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Former Trump lawyer to Newsmax: N.Y. AG James Weaponizing Justice System (Newsmax/"John Bachman Now")

By Solange Reyner | Thursday, 22 September 2022 12:55 PM EDT

New York Attorney General Letitia James is attempting to weaponize the justice system to get former President Donald Trump, constitutional law attorney Jenna Ellis said on Newsmax.

James on Wednesday announced she was suing Trump, his company, and family members. She is seeking to bar the Trumps from ever running a business in the state again over alleged fraud involving financial statements related to the company.

"This is Trump derangement syndrome at its finest and certainly malicious prosecution," Ellis, a former legal counsel to Trump, told Newsmax's "John Bachman Now" on Thursday.

"This is the most brazen attempt yet to weaponize the justice system and public office to get Trump and that is all that Letitia James is about," Ellis said.

"And you can see that in the montage that you played from her own statements, running for attorney general, that was her sole mission — to get Trump — and now 49 days from her own election, she's now suing him, but with resources, unlimited resources, and three years.

"All she has is this very, very weak civil suit, and she has to refer the rest to the IRS. I mean, this is just so laughable. It's almost like the coronavirus where every new strain of the Democrats' focus is just gets weaker and weaker and weaker and you can see that it's not going anywhere, and so for the American people, I think that they need to make sure that we are not experiencing Trump fatigue.

"That's what the Democrats want. They want us to say, OK no longer, we don't want these attacks against Trump. We have to make sure that we understand that due process matters, and that these political weaponizations by the democrats are absolutely unconstitutional. They're unlawful, and they're un-American."

Ellis also said she disagreed with the 11th Circuit's decision to block aspects of U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon's ruling that delayed a criminal investigation into highly sensitive documents seized by the FBI during its raid of Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida.

"They seem to have a lot more faith and confidence in the Department of Justice's ability to be reasonable and to actually classify and segregate documents responsibly and ethically and according to the law, which Judge Cannon didn't share that assessment. So, while the 11th Circuit is right that the public does have an interest in national security, this slight delay by a special master after the DOJ hasn't come after Trump for these documents for two years, now suddenly there's some kind of urgency. I just don't think that's sufficient for their opinion."

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Dick Morris to Newsmax: N.Y. Lawsuit Part of Dems' Plan to Keep Trump Out

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Thursday, 22 September 2022 12:06 PM EDT

It's clear that former President Donald Trump has "a lock on the Republican nomination" in 2024, so the Democrats, through actions like the fraud lawsuit filed Wednesday in New York, are trying all they can to keep him from running, Dick Morris, author of "The Return: Trump's Big 2024 Comeback," said on Newsmax, Thursday.

"The only thing the Democrats can do now is trying to jam him up legally but they don't have anything," Morris told Newsmax's "Wake Up America." "If he's ever littered or jaywalked, look for an indictment for that."

In her lawsuit, New York Attorney General Letitia James claims Trump and his family "repeatedly and persistently" manipulated assets to commit fraud against lenders and others, but Morris said he thinks it's "very clear" that she was singling him out.

Further, he said that property values in New York City fluctuate, and to say that he failed to pinpoint precisely what the net worth was "is a reach" and James can't win her case.

But she brought the lawsuit a few weeks before the election in November, and she knows that she would face "massive rejection" by her base if she didn't meet her campaign promises to target the former president, said Morris.

"This is all part of the Democratic strategies to focus attention on Donald Trump so it's not on Joe Biden," he said. "They know that they can't win if the focus is on inflation and gas prices and immigration, but if somehow they can turn it to property values and, yeah, documents and all kinds of stuff, they'll try to do that. It won't work."

Morris also continued to insist, as he does in his book, that Trump will be facing his 2016 election nemesis, Hillary Clinton, not Biden, in 2024.

"The Democrat leaders are going to come to Hillary Clinton and say, Please save us," said Morris. "She's using the same playbook I wrote to Bill Clinton in 1992. I get such a kick out of that too. She wants to work in the same building where her husband was, in the same seat and desk where he made a lot of very crucial decisions."

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Rep. Tenney to Newsmax: N.Y. Trump Lawsuit a 'Political Hit Job' Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y. (Getty Images)

By Theodore Bunker | Thursday, 22 September 2022 11:40 AM EDT

Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., in an interview with Newsmax on Thursday hit out at New York Attorney General Letitia James for suing former President Donald Trump, his company, and members of his family.

James on Wednesday filed a suit against Trump, his three eldest children, the Trump Organization, and the company's senior management alleging "years of financial fraud" in which they "falsely inflated his net worth by billions of dollars," and "knowingly and intentionally created more than 200 false and misleading valuations of assets on his annual Statements of Financial Condition to defraud financial institutions."

Tenney said on "Wake Up America" that James' suit "is a complete political hit job," and went on to say that her "entire mission has been a political mission to take down Donald Trump."

She continued, "It's not about helping senior citizens across New York have been scammed. It's not about dealing with New York's horrible crime crisis, which is facing New Yorkers across the state. She represents the entire state of New York, not just New York City. There's millions of people that need help from our attorney general to enforce the laws. But she is particularly obsessed with trying to get Donald Trump. The mission is to get Donald Trump, his family, and remember something Donald Trump is no longer a resident of New York state [and] has provided millions of dollars in taxes and income to the state of New York as a native New Yorker."

Tenney went on to accuse James of being "the most corrupt" and "the most political" attorney general of the state's recent attorneys general.

