL OF THOSE WEAK & PATHETIC RINOS, RADICAL LEFT DEMOCRATS, SOCIALISTS, MARXISTS, & COMMUNISTS WHO ARE KILLING OUR NATION, REMEMBER, WE WILL BE BACK!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 9, 2023

4/10/2023

CHINA/JOE BIDEN: “The best and only way to solve the problem with China, and every other problem we have, is to get rid of Biden!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 10, 2023

4/10/2023

2024 ELECTION/POLLS/RON DESANTIS: “Ron DeSantis is a young man who is not doing well against me in the polls, to put it mildly. I believe that if he decides to run for President [in the 2024 election], which will only hurt and somewhat divide the Republican Party, he will lose the cherished and massive MAGA vote, and never be able to successfully run for office again. If he remains Governor, which is what Florida voters assumed, it would be a whole different story….JUST SAYIN’ – But who knows?”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 10, 2023

4/10/2023

DOJ/FBI/INVESTIGATIONS: “THE ONLY REASON I HAVE THESE ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS INVESTIGATIONS AGAINST ME , HEADED UP BY RACISTS, LUNATICS, AND RADICAL LEFT MANIACS, IS FOR PURPOSES OF ELECTION INTERFERENCE. IT WILL BE HARDER FOR THE DEMOCRATS TO CHEAT LIKE THEY DID IN 2020, SO THEY ARE GOING RIGHT TO THE OLD SOVIET UNION PLAYBOOK AND USING THE DOJ, FBI & OTHERS IN ‘JUSTICE’ TO INTERFERE IN OUR ONCE SACRED ELECTIONS. WE’VE GOT TO SWAMP THESE CHEATERS, AND WE WILL WIN!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 10, 2023

4/10/2023

FLORIDA/RON DESANTIS: “JUST OUT: I guess Ron DeSantis is not quite as popular in Florida as people thought. I assume, among other things, that they don’t want their Social Security and MediCare cut!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 10, 2023

4/11/2023

JOE BIDEN: “Former President Donald Trump indicated to Tucker Carlson in an exclusive wide-ranging interview Tuesday that he has doubts about Joe Biden seeking re-election for a second term…

‘Look, I watch him just like you do. And I think it’s almost inappropriate for me to say it – I don’t see how it’s possible,’ Trump said.”

-Charles Creitz, “Trump tells Tucker he has doubts about Biden seeking re-election: ‘There’s something wrong,’” foxnews.com, April 11, 2023

4/12/2023

DOJ/FBI/JOE BIDEN: “Joe Biden and the Biden White House knew everything about the Unconstitutional Raid, by the FBI & DOJ, on Mar-a-Lago, despite their unequivocal denial. THEY LIED! How horrible and sick? This is all about Election Interference. Stop the Radical Left, or our Country is DEAD!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 12, 2023

4/12/2023

DOJ/INVESTIGATIONS: “Special ‘Prosecutor’ Jack Smith is illegally leaking massive amounts of confidential information to the Fake News Media. He and his entire family are known Trump Haters. He should be removed by the corrupt DOJ, at once!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 12, 2023

4/12/2023

DOJ/ELECTION/JOE BIDEN: “The Biden Department of Injustice, together with all of the corrupt, TRUMP HATING, puppeteers that surround Joe Biden, and are destroying our Country, are going all out with ELECTION INTERFERENCE through the use of Fake, Partisan, and Corrupt Prosecutors. The people of the United States will not stand for this perversion of our Elections, and Constitution itself. At some point they will say, as our Country is going to Hell, WE’RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 12, 2023

4/12/2023

LEGAL: “Former President Trump’s claim to a Fox News anchor that New York court employees were ‘crying’ and apologizing for his arraignment on felony charges is ‘absolute BS’ and doesn’t remotely resemble what took place, a law enforcement source familiar with the details of what transpired that day told Yahoo News.

‘Zero,’ said the source when asked how much truth there was to Trump’s colorful account. ‘There were zero people crying. There were zero people saying “I’m sorry.”’ […]

In fact, the source said, aside from his lawyers and Secret Service agents, Trump interacted only with a handful of district attorney employees at the courthouse and had extremely limited exposure with others during his arraignment last Tuesday in lower Manhattan.”

