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Donald Trump took to Truth Social to decry how he was the victim of a “THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME” after two subsidiaries of the former president’s eponymous real estate and licensing company, the Trump Organization, were found guilty of all charges stemming from what prosecutors described as a sweeping, multi-decade tax fraud scheme.
“OUR COUNTRY IS IN BIG TROUBLE. WHAT A MESS!” posted the ex-president in a late Tuesday night rant, hours after jurors rendered a guilty verdict on all of the 15 charges included in an indictment filed last year against the Trump Corporation and the Trump Payroll Corporation, as well as its long-time chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg.
Meanwhile, January 6 committee chairman Rep Bennie Thompson has told reporters that they will be making criminal referrals to the Department of Justice.
He did not go into further detail adding that the committee investigating the 2021 Capitol riot still had to discuss the matter further.
Elsewhere, Republican senators continue to distance themselves from the former president’s remarks where he called for parts of the Constitution to be terminated but stopped short of saying whether the unprecedented proposals should disqualify him from running in 2024.
Donald Trump says the US is a ‘mess’ as his own company is found guilty of tax fraud
Donald Trump took to Truth Social to decry how he was the victim of a “THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME” after two subsidiaries of the former president’s eponymous real estate and licensing company, the Trump Organization, were found guilty of all charges stemming from what prosecutors described as a sweeping, multi-decade tax fraud scheme.
“THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME CONTINUES, OVER & OVER AGAIN, & THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY AREN’T GOING TO TAKE IT MUCH LONGER. A GIANT POLITICAL SCAM!!!” posted the ex-president in a late Tuesday night rant.
Donald Trump posts a screed on Truth Social hours after learning that his company, the Trump Organization, had been found guilty in a tax fraud trial and the 6 January committee announced the panel planned to make criminal referrals to the Department of Justice
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The messages shared on the former president’s Truth Social account came hours after jurors rendered a guilty verdict on all of the 15 charges included in an indictment filed last year against the Trump Corporation and the Trump Payroll Corporation, as well as its long-time chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg.
“OUR COUNTRY IS IN BIG TROUBLE. WHAT A MESS!”
With Herschel Walker’s loss in Georgia, Trump’s record sinks for winning in swing states where he endorsed candidates
Ahead of the 2022 midterms, Donald Trump touted himself as a kingmaker for the Republican Party.
Now, with Georgia’s Senate runoff election finally coming to a close as Democrat Sen Raphael Warnock became the projected winner on Tuesday night, a full post-mortem of the former president’s endorsements can be tabulated.
According to Allan Smith, a political reporter with NBC News, of the 16 races for governor, senator and secretary of state held in swing states that Joe Biden won, only two of the one term president’s endorsed candidates took home a victory - Joe Lombardo beat out his Democratic rival in Nevada’s governor race and Ron Johnson won the Senate race in Wisconsin.
With Trump-backed Herschel Walker losing in the Georgia Senate runoff on Tuesday, that makes for a total of 14 defeats in competitive races for the former president.
What was Twitter’s role in the Hunter Biden laptop story? Probably not what you’d think
Recently minted Twitter owner Elon Musk says the company’s prior management team’s work liaising with political campaigns and the US government amounted to an egregious violation of the US Constitution’s freedom of speech guarantees.
Former president Donald Trump says the company’s October 2020 decision to temporarily restrict sharing of an unflattering story about Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden proves the last presidential election (which he lost) was tainted by “massive and widespread fraud and deception” that should be remedied by “termination” of the US Constitution and reinstating him as president.
But national security experts and former social media executives who spoke to The Independent in the days following Mr Musk’s leaking of internal company documents to a sympathetic former Rolling Stone journalist say the limited excerpts of the documents revealed in a lengthy Twitter thread late Friday show nothing out of the ordinary — and nothing even close to what Mr Musk alleges.
Andrew Feinberg has the story.
Former FBI counterintelligence officials tell Andrew Feinberg it would have been unusual for there not to have been any contact between the bureau and social media giants
January 6 Committee will make criminal referrals to Justice Department
The chairman of the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot at the US Capitol has told reporters that the committee will make criminal referrals.
Representative Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the committee, told reporters that the committee had not narrowed down which people would be referred to the US Department of Justice.
Comes as time runs out for select committee before new Congress is sworn in
Trump failed to disclose $19.8m loan as president
Donald Trump did not disclose a $19.8m loan from a South Korean conglomerate with links to North Korea when he was the president, according to a new report.
Shweta Sharma has the details.
Trump’s non-disclosure of loan could have posed conflict of interest but did not violate laws
With Lara Trump out, Trump laments losing Fox News as an ally
Donald Trump lamented losing Fox News as an ally on his Truth Social social media platform after his daughter-in-law was dropped by the network.
Maroosha Muzaffar has the story.
‘Fox News is a much different place now than it was just a short time ago’
ICYMI: Top Republican ‘vehemently disagrees’ with Trump’s call to terminate Constitution
A senior Republican congressman said he “vehemently disagrees” with Donald Trump’s bizarre assertion that the Constitution should be suspended so he can be reinstated as president.
‘Trump has made 1,000 statements in which I disagree,’ Mike Turner said on Face the Nation
Youngkin 2024?
Glenn Youngkin swept into office as a Republican sensation with a fresh formula for victory as the GOP contemplated its future beyond Donald Trump.
But one year after Youngkin became the first Republican in more than a decade to win the Virginia governorship, some in his party believe the shine of his national star is being tested just as he quietly contemplates a 2024 presidential run.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin swept into office as a Republican revelation with a fresh formula for victory as the GOP contemplated its future beyond Donald Trump
Trump Organization found guilty on criminal tax fraud charges
Jurors rendered a guilty verdict on all of the charges included in an indictment filed last year against the Trump Corporation, the Trump Payroll Corporation, and the Trump Organization’s long-time chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg.
Read the full story by Andrew Feinberg here:
Mr Trump has not been found guilty of any crimes himself but his companies could have trouble getting loans or doing business in the future
Voices: The media should apologize for ignoring the Hunter Biden laptop story — despite Elon Musk’s Twitter stunt
Andrew Buncombe writes:
It is never too late to say you are sorry. And many of us in the media, most of us perhaps, would do well to offer such an apology over the way we initially covered — or did not cover — the Hunter Biden laptop story, a tale we thought false but which later proved to be at least partly true.
Do you remember the details?
There were reasons then to be skeptical — and lessons now to be learned