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We’re seeing signs of a notable shift in how some U.S. mainstream media outlets operate. Surprisingly, some have started reporting certain news stories fairly and accurately. Recently, the Washington Post published an article urging Joe Biden not to run in 2024 and CNN spent an entire segment blathering on about what a liar Joe Biden is. Now, most likely, CNN and the Washington Post have gotten their marching orders from higher-ups who’ve decided Joe needs to go. But there’s a lot more to this story. What’s even more notable and can’t be so easily explained away is a recent ABC...

Special counsel Jack Smith obtained at least 32 direct messages found in Donald Trump's Twitter account as part of the investigation into the former president's alleged efforts to thwart the peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election, according to a court filing unsealed Friday. [Friday Night Document Dump - more quotes in Comment #1 - Jack Smith made extraordinary secret Search demands on Twitter in April 2023]

A Georgia judge ruled on Thursday that Donald Trump and 16 others will be tried separately from Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, who are set to go to trial next month in the case on an alleged scheme to overturn the 2020 election results in that state. Powell and Chesebro had filed demands for a speedy trial, and Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee had set their trial to begin Oct. 23. The former president and the other defendants asked to be tried separately from the two, with some arguing they would not be ready in time for an...

The four criminal trials currently scheduled for former President Donald Trump are amongst the most significant and controversial trials in American history. It is imperative that they also be among the fairest trials in our history. Regardless of the results—acquittal, conviction, hung jury—the trials must be perceived as having been fair. The defendant must receive the benefit of all of his constitutional and statutory rights. Not only is Donald Trump on trial in these cases, but the American system of justice is on trial, not only in America but around the world. The defendant is not only a former president;...

Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office has repeatedly grilled witnesses about Rudy Giuliani’s drinking on and after election day, investigating whether Donald Trump was knowingly relying on an inebriated attorney while trying to overturn a presidential election. In their questioning of multiple witnesses, Smith’s team of federal investigators have asked questions about how seemingly intoxicated Giuliani was during the weeks he was giving Trump advice on how to cling to power, according to a source who’s been in the room with Smith’s team, one witness’s attorney, and a third person familiar with the matter. The special counsel’s team has also asked...

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump’s federal trial on charges that he unlawfully tried to remain in power following his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden will begin March 4, a judge here ruled Monday. US District Judge Tanya Chutkan set the trial to begin one day before Super Tuesday, when Republican voters in 15 states and territories go to the polls to select their choice to be the party’s 2024 presidential candidate. The trial in the nation’s capital is set to start three weeks before Trump is due to stand trial in Manhattan on charges related to payouts to...

This is Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign since his administration is one big failure. President Trump’s arraignment for the Georgia RICO case is set for September 6. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee allowed cameras in the courtroom for Trump’s arraignment in Fulton County. WSB-TV, WAGA TV, WANF TV and WXIA TV will be in the courtroom with cameras. Trump’s arraignment will be broadcast on live television. Trump and 18 other defendants will appear at the Fulton County courthouse on Wednesday, September 6 to be arraigned on RICO and conspiracy charges. President Trump will be arraigned at 9:30 am, Rudy...

Photo: AlamyA new revelation from Real Clear Investigations Senior Reporter Paul Sperry has the potential to rock the political world from top to bottom, revealing that hundreds of anti-Trump Democrats were allegedly deputized by election officials to process absentee ballots during the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia.This shocking information was retrieved from FOIA records, Sperry noted on X.He wrote, “New FOIA records reveal Fulton election officials in 2020 deputized 100s of anti-Trump Dems from ACLU, gave them power to process absentee ballot apps rec’d thru online portals & then equipped ACLU poll workers w/ iPads to cancel absentee ballots...

The White House counsel’s office met with a top aide to Special Counsel Jack Smith just weeks before he brought charges against former President Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents — raising serious concerns about coordinated legal efforts aimed at President Biden’s likely opponent in 2024. Jay Bratt, who joined the special counsel team in November 2022, shortly after it was formed, took a meeting in the White House on March 31, 2023, with Caroline Saba, deputy chief of staff for the White House counsel’s office, White House visitor logs show.

In court papers filed in federal court for the Northern District of Georgia on Tuesday, Mark Meadows asked a judge for an immediate ruling on his effort to move his Fulton County case to federal court or an order that would prevent Fulton County's district attorney from arresting him. “Granting removal immediately and notifying the state court is the most efficient way to effectuate relief,” they wrote. “Alternatively, the Court can effectuate relief by issuing an order to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis — who is a party to the matter before the Court—prohibiting her from arresting or causing...

