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The Washington Post - Judge clears way for Trump to be deposed in defamation case

The Washington Post - Trump worker told FBI about moving Mar-a-Lago boxes on ex-president’s orders (Exclusive)
Key witness and security-camera footage offer evidence of Trump’s actions after government subpoena, people familiar say



The Washington Post - National Security - New evidence to show Trump was warned of violence on Jan. 6
The Jan. 6 select committee’s hearing on Thursday at 1 p.m. is expected to corroborate parts of the more-startling accounts of that day



ABC News - Trump Organization continuing 'fraudulent' practices after lawsuit, says New York AG
The AG is seeking to keep Trump from evading liability posed by the $250M suit.
On the same day last month that James filed the lawsuit accusing Trump, his three eldest children, and two corporate executives of "staggering" fraud that she claims "grossly inflated" Trump's net worth, the Trump Organization quietly registered a new entity, Trump Organization II, according to a new court filing Thursday.
Wow, "Trump Organization II", how clever.

Rolling Stone - Trump Threatened to Out Confidential Sources From Russia Investigation







The Washington Post - What does a Jan. 6 committee subpoena mean for Donald Trump?

The Washington Post - Trump attacks American Jews, posting they must ‘get their act together’ on Israel

The Hill - Trump officials interfered with CDC guidance for political purposes, House panel finds



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The Hill - Biden congratulates Lula on victory over Trump-backed Bolsonaro in Brazil

The Washington Post - Top national security prosecutor joins Trump Mar-a-Lago investigation
National security law experts say prosecutors have amassed evidence that meets some key criteria for charging the former president

The Hill - GOP bracing for Trump indictment soon after Election Day

Business Insider - Donald Trump Jr posts 'Paul Pelosi Halloween costume' image mocking hammer attack on House Speaker's husband

The Washington Post - A majority of GOP nominees deny or question the 2020 election results
Experts say their dominance in the party poses a threat to the country’s democratic principles and jeopardizes the integrity of future votes





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Pew Research - Two Years After Election Turmoil, GOP Voters Remain Skeptical on Elections, Vote Counts
Sharp decline in share of Republican voters who are ‘very confident’ that votes cast at polling places will be counted accurately

NBC News - Trump settles lawsuit with protesters who allege they were assaulted by his security guards
The attorneys did not disclose the terms of the settlement, which came as the case was in the middle of jury selection.

Kash Patel, an unqualified flunkie Trump has used for years for some of his dirty work, has been granted immunity by the DoJ to testify.

Wall Street Journal - Trump Aide, Granted Immunity, Set to Testify at Grand Jury Probing Mar-a-Lago Documents
Kash Patel, who has said Trump declassified documents as president, previously declined to testify, citing right against self-incrimination

NY Times - The Untold Story of ‘Russiagate’ and the Road to War in Ukraine
Russia’s meddling in Trump-era politics was more directly connected to the current war than previously understood.
On the night of July 28, 2016, as Hillary Clinton was accepting the Democratic presidential nomination in Philadelphia, Donald J. Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, received an urgent email from Moscow. The sender was a friend and business associate named Konstantin Kilimnik. A Russian citizen born in Soviet Ukraine, Kilimnik ran the Kyiv office of Manafort’s international consulting firm, known for bringing cutting-edge American campaign techniques to clients seeking to have their way with fragile democracies around the world.

Kilimnik didn’t say much, only that he needed to talk, in person, as soon as possible. Exactly what he wanted to talk about was apparently too sensitive even for the tradecraft the men so fastidiously deployed — encrypted apps, the drafts folder of a shared email account and, when necessary, dedicated “bat phones.” But he had made coded reference — “caviar” — to an important former client, the deposed Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, who had fled to Russia in 2014 after presiding over the massacre of scores of pro-democracy protesters. Manafort responded within minutes, and the plan was set for five days later.

Kilimnik cleared customs at Kennedy Airport at 7:43 p.m., only 77 minutes before the scheduled rendezvous at the Grand Havana Room, a Trump-world hangout atop 666 Fifth Avenue, the Manhattan office tower owned by the family of Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Shortly after the appointed hour, Kilimnik walked onto a perfectly put-up stage set for a caricature drama of furtive figures hatching covert schemes with questionable intent — a dark-lit cigar bar with mahogany-paneled walls and floor-to-ceiling windows columned in thick velvet drapes, its leather club chairs typically filled by large men with open collars sipping Scotch and drawing on parejos and figurados. Men, that is, like Paul Manafort, with his dyed-black pompadour and penchant for pinstripes. There, with the skyline shimmering though the cigar-smoke haze, Kilimnik shared a secret plan whose significance would only become clear six years later, as Vladimir V. Putin’s invading Russian Army pushed into Ukraine.

Known loosely as the Mariupol plan, after the strategically vital port city, it called for the creation of an autonomous republic in Ukraine’s east, giving Putin effective control of the country’s industrial heartland, where Kremlin-armed, -funded and -directed “separatists” were waging a two-year-old shadow war that had left nearly 10,000 dead. The new republic’s leader would be none other than Yanukovych. The trade-off: “peace” for a broken and subservient Ukraine.

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