10/26/2023

2024 ELECTION/LEGAL/MEDIA: “Writer Maggot Hagerman of the Failing New York Times wrote almost her entire FAKE story today about the Trump Hating Judge’s Gag Order (They love to silence me!), rather than the Racist Attorney General’s STAR witness chocking like a dog on the Witness Stand (Perry Mason?), and admitting that I NEVER asked him to do anything wrong. He also admitted that he lied to Congress Under Oath, AGAIN, brand new charges. THAT MEANS THEY NO LONGER HAVE A WITNESS, OR A CASE. She also failed to report that the Trump Hating Judge refuses to respect or accept the Appeals Court decision reversing him, a first! Maggot should focus her energies on Corrupt Prosecutors and Judges, whose hatred and bias is so great that they are unable to make a fair and reasonable decision. New York is crime ridden and dying, but I will save it in 2024… It can’t come too fast!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, October 26, 2023

10/26/2023

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/NEW YORK: “The Attorney General case against me in New York State just lost its STAR witness, SleazeBag former attorney Michael Cohen (he was disbarred for lying, and more!), who admitted to lying in this case and clearly stated that I did nothing wrong. The unhinged Judge, a highly political and fully biased Trump Hater, refused to dismiss this HOAX of a case, and has lost all CREDIBILITY. Likewise, he refuses to accept the decision of the Appeals Court, a first in New York. He should be ashamed of himself for having ruled against me before the trial even started, and for not dismissing this RIGGED WITCH HUNT now that the facts are known and that their star witness has been totally discredited, actually ADMITTING TO LYING. It is a Travesty of Justice for all to see. Businesses are fleeing ‘the least business friendly State in the Nation!’ Racist Attorney General Letitia James should focus on record setting Murder and other Violent Crimes, something she cares, or knows, nothing about!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, October 26, 2023

10/26/2023

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/NEW YORK: “The Radical Left Judge who should not be handling the FAKE & FULLY DISCREDITED CASE brought against me by the New York State A.G. (It should be handled by the Commercial Division, but should never have been brought!), fined me $10,000 yesterday under his so-called gag order. He is a judge that found me GUILTY before the trial even started, and long before he had the real facts, like Michael Cohen collapsing and choking yesterday under cross examination, and completely admitting that I did nothing wrong. He committed MASSIVE PERJURY, at a level seldom seen on the stand before. It was like watching the end of the best Petty Mason episode, where the defendant breaks down and cries, “Yes, I did it, I did it, I did it.” This case should be ended, NOW, but this Judge and his “boss,” Letitia Peekaboo James, will never let that happen. He even refuses to accept our big win in the Appeals Court. It is a disgrace to the legal system in the State of New York. This is a RIGGED CASE!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, October 26, 2023

10/27/2023

IVANKA/LEGAL/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP FAMILY: “The judge overseeing the $250 million civil trial against Donald Trump and his company ordered the former president’s daughter Ivanka Trump to testify in the case.

The New York attorney general’s office also revealed in court the dates it expects the ex-president and his children to testify in the case…

Both of Trump’s sons are executives at their father’s company, and Ivanka Trump is a former executive. The sons were on both the AG and Trump’s witness lists. Ivanka Trump was not on Trump’s witness list and was challenging the AG’s subpoena for her to testify.”

-Dareh Gregorian and Erica Byfield, “Judge orders Ivanka Trump to testify in $250 million fraud case,” nbcnews.com, October 27, 2023

11/3/2023

2020 ELECTION/2024 ELECTION/PARDONS: “Former President Donald Trump called people serving prison sentences for participating in the Jan. 6 riot ‘hostages, not prisoners’ during a campaign event held at an oil and gas service facility in Houston on Thursday.

‘I call them the J6 hostages, not prisoners. I call them the hostages, what’s happened. And it’s a shame,’ Trump said as he kicked off the campaign stop…

The former president speaks often in support for accused and convicted Jan. 6 rioters [who protested the 2020 election], often using their convictions to claim that there is a one-sided justice system…

He has also said he would consider pardoning some of those convicted if he is elected again in 2024.”

-Jake Traylor, “Trump calls people charged and convicted for Jan. 6 riots ‘hostages,'” nbcnews.com, November 3, 2023

11/4/2023

BORDER/HUMAN TRAFFICKING: “The current invasion at the Southern Border is unsustainable…For any radical left charity, non-profit, or so called aid organizations supporting these caravans and illegal aliens, we will prosecute them for their participation in human trafficking, child smuggling, and every other crime we can find…”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 4, 2023

11/5/2023

2024 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/POLLS: “President Biden is trailing Donald J. Trump in five of the six most important battleground states one year before the 2024 election, suffering from enormous doubts about his age and deep dissatisfaction over his handling of the economy and a host of other issues, new polls by The New York Times and Siena College have found.

The results show Mr. Biden losing to Mr. Trump, his likeliest Republican rival, by margins of four to 10 percentage points among registered voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania. Mr. Biden is ahead only in Wisconsin, by two percentage points, the poll found.”

-Shane Goldmacher, “Trump Leads in 5 Critical States as Voters Blast Biden, Times/Siena Poll Finds,” nytimes.com, November 5, 2023

11/6/2023

LEGAL: “Donald Trump brought bombastic rhetoric to the witness stand Monday [November 6, 2023] in the civil fraud case against him and his business, as he spent his time on the stand attacking the New York attorney general who brought the case and the judge overseeing the trial itself…

Judge Arthur Engoron, who has clashed with Trump throughout the trial, at first tried to stop the former president’s political barbs and speechifying, telling his lawyer Chris Kise to ‘control your client’ and threatening to have Trump removed as a witness.

Eventually, the judge stropped trying to control Trump – he and the attorney general’s lawyer questioning Trump let him rant, and then mostly disregarded the missives.”

-Jeremy Herb, Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, “Takeaways from Donald Trump’s contentious testimony in his civil fraud trial,” cnn.com, November 6, 2023

11/6/2023

DOJ: “Donald Trump and his allies have begun mapping out specific plans for using the federal government to punish critics and opponents should he win a second term, with the former president naming individuals he wants to investigate or prosecute and his associates drafting plans to potentially invoke the Insurrection Act on his first day in office to allow him to deploy the military against civil demonstrations.

In private, Trump has told advisers and friends in recent months that he wants the Justice Department to investigate onetime officials and allies who have become critical of his time in office…

Trump has also talked of prosecuting officials at the FBI and Justice Department, a person familiar with the matter said. In public, Trump has vowed to appoint a special prosecutor to ‘go after’ President Biden and his family.”

-Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey and Devlin Barrett, “Trump and allies plot revenge, Justice Department control in a second term,” washingtonpost.com, November 6, 2023

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11/6/2023

LEGAL/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP FAMILY: “In a day of drama that included table banging, demands to ‘control’ the former president, and a declaration from the state attorney general that ‘I will not be bullied, I will not be harassed,’ the two sides sparred in a civil fraud trial with $250 million in damages and the future of Trump’s New York state business on the line.

