Former US president Donald Trump claims he can declassify top secret documents just ‘by thinking about it’
A court filing by Donald Trump’s legal team has revealed that the former president hoarded some 200,000 pages of federal documents upon leaving office, spread between the 11,000 documents already mentioned following the search of Mar-a-Lago.
In the filing, which contains Mr Trump’s objections to an accelerated review schedule laid out by special master US District Judge Raymond Dearie, his lawyers argue that an early October deadline for scanning and reviewing the documents is unrealistic because they cannot be processed quickly enough.
The former president’s team also claims that Judge Dearie is overstepping his authority by asking them to confirm the inventory of what was seized. They argue only the Justice Department can do so.
As Florida reeled from the impact of Hurricane Ian on Wednesday, Mr Trump pleaded on social media for donations… to his political campaign ahead of a fundraising deadline. Rescue and recovery efforts had yet begun.
Having postponed Wednesday’s final public hearing because of the storm, the January 6 House select committee is instead interviewing conservative activist Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, about her actions after the 2020 election.
Democrat lawmaker believes Trump called her impersonating a journalist
Former President Donald Trump may have called a Democratic politician while posing as a reporter, a new book claims.
In her book Confidence Man, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman details how Michigan Democratic Representative Debbie Dingell received a call from someone claiming to be a reporter, but who she believes was actually Mr Trump.
The excerpt was first reported in The Washington Post.
Graig Graziosi has the story.
Democrat believes Trump called her impersonating a journalist, book claims
Former president has been accused of impersonating his own publicist in the past
Oliver O’Connell30 September 2022 00:45
Newsom hits out at party’s failure to show GOP-run states have worse gun crime
California Governor Gavin Newsom, in the midst of a re-election campaign and reportedly weighing a future run for president, again hit out at fellow Democrats over what he claims is a messaging failure on the party’s handling of crime.
“We allow these culture wars to take shape, and we are consistently on the back end of them,” Mr Newsom said in an interview with MSNBC. “Eight of the top 10 states with the highest murder rates all are Republican states. How do Democrats not know that?”
Newsom hits out at Dem failure to make clear that GOP-run states have worse gun crime
California governor has criticised Democratic messaging consistently over last several months
Oliver O’Connell30 September 2022 00:00
Mitch McConnell suggests higher odds of GOP taking Senate
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday that he believes his party now has a “50-50 shot” of getting the chamber back less than six weeks away from the midterm elections.
“We are in a bunch of close races,” McConnell told reporters during a press conference. “It’s going to be really, really close either way, in my view.”
McConnell suggests higher odds of Republicans taking Senate
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says he believes his party now has a 50-50 shot of getting the chamber back less than six weeks away from the midterm elections
Oliver O’Connell29 September 2022 23:15
Case against source for Trump dossier advances… but only just
A judge is allowing prosecutors to move forward with their criminal case against an analyst who provided key details for a flawed dossier on ex-President Donald Trump, although the judge called his decision “an extremely close call.”
Lawyers for Igor Danchenko asked a judge Thursday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria to dismiss all five charges…