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“The Daily Show” star Trevor Noah became the latest TV host Monday night to weigh in on the quickly snowballing phenomenon that is the Trump Espionage Denier movement. In trademark fashion, Noah boiled the denials down to four excuses, saying the reasons being drummed up for the former president’s absconding of a top-secret document trove should be vetted with a healthy dose of laughter.“You know, what’s been the most fun?” Noah asked. “The most fun in all of this is how Trump and the red caps are working so hard to invent new excuses for why this crime wasn’t a crime.
‘Cause you remember when the story first broke, right? They were saying things like, ‘There’s nothing at Mar-a-Lago except a bunch of notes from Eric. And if they did find something, the FBI planted it. Well, forget all that.
Forget all of it. It’s like two days ago, right? They got a fresh shipment of excuses today. Starting with, ‘It was homework.’”Noah then gives way to video of a news report on workers taking home work before returning for the punchline.“Everyone does take work home sometimes, but not Donald Trump,” Noah said.
“The man barely took work to work. And also, by the way, it’s not taking work home with you If you no longer have the job. Right? Can we agree on that? You don’t have the job, you can’t take work home with you.
Like if you get fired from your babysitting job, but you still go pick up the kid from school — that’s just kidnapping.”Noah then goes into another excuse — that Obama kept 33 million pages of documents, “much of them classified. How many of them pertain to nuclear – word is lots” — and how Trump emphasized Obama’s middle name in his social media post.“I know what Trump is doing,” Noah said. “He’s trying to drum up all
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massive court filing Tuesday night, the Department of Justice said its search of Donald Trump’s Florida residence earlier this month came in response to evidence that the former president had taken steps to conceal his illegal possession of classified documents. In doing so, the filing said, Trump defied a grand jury subpoena and “likely” attempted to obstruct the investigation.In the filing, Justice Department counterintelligence head Jay Bratt wrote that there was “evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the Storage Room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government’s investigation.”Despite sworn denials from Trump’s lawyers, the filing said, several of the boxes recovered in the August search of Mar-a-Lago contained “highly classified records” and investigators “identified items marked as classified national security information, up to the level of Top Secret.”The filing also includes a photograph taken at the scene that clearly shows a large number of documents marked top secret that were in Trump’s possession.
The Justice Department said that documents were “likely concealed and removed” from a Mar-a-Lago storage room in an alleged effort to obstruct an investigation into former President Donald Trump’s cache of classified material at his property.
the affidavit in support of a search conducted Aug. 8 at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, showing that after classified documents were found in boxes he handed over voluntarily, the Justice Department suspected there were more at his Florida residence.The DOJ was unsuccessful in keeping the document under seal, but a federal judge allowed the department to heavily redact its contents to protect the identities of agents and potential witnesses.New details from the affidavit were scant.
Simu Liu nailed his first-time guest-hosting duties on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Wednesday night.
taking classified documents from the White House without permission, possibly in violation of the espionage act? Well, now you know enough to get Morris’ jokes! On to them, then.“So you know how Donald Trump was keeping top secret files in his basement,” Morris said in the monologue. “Well, it turns out that since he left office the government has recovered more than 300 classified documents from Trump’s house.”Morris said that it was “amazing” Trump managed to do it, because, he joked, he once took a script home from “New Girl” and Zooey Deschanel “threatened to stab me with a ukulele.”Morris noted that Trump claims these documents are unclassified “because he said so, which, alright, take you word for it.
In the wider scheme of things, ongoing litigation in relation to his unapproved use of Eddy Grant’s ‘Electric Avenue’ in a 2020 campaign video probably isn’t a major cause of stress for former US President Donald Trump. But that lawsuit proceeds, and now the Grant side has got an extension to the case’s discovery phase in order to subpoena Trump’s former Deputy Chief Of Staff Dan Scavino.Grant sued Trump in September 2020 over the use of his 1983 track in an election video which, according to a description in the musician’s lawsuit, featured “a visual depiction of a high-speed red train bearing the words ‘Trump Pence KAG 2020′ in stark contrast to a slow-moving handcar bearing the words ‘Biden President: Your Hair Smells Terrific’”.No one had sought permission to use ‘Electric Avenue’ in that video, hence the copyright infringement lawsuit.
