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Mary Trump, an avid critic of former President Donald Trump and his niece, said on Saturday that her uncle's business would be "deceased" as the Trump Organization continues to face a number of issues related to its business practices.

During a Saturday episode of The Mary Trump Show, the former president's niece spoke about the presence of the Secret Service at Trump hotels.

"...the soon-to-be deceased Trump Organization charged the Secret Service like five times the government limit to stay at his sh**** hotels, we're learning," Mary Trump said. "We've learned thatand this to me, I will never cease to understand why this wasn't made a bigger dealthat he politicized it."

Her remarks are in reference to the released report on Monday by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, which revealed that Trump hotels allegedly charged the Secret Service as high as $1,185 per night on dozens of trips to protect Trump even after he left the White House. This figure is five times more than the recommended government rate for hotel stays while protecting him and those around him.

The Trump Organization said that Secret Service agents traveling with Trump to the properties he owned stayed for free or at cost, but the committee's report said otherwise.

The former president reportedly visited his properties 547 times, including 145 visits to Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, while in office.

Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney, a New York Democrat, wrote a letter to Kimberly Cheatle, director of the Secret Service, last Monday asking the agency to comply with the committee's investigation request.

"The exorbitant rates charged to the Secret Service and agents' frequent stays at Trump-owned properties raise significant concerns about the former President's self-dealing and may have resulted in a taxpayer-funded windfall for former President Trump's struggling businesses," Maloney wrote.

Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesperson for the Secret Service, recently told Newsweek that the agency is reviewing the committee's letter and costs associated, and will respond with whatever documentation is necessary by the October 31 provided deadline.

"It is absolutely necessary that the presidential detail is within hands touch of the protectee," he added.

Trump is also facing a lawsuit by New York Attorney General Letitia James that seeks at least $250 million in repayment for allegedly fraudulent practices and wants to remove Trump's family members, including Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka, from their positions within the Trump Organization.

James alleged that the Trumps committed "numerous acts of fraud and misrepresentations" and that the ex-president "grossly" inflated his net worth by billions of dollars. She also accused him of cheating lenders and others with false and misleading financial statements.

Last month, Trump's ex-personal attorney Michael Cohen said that the lawsuit leaves Trump facing "the worst situation that he's ever been in, which is criminal liability."

Cohen also said that James' lawsuit could "wipe him out" financially if a court demands he pay restitutionadding that the former president could be ordered to pay much more than the $250 million "baseline" mentioned in James' lawsuit.

James also referred alleged criminal violations to the Southern District of New York (SDNY) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

"Let's see if the Southern District of New York, that's no longer under his control, will pick up the mantle," Cohen said. "IRSit's an open and shut case. Numbers don't lie. People do. And Donald is one of the biggest liars that you'll ever meet."

Newsweek reached out to Trump's media office for comment.

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MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images Former US President Donald Trump speaks at the America First Policy Institute Agenda Summit in Washington, DC, on July 26, 2022. Trump is scheduled to be deposed in a defamation case brought by a woman who claims he raped her in the 1990s.

Donald Trump is set to appear at a deposition hearing as part of a long-running defamation case relating to a woman who alleges the former president raped her in the 1990s.

Earlier this month, New York District judge Lewis Kaplan ordered Trump to answer questions under oath in relation to the claims made by magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll.

Carroll said that the former president smeared her character when he denied allegations he raped her at a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s. Carroll filed her suit in 2019, with Trump's legal team spending three years fighting the case.

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Trump is now expected to sit for the deposition at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Wednesday.

Carroll sued Trump for defamation in November 2019, claiming that he defamed her character when he denied the allegations that he raped her in a dressing room of the New York City department store.

The suit said that Trump accused Carroll of lying about the alleged assault to sell books and "make money" as well as falsely suggest she made up other rapes. It argued that the former president also publicly mocked her appearance.

Trump denied the rape claims, telling The Hill in 2019 "she's not my type."

The former president also said he had never met Carroll. In June 2019, New York Magazine published an excerpt from Carroll's book What Do We Need Men For? which detailed the allegation and featured a photo of Carroll, Trump, his then-wife Ivana Trump, and Carroll's then-husband at an NBC party around 1987.