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Florida Rep. Perez to Newsmax: DeSantis Focused on Job, Not 2024 State Rep. Daniel Perez, R-Fla. (AP)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Thursday, 22 September 2022 10:15 AM EDT

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is "solely focused on his job as the governor," even with buzz growing about him potentially running for the White House in 2024, and voters won't be turning away from him in November out of concern that he won't be around in two years, state Rep. Daniel Perez told Newsmax on Thursday.

"People understand that [he] is the only choice to keep Florida in the direction that it's going," the Florida Republican, who is expected to become speaker of the Florida House in 2024, said on Newsmax's "Wake Up America." "We have to keep him in his position as governor of the state of Florida. Whatever he decides to do in the future, that's going to be on him."

DeSantis is campaigning against former Democrat Gov. Charlie Crist in his reelection bid, and Perez said he's in Miami on Thursday as part of his bid to touch "every part of the state in his reelection campaign."

"Our number one priority is to make sure that we get him reelected, but also that we keep the very hefty majority in the House and the Senate," said Perez. "We're on the verge of having a super-majority in both chambers down here in Florida, and this election could put us over the edge. It's a result of some of the policies that we passed, and the people are noticing it, and they want to keep that going."

There is a "myth," said Perez, that when people move from left-leaning states to Florida, they are continuing to vote the way they always had, but he insisted that's not true.

"The voter registration numbers here in Florida are like they've never been for the Republican Party," he said. "We have taken the majority as far as voter registration is concerned, and it continues to increase, and that's a result of Gov. Ron DeSantis and his leadership."

Perez, when asked about a recent poll showing DeSantis' numbers as being higher than those of former President Donald Trump when Florida residents were asked about a potential 2024 presidential matchup, said he does not think his state's residents are as focused on that issue as the national media reports.

"We are focused on our reelection coming up in November," said Perez. "We're all on the ballot, and so we want to make sure not only that the governor wins his reelection, but Sen. [Marco] Rubio as well. He is campaigning very, very hard. I'm a huge fan of his, as are the rest of the Republicans here in Florida, so you know our focus is the reelection before us in November. Without that, there is no 2024."

Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., is spending heavily in her race against Rubio, but Perez said Rubio's record is "critical" in the campaign.

"He stands on the right side of issues, on the right side of policy," said Perez. "He also comes from the same background that I do, with parents who had to flee a communist regime. We don't take voting for granted.

"As Cuban Americans, we understand the importance of elections because they can get taken away from you fairly quickly. So Senator Rubio stands for all Americans. But more importantly, for me, persons of Cuban American descent, I want to make sure that we have that voice in the Senate."

Meanwhile, the economy is the major issue for Florida voters, said Perez.

"They care about the economy," he said, noting polls that put the issue at the top of the list beyond all other issues. "They care about inflation. They care about their hard work getting thrown out the window because taxes continue to increase as long as the federal government is run by Biden, and inflation is not getting taken care of … we have to rewrite the economy and under Biden, we're never going to do it."

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GOP Hits Kansas Governor Hard on Trans Athletes, Her New Ad (Newsmax)

JOHN HANNA Thursday, 22 September 2022 09:18 AM EDT

Kansas' Democrat governor launched a new television ad on Wednesday in which she says men don't belong in women's sports. It's a move seeking to blunt Republican attacks on her for vetoing two proposals to ban transgender athletes from girls' and women's school and college sports.

Gov. Laura Kelly doesn't go into details on her position in the 30-second ad, which is her first to address what Republicans see as a key education issue that hurts Kelly during a close reelection race. Her campaign later said Kelly believes decisions about transgender athletes should be made by schools, doctors, families and local officials and that the two bills she vetoed would have “created unnecessary new government mandates.”

GOP challenger Derek Schmidt, the state's three-term attorney general, tweeted that Kelly is lying about her record, and the Republican Governors Association released a digital ad Wednesday highlighting Kelly's vetoes. Other Republicans said Kelly is trying to hide an unpopular, liberal stance.

But Democrats said the party’s voters would understand the ad as saying that the issue doesn’t involve men playing women’s sports because trans women are women.

“Men aren’t playing girls’ sports. This is the scare-tactic framing of the far right,” said Tom Witt, executive director of Equality Kansas, the state’s leading LGBTQ-rights group. “What we’re talking about in this situation is schoolkids in competitive games with their peers at school, and our position is, trans girls are girls; trans boys are boys.”

In the ad, Kelly looks into the camera and says: “Of course men should not play girls' sports. OK, we all agree there,” before criticizing Schmidt on school funding issues.

Her campaign launched the ad after a Republican Governors Association ad featured a collegiate swimmer criticizing Kelly. That followed five other ads in which the RGA raised the issue, including one last week in which Schmidt says Kelly is aligned with groups pushing “the transgender agenda.”

The swimmer featured in the last RGA ad, University of Kentucky graduate Riley Gaines, said in a phone interview that she was surprised by Kelly's ad because, “It's not aligning with anything she's said thus far.”

Tim Shallenburger, a former state treasurer and Kansas Republican Party chair, said Kelly had to deal with the issue because it's important to many voters. He called Kelly's latest ad “pretty sly,” adding that she's “trying to catch Republicans.”

Joan Wagnon, a former Topeka mayor and Kansas Democratic Party chair, questioned whether Schmidt's stance will play well with moderate Republicans. But Wagnon also said that, had she been the candidate, she's not sure she would have made the ad.

"If you get sucked into those kind of tit-for-tat responses, it clouds your message,” she said.

