Trump Corruption

Atlanta’s ABC affiliate reports: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has filed court documents to appeal the decision to throw out several charges against several of the defendants in the Georgia election interference case. Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee ruled in March that six of the charges in the indictment be quashed because they lack sufficient detail. They were …

“We mock you. We mock your fear. We want your fear. It’s going to be accountability. We are taking apart the administrative state. We’re going to destroy the deep state, and we’re going to hold everybody responsible that put this republic in the situation its in today. Accountability, responsibility. And that will come with authority. The authority of Donald J. …

Agence France-Presse reports: Donald Trump boasted on Thursday he would quickly free the jailed US journalist Evan Gershkovich from Russia if he wins the presidential election, but Moscow denied discussing the case with the Republican candidate. The former president, who has frequently voiced admiration for Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, and has voiced skepticism over US support for Ukraine, said …

Law & Crime reports: Yet another request by former Donald Trump White House trade adviser Peter Navarro to be released from prison was rejected, this time by the full federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The one-page ruling denied Navarro’s request for a full rehearing, with the decision noting that there was “an absence of a request” …

Law & Crime reports: Former President Donald Trump lost out twice in one day in appellate court on two issues central to his public criticisms of the hush-money trial, namely that he can’t get a fair trial in liberal, media-driven Manhattan and can’t get a fair trial before a “conflicted” judge. On Thursday, the New York Supreme Court’s Appellate Division, …

The Washington Post reports: Republican activists in at least three states where Donald Trump tried to reverse his defeat in 2020 — nearly all of them under criminal indictment for casting electoral votes for him despite his loss — are poised to reprise their roles as presidential electors this year. Six activists in Michigan, Nevada and New Mexico have made …

ABC News reports: Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday slammed former President Donald Trump for insinuating President Joe Biden authorized his potential assassination during the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago resort in August 2022 for confidential government material, pointing out that a similar Justice Department memo on the use of deadly force was also used in the FBI search of …

The New York Times reports: Senate Democrats opened an investigation on Thursday into former President Donald J. Trump’s meeting with oil and gas executives last month to determine whether Mr. Trump offered a “policies-for-money transaction” when he asked for $1 billion for his 2024 campaign. Over a chopped steak dinner, Mr. Trump told about 20 oil and gas executives that …

“BREAKING FROM TRUMP: BIDEN’S DOJ WAS AUTHORIZED TO SHOOT ME! It’s just been revealed that Biden’s DOJ was authorized to use DEADLY FORCE for their DESPICABLE raid in Mar-a-Lago. You know they’re just itching to do the unthinkable. “So before the day is over, I’m calling on ONE MILLION Pro-Trump patriots to chip in and say, STOP THE WITCH HUNT …

“Evan Gershkovich, the Reporter from The Wall Street Journal, who is being held by Russia, will be released almost immediately after the Election, but definitely before I assume Office. He will be HOME, SAFE, AND WITH HIS FAMILY. Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, will do that for me, but not for anyone else, and WE WILL BE PAYING NOTHING!” – …

“License to shoot and kill — there were innocent people standing around Mar-a-Lago. People staying there, friends, guests. “What happens if Donald Trump is there and sees someone — an FBI agent roughing up Barron Trump or Melania Trump in their — in her closet, which we know they went through, and decides to push back? “Is there gonna be …

“The very first line under the RNC’s ‘Top News’ claims that ‘deadly force was authorized against Trump during an FBI raid at Mar a Lago.’ That, you know, the intent of that being a possible assassination. “Now, among those documents was something called a law enforcement operations order, which explains what agents are allowed to do and what they’re allowed …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump on Wednesday explained his rationale for not taking the stand in his hush money trial despite saying for months he would be willing to do so. “Because he made rulings that makes it very difficult to testify,” Trump said. “Anything I did, anything I did in the past they can bring everything up. And …

CNN reports: A hearing in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case devolved into shouting Wednesday as attorneys battled over an alleged threat made last year to a defense attorney. The morning proceeding in Fort Pierce, Florida, had been scheduled for Walt Nauta, one of former President Donald Trump’s co-defendants, to present arguments that special counsel Jack Smith’s team had selectively and …

“An armed invasion of the man’s home [Mar-A-Lago], with a teenage son there, with no indication of arms or any armed resistance. None. Except to create a dramatic effect! You know, January 6th had a damn Hollywood producer doing it. And they snowed everybody on the left, and boy, they got a lot of our people pissing in their pants. …

“Everybody talks about him suing a lot of people. They don’t talk about his success rate though, you know. If I was him, I would be sitting in, New Jersey, Florida or wherever he is now, or New York, and I would thinking, ‘Oh, this is like crazy random guy and some like, liberal cunts in Cannes. They did this …

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ABC News reports: Rudy Giuliani agreed to cease accusations of election fraud against Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million judgment after a judge found the former New York City mayor guilty of defaming the two women. On Tuesday, Giuliani “agreed to never again accuse either [Ruby] Freeman or [Shaye] Moss …

Mediaite reports: Donald Trump once again attacked Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over the former president’s criminal trial in Manhattan. This time, he urged those watching to “take a look at where” the Colombia-born Merchan “comes from.” “The judge hates Donald Trump,” the former president insisted. “Just take a look. Take a look at him. Take a look at …

NBC News reports: Smartmatic alleges that Newsmax has destroyed evidence in the voting machine company’s lawsuit against the right-wing news channel over false claims that Smartmatic helped “rig” the 2020 election, according to court documents made public this week. Lawyers for Florida-based Smartmatic allege that Newsmax engaged in a “cover-up” by destroying texts and emails of key executives that would …