Lying for former President Donald Trump's was compulsory.That's according to Sarah Matthews, a former Trump White House deputy press secretary. She discussed her experience, in light of Trump's trusted aide Hope Hicks testifying in open court for his criminal hush money case today — that she and others adopted a messaging strategy that was to take the 45th president at his word and then hang on for dear life. "It's just obvious that Donald Trump is a pathological liar," Matthews told MSNBC's...
Donald Trump was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in a recent Arizona indictment of false electors, but his right-hand man was charged, which could signal prosecutors think Trump is "personally involved" in the scheme and they want to get the goods on him, according to a Florida prosecutor. State Attorney for Palm Beach County Dave Aronberg appeared on MSNBC's Ayman on Saturday, where he was asked about the recent indictment of Trump's associates. Specifically, the host asked, "What's...
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg made a sharp move by putting former National Enquirer chief David Pecker on the stand first to testify at former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial, former court staffer and Lawfare correspondent Anna Bower explained on MSNBC Friday.The reason for that, she said, is that unlike a witness like Michael Cohen, Pecker remains friendly with the former president, and so it is much harder to spin his claims about Trump's alleged "catch and kill"...
Donald Trump on Wednesday held two separate rallies, including one where he repeatedly complained that his teleprompter was blowing in the wind, but the internet is most interested in the former president's messed up words. Trump, who has historically been known to "glitch" at his rallies, even inventing words such as "adlinthin" in the process, first spoke in Wisconsin, where he reportedly failed at pronouncing a four-syllable word. Attempting to deride the bipartisan $1.2 trillion...
Former President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Friday to tear down a candidate he hasn't frequently mentioned before: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Some of his supporters didn't like it."RFK Jr. is a Democrat 'Plant,' a Radical Left Liberal who’s been put in place in order to help Crooked Joe Biden, the Worst President in the History of the United States, get Re-Elected," wrote Trump. "A Vote for Junior’ would essentially be a WASTED PROTEST VOTE, that could swing either way, but...
For a quarter of a century Rhona Graff ran point at Trump Tower and was his trusted gatekeeper. So when she took the stand under subpoena on Friday in former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial — it was significant. Tristan Snell, who was a former assistant attorney general for the state of New York and helped bring a $25 million dollar settlement from Trump University, believes Graff is a game-changer because she is such a longstanding player in Trump world. "Trump exec...
The Supreme Court’s conservative justices said Thursday they agree a former president should be shielded from prosecution for his truly official acts while in office, but not for private schemes that would give him personal gain. They also suggested the case against former President Trump will have to be sent back to the lower courts to decide which parts of the pending criminal indictment can proceed to a trial. Trump was indicted on charges of conspiring to stay in office after losing the 2020...
A key member of Donald Trump's legal defense team has reportedly dropped one of the former president's associates, Boris Epshteyn, as a client as it became clear that the two were considered adversarial to each other due to a recent Arizona criminal indictment.Hugo Lowell, political investigations reporter for The Guardian, reported after Epshteyn was indicted in Arizona that "Trump lawyer Todd Blanche may soon have to choose whether loyalty is [with] Trump or Boris Epshteyn — clients who are...
Donald Trump recently accused Special Counsel Jack Smith of "evidence tampering" in connection with the criminal documents case in Florida, but the alleged issue stems from something the former president did, a New York Times reporter said Saturday.Trump Friday railed against the classified documents criminal case he faces in the sunshine state, accusing Smith of evidence tampering and demanding the entire case be dropped."It has always been clear that the 'Documents Case' is nothing but an...
As Hope Hicks was answering question after question about the efforts to protect the campaign and Donald Trump's family from alleged affairs — the ex-president was sweating bullets. That's what former Trump's former spokesperson Stephanie Grisham suspected was running through his mind as he closed his "beautifully blue eyes" in court marking a notable day in the historic criminal hush money trial. "All I could think was that again, she was in such the inner circle, especially there in the...
Former Trump spokesperson Hope Hicks took the stand Friday to give emotional, tearful testimony on her own role in the Trump circle during the alleged hush payment scheme on trial in Manhattan.And there was a particular line that Hicks gave in court that clearly indicated that, for all her loyal service to the former president, she is distancing herself from him now, legal expert Lisa Rubin explained on MSNBC Friday evening."Right out of the gate, she said she paid for her own lawyers," said...
Donald Trump's former top aide, Hope Hicks, is expected to testify in his Manhattan hush money trial in the coming weeks, and analysts are anticipating the bombs of information she'll drop. Speaking as part of the Wednesday panel with MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace, campaign reporter Vaughn Hillyard recalled Hicks' testimony to the House committee that investigated the Russia scandal. "She had to acknowledge when she went and spoke to the congressional committee investigating the Russian problem, she...