Kelly is the only Democrat governor running for reelection this year, in a state that former President Donald Trump carried in 2020. That makes her a big target for the national GOP. But Democrats were buoyed in August, when Kansas voters decisively rejected a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would have allowed the Republican-controlled state Legislature to greatly restrict or ban abortion. Kelly opposed the measure, while Schmidt backed it.

However, Republicans see an opportunity to tap into suburban parents' frustrations with coronavirus-related school restrictions and what's taught about racism, gender and sexuality. They were encouraged by Republican Glenn Youngkin's victory in the 2021 governor’s race in normally blue Virginia after making parents' rights in education a key issue.

Youngkin and Schmidt were set to campaign together Thursday in the Kansas City area, after a Sunday rally with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican who has pushed conservative education initiatives.

And Republicans across the U.S. have framed restrictions on transgender athletes as keeping competition fair and preserving opportunities for girls and women, though there are relatively few transgender athletes.

Several polls this year show majorities of Americans oppose transgender athletes competing in women’s and girls’ sports, including an NPR/Ipsos poll in June that showed about two-thirds of U.S. adults are opposed to allowing transgender student athletes to compete on women’s and girls’ sports teams. A Washington Post/University of Maryland poll in May showed only about 3 in 10 said transgender women or girls should be allowed to compete.

State Sen. Renee Erickson, a Wichita Republican and the leading sponsor of the two measures, said of Kelly: “She’s having to pivot and backtrack on her two vetoes, and I don’t think Kansans are going to buy it, quite frankly.”

Including Florida and Texas, 18 GOP-led states have laws banning transgender athletes from participating in youth sports, according to the Movement Advancement Project, a Colorado think tank promoting LGBTQ rights. In the Kelly campaign's statement Wednesday, spokesperson Lauren Fitzgerald noted that Republican governors in Indiana and Utah have vetoed such measures, although those vetoes were overridden by GOP-controlled Legislatures.

Critics say such bans are discriminatory, and that merely discussing them leads to bullying.

Kelly's veto messages for bills in 2021 and 2022 also said they would hurt the state's business climate. In her second message, she added that such proposals did not come from athletes or schools but from “politicians trying to score political points.”

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Trump: A President Can Declassify Documents 'Even by Thinking About It' (Newsmax)

By Jeffrey Rodack | Thursday, 22 September 2022 09:05 AM EDT

Former President Donald Trump maintains that a president can declassify documents just by even "thinking about it."

Trump made his comments during a Wednesday interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity. The remarks were in reference to the documents seized during an FBI raid of his South Florida estate on Aug. 8.

Trump said documents taken out of the White House to his Mar-a-Lago home were declassified when he was in office.

"There doesn't have to be a process [for declassifying documents] as I understand it," Trump said.

"If you're the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying it's declassified – even by thinking about it.

"You're the president — you make that decision."

Prosecutors have said that about 100 of the documents taken from Mar-a-Lago were marked classified, including some labeled top secret, The Washington Post noted.

"I don't think this is prosecutable." Trump said. "I don't see how they can prosecute me."

Trump recalled how he first learned the FBI was at his estate.

The former president said he was in New Jersey and was called by a Mar-a-Lago employee the morning of Aug. 8 who told him that "many, many people" from the FBI were at his Palm Beach resort.

"I couldn't believe it," he said. "They wanted to do it quietly, silently," Trump said of the FBI raid. He said that by 4 p.m. his office received calls from the media asking about "people standing at the gates with AK-47s."

He also claimed during the interview the possibility of "chain of custody" issues with the material taken from Mar-a-Lago,

"The problem that you have is they go into rooms, they won't let anybody near them, they wouldn't even let them in the same building. Did they drop anything into those piles, or did they do it later?"

Trump added: "There's also a lot of speculation because of what they did … were they looking for the Hillary Clinton emails that were deleted but are around someplace?"

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NY Times Siena Poll Shows Support for Trump Remains Steady (Newsmax)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Thursday, 22 September 2022 08:55 AM EDT

Americans' opinions concerning former President Donald Trump have remained stable through the summer, even though he faces multiple investigations and has continued to play a major role in the midterm election decisions, with 44% viewing him favorably and 53% unfavorably, the most recent New York Times/Siena College poll shows.

The poll was conducted earlier this month, after the news about the Justice Department's investigation of Trump and classified documents broke but before New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Wednesday that her state was suing Trump and his family business on claims of fraud, The New York Times reported Thursday.

Trump's support levels in the most recent poll, released on Sept. 16, changed little, if any, from a survey conducted in July while the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 incidents at the Capitol was showing televised hearings. Further, the levels of support for Trump have changed little from those in other New York Times/Siena polls and in other polls taken in recent years, the newspaper reported.

In other poll findings for the September poll:

• Views on Trump's fight against the election results from the 2020 race remained mostly unchanged, with 54% saying his actions threaten democracy and 38% saying he was exercising his rights.
• Trump's policy proposals remained popular, with half of the respondents favoring a border wall, including 15% who said they plan to vote for President Joe Biden's reelection in 2024.
• A majority agreed more with Republicans than Democrats on illegal immigration.

Meanwhile, Biden came out slightly ahead in the poll when it comes to a hypothetical rematch with Trump, with 45% for Biden and 42% for Trump.

Trump's level of support also remained about the same among Hispanic voters, especially young men.

In other results:

• 30% said they consistently hold pro-Trump views, and 39% said they hold views described as anti-Trump, and almost 30 had mixed opinions.
• 14% said they plan to support Trump in 2024, but thought his actions after the 2020 election threatened democracy.

