Fox News star Sean Hannity – one of former President Donald Trump's strongest allies on the air and one of his closest advisers off it – admitted under oath that he never believed the lie that Trump was cheated of victory in the 2020 presidential election by a voting tech company.
Hannity gave airtime to election falsehoods he says he didn't believe.
New transcripts of closed-door testimony to the Jan. 6 committee show Donald Trump and his allies had a direct hand in the Nevada GOP's scheme to send a phony electoral certificate to Congress in a last-ditch attempt to keep the former president in power.
Donald #Trump can be sued by injured #CapitolPolice officers and Democratic lawmakers over the #January6th, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the #JusticeDepartment said Thursday in a federal court case testing Trump's legal vulnerability for his speech before the riot.
The Justice Department told a Washington federal appeals court in a legal filing that it should allow the lawsuits to move forward, rejecting Trump's argument that he is immune from the claims.
Winfrey wrote to Trump after he sent her a book excerpt, from his 2000 book, "The America We Deserve," in which he wrote that his "first choice for vice president would be Oprah Winfrey."
#Trump Gets Caught Trying to Play Judges to Manufacture Trial Delays
#DonaldTrump is in so much trouble that his trials are starting to run into one another, and now his lawyers might get in trouble for fooling judges into delaying them all.
Faced with an onslaught of expensive lawsuits ranging from fraud to racketeering, Trump is desperately trying to delay several trials well into the 2024 presidential election season—and he was just called out for the scheme.
Trump fires back at Oprah over Raw Story report that she’s soured on ex-president
Oprah in an interview Tuesday said, "I might have thought it back then. I might have thought it 23 years ago," she said. "I'm not thinking it today."
The feeling is apparently mutual.
"Neither am I!" Trump wrote on his Truth Social website Tuesday, which included a link to the Raw Story's coverage titled “Oprah on letter she wrote praising Trump: 'I'm not thinking it today'"
The Manhattan District Attorney offered to let Donald #Trump speak to a grand jury—but only if he waived the immunity that would come with his testimony. That’s bad news for Trump.
The exchanges – said to date back to 2018, when Daniels was seeking representation – raise the possibility that attorney Joe Tacopina, could be sidelined from his defense of the former president in a case pertaining to Trump's alleged role in a scheme to pay hush money to Daniels.
Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, his lawyers said Thursday, making him the first former U.S. president to face a criminal charge and jolting his bid to retake the White House next year.
AP sources: #Trump facing at least 1 felony charge in NY case
Former President #DonaldTrump is facing multiple charges of falsifying business records, including at least one felony offense, in the indictment handed down by a Manhattan grand jury, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Friday.
Trump will officially be arraigned at a court in Manhattan next Tuesday.
Prosecutors said they expect to produce discovery in next 65 days. Trump team has until August 8 to file any motions.
Prosecutors have until Sept. 19 to respond
Judge will rule on motions at Dec. 4 hearing.
Schedule could change.
Former President Donald #Trump has consistently claimed without evidence that #elections are being rigged against him. He's using the criminal case against him to do it again.
'I'd have them taken down': #Trump says he removed #homeless people's tents
"I kept it beautiful," he said. "If I saw one tent or two tents or three tents as I was coming in from the airport, I'd have them taken down immediately because I knew that you'd have 100 tents and 1,000 tents if you don't do it."
Trump pushed 'incandescently stupid' plan to send cattle over his border wall: former staffer
"Give the ranchers ladders," Trump floated at one point.
"They can use ladders to get to the other side, but not doors. You could use small fire trucks. Call the local fire stations, and use the ladders on their trucks to help them get over."
Miles Taylor found Trump's plan "incandescently stupid" but he nonetheless managed to avoid laughing in the former president's face.
Georgia Supreme Court denies Trump bid to derail Fulton County election probe
The former president had asked the high court to disqualify District Attorney Fani Willis from the probe and ban a grand jury report that recommends indictments.
