David Edwards has spent over a decade reporting on social justice, human rights and politics for Raw Story. He also writes Crooks and Liars. He has a background in enterprise resource planning and previously managed the network infrastructure for the North Carolina Department of Correction.
Eric Trump complained on Sunday that the Trump Organization and the Trump family is facing an onslaught of investigations and that they are forced to respond to subpoenas "every single day."
The former president's son made the remarks during an interview on Fox News with host Maria Bartiromo.
"The problem with the Democrats is they dig so deep that they always find themselves," Trump said. "And the reason I'm frustrated about this is every single day since my father ran for president, my father and our entire family and our company has been under investigation. Every single day, Maria, we get subpoena after subpoena after subpoena."
"But, I mean, they weaponized the entire system in this country," he added. "They've weaponized the DOJ. They've weaponized our military. They weaponized the educational system in this country. They've weaponized the medical system in this country. The Democrats weaponize absolutely everything they can to use against their political opponents."
Lev Parnas is rolling out more receipts proving his narrative that Trump's former attorney and ex New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was trumpeting foul play committed by President Joe Biden and his family despite knowing fully well he didn't have the goods.
Filming himself seated at a table with Giuliani and another gentleman, Parnas can be seen holding a cell phone up reportedly with Ukrainian Prosecutor General Victor Shokin speaking.
Giuliani tells him, "I guess what I'm getting at is — I understand that. I understand why that's wrong; is there any specific act that any of these people performed? Did they get a kickback? Did they get a bribe?"
Parnas, a convicted criminal and who was also a former associate of Rudy Giuliani, released the video days after he made headlines while testifying before the House of Representatives to say that Giuliani knowingly spread misinformation from Russia about Biden.
Recently, Parnas, who is appearing to come clean with his actions in the past, said that he told the FBI in 2019 that the GOP's anti-Joe Biden informant should not to be trusted.
Keeping with the theme of showing what he claims to know, Parnas released the "never before seen" clip by calling it, "THE VIDEO THE REPUBLICANS DON'T [sic] WANT YOU TO SEE."
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R- WY) reportedly drew a "big crowd" in Iowa on Wednesday.
Cheney, a frequent critic of former president Donald Trump, recently told a story of the ex-president's "depravity" on Jan. 6 that she said should show why he must be defeated.
Trump commonly boats about the importance of crowd sizes, including inflating his own.
But Cheney did no such thing. Instead, it's outside reports and photos suggesting the large speech crowd.
Conservative Heath Mayo said, "Looks like a lot of [Principles First] folks are out in force in Iowa tonight." He linked to a video of the crowd from Kevin Cavallin, who said he was waiting to hear Cheney speak at Drake University's Bucksbaum Lecture Series in Des Moines.
Another user on X, @Kara_ahern, said, "Big crowd in Des Moines tonight to hear Liz Cheney."
@SacksRosie wrote, "Full house...a lot more people in this crowd than Trump could attract...Liz Cheney always said she would make it her business that Trump would never get back into the WH..this is impressive."
There's something rotten in MAGA country: some supporters are being scammed into donating funds beyond a one-time offering to bankroll former President Donald Trump's legal efforts.
Tim Miller, the former communications director for the Jeb Bush's 2016 campaign, appeared on MSNBC's "Alex Wagner Tonight" to suggest that some of these fervent backers of MAGA being suckered could help Democrats make their case in the upcoming election.
"They are making one donation and actually they are having a monthly withdrawal taken from their accounts," he said. "This has been happening over and over again so you know there are plenty of these supporters that are getting scammed and I think that this is potentially a useful political issue for Democrats, frankly, because it undermines a core message of Donald Trump that he cares about these people."
Miller appears to be touching on a 2021 story in The New York Times exposing a so-called "money bomb" to squeeze out more money from an unsuspecting loyalists' contributions
The story suggested those taken sometimes for "thousands of dollars" in the maneuver were "retirees, military veterans, nurses and even experienced political operatives."
Ever since fleeing the White House for Mar-a-Lago in 2021 after suffering a defeat by President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump has burned through $100 million on lawyers and residual costs dealing with his many investigations, indictments and both civil and criminal trials, according to The Times.
The Times found that Trump "has relied almost entirely on donations made in an attempt to fight the results of the 2020 election."
Miller noted that these supporters may be fine with backing his legal defense efforts, keep his jet fueled, or float his "fancy dinners at Mar-a-Lago."
He said, "they don't care because it's their way to give the middle finger to the people they don't like."
But there are others who are sore about it.
These "other people" Miller contends that are "donating really believed that that money was going to an election defense fund, that there was fraud in the election, that literally believe that the country is under threat; it's under some invasion and the little $10 donation they give is part of the effort to stop that vision and to support candidates that are going to put in policies that they care about."
He suggested this pool often are elderly with less internet savviness "who are literally getting conned."