reported Monday.According to a statement, WSB-TV general manager Ray Carter said Crane “uttered remarks not aligned with our commitment for fair and unbiased reporting and analysis,” leading the news organization to terminate their relationship with the veteran TV and radio analyst and commentator.Crane discussed Trump’s “orange face” in an analysis of voting trends for the upcoming election in a broadcast aired Sunday.“Labor Day is when undecided voters and nonaligned voters really start focusing on the election ahead and keeping Donald Trump and his fantasy of elections being stolen in November of 2020 in play, keeps Donald Trump and his looming orange face in front of voters at a time when they’re trying to decide how they’re going to vote,” Crane said on air.A day later, Crane was terminated as an analyst at WBS, where he began in 2006.“As a result, we’re ending our relationship with Mr. Crane, effective immediately.
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are asking a federal court to appoint a “special master” to “preserve the sanctity of executive communication and other privileged material” seized when the FBI conducted a search of his Mar-a-Lago property earlier this month.
“You want to take me down, I’ll take the whole country down,” he added, mocking Trump. “Because remember, and I’ve said this with you a thousand times, Mike, Donald Trump doesn’t care about this country.
2022 Grammys to revoke West's then-scheduled performance. What is more is that his new Yeezy Gap line, lately presented in stores in quote-unquote “trash bags,” resulted in a major backlash as spectators perceived it as insulting to the homeless community that Ye proclaimed to be inspired by.
Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen is pretty sure that people are overthinking things when it comes to criminally charging Donald Trump. In Cohen’s view, the twice-impeached former president needs to be treated like Al Capone and convicted for his more “simple” crimes.Cohen appeared live on “CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta” on Saturday to discuss the ongoing investigations — plural — into his former client.
getting into a back-and-forth over West “harassing” his estranged wife, Kim Kardashian, during their divorce, the “Daily Show” host is now speaking up for the rapper’s humanity. Noah addressed the “Heartless” mogul in a long-winded monologue on his show in March.
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeTrevor Noah admits that he didn’t think his exchange with Kanye West on social media earlier this year would blow up the way it did. After Noah discussed, on “The Daily Show,” West’s behavior toward ex-wife Kim Kardashian, West responded by directing a racial slur at him on Instagram, which led to West being banned on the platform for a day. At the time, Noah responded on Instagram by noting that “the biggest trick racists ever played on black people was teaching us to strip each other of our blackness whenever we disagree,” and also that “I don’t care if you support Trump and I don’t care if you roast Pete.
“And yes, it is saying something about the GOP that the brave stance was, ‘Don’t hang the vice president.’ But still. She stood by it,” he said, reminding the audience that there were only 10 Republicans in the House who voted to impeach Trump.
BreAnna Bell “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” is partnering with VoiceMap to launch an interactive self-guided walking tour aiming to take guests on a journey through the events of the Jan. 6 insurrection in Washington D.C., Comedy Central announced on Wednesday.“In the Footsteps of the Freedomsurrection” will allow listeners to trace the exact route taken by the insurrectionists on January 6th to revisit the events that occurred before, during and after the historic day.
Donald Trump may still be making outrageous headlines even after his presidency, but Jimmy Fallon doesn’t mind it too much. In fact, the late night host applauded the twice-impeached former president for always keeping his scandals “feeling fresh and new.”Fallon’s sentiments came during his “Tonight Show” monologue, as he discussed the latest updates in the ongoing investigation into Trump following the raid of Mar-a-Lago, in which authorities seized 11 sets of classified documents.
John Oliver had a pretty good laugh at GOP Rep. Mike Turner on Sunday night, after the Ohio representative seemed to be having a physical reluctance to defend Donald Trump over the classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago last week, insisting that “classified” doesn’t always actually mean “classified.”“I am not going to speculate or jump to conclusions here, because there is still so much that we don’t know,” Oliver noted.
plead the fifth amendment during a scheduled deposition with the New York Attorney General. Like many others, the late night host pointed out the apparent hypocrisy, considering the twice-impeached former President previously pondered why anyone who is innocent would exercise their right to protect themselves against self-incrimination.“Yes, Donald, if you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” Noah said, adding that Trump has really gotten himself into some hot water lately.