Trump boasted, whined, insulted Joe Biden, and threatened to sue the lawyer interrogating him during his deposition in a defamation case.

 During a deposition last year, former President Donald Trump had time to brag about his own successes, lament the nation's "broken" judicial system, and attack President Joe Biden.

E. Jean Carroll, a former Elle magazine columnist who also accused the former president of sexual assault in a separate complaint, filed a defamation claim against Trump on October 19 and demanded that he be deposed in that regard.

On Friday, a portion of Carroll's and Trump's depositions were made public.

According to the documents, Trump is as aggressive as usual: He attacked Carroll twice, misinterpreted her remarks once by saying she claimed "rape was sexy," and answered Roberta Kaplan, the opposing attorney, incoherently.

For this report, Kaplan declined to comment.

The former president started bragging about Truth Social when the opposing counsel inquired about the number of followers he had on the network, which is a social media equivalent to Twitter.

He asserted that over the previous few days, Truth Social had been "number one ahead of TikTok, number one ahead of Twitter, number one ahead of Instagram, and everyone else."

The ratings show that Truth Social is popular, he said.

What ratings Trump was referring to is unknown. Around the time of Trump's deposition, Truth Social's number of unique visitors was declining by two months, according to a November analysis from TheRighting, a business that tracks trends in right-wing media.

According to the data, the platform saw a decrease in users from 4.02 million in August to 2.95 million in October.

Carroll's attorney concentrated on one of Trump's comments made in a Truth Social post from October 12, 2022, in which Trump termed the rape allegations against him "hoaxes."

Kaplan questioned the process of creating the statement in a number of ways. Before having a lightbulb moment in the middle of his deposition, Trump emphasised that it was a Save America remark, making reference to one of the former president's fundraising platforms.

This was a Save America statement, which is actually very intriguing because it is saving America, discouraging others from acting in this way, and attempting to save — it's one significant component of saving America.

The attorney enquired as to whether Trump prepared the statement from October 12 himself and whether it had been reviewed by anyone. He sees a chance to criticise the president here.

"No. I wasn't required to. Unlike Joe Biden, "Added Trump.

Trump frequently complains about how the entire US court system seems to be biassed against him.

Letitia James, the attorney general of New York State, is pursuing a civil fraud case as one of many legal actions brought against the former president. Trump complained about it for a brief period of time.

"The systems in our nation, New York City, New York State, and our country as a whole are all broken. A faulty system exists "said he.

Trump criticises Anderson Cooper of CNN as well.

Carroll's lawyer inquired about a clip from Carroll's 2019 conversation with Cooper in which she discussed her dislike of the word "rape" and related issues.

The majority of people "think of rape as being sexy" and "think of the dreams," she said, adding that it "carries so many sexual overtones."

Trump misinterpreted Carroll's remarks at the deposition when he believed she had remarked "it was extremely sexy to be raped."

Trump dubbed Anderson Cooper's 360 show on CNN as "dumb" and a "poor ratings show" as he described how the tape was prepared.

After being questioned about the motivation behind his October 12 remark, a clearly irate Trump explodes in his deposition.

Trump threatens to sue Carroll and her attorney, Kaplan, who has been questioning him, after labelling Carroll's accusation a "fiction."

Because this is — how many instances do you have, I'll sue you as well, Trump said.

In a lawsuit alleging fraud against Trump and his three eldest children, Kaplan is also representing investors.

He reiterates that he will sue Kaplan, to which the attorney asks, "Are you finished?"

Trump says, "Yeah."

Democrats inside and outside of the West Wing are frustrated by the White House's response to the Biden documents.

 The way the White House has informed the public about the discovery of documents with classified markings at President Biden's former office and his home in Delaware has angered West Wing staffers, officials from across the Biden administration, and Democratic Party officials more broadly, according to CBS News.

Those who spoke with CBS News on the condition of anonymity in order to speak openly about the matter and preserve their professional relationships feel that the president's cherished promises of transparency and competent management of the government were undermined by the decision not to announce the discovery of the documents sooner.

They also worry that the White House's ability to confirm even the most basic details will be greatly constrained now that a special counsel probe is under way.

A Friday statement from a Democrat close to the White House claimed, "They're attempting to put lipstick on a pig." The issue is that they were only given one stick of lipstick and 50 pigs this week.

