Trump Corruption

The Hill reports: Former President Trump won’t try to move his Georgia criminal prosecution to federal court, his lawyer said Thursday. The surprising turn of events comes weeks after Steve Sadow, Trump’s attorney, notified the state judge that Trump may attempt such a move. “President Trump now notifies the Court that he will NOT be seeking to remove his case …

The Messenger reports: Former President Donald Trump has sought to discredit a New York judge’s blockbuster ruling threatening his business empire by arguing that Mar-a-Lago alone is worth more than a billion dollars. But fewer than three years ago, his tax representative told Palm Beach County officials that Trump “agrees” his private club in South Florida is worth just $26.6 …

The New York Times reports: A civil trial in which Donald J. Trump is accused of fraudulently inflating the values of his properties could begin as soon as Monday, after a New York appeals court rejected the former president’s attempt to have evidence against him thrown out. The appeals court, in a terse two-page order Thursday, turned aside Mr. Trump’s …

The Messenger reports: Former President Donald Trump and three of his adult children are among the fact witnesses New York Attorney General Letitia James expects to call in a civil fraud trial set to begin on Monday. Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and former Trump attorney-turned-critic Michael Cohen are included in a list of fact witnesses James filed …

“I’m here tonight to lay out a vision for a revival of economic nationalism. The Wall Street predators, the Chinese cheaters and the corrupt politicians have hurt you. I will make you better. “For years, foreign nations have looted and plundered your hopes, your dreams and your heritage, and now they’re going to pay for what they have stolen and …

The New York Times reports: Federal prosecutors on Thursday accused former President Donald J. Trump’s lawyers of trying to employ an arcane law governing the use of classified material to “intentionally derail” the timing of his trial on charges of mishandling national security documents and obstructing efforts to retrieve them. The accusation of deliberate foot-dragging by the prosecutors in the …

“If you read the letter of the law, theoretically, my cabin in upstate New York, because it’s owned in an LLC, that is a corporation, and therefore, because I’m a part of it, somehow that has to be disbanded. And so well, so then what or who actually owns my cabin at this point? This has been done in such …

The Detroit News reports: About 400 to 500 Trump supporters were inside a Drake Enterprises facility for the speech. Drake Enterprises employs about 150 people, and the UAW doesn’t represent its workforce. It wasn’t clear how many auto workers were in the crowd for the speech, which was targeted at them. One individual in the crowd who held a sign …

Axios reports: Retiring Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Mark Milley said he’s taking steps to ensure his own safety and that of his family after former President Trump accused him of treason in an online post. Milley made the comments during an upcoming interview on “60 Minutes” after CBS’ Norah O’Donnell noted that Trump last week said that his …

The Associated Press reports: U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said Wednesday she won’t recuse herself from Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case in Washington, rejecting the former president’s claims that her past comments raise doubts about whether she can be fair. Chutkan, who was nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama and was randomly assigned to Trump’s case, said …

The Meidas Touch reports: The video posted by Trump opens with Letitia James waving a pride flag along with text reading, “New York embarrassment” and claims the New York Attorney General “is politically targeting President Trump.” The video also closes with the same pride parade footage with text claiming, “Letitia James is abusing her office.” The use of pride parade …

From the Wall Street Journal editorial board: Donald Trump suggested the other day that Gen. Mark Milley, the nation’s highest military officer, deserves execution—as in death. He said NBC should be investigated for treason and that the FBI should raid the homes of Senate Democrats. Then he accused President Biden of being manipulated by “the Fascists in the White House.” …

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior White House adviser, Jared Kushner, tried to persuade the publisher of the Washington Post to fire its editor over coverage of the Russia investigation, that editor, Marty Baron, writes in a new book. “With no delay and without pause during his four years as president,” Baron writes, “Trump and his team would …

The Daily Beast reports: On the heels of yesterday’s critical court ruling ordering the death of the fabled Trump Organization, lawyers for Donald Trump appeared in court on Wednesday to pick up the pieces and make sense of how this can possibly get any worse for the former president. Huge sections of the Trump family’s real estate empire are having …

The Messenger reports: Attorneys for pro-Donald Trump lawyer Ken Chesebro told a Georgia judge on Tuesday that providing “less than two months” of legal advice after the 2020 presidential election does not amount to a racketeering scheme. Fulton County prosecutors call Chesebro the architect of a plan to send pro-Trump electors to the U.S. Congress in states that Joe Biden …

ABC News reports: Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson claims that former President Donald Trump said the word “hang” as he was watching rioters chant “hang Mike Pence” as the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection unfolded on a TV in the dining room off the Oval Office. “I take a few steps back as Mark takes my place in the …

The Meidas Touch reports: This appears to be a similar, if not the same video that was deleted by the Trump campaign after it was pointed out that a firearm purchase would be a violation of federal law because Trump is under indictment. The post that Trump shared not only says he bought the “golden Glock,” but acknowledges he has …

Shared by Trump on his Trump Social account: Watched a J6 doc last night & something stuck out to me. Almost every MAGA event in DC during Trump’s tenure would be intercepted by violent hordes of Antifa. Remember how they destroyed DC during Trump’s inauguration? Well we have millions of hours of footage of J6, and yet not 1 clip …

The Messenger reports: Cassidy Hutchinson, in the book that was released on Tuesday, paints a picture of disarray as Trump and his staff attempted to dispute the results of the 2020 election. After lawsuits to protest the results of the 2020 election were dismissed, Hutchinson recounts how the president reportedly pressed White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to do …

CBS News reports: Hunter Biden sued Rudy Giuliani and his former attorney Tuesday, claiming they hacked and manipulated data on an external hard drive associated with his laptop. Giuliani and the attorney, Robert Costello, have frequently acknowledged accessing the hard drive’s data. The lawsuit accuses them of having “dedicated an extraordinary amount of time and energy toward looking for, hacking …