On Tuesday, attorneys David Schoen and Bruce Castor responded to the House’s filing that Trump incited the January 6 Capitol insurrection and argued he shouldn’t face impeachment now that he is out of office. However, it was a raft of typos that became a major talking point after astute readers were quick to notice an error in the first few lines of the documents’ address to the U.S. Senate....
As the stimulus stalemate continues amid the worsening pandemic, Trump reiterated his push for further relief on Tuesday. “STIMULUS! Go big or go home!!!” the president tweeted. Pelosi later declined calls from moderate Democrats to negotiate a $1.8 trillion deal with Republicans and the Trump administration. She invoked the president’s remarks as justification for wanting to hold out for a larger price tag. “I appreciate, shall we say, a couple people saying, Take it, take it, take it,” Pelosi said during a phone call with Democrats, according to the New York Times....
“Biden can only enter the White House as President if he can prove that his ridiculous ‘80,000,000 votes’ were not fraudulently or illegally obtained. When you see what happened in Detroit, Atlanta, Philadelphia & Milwaukee, massive voter fraud, he’s got a big unsolvable problem!” Trump tweeted on Friday. The tweet was flagged by Twitter with a warning label that reads, “This claim about election fraud is disputed.” It is one of eight tweets Trump has posted in the last 24 hours that Twitter has flagged....
Bin Laden has remained a staunch Trump supporter despite the results of the November election, the failure of Trump’s longshot litigation to tarnish Biden’s victory, and the storming of the U.S. Capitol by a Trump-supporting mob on January 6. She has maintained a steady stream of far-right propaganda and QAnon-linked conspiracy theory talking points on Telegram, the encrypted message app on which an increasing number of far-right figures rely after being de-platformed by social media organizations like Twitter and Facebook....
The “Women for Trump” bus tour that launched from Pennsylvania this week comes as polls show Trump trailing Democratic rival Joe Biden heavily among female voters. Trump’s campaign hopes that appealing to women through highlighting economic growth, the effort to reopen schools after the coronavirus shutdown, and the president’s “law and order” messaging following protests will be enough to lift him above Biden in key swing states necessary to winning a second term....
Georgia’s Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis convened a grand jury in May to review evidence and testimony regarding Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in the state. Leaked audio of a phone call between Trump and Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in January 2021 revealed the then-president urged the Republican official to “find” enough votes to flip the state’s results in his favor....
Eric Herschmann said Eastman, who allegedly helped push the now ex-president’s quest to overturn the 2020 election, called him on January 7, 2021, trying to reach someone in Trump’s circle to discuss an issue related to the election. Trump’s allies had claimed without evidence the vote had been undermined by fraud. Eastman is accused of pushing Pence to delay the formal certification of the election or reject some states’ Electoral College results....
The first season premiered in 2019 and received mostly positive reviews from viewers and critics. Reviews for the second season were also highly positive. It features Octavia Spencer in the lead role, along with several others portraying important supporting roles. Truth Be Told season 3 on Apple TV+ will deliver chills Apple TV dropped the official trailer for the new season on January 5, 2023, and it offers a glimpse of the numerous pivotal events set to unfold in the latest installment....
Protesting executives from the American-funded Radio Liberty were assured that Babitsky, a Russian citizen, would be released late last week and the case “sorted out.” Instead, after 18 days of detention without access to an independent lawyer or a phone, Babitsky was taken to a lonely road somewhere in Chechnya last week and handed over to a band of masked Chechen gunmen in exchange for two Russian prisoners of war....
Perhaps the best that can be said of the 1972 Olympics is that they have ended. Stalked by tragedy and ripped by bickering, official bungling and political infighting, the Games are suffering from a bad case of disillusionment and bitterness. If the athletes’ performances, by and large, were superior, the post-victory conduct of a few was hardly exemplary. And the coterie of Olympic administrators succeeded only in muddying already troubled waters....