A deposition hearing is a sworn question-and-answer session, in which people must testify under oath outside of a courtroom session.

The hearings are an opportunity for parties in a civil lawsuit to obtain testimony from a witness prior to trial. It is part of the discovery process by which parties from all sides can gather relevant information before presenting their cases.

If someone subjected to a deposition refuses to attend, they could be found in contempt of court. Providing false statements during a deposition hearing could also result in perjury charges.

However, a client may also invoke their fifth amendment right to avoid self-incrimination during their deposition hearing and refuse to answer questions fully.

Since the suit was filed in September 2019, Trump has denied the allegations and has repeatedly sought to dismiss and delay the proceedings.

Trump's legal team previously asked the courts to delay the deposition hearing until a separate defamation lawsuit by former The Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos was settled.

A New York State Supreme Court eventually rejected Trump's request in August 2020. Zervos, who also accused the former president of sexual assault, dropped her suit in November 2021.

In 2020, the Trump administration also sought to have the United States government replace the then-president as the defendant in the Carroll case, with the Department of Justice arguing that Trump was acting within the scope of a federal employee when he denied the allegations from the writer.

Judge Kaplan rejected that attempt for the DOJ to intervene in the case.

Trump's attorney Alina Habba argued last month that the deposition should be delayed while the question of whether Trump was acting as a federal employee while denying Carroll's allegations was considered on appeal. Kaplan once again rejected Trump's legal team's attempts to have the deposition delayed.

"As the Court noted in an earlier opinion in this case, 'defendant's litigation tactics have had a dilatory effect and, indeed, strongly suggest that he is acting out of a strong desire to delay any opportunity plaintiff may have to present her case against him,'" Kaplan wrote in his ruling.

"The defendant should not be permitted to run the clock out on plaintiff's attempt to gain a remedy for what allegedly was a serious wrong."

Trump continues to deny the allegations.

In a lengthy October 12 statement, the former president dismissed the evidence that he knew who Carroll was while once again suggesting his accuser is "not my type."

"I don't know this woman, have no idea who she is, other than it seems she got a picture of me many years ago, with her husband, shaking my hand on a reception line at a celebrity charity event. She completely made up a story that I met her at the doors of this crowded New York City Department Store and, within minutes, 'swooned' her," Trump said.

"It is a Hoax and a lie, just like all the other Hoaxes that have been played on me for the past seven years. And, while I am not supposed to say it, I will. This woman is not my type!"

Trump added that he is prepared to go through "years more of legal nonsense" in order to "clear my name of her and her lawyer's phony attacks on me."

There is currently a routine order allowing both Trump and Carroll to keep their depositions confidential throughout the pretrial discovery process, meaning details of the line of questioning will almost certainly not be known at this time.

Despite the update to one of many of Trump's legal battles taking place just weeks ahead of the November 8 midterms elections, Thomas Gift, founding director of University College London's Centre on US Politics, said Trump's deposition will not influence the outcome of election results or damage the former president's reputation.

"Regardless of whether Trump decides to answer questionsand my inclination is he won'tthe political implications of the hearing are likely to be minimal," Gift told Newsweek.

"Trump has been rocked by so many scandals and allegations of wrongdoing that almost every single case now tends to get lost in the haze. If anything, being hauled in to offer testimony gives Trump another opportunity to claim he's the victim herethe target of a systematic, Democrat-led witch hunt designed to take him down by any means necessary.

"If January 6, Ukraine, Russia-gate, and the multitude of other charges against Trump didn't budge his favorabilities among the right-wing base, this case most certainly won't move the needle," Gift added.

Newsweek reached out to Trump's legal team for comment.

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Former President Donald Trump is set to be deposed Wednesday for a civil lawsuit accusing him of defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll after she accused him of raping her.

Trump on Oct. 12 lost his bid to delay being questioned under oath by Carroll's lawyers when a federal judge brushed aside arguments that a pending appeal in the lawsuit warranted putting the case on hold.

The timing of Trump's deposition and its location were not immediately available Wednesday.

"We do not have those details and do not have a comment," said a spokesman for Carroll's lawyer, Roberta "Robbie" Kaplan.

Trump's lawyer, Alina Habba, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Carroll was scheduled to have been deposed for the case last Friday.

A trial in the case is scheduled for February.