-Michael Isikoff, “Trump’s tale of crying Manhattan court employees was ‘absolute BS,’ law enforcement source says,” news.yahoo.com, April 12, 2023

4/12/2023

LEGAL: “Trump claimed during a sit-down interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson that Manhattan court workers cried during his arrest and apologized to him.

‘They were incredible,’ Trump said in the interview that aired Tuesday [April 11, 2023]. ‘When I went to the courthouse which is also a prison in a sense, they signed me in and I’ll tell you people were crying.’ […]

The former president turned himself in last Tuesday and was arraigned on 34 counts of falsifying business records stemming from hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.

Trump pleaded not guilty and maintained his innocence during the Carlson interview.”

-Candy Woodall, “Tears, dictators and Gavin Newsom: Here’s what Trump talked about in first interview since arrest,” usatoday.com, April 12, 2023

4/12/2023

MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Donald Trump sued his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen on Wednesday [April 13, 2023] seeking at least $500 million in damages, as the former U.S. president steps up attacks on his onetime loyal “fixer” after Cohen testified before the Manhattan grand jury that indicted Trump.

In a complaint filed in federal court in Miami, Trump accused Cohen of failing to keep confidential attorney-client communications private and profiting by ‘spreading falsehoods’ about him in books and podcasts.”

-Luc Cohen, “Trump sues ex-lawyer Michael Cohen after grand jury testimony,” reuters.com, April 12, 2023

4/12/2023

LAWSUIT/LEGAL: “Donald J. Trump was being questioned under oath on Thursday in a civil fraud lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, the latest in a series of legal predicaments entangling the former president, who also faces a separate 34-count criminal indictment unsealed last week.

Ms. James’s civil case, which was filed in September and is expected to go to trial later this year, accuses Mr. Trump, his family business and three of his children of a ‘staggering’ fraud for overvaluing the former president’s assets by billions of dollars.”

-Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich and William K. Rashbaum, “Trump Faces Questioning in N.Y. Attorney General’s Lawsuit,” nytimes.com, April 12, 2023

4/13/2023

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/JOE BIDEN: “Biden Obstructed with thousands of boxes loaded up with Classified documents, many stored in Chinatown, and you hear NOTHING about it. Why?”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 13, 2023

4/13/2023

CRIMINAL JUSTICE: “There is no more dire threat to the American way of life than the corruption and weaponization of our Justice System…”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 13, 2023

4/13/2023

LAWSUIT/LEGAL: “A Washington, D.C., appeals court on Thursday [April 13, 2023] refused to decide whether Donald Trump can be shielded from the first of two defamation lawsuits by E. Jean Carroll, a writer who alleges the former U.S. president raped her nearly three decades ago…

It sent the case back to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan, which had last September asked whether under local law Trump made his comments in his role as president, or in his personal capacity as Carroll argued.”

-Reuters, “Appeals court refuses to decide if Trump can be shielded from rape accuser’s defamation suit,” ncbnews.com, April 13, 2023

4/14/2023

2024 ELECTION/2A/GUNS: “I was proud to be the most pro-gun, pro-Second Amendment President you’ve ever had in the White House—and with your support in 2024, I will be your loyal friend and fearless champion once again as the 47th President of the United States.”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 14, 2023

4/17/2023

2020 ELECTION: “FOX NEWS IS IN BIG TROUBLE IF THEY DO NOT EXPOSE THE TRUTH ON CHEATING IN THE 2020 ELECTION. THEY SHOULD DO WHAT’S RIGHT FOR AMERICA. WHEN RUPERT MURDOCH SAYS THAT THERE WAS NO CHEATING IN LIGHT OF THE MASSIVE PROOF THAT WAS THERE, IT IS RIDICULOUS AND VERY HARMFUL TO THE FOX CASE. PERHAPS HE SHOULD SAY THAT ‘HE JUST DIDN’T KNOW,’ BUT THAT IS HARD TO BELIEVE. RUPERT, JUST TELL THE TRUTH AND GOOD THINGS WILL HAPPEN. THE ELECTION OF 2020 WAS RIGGED AND STOLLEN…YOU KNOW IT, & SO DOES EVERYONE ELSE!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 17, 2023