To get a handle on the indictment and stay current with the various developments, it is helpful to put the charges into one of six buckets.Late Monday, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis charged former President Donald Trump and 18 other defendants in a 98-page indictment that included a total of 41 different counts. The defendants are already fighting back, with Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, seeking to remove the case to federal court based on a statute that protects federal officials from state court prosecution for official conduct. More counteroffensives will likely follow, with other former federal...

The Republican establishment must awaken from its coma and begin unmasking the Democrats’ reign of terror gainst their political adversaries. Never in the 235 years since the ratification of the Constitution has an administration premeditatively and blatantly prosecuted, on specious and conjecturable charges, the titular leader of the opposition party and leading candidate for president. And doing so while overtly flaunting their egregious actions to protect and cover-up for the incumbent president who has been exposed as potentially complicit in massive bribery and fraud. In any previous election cycle, these overt and unabashed actions would have been the death knell...

Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Monday that District Attorney Fani Willis had indicted former President Donald Trump and 18 others for a “conspiracy” that was exactly what Democrats did in challenging the 2000 election. The tactics of the Trump team, including claims of fraud, were neither more nor less than what Democrats had done in claiming that the election had been stolen from then-Vice President Al Gore by Republicans pushing for then-Governor George W. Bush. Fox News reported: Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz, speaking to Fox News Digital, criticized the pending indictment, calling Trump’s actions “very similar” to...

Following an at times confounding series of events on Monday, a grand jury in Fulton County voted to indict former President Donald Trump on more than one dozen counts for his actions in the aftermath of the 2020 election. Just before 9:00 p.m. ET, the grand jury's decision was returned to Judge Robert McBurney and then handed off to the clerk to be docketed before being unsealed and made public shortly before 11:00 pm. In all, the grand jury handed up a 98-page indictment against Trump as well as a handful of his allies including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, Kenneth...

The Fulton County District Attorney’s Office will hold a press conference Monday night after the latest Trump indictment is processed. 19 Republicans were indicted, including President Donald Trump. Other Republicans include: Rudy Giuliani Mark Meadows John Eastman Jeff Clark Mike Roman David Shafer Kenneth Chesebo Jenna Ellis Ray Smith Robert Cheeley Shawn Still Stephen Lee Harrison Floyd Trevian Kutti Sidney Powell Cathleen Latham Scott Hall Misty Hayes Their crime was challenging the stolen 2020 election. This is NOW a crime. The rules of the elections were unconstitutionally changed in all of the Swing States in 2020. It led to massive...

The official court website of Fulton County, Georgia, published an indictment against former President Donald Trump on Monday before deleting it, a bizarre, unexplained act that at least one critic says violated Trump’s constitutional rights to due process of law. Reuters first reported that the indictment had been filed, then had to update its report when the indictment was removed from the court website and the office of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis denied that an indictment had yet been issued. Yet Reuters preserved the initial document, which lists 39 charges against Trump, including the “serious felony” of racketeering....

A Georgia indictment of former President Donald Trump that is expected this week could depend on a grand jury’s interpretation of an often-misreported phone call that Trump had with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in the aftermath of the 2020 vote. The indictment in Fulton County would charge Trump and several associates with using improper pressure and methods to convince state officials to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election in the state, through aggressive challenges. But while Trump is often accused of telling Raffensperger to “find me the votes,” the transcript of the conversation shows that Trump said...

We’re deep into banana republic territory with this criminal regime. From the beginning, the Biden regime has wanted to render Donald Trump politically dead. Now they’ve opened the possibility of death of a more physical variety. With their latest kangaroo court charges, their bête noire now faces the death penalty. Yes, that’s right: drug dealers, murderers, and rapists walk free in blue cities all the time, but a former president and current presidential candidate who dares to stand up to the political and media elites could now get the big sleep. It has been clear from the beginning that the...

If you were going to draw up a list of the people most responsible for the latest indictment of Donald Trump, the former president himself would be at the top, followed by the prosecutors who have brought the case. Republicans in Congress perversely deserve a great deal of credit, too, since they could have exiled Trump from political life and perhaps spared him more intense legal scrutiny if they had voted to convict him in the impeachment trial over his role in the siege of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Ultimately, however, you cannot tell the story of Trump’s...