The judge, Arthur Engoron, has already ruled that Trump, his sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr., a pair of Trump executives and the umbrella Trump Organization committed years of fraud by overvaluing real estate for better terms on loans and insurance.

Trump entered the courtroom aiming to save his iconic company — and score political points. The 2024 Republican presidential frontrunner has described the trial as a ‘witch hunt’ by New York Attorney General Letitia James and Judge Engoron, who are both elected Democrats.

‘He called me a fraud, and he didn’t know anything about me!’ the celebrity former president complained of Engoron from the stand on Monday.”

-Aysha Bagchi, David Jackson and Bart Jansen, “Donald Trump testifies in fraud trial, erupting at judge, prosecutor. What you missed.,” usatoday.com, November 6, 2023

11/7/2023

TRUMP NET WORTH: “Trump’s fortune is valued at $3.1 billion, up from $2.6 billion in 2021, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index…

The higher net worth comes as Trump’s businesses are proving resilient in the face of a gloomy real estate market. His move to Florida after leaving the White House coincided with a boom in the state that’s bolstered the finances of two of his best-known properties — Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach and the Doral resort in Miami — while revenues at the rest of his golf courses have surged more than 50% since 2019. And after selling his Washington hotel and paying down loans, Trump is sitting on more cash and less leverage than at any point in the past decade.”

-Tom Maloney, “Trump’s Wealth Has Jumped $500 Million Since He Left the White House,” bloomberg.com, November 7, 2023

11/8/2023

2024 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN: “If you don’t want to let the Communists destroy America like they destroyed Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, then you need to send a message by voting Crooked Joe Biden and every last Democrat out of office in 2024!

This race is not just about beating Crooked Joe—it’s about DEFEATING the entire rotten, corrupt, and tyrannical establishment in Washington, DC.

This election will decide whether power in America belongs to THEM, forever—or whether it belongs to YOU, the men and women who make this country run.

2024 is our final battle. Stand with me in this fight, and we will FINISH the job that we started 7 years ago tonight!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 8, 2023

11/8/2023

CONGRESS/ILHAN OMAR: “In times like these you can’t afford to have a President who wants to be politically correct, we have to do things properly. We cannot have an administration that takes foreign policy advice from Ilhan Omar or Rashida Tlaib.” 

-Donald Trump via Newsmax, “Trump: Wasn’t I right about ‘pretty much everything?,’” youtube.com, November 8, 2023

11/8/2023

ISRAEL/HAMAS: “If you want to abolish Israel, if you sympathize with Jihadists then we don’t want you in our country and we are not going to let you come into our country”

-Donald Trump via Newsmax, “Trump: Wasn’t I right about ‘pretty much everything?,’” youtube.com, November 8, 2023

11/9/2023

ENDORSEMENT/SENATE: “Because I Endorsed Big Jim Justice of West Virginia for the U.S. Senate, and he has taken a commanding lead, Democrat Joe Manchin has decided not to seek re-election. Looking good for Big Jim!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 9, 2023

11/9/2023

CRIME/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN: The New York State Judicial System is under attack because of the way the bogus A.G. “case” has played out. It’s a giant SCAM, with no “smoking gun,”  No Victim (except me!), and absolutely no crime. Their only witness, already convicted felon Michael Cohen, crumbled like nothing I have ever seen before. He ADMITTED HE LIED, AND THEN ADMITTED THAT I NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, TOLD HIM TO INFLATE THE NUMBERS!!! Everybody thinks that this political Witch Hunt should END TODAY. It is an embarrassment to New  York…And Remember Mar-a-Lago!!!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 9, 2023

11/10/2023

HOLIDAY/MILITARY: “To our heroic Veterans, I am grateful for your service to our Country and honored to wish you a Happy Veterans Day!

There is no greater act of selfless service than defending America’s God-given freedoms and liberty. The traditions of excellence and integrity demonstrated by our men and women in uniform never fade after leaving the Military—once a Soldier, Sailor, Airman, Marine, Coast Guardsman, or Guardian—always.

Our Veterans will never stop fighting for the America we cherish. The full measure of your sacrifice and your family’s dedication in support of your service may not be fully understood and appreciated, but it will never be forgotten.

On this Veterans Day and always, May God Bless you and your family, our Nation’s Veterans, and our Military men and women, and May He Bless and uphold the United States of America. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 10, 2023

11/10/2023

CRIME/LEGAL: “Judge Engoron should end the ridiculous Political Witch Hunt against me. I have TOTALLY WON THIS CASE, which should never have been brought. The only Fraud was committed by A.G. Letitia James in convincing the Judge that Mar-a-Lago was only worth $18,000,000 (in order to make my “numbers” look bad), when it is worth 50 to 100 times that amount. She campaigned on “getting Trump.” She should be prosecuted!”

-Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 10, 2023

11/10/2023

ELECTION/LEGAL/JOE BIDEN:Fake News CNN just did a story, leaked by Deranged Prosecutor Jack Smith and his massive team of Radical Left Lunatics, that various people saw papers and boxes at Mar-a-Lago. Of course they did! They may have been the boxes etc. that were openly and plainly brought from the White House, as is my right under the Presidential Records Act. I even supplied, upon request, Security Tapes to these Election Interfering Thugs. Is this really “Breaking News?” No, it’s “Breaking Fake News.” But what about all of the papers, boxes, and documents found at NUMEROUS Crooked Joe Biden places, like his garage floor by his cherished Corvette, or CHINATOWN where it was just learned that boxes moved freely in and out. He doesn’t come under the Presidential Records Act because he wasn’t President at the time. Deranged Jack Smith has spent over $100,000,000 investigating me on this phony Russia, Russia, Russia, type Scam. How much $’s have they spent investigating Crooked Joe on his much bigger boxes deal?”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 10, 2023

11/11/2023

ELECTION/HOLIDAY: “In honor of our great Veterans on Veteran’s Day, we pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, Fascists, and Radical Left Thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our Country, lie, steal, and cheat on Elections, and will do anything possible, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America, and the American Dream. The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave, than the threat from within. Despite the hatred and anger of the Radical Left Lunatics who want to destroy our Country, we will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”


-Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 11, 2023

11/12/2023

2024 ELECTION/CORRUPTION/CRIME/JOE BIDEN/LEGAL: “I am the victim of a corrupt legal system that is being used by those surrounding Crooked Joe Biden, with his full knowledge & consent, to hurt, demean, and damage his Political Opponent, ME. A terrible precedent is being set, but so far, despite the vulgarity & viciousness of it all, it has driven my poll numbers to record numbers. You see, the American people are MUCH smarter than Crooked Joe! They see what is going on with a Corrupt & Racist New York State A.G., and a Trump Hating Puppet Judge willing to do her dirty work, even as it takes him, and his reputation, to new levels of low. They fully understand the Obama appointed, Radical Left D.C. Federal Judge, who refused to recuse, fully “gagged” me, and set a trial date THE DAY BEFORE “Super Tuesday,” the biggest &  most powerful day in the Primaries. They get the fact that A.G. Garland and his boss, Lisa Monaco, sent their TOP DOJ lawyer to Manhattan to run the District Attorney’s “case” on me…And Much More. BUT WE WILL WIN!!!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 12, 2023