The poll surveyed 1,399 registered voters nationwide, with an oversample of 522 Hispanic voters, from Sept. 6 to 14, 2022. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3.6 percentage points for the full sample and 5.9 percentage points for self-reported Hispanic voters.

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Sen. Graham to Newsmax: Putin 'Gaslighting' With Nuclear Threat (Newsmax/"Rob Schmitt Tonight")

By Charles Kim | Wednesday, 21 September 2022 10:27 PM EDT

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told Newsmax on Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is "gaslighting" when threatening the use of nuclear weapons to "defend" territory he's trying to annex in Ukraine.

"He's losing," Graham said during "Rob Schmitt Tonight" on Wednesday. "He's losing on the battlefield, and about 20 political figures [in Russia] call for him to resign."

Putin ordered that biggest mobilization since World War II on Wednesday, calling up 300,000 military reservists as he tries to annex a large section of Ukraine about the size of Hungary, Reuters reported.

"If the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will without doubt use all available means to protect Russia and our people: This is not a bluff," Reuters reported Putin saying in a televised address to the nation. "In its aggressive anti-Russian policy, the West has crossed every line. This is not a bluff. And those who try to blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know that the weathervane can turn and point towards them."

Graham said that Putin's rhetoric cannot be allowed to deter Western nations from defending Ukraine and that "half of Europe" would suffer fallout from a nuclear strike in the region.

"We can't let that deter defending Ukraine. And if he did use a nuclear weapon in Ukraine, it would radiate half of Europe and that would be an attack on NATO; so I don't think he's going to do that," Graham said. "Calling up the reserves means the Russian army is broken. And really, the people fighting this war for Russia are ill-trained, ill-equipped and they don't have the heart in it."

President Joe Biden spent most of his speech to the U.N. General Assembly in New York Wednesday railing against Russia and its invasion of Ukraine in February.

"Russia has shamelessly violated the core tenets of the United Nations charter — no more important than the clear prohibition against countries taking the territory of their neighbor by force," Biden said Wednesday. "Again, just today, President Putin has made overt nuclear threats against Europe and a reckless disregard for the responsibilities of the non-proliferation regime. Now Russia is calling — calling up more soldiers to join the fight. And the Kremlin is organizing a sham referendum to try to annex parts of Ukraine, an extremely significant violation of the U.N. charter."

Graham said Biden's speech was "OK to stand up to Russia," but that the president's weak foreign policy, including the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan last year emboldened Putin to go into Ukraine.

"President Biden's problem is that Afghanistan looms large," he said. "Do you really think Putin would have invaded Ukraine if [former President Donald] Trump were president? Once you withdrew from Afghanistan and pulled the plug, and turned the country over to the terrorists, you set in motion, I think, the Ukraine envisioned by Russia."

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Sen. Graham to Newsmax: Putin 'Gaslighting' With Nuclear Threat

(Newsmax/"Rob Schmitt Tonight")

By Charles Kim | Wednesday, 21 September 2022 10:27 PM EDT

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told Newsmax Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is "gaslighting" when threatening the use of nuclear weapons to "defend" territory he's trying to annex in Ukraine.

"He's losing," Graham said during "Rob Schmitt Tonight" Wednesday. "He's losing on the battlefield, and about 20 political figures [in Russia] call for him to resign."

Putin ordered that biggest mobilization since World War II Wednesday, calling up 300,000 military reservists as he tries to annex a large section of Ukraine about the size of Hungary, Reuters reported.

"If the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will without doubt use all available means to protect Russia and our people: This is not a bluff," Reuters reported Putin saying in a televised address to the nation. "In its aggressive anti-Russian policy, the West has crossed every line. This is not a bluff. And those who try to blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know that the weathervane can turn and point towards them."

Graham said that Putin's rhetoric cannot be allowed to deter Western nations from defending Ukraine and that "half of Europe" would suffer fallout from a nuclear strike in the region.

"We can't let that deter defending Ukraine. And if he did use a nuclear weapon in Ukraine, it would radiate half of Europe and that would be an attack on NATO; so I don't think he's going to do that," Graham said. "Calling up the reserves means the Russian army is broken. And really, the people fighting this war for Russia are ill-trained, ill-equipped and they don't have the heart in it."

President Joe Biden spent most of his speech to the U.N. General Assembly in New York Wednesday railing against Russia and its invasion of Ukraine in February.

"Russia has shamelessly violated the core tenets of the United Nations charter — no more important than the clear prohibition against countries taking the territory of their neighbor by force," Biden said Wednesday. "Again, just today, President Putin has made overt nuclear threats against Europe and a reckless disregard for the responsibilities of the non-proliferation regime. Now Russia is calling — calling up more soldiers to join the fight. And the Kremlin is organizing a sham referendum to try to annex parts of Ukraine, an extremely significant violation of the U.N. charter."

Graham said Biden's speech was "OK to stand up to Russia," but that the president's weak foreign policy, including the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan last year emboldened Putin to go into Ukraine.

"President Biden's problem is that Afghanistan looms large," he said. "Do you really think Putin would have invaded Ukraine if [former President Donald] Trump were president? Once you withdrew from Afghanistan and pulled the plug, and turned the country over to the terrorists, you set in motion, I think, the Ukraine envisioned by Russia."

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Ginni Thomas Agrees to Jan. 6 Panel Interview (Newsmax)

By Luca Cacciatore | Wednesday, 21 September 2022 10:25 PM EDT

Ginni Thomas' lawyer Mark Paoletta confirmed to CNN on Wednesday that she is scheduled to interview with the House Jan. 6 Select Committee.