4/17/2023

2020 ELECTION/SOCIAL MEDIA: “IF FOX WOULD FINALLY ADMIT THAT THERE WAS LARGE SCALE CHEATING & IRREGULARITIES IN THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, WHICH WOULD BE A GOOD THING FOR THEM, & FOR AMERICA, THE CASE AGAINST THEM, WHICH SHOULD NOT HAVE EXISTED AT ALL, WOULD BE GREATLY WEAKENED. BACK UP THOSE PATRIOTS AT FOX INSTEAD OF THROWING THEM UNDER THE BUS – & THEY ARE RIGHT! THERE IS SOOO MUCH PROOF, LIKE MASS BALLOT STUFFING CAUGHT ON GOVERNMENT CAMERAS, FBI COLLUDING WITH TWITTER & FACEBOOK, STATE LEGISLATURES NOT USED, etc.”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 17, 2023

4/18/2023

FLORIDA/RON DESANTIS: “‘Disney’s next move will be the announcement that no more money will be invested in Florida because of the Governor,’ Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social. ‘In fact, they could even announce a slow withdrawal or sale of certain properties, or the whole thing. Watch! That would be a killer. In the meantime, this is all so unnecessary, a political STUNT!’

He knows all about stunts. Mr. Trump thinks Mr. DeSantis’s dispute with Disney is hurting the Governor politically, so he’s piling on.”

-The Editorial Board, “Donald Trump Sides With Disney,” wsj.com, April 18, 2023

4/18/2023

SOCIAL MEDIA: “Donald Trump returned to Instagram on Tuesday, posting for the first time since 5 January 2021, the day before the former US president incited the deadly attack on Congress which led to his suspension from major social media platforms.

Trump, who is now running to regain the White House, used his return to Instagram to promote a second edition of his digital trading cards, a project widely mocked when he announced it in December but which sold out an edition of 44,000 in less than a day, netting $4.5m.”

-Martin Pengelly, “Donald Trump returns to Instagram for first time since Capitol attack,” theguardian.com, April 18, 2023

4/18/2023

DONALD ON DONALD/TRUMP BUSINESS: “As of 10 minutes ago, my Digital Trading Cards SOLD OUT, in RECORD TIME, approximately $4.6 Million. A great honor, and I hope everyone is Happy, Healthy, and Wealthy. CONGRATULATIONS!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 18, 2023

4/18/2023

FLORIDA/RON DESANTIS: “DeSanctus is being absolutely destroyed by Disney. His original P.R. plan fizzled, so now he’s going back with a new one in order to save face. Disney’s next move will be the announcement that no more money will be invested in Florida because of the Governor – In fact, they could even announce a slow withdrawal or sale of certain properties, or the whole thing. Watch! That would be a killer. In the meantime, this is all so unnecessary, a political STUNT! Ron should work on the squatter MESS!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 18, 2023

4/19/2023

GEORGIA/LEGAL: “The Fulton County District Attorney’s office said some fake electors for Donald Trump have implicated each other in potential criminal activity and is seeking to disqualify their lawyer, according to a new court filing.

The district attorney’s office is requesting that attorney Kimberly Bourroughs Debrow be disqualified from representing a group of 10 Republicans who served as electors for the former president in Georgia – a state Trump lost to President Joe Biden. The DA’s office also accused the lawyer of failing to present an immunity deal to her clients last year, according to the filing.”

-Sara Murray, “Fulton County DA says fake Trump electors are incriminating one another and wants lawyer disqualified,” cnn.com, April 19, 2023

4/19/2023

2020 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/PUBLIC FIGURES: “Donald Trump raged after Elon Musk revealed he voted for President Joe Biden in the 2020 election.

The former president claimed Twitter’s billionaire owner told him he’d voted for him, then petulantly said he actually ‘didn’t care’ either way…

‘I don’t believe Elon Musk voted for Biden, not for a minute!’ he wrote on his Truth Social platform. ‘He told me that he voted for me, but who knows about that, and who cares?’

‘Elon is just trying to make friends with the absolutely horrible Biden Administration because of all the government subsidies he gets, and all the permits he needs,’ Trump raged.”

-Lee Moran, “Donald Trump Throws Hissy Fit Over Elon Musk Revelation,” news.yahoo.com, April 19, 2023

4/19/2023

2024 ELECTION/CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS: “Former president Donald Trump said that if he returns to the White House in 2025, he will mandate that federal employees take a civil service test and workers who do not pass would be fired…

‘I will require every federal employee to pass a new civil service test, demonstrating an understanding our constutitional limited government,’ he said.

