Former President of the United States Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a “Save America” rally in Arizona.
Former President Donald Trump’s digital media platform Truth Social brought in slightly more than $770,000 in revenue during the first three months of the year (Q1), the company confirmed in a regulatory filing on Monday.
The document, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, said the majority of Truth Social’s revenue came from the sale of advertisements against the digital media platform, noting that the company is working through a multiphase build-out that includes streaming television services and apps that will be deployed in the near future.
Accordingly, the company’s focus isn’t on generating revenue, but continuing to build out and deploy its various media offerings, according to former Congressman Devin Nunes, who serves as the chief executive of Truth Social parent company Trump Media and Technology...
Former President Donald Trump’s digital media platform Truth Social brought in slightly more than $770,000 in revenue during the first three months of the year (Q1), the company confirmed in a regulatory filing on Monday.
The document, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, said the majority of Truth Social’s revenue came from the sale of advertisements against the digital media platform, noting that the company is working through a multiphase build-out that includes streaming television services and apps that will be deployed in the near future.
Accordingly, the company’s focus isn’t on generating revenue, but continuing to build out and deploy its various media offerings, according to former Congressman Devin Nunes, who serves as the chief executive of Truth Social parent company Trump Media and Technology...
- 5/21/2024
- by Matthew Keys
- The Desk
If there’s one public figure who hasn’t gotten enough media attention since 2015, it’s former president Donald Trump. That’s why his social media company, which has seen a stock market freefall recently, is formalizing plans to start a streaming service. On Tuesday, Trump Media & Technology Group (Tmtg) announced a three-phase rollout of the future streaming platform. While there was no timetable announced for the implementation of these plans, the company reported that it has finished its research and development phase.
Phase 1: Introduce Truth Social’s Cdn (content delivery network) for streaming live TV to the Truth Social app for Android, iOS, and Web. Phase 2: Release stand-alone Truth Social over-the-top (“Ott”) streaming apps for phones, tablets, and other devices. Phase 3: Release Truth Social streaming apps for home TV.
In 2021, Trump Media & Technology Group projected that it would have 40 million subscribers by 2026; for comparison Disney+ currently...
Phase 1: Introduce Truth Social’s Cdn (content delivery network) for streaming live TV to the Truth Social app for Android, iOS, and Web. Phase 2: Release stand-alone Truth Social over-the-top (“Ott”) streaming apps for phones, tablets, and other devices. Phase 3: Release Truth Social streaming apps for home TV.
In 2021, Trump Media & Technology Group projected that it would have 40 million subscribers by 2026; for comparison Disney+ currently...
- 4/16/2024
- by Ben Bowman
- The Streamable
Lev Parnas, the former associate of Rudy Giuliani, testified to Congress that he participated in a coordinated effort to accuse President Joe Biden‘s family of corruption. Parnass stated that former President Donald Trump, Giuliani and many GOP politicians and conservative media members helped spread these lies.
Parnas was sentenced in June 2022 for fraud and campaign finance crimes.
On March 21, he gave his testimony at Biden’s impeachment hearing after Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) asked him about when “the campaign to dig up dirt on Biden” turned into “a campaign to spread disinformation and lies about Biden.”
“Shortly after my arrest on October 9, 2019, to now, I have been trying to share the irrefutable truth with you,” Parnas stated. “The American people have been lied to by Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and various cohorts of individuals in government and media positions. They created falsehoods to serve their own interests knowing it...
Parnas was sentenced in June 2022 for fraud and campaign finance crimes.
On March 21, he gave his testimony at Biden’s impeachment hearing after Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) asked him about when “the campaign to dig up dirt on Biden” turned into “a campaign to spread disinformation and lies about Biden.”
“Shortly after my arrest on October 9, 2019, to now, I have been trying to share the irrefutable truth with you,” Parnas stated. “The American people have been lied to by Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and various cohorts of individuals in government and media positions. They created falsehoods to serve their own interests knowing it...
- 3/22/2024
- by Alessio Atria
- Uinterview
Donald Trump, at least on paper, is in position to reap several billion dollars after shareholders of Digital World Acquisition Group voted Friday to merge with his social media firm.
The newly merged entity, Trump Media, will include a media business as well as Trump’s social network, Truth Social. It could begin trading next week under the ticker symbol Djt.
Digital World is a special-purpose acquisition company, or Spac, which is an entity set up expressly for the purpose of engineering a merger. The company burned through its initial cash reserves over the past two years, encountering a number of stumbling blocks on the way to Friday’s vote, which removed the final hurdle to the plan to merge and take the new stock public.
Even if shares go to the moon, the proceeds will not be available in the short term for Trump or other stakeholders. Typically, there...
The newly merged entity, Trump Media, will include a media business as well as Trump’s social network, Truth Social. It could begin trading next week under the ticker symbol Djt.
Digital World is a special-purpose acquisition company, or Spac, which is an entity set up expressly for the purpose of engineering a merger. The company burned through its initial cash reserves over the past two years, encountering a number of stumbling blocks on the way to Friday’s vote, which removed the final hurdle to the plan to merge and take the new stock public.
Even if shares go to the moon, the proceeds will not be available in the short term for Trump or other stakeholders. Typically, there...
- 3/22/2024
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Concerns that a second Donald Trump term could take an iron-fisted turn have been amplified by Trump himself. Instead of refuting reports that have warned of his authoritarian aspirations for a return to the White House, Trump has now declared twice that he’ll act as a “dictator” — clarifying he’d only need such powers on “Day One.”
The former president’s dictator shtick has generated an enthusiastic response from his right-wing boosters — ranging from those who insist the president is just trolling the left, to others who have revealed that they are strongman-curious,...
The former president’s dictator shtick has generated an enthusiastic response from his right-wing boosters — ranging from those who insist the president is just trolling the left, to others who have revealed that they are strongman-curious,...
- 12/11/2023
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
Editor’s note: This article previously reported a $73 million loss. That is incorrect. Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social, had a loss of $31.6 million since its inception in 2021. According to a filing with the SEC, Tmtg had a $50 million profit in 2022, not a loss of $50 million. We sincerely regret the errors and have corrected them in this story.
In advance of a proposed merger, Digital World Acquisition Corp. revealed in an SEC filing that Tmtg has lost millions since its launch.
A sprawling, 530-page filing with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission (see it here) shows that while the conservative social media platform made $50 million in 2022, it has had total losses adding up to $31.6 million since its inception in 2021.
Trump revealed Truth Social in October 2021 — nine months after he was banned from Twitter in the aftermath of the January 6 attack on the U.
In advance of a proposed merger, Digital World Acquisition Corp. revealed in an SEC filing that Tmtg has lost millions since its launch.
