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Conference Gives Pence an Earful
Conference
Gives Pence
an Earful
Jun 18, 2021 4:35 PM CDT

Conference Gives Pence an Earful

Speech receives cheers before calls of 'traitor' ring out

(Newser) - Former Vice President Mike Pence opened to cheers Friday at a Faith and Freedom Coalition conference in Florida. But they didn't last. "It is great to be back with so many patriots dedicated to faith and freedom and the road to the majority," Pence began, drawing applause....

Trump Gave Fire and Fury Author 'Extraordinary Access' for New Book

Michael Wolff's 'Landslide' based on 'extraordinary access' to president

(Newser) - The author of Fire and Fury, the bestseller from 2018 that helped launched the wave of inside accounts of the Trump White House, will have a last take coming out next month. Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency by Michael Wolff (a Newser co-founder) will be out July...

FBI Issues New Warning About QAnon
FBI Has a New
Worry About QAnon
Jun 15, 2021 6:44 AM CDT

FBI Has a New Worry About QAnon

Intelligence report says some members may become violent in the real world

(Newser) - Some of the bedrock conspiracy theories of QAnon failed to materialize because of the defeat of former President Trump. And while that's causing some members of the group to pack it in, others might go in the opposite direction and turn their online threats into actual violence, the FBI...

Apple Had to Hand Over Data on Sitting White House Counsel

In 2018, Justice Department issued subpoena for data of Donald McGahn

(Newser) - Apple recently revealed that then-President Trump’s Department of Justice had come to them with subpoenas for data on congressional Democrats. Now the company has revealed that it turned over data for Trump’s own White House counsel, too. The company told Donald McGahn and his wife that it...

Putin, Biden Private Chats Will Go Down In History

Interpreters and diplomats will be on hand to record next week's conversations for posterity

(Newser) - If President Joe Biden has any private words with Russia’s Vladimir Putin at their meeting next week, US interpreters and diplomats will be standing by to document their high-stakes encounter, per the AP . It’s a decades-old system meant to ensure that senior officials, and ultimately historians, have a...

Putin Offers Views on 'Colorful' Trump, 'Career Man' Biden

In interview with NBC, Russian leader offers his take on current, former US presidents, 'killer' label

(Newser) - President Biden is set to meet with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in Geneva, and the Russian leader prepped for that sit-down with an NBC News interview on Friday, offering his views on his US rival, as well as on the man who used to be—former President Trump. "Even...

Feds: Scammer Impersonated Trump Family Members

Joshua Hall allegedly pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations

(Newser) - A 22-year-old Pennsylvania man scammed hundreds of thousands of dollars from Donald Trump supporters last year by impersonating the then-president's relatives and urging people to donate to a nonexistent political organization, federal prosecutors say. Joshua Hall has been charged with wire fraud and aggravated identify theft and faces a...

Watchdog: Trump Photo-Op Wasn't Why Park Was Cleared

Operation was planned hours before Trump decided to visit church, inspector general finds

(Newser) - At the time, commentators said it would be considered a defining moment of Donald Trump's presidency: Police forcibly removed racial justice protesters from the Lafayette Square area across from the White House before Trump and his entourage walked to a church for a controversial photo-op . But the church visit...

Trump Has Some Thoughts on Nigeria's Twitter Ban

Former president says more countries should do the same: 'Perhaps I should have done it'

(Newser) - Donald Trump is praising Nigeria for banning Twitter after it blocked a tweet from the country's president—which is apparently how the former president wishes things went down when social networks cracked down on him. China, North Korea, and Iran already ban social networks. But "more COUNTRIES should...

6 Late-Night Jokes About Trump's Pants

No, he didn't wear them backward, but that didn't stop the hosts

(Newser) - There's a reason #Trumppants has been trending the last few days, even if it is a pretty strange one. After images surfaced online (see the aforementioned hashtag), the internet seemed convinced that Donald Trump wore his pants backward in North Carolina on Saturday, notes NPR . He did not. If...

