“Then-President Donald Trump in early January entertained a plan to replace the acting attorney general with a different Justice Department lawyer who was more amenable to pursuing his unfounded claims of voter fraud, nearly touching off a crisis at the country’s premier federal law enforcement

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former friend and adviser to Melania Trump, told ABC News she is working with multiple prosecutors on investigations into potential financial crimes committed in connection with President Trump’s inauguration. Said Wolkoff: “I’m working with three different prosecutors,

According to Melania and Me, which I just received in the mail, Donald Trump wanted his inauguration to look like a North Korean military parade. Said Trump: ‘I want tanks and choppers. Make it look like North Korea.” Politico has eight other “juicy details” from the book. Melania and Me: The Rise

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Politico: “The briefing was intended to hammer home a new, terrifying reality facing the Trump administration, and the incoming president’s responsibility to protect Americans amid a crisis. But unlike the coronavirus pandemic currently ravaging the globe, this 2017 crisis didn’t really happen — it