A sprawling, 530-page filing with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission (see it here) shows that while the conservative social media platform made $50 million in 2022, it has had total losses adding up to $31.6 million since its inception in 2021.
Trump revealed Truth Social in October 2021 — nine months after he was banned from Twitter in the aftermath of the January 6 attack on the U.
- 11/21/2023
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Donald Trump is primed to get his Facebook and Instagram accounts back, as parent company Meta has decided that the ex-president who used social media to incite an insurrection should get another crack at posting to its platforms.
A Meta spokesperson directed Rolling Stone to the company’s posted statement, which described his reinstatement as rooted in the belief that the “public should be able to hear what their politicians are saying — the good, the bad and the ugly — so that they can make informed choices at the ballot box.
A Meta spokesperson directed Rolling Stone to the company’s posted statement, which described his reinstatement as rooted in the belief that the “public should be able to hear what their politicians are saying — the good, the bad and the ugly — so that they can make informed choices at the ballot box.
- 1/25/2023
- by Adam Rawnsley
- Rollingstone.com
In the months ahead of what’s likely to be a brutal Republican presidential primary, Donald Trump and his 2024 campaign are laying the groundwork for his big, bombastic return to major social media platforms. Such a return, though, would inevitably involve Trump screwing over one of his own companies — and he’s been telling confidants that he is prepared to do just that.
When Trump first founded Trump Media & Technology Group (Tmtg), he agreed to a “social media exclusivity term” that required him to “first channel any and all social...
When Trump first founded Trump Media & Technology Group (Tmtg), he agreed to a “social media exclusivity term” that required him to “first channel any and all social...
- 1/23/2023
- by Asawin Suebsaeng and Adam Rawnsley
- Rollingstone.com
To ring in 2023, the social video site Rumble announced an exclusive partnership with Donald Trump Jr. Beginning in late January, the former president’s eldest son will bring to the platform a biweekly livestream show, Triggered with Don Jr., riffing on current events and, presumably, seeking to own the libs. The press release and media coverage touted the multiyear, seven-figure signing as a coup for the company, which went public last September, valued at more than 2 billion. In marketing terms, the deal conveyed momentum for an underdog business looking to...
- 1/15/2023
- by Miles Klee
- Rollingstone.com
The Justice Department has charged a Russian spy who fed Rudy Giuliani bogus dirt on the Biden family with money laundering over his alleged attempt to secretly buy two luxury Beverly Hills condos.
Andrii Derkach, a Ukrainian member of parliament who the Trump administration accused of being “an active Russian agent for over a decade,” allegedly used a shell corporation to hide his ownership of the condos and move the 4 million used to buy them, according to a criminal complaint.
“While participating in a scripted Russian disinformation campaign seeking to undermine U.
Andrii Derkach, a Ukrainian member of parliament who the Trump administration accused of being “an active Russian agent for over a decade,” allegedly used a shell corporation to hide his ownership of the condos and move the 4 million used to buy them, according to a criminal complaint.
“While participating in a scripted Russian disinformation campaign seeking to undermine U.
- 12/7/2022
- by Adam Rawnsley
- Rollingstone.com
Donald Trump, who has recently announced that he filed to run for President in 2024, is facing some mudslinging from supporters of his likely GOP opponent Ron DeSantis, whom he called “average” last week.
While Trump was the star of the GOP for many years, he doesn’t seem to have the same degree of fervent enthusiasm he built behind himself by the end of his 2016 campaign, but it’s still early.
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It’s not confirmed whether these planes were commissioned by the DeSantis camp, but some have suggested that he could have signed off on it after his recent successful re-election bid to continue as Florida’s governor.
Airplane flying this banner over Mar-a-Lago right now: “You lost again Donald! #DeSantis2024” pic.twitter.com/FX2VwE2iVj
— Michael C. Bender (@MichaelCBender) November 15, 2022
His announcement was apparently counter to expert advice that...
While Trump was the star of the GOP for many years, he doesn’t seem to have the same degree of fervent enthusiasm he built behind himself by the end of his 2016 campaign, but it’s still early.
In Memoriam 2022: 100 Great Celebrities Who Died This Year!
It’s not confirmed whether these planes were commissioned by the DeSantis camp, but some have suggested that he could have signed off on it after his recent successful re-election bid to continue as Florida’s governor.
Airplane flying this banner over Mar-a-Lago right now: “You lost again Donald! #DeSantis2024” pic.twitter.com/FX2VwE2iVj
— Michael C. Bender (@MichaelCBender) November 15, 2022
His announcement was apparently counter to expert advice that...
- 11/17/2022
- by Jacob Linden
- Uinterview
In his final days in the White House, Donald Trump told top advisers he needed to preserve certain Russia-related documents to keep his enemies from destroying them.
The documents related to the federal investigation into Russian election meddling and alleged collusion with Trump’s campaign. At the end of his presidency, Trump and his team pushed to declassify these so-called “Russiagate” documents, believing they would expose a “Deep State” plot against him.
According to a person with direct knowledge of the situation and another source briefed on the matter, Trump...
The documents related to the federal investigation into Russian election meddling and alleged collusion with Trump’s campaign. At the end of his presidency, Trump and his team pushed to declassify these so-called “Russiagate” documents, believing they would expose a “Deep State” plot against him.
According to a person with direct knowledge of the situation and another source briefed on the matter, Trump...
- 9/7/2022
- by Adam Rawnsley and Asawin Suebsaeng
- Rollingstone.com
Outspoken Republican activist Ben Stein has revived his famous catch-phrase from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off to plead with former GOP congressman Devin Nunes to run for office again.
Mr Stein, 77, posted a clip to Truth Social on Sunday mimicking the “Bueller, Bueller, Bueller” line delivered by his monotoned economics teacher in the 1986 comedy.
“Nunes, Nunes, Nunes, we have to have Nunes here because there has to be at least one person here who tells the truth,” he said.
“Please come back. We need at least one person that tells the truth.”
Mr Stein, a Republican commentator and lawyer, is a former speechwriter to presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
He went on to have minor roles in dozens of movies and TV shows and co-hosted a Comedy Central game show Win Ben’s Money with Jimmy Kimmel from 1997 to 2003.
Mr Stein has a history of making controversial statements about race,...
Mr Stein, 77, posted a clip to Truth Social on Sunday mimicking the “Bueller, Bueller, Bueller” line delivered by his monotoned economics teacher in the 1986 comedy.
“Nunes, Nunes, Nunes, we have to have Nunes here because there has to be at least one person here who tells the truth,” he said.
“Please come back. We need at least one person that tells the truth.”
