Attorneys for the defendants contend that it isn't forgery because the cards that Trump's cohorts signed to try to overthrow the 2020 election were the same cards that are used legally.
After mass shooting, Trump blames Brown University for not finding suspect. Donald Trump blames Brown University for shooting suspect delay
Yet, just after such criminal acts happen, Patel of the FBI will quickly rave publicly that the FBI caught the killer, only to realize later it's not the killer. Then he tries to defend his rash statements by saying he was just reporting the news at the time and supposedly wasn't obligated to support his statements with facts.
House Republican leaders ditch vote on ACA funding, all but ensuring premiums will rise Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Republicans worked on the issue throughout the weekend but could not come to an agreement with a group of members who want the funds extended. By Sahil Kapur, Julie Tsirkin and Brennan Leach Dec. 16, 2025, 12:08 PM EST / Updated Dec. 16, 2025, 12:34 PM EST House Republican leaders ditch vote on ACA funding, all but ensuring premiums will rise
Republicans Fine and Tuberville call for deportation of all Muslims in the U.S. after a mass shooting in Australia. Democrats condemn Republicans calling for Muslim ban on the heels of Australia shooting excerpt: “This has to stop. Diversity is not our strength. Diversity has become suicidal,” Fine wrote on X on Monday. “It is time for a Muslim travel ban, radical deportations of all mainstream Muslim legal and illegal immigrants, and citizenship revocations wherever possible. Mainstream Muslims have declared war on us. The least we can do is kick them the hell out of America.” Senator Tommy Tuberville, a Republican from Alabama, said Islam is a “cult”, Muslims are “here to conquer” and that people needed to “stop worrying about offending the pearl clutchers”. “We’ve got to SEND THEM HOME NOW or we’ll become the United Caliphate of America,” he wrote on X on Sunday.
The man who tackled the shooter in Australia and disarmed him is Muslim. He's in the hospital with wounds and recovering.
Pulitzer board requests Trump's tax returns and copies of prescription medications he may be receiving. Trump is suing the committee for not retracting an award it gave to The New York Times and The Washington Post that published articles about the Russia investigation. In the lawsuit against Pulitzer, Trump claimed financial, physical, and emotional injury.. It makes him vulnerable in the discovery phase to be forced to produce records to support his claims. Pulitzer Board Demands Trump’s Tax and Psych Records in Lawsuit Twist
Susie Wiles talks about Trump's desire for retribution. White House chief of staff Susie Wiles says Trump 'will go for it' when there's an 'opportunity' for retribution
If tried by court-martial, senator accused of ‘seditious behavior’ would be deprived of several constitutional rights Joshua Kastenberg Published: December 16, 2025 8:43am EST If tried by court-martial, senator accused of ‘seditious behavior’ would be deprived of several constitutional rights
Trump can't make up his mind. https://www.usnews.com/news/world/a...o-live-with-the-reality-of-an-unreliable-ally excerpt: "Since January, as the leaders have tried to keep Ukraine in the fight against its bigger neighbor, Trump has switched back and forth, appearing to support Kyiv one month, Russia the next. He has mostly remained critical of Europe, and that criticism now has a sharper edge."
Trump comments on deaths of US filmmaker Rob Reiner and wife cause outrage excerpt: Senator Jasmine Crockett of Texas “There is no limit to how low he is willing to go—and that speaks volumes about how dangerously unfit he is to lead,” the Republican said on X.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/15/us/trump-news excerpt: Trump said in the White House that the governor won’t “allow our wonderful Tina to come out of a jail. A high intensity jail. Because she caught people cheating on an election and they said she was cheating.”
Tina Peters didn't catch anyone cheating in the 2020 presidential election. She got caught cheating to try to prove people cheated in the 2020 election. After the 2020 election, she arranged and allowed unauthorized people to access voting equipment, erroneously thinking that it would reveal votes stolen from Trump. After the cheating she did for Trump, Peters ran for Colorado Secretary of State in 2022 and lost in the primary. That was after she had already been indicted on ten criminal counts related to the effort to copy voting equipment software. Charges included attempting to influence a public servant, criminal impersonation, conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, identity theft, and first-degree official misconduct.
A timeline of Trump's fights with the media. https://kstp.com/ap-top-news/a-time...ith-media-including-the-bbc-and-jimmy-kimmel/
The Trump administration in his second term has undone prosecutions done during his first term by his own people. A Tale of Two Terms: How Powerful Figures Were Prosecuted in Trump’s First Term, Then Pardoned in His Second excerpt: "P.G. Sittenfeld, a rising Democratic star on Cincinnati’s City Council, was charged with taking a bribe in exchange for his support of development deals. Devon Archer, a financier and corporate board member, was convicted in a scheme to defraud $60 million from a Native American tribal entity. And Brian Kelsey, a former Republican state senator from Tennessee, was the target of a federal grand jury investigation for illegally funneling nearly $100,000 into his failed congressional campaign. All three were subsequently sentenced to prison. Theirs are among more than a dozen criminal cases that were investigated or prosecuted in Trump’s first term and then undone, through the president’s clemency power, in his second term."
Trump bypasses the Office of Pardon Attorney. A Tale of Two Terms: How Powerful Figures Were Prosecuted in Trump’s First Term, Then Pardoned in His Second excerpt: "What’s more, Sittenfeld, Archer and Kelsey did not qualify for pardons under the standards outlined by the Justice Department, whose Office of the Pardon Attorney reviews applications and forwards its recommendations to the president. Those guidelines require applicants to wait at least five years after their conviction or release from custody, accept responsibility for their crimes, show evidence of rehabilitation and submit a formal petition for review. The three men met none of those criteria. Their pardons were arranged by them or their lawyers directly with officials in the White House — or, in Archer’s case, after he testified before congressional Republicans in an investigation into Biden’s son Hunter, which Trump said prompted “many people” to ask him to grant the pardon."
It's amazing how people can -and do--sell out their own morality to support a lying criminal--a narcissistic blowhard with zero sense of right and wrong. Some day they'll have to justify their lack of back bone to children--grand children. That will be a hard conversation --or maybe not , if lying comes so easily to some people.
The lawyer for Tina Peters says Trump's pardon of Peters applies to state charges. https://www.newsfromthestates.com/a...ardon-applies-state-charges-her-lawyer-claims excerpt: "Ultimately he expects the matter to reach the U.S. Supreme Court, where a 6-3 conservative majority has sided with Trump at an unusually high rate."
As expected, after Congressional briefing Hegseth and Rubio refuse to release full video of second strike on boat that killed survivors (in spite of already having posted on social media dozens of other boat strikes). Hegseth says he won't publicly release video of boat that killed survivors in the Caribbean