Even if that trial is put on hold, or outright canceled as the result of the pending appeal, Carroll plans to sue the 76-year-old Trump in New York state court next month under a new law that lifted the statute of limitations for claims of rape and sexual abuse.

Carroll's lawyers could use Trump's Wednesday deposition in that planned suit.

The deposition comes two months after Trump refused to answer questions under oath in a deposition by attorneys for New York Attorney General Letitia James in connection with a civil investigation of his company, the Trump Organization. Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination more than 440 times in that deposition.

James last month sued Trump, his company, three of his adult children and others, alleging widespread fraud involving allegedly false financial statements related to the company's business. James is seeking at least $250 million in damages in that case, as well as sanctions.

Carroll, 78, in a 2019 New York magazine article, accused Trump of raping her in a dressing room in the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in the mid-1990s after a chance encounter in the store.

Trump, who was president at the time the article appeared, responded that Carroll was lying and motivated by money and political considerations to concoct the account.

Carroll then sued Trump for defamation in New York state court.

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The case was transferred a year later to U.S. District Court in Manhattan as the Department of Justice, then under the control of the Trump-appointed Attorney General William Barr, sought to replace Trump as the defendant in the case. The department argued that because Trump was president at the time he allegedly defamed Carroll, the government had the power to step in and act as the defendant because he was a government employee.

If the DOJ was allowed to do so, it would effectively end the lawsuit. Under the doctrine of sovereign immunity, the federal government has the power to deny plaintiffs the right to sue it.

Judge Lewis Kaplan rejected that bid. "The President of the United States is not an employee of the Government within the meaning of the relevant statutes," he said in a ruling.

"Even if he were such an employee, President Trump's allegedly defamatory statements concerning Ms. Carroll would not have been within the scope of his employment," wrote Kaplan, who is not related to Carroll's attorney.

The DOJ appealed Kaplan's ruling.

In September, the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Kaplan's ruling on the question of whether Trump was acting as a government employee at the time he replied to Carroll's article. But the appeals court also asked its sister appeals court in Washington, D.C., to rule on whether Trump made the statements about Carroll within the scope of his employment, as defined by local District of Columbia law.

The D.C. federal appeals court has not yet ruled on that question.

Kaplan, in his decision last week, said that Trump was not entitled to delay his deposition pending the outcome in the D.C. court because he had not shown a required strong likelihood of success on that question.

Kaplan also wrote that there was reason to believe that Trump was continuing to engage in delaying tactics in the litigation and that the "advanced age" of both Trump and Carroll was a reason not to further postpone action in the case.

"The defendant should not be permitted to run the clock out on plaintiff's attempt to gain a remedy for what allegedly was a serious wrong," Kaplan wrote.

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Donald Trump acknowledged in 2019 that letters he wrote to Kim Jong-un and later took with him upon leaving the White House were secret, according to recordings of an interview he gave to journalist Bob Woodward that call into question the credibility of one of Trumps main defenses in the investigation into his unauthorized retention of government files.

In December of that year, Trump shared with Woodward the letters that Kim had written to him, saying, Nobody else has them, but I want you to treat them with respect and dont say I gave them to you, OK? according to recordings obtained by CNN and The Washington Post on Tuesday.

When, in a phone call the following month, Woodward asked to see what Trump had written to the North Korean leader, the president replied: Oh, those are so top secret.

The comments contradict Trumps claim that he took no government secrets with him upon leaving the White House in January 2021. In reality, the National Archives, which is tasked with preserving the records of former presidents, spent much of 2021 trying to get the Kim letters back from Trump, only succeeding earlier this year.

The statements, included in The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodwards Twenty Interviews with President Trump set for release on Tuesday, also raise questions about the credibility of his defense to allegations that he illegally kept government secrets at his south Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago.

The FBI searched Mar-a-Lago in August and carted away reams of documents, sparking a court battle after the former president claimed some of the papers were protected by executive or attorney-client privilege.

The letters to Kim, written by Trump as part of his administrations attempt to defuse nuclear tensions with North Korea, show his apparent admiration for the leader of one of the worlds most repressive regimes. The two men exchanged birthday greetings and best wishes for friends and family, according to English translations of the letters that the Post reported are included in a written transcript of the audiobooks.