Mr Stein, a Republican commentator and lawyer, is a former speechwriter to presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
He went on to have minor roles in dozens of movies and TV shows and co-hosted a Comedy Central game show Win Ben’s Money with Jimmy Kimmel from 1997 to 2003.
Mr Stein has a history of making controversial statements about race,...
- 8/21/2022
- by Bevan Hurley
- The Independent - Film
Donald Trump has had a question for his friends and advisers in the past several weeks: “Is Google trying to fuck me?”
The source of his paranoia, according to two people with knowledge of the ex-president’s query, was the absence of an Android app for his struggling social media app, Truth Social. Since it launched in February, the app has been available only on Apple devices, leaving Android users — roughly 40 percent of the U.S. mobile device market — without access to the platform. This has left Trump with questions...
The source of his paranoia, according to two people with knowledge of the ex-president’s query, was the absence of an Android app for his struggling social media app, Truth Social. Since it launched in February, the app has been available only on Apple devices, leaving Android users — roughly 40 percent of the U.S. mobile device market — without access to the platform. This has left Trump with questions...
- 5/18/2022
- by Adam Rawnsley and Asawin Suebsaeng
- Rollingstone.com
Kimmel Predicts Trump’s Truth Social App Will Become ‘Social Media Equivalent of RadioShack’ (Video)
While former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social has had some improved success of late, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” host Jimmy Kimmel predicted things aren’t going to end well for the new social media service.
“Now that Elon Musk is buying Twitter, Trump finds himself in a very Trumpy situation because he raised more than a billion dollars to start this promising new right-wing media platform that looks exactly like Twitter,” Kimmel said during his Tuesday night monologue. “But now that he probably won’t be banned from Twitter anymore because Elon owns it, he’s kind of stuck.”
Kimmel went on to call Truth Social “a disaster” (a word often employed by the former president), and noted Trump “hasn’t even posted on it for 11 weeks.”
Although the former president has said he won’t return to Twitter, Kimmel believes the former “Apprentice” boss will revisit the platform if...
“Now that Elon Musk is buying Twitter, Trump finds himself in a very Trumpy situation because he raised more than a billion dollars to start this promising new right-wing media platform that looks exactly like Twitter,” Kimmel said during his Tuesday night monologue. “But now that he probably won’t be banned from Twitter anymore because Elon owns it, he’s kind of stuck.”
Kimmel went on to call Truth Social “a disaster” (a word often employed by the former president), and noted Trump “hasn’t even posted on it for 11 weeks.”
Although the former president has said he won’t return to Twitter, Kimmel believes the former “Apprentice” boss will revisit the platform if...
- 4/27/2022
- by Jolie Lash
- The Wrap
Donald Trump says he won’t rejoin Twitter even if the social media platform’s new owner, Elon Musk, reinstates his account.
The news comes as the former president struggles to promote his own social media app, Truth Social, which has been beset by issues since its launch. “I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on Truth,” Trump told Fox News on Monday. “I hope Elon buys Twitter because he’ll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on Truth.
The news comes as the former president struggles to promote his own social media app, Truth Social, which has been beset by issues since its launch. “I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on Truth,” Trump told Fox News on Monday. “I hope Elon buys Twitter because he’ll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on Truth.
- 4/25/2022
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
There are few things more coveted in Republican politics than Donald Trump’s endorsement, but we now know at least one circumstance where even that’s not enough.
Republicans in Tennessee voted on Tuesday to remove former State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus from the ballot in a crowded August primary to represent the state’s 5th Congressional District, currently held by retiring Democrat Jim Cooper. Ortagus, as a former Trump administration employee, entered the race with the former president’s “complete and total endorsement” locked up, but there was just...
Republicans in Tennessee voted on Tuesday to remove former State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus from the ballot in a crowded August primary to represent the state’s 5th Congressional District, currently held by retiring Democrat Jim Cooper. Ortagus, as a former Trump administration employee, entered the race with the former president’s “complete and total endorsement” locked up, but there was just...
- 4/20/2022
- by Jack Crosbie
- Rollingstone.com
Truth Social is bombing.
The social media platform Donald Trump launched to compete with Twitter and Facebook has been such a disaster since its launch in February that two of its top executives have resigned, Reuters reported on Monday.
Josh Adams and Billy Boozer, the company’s chief of technology and chief of product development, are the two executives leaving the company after less than a year. Both were critical parts of the operation, according to eight sources who spoke with Reuters. “If Josh has left … all bets are off,...
The social media platform Donald Trump launched to compete with Twitter and Facebook has been such a disaster since its launch in February that two of its top executives have resigned, Reuters reported on Monday.
Josh Adams and Billy Boozer, the company’s chief of technology and chief of product development, are the two executives leaving the company after less than a year. Both were critical parts of the operation, according to eight sources who spoke with Reuters. “If Josh has left … all bets are off,...
- 4/4/2022
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
Donald Trump has succeeded in refinancing Trump Tower. That’s no small feat. The Trump Organization has mountains of debt and become a financial pariah. The company’s longtime accountant, Mazars, recently abandoned the Trumps — amid a New York state investigation into whether the company systematically manipulated the value of its assets. The accounting firm said it could no longer vouch for the accuracy of a decade’s worth of Trump Organization financial statements, insisting those documents “should no longer be relied upon.”
But an internet bank called Axos has...
But an internet bank called Axos has...
- 3/13/2022
- by Tim Dickinson and Andy Kroll
- Rollingstone.com
As early images of Russian tanks and smoldering buildings emerged from Ukraine last week, the first thought that crossed Rep. Hakeem Jeffries’ (D-n.Y.) mind concerned the safety of the Ukrainian people. His next thought was the first impeachment of former President Donald Trump. “My first reaction, in the horror of the attack, was, ‘This is why what we did was so important,’” Jeffries, one of the managers of that impeachment, recalls.
A similar recognition set in among Democrats on social media as they watched a video of Ukrainian President...
A similar recognition set in among Democrats on social media as they watched a video of Ukrainian President...
- 3/4/2022
- by Kara Voght
- Rollingstone.com
Sarah Palin carried herself with a quaint charm when she took the witness stand Wednesday at Manhattan Federal Court. Sitting behind a three-sided Plexiglass barrier, Palin, in a double-breasted pink jacket, cheerily answered questions about her background, all of which cast the former Alaska governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate as a friendly, maternal figure. Palin’s old-fashioned semi-bouffant only added to this motherly effect.
“What do you do in your day to day?” asked Kenneth G. Turkel, Palin’s attorney.
“Holding down the fort in Wasilla, Alaska,” Palin said.
“What do you do in your day to day?” asked Kenneth G. Turkel, Palin’s attorney.
