Month: December 2023

A chronicle of Donald Trump's Crimes or Allegations

Michael Cohen Used Fake Cases Cited by A.I. to Seek an End to Court Supervision – The New York Times

AdvertisementSupported byDonald Trump’s former fixer had sought an early end to court supervision after his 2018 campaign finance conviction. He enlisted the help of Google Bard.By Benjamin Weiser and Jonah E. BromwichMichael D. Cohen, the onetime fixer for former President Donald J. Trump, mistakenly gave his lawyer bogus legal citations concocted by the artificial intelligence…
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Opinion | Donald Trump wants you to sleep through 2024. Don’t do it. – The Washington Post

All is forgiven if you go to bed on New Year’s Eve hoping to sleep until New Year’s Day 2025. All signs promise that 2024 will be a year for the ages.It most certainly will be a year of reckoning for Donald Trump in courts of law, as well as public opinion. It will be…
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Trump back on ballot after Colorado Republican Party appealed ban to US Supreme Court – KUNC

Donald Trump is back on Colorado’s primary ballot after he was disqualified from running by a state Supreme Court ruling earlier this month. The Colorado Republican Party on Wednesday appealed the state’s supreme court decision that found former President Donald Trump is ineligible for the presidency, the potential first step to a showdown at the…
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Brooks and Capehart on states blocking Trump from ballot – PBS NewsHour

Give by 12/31, so we can continue to deliver intelligent, in-depth, trustworthy journalism. Geoff Bennett Geoff Bennett Saher Khan Saher Khan Leave your feedbackNew York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including the backlash around Nikki Haley’s comments on the causes…
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Prosecutors urge appeals court to reject Trump's immunity claims in election subversion case – Yahoo News

Prosecutors urge appeals court to reject Trump’s immunity claims in election subversion case  Yahoo Newssource

Former Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Admits Using Google Bard To Cite Fictional Cases In Legal Submission – Benzinga

Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, has admitted to using Google Bard to cite non-existent legal cases to his legal counsel, David M. Schwartz, who then relayed these cases to in submissions to a federal court.What Happened: Cohen acknowledged in freshly unsealed court documents that he provided his lawyer with papers citing fictitious cases, reported The…
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Here's What SCOTUS Should Do With the Trump Ballot Cases – The Daily Beast

SEARCHThe real answer is nothing. But if they decide to take them up, here is how they should decide them.The U.S. Supreme Court needs to understand that the disqualification of former President Donald J. Trump under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment from running again for President of the United States is going exactly as…
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California secretary of state leaves Donald Trump on presidential primary ballot – CBS Los Angeles

Watch CBS News By Matthew Rodriguez Updated on: December 28, 2023 / 9:55 PM PST / KCAL News California’s secretary of state declined to remove Donald Trump from the presidential primary ballot despite a call for her to do so from the state’s lieutenant governor. Dr. Shirley Weber did not immediately issue a comment on her…
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Trump expected to challenge removal of name from states’ primary ballots – The Guardian US

Maine and Colorado have said he is ineligible under the 14th amendment due to his actions during the January 6 Capitol attackDonald Trump is reportedly expected to file legal challenges early next week to rulings in Maine and Colorado knocking him off primary ballots amid mounting pressure on US supreme court justices to rule on…
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Special counsel Jack Smith rebuffs Trump’s immunity claim in new filing

Special Counsel for the Department of Justice Jack Smith rebuffed former President Trump’s claim that he should get immunity in Smith’s case related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election in a Saturday filing. The former president’s legal team has said that Trump should be immune from prosecution in the case because the conduct noted…
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‘We’re not spoiling anything’: third-party group says it won’t boost Trump – The Guardian US

Centrist No Labels says 2024 ticket could hurt Trump as much as Biden and rejects comparisons with Jill Stein and Ralph NaderThird parties could hurt Donald Trump as much as Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election, the group No Labels has claimed, insisting that its contentious effort to build a unity ticket cannot be…
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Jack Smith Says Trump Immunity Claims ‘Threaten To Undermine Democracy’

Donald Trump argued that he can’t be prosecuted for alleged crimes he committed as president of the United States.