11/12/2023

2020 ELECTION/GEORGIA: “Fulton County, Georgia, acknowledges, in a major Consent Decree, that 3,600 individual ballots were DUPLICATED (36 Batches). THAT’S A LOT OF CRIME. When are the rest of the facts coming out? We are all waiting. This is just the beginning. UNBELIEVABLE!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 12, 2023

11/13/2023

LEGAL: “Deranged Jack Smith, Andrew Weissmann, Lisa Monaco, the “team of losers and misfits” from CREW, and all the rest of the Radical Left Zealots and Thugs who have been working illegally for years to “take me down,” will end up, because of their suffering from a horrible disease, TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME (TDS!), in a Mental Institution by the time my next term as President is successfully completed. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
-Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 13, 2023

11/14/2023

TRUMP FAMILY: “My great sister, Maryanne, passed away yesterday at the age of 86. A truly beautiful woman, tall and elegant, with a presence like no other, she was also a tremendous student, intellect, and Judge, in charge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, just below the U.S. Supreme Court. Her life was largely problem free, PERFECT, until I made it difficult for her when I decided to run for President. The Fake News, and others, went after her mercilessly, and because of the fact that she felt it inappropriate, due to her position, to defend herself, it just never stopped! While tough and strong, she was made to suffer in those years from 2016 until her Retirement. I will never forget the many times people would come up to me and say,“Your sister was the smartest person on the Court.” I was always honored by that, but understood exactly what they meant—They were right! She was a great Judge, and a great sister. She will be truly missed!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 14, 2023

11/15/2023

JOE BIDEN: Biden calls on a specific reporter, gets a question, then reads the answer off a card. In other words, he knows the question, then reads the answer. What is going on here?”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 15, 2023

11/16/2023

LEGAL/NEW YORK: “Trump Hating, Radical Left Judge, Arthur Engoron, is, sadly, the most overturned Judge in New York State. He was just stayed on his Gag Order, which Unconstitutionally prohibited me & my attorneys from talking about important elements of a Fraud case where it was he & Letitia James that committed the Fraud by knowingly, substantially, & outrageously devaluing my asset values in order to make me look guilty of something which I did not do. In actuality, witnesses & experts have proven conclusively that my Financial Statements Value is LOW, or very Conservative, not HIGH, as they were claiming. A.G. James & Engoron worked in COLLUSION to make some assets many times lower in Value than they are. By doing this, they ridiculously & wrongfully, without Knowledge, Trial, or Jury (which is not allowed in this case!), ruled that I was guilty of FRAUD. This HOAX is a public relations disaster for New York State. Violent Crime is raging, and companies are FLEEING, never to be seen in N.Y. again!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 16, 2023

 

11/16/2023

2020 ELECTION/CHINA: “President Xi and I had a deal whereby China was going to criminalize at the highest level, THE DEATH PENALTY, the manufacturing of Fentanyl. That deal miraculously disappeared with our RIGGED PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2020. Too bad!!! One more thing to add to the Stolen Election List of Disasters!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 16, 2023

11/17/2023

JANUARY 6TH: “Congratulations to Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson for having the Courage and Fortitude to release all of the J6 Tapes, which will explicitly reveal what really happened on January 6th!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 17, 2023

11/17/2023

JOE BIDEN/LEGAL: “WOW! FAKE NEWS CNN, THROUGH A LEAK FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICE, HAS JUST REPORTED THAT NO CHARGES WILL BE FILED IN THE (MUCH BIGGER THAN MINE!!!) CROOKED JOE BIDEN DOCUMENTS CASE. WE ARE LIVING IN A VERY CORRUPT COUNTRY!”
-Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 17, 2023

11/18/2023

LEGAL: “The Judge committed FRAUD in my Trial by valuing my assets at a tiny fraction of what they are really worth in order to make his FAKE CASE against me – And everyone, including his crooked and highly partisan Law Clerk, Allison Greenfield, and Racist A.G. Letitia James, knows it. The Judicial System in New York State is in chaos and disrepute over this horribly handled Persecution of a Political Opponent. The World is watching this illegal Witch Hunt. Engoron, James, and Greenfield should be sanctioned and prosecuted over this complete and very obvious MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE!!!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 18, 2023

11/18/2023

LEGAL: “This Rigged Case should be ended immediately. Proof has been conclusive. Businesses will never come back to New York—They’re all watching this Hoax! The Judge and Attorney General should be sanctioned. POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 18, 2023

11/18/2023

LEGAL: “Judge Arthur Engoron, the most overturned and stayed Judge in the State, and the Racist New York State Attorney General, the most corrupt & incompetent A.G. in the Country (Violent Crime Is Raging!), have FRAUDULENTLY Undervalued my properties, by many times, in order to make me look bad, and make the Judge’s original ridiculous finding of Fraud pass the “smell test,” which it does not. This Judicial and Prosecutorial corruption and misconduct took place BEFORE THE TRIAL EVEN STARTED, & WITHOUT ANY KNOWLEDGE OF THE CASE. Judge Engoron just did what the highly partisan A.G. told him to do. He is her complete and total puppet!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 18, 2023

11/19/2023

JIMMY CARTER: “Melania and I join all Americans in mourning the loss of Rosalynn Carter. She was a devoted First Lady, a great humanitarian, a champion for mental health, and a beloved wife to her husband for 77 years, President Carter.

Over a life spanning nearly a century, Rosalynn Carter earned the admiration and gratitude of our entire nation. From her days as a U.S. Navy spouse, to the Georgia Governor’s Mansion, to her tenure as First Lady of the United States, and her later work at the Carter Center and volunteering with Habitat for Humanity, she leaves behind a legacy of extraordinary accomplishment and national service.

