Former president Donald Trump has requested that a judge freeze the investigation by the Justice Department into the records seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate. The lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, also requires “the government to provide a more detailed receipt for property” and “the government to return any item seized that was not within the scope of the search warrant”. As reported by the media, quoting Trump’s lead attorney Jim Trusty and two sources close to the case, “the suit argues that the court should appoint a special master –…
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The Republican governor of Texas appears to be in a spat with NYC’s Democrat mayor and has sent more migrants to the big blue city via bus. The New York Post reported that five more busloads of migrants from the U.S. – Mexico border sent from Texas, had reached the Big Apple. This comes as Gov. Greg Abbott escalated his feud with the city’s Mayor Eric Adams with a victory lap op-ed. The new buses are just some of many more that made the trip in the last few months. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has rushed at least 1,000 migrants…
Reports are coming in that show Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott sent about 140 migrants to NYC on buses, making it the largest single-day arrival of migrants from Texas. Buses loaded with 140 asylum seekers reached New York City, from Texas, and sparked controversy with Democrat leadership in the Big Apple. On board of the buses arrived at Port Authority in early morning over the weekend were a mix of families and individuals, including 10 children, according to a spokeswoman for New York City Mayor Eric Adams, speaking to CNN. In an effort to highlight his criticism of the Biden…
Liz Cheney suffered a staggering loss in her primary and now she’s vowing to take down former President Trump and any Republicans who seem to support him. After her overwhelming loss in the primary, GOP Rep. Liz Cheney hopes to turn it into a nationwide effort to keep former President Donald J. Trump out of the White House. “I’m focused on this from the perspective of substance, and I really think the country faces grave threats and as I sort of go through finishing my work here in Congress over the next several months, and making a decision about how…
Looks like ‘Florida man’ has struck again and this time gets really bad news from the courts after a plot against a politician’s father. Stephen Alford, who was alleged to have contacted the father of the sunshine state’s district congressman Matt Gaetz, pleaded guilty in the $25 million extortion plot. The Florida real estate developer Stephen Alford pleaded guilty in a complex scheme that involved a pledge to secure a presidential pardon for the young Gaetz. Alford was alleged to have contacted Don Gaetz, the former state Florida Senate president and father of Matt Gaetz. The scheme included securing the…
According to one of former President Donald Trump’s attorneys, Trump is considering filing a court motion that would call for the reviewing and return of the evidence that was collected during the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s raid on his residence at Mar-a-Lago by a “special master.” In a post on his social platform Truth Social, Trump made mention of such a motion. “A major motion pertaining to the Fourth Amendment will soon be filed concerning the illegal Break-In of my home, Mar-a-Lago, right before the ever important Mid-Term Elections,” wrote Trump. Two other people with privileged information about the discussions…
The Justice Department revealed that a former California congressman TJ Cox, is facing more than two dozen federal charges related to fraud schemes. A democrat, Terrance “T.J.” Cox represented California’s 21st congressional district from January 2019 to January 2021. He was elected in 2018 but lost to a Republican in 2020. According to court records, Cox was taken into custody earlier this month. “Cox, 59, was charged with 15 counts of wire fraud, 11 counts of money laundering, one count of financial institution fraud, and one count of campaign contribution fraud, U.S. Attorney Phillip Talbert said in a statement,” said…
Citing the quality of the candidates, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell projected that Republicans were more likely to flip the House than the Senate, further dampening expectations for the upper chamber with fewer than three months until the midterm elections. “I think it’s going to be very tight. We have a 50-50 nation. We’re likely to have a very close Senate still, with us up slightly or the Democrats up slightly,” McConnell said on Fox’s “Special Report”. McConnell may be experiencing déjà vu from 2010, when the Republican party failed to take control of the chamber, largely because of the…
President Biden returns from Kiawah Island, South Carolina, to his beach house in Delaware, where he is installing a taxpayer-funded fence worth nearly $500,000. For the White House, Biden was there briefly on Wednesday for the signing of the $739 billion inflation Reduction Act into law. Over the course of his administration, Biden became known for his habit of flying to his home in Delaware on weekends. According to data released by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Biden is scheduled to arrive at his $2.7 million summer home located within the North Shores community of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, after spending…
