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☆ Opinion | Mark Meadows Is a Warning About a Second Trump Term
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Chris Whipple | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

But the crimes Mr. Meadows is accused of are orders of magnitude greater than those of his predecessors. Mr. Meadows didn’t just act as a doormat to President Trump; he seemed to let everyone have his or her way. This made no sense, but it was just the way Mr. Meadows rolled. As part of the efforts to subvert the 2020 election, Mr. Meadows paraded a cast of incompetent bootlickers into the Oval Office. All the while, the indictment shows that Mr. Meadows was sharing lighthearted remarks about claims of widespread voter fraud.

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☆ Indictment says a top campaign advisor warned the Giuliani-led efforts to overturn state's votes were based on 'conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

An unnamed senior Trump campaign advisor privately torched Rudy Giuliani's post-election legal gambits. "It's all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership," the advisor wrote in an email. "I'll obviously hustle to help on all fronts, but it's tough to own any of this when it's all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership," an unnamed senior campaign advisor wrote in an email on December 8, 2020, according to the indictment. Eric Herschmann, a White House attorney, went viral for his comments to the committee about how he thought conservative legal advisor John Eastman was advancing nonsensical arguments. Many of the episodes mentioned, including an unnamed Trump advisor calling the wrong senator on January 6, fit with previously revealed information about the former New York mayor's actions before, during, and after the Capitol riot.

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☆ Sen. Susan Collins pressed Ivanka Trump to convince Donald Trump to stop Jan. 6 riot, new transcripts reveal
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The January 6 committee released a transcript of Ivanka Trump's interview.`The transcript revealed that Sen. Susan Collins called Ivanka Trump during the Capitol riot. "It was a brief conversation," Ivanka Trump says, according to the transcript. The call from Collins is one of a few calls that Ivanka Trump received during the riot. Ivanka Trump also confirmed that Sen. Lindsey Graham called her from the Capitol building as events unfolded. The report also detailed Ivanka Trump imploring her father to quell the violence, noting that she appeared"visibly upset" after her father refused to listen to her.

☆ Jan. 6 committee highlights: Panel votes on criminal referrals for Trump and others
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Rebecca Shabad | Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Jonathan-Allen-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +48 min

“By the time President Trump was preparing to give his speech, he and his advisors knew enough to cancel the rally. “Some have suggested that President Trump gave an order to have 10,000 troops ready for January 6th. On far-right groups drawing inspiration from Trump: Trump has not denied that he helped inspire far-right groups, including the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, to violently attempt to obstruct the official certification proceedings on Jan. 6. "There is no question from all the evidence assembled that President Trump did have that intent." Share this -Link copiedInside the final Jan. 6 committee meeting The Jan. 6 committee met for what’s likely its final public meeting, with many of the usual faces present.

☆ Jan. 6 committee live updates: Panel votes on criminal referrals for Trump and others
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Summer Concepcion | Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Summer-Concepcion-Byline-Jm.Jpg | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +42 min

Committee details Trump allies' efforts to obstruct its investigation In its report summary, the committee detailed some of the efforts to obstruct its investigation. On far-right groups drawing inspiration from Trump: Trump has not denied that he helped inspire far-right groups, including the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, to violently attempt to obstruct the official certification proceedings on Jan. 6. "There is no question from all the evidence assembled that President Trump did have that intent." Share this -Link copiedInside the final Jan. 6 committee meeting The Jan. 6 committee met for what’s likely its final public meeting, with many of the usual faces present. The committee will likely reveal Eastman’s referrals during Monday’s meeting, in addition to expected criminal referrals for Trump.

☆ Hope Hicks testifies Trump refused to tell supporters to be non-violent on January 6, instructing them instead to 'fight like hell'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Former Trump aide Hope Hicks said she and others urged Trump to decry any violence on January 6. Hicks told House select committee investigators that Donald Trump refused to listen. Trump commanded the MAGA mob that amassed in Washington that day to "fight like hell." Hicks met with House select committee members in October to share her insights into everything that happened that day. She told Trump that he'd lost and "nobody's convinced me otherwise," according to internal deliberations highlighted in the Trump-centric tome "The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021."

☆ Read the Jan. 6 Committee Report Executive Summary
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

And Hutchinson described what President Trump said as he prepared to take the stage: When we were in the off-stage announce area tent behind the stage, he was very concerned about the shot. Take the F'ing mags away. Take the F'ing mags away.' The military, the secret service. "432 But President Trump made that very argument during his speech at the Ellipse and made many false statements.