During his visits to the White House, Trump asked Woodward about the documents, and if he had made a Photostat of them or something. Woodward replied that he had dictated them into his recorder.

In an interview with the Washington Post, Woodward, an associate editor at the paper who is best known for his work uncovering the Watergate scandal, said Trump allowed him to handle the documents in a West Wing office as an aide watched. The documents contained no obvious classification markings, Woodward said.

In the audiobook, Woodward described the casual, dangerous way that Trump treats the most classified programs and information, as weve seen now in 2022 in Mar-a-Lago, where he had 184 classified documents, including 25 marked top secret.

He was talking specifically about Trumps comment that he built a weapons system that nobodys ever had in this country before. We have stuff that you havent even seen or heard about.

Referring to Vladimir Putin and Chinese president Xi Jinping, Trump remarked to the journalist: We have stuff that Putin and Xi have never heard about before.

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Billed by Axios as the book Donald Trump fears most, Maggie HabermansConfidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America debutedlastweek asNo. 1best-seller on Amazon and the New York Times. At 508 pages, its a challenge. But its worth the slog: the best book yet on the mystery man whostill remains, two years after being rejected for a second term, the most dominant force in American politics.

The most striking thing about the book is its title. Consider: For the New York Times, Haberman covered Donald Trump full-time for six years. During his four years in the White House, she averaged more than one Trump story a day. She was the Timess most-read reporter. Shes interviewed Trump dozens of times. Hescalled her a third-rate reporter,but he gave her three interviews for this book alonethefirst onerequestedby himbefore she even asked.

Haberman knows Trump better than any other reporter. Yet, after all that access and all that time, what words did she choose to describe Trump? TheConfidence Man,which is hardly a compliment.Merriam-Webster defines a confidence man as a person who tricks other people in order to get their money. And that, my friends, as Haberman skillfully and exhaustively relates, is Donald Trumpin a nutshell.

Habermansgreat insight, and her bookscentral premise,is that you cant understand Trump unless you track him from the beginning of his professional career, when he, somewhat reluctantly,joined his fathers real estate firm. (He originally wanted to become an actor.)Fromthat point on, she argues, hes frozen in time.Recounting countless episodes from his New York developer days, she concludes: He was interested primarily in money, dominance, power, bullying and himself. He treated rules and regulations as unnecessary obstacles rather than constraints on his behavior He sought anendless stream of praise His thirst for fame seemed to grow each time he tasted more of it.

Donald Trump the developer was Donald Trump the president. HisM.O. never changed.

Filing countless, worthless lawsuits? It didnt start in the White House, it started in Queens, when he sued every reporter, contractor ordeveloper who wouldnt accede to his demands. Notbecause he expected to winjust to intimidate them. Or, as he admitted after suing his biographer, Tim OBrien, just to make his life miserable.

Telling lies? It didnt start with the size of the crowd at his Inauguration. As a developer, he allegedlylied aboutmany things, according to Habermans and others reporting:his net worth, the value of properties, his ties to the mafia, his prowess with women.

Haberman opens her book with a string of lies an 18-year-old Donald Trump apparentlytoldabout the dedication of the Verrazano-Narrows bridge, which he attended with this father.

Haberman reminds us that, essentially, Donald Trump believes in nothing but hisown greatness. Everything about him is transactional.He was a Republican before joining the Reform Party before becoming a Democrat before becominga Republican again. Hesupported abortion rightsbefore he was anti-abortion. He was for universal health care beforetrying to killObamaCare. According to Haberman, he wasnt even convincedabout building a wallasapolitical issueuntil he saw the enthusiastic responseitgenerated at campaign rallies.

Trumpisnot the first confidence man weve encountered. As chronicled by Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Thomas Mann and others, theyre a peculiarly American phenomenon. The only difference is, to our eternal regret, we elected this confidence manpresident of the United States.

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No president has done more for Israel than I have, Donald Trump posted on his social media platform, Truth Social, on Sunday. Somewhat surprisingly, however, our wonderful Evangelicals are far more appreciative of this than the people of the Jewish faith, especially those living in the US. Trump also claimed that he was so popular he could be elected prime minister of Israel and said, US Jews have to get their act together and appreciate what they have in Israel Before it is too late!

