Trump Corruption

The Washington Post reports: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem is living for free in a military home typically reserved for the U.S. Coast Guard’s top admiral, officials familiar with the matter said. The highly unusual arrangement has raised concern within the agency and from some Democrats, who describe it as a waste of military resources. Noem recently …

The Washingtonian reports: The US Department of Agriculture spent $16,400 to hang two banners in May outside its headquarters on Independence Avenue in Washington, DC, government documents show. One banner honored Abraham Lincoln. The other featured the glowering face of President Trump. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins posted a video on X on May 15 that begins, amid stirring music, with …

The Washington Post reports: D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb has sued President Donald Trump over his executive actions asserting control over the D.C. police department and attempting to install an emergency police commissioner, one of the most extraordinary exertions of federal power in the city’s half-century of home rule. The lawsuit came hours after U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered …

From the Wall Street Journal editorial board: President Trump knows the public is skeptical about his tariffs, which is why Administration officials are anxious to convince voters someone somewhere else in the world will pay for them instead of American households. Inflation data released Thursday tell a different story. The producer-price index (PPI) in July rose 0.9% in the month …

The BBC reports: Trump’s short post on social media a few minutes ago – “HIGH STAKES!!!” – raises expectations and the sense of drama. The US president will land at a Cold War-era American air-base in Anchorage, followed shortly afterwards by President Putin. Stepping foot on US soil, beyond UN meetings, for the first time in two decades, Putin in …

CNN reports: The Trump administration is reportedly considering having the US government take a stake in Intel, a company that was once one of America’s most important tech giants but which has since fallen on hard times. Following a meeting between Trump and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan this week, Bloomberg reported that the two sides are discussing an unusual deal …

The Washington Post reports: A vast majority of Americans disapprove of the Trump administration’s handling of information related to the investigation into the deceased financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to polling data released Thursday. The national survey by the Pew Research Center found that 70 percent of U.S. adults disapproved of the administration’s handling of the information …

Axios reports: President Trump said on Thursday that a next step for nationwide immigration enforcement would be identifying undocumented immigrants during traffic stops. Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith issued an executive order on Thursday allowing officers making traffic stops to notify ICE agents about encounters with undocumented immigrants. “That’s a great step, if they’re doing that,” Trump said on Thursday …

The Associated Press reports: California Gov. Gavin Newsom stood with other prominent Democratic leaders Thursday to announce that the state will move forward with a partisan plan to redraw congressional maps in an effort to help his party win five more U.S. House seats in 2026. The move is a direct response to a Republican-led effort in Texas, pushed by …

Politico Europe reports: U.S. President Donald Trump called Norway’s Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg out of the blue last month to discuss trade tariffs — as well as his bid to win the Nobel Peace Prize. The call was first reported by Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv on Thursday and was later confirmed to POLITICO by a government official in Oslo. This …

Reuters reports: President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a deal, and that the threat of sanctions against Russia likely played a role in Moscow seeking a meeting. Trump is scheduled to meet with Putin in Alaska on Friday. The U.S. president said he is unsure whether an immediate ceasefire can be …

Fox News reports: First lady Melania Trump is putting Hunter Biden on $1 billion notice over what she claims are “false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements” made about her, demanding he immediately remove and retract the content and issue an apology or face legal action, Fox News Digital has learned. Fox News Digital exclusively obtained the letter that Alejandro Brito, …

“Washington, D.C., has one of the Highest Rates of Crime in the World, more than many of the most violent Third World Countries. The City’s Homicide Rate is higher than places notorious for their violence, such as Mexico City, Bogota, Islamabad, and Addis Ababa — Almost ten times higher than Fallujah, Iraq. If D.C. were a State, it would have …

Politico reports: President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested that he could avoid congressional approval to extend his 30-day federal takeover of Washington’s police, amid his efforts to wrest control of the capital’s law enforcement. Trump this week invoked the Home Rule Act, effectively handing the executive branch control over Washington’s police for up to 30 days. Beyond that, Trump would …

“I would say I was about 98% involved. No, they all went through me. They came over Ric [Grenell] and Sergio [Gor] and everybody. I turned down plenty. They were too woke. I had a couple of wokesters. Uh, no. We have great people. This is very different than it used to be. Very different. These are great people. And, …

Politico reports: The Trump administration’s claim that it is saving billions of dollars through DOGE-related cuts to federal contracts is drastically exaggerated, according to a new POLITICO analysis of public data and federal spending records. Through July, DOGE said it has saved taxpayers $52.8 billion by canceling contracts, but of the $32.7 billion in actual claimed contract savings that POLITICO …

CBS News reports: President Trump is set to visit the Kennedy Center Wednesday where he’s expected to announce this year’s Kennedy Center honorees after working to overhaul the D.C. cultural institution in recent months. The Kennedy Center previewed the announcement Tuesday, writing in a post on X: “A country music icon, an Englishman, a New York City Rock band, a …

“Very unfair media is at work on my meeting with Putin. Constantly quoting fired losers and really dumb people like John Bolton, who just said that, even though the meeting is on American soil, ‘Putin has already won.’ What’s that all about? We are winning on EVERYTHING. The Fake News is working overtime (No tax on overtime!). If I got …

NPR reports: President Trump’s announcement on Truth Social that the 48th annual Kennedy Center Honors recipients would be announced tomorrow caught Kennedy Center staff off guard, according to a person familiar with the situation who requested anonymity because they fear professional repercussions for speaking out. They told NPR the staff is often “out of the loop” and “worried they won’t …

The Daily Beast reports: An ex-DOGE staffer known as “Big Balls” could end up receiving the highest civilian honor in the United States, placing him in the company of luminaries such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mother Teresa. Two weeks after 19-year-old Edward Coristine was viciously assaulted during a carjacking in Washington D.C., the White House says …