Video: Hear audio of pro-Trump attorney describing fake electors plan – CNN

Video: Hear audio of pro-Trump attorney describing fake electors plan  CNNsource

The Year We Stopped Being Able to Pretend About Trump – The New Yorker

The Year We Stopped Being Able to Pretend About Trump  The New Yorkersource

Ex-GOP lawmaker describes Trump as smelling like a mix of armpits, ketchup and a butt – Yahoo News

Ex-GOP lawmaker describes Trump as smelling like a mix of armpits, ketchup and a butt  Yahoo Newssource

Trump hits Ohio governor over veto on proposed gender-affirming health care ban

Former President Trump went after Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) for vetoing a proposed ban on gender-affirming health care for transgender minors on Saturday. “DeWine has fallen to the Radical Left,” Trump said in a Truth Social post. “No wonder he gets loudly booed in Ohio every time I introduce him at Rallies, but I…
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Sunday shows preview: Southern border situation; Trump ballot decisions

The current crisis at the southern border will likely be the focus of this week’s Sunday news shows. Earlier this week, a migrant caravan of reportedly at least 6,000 people left a city in southern Mexico heading toward the U.S. The Biden administration is trying to raise pressure on the Mexican President, Andrés Manuel López…
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Election law expert on states blocking Trump from ballot – PBS NewsHour

Give by 12/31, so we can continue to deliver intelligent, in-depth, trustworthy journalism. Geoff Bennett Geoff Bennett Ian Couzens Ian Couzens Leila Jackson, Student Reporting Lab Leila Jackson, Student Reporting Lab Leave your feedbackMaine’s top election official ruled that Donald Trump is ineligible to appear on the state’s primary ballot, citing his efforts to overturn…
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Colorado, Maine, other states trying to block Donald Trump from the ballot. Here's what happens next – USA TODAY

WASHINGTON – Officials in Colorado and Maine have declared former President Donald Trump ineligible for the presidency – but there’s a long way to go before states can actually keep him off the ballot.The U.S. Supreme Court will likely decide the question of Trump’s qualifications, after weeks and maybe months of appeals that will shadow…
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Petition calls for Hollywood to remove Donald Trump's star on the Walk of Fame – CBS News

Watch CBS News By KCAL-News Staff December 28, 2023 / 10:01 PM PST / KCAL News For the past three years, one Hollywood resident has rallied thousands of people to join his petition to remove one of the most controversial red and gold stars along the Walk of Fame — former President Donald Trump’s.“What city…
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Ex-GOP lawmaker doubles down on claim Trump smells – 'of armpits, ketchup and butt' – The Independent

Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in‘It’s not good. The best way to describe it… take armpits, ketchup, a butt and makeup and put that all in a blender and bottle that as a cologne,’ Adam Kinzinger said…
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Colorado secretary of state receives death threats: ‘I will not be intimidated’

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D) said she received death threats in the wake of the lawsuit that was filed in her state that eventually led to former President Trump being kicked off the ballot in her state. “Within three weeks of the lawsuit being filed, I received 64 death threats. I stopped counting…
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Wisconsin officials shut down effort to kick Trump off ballot – The Hill

Wisconsin election officials have declined to review a complaint attempting to remove former President Trump from the state’s primary ballot, citing the 14th Amendment.Madison, Wis., brewery owner Kirk Bangstad filed a complaint with the Wisconsin Elections Commission on Thursday, claiming Trump should be removed from the ballot due to his actions surrounding the Jan. 6,…
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'I must be better than Trump': Why California's elections chief is keeping the former president on the ballot – Los Angeles Times

California Secretary of State Shirley Weber is resisting pressure from within the Democratic Party to remove Donald Trump from the March statewide primary ballot due to his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol — arguing that, unlike the former Republican president, she feels obligated to follow the law. Weber said she…
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