Lawyers who’ve defended clients before Tanya S. Chutkan, the judge assigned to Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 election conspiracy case, have some advice for the former president and his attorneys: buckle up. Far from the more indulgent Aileen Cannon, the judge overseeing Trump’s Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, attorneys tell Rolling Stone …
Read More »Trump Arrested Again, This Time for Coup Attempt
Donald Trump has been arrested again. Trump was taken into custody at the Elijah Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, two days after he was criminally charged for the third time this year. The latest batch of charges comes as a result of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s …
Read More »Trump Extremists Make New Calls to Hang Mike Pence: 'Watch His Toes Dangle'
The top post at the online forum TheDonald on Wednesday morning was titled “Fuck Mike Pence. 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻.” And chilling calls for violence against the former vice president were rising to the top of the comments thread. Pence plays a starring role in the new indictment of Donald Trump, which quotes …
Read More »Trump Told Pence 'You're Too Honest' When He Objected to Jan. 6 Scheme
The new indictment of Donald Trump on conspiracy charges related to his attempts to subvert the results of the 2020 election makes clear that the then-president not only made false claims about who won the presidency, but “knew that they were false.” Trump’s tortured relationship with the truth is highlighted …
Read More »Fox News Host Calls Trump Indictment 'Political War Crimes,' Compares It to 'Nuclear Bomb'
On Tuesday, minutes after Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he was to be indicted for a third time, Fox News took on the role of spin room on behalf of the former president. As panelists on The Five reacted to the announcement, Jesse Watters gave a gut check …
Read More »Team Trump's Plan: Weaponize the 'Insurrection Act' Against Democracy
Donald Trump‘s team was aware that, if he refused to leave office after the 2020 election, it could spark a mass wave of civil unrest. But the man Trump sought to appoint as attorney general had an easy answer for that, according to the new indictment of the former president: …
Read More »Trump Privately Called His Team's Election Lies 'Crazy.' The Special Counsel Has Questions
While Donald Trump was publicly whipping his supporters into a frenzy over claims that the 2020 election was “stolen,” he was privately mocking his own allies’ outlandish conspiracy theories as “crazy.” It’s a contradiction that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office would like to know all about. According to two sources …
Read More »Trump Demanded 'My Documents' Back Even After His Lawyers Told Him He'd Be Indicted
Last month, Donald Trump’s lawyers told him he was on the cusp of a federal indictment in the classified-documents case. But the former president still wanted “my documents” and “my boxes” back, asking some of his lawyers if they could get them from the federal government, according to a source …
Read More »Trump Honored as 'Man of Decade,' Tells Crowd: 'I'm Being Indicted for You'
While accepting the Oakland County GOP’s “Man of the Decade” award, Donald Trump spoke of a different honor: being indicted. “Every time the radical left Democrats, Marxists, communists, and fascists indict me, I consider it a great badge of honor and badge of courage. I consider it both. Essentially, I’m …
Read More »Team Trump Suspects His Former Chief of Staff Is a 'Rat'
Earlier this year, Donald Trump sent some of his lawyers and political advisers on a “small fact-finding mission,” as a person with knowledge of the matter describes it to Rolling Stone. The former president wanted to know, according to that source and another person close to Trump: “What is Mark …
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