According to a Northeastern Democratic Party official who is close to the president and his top staff, "There isn't really a comparison to be made between the Biden and Trump document situations. But why on earth didn't they publish the news earlier, perhaps before the holidays? And why didn't they release the entire narrative at once rather than piecemeal with each new document found? Simply said, it was not handled at all well."

Some Democrats in the House are speaking out more about their worries about the situation.

"That wasn't supposed to happen. It requires investigation, which is already being done, "Democratic representative from California Zoe Lofgren stated on MSNBC on Saturday. "As a result, we will have to wait to learn all the specifics, but I have no doubt that we will. Since I haven't spoken to him, I can only assume he is angry about it, but who could be?"

In a broader sense, Rep. Matt Cartwright, a centrist Democrat from Scranton, Pennsylvania, where the president is from, said on Fox News that the federal government needs to "review how departing presidents and vice presidents are going about organising the archiving of their documents, both classified and unclassified, because this can't go on."

He continued, "You're talking about people who are all lining up, they're rewriting their resumes, they're sending them out for new jobs, they're not thinking about, you know, business at hand, it seems to me. Whether it's President Trump leaving office or Vice President Biden leaving office.

The president's personal lawyer, Bob Bauer, defended the public announcement of the discovery of the materials in a statement released on Saturday "attempted to strike a balance between the necessity of public transparency where appropriate and the standards and restrictions required to maintain the integrity of the investigation. The public publication of information pertaining to the inquiry while it is continuing must be avoided due to these factors."

The White House Counsel's office, which is in charge of defending the president in official affairs, announced in a separate statement that it will direct any future press queries about the specifics of the ongoing investigation and discovery of the papers to the Justice Department.

Many Democrats are especially sensitive to media reports that contrast the materials found at Mr. Biden's former workplace and Delaware estate with the National Archives' protracted efforts to obtain hundreds of classified documents from former President Donald Trump over the course of several months.

According to Kyle Herrig, executive director of the Congressional Integrity Project, "comparing Biden's collaboration to Trump's obstruction is like comparing apples with arsenic."

The Democrat-aligned organisation is intended to act as a neutral force in the upcoming onslaught of House Republican oversight investigations, supporting the president and congressional Democrats.

She urged them to say that the president "is cooperating fully" while Trump "repeatedly obstructed efforts to retrieve sensitive documents to the point the Department of Justice had to obtain and execute a search warrant." Herrig sent updated suggested talking points to prominent party activists and frequent television guests on Friday.

The Biden and Trump cases were described by Herrig as, "Interaction vs. Blockade. Stolen vs. misplaced. Subpoena versus voluntary. Instant vs Search Warrant"

Given Mr. Biden's prior criticism of Trump's handling of secret information, another Democrat who advised Mr. Biden's 2020 campaign and has worked in campaign politics in the South and West for decades called the current predicament "hypocritical."

This Democrat, however, claimed that the White House was "sharp" in its reaction to recent positive economic data showing a further decline in inflation and growing Republican calls for cutting federal entitlement programmes in exchange for raising the country's debt ceiling, which Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned must be done by early June.

This Democrat stated that the president's political standing should improve if he remains committed to boosting the economy. "Do the documents in Trump's home or Biden's garage truly interest the general populace in America? Not in my opinion. They appear to be more concerned with egg carton costs, in my opinion."

Additional classified Biden documents are discovered.

 A new set of secret federal documents have been discovered by the aides to US Vice President Joe Biden at a second location, adding to the White House's mounting political embarrassment.

The first cache was discovered at Mr. Biden's post-vice-presidential private office in Washington, D.C.

The US Department of Justice is investigating the situation.

Donald Trump, a former president, is under criminal investigation for allegedly handling secret documents improperly.

On Wednesday, it remained unclear when or where Biden's staff discovered the extra batch of documents.

Only this week has the first batch of roughly 10 documents been made public after it was found in November at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank close to the White House.

These documents apparently contain US intelligence notes and briefing materials about the UK, Iran, and Ukraine.

Although it's not obvious why they ended up in the private office he started using after that, they are related to his time serving as vice president under President Barack Obama.

Laws governing how secret materials are kept and stored limit access to them to those with special authorization.

After an administration leaves office, all White House records, including those that are secret, must be given to the US National Archives.

Regarding the recently found batch, the White House has not yet made any remarks. However, CBS, a US partner of the BBC, and other US media outlets have corroborated the discovery.

