Trump Corruption

Trump Files Demand For Mistrial In NY Fraud Case

CNBC reports: Donald Trump and his co-defendants asked a judge Wednesday to grant a mistrial in the $250 million civil business fraud case that threatens the former president’s business empire. In a court filing, Trump, his two adult sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, the Trump Organization and its top executives argued that “the evidence of apparent and actual …

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Ex-Trump WH Lawyer: His Threats Will Land Him In Jail

“It’s much like what he did on Jan. 6. It continues to be off the rails in terms of the extent to which his invective infects these proceedings and is the potential to intimidate witnesses. I believe that, you know, at some point, comments like this will result in Trump not only being sanctioned. But at some point, these types …

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DOJ Appeals For Renewed Gag Order In Trump J6 Case

Politico reports: Former President Donald Trump’s renewed attacks on the family of special counsel Jack Smith and his repeated invective against likely witnesses in his Washington, D.C. criminal case warrant the urgent restoration of a gag order against him, prosecutors argued Tuesday. Smith’s team urged a federal appeals court in Washington to reinstate the gag order — which a three-judge …

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Michigan Judge: Trump Can Appear On Primary Ballot

The Detroit News reports: A Michigan judge ruled Tuesday that former President Donald Trump’s name can appear on primary ballots, saying it would be inappropriate to intervene and deem Trump ineligible. Michigan Court of Claims Judge James Robert Redford ultimately declined on Tuesday to bar Trump from getting a spot on the Feb. 27 primary ballot and refused to order …

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Georgia DA Seeks Protective Order After Leak Of Jenna Ellis Proffer Video: “Intended To Intimidate Witnesses”

The Washington Post reports: The Atlanta-area prosecutor leading the criminal racketeering case against former president Donald Trump and 14 allies alleging they broke the law when they sought to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia asked the judge overseeing the case to immediately issue an “emergency” protective order over discovery materials to prevent leaks of potential evidence. The recordings …

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Trump: My “Perfect” Sister Was Tortured By Fake News

Posted just now to Trump’s Truth Social account: My great sister, Maryanne, passed away yesterday at the age of 86. A truly beautiful woman, tall and elegant, with a presence like no other, she was also a tremendous student, intellect, and Judge, in charge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, just below the U.S. Supreme …

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Newsmax: Leftists Twisted Trump’s Hitleresque Words

“I agree with him. A lot of that stuff is actually happening. Look, he’s going into a bit more detail about draining the swamp, alright? You’re allowed to talk about draining the swamp. Are you following this? Now, they say that Donald Trump is like Hitler, he’s using the same words that Hitler used. Well, Hitler used the word chair, …

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Trump Shares Call For Citizen’s Arrest Of Judge And AG

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: Racist A.G. Letitia James is smirking all day long from her seat in Court, as New York continues to set records in murder and other violent crimes, and businesses flee to other States. “This is a law that’s rather bazar, this is a law that doesn’t require any victims (there are none, except me!), …

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Cohen: Trump Would Sell Out US Secrets From Prison

The Hill reports: Michael Cohen, previously a personal attorney of former President Trump, argued it could be “dangerous” to put his former boss behind bars, advocating instead for a prison-like house arrest. “He needs to be held accountable,” Cohen said in an interview on CNN Monday, when asked if the former president deserved jail time in any of his mounting …

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DOJ Filing: Televising Trump’s J6 Trial Would Be A Circus

CNN reports: The special counsel’s office is pushing back against Donald Trump using his Washington, DC, federal criminal trial as a spectacle, after Trump’s lawyers told the court this weekend he’d support cameras in the courtroom. Trump’s bid to open his DC federal criminal trial to cameras is “a transparent effort to demand special treatment, try his case in the …

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Jenna Ellis Told Georgia Prosecutors That She Was Told Trump Wouldn’t Leave WH “Under Any Circumstances”

“And he said to me, in a kind of excited tone, ‘Well, we don’t care, and we’re not going to leave. And I said, ‘What do you mean?’ And he said ‘Well, the boss’, meaning President Trump — and everyone understood ‘the boss,’ that’s what we all called him — he said, ‘The boss is not going to leave under …

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Trump: “Jack Smith Will End Up In Mental Institution”

Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: Deranged Jack Smith, Andrew Weissmann, Lisa Monaco, the “team of losers and misfits” from CREW, and all the rest of the Radical Left Zealots and Thugs who have been working illegally for years to “take me down,” will end up, because of their suffering from a horrible disease, TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME (TDS!), in …

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Trump Spox Ridicules Comparisons To Hitler By Going Full Adolf Hitler: “We Will Crush Their Entire Existence”

The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump denigrated his domestic opponents and critics during a Veterans Day speech Saturday, calling those on the other side of the aisle “vermin” and suggesting that they pose a greater threat to the United States than countries such as Russia, China or North Korea. That language is drawing rebuke from historians, who compared …

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Trump’s Older Sister Maryanne Barry Dies At Age 86

The New York Times reports: Maryanne Trump Barry, a former federal judge who was an older sister of Donald J. Trump and served as both his protector and critic throughout their lives, has died. She was 86. Ms. Barry died at her home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, according to two people familiar with the matter. One of …

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Junior Heckled With “Crime Family” Chants In NYC

The Messenger reports: Donald Trump Jr. is back on the witness stand on Monday in the civil fraud trial that could boot him, his father and family from doing business in New York. He’s the lead witness for the defense, which is set to begin presenting its case to Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron. Trump Jr. walked up the …

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Trump Lawyer: I’ll Seek NY Fraud Case Mistrial “Soon”

The Hill reports: Former President Trump’s attorney Alina Habba on Sunday said she will be filing for a mistrial in the former president’s fraud cause in New York “soon,” while raising concerns that it will be the same trial judge deciding on the motion. Trump has repeatedly expressed concerns on both social media and in court about the judge presiding …

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Trump Lawyers Begged Jack Smith Not To Indict Him

Politico reports: Jack Smith’s public image, shaped by his near invisibility since taking over the federal criminal cases against Donald Trump, has been that of a sullen, brooding and hard-charging prosecutor. His steely glare, on display in two arraignments of the former president and in a handful of public photos and videos, has contributed to a sort of mythology around …

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BOOK: Trump Offered To Pardon Several Prisoners If Kim Kardashian Got Football Stars To Visit White House

Another except from Jonathan Karl’s new book: A source familiar with the conversations tells me Trump listened to her requests and demanded a straight-up quid pro quo. He would grant the commutations, he told Kardashian, if she leveraged her celebrity connections to get football stars who were friends of hers to come visit him at the White House. Kardashian actually …

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Tomorrow: Defense Begins In Trump’s NY Fraud Trial

The Washington Post reports: When the defense begins presenting its own case, Donald Trump Jr., Trump’s oldest son — who is a defendant in the case, as is his brother, Eric Trump — will return to the stand as the defense’s first witness. Trump’s attorneys are expected to argue that his financial statements were legitimate, that valuations are subjective and …

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Trump Really Believed He’d Be Reinstated In 2021

Mediaite reports: ABC News anchor Jonathan Karl has revealed stunning tapes of ex-President Donald Trump and others talking about his belief he’d be reinstated. Trump advisers minimized the reports as “offhand musings” at the time, but that strange belief persisted among Republicans at alarming percentages — consistently around a third — for the remainder of that year — even after …

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