Top election security expert fired by Trump confirms he spoke with special counsel
Chris Krebs confirmed to CNN publicly for the first time Tuesday that he has spoken with investigators.
As the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Krebs rejected Trump's claims of widespread fraud and said there "is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised."
The network said Friday two sources had named the worker as Yuscol Taveras, an information technology employee. He has not been charged with any crime.
Taveras, who was previously known just as "Trump Employee 4," is central to new details unveiled in the indictment, including an apparent conversation he had with De Oliveria in which it was discussed how long security tape footage lasted and if it could be deleted.
'Ready to go': #FaniWillis says her investigation into #Trump is complete
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is ready to announce the outcome of her investigation into Donald Trump's involvement in the effort to overturn the 2020 election result in #Georgia.
"The work is accomplished," she told CNN affiliate WXIA. "We've been working for two and a half years. We're ready to go."
Dozens of former Trump Cabinet officials won't publicly support his 2024 reelection bid
NBC News reached out to 44 people who previously served in Trump's Cabinet during his four years in office to gauge whether they would support the former president during the 2024 presidential election. The outlet reported that most of the people declined to comment or ignored the requests and that only four said publicly they would support Trump for the presidency.
Early news reports of former President Donald Trump’s astronomical $40.2 million in legal expenses now appear to have been off by about $20.1 million, or exactly half, according to a new Federal Election Commission filing.
Trump co-defendant Carlos De Oliveira released on $100K bond
De Oliveira was named as a co-conspirator in the case in a Thursday superseding indictment that accused the Mar-a-Lago property manager of coordinating with Trump to attempt to delete security camera footage that showed him and another defendant in the case, Walt Nauta, moving boxes in and out of a storage room.
De Oliveira has not secured a Florida attorney in the case and did not enter a formal plea.
"Despite having lost, the defendant was determined to remain in power. So for more than two months following election day on November 3, 2020, the defendant spread lies that there had been outcome-determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually won."
"These claims were false, and the defendant knew that they were false," to "create an intense national atmosphere of mistrust and anger, and erode public faith in the administration of the election."
Shortly after learning he was being indicted a third time, former President Donald J. Trump had a private dinner with the top leadership at Fox News as they lobbied him to attend the first GOP presidential primary debate this month.
The conspicuously unsourced passage dealing with the much-hyped phone call between Trump and Kevin McCarthy on Jan. 6 is raising more questions than it’s answering—and could spell even more trouble for Trump.
An MSNBC panel was shocked by a pair of television interviews Thursday where Trump lawyer John Lauro seemed to confirm an allegation contained within the Jan. 6-related indictment.
"What President Trump said is, 'Let's go with option D,'" Lauro said on The Ingraham Angle.
"Let's just halt, let's just pause the voting and allow the state legislatures to take one last look and make a determination as to whether or not the elections were handled fairly."
In her ruling, Judge Aileen Cannon questioned the "legal propriety" of special counsel Jack Smith using an "out-of-district grand jury to continue to investigate and/or to seek post-indictment hearings."
Inside One 'Egregious' Mistake From Trump's Florida Judge Aileen Cannon
Judge Aileen Cannon barely has any courtroom experience, but in her limited time on the bench she appears to have flouted hundreds of years of legal tradition—just because.
The blunder was simple and entirely avoidable. The federal judge told jurors they could find the man, Christopher Wilkins, "guilty or not guilty." But then she handed jurors a verdict form that didn’t even have those options.
Six days before pro-Trump operatives gained unauthorized access to voting systems, the local elections official who allegedly helped facilitate the breach sent a "written invitation" to attorneys working for Trump, according to text messages.
The charges in Georgia are not only some of the most serious that Donald Trump faces, but some of the most important: as they are state crimes, no future president can interfere to attempt to make them disappear.
Computer Forensics Firm Named In #Georgia Indictment Says It Wasn't Part Of #Trump 'Team'
Trump's allies seem to have treated #SullivanStrickler almost as a teammate in the effort to overturn the 2020 election — something the company is firmly refuting.