“Holding down the fort in Wasilla, Alaska,” Palin said.
- 2/10/2022
- by Victoria Bekiempis
- Rollingstone.com
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-ca) will resign his congressional seat at the end of the year to become CEO of Donald Trump’s social media and technology company.
Nunes, a staunch defender of the former president and critic of Twitter and traditional media, will be CEO of Trump Media and Technology Group, which is launching the Truth Social platform.
“The time has come to reopen the Internet and allow for the free flow of ideas and expression without censorship,” Nunes said in a statement. “The United States of America made the dream of the Internet a reality and it will be an American company that restores the dream. I’m humbled and honored President Trump has asked me to lead the mission and the world class team that will deliver on this promise.”
Trump’s social media startup would be financed via a merger with a special purpose acquisition corporation, or Spac,...
Nunes, a staunch defender of the former president and critic of Twitter and traditional media, will be CEO of Trump Media and Technology Group, which is launching the Truth Social platform.
“The time has come to reopen the Internet and allow for the free flow of ideas and expression without censorship,” Nunes said in a statement. “The United States of America made the dream of the Internet a reality and it will be an American company that restores the dream. I’m humbled and honored President Trump has asked me to lead the mission and the world class team that will deliver on this promise.”
Trump’s social media startup would be financed via a merger with a special purpose acquisition corporation, or Spac,...
- 12/6/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Former president Donald Trump has tapped Congressman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) to be CEO of his new media and tech company, Trump Media & Technology Group.
Nunes will retire from Congress and start as CEO of Tmtg in January. He was one of Trump’s closest allies in Congress during his presidency, and was a frequent critic of tech companies.
The hiring of Nunes comes as Trump’s company faces an investigation from the SEC over its talks with Digital World Acquisition Company, the Spac that Tmtg is planning to merge with in order to go public.
However, the Spac also raised ...
Nunes will retire from Congress and start as CEO of Tmtg in January. He was one of Trump’s closest allies in Congress during his presidency, and was a frequent critic of tech companies.
The hiring of Nunes comes as Trump’s company faces an investigation from the SEC over its talks with Digital World Acquisition Company, the Spac that Tmtg is planning to merge with in order to go public.
However, the Spac also raised ...
- 12/6/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Former president Donald Trump has tapped Congressman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) to be CEO of his new media and tech company, Trump Media & Technology Group.
Nunes will retire from Congress and start as CEO of Tmtg in January. He was one of Trump’s closest allies in Congress during his presidency, and was a frequent critic of tech companies.
The hiring of Nunes comes as Trump’s company faces an investigation from the SEC over its talks with Digital World Acquisition Company, the Spac that Tmtg is planning to merge with in order to go public.
However, the Spac also raised ...
Nunes will retire from Congress and start as CEO of Tmtg in January. He was one of Trump’s closest allies in Congress during his presidency, and was a frequent critic of tech companies.
The hiring of Nunes comes as Trump’s company faces an investigation from the SEC over its talks with Digital World Acquisition Company, the Spac that Tmtg is planning to merge with in order to go public.
However, the Spac also raised ...
- 12/6/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cable network One America News lost an appeal of its defamation suit against MSNBC and its famed host Rachel Maddow on Tuesday after a panel upheld a previous federal court ruling against Oan that requires them to pay $250,000 of the defendants’ legal fees.
Oan, owned by Herring Networks Inc., sued Maddow for $10 million in July 2019 after she ran a segment stating that Oan employee Kristen Rouz worked for Oan, but was “also being paid by the Russian government to produce government-funded pro-Putin propaganda for a Russian government funded propaganda outfit called Sputnik.”
The appellate court held that Maddow’s statement was well within the bounds of what qualified as protected speech under the First Amendment. “We conclude that the challenged statement was an obvious exaggeration cushioned within an undisputed news story,” the judgment read. “The statement could not reasonably be understood to imply an assertion of objective fact, and therefore does not amount to defamation.
Oan, owned by Herring Networks Inc., sued Maddow for $10 million in July 2019 after she ran a segment stating that Oan employee Kristen Rouz worked for Oan, but was “also being paid by the Russian government to produce government-funded pro-Putin propaganda for a Russian government funded propaganda outfit called Sputnik.”
The appellate court held that Maddow’s statement was well within the bounds of what qualified as protected speech under the First Amendment. “We conclude that the challenged statement was an obvious exaggeration cushioned within an undisputed news story,” the judgment read. “The statement could not reasonably be understood to imply an assertion of objective fact, and therefore does not amount to defamation.
- 8/17/2021
- by Diane Haithman
- The Wrap
A federal judge has dismissed a $435 million libel suit that Rep. Devin Nunes (R-ca) filed against CNN, rejecting his claim that he was defamed over a report on his contacts with a Ukrainian prosecutor.
U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain wrote in her opinion that Nunes failed to demand a retraction from CNN, a key element in pursuing libel cases in California. She had ruled that as a California resident, Nunes was bound by state law that then limited him to seeking special damages, like the loss of property or business. But she said that he failed to show that in his complaint, nor did he plausibly claim that the network engaged in a conspiracy to defame him.
Nunes’ lawsuit, filed in early December 2020, stems from the network’s coverage of the first impeachment trial. He sued over a November 22, 2019 report that Lev Parnas, the former associate of Rudy Giuliani,...
U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain wrote in her opinion that Nunes failed to demand a retraction from CNN, a key element in pursuing libel cases in California. She had ruled that as a California resident, Nunes was bound by state law that then limited him to seeking special damages, like the loss of property or business. But she said that he failed to show that in his complaint, nor did he plausibly claim that the network engaged in a conspiracy to defame him.
Nunes’ lawsuit, filed in early December 2020, stems from the network’s coverage of the first impeachment trial. He sued over a November 22, 2019 report that Lev Parnas, the former associate of Rudy Giuliani,...
- 2/19/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
With the fate of his early years of his upcoming presidency hanging on snaring a majority in the Senate out of tomorrow’s duel runoffs in Georgia, Joe Biden ripped Donald Trump today at a rally in Atlanta.
“This administration has gotten off to a God-awful start,” the president-elect passionately told a somewhat socially distanced crowd in the Peach State metropolis of the response to the lethal coronavirus pandemic and the vaccine rollout. “The president spends more time whining and complaining than doing something about the problem,” Biden added as the former Celebrity Apprentice host tried to strongarm Georgia officials to award the state to him over the ex-vp.
The stronger-than-usual language from Biden was not in his prepared remarks.
“I don’t know why he still wants the job, he doesn’t want to do the work,” the momentarily off-script Biden went on to say to the drive-in rally,...
