Former President Donald Trump attacked Judge Juan Merchan, the jurist overseeing his Manhattan hush money trial, by claiming that his daughter posted a picture of him behind bars on social media.The problem, according to The Spectator's Jacqueline Sweet, is that that almost certainly didn't happen."The account’s veracity is dubious at best, with a creation date of April 2023. Analysis of the Twitter ID associated with the account shows that Judge Juan Merchan’s daughter Loren’s known Twitter...
Fox News host Eric Shawn fact-checked former President Donald Trump's claim that the $454 million bond he has to pay by Monday is "unprecedented," saying it is "actually not true."In February, Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump to pay $355 million, plus interest, and barred him from doing business in New York for three years after finding him liable for financial fraud in September 2023 in a lawsuit brought on by New York Attorney General Letitia James' office. Trump, the presumed GOP...
Donald Trump may enjoy jabbing 81-year-old Joe Biden for his frail state, but he appears to have forgotten the times that he's targeted his successor's stutter. A Washington Post story suggested former President Donald Trump's mockery of Biden might backfire as the duo close in on a potential rematch to become the 47th president. The story claims that in recent weeks Trump, 77, has been "falsely claiming that the president is stuttering during his speeches, and he has parodied the...
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Fox News host Howard Kurtz fact-checked former President Donald Trump on Sunday following an interview in which he shared an oft-repeated false claim about abortion.The exchange began during an interview Kurtz conducted with Trump, who is now the presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee, in which the host asked if he would support a nationwide abortion ban after 16 weeks of pregnancy, a proposal he has reportedly supported in private, but declined to commit to one way or the other in public.In...
Jeanine Pirro, the Fox News pundit who is also a former judge, raised eyebrows Monday when she made a strange legal comparison between former President Donald Trump and two notorious convicted fraudsters. Pirro complained that Trump had gotten an unfair deal in his New York City civil fraud trial — in which he was found liable for $464 million, but will be allowed to pay a $175 million bond as he pursues an appeal — in comparison to Bernie Madoff, the perpetrator of the world's largest Ponzi...
Donald Trump's recent 90-minute speech in Ohio was full of the usual half-truths, disinformation and fear-mongering about "bloodbaths," but one candid comment stood out as a brief moment of honesty. In the middle of a rant about the many investigations he's facing, Trump acknowledged that the tirade would be unwelcome by his advisers, sharing with the crowd that he had promised them on the flight to Dayton that he was "not going to talk about it" on stage. Trump would be smart to listen to his...
Recent polls suggest a significant number of Americans doubt President Biden, 81, could handle another presidential term due to his age. On the other hand, fewer respondents express similar concerns about former President Donald Trump, but he’s only a few years younger at 77.
The mainstream media is no stranger to taking statements out of context — and former President Donald Trump is one of its favorite targets. At a recent rally in Dayton, Ohio, Trump used the word “bloodbath” while discussing the economy and what would happen to the auto industry specifically if he weren’t elected, and the cherry-picking media is having a field day. “China now is building a couple of massive plants where they're going to build the cars in Mexico and think they're going to...
Former President Donald Trump told a story on Monday in which he claimed that he decided not to list the Trump Media & Technology Group on the New York Stock Exchange, even though the exchange “badly” wanted the company, because businesspeople are “treated too badly in New York” and “don’t want to be attacked by a thug like this horrible attorney general that we have in New York.” There is one problem. The story does not make any sense. Facts First: The stock exchange on which the Trump Media &...
The clock is ticking for the former president to post an appeals bond to stop a $454m fraud judgment against him
Andrew Weissmann, the former senior prosecutor on Robert Mueller's special counsel team, questioned the validity of Donald Trump's claim that he's broke. Filling in for Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday, MSNBC host Alicia Menendez said that something doesn't quite add up in Trump's latest claim that over 30 companies wouldn't bond him. Attorney General Letitia James questions whether the refusals are actual people saying they wouldn't bond him or if Trump simply wasn't open to the terms outlined....