Once pictures of Trumps post were shared on more popular social media platforms such as Twitter it went viral. His words were condemned by prominent American Jewish groups, including those that regularly assert that anti-Zionism (which Trump appeared to be at least gesturing at) and anti-Semitism are one and the same. Many of these establishment, mainstream Jewish organisations were criticised during Trumps presidency by those who felt that they supported his administration in an attempt to bolster their own ties with Israel and appear bipartisan rather than calling out anti-Semitism and defending human rights.

We dont need the former president, who curries favour with extremists and anti-Semites, to lecture us about the US-Israel relationship. It is not about a quid pro quo; it rests on shared values and security interests. This Jewsplaining is insulting and disgusting, tweeted Jonathan Greenblatt, head of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a Jewish NGO dedicated to stopping defamation of the Jewish people and one of the groups that was criticised during Trumps presidency.

Support for the Jewish state never gives one license to lecture American Jews, nor does it ever give the right to draw baseless judgements about the ties between US Jews and Israel. And to be clear, those ties are strong and enduring, read a tweet from the American Jewish Committee, a prominent advocacy group that was similarly criticised.

Though Trumps post drew a lot of anger, it is hardly the first time hes said something like this. In an interview with the news website Axios last year he said roughly the same thing. People in this country that are Jewish no longer love Israel, he said. Ill tell you, the evangelical Christians love Israel more than the Jews in this country The Jewish people in the United States either dont like Israel or dont care about Israel When you look at the New York Times, the New York Times hates Israel, hates them, and theyre Jewish people that run the New York Times I mean the Sulzberger family.

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He also made similar comments in 2019 while still in office. Speaking to reporters outside the White House, he said: In my opinion, if you vote for a Democrat, youre being very disloyal to Jewish people and youre being very disloyal to Israel. And only weak people would say anything other than that. The day before he had said: I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat, I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.

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Most American Jews do indeed vote for Democrats and most are not voting based on a candidates given position on Israel. In fact a 2020 poll by the Ruderman Foundation found that only 4 per cent of American Jews believe that Israel is the most important issue. Most American Jews do indeed profess an attachment to Israel: six in ten say they are very or somewhat emotionally attached, though less than half have actually been there, according to a 2020 study by the Pew Research Centre. But according to the same study, younger American Jews both feel less attached to and are more critical of the country. These are facts of American life. It is not up to the former president or anyone else to say that that makes American Jews disloyal, or to demand our political support.

Another fact of American political life is that many Republican candidates traffic in anti-Semitic tropes and then defend themselves against charges of bigotry by touting their support for Israel. And another fact of American life is that Republicans often do this with cover from like-minded Jewish people: Trump is set to receive an honour from the right-wing Zionist Organization of America next month for such achievements as moving the US embassy to Jerusalem and cutting funding to Palestinians.

All of this is to say that one of our two major political parties regularly treats Israel and American Jews as though they should be interchangeable, and Trump regularly chastises us for the fact that we dont see things the same way. All of this is happening at a time when most American Jews feel that anti-Semitism on the rise. This is the state of American Jewish politics and Trump is but one of the loudest voices sharing the Republican Party line.

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Donald Trump has once again suggested that Saturday Night Live will be canceled, days after it lampooned the January 6 committee's ninth and possible final hearing.

In a statement on Truth Social, the former president reverted back to his common tactic of attacking a TV show or news network he does not like by suggesting it is suffering from low ratings, as well as saying the long-running sketch show is no longer "funny or smart."

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The comments arrived after SNL parodied a number of moments from the House Select Committee investigating the Capitol riot's October 14 hearing, as well as mocked Trump himself.

"I once hosted Saturday Night Live, and the ratings were HUUUGE! Now, however, the ratings are lower than ever before, and the show will probably be put to rest,'" Trump said.

"It is just not, at these levels, sustainableA bad show that's not funny or smart. L.M. [producer Lorne Michaels] is angry and exhausted, the show even more so. It was once good, never great, but now, like the Late Night Losers who have lost their audience but have no idea why, it is over for SNLA great thing for America!"

Now in its 48th season and featuring a host of new cast members, SNL's ratings do appear to be falling, with the latest episode watched by a reported 3.7 million, down more than 1 million from the Season 47 premiere of 4.9 million viewers.