“This administration has gotten off to a God-awful start,” the president-elect passionately told a somewhat socially distanced crowd in the Peach State metropolis of the response to the lethal coronavirus pandemic and the vaccine rollout. “The president spends more time whining and complaining than doing something about the problem,” Biden added as the former Celebrity Apprentice host tried to strongarm Georgia officials to award the state to him over the ex-vp.
The stronger-than-usual language from Biden was not in his prepared remarks.
“I don’t know why he still wants the job, he doesn’t want to do the work,” the momentarily off-script Biden went on to say to the drive-in rally,...
- 1/4/2021
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Update, 10:44 Am Pt: The White House said that the Presidential Medal of Freedom was awarded to Devin Nunes in a ceremony on Monday morning. No pool reporters were present for the event.
Previously: Donald Trump will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to one of his staunchest supporters on Capitol Hill: Devin Nunes, who represents a Central California district.
The award is the highest civilian honor, and is presented to “individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.”
The White House said in a statement, “Congressman Nunes pursued the Russia Hoax at great personal risk and never stopped standing up for the truth. He had the fortitude to take on the media, the FBI, the Intelligence Community, the Democrat Party, foreign spies, and the full power of the Deep State.
Previously: Donald Trump will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to one of his staunchest supporters on Capitol Hill: Devin Nunes, who represents a Central California district.
The award is the highest civilian honor, and is presented to “individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.”
The White House said in a statement, “Congressman Nunes pursued the Russia Hoax at great personal risk and never stopped standing up for the truth. He had the fortitude to take on the media, the FBI, the Intelligence Community, the Democrat Party, foreign spies, and the full power of the Deep State.
- 1/4/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
With many conservatives and Donald Trump backers in a lather over heightened scrutiny of Facebook and Twitter posts during election season, social media startup Parler is emerging as a fast-growing alternative.
The Henderson, Nv-based company, founded in 2018 by computer programmers John Matze and Jared Thomson, says its membership swelled to about 8 million from 4.5 million in just the past week. Parler’s app is the No. 1 download in the Apple iOS and Android stores, according to measurement firm Sensor Tower. Other social media players like Gab or MeWe have similarly benefited from conservative angst about Silicon Valley’s so-called “censorship,” but Parler’s gains have been the most significant of any alternative outlet to date.
Joe Biden’s defeat of Trump in the 2020 presidential election was confirmed by major media outlets Saturday but has not been widely accepted by the Republican establishment. Members of the administration and Congress continue to insist...
The Henderson, Nv-based company, founded in 2018 by computer programmers John Matze and Jared Thomson, says its membership swelled to about 8 million from 4.5 million in just the past week. Parler’s app is the No. 1 download in the Apple iOS and Android stores, according to measurement firm Sensor Tower. Other social media players like Gab or MeWe have similarly benefited from conservative angst about Silicon Valley’s so-called “censorship,” but Parler’s gains have been the most significant of any alternative outlet to date.
Joe Biden’s defeat of Trump in the 2020 presidential election was confirmed by major media outlets Saturday but has not been widely accepted by the Republican establishment. Members of the administration and Congress continue to insist...
- 11/11/2020
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
A federal judge has delivered a victory to CNN in its defense against a $435 million libel lawsuit filed by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-ca).
U.S. District Judge Robert E. Payne wrote that the Richmond, Va court “is not Nunes’ home forum, and therefore there is no logical connection between the events in this case and this district.” By contrast, the New York court is close to the defendants in the case, which include not just CNN but senior reporter Vicky Ward and anchor Chris Cuomo. The judge also said that he had “significant concerns about forum shopping,” or that Nunes and his legal team were seeking a venue that is known for its speedy disposition of cases, or a “rocket docket.”
Nunes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, sued the network in December, amid impeachment proceedings for President Donald Trump.
He sued over a November 22 report that Lev Parnas,...
U.S. District Judge Robert E. Payne wrote that the Richmond, Va court “is not Nunes’ home forum, and therefore there is no logical connection between the events in this case and this district.” By contrast, the New York court is close to the defendants in the case, which include not just CNN but senior reporter Vicky Ward and anchor Chris Cuomo. The judge also said that he had “significant concerns about forum shopping,” or that Nunes and his legal team were seeking a venue that is known for its speedy disposition of cases, or a “rocket docket.”
Nunes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, sued the network in December, amid impeachment proceedings for President Donald Trump.
He sued over a November 22 report that Lev Parnas,...
- 5/22/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif) is no Johnny Depp. On Friday, the congressman suffered a setback in his defamation lawsuit against CNN when a federal judge in Virginia decided to stand up to forum shopping by transferring his case out.
The highly litigious Nunes is asserting $435 million in damages (a comical amount that doesn't include additionally claimed interest) over what he alleges to be a "demonstrably false hit piece" about a meeting between him and an ex-Ukrainian prosecutor to discuss dirt on Joe Biden. CNN's source is said to be a lawyer for Lev Parnas, an indicted ...
The highly litigious Nunes is asserting $435 million in damages (a comical amount that doesn't include additionally claimed interest) over what he alleges to be a "demonstrably false hit piece" about a meeting between him and an ex-Ukrainian prosecutor to discuss dirt on Joe Biden. CNN's source is said to be a lawyer for Lev Parnas, an indicted ...
- 5/22/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
During a Monday night appearance on Fox News, Gop Rep. Devin Nunes blamed “media freaks” for criticism he received after encouraging Americans on Sunday to “go out” to their local pubs despite coronavirus concerns.
“So, what I was saying is you have empty restaurants,” the Calif. congressman explained to Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “You can go through the drive-thru or do takeout. It’s a great place to go. The media freaks can do what they want.”
Nunes also noted the “media freaks” actually “don’t have a clue what’s going on out in the real world”: “We have a problem out here because we have people standing in line for 45 minutes at Costco.”
Also Read: Trump Issues New Coronavirus Guidelines, Urges Americans to Avoid Gatherings of 10 or More
On Sunday, Nunes didn’t mention drive-thrus when he told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo, “There’s a lot of...
“So, what I was saying is you have empty restaurants,” the Calif. congressman explained to Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “You can go through the drive-thru or do takeout. It’s a great place to go. The media freaks can do what they want.”
Nunes also noted the “media freaks” actually “don’t have a clue what’s going on out in the real world”: “We have a problem out here because we have people standing in line for 45 minutes at Costco.”
Also Read: Trump Issues New Coronavirus Guidelines, Urges Americans to Avoid Gatherings of 10 or More
On Sunday, Nunes didn’t mention drive-thrus when he told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo, “There’s a lot of...