Karine Jean-Pierre, the press secretary for Biden, declined to respond to inquiries regarding the initial trove of documents during her daily news briefing on Wednesday.

The Department of Justice is looking into this, she said. I won't add anything to what the president said yesterday.

She was questioned about the delay in the news's public release of two months, but she steadfastly refused to explain when Mr. Biden had been informed of it. The revelation was made just a few days before the US midterm elections.

On Tuesday, Mr. Biden stated that he was "surprised" to learn the news and that he was "cooperating" with the law department's investigation.

The debate occurs when a new Republican majority in the US House of Representatives scrutinises the Democratic president.

According to James Comer, the incoming chairman of the House Oversight Committee, "oversight and accountability are coming now that Democrats no longer have one-party rule in Washington."

The committee is looking into the president and his family, and part of that investigation will involve asking the White House to provide records and correspondence pertaining to the classified files.

According to the White House, Mr. Biden's attorneys notified the archives as soon as they found the secret documents at the think tank, and the agency picked them up the following morning.

When Mr. Biden's predecessor's Florida residence was inspected by FBI investigators in August of last year, they found over 10,000 documents that Mr. Trump had not yet given to the National Archives.

Before the FBI arrived at Mar-a-Lago, the justice department had issued a demand for the return of the confidential documents.

Federal authorities seized more than 300 documents with classified markings from the Palm Beach golf club, including 18 with the top secret designation.

Biden submits a timeline

From January 2009 to January 2017, he served as Barack Obama's vice president. From 2018 to 2020, he used a private office in the Penn Biden Center thanks to his connections at the University of Pennsylvania.

First batch of secret documents were discovered at this office on November 2, 2022. CBS News reported on this finding on January 9, 2023.

11 January 2023: NBC News reports on a second discovery made at a different site.

Biden introduces a new initiative to stop illegal immigration as he gets ready to visit the border.

 President Joe Biden on Thursday outlined a new policy that will allow 30,000 migrants per month from four countries but will also crack down on those who don't use the plan's legal channels in a rare White House address on the country's southern border problem.

The proposal, according to the president, will offer humanitarian "parole" to qualified migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, who were speaking in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. It will work as part of a border strategy that incorporates an expanded use of Title 42 expulsions.

Do not simply arrive at the border. In response to potential immigrants from certain countries, Biden advised them to "stay where you are and apply legitimately from there. "Starting today, you will not be eligible for this new parole programme if you don't apply through the legal process."

The news came as information about a proposal to implement a new rule—a variation of a Trump-era policy commonly referred to as the "transit ban"—was made public by the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice. The new regulation would prevent immigrants from requesting asylum in the United States unless they had already been denied safe haven by another nation. It would also consider those who enter the country illegally ineligible. Prior to the proposed regulation becoming law, DHS and DOJ will take public comments into consideration.

The additional information disclosed on Thursday, according to Biden, "won't cure our entire immigration system but they can help us a good deal in better managing what is a challenging situation." "My administration is going to work to make things at the border better with the tools that we have until Congress passes the funds, a comprehensive immigration plan to reform the system completely," he continued.

The president also announced that he will be making his first trip to the border since taking office. In order to "review border enforcement activities" and "meet with local leaders," Biden said he will travel to El Paso, Texas, on Sunday. Prior to his journey to Mexico City for the "Three Amigos" conference with his Mexican and Canadian counterparts, the visit took place.

The actions are a reflection of the Biden administration's most recent effort to address the overflowing immigration system in the United States. They also occur at a time when the president is under increasing criticism over border issues from both Republicans and Democrats.

The issue has become more pressing for the Biden administration recently as officials made preparations for a court-ordered end to Title 42 limits, only to have the policy's lifting be temporarily blocked by the Supreme Court. The southern border is currently seeing a record-breaking migratory flood, which is likely to be a critical policy concern throughout Biden's presidency regardless of the high court's decision on the Trump administration's policy, which is scheduled to be decided later this year.

In his speech, Biden brought up a proposal he made in the early months of his administration to fix the "broken immigration system," which included measures to stop illegal immigration and defend those who had been granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and other protections, as well as other "Dreamers" who had been brought to the country illegally as children by their families. Republicans were criticised by the president for turning down both his funding demands and his proposal.

