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McCarthy Endorses Cheney&#39;s Opponent
McCarthy Endorses
Cheney's Opponent
Feb 17, 2022 7:30 PM CST

McCarthy Endorses Cheney's Opponent

Along with Trump, GOP House leader backs Harriet Hageman

(Newser) - House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday joined former President Donald Trump in endorsing Rep. Liz Cheney's opponent in upcoming Wyoming GOP primary. McCarthy is the biggest House name so far to back Harriet Hageman, the Hill reports. Party leaders have censured Cheney , and Trump has attacked her, for...

Court Requires Trumps to Answer Under Oath

Calling former president a citizen, judge orders depositions in New York civil investigation

(Newser) - Former President Donald Trump; his daughter Ivanka; and son, Donald Jr. were ordered Thursday to provide sworn testimony in an investigation of their business practices. The Trumps had gone to court to get the subpoenas from New York Attorney General Letitia James' office thrown out, arguing the civil investigation is...

Biden Stymies Trump's Move to Keep Visitor Logs Private

President directs National Archives to release logs to House panel investigating Jan. 6

(Newser) - Donald Trump has been trying to keep various records out of the hands of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, but a new move from President Biden has put a wrench in one of those efforts. The New York Times reports that Biden has rejected Trump's assertion...

Court Filing Causes Ruckus in Trump, Clinton Camps

Conservatives say John Durham development suggests spying on the White House

(Newser) - A new narrative has emerged in the orbit of former President Trump, one that accuses the Hillary Clinton campaign of essentially spying on the former president. It's a tangled story that involves special counsel John Durham and Democratic-allied lawyer Michael Sussmann, who was previously charged with lying to the...

Unable to Vouch for Work, Accounting Firm Drops Trump

Mazars says financial statements it compiled with information from company can't be relied on

(Newser) - At a time when former President Donald Trump and his company are facing investigations into their business practices, they've lost the support of longtime accounting firm Mazars USA. The firm wrote to the Trump Organization last week that it is no longer Mazars' client. The letter also said the...

Giuliani May Not Go the Route of Steve Bannon

'New York Times' reports he's in talks with House panel to testify about the Capitol riot

(Newser) - Trump allies Steve Bannon and Mark Meadows have defied the House panel investigating the Capitol riot to the extent that they now face the possibility of criminal charges. Rudy Giuliani may go a different route. The New York Times reports that Trump's longtime attorney is in negotiations to testify...

Clinton Sends Snarky Message Amid Trump Reports

She is selling caps that read 'But Her Emails'

(Newser) - Hillary Clinton is in business after reports that former President Trump flushed documents in White House toilets. The former secretary of state, who lost to Trump in the 2016 presidential election, is promoting caps carrying the message, "But Her Emails," the Hill reports. Clinton's use of a...

White House Call Logs From Jan. 6 Have Gaps

Investigators are trying to figure out former president's actions in other ways

(Newser) - The official White House logs turned over to House investigators list few phone conversations for then-President Donald Trump as the Capitol was being attacked on Jan. 6, 2020. Some calls made during the gaps have been widely reported, including conversations that Republican members of Congress have said they had with...

Haberman: Trump Clogged WH Toilets Getting Rid of Papers

Revelation on clogged WH toilets emerges in advance of 'NYT' reporter's new book

(Newser) - Earlier this week, a report emerged on the National Archives' retrieval of multiple boxes of records—including possible classified materials—that former President Trump took with him to Mar-a-Lago after he left office. That piece followed previous detailing of the former president's apparent longtime penchant for ripping up papers...

Report: Archives Wants DoJ to Investigate Trump Records

Former president is accused of 'flagrant' violations of federal records law

(Newser) - Update: Former President Trump's apparent mishandling of his administration's records could be the subject of a federal investigation. Sources tell the Washington Post that the National Archives has asked the Justice Department to look into whether federal law was violated. Archives officials say 15 boxes of Trump administration...