Eight of the ten House Republicans who backed Donald Trump’s second impeachment won’t be returning to Congress next year after losing their congressional primaries. Their departures – either forced by voters or through retirement – suggest that at this point Trump’s grip on the Republican Party has never been greater, and may even be growing, as he is seeking to run again in 2024. In an internal vote last year, Cheney was removed from the conference leadership team even though she used to be the third-ranking Republican in the House. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California) declared at the time…
A man was filmed being pushed to the ground by security guards for Senate hopeful Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) at a campaign event this month. The incident occurred at Harry T. & Harriette V. Moore Memorial Park during Demings’ visit to supporters. It is likely that the victim was trying to gain information about the Demings campaign while wearing a video tracker. Demings is campaigning for the Senate seat and will be facing incumbent Republican Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) in a tight Senate race. In a footage obtained by Florida Politics, we can see two individuals pushing the man at…
Julian Assange’s lawyers along with two journalists sued the CIA and its former chief Mike Pompeo over allegations the intelligence agency violated their US constitutional rights and protections for confidential discussions with the WikiLeaks founder, who is Australian. In a statement, Richard Roth who is the lead attorney representing the plaintiffs said, “The United States Constitution shields American citizens from U.S. government overreach even when the activities take place in a foreign embassy in a foreign country.” The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs include journalists Charles Glass and…
According to a search warrant released a few days ago, the FBI is investigating Donald Trump for alleged violations of the Espionage Act and that agents took away classified documents from the Florida estate of the former president earlier this week. According to the warrant, “all physical documents or records constituting evidence, contraband, fruits of crime, or other items illegally possessed in violation of” three criminal statutes: 18 U.S. Code § 793 – a subsection of the Espionage Act related to the “collection, transmission or loss of defense information”; 18 U.S. Code § 1519 which is related to the” destruction,…
A recent interview with the New York Times editorial board revealed that Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney “officially” announced that President Joe Biden would not be running for president again, but later backtracked her statement. The White House has also suggested that Biden will indeed run for reelection. While discussing Biden’s reelection bid with the editorial board Carolyn Maloney, the chairwoman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, said, “Off the record, he’s not running again.” When Jyoti Thottam, Times editorials editor went on, Maloney replied, “On the record? No, he should not run again.” This sentiment is not voiced publicly…
There appears to be conflicting stories on what happened to some 30 million pages of documents from Obama’s time as president, as Donald Trump and the National Archives don’t seem to be on the same page about it. Following the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, the former president made accusations about former President Obama and his personal handling of the documents during his presidency. According to the post of Trump on Truth Social, he has been politically targeted and is being persecuted like no other. Then, Trump went on and said, “President Barack Hussein Obama kept 33 million pages…
Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming is on a path to lose her GOP primary on Tuesday, and by a lot. But she’s still picking up famous endorsements. Last week, she made news with noted Hollywood liberal actor Kevin Kostner was seen sporting a t-shirt in the set of his popular “Yellowstone” series that said, “I’m For Liz Cheney.” https://twitter.com/SeanPaige/status/1557393254856933376 Now, it appears as though the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney has another endorsement: From disgraced former Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.). “I’ve decided to endorse @RepLizCheney for the Republican nomination for the House seat In Wyoming it’s my first…
Former President Donald Trump reportedly reached out to Attorney General Merrick Garland last week. According to The New York Times, Trump sent the AG a private message right before Garland gave his press conference during which he admitted that he “personally approved” the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence. “The country is on fire. What can I do to reduce the heat?” noted the message from the former president, according to the Times. Garland was 35 minutes late to his press conference. “First, I personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter,” Garland admitted during the press conference.…