"As she has said from the outset, Mrs. Thomas is eager to answer the committee's questions to clear up any misconceptions about her work relating to the 2020 election," Paoletta revealed in a statement. "She looks forward to that opportunity."

Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has come under the ire of the Jan. 6 committee after text messages emerged of her potentially pushing for several state lawmakers to challenge the 2020 election results.

She also is alleged to have had significant contact with conservative lawyer John Eastman – a legal scholar said to be at the center of former President Trump's supposed attempt to challenge President Joe Biden's victory, according to Axios.

The panel had initially asked Thomas to speak with them in June after the conservative activist told the Daily Caller she "can't wait to clear up misconceptions" and looks "forward to talking to them."

However, Paoletta later wrote an eight-page letter to the Jan. 6 committee stating he does "not understand the need to speak with Mrs. Thomas," asking them for a "better justification" on why her testimony is necessary for the investigation.

"In your June 16, 2022, letter, you base the interview request on a supposed connection between Mrs. Thomas and John Eastman … But the Committee has not identified this alleged 'evidence,'" Paoletta said.

"Indeed, leaks from this committee have led reporters to write that recently produced emails from Mr. Eastman show that Thomas's efforts to overturn the election were more extensive than previously known. But, as you are aware, Mr. Eastman's emails show no such thing," he added.

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Ginni Thomas Agrees to Jan. 6 Panel Interview (Newsmax)

By Luca Cacciatore | Wednesday, 21 September 2022 10:25 PM EDT

Ginni Thomas' lawyer Mark Paoletta confirmed to CNN on Wednesday that she is scheduled to interview with the House Jan. 6 Select Committee.

"As she has said from the outset, Mrs. Thomas is eager to answer the committee's questions to clear up any misconceptions about her work relating to the 2020 election," Paoletta revealed in a statement. "She looks forward to that opportunity."

Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has come under the ire of the Jan. 6 committee after text messages emerged of her potentially pushing for several state lawmakers to challenge the 2020 election results.

She also is alleged to have had significant contact with conservative lawyer John Eastman – a legal scholar said to be at the center of former President Trump's supposed attempt to challenge President Joe Biden's victory, according to Axios.

The panel had initially asked Thomas to speak with them in June after the conservative activist told the Daily Caller she "can't wait to clear up misconceptions" and looks "forward to talking to them."

However, Paoletta later wrote an eight-page letter to the Jan. 6 committee stating he does "not understand the need to speak with Mrs. Thomas," asking them for a "better justification" on why her testimony is necessary for the investigation.

"In your June 16, 2022, letter, you base the interview request on a supposed connection between Mrs. Thomas and John Eastman … But the Committee has not identified this alleged 'evidence,'" Paoletta said.

"Indeed, leaks from this committee have led reporters to write that recently produced emails from Mr. Eastman show that Thomas's efforts to overturn the election were more extensive than previously known. But, as you are aware, Mr. Eastman's emails show no such thing," he added.

Sen. Rand Paul to Newsmax: Inflation 'Canceled Out' All That Free Pandemic Money (Newsmax/"Prime News")

By Eric Mack | Wednesday, 21 September 2022 10:28 PM EDT

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on Newsmax delivers the bad news reality to American people: All the free money you got during the pandemic is now trumped by inflation and ultimately costing you more than what your government gave you.

"What we know for sure is that now we've lost more to inflation than they gave us in the form of free money," Paul told Wednesday's "Prime News" with Jenn Pellegrino. "Inflation came from the free checks that were passed out. They shut the economy down. They sent free checks to everyone. And they said, 'oh, this will make up for it.'

"But guess what? When people add up how much they're paying for gas, in the grocery store, it's canceled out all the free money. And I don't think the inflation is over by a long shot."

The pandemic spending sprees are still going to jack up inflation, because there remains trillions allocation that has still not be spent, Paul told Pellegrino.

"There's still about $2 trillion out there that's held in the coffers of cities, counties, and state governments," Paul continued. "It hasn't been spent yet and put into the economy as it chases goods. It's going to chase the price of our goods higher. We're going to get more inflation, so this isn't over."

Paul blasted Democrats on inflation and COVID-19 pandemic measures and spending, noting they have been damaging hand-in-hand.

"The pandemic has always been their excuse for more government and more debt and more government spending, so we spent trillions of dollars they could have never gotten through without the excuse of this," Paul said. "They've created all kinds of mandates on our behavior they never could have gotten through without the pandemic, and their fear is if the pandemic is officially over, they can't continue to lord upon us this great impulsive authoritarianism.

"Look, forgiving the student loans, they're doing that because there's a pandemic. If the pandemics over someone's going to have to tell Uncle Joe that he can't break the law anymore and forgive payments for certain kids. So the thing is, is they need the pandemic because it's an excuse for their propensity to want to have big government, and so I don't think that's why they can never let go of it."

Paul also continued his years-long rebuke of Dr. Anthony Fauci as the lead healthcare expert on the pandemic.

"It didn't save their lives to stay home," Paul said of the children being kept out of schools. "It ruined their lives to stay home. In Sweden, not one kid stayed home. The school stayed open. They didn't wear masks and no kid in Sweden died. Zero!

"How many teachers got sick? About the same percentage of every other occupation in Sweden. So everything Dr. Fauci preached was pseudoscience, and it was his own elitist sort of diatribes to submit. But it had nothing to do with the science, and the sooner we can get away from the man, the better we will be and the better the health of the country will be."