☆ Hope Hicks said Trump told her no one would care about his legacy if he lost the 2020 election: 'The only thing that matters is winning'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

White House advisor Hope Hicks told Trump she was concerned that the January 6 attack on the Capitol would hurt his legacy. "I was becoming increasingly concerned that we were damaging his legacy," Hicks told the committee. Hicks started working with Trump during his 2016 campaign and served as a close confidante and White House communications director. She left the White House before returning as a senior advisor ahead of the 2020 election. Herschmann told Hicks he had already made the recommendation to Trump as well, but that Trump refused, Hicks said.

☆ Brett Favre files motion to dismiss lawsuit in Mississippi welfare fraud case
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Laura Strickler | Laura Strickler Is A Washington-Based Investigative Reporter With The Nbc News Investigative Unit. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Attorneys for former NFL star Brett Favre filed court papers in Mississippi on Monday seeking to dismiss a civil lawsuit against him tied to a state welfare fraud scandal. Favre was sued in May by the state welfare agency after he received $1.1 million in federal welfare funds intended to lift children out of poverty in the poorest state in America. Favre’s attorneys say that he and his organization, Favre Enterprises LLC, repaid the funds and that Mississippi officials are to blame for the misspending. "Mr. Favre never had any control over how Mississippi spent its welfare funds. Six people have been charged in what state and federal officials call a massive fraud scheme to misspend state welfare funds, including the former director of the state welfare agency, who is cooperating with the FBI and federal prosecutors.

☆ Brett Favre helped an experimental drug maker get $2M in welfare money. Experts doubt the drug can work.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Dilanianmug.Jpg | Ken Dilanian | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

And he did more than evangelize, court records show — he successfully lobbied Mississippi state officials who granted the company $2.1 million in federal welfare money that was intended to help poor families. The payment was illegal, state officials allege in a lawsuit — part of a huge Mississippi welfare misspending scandal that has tarnished Favre’s reputation. Favre, who is being sued by Mississippi, has consistently said that he did not know the money he was seeking from the Mississippi Department of Human Services—the state welfare agency—was welfare money. Six people have been charged in what state and federal officials call a massive fraud scheme, including the former director of the state welfare agency, who is cooperating with the FBI and federal prosecutors. Favre is among 38 defendants in a civil lawsuit by the state seeking to recoup the welfare money, including the funds devoted to the volleyball facility and the unproven concussion drug.

☆ A Trump White House lawyer wrote in an email that he was 'concerned' about the former president signing a sworn statement verifying inaccurate information on voter fraud, per Axios report
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Eric Herschmann, a former White House lawyer, was concerned about a sworn statement Trump ultimately signed. An email obtained by Axios shows the lawyer warned against signing off false claims of voter fraud. The message concerned a lawsuit Trump and his legal team were preparing to file against Georgia Gov. In a statement to Axios Herschmann said, "I am not discussing my conversations with the president or the surrounding circumstances." "The Court finds that these emails are sufficiently related to and in furtherance of a conspiracy to defraud the United States," Carter wrote.

☆ Former White House attorney warned Trump about the legal risk of holding onto classified documents nearly a year after he left office. Trump was noncommittal about returning them, report says.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Eric Herschmann warned Trump about the legal risk of keeping classified documents, NYT reported. Sources told NYT Herschmann was no longer working as Trump's lawyer at the time of the warning. In the historic August 8 search of Mar-a-Lago, the FBI found 12 additional boxes worth of documents Trump had retained in his Palm Beach, Florida, home. The documents are currently at the center of a legal battle between Trump and the Justice Department. The office of former President Trump did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

☆ Trump paid his new lead attorney an 'unusually high' $3 million retainer after others rejected him
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-17 | by ( Taiyler Simone Mitchell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Trump put down a $3 million retainer for attorney Christopher M. Kise, a sum that The New York Times called "unusually high." The competency of Trump's current legal team has been questioned by his advisors and others. Christopher M. Kise, formerly the solicitor general of Florida, agreed to defend Trump with an "unusually high" $3 million retainer, The New York Times reported on Friday, citing two unnamed sources familiar with the matter. With Trump facing numerous legal battles, his legal team has also been at the center of controversy since the 2020 election and the January 6 insurrection. A former Trump attorney, Eric Herschmann, has called into question the competency of some attorneys on the team, The Times reported.

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