Trump Corruption

NBC News reports: The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s hush money case on Tuesday held the former president in criminal contempt over a series of posts on Truth Social that he said violated a gag order barring any attacks on jurors and witnesses. Judge Juan Merchan ruled Trump in contempt for nine violations of his gag order, with a fine …

Time Magazine reports: If elected to a second term in the White House, Donald Trump intends to pursue policies that would address what he says is a “definite anti-white feeling” in America. “If you look at the Biden Administration, they’re sort of against anybody depending on certain views,” Trump tells TIME in an interview when asked about his supporters who …

CNN reports: The third week of the Donald Trump criminal hush money business fraud trial will resume Tuesday with the Manhattan district attorney’s office continuing to be secretive about it its plan of attack. Prosecutors are expected to pick up questioning of Michael Cohen’s former banker Tuesday morning. It’s unclear what other witnesses will take the stand this week – …

“I am very happy to have the full and enthusiastic support of Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida. We had a great meeting yesterday, arranged by mutual friend Steve Witkoff, at his beautiful Shell Bay Club in Hollywood, Florida. The conversation mostly concerned how we would work closely together to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. Also discussed was the future of Florida, …

CNN reports: Google and X, formerly Twitter, recently provided hundreds of files to Michigan prosecutors for their 2020 election subversion probe, complying with search warrants that investigators obtained after CNN revealed secret social media accounts belonging to pro-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, who played a major role in the fake electors plot. According to the new documents provided to Michigan prosecutors, …

The Washington Post reports: The Miami Grand Prix sent a cease and desist letter Friday night to a prominent Trump fundraiser, informing him that he cannot use a suite at an upcoming Formula One race as a high-dollar fundraiser for the Trump campaign. Trump, according to multiple people familiar with the event, has been planning to attend the race. The …

Politico Europe reports: For many Serbs, it’s as if the Taliban wanted to build a luxury apartment compound on the site of New York’s Twin Towers. That’s how news of a redevelopment project proposed by Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of former U.S. President Donald Trump, and Richard Grenell, a key Trump ally, is being taken in some quarters of Belgrade. …

“He’s going all over the place. And his stamina, Maria, I have never seen anything like it in my life. I mean, I have just never seen it. “He will be in trial all day long only to step out and go to events at bodegas and wake up and speak to union workers and go to Michigan and go …

Politico reports: Former President Donald Trump is turning up the heat on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the reality sets in that Kennedy’s quixotic White House bid could siphon Republican support away from him. Kennedy is “far more LIBERAL than anyone running as a Democrat, including West and Stein,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday morning, referencing third-party candidates …

The Christian Post reports: A North Carolina pastor has gone viral after urging his congregants not to embrace the “God Bless the USA Bible” endorsed by former President Donald Trump, which includes documents central to the founding of the United States. Pastor Loran Livingston of Central Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, condemned the “God Bless the USA Bible” in a …

Last night Trump attacked RFK in three successive posts: RFK Jr. is a Democrat “Plant,” a Radical Left Liberal who’s been put in place in order to help Crooked Joe Biden, the Worst President in the History of the United States, get Re-Elected. A Vote for Junior’ would essentially be a WASTED PROTEST VOTE, that could swing either way, but …

CNN reports: Barr made the nonchalant admission Friday during a CNN interview when anchor Kaitlan Collins mentioned former Trump White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin claiming that Barr was present in the summer of 2020 when Trump suggested that an unknown White House leaker should be executed. “I remember him being very mad about that. I actually don’t remember …

Raw Story reports: Former President Donald Trump’s attorney Alina Habba appeared to slip up in an interview on Fox News, complaining that it’s not fair Trump should be criminally tried with a jury from a “blue state” like Manhattan. “He should win, if he’s given a fair jury, if he’s given a fair court,” said Habba, who previously defended Trump …

The legendary Divine Miss M, Bette Midler, has collaborated with the progressive site The Meidas Touch on a new jingle promoting a fragrance called Eau de Trump. Perhaps no celebrity other than Rosie O’Donnell has been attacked more frequently by Trump and he will likely find it impossible to resist reacting. As the disclaimer warns at the end of the …

“Crooked Joe Biden just announced that he’s willing to debate! Everyone knows he doesn’t really mean it, but in case he does, I say, ANYWHERE, ANYTIME, ANYPLACE, an old expression used by Fighters. “I suggest Monday Evening, Tuesday Evening, or Wednesday Evening at my Rally in Michigan, a State that he is in the process of destroying with his E.V. …

CNN reports: The prosecution is having Pecker confirm that the purpose of the National Enquirer’s contract with former Playboy model Karen McDougal was to suppress her potentially damaging story about Donald Trump and help influence the 2016 election. Additional items about writing articles and appearing on covers were extraneous, Pecker confirmed, in response to prosecutor Joshua Steinglass, who is bringing …

Deadline reports: With a decision on one contempt motion pending, Judge Juan Merchan has scheduled a hearing on Thursday for prosecutors to argue that Trump has committed more violations of the judge’s gag order against disparaging or intimidating witnesses, jurors and other trial participants. At the first contempt hearing on Tuesday, prosecutors sought fines for ten Trump online posts blasting …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump again complained about the temperature in the courtroom during his ongoing hush money trial on Friday, suggesting it is being kept cold “on purpose.” “We have another day in court in a freezing courthouse,” Trump said in the hallway just before the fourth day of testimony in his trial commenced. “It’s very cold in …

The Wall Street Journal reports: Donald Trump’s allies are quietly drafting proposals that would attempt to erode the Federal Reserve’s independence if the former president wins a second term, in the midst of a deepening divide among his advisers over how aggressively to challenge the central bank’s authority. Former Trump administration officials and other supporters of the presumptive GOP nominee …

The Associated Press reports: David Pecker will return to the witness stand for the fourth day as defense attorneys try to poke holes in the testimony of the former National Enquirer publisher, who has described helping bury embarrassing stories Trump feared could hurt his campaign. Over several days on the witness stand, Pecker has described how he and the tabloid …