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Sen. Rand Paul to Newsmax: Inflation 'Canceled Out' All That Free Pandemic Money (Newsmax/"Prime News")

By Eric Mack | Wednesday, 21 September 2022 10:28 PM EDT

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on Newsmax delivers the bad news reality to American people: All the free money you got during the pandemic is now trumped by inflation and ultimately costing you more than what your government gave you.

"What we know for sure is that now we've lost more to inflation than they gave us in the form of free money," Paul told Wednesday's "Prime News" with Jenn Pellegrino. "Inflation came from the free checks that were passed out. They shut the economy down. They sent free checks to everyone. And they said, 'oh, this will make up for it.'

"But guess what? When people add up how much they're paying for gas, in the grocery store, it's canceled out all the free money. And I don't think the inflation is over by a long shot."

The pandemic spending sprees are still going to jack up inflation, because there remains trillions allocation that has still not be spent, Paul told Pellegrino.

"There's still about $2 trillion out there that's held in the coffers of cities, counties, and state governments," Paul continued. "It hasn't been spent yet and put into the economy as it chases goods. It's going to chase the price of our goods higher. We're going to get more inflation, so this isn't over."

Paul blasted Democrats on inflation and COVID-19 pandemic measures and spending, noting they have been damaging hand-in-hand.

"The pandemic has always been their excuse for more government and more debt and more government spending, so we spent trillions of dollars they could have never gotten through without the excuse of this," Paul said. "They've created all kinds of mandates on our behavior they never could have gotten through without the pandemic, and their fear is if the pandemic is officially over, they can't continue to lord upon us this great impulsive authoritarianism.

"Look, forgiving the student loans, they're doing that because there's a pandemic. If the pandemics over someone's going to have to tell Uncle Joe that he can't break the law anymore and forgive payments for certain kids. So the thing is, is they need the pandemic because it's an excuse for their propensity to want to have big government, and so I don't think that's why they can never let go of it."

Paul also continued his years-long rebuke of Dr. Anthony Fauci as the lead healthcare expert on the pandemic.

"It didn't save their lives to stay home," Paul said of the children being kept out of schools. "It ruined their lives to stay home. In Sweden, not one kid stayed home. The school stayed open. They didn't wear masks and no kid in Sweden died. Zero!

"How many teachers got sick? About the same percentage of every other occupation in Sweden. So everything Dr. Fauci preached was pseudoscience, and it was his own elitist sort of diatribes to submit. But it had nothing to do with the science, and the sooner we can get away from the man, the better we will be and the better the health of the country will be."

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Jim Jordan to Newsmax: Dems Target Trump Because He 'Disrupted the Swamp' (Newsmax/''Eric Bolling The Balance'')

By Luca Cacciatore | Wednesday, 21 September 2022 09:44 PM EDT

Rep. Jim Jordan told Newsmax on Wednesday that Democrats are attempting to prevent former President Donald Trump from running again in 2024 because he ''disrupted the swamp'' last time.

The Ohio Republican said on ''Eric Bolling The Balance'' that Democrats have a similar plan for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, pointing out that Bexar County, Texas, Sheriff Javier Salazar is pushing a ''witch hunt'' over his transporting of illegal migrants out of his state.

DeSantis ''has watched the Democrats over the last six, seven years do that to President Trump. He's a Democrat sheriff. He said, 'I'm going to do the same thing to Gov. [DeSantis].' This is how the left operates,'' Jordan explained.

''In the past six weeks, think about what we've seen from [President] Joe Biden,'' he continued. ''I mean, Joe Biden has raided the home of a former president, taken the phone of a sitting member of Congress, called half the country fascists and extremists … signed legislation to unleash 87,000 IRS agents on you, the American taxpayer.''

Jordan, who is seeking reelection in November, also condemned New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, for going after Trump on asset overvaluing allegations instead of addressing the crime wave that has hit U.S. cities including the Big Apple.

''There's an opportunity cost — primarily the fact that you're not going after the real crime that's happening every single day in New York City and other cities around our great country,'' he said, adding that ''I think it's going to backfire on them.''

Jordan further staid the proposed penalties on the former president, including a $250 million fine and barring his family from corporate board membership, ''underscores how obsessed they've become'' with going after Trump.

''They've been doing it for seven years. This started in 2016 when the FBI decided to spy on President Trump's campaign — all built on a lie,'' Jordan mentioned. ''So I guess it makes sense they're just going to keep doing it, because that's all they know.''

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Jim Jordan to Newsmax: Dems Target Trump Because He 'Disrupted the Swamp' (Newsmax/''Eric Bolling The Balance'')

By Luca Cacciatore | Wednesday, 21 September 2022 09:44 PM EDT

Rep. Jim Jordan told Newsmax on Wednesday that Democrats are attempting to prevent former President Donald Trump from running again in 2024 because he ''disrupted the swamp'' last time.

The Ohio Republican said on ''Eric Bolling The Balance'' that Democrats have a similar plan for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, pointing out that Bexar County, Texas, Sheriff Javier Salazar is pushing a ''witch hunt'' over his transporting of illegal migrants out of his state.

DeSantis ''has watched the Democrats over the last six, seven years do that to President Trump. He's a Democrat sheriff. He said, 'I'm going to do the same thing to Gov. [DeSantis].' This is how the left operates,'' Jordan explained.

