Atlanta poll workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss are asking a federal bankruptcy judge to issue an injunction barring Rudy Giuliani from continuing to make defamatory statements about them, reported Politico's Kyle Cheney on Friday evening. In the document filed with the court, Freeman and Moss, who have already won a $148 million civil judgment against Giuliani for his repeated claims that they mishandled ballots in Georgia during the 2020 presidential election, argue that the former prosecutor and New York City mayor is continuing to sully their reputations. "Undeterred by facts, logic, dece...
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Breaking news that Melania Trump had declined on her son Barron's behalf an invitation to serve as a Florida delegate to the Republican National Convention spurred almost immediate mockery of his father, former President Donald Trump. A spokesperson for Melania issued a statement Friday hours after Trump publicly boasted of his youngest son's height and political prowess. The Office of former First Lady Melania Trump confirmed in a statement to The Daily Mail, "While Barron is honored to have been chosen as a delegate by the Florida Republican Party, he regretfully declines to participate due ...
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Barron Trump is honored but turning down the opportunity to join his siblings as a Florida delegate to the Republican National Convention in June because he has "prior commitments." "While Barron is honored to have been chosen as a delegate by the Florida Republican Party, he regretfully declines to participate due to prior commitments," the Office of former First Lady Melania Trump confirmed in a statement to The Daily Mail. The bowing out comes two days after former President Donald Trump's youngest son Barron, 18, was expected to be cast as one of Florida's at-large delegates when the Repub...
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Former President Donald Trump's close ally Rudy Giuliani has been suspended from the radio station WABC, and his show canceled, over election disinformation. According to The New York Times, "John Catsimatidis, the billionaire who is a major Republican donor and owns the station, said he had made the decision after Mr. Giuliani refused to comply with the policy related to the election after repeated warnings. 'We’re not going to talk about fallacies of the November 2020 election,' Mr. Catsimatidis said in a brief phone interview. 'We warned him once. We warned him twice. And I get a text from ...
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Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) now cannot visit 90 percent of tribal land in her own state. According to The Daily Beast, "Noem is now barred from the Lake Traverse Reservation in the state’s northeast, according to a resolution passed Tuesday by the Sisseton Wahpeton Tribal Council. They join the Oglala, Cheyenne River, Standing Rock, and Rosebud Sioux tribes in banning the governor from their lands, which together comprise about 13,000 square miles of South Dakota’s total area of 77,116 square miles. "Sisseton Tribal Chairman J. Garrett Renville said the resolution was passed 'by way of the voice o...
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The judge in former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial on Friday managed to surprise both sides of the aisle with his opinion on a problematic potential witness, according to a new analysis. Justice Juan Merchan heard arguments from Trump's attorneys and Manhattan District Attorney's office prosecutors about how to handle Allen Weisselberg, the former Trump Organization CFO currently serving time in prison on perjury charges, reports Law 360's Stewart Bishop. "[Merchan] throws something of a curve ball at both sides," Bishop reported from the criminal court where Trump stands a...
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In his latest tirade at the Manhattan courthouse after a week of embarrassing testimony in his criminal hush money case, former President Donald Trump launched a bizarre attack on President Joe Biden — claiming that he was lying about inflation statistics and linking it to his golf game. "[Biden] lies about everything, including his golf game," said Trump, who has been called out by fact-checkers for a constant string of falsehoods in his post-trial day courthouse step rants. "Because he can't hit a ball. He can't hit a ball 100 yards." The former president was swiftly skewered by commenters o...
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A promise made by Donald Trump as he ran for office in 2016 in which he vowed to disassociate himself from the Trump Organization after assuming his presidential duties was exposed as a pack of lies by testimony in his Manhattan hush money trial, an analyst wrote Friday. The Washington Post's Philip Bump, the New York businessman assured voters, "If I become president, I couldn’t care less about my company. It’s peanuts," before asserting he wanted to, "Make America rich again and to make America great again.” On another occasion he suggested he, “Would probably have my children run it [the Tr...
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Former President Donald Trump is returning to rally in a small New Jersey city that his campaign stiffed on a five-figure police and public safety bill in 2020. Consider that a lesson learned for Wildwood, N.J.: This time, Trump's campaign needed to pay ahead of time for the rally Trump is hosting on Saturday at Wildwood Beach. RELATED ARTICLE: Stiffed: How Trump's campaign visits cost local police departments The Trump campaign paid $54,200 for public safety and clean-up costs ahead of Saturday's rally that's expected to draw thousands of visitors, NJ.com reported. Lisa Fagan, public informat...
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Former President Donald Trump used a lunchtime break in his criminal hush money trial Friday to crank out a flood of posts quoting other people attacking the prosecution. The former president hammered out 14 Truth Social posts in one hour, while adding only one brief comment of his own. The embattled former president started by citing Gregg Jarrett of Fox News, writing "Is District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case a joke? A prank? A farce?…It’s all of the above…It’s also an abominable abuse of our justice system and a wretched assault on the rule of law.” This was followed by Truth Social post quot...
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