"Our border issues didn't develop over night, and they won't be resolved over night either. It's a challenging issue. Extreme Republicans will undoubtedly campaign on immigration because it is a political issue, he added. "However, they now have an option. They can continue to use immigration to try to win political points, or they can work together to solve the issue and fix the flawed system.

With immediate effect, the humanitarian parole programme expands on the one launched exclusively for Venezuelans this fall, which opened a small door for up to 24,000 migrants with prior ties to the United States and those who could offer financial and other help. The program's implementation, which deals with nations experiencing political and economic unrest, depends on the utilisation of the Title 42 authority to turn away non-recipients at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Border agents will turn away Cubans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans in the same manner that they turned away large numbers of Venezuelans in the past few months using Title 42 authority. According to Biden, Mexico has committed to take in 30,000 migrants per month from the four nations.

To deter people from making the risky trip via the Darien Gap, migrants who illegally enter Panama or Mexico will also be disqualified from the programme.

The policy for Venezuelans, which was unveiled in October 2022, expels anyone who attempted to enter the United States illegally through Mexico while requiring migrants to request asylum from their home nation. Humanitarian parole recipients from Venezuela were permitted to fly into the United States. The number of those migrants crossing illegally has dropped 70 percent, falling from about 21,000 in October to 6,200 in November, according to latest U.S. Customs and Border protection data.

The administration is continuing to make plans for the termination of Title 42 limitations, according to Biden, along with new legal avenues and deterrence. In addition to increasing resources including manpower, vehicles, medical assistance, and buildings to support border officials, the government is working to combat cartels and human smuggling networks. According to Biden, greater funds and assistance would also be given to border cities and other areas that get a lot of migrants. DHS intends to increase its engagement with state and local leaders.

These actions come as Democratic-led municipalities hosting migrants bused in from the southern border begged the White House this week to assist them in managing a surge that has already taxed local infrastructure. Republicans have also urged the administration to take additional action, with Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) highlighting the high concentration of Cuban and Haitian migrants in South Florida.

Biden has been listening to requests from Democratic mayors of Chicago and Washington, D.C., including Eric Adams of New York, and "he knows that there are things we must do," said Adams.

And I just don't think this completes the thought. Comma is used here. We need to add a period at the end of the statement to indicate that the border issue, which had lasted ten years, is now over.

Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott, however, referred to Biden's proposal as a "band-aid for a historic flood."

The president's speech was swiftly condemned by immigration reform advocates and attorneys who oppose any expansion of Title 42, which has allowed border agents to immediately expel millions of migrants on public health grounds without considering their claims for asylum. While Thursday's announcements may help the administration temporarily deal with the record number of people fleeing to the U.S., they are only a temporary solution. Officials from the administration have been debating the political ramifications of strengthening public health policy for days.

On Thursday, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) denounced the actions. He stated that although he agreed with the administration's choice to give some immigrants with fewer resources easier access to parole, "this benefit will not be extended to immigrants who are fleeing violence and persecution and do not have the ability or financial means to qualify for the new parole process."

Menendez said in a statement that "restoring rule of law at the border" was affronted by the Biden Administration's decision to expand Title 42, a destructive and inhumane holdover of the Trump Administration's racist immigration strategy. "I am profoundly troubled that the Administration is skirting immigration law, which will heighten confusion and turmoil at the Southern border, rather than working with Congress to find a solution to the several humanitarian situations driving mass migration in our hemisphere."

Combining this action with the revival of a rule resembling the transit ban from the Trump administration forced the administration to defend itself in order to avoid criticism from Democrats and immigration activists. The decision to implement a "illegal" transit ban, according to Menendez, "erases the words and principles carved on the Statue of Liberty."

At a press conference that immediately followed Biden's, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas emphasised numerous times that the new regulation bears "no resemblance" to the transit ban enacted by the previous administration because DHS has already established legal alternatives.

In preparation for the lifting of Title 42 limits, he provided more specifics on his plans to increase Title 8 border processing. In accordance with Title 8, the government would be entitled to swiftly deport anyone who is unable to provide a legal justification, such as a granted asylum application. An immigration prohibition on these immigrants would last for five years.

When asked about possible fallout from the announcements, one administration official responded, "I think rather than seeing this as restricting individuals' abilities to seek asylum, you should see this as managing the border in an orderly and humane way, while also expanding these pathways with the parole programme."