A new document dump paralleling the one in prosecutor Alvin Bragg's criminal case against
Donald Trump appears to show the ex-president has been deceitful about his former lawyer, Michael Cohen. Brian J. Karem, the former
White House correspondent who has previously given insight into how the ex-president might be feeling, wrote in an article published on Saturday that he had filed his own public records request on the Trump and Cohen case several years ago. "The government lies," Karem declared before describing the multi-year process to obtaining the doc dump. ALSO READ: A neuroscientist reveals how Trump and Biden's cognitive impairments are different "Two and a half years ago, while doing some research, I filed a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request for information on former Trump fixer
Michael Cohen and the investigation that led to his prosecution. Cohen gave me permission to pursue the information; he wanted it too," the reporter wrote. "So for the last two and a half years, with the assistance of brilliant FOIA attorney Mark Zaid and his firm, we have pursued the information to no avail. I’ve sat in Zoom meetings listening to excuse after excuse. I’ve appeared in court. Nothing has ever been done." That, however, changed when Bragg got his dump. "Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office said federal prosecutors had provided about 73,000 pages of records since March 4 in response to a Trump subpoena filed in January. They appeared 'largely irrelevant,' but 172 pages were witness statements that Trump’s team could review before trial, according to a court filing from state prosecutors. For that reason, the Manhattan case has been delayed by 30 days ," he wrote Saturday. "Not so coincidentally, around the same time the federal government responded with documents that I had requested on that same case two and a half years ago. But I didn’t get 73,000 pages. The government reviewed 32 pages and sent me 31." According to Karem, the data dump backed up what Cohen has said. "There is very little that is new that the DOJ provided me – but it does help verify what Michael Cohen has long said – and been accused of lying about by Donald Trump," the report says. "Trump has long said that Cohen cannot be trusted – which makes you wonder why he ever hired him. But the evidence released shows that it was quite the contrary. Trump trusted Cohen with good reason – he carried out the Donald’s wishes as a good foot soldier." Read the full report here. Monuments across Europe went dark on Saturday to mark the worldwide Earth Hour event. Among them was the Brandenburg Gate in
Berlin where the lights went off as part of a global movement that encourages nations to switch off their lights at 8:30 pm local time for an hour to bring attention to the issues of nature loss and climate change. In
Germany, alongside highlighting environmental issues, the event sought to comment on the political climate. "The current zeitgeist is tense. Crises, conflicts and wars are keeping people very busy," said Viviane Raddatz, Head of Climate at WWF Germany. CONTINUE READING Show less
Washington — Tucked in the massive funding bill signed Saturday by President
Joe Biden is a provision banning the flying of LGBTQ Pride flags over U.S. embassies, but the White House has vowed to work toward its repeal. The prohibition was one of many side issues included in the mammoth $1.2 trillion package to fund the government through September, which passed early Saturday shortly after a midnight deadline. CONTINUE READING Show less Donald Trump is ready to take Truth Social public, and he's expecting to have a huge cash infusion as a result. But the last time he took a company public, it didn't go so well for the company or investors. Trump's decision to go public with his right-wing
Social Media company mirrors a move he made with Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts, according to CNBC. "While a 2016
Washington Post review found that Trump made over $44 million, the company — Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts — lost more than $1 billion and ended up in bankruptcy," the report states. ALSO READ: A neuroscientist reveals how Trump and Biden's cognitive impairments are different It continues: "This time around, there’s at least one similarity between the two ventures separated by decades. The newly merged company that’s set to go public, Trump Media, will be listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange with the letters DJT, Trump’s initials," according to the outlet. "Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts used the same stock ticker when it went public with great fanfare in 1995." According to the report, that company "lost money every year, but its stock prices did well — for a time. In the initial public offering, the company raised $140 million, selling 10 million shares at $14 each." Even that success eventually faded. "By 1996, the stock reached a high of $35 a share before plummeting later that year, in part because the company bought another casino for $100 million more than its estimated $400 million value, The
New York Times reported in 2016," according to the report. "The company, meanwhile, kept bleeding cash. The year the stock peaked, it lost $66 million. In 1999, it lost $134 million. And in 2004 — when the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange — it lost $191 million, according to a CNBC review." Read the report here. CONTINUE READING Show less