Donald Trump has been complaining that Ron DeSantis is “stealing” from him. According to three people who’ve spoken to the former president about the Florida governor last year and in more recent months, Trump has repeatedly ridiculed DeSantis for ripping off the ex-president’s style. “There was this time, maybe a …
Read More »Trump's 'Special Master' Request Came Too Late To Prevent DOJ Doc Review
The Department of Justice revealed in a court filing that investigators have already reviewed the documents seized from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate on Aug. 8. The move undermines Trump’s request to have a “special master” review the documents and identify privileged materials before releasing them to investigators. According …
Read More »It's 2022 and Trump Is Demanding an 'Immediate' Redo of the 2020 Election
Former President Donald Trump demanded on Monday that the 2020 presidential election be declared “irreparably compromised” and a do-over be held “immediately!” Trump took to his personal social media platform to complain that the FBI “BURIED THE HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY BEFORE THE ELECTION knowing that, if they didn’t, ‘Trump …
Read More »Kinzinger: Trump's Documents Grab 'Is Disgusting… No President Should Act This Way'
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) called former President Donald Trump‘s removal of highly classified documents from the White House “disgusting,” saying that “no president should act this way.” Kinzinger appeared on Sunday’s Meet the Press where host Chuck Todd asked whether the Department of Justice has enough evidence to charge the …
Read More »Little Revenue, Lots of Debt: Trump's Truth Social Faces Bleak Financial Future
Truth Social, the social media platform former President Trump started after he was booted from Twitter, faces an uphill battle as it reportedly racks up debt while generating little revenue. The social media platform owes more than $1 million to RightForge, the service that hosts the app on the web, …
Read More »A Timeline of Trump's Document Saga, From Kim Jong-un's 'Love Letters' to the Espionage Act
The FBI raided Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago estate looking for classified documents on Aug. 8. The news hasn’t stopped since, with a new development — whether it be a Trump social media meltdown or the release of a new set of search documents — unfolding on what’s seemed like a daily …
Read More »Trumpers Are (Once Again) Scrambling for New Talking Points Following the Affidavit Bombshell
The Justice Department on Friday released a redacted version of the affidavit that led to the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago earlier this month. Trump’s team had been clamoring for the affidavit’s release, presumably believing it would reveal that the warrant was illegitimate. This was … not the case. The filing …
Read More »Floridians Plead Guilty to Stealing Biden's Daughter's Diary
Two Floridians pleaded guilty in New York’s Southern District court to transporting the diary they stole from President Joe Biden‘s daughter Ashley in Florida shortly before the 2020 election to New York, where they were each paid $20,000 for it by the right-wing media group Project Veritas. Prosecutors said that …
Read More »Redacted Mar-a-Lago Search Affidavit Will Be Public by Noon Tomorrow
A federal judge has ruled that the Justice Department must release a redacted version of the search warrant affidavit authorizing the FBI’s Aug. 8 search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago estate by noon on Friday. The DOJ on Thursday submitted its proposed redactions to Judge Bruce Reinhart, who a …
Read More »Trump Tells His Lawyers: Get 'My' Top Secret Documents Back
In the weeks after the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid, former President Donald Trump repeatedly made a simple-sounding but extraordinary ask: he wanted his lawyers to get “my documents” back from federal law enforcement. Trump wasn’t merely referring to the alleged trove of attorney-client material that he insists was scooped up by …
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