Trump Corruption

The Daily Beast reports: The State Department’s chief of protocol said Tuesday she expects parade-goers to serenade President Donald Trump with a rendition of “Happy Birthday” this month. Monica Crowley, a former Fox News pundit whom Trump appointed, admitted on Steve Bannon’s podcast Tuesday that the Washington parade on June 14, officially to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. …

Military.com reports: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to take the rare step of renaming a ship, one that bears the name of a gay rights icon, documents and sources show. Military.com reviewed a memorandum from the Office of the Secretary of the Navy — the official who holds the power to name Navy ships — that showed …

Axios reports: The Democratic National Committee is commandeering a taco truck to mock Trump’s apparent fury at the slogan “Trump Always Chickens Out,” or “TACO,” Axios has learned. Democrats clearly think they have found a way to get under the president’s skin. Trump was asked about the mantra — used by Wall Street traders to predict his response to tariff-induced …

“So many false statements are being made about ‘THE ONE, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL,’ but what nobody understands is that it’s the single biggest Spending Cut in History, by far! But there will be NO CUTS to Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid. In fact, they will be saved from the incompetence of the Democrats. The Democrats, who have totally lost their …

The Miami Herald reports: A South Florida man sentenced to 50 years in prison for ripping off tens of millions of dollars from Medicare was among the more than two dozen people whom President Donald Trump granted clemency to this week. Lawrence Duran — the former co-owner of American Therapeutic Corp., a Miami-based company that ran seven healthcare clinics between …

“Michael Wolff, a Third Rate Reporter, who is laughed at even by the scoundrels of the Fake News, recently stated that the only reason I’m ‘beating up’ on Harvard, is because I applied there, and didn’t get in. That story is totally FALSE, I never applied to Harvard. I graduated from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of …

The Washington Post reports: President Donald Trump is posting on the internet with a velocity and ferocity far beyond that of his first term, surprising aides with predawn messages fired off at a blistering pace. As of Sunday, Trump had posted 2,262 times to his company’s social network Truth Social in the 132 days since his inauguration, a Washington Post …

The Washington Post reports: In the latest presidential portrait revealed Monday by the White House, President Donald Trump is wearing a red tie and a blue suit against a black backdrop. He stares at the camera with a serious gaze, in a similar vein to his notable mug shot from two years ago. The White House website and Trump’s official …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump unapologetically promoted Kid Rock’s latest restaurant venture Monday, just weeks after another of the musician’s venues sent staff home to avoid an ICE raid. The president plugged Kid Rock’s new “very friendly MAGA establishment”, The Detroit Cowboy, on his Truth Social account, along with a website link. A bib salad is $15.00, a 10oz …

CBS News reports: President Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow it to move forward with its plans to lay off thousands of federal workers at nearly two dozen agencies while a legal battle over the president’s plans to drastically cut the size of the government moves forward. The Justice Department’s request for emergency relief is the …

“Yesterday’s horrific attack in Boulder, Colorado, WILL NOT BE TOLERATED in the United States of America. He came in through Biden’s ridiculous Open Border Policy, which has hurt our Country so badly. He must go out under ‘TRUMP’ Policy. Acts of Terrorism will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law. This is yet another example of why we …

ABC News reports: President Donald Trump said on social media that if the courts rule against his tariffs, it will empower other countries to impose retaliatory tariffs on the United States, leading to economic damage. Such a ruling “would allow other Countries to hold our Nation hostage with their anti-American Tariffs that they would use against us,” Trump said in …

The Daily Beast reports: Some of the nation’s top law firms that folded to Donald Trump’s pressure campaign are now facing the fallout. At least 11 major companies are shifting legal work away from firms that struck deals with the Trump administration, instead turning toward those that stood their ground, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. General counsels at various …

CNN reports: There was a reason for President Donald Trump’s particularly scathing response when a reporter asked him Wednesday about a new term coined about the president’s tariffs: TACO, or Trump Always Chickens Out. He had not yet heard the term, according to a senior White House official who acknowledged to CNN that the president was caught off guard. Trump …

The Daily Beast reports: With one repost from President Donald Trump, former president Joe Biden has joined a storied pantheon: public figures believed to have died and been replaced by clones. Not content with spreading conspiracy theories on Friday night, late on Saturday night, Trump shared a post by a supporter to his Truth Social page that claimed Biden was …

NBC News reports: The cost to repair Washington, D.C., streets after the upcoming military parade celebrating the Army’s 250th anniversary could cost as much as $16 million, according to U.S. military officials. That’s part of an estimated $45 million total cost for the June 14 military parade, which coincides with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday. The cost estimates have fluctuated …

The Washington Post reports: The Trump White House has a new target in its campaign to expand executive power: the Library of Congress. Never mind the name — administration lawyers are now arguing that the main research library of the legislative branch doesn’t actually belong to Congress at all. A legal push to claim the Library as executive turf isn’t …

CNN reports: President Donald Trump’s directives for mass firings at multiple agencies will remain on hold, a federal appeals court ruled Friday evening. The Trump administration had asked the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to freeze a lower court’s order that halted the terminations at more than a dozen agencies. The new order is a major setback for Trump …

CNN reports: Trump announced Friday that he would set tariffs on steel imported into the United States at 50%, double their current rate. At a US Steel facility in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, Trump said he had a “major announcement.” To an applauding crowd of US Steel employees, Trump said he would jack up the tariff to protect America’s steelworkers. “We …

NPR reports: PBS and a public television station in rural Minnesota filed suit on Friday against President Trump over his executive order demanding that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting kill all funding for the network. The suit alleges Trump’s order is unlawful, exceeding his authority as president and violating Constitutional protections of free speech because he has made clear he …