DOJ Says Trump Not Liable for 'Crude' Comments on E. Jean Carroll

Justice Department lawyers want to replace former POTUS as defendant in lawsuit

(Newser) - Former President Trump cannot be held personally liable for “crude" and “disrespectful” remarks he made while president about a woman who accused him of rape, Justice Department lawyers said Monday in arguing for him to be replaced by the United States as defendant in a defamation lawsuit. The...

Cheney: Trump Sounds Like Chinese Communists

Rhetoric is 'dangerous and damaging,' House Republican says

(Newser) - Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican opponent of former President Trump, says she's heard rhetoric like his before. "When you hear the language he's using now, it is essentially the same things that the Chinese Communist Party, for example, says about the United States and our democracy,"...

Stormy Daniels Would Love to Talk to Grand Jury About Trump

She says her lawyer has spoken to prosecutors

(Newser) - A special grand jury has now been convened in the Manhattan district attorney's investigation of Donald Trump and other Trump Organization figures—and Stormy Daniels would be more than happy to cooperate. The adult film star told CNN 's New Day Monday that while she hasn't been...

Price Drop Means Trump Buildings Have Bargains
Prices Plunge
in Trump Buildings
Jun 4, 2021 4:55 PM CDT

Prices Plunge in Trump Buildings

There are bargains, but some real estate shoppers aren't interested because of the name over the door

(Newser) - The building has stunning Manhattan skyline views, its spa offers deep-tissue massages, and the fancy restaurant off the lobby serves prime steaks. Best of all, many apartments at the Trump World Tower are selling at a deep discount—assuming the buyer doesn't mind the name over the door. "...

Trump Turning Up the Heat on a Familiar Foe—Fauci

Biden expresses confidence in doctor as attacks on the right escalate

(Newser) - Dr. Anthony Fauci has talked about his friction with former President Trump and how Trump's supporters harassed him and his family as a result. Things may be about to get much worse on those fronts for the doctor, even with COVID on the wane. Axios reports that Trump intends...

Facebook Suspends Trump for 2 Years
Facebook Suspends
Trump for 2 Years
Jun 4, 2021 12:02 PM CDT

Facebook Suspends Trump for 2 Years

At that point, he could be allowed back but faces permanent suspension over further infractions

(Newser) - Facebook says it will suspend former President Trump’s accounts for two years following its finding that he stoked violence ahead of the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection. “At the end of this period, we will look to experts to assess whether the risk to public safety has receded,"...

FEC Fines Enquirer Owner Over Payment but Not Trump

Company that was run by David Pecker to pay $187K in McDougal case

(Newser) - The Federal Election Commission has fined the publisher of the National Enquirer over its involvement in a payment made to keep Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Donald Trump, to keep quiet about the relationship during the 2016 presidential campaign. The $150,000...

Trump&#39;s Blog Page Is No More
Trump's Blog Page Is No More
Jun 2, 2021 10:30 AM CDT

Trump's Blog Page Is No More

'From the Desk of Donald J. Trump' won't be returning, an aide confirms

(Newser) - "From the Desk of Donald J. Trump," we hardly knew thee. The former president's blog ended up lasting just shy of a month. Senior aide Jason Miller confirmed to CNBC that the page has been shut down for good. "It was just auxiliary to the broader...

Trump Reportedly Making Claims About Being 'Reinstated'

Maggie Haberman of 'NYT' says former president is telling people he expects it by August

(Newser) - Maggie Haberman of the New York Times covered President Trump while he was in office, and she now reports that he's intent on getting back there sooner than people think. On Twitter , Haberman writes that Trump "has been telling a number of people he's in contact with...

Trump, Paul Ryan Trade Slams Over GOP&#39;s Future
Trump Fires Back at Paul Ryan
After a Critical Speech
the rundown
May 28, 2021 11:21 AM CDT

Trump Fires Back at Paul Ryan After a Critical Speech

Calls former House speaker a 'curse to the Republican party'

(Newser) - Two familiar names within the GOP are criticizing one another in regard to the future of the Republican Party—former President Trump and former House Speaker Paul Ryan. The one difference is that Ryan didn't mention Trump by name in his criticism, while the former president didn't hold...

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