On Monday, a New York Supreme Court judge held Donald Trump in contempt of court for failing to comply with a subpoena from New York Attorney General Letitia James for financial records related to his business practices. The subpoena ordered Trump to turn over documents concerning personal statements about his company’s finances, documents regarding tax audits and information about insurance. The former president was supposed to comply with the order by March 31 — a deadline that had been agreed to by both parties — but refused to do so, claiming that he didn’t have the documents in question. Trump…
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Meadows Texts Show How Even Trump Loyalists Felt He Was Responsible for Jan. 6
CNN has obtained more than 2,300 text messages between Mark Meadows, who served as former President Donald Trump’s last chief of staff, and other members of Trump’s inner circle, relating to attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and the attack on the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021. The texts include interactions with Trump family members, cabinet officials, political supporters, conservative media personalities and dozens of Republican members of Congress, CNN reported on Monday. While the texts include dozens of messages encouraging Trump to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, a number of text messages that were sent…
Trump Jr. Agrees to Meet Voluntarily With January 6 Committee Investigators
Donald Trump Jr., the son of former President Donald Trump, will speak with investigators of the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the U. S. Capitol building sometime in the near future, sources told ABC News on Thursday. The former president’s eldest son is set to meet with the January 6 committee sometime “in the coming days,” the news agency said. He is reportedly meeting with investigators voluntarily to share what he knows about the day of the attack, and will likely also discuss text messages he sent to members of the Trump White House in…
Trump Impeachment Witness Vindman Sues Loyalists Over Intimidation Tactics
Former Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a key witness in the first impeachment of former President Donald Trump in 2019, has filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani, and two former White House staffers, alleging that they engaged in witness intimidation against him. Citing the Ku Klux Klan Act – a 19th century law that bars threats or intimidation toward government officials who are carrying out their constitutional duties – Vindman alleged that the group of Trump allies engaged in a conspiracy of witness tampering against him over his testimony in the 2019 impeachment proceedings; in his testimony, Vindman…