Our prayers are with the former president, the Carter family, and the entire community of Plains, Georgia, that she loved so much!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 19, 2023

11/19/2023

RON DESANTIS: “Kim Reynolds of Iowa has gone from a popular Governor to the MOST UNPOPULAR GOVERNOR IN THE UNITED STATES, not an easy feat. Her Endorsement of Ron DeSanctimonious, who is 50 Points down to me in the Polls, has given him exactly ZERO “Bounce.” He is a wounded bird falling violently from the sky. I wonder what position Kim was promised in order to back someone who is sooo far down? I got Iowa “First in the Nation,” Ethanol security, and 28 Billion Dollars for our Great Farmers. I also protected Social Security and MediCare. DeSanctimonious and Birdbrain did NOTHING. MAGA!!!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 19, 2023

 

11/19/2023

BILL MAHER/CNN/HILLARY CLINTON: “Ratings challenged Bill Maher who failed miserably on his short lived attempt with CNN, had to start talking TRUTH because his credibility was being seriously eroded—the problem is he brought on Donna Brazil, a person fired from CNN for giving the debate questions to the very Beautiful Hillary Clinton!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 19, 2023

11/19/2023

JOE BIDEN/RON DESANTIS: “FoxNews worked hard today, and were able to find 3 representative voters to go on the show. One was for Crooked Joe, where the person found nothing mentally wrong with him. Another was for Birdbrain, and the 3rd for Ron DeSanctimonious. Considering that I’m leading Biden by 11 Points (WAPO), and leading the Republicans by over 50 Points, FoxNews must have worked very hard not to find a TRUMPER?”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 19, 2023

11/25/2023

ACA/HEALTHCARE/OBAMA: “The cost of Obamacare is out of control, plus, it’s not good Healthcare. I’m seriously looking at alternatives. We had a couple of Republican Senators who campaigned for 6 years against it, and then raised their hands not to terminate it. It was a low point for the Republican Party, but we should never give up!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 25, 2023

11/25/2023

ISRAEL: “Has anybody noticed that Hamas has returned people from other Countries but, so far, has not returned one American Hostage? There is only one reason for that, NO RESPECT FOR OUR COUNTRY OR OUR LEADERSHIP. This is a very sad and dark period of America!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 25, 2023

11/25/2023

 ISRAEL: “Hamas now wants a better deal for hostages. This is not going to end well!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 25, 2023

11/28/2023

LAWSUIT/LEGAL: “All of these Fake Lawsuits against me are the work of the Radical Left Democrat Party. They could have been brought years ago, but they waited and waited, and brought them right in the middle of my very successful campaign for President – Strictly Third World Country “Stuff.” The good news is that the PEOPLE get what is going on and want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN – AND WILL!!!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 28, 2023

11/28/2023

ELECTION: “MSNBC (MSDNC) uses FREE government approved airwaves, and yet it is nothing but a 24 hour hit job on Donald J. Trump and the Republican Party for purposes of ELECTION INTERFERENCE. Brian Roberts, its Chairman and CEO, is a slimeball who has been able to get away with these constant attacks for years. It is the world’s biggest political contribution to the Radical Left Democrats who, by the way, are destroying our Country. Our so-called “government” should come down hard on them and make them pay for their illegal political activity. Much more to come, watch!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 28, 2023

11/28/2023

ACA/HEALTHCARE: “Getting much better Healthcare than Obamacare for the American people will be a priority of the Trump Administration. It is not a matter of cost, it is a matter of HEALTH. America will have one of the best Healthcare Plans anywhere in the world. Right now it has one of the WORST!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 28, 2023

11/28/2023

ACA/HEALTHCARE: “I don’t want to terminate Obamacare, I want to REPLACE IT with MUCH BETTER HEALTHCARE. Obamacare Sucks!!!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 28, 2023

11/28/2023

FLORIDA/RON DESANTIS: “Ron DeSanctimonious has become an Absentee Governor of Florida, never there, not working. The same thing happened to Sloppy Chris Christie. He failed in New Jersey, and left with an 8% approval rating, lowest ever for a governor. Get back to Florida, Ron, and do what you campaigned on, which was NOT running for President. Fix the highest in the Nation Insurance problem. Oh, and you’re 54 Points down!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 28, 2023

11/29/2023

2020 ELECTION: “They’re really worried,” Mr. McCarthy said by her account. “Trump’s not eating, so they asked me to come see him.”

-Peter Baker, “McCarthy Claimed Trump Was ‘Not Eating’ After Leaving Office, Cheney Says,” nytimes.com, November 29, 2023

11/29/2023

LEGAL/NEW YORK: “Judge Engoron’s Trump Hating wife, together with his very disturbed and angry law clerk, have taken over control of the New York State Witch Hunt Trial aimed at me, my family, and the Republican Party. This is such an embarrassment to all within the New York State Judicial System, as murder and violent crime rage like never before!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 29, 2023

11/29/2023

ISRAEL: “There would NEVER have been an attack on Israel if I were President, and what is going on now is unthinkable!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, November 29, 2023

12/1/2023

LEGAL: “Judge Engoron’s Wife deleted her account yesterday, because what she said, in any other Court in the Nation, would call for an immediate Mistrial with sanctions against the Judge and the Attorney General. We demand to see her account before it was deleted, and all other Family Members likewise. Judge Engoron is a Trump Hater and Puppet for Letitia James, all wrapped up in one!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 1, 2023

12/1/2023

SUPREME COURT: “Melania and I are saddened by the loss of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. She was a great friend of my Sister, the amazing Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, who left us just a few weeks ago. My wonderful Sister and Justice O’Connor had deep respect and admiration for one another’s intellect and fairness, with Maryanne receiving the Sandra Day O’Connor Medal of Honor. We send our deepest condolences and prayers to the entire O’Connor family.”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 1, 2023

12/2/2023

CONGRESS/TEXAS: “It is my great honor to ENDORSE Brandon Gill for U.S. Congress in Texas-26. He is the clear “America First” candidate, and is as loyal and tough as they come. He’s a Cowboy, Businessman, Husband and Father, but also, a True Patriot. Brandon is Strong on SECURING OUR BORDER, STOPPING CRIME, FIGHTING INFLATION, & PROTECTING OUR SECOND AMENDMENT. He also comes with the love and respect of his father-in-law, a true warrior, Dinesh D’Souza. Brandon will not let you down. Onward to VICTORY!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 2, 2023

12/2/2023

CORRUPTION: “We are a nation that is consumed by the Radical left’s Green New Deal, yet everyone knows that the Green New Deal is FAKE, and will lead to our destruction.”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 2, 2023

12/2/2023

RON DESANTIS: “The Ron DeSanctimonious campaign people are dropping like flies. Kristin Davidson of Always Back Down PAC is out. Many others have recently quit, or been fired, in a very unceremonious way. JEFF ROE, who heads “Always,” and is known for spending Top Dollars on failing campaigns (doing massive surgery on a candidate’s wallet!), will, I predict, soon follow. I beat him when he ran the Ted Cruz 2016 campaign – It was great fun!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 2, 2023

12/2/2023

ECONOMY: “Under the Trump administration, we built the greatest economy in the history of the world—with soaring incomes, rising wages, and household net worth hitting the highest level EVER recorded!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 2, 2023

12/3/2023

CELEBS: “Robert De Niro, whose acting talents have greatly diminished, with his reputation now shot, must even use a teleprompter for his foul and disgusting language, so disrespectful to our Country. He has become unwatchable both in movies, and with the FOOLS that destroyed the Academy Awards, bringing them from one of the top shows in the Country to a Low Rated afterthought. De Niro should focus on his life, which is a mess, rather than the lives of others. He has become a total loser, as the World watches, waits, and laughs!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 3, 2023