Mr Trump said that the test would include command of due proceess rights, equal protection, free speech, religious liberty and Fourth Amendment to the Constitution’s protection against unreasonable search and seizure, which led him to mention the FBI searching his Mar-a-Lago estate in August for classified documents.”

-Eric Garcia, “Trump says if elected he will force federal workers to pass a political test and fire them if they fail,” April 19, 2023

4/19/2023

DONALD ON DONALD/TRUMP BUSINESS: “My New Trump Digital Trading Cards Series 2 is the Number One Collection in the World. It must be that people love the art. A great honor!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 19, 2023

4/19/2023

ENDORSEMENTS/FLORIDA/RON DESANTIS: “Trump has secured the public backing of seven members of Florida’s congressional delegation, three of whom signed up within hours of each other Tuesday. Reps. Greg Steube and John Rutherford formally threw their support to Trump. Though a formal announcement will come later, an aide to Rep. Brian Mast confirmed that he plans to endorse Trump as well.

As pressure mounted over Trump’s racking up endorsement wins in Florida, DeSantis on Tuesday announced the support of Republican Rep. Laurel Lee. It is the only endorsement he has from his home state delegation.“

-Matt Dixon, Jonathan Allen and Henry J. Gomez, “Trump is running up the score with endorsements in DeSantis’ backyard,” nbcnews.com, April 19, 2023

4/20/2023

ABORTION: “Former President Donald Trump is facing heat from a top pro-life organization over a statement his campaign provided to The Washington Post on Thursday for a report on abortion.

According to the statement, Trump believes abortion is an issue ‘that should be decided at the state level,’ however, Susan B. Anthony (SBA) Pro-Life America, an organization dedicated to ending abortion, says it will not support any candidate that does not embrace a minimum 15-week standard on late-term abortions.”

-Brandon Gillespie, “Major pro-life group threatens to oppose Trump candidacy over ‘morally indefensible’ abortion position,” foxnews.com, April 20, 2023

4/21/2023

2024 ELECTION: “Mandatory stop-and-frisk. Deploying the military to fight street crime, break up gangs and deport immigrants. Purging the federal workforce and charging leakers.

Former president Donald Trump has steadily begun outlining his vision for a second-term agenda [following the 2024 election], focusing on unfinished business from his time in the White House and an expansive vision for how he would wield federal power. In online videos and stump speeches, Trump is pledging to pick up where his first term left off and push even further…

‘Together, we are going to finish what we started,’ Trump said at the Waco rally last month. ‘With you at my side, we will totally obliterate the deep state, we will banish the warmongers from our government, we will drive out the globalists, and we will cast out the communists and Marxists, we will throw off the corrupt political class, we will beat the Democrats, we will rout the fake news media, we will stand up to the RINOs, and we will defeat Joe Biden and every single Democrat.'”

-Isaac Arnsdorf and Jeff Stein, “Trump touts authoritarian vision for second term: ‘I am your justice,’” washingtonpost.com, April 21, 2023

4/24/2023

MEDIA: “The fact that Tucker Carlson will no longer be on FoxNews is a big blow to Cable News, and to America. Tucker was insightful, interesting, and ratings gold. He will be greatly missed!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 24, 2023

4/24/2023

2020 ELECTION/BIDEN PEOPLE: “For all of those media fools who say everything was on the up and up with the 2020 Presidential Election, and then go on to report about the 51 Intelligence Agents that wrote a letter spreading Disinformation about Hunter Biden’s famous laptop computer, knowing it was FAKE & TREASONOUS, just days before the Election, you have committed an unpardonable SIN. That election fraud is no different than Stuffing the Ballot Boxes, or any other of the many crimes committed in the 2020 Election. So Sad!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 24, 2023

4/24/2023

2024 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN: “You could take the five worst presidents in American history, and put them together, and they would not have done the damage Joe Biden has done to our Nation in just a few short years. Not even close.

Thanks to Joe Biden’s socialist spending calamity, American families are being decimated by the worst inflation in half a century. Banks are failing. Our currency is crashing and the dollar will soon no longer be the world standard, which will be our greatest defeat in over 200 years. Real wages have been falling 24 months in a row—in other words, under Biden, workers have gotten a PAY CUT each and every month for two straight years. We have surrendered our energy independence, just like we surrendered in Afghanistan, which we had just a short time ago—and the price of gasoline just hit a 5-month high, and it’s going much higher than that.