A fringe website featured the purported names and addresses of the Fulton County grand jury that indicted Trump and 18 others for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Grand jurors in Georgia Trump case face threats, racist attacks
The threats were not only made on far-right platforms but also surfaced on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
"Awful nice car you have there…hate to see something happen to it," one user wrote on X early Wednesday morning, referencing the grand jury foreperson by name.
Others on X posted grand jurors' social media profiles and their professional websites.
Jail where Trump is to be booked is subject of safety probe
Former President Donald Trump and 18 others are expected to be booked at a Georgia jail being investigated for unsafe conditions after a man incarcerated there was "eaten alive" by bedbugs.
#Trump calls off planned 'news conference' to push election fraud claims
Trump wrote on Truth Social that his lawyers indicated they would rather he compile his claims about election fraud in the state into "formal Legal Filings as we fight to dismiss this disgraceful Indictment."
"Therefore, the News Conference is no longer necessary!" Trump wrote.
Trump Urges Georgia GOP To Impeach Fani Willis For Prosecuting Him—An Unlikely Outcome
The Prosecuting Attorneys Qualifications Commission established in July and can begin accepting complaints in October, though a group of Georgia DAs are suing to block the law. The new law gives the commission broad authority to remove prosecutors who "refuse to uphold the law" and could be used to target prosecutors who say they will refuse to enforce anti-abortion laws.
'Seething' Melania furious at Trump's use of Barron as 'political pawn': report
Melania Trump is fuming at her husband after their 17-year-old son Barron was used as a "political pawn" in a social media post, breaching a promise he had made to her, Radar Online reported Monday.
The former president posted a photo of Barron in July in a post that aimed to disparage Biden.
"In an effort to level the playing field, Barron Trump will debate Joe Biden!" Trump's post said.
Zillow says listing alleging sale of Mar-a-Lago was incorrect
The real estate site Zillow popped up with a strange listing for Mar-a-Lago, saying that former President Donald Trump sold his property for $422 million on Aug. 4, 2023. Zillow has now said that the listing was "incorrect," according to Newsweek.
Trump might not have sold it, but rather moved ownership so that the country club could no longer be considered one of his personal assets.
Judge Won't Let Banks and Insurers Hide Their Trump Docs
Companies that did business with the Trump Organization as it allegedly inflated the value of the company can't magically hide documents showing their ties to Trump.
Trump can't be barred from Arizona's 2024 ballot, says Democratic secretary of state
"That's what the Arizona Supreme Court said, so that's the state of the law in Arizona. Now, do I agree with that? No, that's stupid," Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said.
The court cites that there's no statutory process in federal law to enforce Section 3 of the 14th amendment, so you can't enforce it.
Trump inflated net worth by $2.2 billion, NY attorney general alleges
New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) alleged former President Trump inflated his net worth by as much as $2.2 billion, according to court documents filed Wednesday.
The allegation came as part of James' lawsuit against Trump, the Trump Organization and two of the former president's children alleging more than a decade of fraud.
'Psychopath' Trump sets off red flags for psychiatrist after latest threats against opponents
According to a clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, recent comments Donald Trump made in an interview with Glenn Beck are not only alarms but also evidence that the former president has all the signs of being a "psychopath."
Trump admits protesting the election result in Georgia — but gives a 'reason' for it, claiming the 2020 presidential election was 'Rigged and Stollen'
Trump's biggest barrier in his complaints is that he is accused of attempting to overthrow the 2020 election or stage the insurrection on Jan. 6. Having a "reason" does not negate guilt under the law.
Trump is facing a new lawsuit charging he is ineligible to run for president in 2024, CNN reported on Tuesday — this time filed in the state of Minnesota.
This comes after Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), another watchdog group, filed a similar lawsuit in the state of Colorado, on behalf of six Republican and unaffiliated voters. Similar legal actions are advancing in Arizona, Michigan, and New Hampshire.
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