- 3/17/2020
- by Lindsey Ellefson
- The Wrap
Meghan McCain went off on President Donald Trump during Monday’s episode of “The View,” hitting him hard for his administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
“The mixed messaging coming out of the White House right now is not only irresponsible but it’s downright dangerous,” the co-host said. McCain criticized Gop Rep. Devin Nunes for encouraging people to go out to eat Sunday, which directly contradicts recommendations from the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that Americans practice social distancing. She criticized Trump as someone who “can’t even handle not shaking hands,” a reference to his numerous handshakes at a press conference Friday where he announced the designation of coronavirus as a national emergency. That, too, is in contrast to advise from experts, who largely suggest minimizing contact to avoid spreading the virus.
Also Read: 'Today' Co-Hosts Craig Melvin and Al Roker Skip...
“The mixed messaging coming out of the White House right now is not only irresponsible but it’s downright dangerous,” the co-host said. McCain criticized Gop Rep. Devin Nunes for encouraging people to go out to eat Sunday, which directly contradicts recommendations from the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that Americans practice social distancing. She criticized Trump as someone who “can’t even handle not shaking hands,” a reference to his numerous handshakes at a press conference Friday where he announced the designation of coronavirus as a national emergency. That, too, is in contrast to advise from experts, who largely suggest minimizing contact to avoid spreading the virus.
Also Read: 'Today' Co-Hosts Craig Melvin and Al Roker Skip...
- 3/16/2020
- by Lindsey Ellefson
- The Wrap
After President Trump got word that an intelligence official warned lawmakers that Russia is interfering in the 2020 election to help him get re-elected, Trump berated and removed the acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire.
On February 13, according to reports in both the New York Times and Washington Post, a senior U.S. intelligence official, Shelby Pierson, briefed the House Intelligence Committee. During that briefing, she told lawmakers that Russia had a preference for Trump and was looking to meddle in the election to help him win. The president was...
On February 13, according to reports in both the New York Times and Washington Post, a senior U.S. intelligence official, Shelby Pierson, briefed the House Intelligence Committee. During that briefing, she told lawmakers that Russia had a preference for Trump and was looking to meddle in the election to help him win. The president was...
- 2/21/2020
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
The Nielsen ratings for the second night of Rachel Maddow’s interview with Lev Parnas Thursday on MSNBC fell short of Wednesday’s record-breaking viewership (4.5 million viewers), notching down slightly at 4.3 million.
But it was the third most-watched program in the history of “The Rachel Maddow Show.”
In the key adult 25 to 54 demographic, Thursday’s continuation of the Parnas interview on “Maddow” drew 745,000, beating Fox News and CNN. In total viewers in the 9 p.m. hour, “Maddow’s” 4.3 million meant the program beat “Hannity” (3.9 million) by that measurement as well. “Maddow” was the sixth most-watched show on television Thursday night.
The interviews on “Maddow” aired the week the impeachment of Donald Trump has moved to the Senate, when the arguments over whether there will be new evidence presented there have reached a fever pitch. Parnas is a former associate of Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. He and Igor Fruman...
But it was the third most-watched program in the history of “The Rachel Maddow Show.”
In the key adult 25 to 54 demographic, Thursday’s continuation of the Parnas interview on “Maddow” drew 745,000, beating Fox News and CNN. In total viewers in the 9 p.m. hour, “Maddow’s” 4.3 million meant the program beat “Hannity” (3.9 million) by that measurement as well. “Maddow” was the sixth most-watched show on television Thursday night.
The interviews on “Maddow” aired the week the impeachment of Donald Trump has moved to the Senate, when the arguments over whether there will be new evidence presented there have reached a fever pitch. Parnas is a former associate of Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. He and Igor Fruman...
- 1/17/2020
- by Kate Aurthur
- Variety Film + TV
CNN has fired Dewayne Walker, an Atlanta-based employee, over what the network claims was a “false accusation” that he was threatened by a CNN executive.
Walker, who worked at CNN for 16 years, filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the network last month and accused Whit Friese, CNN’s vice president of creative marketing, of threatening to “kill” him.
The interaction, Walker’s suit says, took place August — three months after he filed a complaint about his lawsuit. Walker says that he encountered Friese in a workplace bathroom and that Friese had told him to “just drop it,” apparently in reference to his lawsuit. When Walker asked him, “Or?,” the suit says that Friese responded quietly, “If you f— with my money, I will kill you.”
Also Read: Devin Nunes Sues CNN for $435 Million-Plus in Defamation Suit
Five days after that encounter, Walker — a senior manager for integrated promotions in the...
Walker, who worked at CNN for 16 years, filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the network last month and accused Whit Friese, CNN’s vice president of creative marketing, of threatening to “kill” him.
The interaction, Walker’s suit says, took place August — three months after he filed a complaint about his lawsuit. Walker says that he encountered Friese in a workplace bathroom and that Friese had told him to “just drop it,” apparently in reference to his lawsuit. When Walker asked him, “Or?,” the suit says that Friese responded quietly, “If you f— with my money, I will kill you.”
Also Read: Devin Nunes Sues CNN for $435 Million-Plus in Defamation Suit
Five days after that encounter, Walker — a senior manager for integrated promotions in the...
- 12/12/2019
- by J. Clara Chan
- The Wrap
The Guardian headline reads: “DOJ Internal watchdog report clears FBI of illegal surveillance of Trump adviser.”
If the report released Monday by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz constitutes a “clearing” of the FBI, never clear me of anything. Holy God, what a clown show the Trump-Russia investigation was.
Like the much-ballyhooed report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the Horowitz report is a Rorschach test, in which partisans will find what they want to find.
Much of the press is concentrating on Horowitz’s conclusion that there was no evidence...
If the report released Monday by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz constitutes a “clearing” of the FBI, never clear me of anything. Holy God, what a clown show the Trump-Russia investigation was.
Like the much-ballyhooed report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the Horowitz report is a Rorschach test, in which partisans will find what they want to find.
Much of the press is concentrating on Horowitz’s conclusion that there was no evidence...
- 12/10/2019
- by Matt Taibbi
- Rollingstone.com
As the ranking Republican member of the House Intelligence Committee conducting the impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump, Rep. Devin Nunes is supposed to appear in the title pages of committee documents as an honorific — not in the body of a 300-page investigation into presidential abuse of power.
But here we are.
Nunes — who serves a conservative district in California’s Central Valley — is one of President Trump’s most ardent defenders in Congress, and he used his position during the committee’s open hearings to deride the impeachment inquiry as...
But here we are.
Nunes — who serves a conservative district in California’s Central Valley — is one of President Trump’s most ardent defenders in Congress, and he used his position during the committee’s open hearings to deride the impeachment inquiry as...
