Lawyers for former President Donald Trump wrote multiple memos advising ways to overturn the 2020 election. Two previously unreported memos, uncovered by ABC News’ Jonathan Karl, show how heavily the administration pressured then-Vice President Mike Pence to reject Biden’s victory. Reported for the first time in Karl’s upcoming book, Betrayal, covering the final days of […]
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Joe Biden Takes Victory Lap After Passage Of Infrastructure Bill: “This Is A Blue Collar Blueprint To Rebuild America”
President Joe Biden took a bit of a victory lap at the White House the morning after the House passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, after a wrenching process by Democrats to unite their progressive and moderate wings. Appearing with Vice President Kamala Harris, Biden said that there would be a formal signing ceremony “soon.” […]
Steele Dossier Analyst Who Claimed Trump Pee Tape Existed Arrested by Feds
Igor Danchenko — the analyst who was the lead researcher on the infamous Steele dossier that made outlandish claims about then-President Elect Donald Trump, including the allegation that a tape existed of him with urinating hookers in a Russian hotel room — was arrested Thursday by federal authorities, The New York Times reported. Danchenko is […]
Trump Says He’s Launching His Own Social Media Network Called Truth Social
Donald Trump said that he’s launching a new social media service, Truth Social, through a newly formed company called Trump Media and Technology Corp. Truth Social will have a nationwide rollout in the first quarter of 2022, with a beta launch next month, according to a press release. According to the announcement, the company also […]
Trump Must Testify on Camera in Lawsuit Filed by Trump Tower Protesters, Judge Orders
President Trump must testify on tape by the end of the month in a lawsuit brought by protesters who say they were assaulted by security officers outside Trump Tower in New York in 2015, a judge ordered Thursday. “Donald J. Trump shall appear for a deposition October 18, 2021 at 10 a.m. … or, in […]
He's the Whistleblower Who Brought Down Scott Pruitt. Now He's Driving an Uber
When Kevin Chmielewski emerged from the FBI’s fortress of a headquarters in downtown Washington, D.C., his head was spinning. It was the fall of 2017. He’d just left a classified briefing about a matter of national security. As he walked back to his office at the Environmental Protection Agency, Chmielewski knew what he had to […]
Trump Disses DeSantis' Potential Presidential Bid: 'I'd Beat Him'
Even though former president Donald Trump has not publicly announced he will run in 2024, he is already trash-talking one of his potential opponents, Ron DeSantis, Florida’s Republican governor. Speaking about a possible campaign, Trump said in an interview with Yahoo Finance’s Ben Werschkul that he was confident he would “beat” DeSantis if the governor […]
The January 6 Investigation Names Names: Bannon, Meadows, and Scavino
The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol issued subpoenas Thursday to four top officials from former President Trump’s administration. The panel sent letters requesting documents and testimony to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Dan Scavino, former Pentagon […]
Decertify the 'Illegitimate' Election, Says Man Under Investigation for Election Interference
Donald Trump just can’t quit trying to interfere in the 2020 election. As a criminal investigation moves forward in Georgia into his attempts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results, the former president sent a letter Friday to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger that calls the election “illegitimate” and asks him to “start the process […]
Dan Quayle Convinced Mike Pence To Ignore Trump’s Decertification Pleas: Book
Although Dan Quayle wasn’t taken seriously when he served as George H.W. Bush’s vice president, he may have saved American democracy from Donald Trump’s election fraud. According to “Peril,” an upcoming book by Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, Trump spent his final days in office pressuring Vice President Mike Pence to disrupt the […]