Former CIA director and well-known establishmentarian Michael Hayden, a retired Air Force general, appeared to make a horrific suggestion regarding former President Donald Trump following the raid on his Mar-a-Lago estate earlier in the week. Hayden appeared to suggest that Trump should be executed after the FBI claims it found classified documents during the raid. Michael Beschloss, a historian and MSNBC contributor sent a tweet on Thursday that recalled people in history who were executed after sharing nuclear secrets with enemy governments. “Rosenbergs were convicted for giving U.S. nuclear secrets to Moscow, and were executed June 1953,” he said in…
A CNN legal affairs correspondent has offered his opinion as to whom he believes leaked a copy of the Justice Department’s search warrant for the raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home earlier this week. In an interview with the network’s host Laura Coates, correspondent Evan Perez said he thinks Trump himself leaked the warrant to Breitbart News, though he did not say that specifically. “There’s been an unprecedented number of threats in the wake of that search, including threatening against the two agents who signed the court documents,” the host said before asking: “First of all, why do people know…
Former President Donald Trump says the raid at the Mar-A-Lago property consisted of “prosecutorial misconduct” and was done during “dark times for our nation.” This raid was reportedly part of an ongoing investigation to confirm whether or not the former president did actually take classified records from the White House to his Florida home. As part of a lengthy statement by Trump, he compared the work being done by the FBI to “prosecutorial misconduct,” describing it as an “unannounced raid.” At the time of the raid, the former president was not in his Palm Beach estate, but in New York.…
Former President Donald Trump says the raid at the Mar-A-Lago property consisted of “prosecutorial misconduct” and was done during “dark times for our nation.” This raid was reportedly part of an ongoing investigation to confirm whether or not the former president did actually take classified records from the White House to his Florida home. As part of a lengthy statement by Trump, he compared the work being done by the FBI to “prosecutorial misconduct,” describing it as an “unannounced raid.” At the time of the raid, the former president was not in his Palm Beach estate, but in New York.…
After the Federal Bureau of Investigation executed a search warrant at former President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach residence at Mar-a-Lago, Trump and many of his supporters went to social media asking for answers and calling for the impeachment of U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland. Even though the FBI and the Department of Justice refuse to comment on the actual reason for the raid at Trump’s home, many media outlets, as well as Eric Trump, the former president’s son, believe it was because of reports that Trump took classified documents from the White House to Mar-a-Lago, a possible violation of the…
As part of the long-running civil investigation conducted by the New York attorney general into his business dealings, Donald Trump invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer questions under oath, the former president said in a statement. “My great company, and myself, are being attacked from all sides,” Trump published on Truth Social, the social media platform he founded. The only question Trump answered was his name. He, then quoted Fifth on all the other questions he was asked at the deposition, his lawyer Ronald Fischetti reported. Nonetheless, back in 2016, Trump has been suggesting that people who are…
Just a day after the FBI raided former President Donald J. Trump’s Florida residence at Mar-a-Lago, many of Trump’s endorsed Republican candidates won statewide and federal races. Leora Levy, the national Republican committeewoman for Connecticut, won the GOP U.S. Senate primary against her Republican opponents Peter Lumaj and Themis Klarides. While the former President praised Levy, he also attacked her general election opponent, the Democrat Senator Richard Blumenthal. He wrote that “Leora Levy is running to represent the Great State of Connecticut in the United States Senate,” and said that “The current Senator is a mocked and laughed at fool,…
The Delaware computer repairman who handed over Hunter Biden’s scandal-filled laptop to the FBI in late 2019 and has since been forced to close his shop and go into hiding is speaking out following the FBI’s raid of former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home on Monday. Speaking to Fox News co-host Carley Shimkus on Thursday’s “Fox & Friends First,” John Paul Mac Isaac railed at what he sees is increasingly a two-tiered justice system in America. “There’s been a plethora of criminal activity that has come off that laptop and the FBI has been in possession of that laptop since December 9th,…