12/4/2023

CHINA/ENERGY/JOE BIDEN: “Crooked Joe Biden and the Democrats, despite the lessons recently learned in Germany and numerous other places, want to shut down all U.S. COAL PLANTS. This, as China is building one giant coal plant a week. A USA DEATH WISH!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 4, 2023

12/4/2023

ELECTION/JOE BIDEN: “As my Poll Numbers go higher and higher, in some places setting records, Crooked Joe Biden’s Weaponization Strategy against his Political Opponent grows more and more radical and unhinged. The whole World is watching as the USA turns into a Banana Republic. Biden should repudiate and stop this plan before it is too late. ELECTION INTERFERENCE!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 4, 2023

12/4/2023

JOE BIDEN: “The perverts and losers at the failed and once disbanded Lincoln Project, and others, are using A.I.(Artificial Intelligence) in their Fake television commercials in order to make me look as bad and pathetic as Crooked Joe Biden, not an easy thing to do. FoxNews shouldn’t run these ads, just as low ratings CNN & MSDNC will not, under any circumstances, run negative ads on Biden or the Democrats. They are, after all, in-kind campaign contributors to the Dems!”

 -Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 4, 2023

12/6/2023

2024 ELECTION/CHRIS CHRISTIE:Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie continued to pound former President Donald Trump throughout the fourth Republican presidential primary debate. And he had hard words for his fellow candidates for not doing the same. 

Pointing to the clock early in the debate, Christie noted that 17 minutes had passed without mention of Trump, the undisputed GOP frontrunner. 

‘We’ve had these three acting as if the race is between the four of us,’ he told the NewsNation moderators. ‘The fifth guy who doesn’t have the guts to show up and stand here, he’s the one who is … way ahead in the polls.’
Savannah Kuchar, “Christie continues attack on Trump, bashes other candidates for not following suit,” usatoday.com, December 6, 2023

12/8/2023

LEGAL: “‘Mr Trump is a former president and current candidate for the presidency’ the appeals court wrote in a 68-page opinion. ‘But Mr Trump is also an indicted criminal defendant, and he must stand trial in a courtroom under the same procedures that govern all other criminal defendants.'”

-Hugo Lowell, “Appeals court largely upholds Trump gag order in election interference case,” theguardian.com, December 8, 2023

12/9/2023

2024 ELECTION: “‘If this race is about policy and performance, then Donald Trump has a significant advantage,’ Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio, who works for a Trump super PAC, told the Wall Street Journal. ‘If this race is about temperament and character, things like that, then Biden has an advantage.'”
-Sudiksha Kochi, “Trump leads Biden in new 2024 poll; gets higher marks on economy, border security and crime,” usatoday.com, December 9, 2023

12/10/2023

2024 ELECTION: “Sen. Mitt Romney stopped by ‘Meet the Press’ on Sunday to examine the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, the Kate Cox abortion case in Texas and, of course, leading 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump. Of the latter, the 2012 presidential candidate told Kristen Welker, ‘Donald Trump is kind of a human gumball machine, which is a thought or a notion comes in, and it comes out of his mouth. There’s not a lot of filter that goes on.’

‘There’s not a lot of, ‘What’s the implication?’ No, no,’ Romney continued. ‘He just says whatever. I don’t attach an enormous amount of impact to the particular words that come out and trying to evaluate each one of them.'”
-Stephanie Kaloi, “Mitt Romney Calls Donald Trump a ‘Human Gumball Machine’ Because a Thought ‘Comes in, and it Comes Out of His Mouth’ | Video,” thewrap.com, December 10, 2023

12/10/2023

2024 ELECTION: “‘Yes. In the Republican Party? Yes,’ McCarthy replied. ‘And if Biden stays as the nominee for the Democrats, I believe Donald Trump will win, I believe that Republicans will gain more seats in the House, and the Republicans will win the Senate.’

‘Can he count on your support?’

‘Yes.’

‘That’s an endorsement?’

‘I will support the pres — I will support President Trump,’ McCarthy replied.”
-Robert Costa, “Kevin McCarthy on Trump: America doesn’t want “retribution”,” cbsnews.com, December 10, 2023

12/10/2023

LEGAL: “‘President Trump has already testified,’ Trump attorney Chris Kise said in a statement Sunday following Trump’s announcement on his social media platform that he would not testify. ‘There is really nothing more to say to a Judge who has imposed an unconstitutional gag order and thus far appears to have ignored President Trump’s testimony and that of everyone else involved in the complex financial transactions at issue in the case.'”
-Jeremy Herb, “What to know about Trump’s decision to not testify again in New York civil fraud trial,” cnn.com, December 10, 2023

12/11/2023

BORDER/FAKE NEWS:Fake News writer Peter “Obama” Baker of the Failing New York Times (READERSHIP & SUBSCRIPTIONS WAY DOWN FROM THE GOOD OL’ TRUMP YEARS!), whose claim to fame is that, “he will never write anything good about the GREAT job President Trump did,” just wrote, in a major, front page story, that I want to be a Dictator, but doesn’t mention it was said in a joking manner, and completed with “but only for a day, because I’m going to close the Border, and DRILL, DRILL, DRILL,” a much different attitude and meaning!”
-Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 11, 2023

12/12/2023

LEGAL: I wanted to testify on Monday, despite the fact that I already testified successfully, answering all questions having to do with the Fake, No Victims, No Jury lawsuit, thrown at me by the Corrupt Racist A.G., Letitia James, and presided over by a Trump hating judge who suffers from a massive case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, and is a puppet for the CROOKED A.G. Anyway, the Judge, Arthur Engoron, put a GAG ORDER on me, even when I testify, totally taking away my constitutional right to defend myself. We are appealing, but how would you like to be a witness and not be allowed free snd honest speech. THE TRIAL IS RIGGED. I DID NOTHING WRONG!!!”
-Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 12, 2023

12/12/2023

2024 ELECTION/NIKKI HALEY/RON DESANTIS: “Where’s the surge? Nikki and Ron are losing ground, not gaining ground. I’m beating them by record numbers, 50 and 60 points. The only surge is that she is inching up on him for second place. But I gained 8 points on each. FAKE NEWS!”
-Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 12, 2023

12/13/2023

2024 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/NIKKI HALEY/RON DESANTIS: I AM LEADIN CROOKED JOE BIDEN IN VIRTUALLY EVERY POLL. I AM LEADING NIKKI BY 50 POINTS, AND MORE! SUNUNU RAN, WITHOUT ANNOUNCING, BUT POLLED BADLY, AND DROPPED OUT!”
Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 13, 2023

12/13/2023

FAKE NEWS/NORTH KOREA: “A Fake News article in Politico, through anonymous sources (as usual!), states that my views on Nuclear Weapons in North Korea have softened. This is a made up story, DISINFORMATION, put out by Democrat Operatives in order to mislead and confuse. The only thing accurate in the story is that I do get along well with Kim Jong Un!”

Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 13, 2023

12/13/2023

2024 ELECTION/LEGAL/JOE BIDEN: So Deranged Jack Smith, the Biden appointed “nut job” prosecutor with a big record of loses because he goes too far, wants to RUSH,RUSH,RUSH to the Supreme Court on the important matter of  Presidential Immunity, something which is so basic to America that it should be automatic. He doesn’t want to go to our Highest Court with a loss, or negative opinion, but what he does want to do is INTERFERE WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2024, hoping to damage Biden’s POLITICAL OPPONENT. In other words he want to CHEAT, because if they really wanted SPEED, they would have brought this ridiculous lawsuit 3 years ago, and it would be long ago over. But no, they Waited, and Waited, and Waited, and brought it right in the middle of my Presidential Campaign – THE DEFINITION OF ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!”
Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 13, 2023

12/14/2023

IMPEACHMENT/JOE BIDEN/LEGAL: I got Impeached TWICE, was found NOT GUILTY, TWICE, but the Democrats never gave me the benefit or luxury of an Impeachment INQUIRY. Had they done so I never would have been Impeached They went straight to a Trial, before knowing anything about my complete and total innocence. WITCH HUNT! It was disgraceful. Biden is lucky to only have an Inquiry, and he’s GUILTY AS HELL!”
Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 14, 2023

12/16/2023

BORDER/ELECTION: ILLEGAL  IMMIGRATION IS POISONING THE BLOOD OF OUR NATION. THEY’RE COMING FROM PRISONS, FROM MENTAL INSTITUTIONS — FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. WITHOUT BORDERS & FAIR ELECTIONS, YOU DON’T HAVE A COUNTRY. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 16, 2023

12/18/2023

ELECTION/TEXAS:Has any smart and energetic Republican in the Great State of Texas decided to run in the Primary against RINO Congressman Chip Roy. For the right person, he is very beatable. If interested, let me know!!!”
Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 18, 2023

12/18/2023

2024 ELECTION/RON DESANTIS: The Ron DeSanctimonious “team” of misfits and grifters has largely quit his campaign to go on to greener pastures. It has been a terrible experience for them as they have watched their candidate fall violently from the sky like a wounded bird. Jeff Roe, his “chief strategist” and head of his PAC, “Always Back Down,” after having done major surgery on Ron’s wallet, couldn’t get out of town fast enough. Now Jeff can spend full time in Texas working with Ted Cruz, formerly known as Lyin’ Ted, who is working hard to get back the magic they had together in 2016!”
Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 18, 2023

12/19/2023

BORDER/IMMIGRATION: “The League of United Latin American Citizens and the Anti-Defamation League accused former President Donald Trump of pandering to ‘the lowest and most sinister human emotions’ after he told supporters migrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country’ at a campaign rally over the weekend.

‘Donald Trump’s remarks in recent days accusing immigrants of ‘poisoning the blood of America’ are reminiscent of the language of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime,’ Domingo Garcia, national president of LULAC said in a statement Tuesday afternoon. ‘Trump’s words very intentionally create hatred of the other and are nothing more than fear-mongering. They play to the lowest and most sinister human emotions to incite hatred and cause harm or worse to innocent men, women, and children.'”

-Kelly Garrity, “Civil rights groups say Trump’s comments are ‘reminiscent’ of Hitler,” politico.com, December 19, 2023

12/19/2023

JOE BIDEN/LEGAL:It’s a sad day for America when a lowlife Prosecutor like Deranged Jack Smith, who was put into the position of Special Prosecutor by Lisa Monaco and the other Thugs that surround our incompetent President, Crooked Joe Biden, to sully my reputation for the purpose of Election Interference and ideally, put me in jail. In that regard, they are doing poorly, so they snuck a “wired” D.C. SWAMP Lawyer, Michael Dreeben, who I’ve beaten three times, into their midst, hoping that he can turn things around because of his Judicial “connections.” Dreeben, Monaco, Smith, Weissmann, and all the rest suffer massively from Trump Derangement Syndrome, TDS—In other words, and for reasons unknown, they hate me!”
Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 19, 2023

12/20/2023

2024 ELECTION/COLORADO/JANUARY 6TH/SUPREME COURT: “The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday barred former President Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s ballots for next year’s election due to his inciting the 2021 U.S. Capitol riot — but paused the decision from taking effect until Jan. 4.

The delay allows Trump to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the 4-3 ruling — which he plans to do — and in doing so indefinitely extend the hold on the Colorado decision from taking effect.

The Colorado Supreme Court in that decision said there was significant evidence that showed ‘that President Trump engaged in insurrection,’ disqualifying him from serving as president under a provision in the U.S. Constitution.”

-Dan Mangan, “Colorado Supreme Court disqualifies Trump from 2024 ballot, pauses ruling to allow appeal,” cnbc.com, December 20, 2023

12/20/2023

JOE BIDEN/MIDDLE EAST/UKRAINE: Crooked Joe Biden is the Insurrectionist because he let millions of unknown people come recklessly and unchecked through our insane “Open” Border, let a war begin in the Middle East and Ukraine, Weaponized our DOJ & FBI, SURRENDERED in Afghanistan when we could have left with dignity and strength – the most embarrassing event in the history of our Country, and is destroying America with the GREEN NEW SCAM!!!”
Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 20, 2023

12/20/2023

ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/LEGAL: BIDEN SHOULD DROP ALL OF THESE FAKE POLITICAL INDICTMENTS AGAINST ME, BOTH CRIMINAL & CIVIL. EVERY CASE I AM FIGHTING IS THE WORK OF THE DOJ & WHITE HOUSE. NO SUCH THING HAS EVER HAPPENED IN OUR COUNTRY BEFORE. BANANA REPUBLIC??? ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!”
Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 20, 2023

12/21/2023

ERIC TRUMP/FOREIGN AFFAIRS/NORTH KOREA:At an Awaken America event, the former First Son told the crowd of Trump supporters, ‘My father’s personality kept us out of wars.’

‘All these world leaders — what’s amazing is all the tough guys were the guys who respected him,” he continued. “Kim Jong-un, he respected my father. Putin respected my father. The tough guys respected my father.'”

-Joshua Wilburn, “Eric Trump Says Dictators Respect Donald Trump,” okmagazine.com, December 21, 2023

12/22/2023

2020 ELECTION/2024 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN: “If reelected president in 2024, Donald Trump vowed Friday that he would turn over power peacefully to the next president after him.