DeSantis Keeps His Head Down in Trump-Pence Dispute

Governor changes the subject when asked where he stands

(Newser) - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis may yet break with former President Donald Trump, possibly in launching his own presidential campaign. But not today. When he was asked Monday if he agrees with former Vice President Mike Pence's contention that he was powerless to change the result of the 2020 presidential...

Editorial: Pence Is Right, and Trump Is a 3-Time 'Loser'

'Wall Street Journal' editorial page praises former VP for standing up to his ex-boss

(Newser) - Consider the conservative editorial page of the Wall Street Journal on the side of Team Pence. In an editorial Monday, the editors praised Mike Pence for his public rebuke of former President Trump's view that Pence could have overturned the 2020 election results. "Mr. Pence stands out as...

Trump Rant at Prosecutors Has Roots in Growing Narrative

'White replacement theory' is driving a movement

(Newser) - Looking out at a sea of faces at a Texas fairground, most of them white, former President Donald Trump seethed about his legal troubles and blamed them on malicious prosecutors. "These prosecutors are vicious, horrible people. They're racists and they're very sick, they're mentally sick,"...

On Electoral Count, Pence Says, &#39;Trump Is Wrong&#39;
Trump Reacts After
Rebuke From Pence
UPDATED
Feb 5, 2022 7:00 AM CST

Trump Reacts After Rebuke From Pence

'Great opportunity lost, but not forever,' ex-president says of his VP calling him 'wrong' on 2020 election

(Newser) - Update: On Friday, ex-Vice President Mike Pence rebuked former boss Donald Trump over his thoughts on the certification of the 2020 election. Fox News reports Trump has responded, unsurprisingly doubling down. "Just saw Mike Pence's statement on the fact that he had no right to do anything with...

Avenatti Loses Stormy Daniels Case After Representing Self

He's facing jail time but plans to appeal

(Newser) - Michael Avenatti was convicted Friday of charges he cheated the porn actor Stormy Daniels out of nearly $300,000 she was supposed to get for writing a book about an alleged tryst with former President Trump. Avenatti, who acted as his own lawyer, stared straight ahead as the verdict was...

Zucker Will Be Remembered for the Ascent of Trump

Executive launched 'The Apprentice' before focusing on him at CNN

(Newser) - Jeff Zucker announced that he was quitting CNN because of his failure to disclose his romantic relationship with a colleague, Allison Gollust. But he'll also be remembered for Zucker's mutually beneficial relationship with Donald Trump, Margaret Sullivan writes in her Washington Post column. In some ways, the TV...

Jan. 6 Panel Will Be Given Pence Records

Trump is told executive privilege doesn't prevent release

(Newser) - The National Archives will release records from former Vice President Mike Pence to the House committee investigating the attack on the Capitol. White House counsel Dana Remus delivered the instruction in a letter Tuesday, the Hill reports. Former President Donald Trump had written Jan. 18 to oppose the release, saying...

After Graham Balks at Pardons for Rioters, a Trump Slam

'He's a RINO,' former president tells Newsmax

(Newser) - Donald Trump has added another Republican to his list of supposed RINOs : his ally Lindsey Graham. The former president lobbed the insult—that's "Republican in name only"—at the Republican senator from South Carolina on Tuesday after Graham refused to back the idea of presidential pardons for...

Trump: Jan. 6 Panel Should Investigate Pence

He claims former VP could have prevented violence by rejecting election results

(Newser) - Donald Trump has told the committee investigating the Capitol riot that it should be probing the actions of his former vice president. In a statement, the former president—referring to the House panel as the "Unselect Committee of political hacks, liars, and traitors"—said the Jan. 6 violence...

There's a Weird Problem With Some of Trump's Papers

They had to be taped back together after the former president tore them up

(Newser) - Some of Donald Trump's presidential papers being examined by a House panel are harder to read than others for an odd reason: They had to be taped back together after being torn into tiny pieces by the then-president. The National Archives confirmed the quirk on Monday, reports CNN . The...

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