Man, some days the wheels of justice move so slowly you can’t even tell if the engine is on. Some weeks, though, the wheels spin so fast it’s like you’re watching a Fast & Furious movie. Only the crimes are even more outrageous.
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Facing a potential Department of Justice probe over the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol and more legal quicksand, Donald Trump has gone on the offensive against old foe CNN with a threatened defamation suit.
“This letter serves as formal notice of the false statements about President Donald J. Trump (“President Trump”) in numerous articles and televised transmissions published by Cable News Network, Inc. (“CNN”) including, but not limited to, those discussed below,” reads a July 21 missive that the former POTUS’ DC attorneys at Ifrah Law, PLLC sent to CNN boss Chris Licht and EVP and General Counsel David Vigilante. Specifically, the Kafkaesque correspondence focuses on on-air and online use by CNN marque talent and reporters of the term the “Big Lie” in regards to Trump’s repeated assertions that the 2020 election was stolen from him and the GOP.
“In this instance, President Trump’s comments are not lies: He subjectively believes that the results of the 2020 presidential election turned on fraudulent voting activity in several key states,” the 282-page letter from the lawyers with exhibits goes on to say, using Webster’s Dictionary’s definition of the word “lie” to make their legally looming point. “Without regard for President Trump’s genuine belief in his statements, CNN has published numerous articles characterizing him as a ‘liar’ and the purveyor of the ‘Big Lie,'” the letter declares (read it here.)
Over the past year and a half, Trump has continued to say that he was the winner of the 2020 presidential election, telling an audience as recently as Tuesday that he “won a second time.” (In its story on Trump’s speech in Washington, D.C., CNN referred to the former president’s statement as “lies around the
Man, some days the wheels of justice move so slowly you can’t even tell if the engine is on. Some weeks, though, the wheels spin so fast it’s like you’re watching a Fast & Furious movie. Only the crimes are even more outrageous.
After over two decades on CNN and an exposing 2020 digital scandal Jeffrey Toobin is leaving CNN.
Donald Trump wants the world to know why FBI agents raided Mar-a-Lago — and now it sounds like he’s going to get EXACTLY that!
Donald Trump‘s home was raided by the FBI earlier in the week, and the whereabouts of several players in the Trump Administration and his family are being revealed.
The FBI has searched Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate as part of an investigation into whether he took classified records from the White House to his Florida residence, sources have said. Disclosing the search in a lengthy statement, the former US president said that agents opened up a safe at his home and described their work as an "unannounced raid" that he likened to "prosecutorial misconduct".
Donald Trump has confirmed that his Florida home Mar-a-Lago has been raided by the FBI.
Ellise Shafer Donald Trump said on Monday that the FBI conducted a search of his home at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla.According to the New York Times, two people familiar with the matter said the search seemed to be focused on classified documents that Trump brought with him to Mar-a-Lago after leaving the White House. The Associated Press reports that the Justice Department had been investigating if Trump still had records in his possession after the National Archives and Records Administration said it found 15 boxes of classified material at the estate.The former president also issued a statement about the search, calling it a “raid” and comparing the situation to Watergate.“After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate,” Trump wrote in the statement, according to the Times.
Former President Donald Trump said that the FBI raided Mar-A-Lago as it executed a search warrant on the property.
John Legend recently revealed how Kanye West's vocal support for Donald Trump, and his subsequent run for office in 2020, drove a wedge in their friendship.«We aren’t friends as much as we used to be,» Legend said during an appearance on podcast with CNN's David Axelrod. «I honestly think because we publicly disagreed on his running for office, his supporting Trump. I think it became too much for us to sustain our friendship.»West raised eyebrows for his overt support of Trump during his controversial term as president — which included publicly rocking Trump's signature MAGA hat and meeting with Trump in the Oval Office.All of this did not sit well with Legend, who — along with his wife, Chrissy Teigen — were among the most outspoken celebrity critics of Trump.However, Legend said he believes it was West's run for president in 2020, and Legend's refusal to support said run, that was the final nail in the coffin for their decades-long friendship.«He was upset that I didn’t support his run for presidency of the United States of America — for understandable reasons,» Legend explained.
CNN and Warner Bros. Discovery are launching a dedicated CNN Originals hub on Discovery+ domestically starting August 19.
Donald Trump and Tom Brady have a history. Apparently, Trump likes Brady so much, he would have loved if he had ended up marrying his daughter, Ivanka Trump. In an excerpt from Jared Kushner’s upcoming memoir, “Breaking History: A White House Memoir,” Kushner discussed the early days of his relationship with Ivanka, including an exchange he had with Donald Trump where Tom Brady’s name was brought up.Barron Trump joins his family at Ivana Trump’s funeral in New YorkIvanka, Melania, more Trump family members attend Ivana Trump’s funeral: PhotosThe excerpt was obtained by Forward and it discusses a moment when Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s relationship was becoming more serious.
Did Donald Trump do it all for a tax break?!?! Not that we would be surprised…
launched a criminal investigation into the actions – and inactions – of President Trump during the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.
to reconsider the landmark First Amendment ruling from 1964 that set actual malice instead of negligence as the libel standard for public figures, placing the bar impossibly high for many such lawsuits. The justices’ comments were part of the dissenting opinion as the court declined to hear a libel case brought by Shkelzen Berisha, the son of a former prime minister of Albania, which stemmed from the contents of a book on arms dealers that the 2016 Jonah Hill movie “War Dogs” was based on.
A private health battle. Ivanka Trump’s husband, Jared Kushner, revealed he was diagnosed with thyroid cancer while working in the White House.
The New York Post editorial board has said there “is no defense” for Donald Trump’s “refusal to stop the violence” on Jan. 6, adding that the former president “has proven himself unworthy to be this country’s chief executive again.”The 262-word piece in the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid cuts through the many layers of information brought to the surface by the Jan.
Thursday’s Jan. 6 hearing by the House Special Committee revealed bizarre new behind-the-scenes footage from the taping of Donald Trump’s speech to the nation following the Jan. 6 riot at the capitol, including his signature refusal to concede the election results, as well as several outtakes in which he stumbled over simple words.From “defiled” to “yesterday,” the former president struggled to get the words out during the taping and quibbled about the content of the speech while being coached by staffers off-screen.He started, “I would like to begin by addressing the heinous attack yesterday, and to those who broke the law, you will pay.
Ivana Trump's funeral featured red roses surrounded by 73 candles - one for each year of her life.MORE: Ivana Trump's cause of death revealed as blunt force injuryThe event took place on 20 July and was attended by her ex-husband Donald Trump and his wife Melania, and Ivana's three children whom she welcomed with Donald - Ivanka, Eric and Donald Jr. WATCH: Ivana Trump, first wife of former US president Donald Trump, dies aged 73Their partners and children were also in attendance, and all wore black except for Donald who wore a blue suit."The room was filled with joy and drenched with tears," R. Couri Hay later shared of the "emotional" afternoon at the St.