“They are allowed to raise whatever money they want and they don’t have to say where they got it,” said Martha Joynt Kumar, an emeritus professor of political science at Towson University who has studied presidential transitions.

An investigation led by the Democratic senator Sheldon Whitehouse also found that both the Trump White House and the FBI “misled the public and the Senate” about the scope of the investigation it did conduct into the sexual assault allegations by falsely claiming that the FBI had conducted its investigation thoroughly and “by the book”.

“They’re being treated very badly in the Republican areas. They’re not getting water, they’re not getting anything.” Elsewhere, he declared that “Kamala spent all her FEMA money, billions of dollars, on housing for” — you guessed it — “illegal migrants.” These allegations of a politically motivated emergency response are false, but they have discouraged people in need of aid from going to the agency for help. (And, as it turns out, Politico reports, it was Mr. Trump who as president hesitated to give disaster relief to blue parts of the country.)

Ryan Routh portrayed himself online as a man who built housing for homeless people in Hawaii, tried to recruit fighters for Ukraine to defend itself against Russia, and described his support and then disdain for Donald Trump — even urging Iran to kill him.

A viral pic of an Ohio guy lugging around 2 geese is blowing up after Donald Trump’s bizarre pet-munching Haitian immigrant claims ... but we're told the photo’s just being twisted to fit the former prez's narrative, and what's actually going on is far less dramatic.

Political appointees rejected efforts to search for additional evidence investigators believed might provide answers, then closed the case

"At best, he's mistaken, but at worst he's just outright lying," Emily Baden told CNN's Erin Burnett on OutFront.

Baden said the verbal exchange with Alito's wife, Martha-Ann Alito, that the justice claimed was the reason for his wife flying the upside-down flag—associated with supporters of former president Donald Trump's baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him—occurred in the middle of February 2021.

Trump’s view would effectively hand the president a dictatorship

The first countries to set national mandates amid the coronavirus crisis were Vietnam and the Czech Republic, in mid-March

For the first time he gave serious indications that he was considering a career in politics. Not as mayor or governor or senator.

Trump was thinking about running for president.

Donald Trump’s 2016 victory was widely explained as a working class revolt against despair, deindustrialization, or neoliberalism. But broadly-shared prosperity under Biden hasn’tt reduced Trump’s support at all, showing his appeal was always social.

Trump’s rhetoric does not alter attitudes toward democracy as a preferred system but does reduce support for inclusiveness and equality among his supporters

It was equally shocking to learn several days after Trump’s private conflab with the Russian Foreign Minister and Russian Ambassador to the U.S. that he had “shared secrets about Israel” with the two Russian officials.
Trump “revealed more information to the Russian ambassador than we have shared with our own allies.”

the biggest damage he's done is to faith in democracy

Trump supporters exposed to Trump’s norm-violating tweets were less likely to disagree with statement such as “Everyone should be allowed to vote” and “The more people participate in politics and elections, the better.” Trump’s general norm violations also decreased support for political equality among Trump supporters (e.g., “The government should never treat members of one religion differently than members of any other religion”).

However, some noted that it may be the historic nature of the resort, which was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1969, that makes it monetarily less valuable to a potential buyer.

"While $27 million is obviously an undervaluation, Mar-A-Lago can't be developed or turned into a single-family estate," James Surowiecki, a financial journalist, commented. "Its deed requires it to remain a club, which radically reduces its re-sale value."

Property listings company Zillow currently gives the estate an estimated value of $24.2 million. It fell into hot water in August after erroneously suggesting Mar-a-Lago had been sold for $422 million, prompting speculation.

Trump’s Florida Mar-a-Lago club, for example, was overvalued on one financial statement by as much as 2,300%, the judge found.