''In the past six weeks, think about what we've seen from [President] Joe Biden,'' he continued. ''I mean, Joe Biden has raided the home of a former president, taken the phone of a sitting member of Congress, called half the country fascists and extremists … signed legislation to unleash 87,000 IRS agents on you, the American taxpayer.''

Jordan, who is seeking reelection in November, also condemned New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, for going after Trump on asset overvaluing allegations instead of addressing the crime wave that has hit U.S. cities including the Big Apple.

''There's an opportunity cost — primarily the fact that you're not going after the real crime that's happening every single day in New York City and other cities around our great country,'' he said, adding that ''I think it's going to backfire on them.''

Jordan further staid the proposed penalties on the former president, including a $250 million fine and barring his family from corporate board membership, ''underscores how obsessed they've become'' with going after Trump.

''They've been doing it for seven years. This started in 2016 when the FBI decided to spy on President Trump's campaign — all built on a lie,'' Jordan mentioned. ''So I guess it makes sense they're just going to keep doing it, because that's all they know.''

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Rudy Giuliani to Newsmax: AG Case 'Another Fascist Outrage'

(Newsmax/"Eric Bolling The Balance")

By Eric Mack | Wednesday, 21 September 2022 10:39 PM EDT

New York Attorney General Letitia James ran her campaign on suing Donald Trump, and now that she is doing it — with a civil case, not a criminal one — former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani told Newsmax that she should be disbarred.

"This is an outrage; this is another fascist outrage," Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor himself, told Wednesday's "Eric Bolling The Balance," noting James vowed to "get Trump" in his past electoral campaign without having a crime to get him on.

And, Giuliani noted, even now, James is suing Trump in a civil case and not bringing criminal charges because she cannot prove a criminal case.

"Right there in front of the press, she lied. And, of course, the lapdog press will not point out she is verbally accusing him of a crime; but she's not accusing him of a crime in court where she has to prove it," Giuliani told host Eric Bolling.

"This brainwashing they do and propaganda is outrageous," he added. "You refer to it, 'When she gets a conviction.' She's not going to get a conviction. She's bringing a civil lawsuit. There's a civil case. This is not a criminal case. Even though she referred to him as a white-collar criminal, she's not even accusing him of that and she's calling him that."

Giuliani noted he was disbarred from being a lawyer in some areas merely for questioning the legitimacy of an election.

"Why this woman isn't thrown out of the practice of law, when they tortured me, I can't figure it out," he said. "I've never done anything as unethical as that."

Equally outrageously, James even called Trump an "illegitimate" president and, again, not disbarred for questioning an election's legitimacy as Giuliani was, he noted.

"She said that he was an illegitimate president, which, according to Biden, would make her a fascist or a semi-fascist, insurrectionist, semi-fascist," he continued. "I mean, it is clear that she should have been disciplined by the Bar Association for running a campaign that was essentially to go after one guy — and with inappropriate language, inappropriate charges."

Giuliani lamented he is suspended for challenging the 2020 presidential election, even though a case against him was thrown out.

"She ran a totally unethical campaign in which she basically said she was going to get Donald Trump," Giuliani said. "At the time, she didn't know what she was gonna get him for. That's absolutely outrageous for a prosecutor to run in order to get one person.

"She really should be disbarred," he added. "You should not conduct a campaign for attorney general in which you target one person."

The timing before the election, where she is struggling in the polls, is precarious, Giuliani warned.

"She brings this before the election," he said. "How she was allowed to do what she did and remain attorney general is completely astounding to me. It means that my profession has become totally compromised by politics."

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Rudy Giuliani to Newsmax: AG Case 'Another Fascist Outrage'

(Newsmax/"Eric Bolling The Balance")

By Eric Mack | Wednesday, 21 September 2022 10:46 PM EDT

New York Attorney General Letitia James ran her campaign on suing Donald Trump, and now that she is doing it — with a civil case, not a criminal one — former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani told Newsmax that she should be disbarred.

"This is an outrage; this is another fascist outrage," Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor himself, told Wednesday's "Eric Bolling The Balance," noting James vowed to "get Trump" in his past electoral campaign without having a crime to get him on.

And, Giuliani noted, even now, James is suing Trump in a civil case and not bringing criminal charges because she cannot prove a criminal case.

"Right there in front of the press, she lied. And, of course, the lapdog press will not point out she is verbally accusing him of a crime; but she's not accusing him of a crime in court where she has to prove it," Giuliani told host Eric Bolling.

"This brainwashing they do and propaganda is outrageous," he added. "You refer to it, 'When she gets a conviction.' She's not going to get a conviction. She's bringing a civil lawsuit. There's a civil case. This is not a criminal case. Even though she referred to him as a white-collar criminal, she's not even accusing him of that and she's calling him that."

Giuliani noted he was disbarred from being a lawyer in some areas merely for questioning the legitimacy of an election.

"Why this woman isn't thrown out of the practice of law, when they tortured me, I can't figure it out," he said. "I've never done anything as unethical as that."

Equally outrageously, James even called Trump an "illegitimate" president and, again, not disbarred for questioning an election's legitimacy as Giuliani was, he noted.

"She said that he was an illegitimate president, which, according to Biden, would make her a fascist or a semi-fascist, insurrectionist, semi-fascist," he continued. "I mean, it is clear that she should have been disciplined by the Bar Association for running a campaign that was essentially to go after one guy — and with inappropriate language, inappropriate charges."

Giuliani lamented he is suspended for challenging the 2020 presidential election, even though a case against him was thrown out.