Bayern Munich’s 1-1 draw against Cologne earlier in the day left Dortmund with the chance to close the gap on the Bundesliga leader to one point at the BayArena. However, goals in either half from Admir Mehmedi and Javier Hernandez consigned Dortmund to a second league defeat of the campaign. To compound matters, Dortmund lost Gonzalo Castro and Sebastian Rode to injury and Tuchel suggested Leverkusen was lucky to finish the match with 11 men....
Ben Domenech, a Fox News contributor and podcaster, was briefly the subject of Carlson’s scorn during the Thursday night broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight. During a Fox Business appearance earlier in the day, Domenech expressed concerns about House Republicans delaying the process by stubbornly opposing GOP leader Kevin McCarthy as the new speaker. The ongoing effort is the longest attempt to elect a new speaker since 1859. “[The anti-McCarthy holdouts] trying to achieve these demands has resulted in essentially this terrorist standoff between them and the overwhelming majority of people in their conference,” Domenech said on Fox Business....
The video—posted on Carlson’s Twitter page—has been shared over 65,000 times on the platform and boasts more than 115,000 ’likes.' “Why isn’t Twitter trending Biden corruption? It’s the biggest, and most credible, story anywhere in the world,” Trump tweeted on Wednesday. “Fake Trending!!!” A few hours earlier, the president tweeted that the platform “refuses to allow any mention of the Biden corruption story,” adding that it “isn’t allowing a word to be said about it....
The 34-year-old has been on the New York Yankees’ injured list since the first week of the season with a calf problem and has not played in the majors since April 3. “For as long as I can remember, my dream was to compete at the highest level as a Major League Baseball player … to wear a big league uniform and play hard for my team-mates and the fans,” Tulowitzki said in a statement released by the Yankees....
Not only would some 12 million Americans lose their jobless benefits if Trump does not sign the $900 billion relief measure by Saturday at midnight, but there would also be a one-week lapse if the president should chose to put pen to paper after the aforementioned deadline. That is because the $300 weekly unemployment insurance supplemental cannot kick in until the week beginning after the bill is signed. The supplemental jobless benefits only last until mid-March, regardless of when they start....
Mnuchin told MSNBC’s Squawk Box on Thursday that the president’s priority is to get “money into the people’s pockets now.” While the White House still regards a payroll tax cut as a “very good, pro-growth policy,” the best way to increase the amount of money people have to inject into the economy is through direct payments. “One of the issues with the payroll tax cut is that people get that money over time,” Mnuchin said....
“I just had the privilege of signing a very strong Executive Order protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues - and combatting recent Criminal Violence,” Trump tweeted on Friday. “Long prison terms for these lawless acts against our Great Country!” The executive order prescribes prison sentences of up to 10 years for anyone guilty of the “willful injury of Federal property,” while vowing to prosecute vandals “to the fullest permitted under Federal law....
But experts told Newsweek that the outcome of the trial—slated to begin February 8—may already be a foregone conclusion. “I am always wary of making predictions about anything in Washington, D.C., but it certainly does not appear to me as though there are enough Republicans willing to vote to convict Donald Trump to get the Senate to the necessary two-thirds majority,” said Brian Kalt, a constitutional law professor at Michigan State University....
Now, less than four months until Election Day, forecasters see the race for the chamber at a 50-50 standstill. Multiple paths have opened for Democrats to win a majority while the GOP is stuck defending 23 of the 36 seats up for grabs this November. “If we were talking back in March, I would have said all things considered Republicans probably had a slight edge in maintaining the chamber,” J....
The comment that Priebus highlighted was that Maddow said she’d been working on her interview with Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas for months, after fellow MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell complimented her. “When [Maddow] finished her show and then Lawrence O’Donnell took over, he was congratulating her about the interview, and he said, ‘You must have been working on this for a long time,’” Priebus said. “She said, ‘I’ve been working on this interview for months....
