Trump grilled the Fox News host about all the aides who turned on him
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Former President Donald Trump called on Congress to investigate the multiple local, state and federal investigations into him in a series of posts on Truth Social.
Mr Trump made the posts the morning after the House Judiciary Committee heard testimony from former special counsel John Durham, who investigated the FBI’s probe into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia .
“Hopefully Congress will now look into the witch hunts and ELECTION INTERFERENCE against me in perfectly legal boxes,” he wrote.
Meanwhile, federal prosecutors have given the former president’s legal team access to much of the unclassified evidence against him, including multiple recordings of Trump conducting interviews with him since the end of his presidency.
Lawyers working under the supervision of Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith disclosed the existence of the tapes in a court filing late Wednesday detailing what has been turned over to Trump’s lawyers so far as part of the legally mandated “discovery” process.
In other news, South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace has emerged as a possible running mate for the twice-impeached former president, according to some reports.
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DeSantis is supported by 15 South Carolina lawmakers
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is pitching the endorsements of 15 South Carolina lawmakers, hoping their support for his Republican presidential campaign will help him make his case to voters in the state’s first primary of the year. south
The endorsements, first shared with The Associated Press Thursday before DeSantis’ town hall in North Augusta, come from 11 state House members and four state senators across the state, with a large concentration in conservative Upstate South Carolina. It’s a show of strength for DeSantis in a state that current Republican front-runner Donald Trump won handily in the 2016 primary and where he has remained popular.
Oliver O’ConnellJune 23, 2023 03:45
Bret Baier Responds to Trump Conspiracy Theorist After Trump Interview
One of Fox News’ star reporters found himself fighting his own viewers after former President Donald Trump’s appearance on his show that many independent observers said was damaging to the former president’s credibility.
Bret Baier received compliments from his colleagues in the media this week for his no-nonsense interview with the former president, which aired in two parts on Tuesday and Wednesday. But the reaction from the twice-impeached former president’s fan base was less enthusiastic.
Oliver O’ConnellJune 23, 2023 02:45
Georgia poll workers targeted by Trump cleared of false claims of 2020 election fraud
Workers falsely accused of participating in Donald Trump’s wild claims of voter fraud have officially had their names cleared.
Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea ArShaye “Shaye” Moss had their lives turned upside down by conspiracy theorists bound by the former president’s lies about the vote count at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia.
Now the state’s board of elections has dismissed its years-long investigation into the allegations, more than two years after Trump falsely claimed that Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss were part of a conspiracy to steal his 2020 elections.
Oliver O’ConnellJune 23, 2023 01:45
If Trump’s is echoed, FBI analyst sentenced to four years over classified papers
A former FBI analyst has been sentenced to four years in prison after being convicted of illegally withholding classified documents in a case that bears similarities to the legal battle facing former President Donald Trump.
Kendra Kingsbury, 50, worked as an FBI analyst for 12 years and had a top-secret security clearance when she was accused of removing classified documents from her secure workspace and storing them at her home in Kansas City.
Oliver O’ConnellJune 23, 2023 00:45
Awkward: Fox host tells Trump his plan to execute drug offenders would include people he pardoned
“Huh?” Trump said after a pause.
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Kari Lake ‘couch surfs like a bum’ at Mar-a-Lago, ex-Trump lawyer says
As far-right congresswomen Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene square off against each other in DC, another feud within the MAGA sphere has deepened, with former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis claiming that failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake is “couch surfing” in Mar-a-Lac.
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ICYMI: Lawyers enter the John Eastman case
A lawyer representing attorney John Eastman, the architect of a legal strategy aimed at keeping former President Donald Trump in power after the 2020 election, on Wednesday highlighted the legal debates surrounding electoral vote counting in defense from Eastman’s advice to the ex-president who could get him. disabled
Eastman, a former law school dean, faces 11 disciplinary charges in the California State Bar Court stemming from the development of a dubious legal strategy aimed at getting then-Vice President Mike Pence to interfere in the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory.
Prosecutors have described Eastman as a rogue lawyer and Trump enabler who fabricated a baseless theory and made false claims of fraud in hopes of overturning the election results.
Oliver O’ConnellJune 22, 2023 10:45 p.m
Why are Republican lawmakers accusing Joe Biden and Hunter Biden of bribery?
The growing legal risk facing former President Donald Trump and the news of the plea deal between the Justice Department and President Joe Biden’s son Hunter have led Republicans in Congress to increasingly make accusations extravagant against the 46th president and his family, even as evidence of continued lack of support for their claims.
Andrew Feinberg explain what is happening
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You see: Kevin McCarthy has turned the House of Representatives into a circus to maintain power
But bring [right-wing lawmakers] entering the fold always had a cost and Mr. McCarthy is now paying the price. With a potential Republican-created economic crisis off the table, McCarthy now faces a House Republican conference that has turned into a full-blown circus, with the California Republican alternating between being a conductor orchestrating the show and get stuck in the arena like a lion licking its ribs.
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