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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