"She ran a totally unethical campaign in which she basically said she was going to get Donald Trump," Giuliani said. "At the time, she didn't know what she was gonna get him for. That's absolutely outrageous for a prosecutor to run in order to get one person.

"She really should be disbarred," he added. "You should not conduct a campaign for attorney general in which you target one person."

The timing before the election, where she is struggling in the polls, is precarious, Giuliani warned.

"She brings this before the election," he said. "How she was allowed to do what she did and remain attorney general is completely astounding to me. It means that my profession has become totally compromised by politics."

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Caitlin Sinclair, NY Political Correspondent
UPDATED 2:22 PM PT –Wednesday, September 21, 2022

On Wednesday, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the state has sued former president Donald Trump, Don Trump Jr, Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump and other executives, for years of alleged fraud.

So, Attorney General James is going after The Trump Org as New York City is at an all-time high in violent crime and homicides while New Yorkers do not feel safe walking the streets.

Priorities, right?

So our readers are up to date – The NY Attorney General Letitia James ran for election on the sole premise of promising to get Donald Trump. She failed in any criminal attempt so now, she is suing him civilly. Does anyone see an issue with her promise to get him and then her multiple attempts to get him?

Could this perhaps have anything to do with recent poll numbers ahead of her election?

The lawsuit also aims to bar the former president and his organization from buying commercial real estate in New York for five years.

This lawsuit is filed in civil court, but James also alleged that Trump’s operation violated state and federal criminal laws. She said a criminal referral is being sent to the U.S. Justice Department.

She also said that prior to Wednesday’s announcement, her office had rejected a settlement offer from Trump and his organization.

In a statement posted on the Truth Social media site, Trump blasted the lawsuit as “another witch hunt” which he said was motivated by James’ reelection bid.

“She is a fraud who campaigned on a ‘get Trump’ platform,” Trump posted.

Responding to the suit, Donald Trump Jr. used an expletive on Twitter next to a video of James: “The bullshit Dem witch-hunt continues!” he wrote.

Posting on the Truth Social media site, Eric Trump also accused James of a partisan attack: “Letitia James is the most corrupt Attorney General in United States History — she campaigned on the promise to sue my father.”

While James wants to claim that banks and major insurance companies are ‘victims’ her city is suffering. The real victims are New Yorkers who are suffering from the crime crisis, rampant pay-to-play corruption and skyrocketing cost-of-living.

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Sen. Braun to Newsmax: Accusations Against Trump a Diversion (Newsmax/"National Report")

By Brian Freeman | Wednesday, 21 September 2022 08:36 PM EDT

New York Attorney General Letitia James' announcement that the state was filing suit against former President Donald Trump, his company and family members for fraud is an attempt by Democrats to draw attention away from the failures of the current administration ahead of the midterm elections, Sen. Mike Braun told Newsmax on Wednesday.

The Indiana Republican said on "National Report," "The Democrats are going to do everything they can to distract what ought to be a platter of opportunity for us and bring it back to President Trump."

Braun insisted that the entire attempt appeared to be coordinated to help the chances of the Democratic Party in the November elections, as the senator tied it together with the Department of Justice investigation of the classified documents it accuses Trump of retaining illegally at his Mar-a-Lago home.

Braun also commented on President Joe Biden's speech Wednesday at the U.N. General Assembly, saying that he had a problem with the president's statement that "whatever happens, we're are going to be the backstop."

The Indiana senator said, "That's exactly what's wrong with many of these engagements, especially when you got the backyard interest of the E.U. that should be shouldering it."

Braun also said he had problems with some of the other commitments Biden alluded to in his speech, accusing his administration and the Democrats of "throwing around billions [of dollars] like it's chump change."

The senator questioned how all of this gets paid for, especially when the Biden administration's policies have put our economy in peril.

Commenting on the discussions about the possibility of nuclear war, Braun said, "None of this kind of stuff happened in the previous administration because there was a general feeling that we would be firm. We would not tolerate some of the things that incrementally would lead to a pickle like this."

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Sen. Braun to Newsmax: Accusations Against Trump A Diversion

(Newsmax/"National Report")

By Brian Freeman | Wednesday, 21 September 2022 08:36 PM EDT

New York Attorney General Letitia James' announcement that the state was filing suit against former President Donald Trump, his company and family members for fraud is an attempt by Democrats to draw attention away from the failures of the current administration ahead of the midterm elections, Sen. Mike Braun told Newsmax on Wednesday.

The Indiana Republican said "National Report," "The Democrats are going to do everything they can to distract what ought to be a platter of opportunity for us and bring it back to President Trump."

Braun insisted that the entire attempt appeared to be coordinated to help the chances of the Democratic Party in the November elections, as the senator tied it together with the Department of Justice investigation of the classified documents it accuses Trump of retaining illegally at his Mar-a-Lago home.

Braun also commented on President Joe Biden's speech Wednesday at the U.N. General Assembly, saying that he had a problem with the president's statement that "whatever happens, we're are going to be the backstop."

The Indiana senator said, "That's exactly what's wrong with many of these engagements, especially when you got the backyard interest of the E.U. that should be shouldering it."

Braun also said he had problems with some of the other commitments Biden alluded to in his speech, accusing his administration and the Democrats of "throwing around billions [of dollars] like it's chump change."

The senator questioned how all of this gets paid for, especially when the Biden administration's policies have put our economy in peril.

Commenting on the discussions about the possibility of nuclear war, Braun said, "None of this kind of stuff happened in the previous administration because there was a general feeling that we would be firm. We would not tolerate some of the things that incrementally would lead to a pickle like this."

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