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Republican Party lost core supporters after the attack on Capitol
Five people were killed and many more serious injured when Trump supporters attacked the congressional building on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021. In the immediate aftermath, the Republican Party lost core supporters in great numbers. This is documented by three researchers from the Department of Political Science in a new study.
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Trump Organization set to face criminal tax fraud trial in New York starting Monday
More than three years after Manhattan prosecutors started investigating Donald Trump — after going to the Supreme Court twice to gain access to his tax records — the only criminal trial to arise from their efforts is about to begin. No, the former president isn’t going on trial. His company is.
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Judge: Trump signed court document that knowingly included false voter fraud stats
Former President Donald Trump signed legal documents describing evidence of election fraud that he knew were false, a federal judge indicated on Wednesday. U.S. District Court Judge David Carter wrote in an 18-page opinion that emails from attorney John Eastman, an architect of Trump’s last-ditch effort to subvert the 2020 election, needed to be turned over to the Jan. 6 select committee. Those emails, Carter wrote, “show that President Trump knew that the specific numbers of voter fraud were wrong but continued to tout those numbers, both in court and to the public.”
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Paul Ryan says Donald Trump won't be the GOP presidential nominee in 2024: 'We all know that he will lose'
"We all know that he's so much more likely to lose the White House than anybody else running for president on our side of the aisle," Ryan said of Trump.
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Trump "trying to hide his guilt" if he refuses 1/6 subpoena: Legal expert
"It's because he knows that if he's not going to perjure himself, he's going to have to convict himself," Laurence Tribe said.
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DOJ Blasts Trump's Declassification Theories and Executive Privilege Claims at Supreme Court, Asks Justices to Turn Down Mar-a-Lago Case
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stand down as it ponders criminal charges connected to alleged secret and classified documents recovered in August from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and resort. While so doing, the DOJ slammed Trump’s multiple public claims that he declassified some of the material in question.
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Feeling "schadenfreude" about Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis may have impacted people's views on the election
A recent study examined Americans’ feelings of schadenfreude and sympathy toward Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis in 2020. The findings, published in the Journal of Social and Political Psychology, revealed that Democrats expressed more schadenfreude and less sympathy toward Trump’s diagnosis compared to Republicans. Democrats were also more likely to think that the diagnosis would sway people’s votes in the upcoming election.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham threatened to end a meeting with the mother of a slain Capitol police officer if she didn't stop criticizing Trump, new book claims
Sen. Lindsey Graham reportedly told the mother of Brian Sicknick, the officer who died following the Jan 6 riot, that he would end a meeting with her if she kept talking bad about Trump. The alleged interaction was recounted by ex-DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone in his new book, "Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul," Politico reported.
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New York AG sues Trump, his children and their company on charges of large-scale business fraud
New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a sweeping lawsuit Wednesday against former President Donald Trump, his three eldest children and the Trump Organization in connection with her yearslong civil investigation into the company’s business practices.
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Most Americans see Trump's MAGA as threat to democracy: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Days after Democratic President Joe Biden gave a fiery speech attacking former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies as an extremist threat, a Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on Wednesday found a majority of Americans believe Trump's movement is undermining democracy.
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Nikki Glaser Brutally Roasts Trump, Cruz, MTG and More
Nikki Glaser is not exactly known for political comedy. But when she stepped in to be the last guest host of Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday night, she quickly proved that there is no one she cannot roast. “I am the final guest host for the summer,” the stand-up comic and FBoy Island host said when she took the stage. “But luckily as a straight woman, I’m used to coming last. Or not at all.”
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Trump's social media app facing financial fallout
Former President Donald Trump’s social media outfit, Truth Social, is locked in a bitter battle with one of its vendors claiming that the platform is stiffing the company out of more than $1 million in contractually obligated payments, FOX Business has learned.
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The Final Days of the Trump White House: Chaos and Scattered Papers
Government documents that President Donald J. Trump had accumulated were with him in roughly two dozen boxes in the White House residence. They were to go to the National Archives, but at least some ended up in Florida.
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Georgia Has Launched a Criminal Investigation Into Whether Trump Election Lawyers Copied Sensitive Election Data
Several members of former president Donald Trump‘s post-2020 election legal team, including attorney Sidney Powell, sought and gained access to sensitive election data in Georgia, according to multiple reports. Those efforts may have been criminal. In an email to Law&Crime, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation confirmed they are “assisting the Secretary of State’s Office with a computer trespass investigation of a Coffee County elections server.”
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Donald Trump supporters send death threats to judge who approved Mar-a-Lago search
Threats against the judge who approved the search warrant for former President Donald Trump's Florida resort are the latest sign of a judiciary branch in the political crosshairs.
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Trump is rushing to hire seasoned lawyers — but he keeps hearing ‘No’
The former president’s current legal team includes a Florida insurance lawyer who’s never had a federal case, a past general counsel for a parking garage company and a former host at far-right One America News.
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Trump's Site Is Being Weaponized Against the FBI -- and Their Families
Former President Donald Trump claims that he “will do whatever” he can to bring down “the temperature” following last week’s FBI’s raid of his Florida home and club, Mar-a-Lago. But even a glimpse of Truth Social — Trump’s social media company — shows that the MAGA website has been a haven for private, doxxed information not only about authorities involved in the federal raid, but also of their families.
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Trump Organization chief expected to plead guilty in tax evasion case
Donald Trump’s longtime finance chief is expected to plead guilty as soon as Thursday in a tax evasion case that is the only criminal prosecution to arise from a long-running investigation into the former president’s company, three people familiar with the matter told the Associated Press. Allen Weisselberg, CFO of the Trump Organization, was scheduled to be tried in October on allegations he took more than $1.7m in off-the-books compensation from the company, including rent, car payments and school tuition.
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Trump calls for 'immediate' release of Mar-a-Lago warrant
Former President Donald Trump called late Thursday for the “immediate” release of the federal warrant the FBI used to search his Florida estate, hours after the Justice Department had asked a court to unseal the warrant, with Attorney General Merrick Garland citing the “substantial public interest in this matter.”
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Appeals court says House can obtain Trump's taxes from the IRS | CNN Politics
"(E)very President takes office knowing that he will be subject to the same laws as all other citizens upon leaving office. This is a feature of our democratic republic, not a bug," the opinion said.
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