In a wide-ranging interview on Friday with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Trump said he would peacefully transfer power to the next president if reelected, despite insisting in the same interview that he peacefully turned over power to President Joe Biden after the 2020 election.”
-Kierra Frazier, “Trump vows a peaceful transfer of power if reelected,” politico.com, December 22, 2023

12/22/2023

2024 ELECTION: “Legendary presidential historian Jon Meacham spoke with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle on Friday evening about 2023 in retrospective — and the significance of former President Donald Trump’s continued hold over the Republican Party…

‘It’s against my usual standard to say something is unprecedented,’ said Meacham. ‘As you were saying, so much of this was. And to stand on that for ceremony’s sake isn’t wise at all. You have to follow the evidence, and the evidence leads us to a former President of the United States under serial criminal indictment, an unfolding crisis in trust in democratic institutions, lowercase d. And that former president using rhetoric that comes straight from the Third Reich as he mounts a campaign to be re-elected. Most polls show him to be firmly in control of one of the two major parties in the United States.’”
-Matthew Chapman, “Trump winning GOP nod would tell us all we need to know about Republican voters: historian,” rawstory.com, December 22, 2023

12/24/2023

2020 ELECTION/LEGAL: “Donald Trump urged a federal appeals court to throw out the federal election subversion criminal case in Washington, DC, again arguing in a filing late Saturday that he is protected under presidential immunity.

Trump wants the DC Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a lower-court ruling rejecting his claims of immunity in special counsel Jack Smith’s election subversion case. The appeals panel is weighing Trump’s request, which the Supreme Court on Friday refused to take up on an expedited basis, as Smith requested.”

-Hannah Rabinowitz, “Donald Trump urges federal appeals court to grant him immunity from criminal prosecution in election subversion case,” cnn.com, December 24, 2023

12/24/2023

LEGAL: Lawyers for former President Donald Trump have asked a federal appeals court to throw out a case alleging interference in the 2020 election, arguing that he is immune from prosecution.

“Under our system of separated powers, the Judicial Branch cannot sit in judgment over a President’s official acts,” they wrote in a brief filed Saturday night with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.”
-Jennifer Ludden, “Trump asks appeals court to toss election interference case, arguing that he’s immune,” npr.org, December 24, 2023

12/24/2023

JANUARY 6TH/ELECTION: “I wasn’t campaigning, the Election was over. I was doing my duty as President to expose and further investigate a Rigged and Stolen Election. It was my obligation to do so, and the proof found is voluminous and irrefutable. Therefore, among other reasons, of course I am entitled to IMMUNITY. ADDITIONALLY, I DID NOTHING WRONG. Stop the Witch Hunt NOW!”

Donald Trump, Truth Social, December 24, 2023

12/26/2023

2024 ELECTION/IOWA: “Even as he wages an unprecedented primary battle as a former incumbent facing 91 criminal charges, Trump remains the Republican frontrunner in Iowa, steadily increasing support in polling over the last year. In the latest Iowa Poll, conducted earlier this month, he leads by 32 percentage points.”
-Galen Bacharier, “How Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign quietly built a grassroots juggernaut for the Iowa Caucuses,” usatoday.com, December 26, 2023

12/28/2023

2024 ELECTION/CALIFORNIA: “California’s secretary of state declined to remove Donald Trump from the presidential primary ballot despite a call for her to do so from the state’s lieutenant governor. 

Dr. Shirley Weber did not immediately issue a comment on her decision to include Trump after her office released the list of certified candidates on Thursday night. 

Last week, Weber issued a tepid response to an open letter from Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis. At the time, Weber did not indicate if she would fulfill Kounalakis’s request and said her decision would be guided by her office’s ‘commitment to and respect for the rule of law.’

‘Removing a candidate from the ballot under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment is not something my office takes lightly and is not as simple as the requirement that a person be at least 35 years old to be president,’ Weber wrote.”

-Matthew Rodriguez, “California secretary of state leaves Donald Trump on presidential primary ballot,” cbsnews.com, December 28, 2023

12/29/2023

2024 ELECTION/MAINE: “Maine’s top election official has ruled that Donald Trump cannot run for president next year in the state, citing a constitutional insurrection clause.

Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said Mr Trump was not eligible because of his actions leading up to the US Capitol riot in 2021.

Maine now joins Colorado as the two states to ban Mr Trump from the ballot.

The decisions increase pressure on the US Supreme Court to weigh in.

Colorado votes reliably Democratic, however Maine is more politically competitive and would be more significant for Mr Trump – the Republican frontrunner – to lose.”

-Max Matza, “Donald Trump blocked from Maine presidential ballot in 2024,” bbc.com, December 29, 2023

1/3/2024

2024 ELECTION/COLORADO/MAINE: “Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday appealed a decision made by Colorado’s Supreme Court to remove him from the state’s [2024 election] presidential primary ballot because of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The filing comes one day after the former president appealed a decision made by Maine’s secretary of state that also bars him from appearing on that state’s primary ballot. Both rulings said his conduct violates a so-called insurrection clause in the U.S. Constitution.

The Colorado and Maine decisions only apply to these states.”

-Kate Murphy, “Trump appeals Colorado and Maine decisions to boot him from ballot. What that means and what’s next.,” news.yahoo.com, January 3, 2024

1/3/2024

2024 ELECTION/COLORADO/MAINE: “Former President Donald Trump sued Maine’s secretary of state Tuesday for disqualifying him from the state’s [2024 election] primary ballot because of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, opening another legal front in the saga over whether voters in some states will be barred from selecting the Republican front-runner.

Election officials and courts in several states are considering whether Trump’s actions on Jan. 6 disqualified him under a Reconstruction-era provision of the 14th Amendment known as the insurrection clause. Only two states − Maine and Colorado − have decided Trump should be removed from this year’s primary ballots.”

-John Fritze and David Jackson, “Donald Trump sues after he was disqualified from Maine ballot, opening new front in insurrection fight,” usatoday.com, January 3, 2024

1/4/2024

2024 ELECTION/ILLINOIS: “A group of Illinois voters wants former President Donald J. Trump removed from the Illinois Primary election in March.

CBS 2’s Andrew Ramos reports a petition filed this week asks for a hearing with the Illinois State Board of Elections to keep the former president off the ballot on March 19.

The group – Steven Daniel Anderson, Charles J. Holley, Jack L Hickman, Ralph E Cintron, and Darryl P. Baker – says Mr. Trump is not qualified to hold office because he violated Section 3 of the Constitution’s 14th amendment, known as the Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause. The five men are being represented by a voting rights organization called Free Speech for People. “
-Andrew Ramos, “Voters seek to have Donald Trump removed from Illinois Primary ballot,” cbsnews.com, January 4, 2024

1/4/2024

CORRUPTION/FOREIGN AFFAIRS: “Former President Donald Trump unconstitutionally profited from the presidency during his tenure in the White House, reaping millions of dollars for his business empire from foreign governments, House Democrats allege in an extensive report.