Under my leadership, we had the most secure border in U.S. history, by far. Never had a border like this. Under Biden, the Southern Border has been abolished—and millions of illegal aliens have been released into our communities. What’s happening now is beyond belief. They’re coming in from mental institutions and prisons. They are all being emptied. They are being dumped into the United States of America. Many of these people are very dangerous, they are being dumped. We are like a dumping ground. Our cities have been overrun with homelessness, drug addicts, and violent criminals, who are being released from jail in mass with no retribution whatsoever, while law enforcement is weaponized against law-abiding conservatives or Republicans, or people they just don’t like. Our children are being indoctrinated and mutilated by left-wing freaks and zealots. The senior ranks of our military have gone completely woke, and our military is suffering greatly.

Biden has totally humiliated our Nation on the world stage—starting with the Afghanistan disaster, perhaps the most embarrassing event in the history of our country. It meant so much to our enemies when they watched that horrible retreat. Russia is teaming up with China. Iran is days away from a nuclear bomb—not even thinkable. Ukraine has been devastated by an invasion that would never, ever have happened if I was president—and Joe Biden has led us to the very brink of World War III. They say Trump was right about everything. Well, I’m not predicting World War III, but I will say this: we’re very close and they’re only talking about nuclear weapons.

Biden has totally humiliated our Nation on the world stage—starting with the Afghanistan disaster, perhaps the most embarrassing event in the history of our country. It meant so much to our enemies when they watched that horrible retreat. Russia is teaming up with China. Iran is days away from a nuclear bomb—not even thinkable. Ukraine has been devastated by an invasion that would never, ever have happened if I was president—and Joe Biden has led us to the very brink of World War III. They say Trump was right about everything. Well, I’m not predicting World War III, but I will say this: we’re very close and they’re only talking about nuclear weapons.

With such a calamitous and failed presidency, it is almost inconceivable that Biden would even think of running for reelection. You know what happened in the last election: they cheated, and they rigged the election. But I promise you this: when I stand on that debate stage and compare our records, it will be Radical Democrats’ worst nightmare because there’s never been a record as bad as they have, and our country has never been through so much. There has never been a greater contrast between two successive administrations in all of American history. Ours being greatness, and theirs being failure.

With your support in the election, we will defeat Joe Biden in 2024. We will rescue our economy. We will crush inflation. We will stop the invasion on our southern border. We will restore our Nation’s dignity. And we will prevent World War III from happening. Together, we will all Make America Great Again! Thank you.”

-Donald Trump, “Statement from President Donald J. Trump on Joe Biden’s Announcement,” donaldjtrump.com, April 24, 2023

4/25/2023

2024 ELECTION/DEBATES: “I see that everybody is talking about the [2024 election] Republican Debates, but nobody got my approval, or the approval of the Trump Campaign, before announcing them. When you’re leading by seemingly insurmountable numbers, and you have hostile Networks with angry, TRUMP & MAGA hating anchors asking the ‘questions,’ why subject yourself to being libeled and abused? Also, the Second Debate is being held at the Reagan Library, the Chairman of which is, amazingly, Fred Ryan, Publisher of The Washington Post. NO!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 25, 2023

4/26/2023

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS: “Donald Trump’s lawyers in the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation found the 15 boxes the former president returned to the National Archives a year after the end of his presidency mostly contained briefings for calls with foreign leaders, according to a new letter they sent to Congress.

The majority of the letter – seen by the Guardian and earlier reported by CNN – served to characterize Trump’s retention of classified-marked documents as inadvertent, and due to White House staffers sweeping all documents into boxes during a chaotic departure at the end of the administration.”

-Hugo Lowell, “Trump lawyers say Mar-a-Lago boxes contained foreign leader briefings,” theguardian.com, April 26, 2023

4/26/2023

LAWSUIT: “Former Elle columnist E. Jean Carroll, testifying in her defamation and battery case against former President Donald Trump, described being ‘almost too frightened to think’ during what she alleges was an attack by Trump in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in the 1990s…

‘I’m here because Donald Trump raped me,’ Carroll said at the start of her testimony. ‘And when I wrote about it, he said it didn’t happen. He lied and shattered my reputation. And I’m here to try and get my life back.’

Trump has denied all allegations that he raped Carroll or defamed her.”

-Aaron Katersky, “‘Trump raped me,’ E. Jean Carroll testifies in battery, defamation case,” abcnews.go.com, April 26, 2023