Trump Corruption

The Hill reports: Lara Trump, the co-Chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) and former President Trump’s daughter-in-law, promised Friday to prosecute anyone who cheats in an election, threatening “we will track you down.” “This year is the year we do it,” Lara Trump said at Turning Point USA’s Detroit convention. “We are also sending a loud and clear message …

“You have to make that contrast for people out there because there are some people who watch the wrong thing out there, get their news from the wrong information sources, and they have been bamboozled a little bit shall we say. “And that’s the difference between Republicans and Democrats. We speak in truth and facts on this side. The other …

The Washington Post reports: Trump has made pardoning Jan. 6 defendants a signature campaign promise as he seeks another term in the White House, saying in a recent interview that he would consider all of them. Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said he will decide “on a case-by-case basis when he is back in the White House.” She did not …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump thinks there “could be” alien life in the universe—in large part because U.S. pilots he met while president, who he found to be “like beautiful Tom Cruise but taller”, told him they saw unexplained things in the sky. “I met with pilots … like beautiful Tom Cruise but taller—handsome, perfect people,” Trump told Logan …

The Daily Beast reports: Speaking on Logan Paul’s Impaulsive podcast Thursday, the presumptive GOP nominee said he thinks the world needs to be “very careful” with AI, which he called “really powerful stuff.” “It can also be really used for good,” Trump said, adding: “I had a speech rewritten by AI.” Trump didn’t name who had helped him use the …

Axios reports: The Democratic National Committee is launching billboards in 10 locations across Milwaukee on Friday featuring former President Trump’s reported diss of the city that’s the site of the Republican National Convention next month. Trump reportedly used “horrible” to describe the city in the key swing state during his closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill on Thursday with House Republicans, …

CNBC reports: Donald Trump huddled with at least 80 CEOs on Thursday in Washington with a clear pitch to them: If he is elected president again in November, the CEOs are going to see tax cuts and a curtailment of business regulations. Trump said that if he is in the White House he will cut taxes, including income taxes, and …

Axios reports: Former President Trump urged House Republicans on Thursday to adopt a measured tone on abortion on the 2024 campaign trail and to embrace exceptions to restrictions on the procedure, Axios has learned. In addition to asserting that GOP lawmakers and candidates need to talk about abortion “correctly,” Trump argued the issue should be left to the states and …

“I wanted to begin by quoting the jury in the Manhattan hush money trial. Guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty. “This was what the jury pronounced. Unanimously on every count. My Republican …

Vanity Fair reports: Days after being ordered to surrender by July 1 for a four-month prison sentence, longtime Trump adviser Stephen Bannon told Tucker Carlson: “In my 20s I served my country on a Navy destroyer, and in my 70s I’ll serve my country in a federal prison. It doesn’t make any difference to me. It won’t change my life …

The Washington Post reports: The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a California lawyer’s free-speech claim that he may trademark the double-entendre phrase “Trump Too Small” for use on T-shirts criticizing former president Donald Trump. The Biden administration asked the justices to uphold the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s decision to deny the trademark application from attorney Steve Elster because federal …

CNBC reports: Donald Trump on Thursday brought up the idea of imposing an “all tariff policy” that would ultimately enable the U.S. to get rid of the income tax, sources in a private meeting with the Republican presidential candidate told CNBC. Trump, in the meeting with GOP lawmakers at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, D.C., also talked about using …

Mediaite reports: The 45th president is evidently no fan of beer, bratwurst, and Brewers baseball. During a closed-door meeting with Republican Congressional leaders, former President Donald Trump trashed Milwaukee, the site of the looming Republican National Convention, as a “horrible city” — according to Punchbowl News’ Jake Sherman. If Milwaukee’s Journal-Sentinel had any sense of humor, their headline tomorrow morning …

Via press release from GOP Rep. Jim Jordan: The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Thursday, June 13, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. ET to examine Alvin Bragg’s political prosecution of President Trump. With his unprecedented politicized indictment of President Trump, Manhattan District Attorney Bragg has opened the door for politically motivated prosecutions of federal officials by state and …

NBC News reports: When Donald Trump visits Washington on Thursday to meet with lawmakers near the Capitol, he will be greeted with video of a mob of his supporters rioting there on Jan. 6, 2021. The Democratic National Committee plans to launch a mobile billboard ahead of Trump’s visit that will aim to follow the former president as he moves …

Politico reports: Donald Trump makes his first visit to Capitol Hill since leaving the presidency Thursday morning, meeting with Republican lawmakers in what is being billed as a resolutely forward-looking session focused on a potential 2025 legislative agenda. In fact, Trump has bigger, more immediate legislative priorities. He has been obsessed in recent weeks with harnessing the powers of Congress …

The Daily Beast reports: Money raised by Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign is being sent right back into the former president’s pockets in various forms, according to a new report from Forbes based on Federal Election Commission records. Trump has not donated any money personally to his 2024 presidential campaign, but he is certainly charging others for it, according to the …

The Hill reports: Tensions in Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy case are coming to a head, with his creditors hoping for the drastic remedy of having a third party take control of the former New York City mayor’s finances. Since Giuliani filed for bankruptcy protection, spurred by a $148 million defamation verdict, his creditors have accused him of hiding assets and a …

Mediaite reports: An email message sent early Wednesday morning landed in inboxes nationwide. The subject line read, “Haul out the Guillotine!” Talk of Trump exacting revenge on his political rivals and media critics has become a narrative, and this sort of messaging will do little to disabuse that notion. “Remember when that Sicko Kathy Griffin made the rounds parading my …

Law & Crime reports: Rudy Giuliani on Monday resisted demands of creditors to appoint a trustee that would take control of his finances during the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, claiming that he “does not intend to hide assets or mislead anyone” and denying that he has committed “bankruptcy crimes.” The filing in opposition to the appointment of a trustee, submitted …