On Saturday, the NBC show's cold open spoofed the ninth January 6 hearing, including one section in which James Austin Johnson played the former president asking: "Is Mike Pence dead yet?" in a reference to how Trump allegedly turned his supporters against the former vice president for not stopping the certification of the 2020 election results.

Elsewhere, Chloe Fineman, who was playing Nancy Pelosi, is seen recreating the moment the House speaker is on the phone to Pence as the riot was unfolding. Next to her, Sarah Sherman, who was portraying Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, is also on the phone redirecting a DoorDash delivery, asking to change the drop off point from the Capitol due to some "unfortunate reason."

SNL also showed Liz Cheney, the committee's vice chairwoman played by Heidi Gardner, explaining how the Wyoming representative, who lost her GOP primary in August, has suffered greater damage to her political career than Trump in the wake of January 6.

"Whether you're a Republican who's not watching or a Democrat who's nodding so hard your head is falling off, one person is responsible for this insurrection: Donald Trump," she said. "And one person will suffer the consequences: Me."

In 2016, Trump also suggested that SNL should be canceled after they mocked him in the wake of the second presidential debate against his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

"Watched Saturday Night Live hit job on me. Time to retire the boring and unfunny show," Trump tweeted. "Alec Baldwin portrayal stinks. Media rigging election!"

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Supreme Court lawyers often build their arguments around points to which they think the justices will be most receptive. If a lawyer thinks that the justices will be friendly to their caseif they represent, say, a religious person with a Free Exercise Clause claim or a state trying to carry out an executionthen they may be more inclined to swing for the fences. If, on the other hand, they think that the Supreme Court might be divided on the issue based on past rulings or on intuitive understandings of each justice, they might make a narrower argument that could appeal to more skeptical members of the court.

Trumps lawyers, for reasons known only to them, made claims that most of the justices could not stomach. One of them, Jay Sekulow, argued in Vance that any criminal process that touched the president was unconstitutional, a point that even the Justice Department arguing on behalf of the Trump administration did not make. That argument was resoundingly rejected by all nine justices, including the two justices who dissented from the courts decision in Vances favor on narrower grounds. Trump did score a partial victory in the Mazars case, where the justices laid out a balancing test for congressional subpoenas of a presidents personal information, but he only succeeded in running out the clock until his term ended.

On policy issues, the Supreme Court also rejected some of the Trump administrations major initiatives when the process that led to them was sloppy or deceptive. Some of these defeats were narrower than others. The court rejected the Trump administrations bid to place a citizenship question on the 2020 census only when Chief Justice John Roberts broke ranks with his fellow conservatives, citing evidence that the Justice Departments stated rationale for adding the question was a lie. Roberts also joined with the courts four liberals at the time to defeat Trumps bid to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program because the administration had not properly followed the Administrative Procedures Act.

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GOP Rep. Liz Cheney said the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol will issue a subpoena to former President Donald Trump shortly to seek his testimony under oath as well as documents.

Speaking at the Harvard Institute of Politics Tuesday, the committees vice chair did not commit to what the panel will do if Trump does not comply with the subpoena but said well take the steps we need to take.

There was no disagreement on the committee, the Wyoming Republican said, explaining how the panel came to the decision to subpoena Trump.

We all felt that our obligation is to seek his testimony, that the American people deserve to hear directly from him, that it has to be under oath, that he has to be held accountable. And so well be issuing the subpoena shortly both for his testimony under oath as well as for documents. And well take whatever next steps we have to take, you know, assuming that he will fulfill his legal obligation and honor the subpoena, but if that doesnt happen, then well take the steps we need to take after that, but I dont want to go too far down that path at this point.

Committee members unanimously voted to subpoena Trump last week in the panels final hearing before the midterm election, but the official subpoena has not been issued. The vote marked a significant escalation by the panel that will set up a showdown with the former President.

It is not expected that Trump will comply with the subpoena, but the action serves as a way for the committee to set down a marker and show that it wants information directly from Trump as it investigates the attack.

The subpoena will surely trigger a prolonged court battle over Trumps possible compliance, which could even outlast the committee itself. Republicans have pledged to shut down the panel if they win the House majority in the midterm elections next month.

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