- 12/4/2019
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) passed up few opportunities to bash the media in the recent impeachment hearings, and now he’s suing what he calls the “mother of fake news” — CNN.
Nunes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, filed a lawsuit against the network Tuesday, seeking damages of more than $435 million.
He’s suing over a November 22 report that Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, was prepared to tell Congress that Nunes met with Victor Shokin, the former Ukrainian prosecutor, in Vienna last year to discuss “digging up dirt” on Joe Biden. Nunes says he never has met Shokin. He also denies that he took a trip to Vienna in December 2018 or that he communicated with Parnas.
The CNN story is sourced to Parnas’s attorney, Joseph A. Bondy, who outlined what his client was willing to reveal.
Nunes denied the claims at the time,...
Nunes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, filed a lawsuit against the network Tuesday, seeking damages of more than $435 million.
He’s suing over a November 22 report that Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, was prepared to tell Congress that Nunes met with Victor Shokin, the former Ukrainian prosecutor, in Vienna last year to discuss “digging up dirt” on Joe Biden. Nunes says he never has met Shokin. He also denies that he took a trip to Vienna in December 2018 or that he communicated with Parnas.
The CNN story is sourced to Parnas’s attorney, Joseph A. Bondy, who outlined what his client was willing to reveal.
Nunes denied the claims at the time,...
- 12/3/2019
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Rep. Devin Nunes of California, an outspoken ally of President Donald Trump, filed suit against CNN Tuesday, alleging the cable-news network defamed him when it reported on allegations about the President and his representatives seeking information from Ukraine officials that would raise suspicion about the presidential campaign of Joe Biden.
In a rambling lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia, Nunes claims CNN defamed him as it reported on allegations made against him by operatives involved in seeking out information from Ukraine.
CNN declined to comment.
The network’s reporting was based on on the record comments from an attorney, Joseph Bondy. CNN attempted multiple times to get comment from Rep. Nunes and his communications team.
Nunes’ suit seeks compensatory damages of $435 million and a jury trial.
Suing CNN or threatening to sue CNN is a tactic that has been employed a handful of...
In a rambling lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia, Nunes claims CNN defamed him as it reported on allegations made against him by operatives involved in seeking out information from Ukraine.
CNN declined to comment.
The network’s reporting was based on on the record comments from an attorney, Joseph Bondy. CNN attempted multiple times to get comment from Rep. Nunes and his communications team.
Nunes’ suit seeks compensatory damages of $435 million and a jury trial.
Suing CNN or threatening to sue CNN is a tactic that has been employed a handful of...
- 12/3/2019
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
Democratic congressman and Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Adam Smith (D-Wash.), said Republican Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) will “quite likely” and “without question” face an ethics investigation regarding new allegations that have surfaced this week regarding Nunes and Ukraine.
MSNBC’s Joy Reid asked Smith whether or not the allegations that Nunes met with former Ukrainian prosecutor Victor Shokin in Vienna last December with the aim to dig up dirt on former vice president Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, would lead to ethics investigation, Smith answered,...
MSNBC’s Joy Reid asked Smith whether or not the allegations that Nunes met with former Ukrainian prosecutor Victor Shokin in Vienna last December with the aim to dig up dirt on former vice president Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, would lead to ethics investigation, Smith answered,...
- 11/24/2019
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
After an explosive week of impeachment testimony, we may be in store for more. According to an attorney for Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas, Parnas is willing to testify to Congress that Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, met with a former Ukraine prosecutor late last year in an attempt to secure dirt on former vice president Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.
Parnas’s attorney, Joseph A. Bondy, told CNN, “Mr. Parnas learned from former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Victor Shokin that Nunes...
Parnas’s attorney, Joseph A. Bondy, told CNN, “Mr. Parnas learned from former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Victor Shokin that Nunes...
- 11/23/2019
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
For years now, Russia has sought to frame Ukraine for its own actions interfering with the 2016 presidential election, the New York Times reported, citing three American officials. And, despite being briefed on Russia’s efforts, some in Congress are pushing these conspiracy theories, as seen in Republicans’ questions and speeches during the impeachment hearings.
The White House’s former top Russia advisor, Fiona Hill, backed up the intelligence community’s assertion in her impeachment testimony on Thursday, saying, “Some of you on this committee appear to believe that Russia and...
The White House’s former top Russia advisor, Fiona Hill, backed up the intelligence community’s assertion in her impeachment testimony on Thursday, saying, “Some of you on this committee appear to believe that Russia and...
- 11/22/2019
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
2Nd Update, 12:40 Pm Pt: Fiona Hill faced a grilling by some Republicans as the impeachment inquiry resumed, but she had a standout moment when one of the lawmakers, Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Oh), complained that Democrats were engaged in a “coup.”
“We’re here just to provide what we know and what we’ve heard,” she said. “I understand that for many members, this may be hearsay. I’ve talked about things I’ve heard, with my own ears.”
She added, “We’re here to relate to you what we heard, what we saw, and what we did, and to be of some help to all of you in really making a very momentous decision here. We are not the people who make that decision.”
She then made an appeal to unity. “We need to be together again in 2020 so the American people can make a choice about the...
“We’re here just to provide what we know and what we’ve heard,” she said. “I understand that for many members, this may be hearsay. I’ve talked about things I’ve heard, with my own ears.”
She added, “We’re here to relate to you what we heard, what we saw, and what we did, and to be of some help to all of you in really making a very momentous decision here. We are not the people who make that decision.”
She then made an appeal to unity. “We need to be together again in 2020 so the American people can make a choice about the...
- 11/21/2019
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
After a month of closed-door depositions, the impeachment inquiry against President Trump moved into its public phase last Wednesday, when George Kent, the assistant deputy secretary of state, and Bill Taylor, the top U.S. ambassador in Ukraine, testified before the House Intelligence Committee. Marie Yovanovich, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, testified on Friday. Both days were plenty eventful.
The second week of hearings began on Tuesday, with sessions featuring Jennifer Williams, a national security aide to Vice President Pence; Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a National Security Council expert; Kurt Volker,...
The second week of hearings began on Tuesday, with sessions featuring Jennifer Williams, a national security aide to Vice President Pence; Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a National Security Council expert; Kurt Volker,...
- 11/21/2019
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
The fifth day of televised public hearings in the Donald Trump impeachment inquiry by the House Intelligence Committee gets underway at 9 a.m. Et/6 a.m. Pt. Watch the livestream here.
Set to give testimony today on Capitol Hill are Dr. Fiona Hill, former Senior Director for Europe and Russia on the National Security Council, and David Holmes, Political Counselor at the U.S Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine. Hill and Holmes will deliver opening statements, if they so choose, and then will be questioned in 45-minute blocks of time from each side.