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a 156-page report Thursday morning accusing Trump of exploiting the presidency to financially benefit himself and members of his family. Trump’s businesses, according to the report, received at least $7.8 million from corrupt and authoritarian governments including China, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

The report is the culmination of a nearly seven-year investigation. It says records and documents obtained by House Oversight Democrats reveal ‘a stunning web of millions of dollars in payments made by foreign governments and their agents directly to Trump-owned businesses, while President Trump was in the White House.’ “

-Ken Tran, “Trump received millions of dollars from foreign governments while president, House Democrats allege,” usatoday.com, January 4, 2024

1/5/2024

2020 ELECTION/JANUARY 6TH/LEGAL: “Donald Trump and his legal team are attempting an ‘overreach’ in their latest legal filings trying to have Special Counsel Jack Smith held in contempt ahead of the federal election trial, according to an attorney.

 

Joyce Vance, a former federal prosecutor and legal analyst, was reacting to the former president’s lawyers asking a judge to hold Smith and his team of federal prosecutors in contempt for moving forward with the election case despite it currently being suspended pending appeal.

 

Trump has pleaded not guilty to four charges as part of Smith’s investigation into alleged criminal attempts to overturn the 2020 election results and the events that led to the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Trump is attempting to have the case dismissed while arguing he is immune from prosecution because the allegations against him took place while he was in office.”

-Ewan Palmer, “Donald Trump Has ‘Overplayed His Hand’—Attorney,” newsweek.com, January 5, 2024

1/5/2024

2024 ELECTION/COLORADO/SUPREME COURT: “The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether former President Donald Trump can be kept off the ballot because of his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, inserting the court squarely in the 2024 presidential campaign.

The justices acknowledged the need to reach a decision quickly, as voters will soon begin casting presidential primary ballots across the country. The court agreed to take up Trump’s appeal of a case from Colorado stemming from his role in the events that culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Underscoring the urgency, arguments will be held on Feb. 8, during what is normally a nearly monthlong winter break for the justices. The compressed timeframe could allow the court to produce a decision before Super Tuesday on March 5, when the largest number of delegates are up for grabs in a single day, including in Colorado.”
-Mark Sherman and Nicholas Riccardi, “The Supreme Court will decide if Donald Trump can be kept off 2024 presidential ballots,” apnews.com, January 5, 2024

1/5/2024

2024 ELECTION/JANUARY 6TH/JOE BIDEN: “President Joe Biden will place the defense of democracy at the center of his reelection bid on Friday in what will resemble an unofficial campaign kickoff.

Using the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection to frame the stakes of the 2024 campaign, the president will draw upon the history of the Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, setting Friday to argue that his likely rematch with Donald Trump will be a seismic test of the republic’s foundation, according to senior Biden advisers who offered a preview of the speech.

‘Democracy is not a sideline issue: It is a sacred cause,’ said one of the advisers, granted anonymity as part of the ground rules during a call with reporters. ‘When major events occur, people render the judgments in national elections. Voters won’t forget Jan. 6.'”

-Jonathan Lemire, “Biden aims for a Donald Trump-George Washington contrast,” politico.com, January 5, 2024

1/5/2024

2024 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN: “The value Americans place on democracy is the ‘most urgent question of our time,’ President Joe Biden said during a speech kicking off his 2024 campaign in Pennsylvania on the eve of the third anniversary of the January 6 attack on the US Capitol – launching an impassioned political attack on his likely opponent Donald Trump that painted a sharp distinction between how the nation’s first and 45th presidents ended their terms.

‘Donald Trump’s campaign is about him, not America. Not you. Donald Trump’s campaign is obsessed with the past, not the future. He’s willing to sacrifice our democracy, put himself in power,” Biden said.'”

-Michael WIlliams, “Biden makes impassioned argument Trump could destroy American democracy as he opens 2024 campaign,” cnn.com, January 5, 2024

1/5/2024

2024 ELECTION/IOWA: “Former President Donald Trump urged his supporters Friday evening not to be complacent in the face of a commanding polling lead as he kicked off the sprint to the Iowa caucuses with his first events of the election year.

‘Ten days from now, the people of this state are going to cast the most important vote of your entire lives,’ Trump told several hundred supporters gathered in Sioux Center. He implored them to turn out on caucus night, warning, ‘Bad things happen when you sit back.'”

-Hannah Fingerhut, Jill Colvin, and Steve Peoples, “Trump returns to Iowa 10 days before the caucuses with a commanding lead over the Republican field,” apnews.com, January 5, 2024

1/5/2024

2024 ELECTION/COLORADO/SUPREME COURT: “The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review a politically explosive decision from Colorado’s top court that found former President Donald Trump ineligible for the presidency and would leave him off the state’s primary ballot, stepping into a high-stakes legal showdown that could have major ramifications for the 2024 presidential election…

At the center of the dispute is the Constitution’s so-called insurrection clause, a Civil War-era provision that bars a person who has sworn an oath to defend the Constitution and then engages in insurrection from holding public office.”

-Melissa Quinn, “Supreme Court agrees to hear Colorado case over Trump’s 2024 ballot eligibility,” cbsnews.com, January 5, 2024

1/5/2024

2024 ELECTION/WYOMING: “A Wyoming district court judge dismissed a lawsuit aiming to remove former President Donald Trump and Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis from [2024] election ballots, sparking celebration from Wyoming Republican Secretary of State Chuck Gray…

Retired lawyer Tim Newcomb filed a lawsuit in November, Newcomb v. Chuck Gray, with the Albany County District Court to remove Trump and Lummis from future ballots, arguing that they are ‘traitors’ under a clause in the 14th Amendment in relation to Jan. 6, 2021, when Trump supporters breached the U.S. Capitol.”

-Emma Colton, “Wyoming judge dismisses effort to bar Trump from ballot,” foxnews.com, January 5, 2024

1/6/2024

WAR: “Former president Donald Trump suggested Saturday at a campaign event here that the U.S. Civil War ‘could have been negotiated,’ a remark that drew criticism from historians as well as political opponents.

‘The Civil War was so fascinating, so horrible,’ Trump said. ‘So many mistakes were made. See, there was something I think could have been negotiated, to be honest with you. I think you could have negotiated that. All the people died, so many people died. You know, that was the disaster.'”

-Marianne LeVine, “Trump says Civil War ‘could have been negotiated.’ Historians disagree,” washingtonpost.com, January 6, 2024

1/7/2024

LEGAL: “A judge late Saturday said former President Donald Trump’s lawyers can’t present legal arguments to a jury assessing damages at a defamation trial on a jury’s conclusion last year that he didn’t rape a columnist in the mid-1990s.

U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan made the determination in an order in advance of a Jan. 16 trial to determine defamation damages against Trump after a jury concluded Trump sexually abused columnist E. Jean Carroll but did not find evidence was sufficient to conclude that he raped her.

Trump, speaking in Iowa on Saturday as the Republican frontrunning presidential candidate in advance of a Jan. 15 primary, criticized the judge as a ‘radical Democrat’ and mocked E. Jean Carroll for not screaming when she was attacked. ‘It was all made up,’ he said.”

-Associated Press, “Judge blocks Trump lawyers from arguing about columnist’s rape claim at upcoming defamation trial,” apnews.com, January 7, 2024