Peter Hall, Pennsylvania Capital-Star Campaigning for Pennsylvania’s Republican gubernatorial and U.S. Senate nominees on Saturday, former President Donald Trump cast Doug Mastriano and Dr. Mehmet Oz as vital leaders in a fight to take back the state and country starting with this year’s midterm election. Trump spoke for nearly two …
Read More »DOJ Releases Photo of ‘Top Secret’ Documents Seized From Trump’s Home
Jake Johnson, Common Dreams The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday released a photo of classified documents it retrieved from Donald Trump‘s Florida home earlier this month, the latest disclosure in its investigation into the former president’s removal of secret government records from the White House following his 2020 election loss. …
Read More »Judge Says Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Must Testify In Trump Election Probe
Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder A Fulton County judge has ordered Gov. Brian Kemp to testify in a special grand jury investigation into former President Donald Trump and associates’ attempts to interfere in the 2020 election. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ruled Monday that Kemp will appear before the …
Read More »How Election-Denying GOP Governors Could Tilt The 2024 Presidential Election
Kira Lerner, Pennsylvania Capital-Star Republican candidates who claim that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump have been nominated for governor in four critical swing states, raising concerns that if elected they could try to sway election results in 2024 and beyond. In Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, Republican …
Read More »Court Releases Partially Redacted Affidavit For Mar-a-Lago Search
Jennifer Shutt, New Jersey Monitor A federal court released a partially redacted affidavit Friday detailing some of the reasons the Federal Bureau of Investigation provided to a judge in order to get a search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s private residence in Mar-a-Lago. The request to search the property …
Read More »Latest Filing Sheds More Light On Georgia DA’s Election Interference Probe
Stephen Fowler, GPB News A new filing from the Fulton County District Attorney‘s office paints the clearest picture yet of the scope of a special grand jury’s investigation into potential election interference in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election by former President Donald Trump and his allies. The Tuesday response to Gov. …
Read More »House Report Shows Trump ‘Deliberately and Repeatedly’ Undermined Covid-19 Response
Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams White House officials during the tenure of former President Donald Trump “deliberately and repeatedly” pressured the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to authorize unproven and potentially dangerous Covid-19 treatments, while working to derail the agency’s vaccine guidance ahead of the 2020 presidential election, a congressional report …
Read More »Judge Says Mar-a-Lago Affidavit ‘Can Be Unsealed’ With Redactions
Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams A U.S. judge on Thursday gave the federal government a week to propose redactions to the warrant affidavit detailing the information that led to last week’s search of Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump’s Florida home. “I’m not prepared to find that the affidavit should be fully …
Read More »‘Scary Stuff’: GOP Election Deniers Surge to Victory in 2024 Battlegrounds
Jake Johnson, Common Dreams In six key battleground states that played a decisive role in the 2020 presidential race, Republican candidates who have openly embraced former President Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” have won nearly two-thirds of the GOP nominating contests for positions with power over state and federal elections, a …
Read More »House Democrats Request ‘Damage Assessment’ Following Recovery of Classified Docs
Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams Democratic Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Adam Schiff on Saturday asked federal intelligence officials to immediately review the top secret documents that FBI agents retrieved during last week’s search of former President Donald Trump’s resort in Florida and to provide a classified briefing on their findings as …
Read More »Suspect Killed By Ohio Police After Attempting To Breach FBI Office
An armed suspect who attempted to breach an FBI office in Cincinnati was shot and killed by police after fleeing into a nearby rural area and exchanging gunfire with officers, law enforcement said Thursday evening. Lt. Nathan Dennis, a spokesperson for the Ohio State Highway Patrol, said efforts to negotiate …
Read More »Here’s How Government Documents Are Classified To Keep Sensitive Information Safe
Jeffrey Fields, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Documents sought by the U.S. Justice Department from former President Donald Trump may contain material related to what The New York Times described as “some of the most highly classified programs run by the United States.” The Washington Post reported …
Read More »Search Warrant Indicates FBI Investigating Trump for Espionage Act Violation
This is a developing story… Please check back for possible updates… Former President Donald Trump is being investigated for potential violations of the Espionage Act, obstruction of justice, and unlawful removal of government records, according to the warrant authorizing the recent federal search of Mar-a-Lago, which was released Friday. “This …
Read More »DOJ Moves to Unseal Warrant Used to Search Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Home
Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday moved to unseal the warrant authorizing Monday’s FBI search of former President Donald Trump‘s Florida home, explaining that he personally authorized the decision to raid Mar-a-Lago but offering few details about the unfolding case. Speaking briefly in an afternoon …
Read More »Former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Largo Home Searched By FBI
Former President Donald Trump announced that FBI agents had conducted a raid of his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida, and some House Republicans were quick to take his side. It was not immediately clear what the FBI may have been seeking, though the former president made a point of saying in …
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