The Democrats and Republicans can choose their respective counsels to do the questioning. That is a break from a typical hearing, in which members questioned witnesses in five-minute increments, alternating between Dems and Gop reps based on seniority. That still will happen — but it will only come later in the hearing.
Today’s witnesses follow testimony by Gordon Sondland,...
Set to give testimony today on Capitol Hill are Dr. Fiona Hill, former Senior Director for Europe and Russia on the National Security Council, and David Holmes, Political Counselor at the U.S Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine. Hill and Holmes will deliver opening statements, if they so choose, and then will be questioned in 45-minute blocks of time from each side.
The Democrats and Republicans can choose their respective counsels to do the questioning. That is a break from a typical hearing, in which members questioned witnesses in five-minute increments, alternating between Dems and Gop reps based on seniority. That still will happen — but it will only come later in the hearing.
Today’s witnesses follow testimony by Gordon Sondland,...
- 11/21/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Soon after Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman’s finished his testimony on the third day of the impeachment hearings yesterday, Republican Devin Nunes declared the ratings for were “way down, way down” and the whole affair was losing traction with the American public.
Well, the ranking Gop member of the House Intelligence Committee was very wrong in his characterization Tuesday of the dip between Day 1 and Day 2 of the widely televised inquiry. However, when it comes to the long third day of the probe into Donald Trump’s alleged leveraging of millions in aid to Ukraine for domestic political concerns, the highly partisan Rep. Nunes was incorrect again.
Filled with moving statements from White House assigned Lt. Col Vindman and contentious testimony from and VP Mike Pence aide Jennifer Williams, Kurt Volker, the former special envoy to Ukraine, and Tim Morrison, an ex-National Security Council official, the Rep. Adam Schiff run...
Well, the ranking Gop member of the House Intelligence Committee was very wrong in his characterization Tuesday of the dip between Day 1 and Day 2 of the widely televised inquiry. However, when it comes to the long third day of the probe into Donald Trump’s alleged leveraging of millions in aid to Ukraine for domestic political concerns, the highly partisan Rep. Nunes was incorrect again.
Filled with moving statements from White House assigned Lt. Col Vindman and contentious testimony from and VP Mike Pence aide Jennifer Williams, Kurt Volker, the former special envoy to Ukraine, and Tim Morrison, an ex-National Security Council official, the Rep. Adam Schiff run...
- 11/20/2019
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
The fourth day of televised public hearings in the Donald Trump impeachment inquiry by the House Intelligence Committee begins today at 9 a.m. Et. Watch the livestream here.
Taking the hot seat today is Gordon Sondland, the hotelier and Trump donor-turned-U.S. Ambassador to the European Union. He testified during the panel’s closed-door hearings a month ago then provided updated testimony two weeks later. Sondland amended his stance to say that Trump indeed made delivery of $400 million in military aid to Ukraine contingent on that country’s government publicly launching an investigation into Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
Sondland’s testimony follows that of Jennifer Williams, Special Advisor for Europe and Russia for Vice President Mike Pence; Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, Director for European Affairs for the National Security Council; Ambassador Kurt Volker, Former U.S. Special Envoy to Ukraine and Timothy Morrison, Special Assistant...
Taking the hot seat today is Gordon Sondland, the hotelier and Trump donor-turned-U.S. Ambassador to the European Union. He testified during the panel’s closed-door hearings a month ago then provided updated testimony two weeks later. Sondland amended his stance to say that Trump indeed made delivery of $400 million in military aid to Ukraine contingent on that country’s government publicly launching an investigation into Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
Sondland’s testimony follows that of Jennifer Williams, Special Advisor for Europe and Russia for Vice President Mike Pence; Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, Director for European Affairs for the National Security Council; Ambassador Kurt Volker, Former U.S. Special Envoy to Ukraine and Timothy Morrison, Special Assistant...
- 11/20/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Stephen Colbert kicked off Tuesday night’s monologue on The Late Show by recapping Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman’s testimony on day three of the House impeachment hearings.
Vindman, a top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, was one of the officials who listened in on President Trump’s July 25 call with the president of Ukraine.
The CBS late-night show played footage of the Purple Heart recipient and Iraq war veteran’s opening statement, in which he sent a message to his father who fled the Soviet Union and brought the Vindman family to the U.S.
“Dad, I’m sitting here today in the U.S. Capitol talking to our elected professionals — is proof that you made the right decision 40 years ago to leave the Soviet Union and come here to the United States of America in search of a better life for our family,” Vindman said. “Do not worry.
Vindman, a top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, was one of the officials who listened in on President Trump’s July 25 call with the president of Ukraine.
The CBS late-night show played footage of the Purple Heart recipient and Iraq war veteran’s opening statement, in which he sent a message to his father who fled the Soviet Union and brought the Vindman family to the U.S.
“Dad, I’m sitting here today in the U.S. Capitol talking to our elected professionals — is proof that you made the right decision 40 years ago to leave the Soviet Union and come here to the United States of America in search of a better life for our family,” Vindman said. “Do not worry.
- 11/20/2019
- by Anita Bennett
- Deadline Film + TV
Update, 10:07 Am Pt: As Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was being grilled by the House Intelligence Committee during their impeachment inquiry, the White House sent out a tweet about his judgment.
“Tim Morrison, Alexander Vindman’s former boss, testified in his deposition that he had concerns about Vindman’s judgment,” the message read.
Vindman was questioned about his judgment during the hearing, but he defended his performance, citing a stellar review.
Tim Morrison, Alexander Vindman's former boss, testified in his deposition that he had concerns about Vindman's judgment. pic.twitter.com/xwHOt4bsHS
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) November 19, 2019
Vindman is still a member of the National Security Council. Morrison was the top presidential adviser on Russia and Europe on the Nsc until his resignation in October. He is testifying on Tuesday afternoon.
On Friday, Trump tweeted out an attack on another witness, former Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, as she testified.
“Tim Morrison, Alexander Vindman’s former boss, testified in his deposition that he had concerns about Vindman’s judgment,” the message read.
Vindman was questioned about his judgment during the hearing, but he defended his performance, citing a stellar review.
Tim Morrison, Alexander Vindman's former boss, testified in his deposition that he had concerns about Vindman's judgment. pic.twitter.com/xwHOt4bsHS
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) November 19, 2019
Vindman is still a member of the National Security Council. Morrison was the top presidential adviser on Russia and Europe on the Nsc until his resignation in October. He is testifying on Tuesday afternoon.
On Friday, Trump tweeted out an attack on another witness, former Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, as she testified.
- 11/19/2019
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
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