RAWSTORY+ EXCLUSIVES

Trump rages about election cheaters as Georgia charges loom

ALSO READ: Trump mused about shooting someone on Fifth Avenue. This is much worse

Trump rages about election cheaters as Georgia charges loom
Fani Willis and Donald Trump / official portraits.

Donald Trump was indicted federally last week, leading New York Attorney General Letitia James to announce she would give preference to the feds trying their case. But when it came to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, she said that her case was entirely separate from the documents case.

Willis has already asked for security assistance starting at the end of July so they will be prepared for the indictment she expects in the first week of August.

Former Republican Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) told MSNBC on Sunday afternoon that he assumed the only reason Trump was actually running for president again was to be able to pardon himself and dodge other legal problems.

On Sunday, Trump took to his social media site to complain again about the 2020 election saying that others "cheated" and implied that he only "reported on" or "questioned" the alleged cheating.

"THEY DON’T GO AFTER THE PEOPLE WHO CHEATED IN THE ELECTION, THEY ONLY GO AFTER THE PEOPLE WHO REPORT ON, OR QUESTION, THE CHEATING," Trump wrote in all-caps.

Trump didn't merely claim there was a conspiracy, and he launched over 60 lawsuits that were thrown out of court. One of his lawyers, Sidney Powell, who pushed the conspiracy, was sanctioned by a Michigan court for her involvement in the lawsuits. In May, Wisconsin sanctions were upheld by an appeals court as the governor attempted to recoup $106,000 in legal fees from Powell.

For customer support contact support@rawstory.com. Report typos and corrections to corrections@rawstory.com.

'Their own voters are pissed': Lawmaker says GOP left with 'no choice' but to attack Trump

A throughline is reportedly developing in the reaction of Republican lawmakers to the controversies piling up around President Donald Trump.

The president and his legal team have reportedly asked the Department of Justice for $230 million to settle damage claims related to his past federal prosecutions, but House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) pleaded ignorance, as usual, and other Republicans agreed he had every right to expect taxpayer restitution, reported NBC News.

“What happened in the last four years with the weaponization of the Justice Department has to not only end, but never, ever happen again,” said Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO). “Never happen again, and for that, there needs to be accountability.”

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) conceded he had "optics concerns" about Trump's move, while Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) said any potential restitution should be "handled via the courts" – but both of those GOP lawmakers are retiring at the end of their terms, and other Republicans told MSNBC they tended to refrain from criticizing the president unless an issue affected their voters back home.

“I decide based on what I hear from my constituents,” said Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY).

Lummis was among many GOP lawmakers who claims they "never heard about" Trump's demand for $230 million from their constituents, and Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC) said he and other Republicans “look through the lenses of our state" – in his case, hurricane recovery in western North Carolina – before criticizing the president.

“I want to make sure that those he’s appointed to his cabinet are actually doing that,” Budd said.

But Democrats told MSNBC that their Republican colleagues are simply afraid of going against Trump.

“Trump’s wrath if they cross him badly, and their own voters who are rightfully pissed off right now over the Argentina bailout,” said Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA). “That’s why they’re mostly silent, and when they do speak out, it’s on something like Argentina where their base is leaving them no choice, and where Trump probably won’t end their careers over just this one thing.”
THANKS FOR SUBSCRIBING! ALL ADS REMOVED!

'A recipe for disaster': ICE scorched over recruitment chaos

Reacting to a NBC News report that the rush to put more masked ICE agents on the streets is resulting in a flood of applicants who have violent histories and possible criminal backgrounds, the panel on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” warned chaos on U.S. cities is about to take a turn for the worse.

As co-host Mike Brzezinski reported, “ICE officials later discovered that some recruits had criminal backgrounds, failed drug tests, or did not meet physical or academic standards. What's more, some recruits had not submitted fingerprints for background checks, which is a violation of ICE hiring policy. In fact, one recruit had prior charges for strong-armed robbery and battery related to domestic violence.”

“Additionally, nearly half of recruits failed the written exam, even with access to notes and textbooks,” she continued. “All of this as ICE has shortened its training program from 13 weeks to six weeks to accelerate the on-boarding process. ICE’s HR office is reportedly overwhelmed by more than 150,000 applicants, spurred by a $50,000 signing bonus."

That led co-host Joe Scarborough to pounce with, “These are the people that are going around again, throwing people to the ground many times without anybody seeing their identity.”

"It is, man, you talk about a recipe for disaster,” he exclaimed. “I mean, we're there.”

“Yeah, I mean, when you have masked agents who haven't really been vetted, who haven't passed the test, who've taken the signing bonus and just been kind of put on the front lines, you're going to get some of these incidents we've seen most recently down on Canal Street, roughing up some of the guys selling fake purses down there,” co-host Willie Geist chipped in.

“But yes, you would like to see this is obviously a part of the president's mass deportation efforts,” he continued. “He needs the bodies. He needs people to be out in the streets, knocking on these doors, kicking down these doors, taking people out of vehicles and all the things that we've been seeing in these videos.”

“But he needs people, he needs bodies, so they don't have to pass the test,” he added. “They have put a lot of money, Joe, into ICE, and they're trying to get the people — well, a lot of money into ICE , but obviously very little focus on training or the proper training.”

- YouTube youtu.be

Dem ex-lawmaker flags 'much, much, much, much, much bigger problem' than Trump

Donald Trump is a huge problem, but there is a "much, much, much, much, much bigger" one, according to a former lawmaker who is now a registered Democrat.

Joe Walsh was once a Tea Party Republican congressman, but he abandoned his party with the coming of Trump, became an independent, and is now a Dem. He sounded the alarm on Thursday about the lengths Republicans will go to avoid criticizing Trump.

"If Donald Trump next week began demolishing the Washington Monument—because he wanted to change the structure of the Washington Monument and make it look more like Mar-a-Lago or the shape of a T for Trump or whatever—would any Republican say anything?" he asked. "I mean that. Would any Republican object? Would anybody on Fox News say, 'Stop. That’s too far'? Would any of Trump’s voters, any of his MAGA supporters say anything?"

Walsh concludes that, no, they would not stand up to the president.

"Donald Trump is demolishing the White House right now as we speak, and no Republican has said anything. No Trump supporter has said anything. Nobody on Fox News or OAN or Newsmax or right-wing talk radio, my former home, has said anything. Donald Trump has basically torn the East Wing of the White House down all by himself, and Republicans haven’t said s---," the former lawmaker added.

Still, he warns, there's a larger concern than Trump's actions.

"You see, Trump is a problem, a big problem. He’s everything our Founders feared. He’s an utterly corrupt, dishonest, cruel, ignorant, psychopathic, lawless fascist. That’s a big, big problem to have that in the White House," he wrote. "But the much, much, much, much, much bigger problem are all the fascist enablers—every enabler and appeaser over the years, these past 10 years, who have allowed Trump to do what he does. Trump could not be demolishing the White House as we speak if his enablers didn’t let him."

Walsh also added, "Trump would not be demanding $230 million from the Justice Department if his enablers didn’t let him. Trump could not have tried to overthrow an American election if his enablers didn’t let him. Trump couldn’t have dismantled USAID, leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children around the world, if his enablers had not let him. Trump couldn’t be going after and trying to imprison his political opponents if his enablers did not let him."

Read the full piece here.

Copyright © 2025 Raw Story Media, Inc. PO Box 21050, Washington, D.C. 20009 | Masthead | Privacy Policy | Manage Preferences | Debug Logs
For corrections contact corrections@rawstory.com , for support contact support@rawstory.com .

{{ post.roar_specific_data.api_data.analytics }}