Trump Corruption

“They dumped you and went to another break. I’ve never seen such disrespect. They have never in the history of television ever taken a national press secretary and treated her with such lack of respect. “Kasie Hunt owes you an apology. CNN owes you an apology today. To the Trump campaign and to MAGA today, President Trump should cancel this. …

ABC News reports: A trip to Mar-a-Lago taken by former President Donald Trump that aides allegedly “kept quiet” just weeks before FBI agents searched the property for classified materials in his possession raised suspicions among special counsel Jack Smith’s team as a potential additional effort to obstruct the government’s classified documents investigation. At least one witness who worked closely with …

“This Thursday debate is totally 100% rigged. The organizing principle of CNN is a hatred of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement to the core of their being, they hate — not disagree, not have policy differences, they hate Donald Trump and they hate the MAGA movement. “Let me say the quiet part out loud. Donald J. Trump gave CNN, …

Fox News reports: Former President Trump’s campaign walked back a promise that the former president would “automatically” award green cards to migrants after they graduate from college. “You graduate from a college, I think you should get automatically, as part of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country, and that includes junior colleges, too,” …

Mediaite has the transcript: KAROLINE LEAVIT: President Trump is knowingly going into a hostile environment on this very network, on CNN, with debate moderators who have made their opinions about him very well known over the past eight years and their biased coverage of him. KASIE HUNT: I’ll just say, my colleagues, that Jake Tapper and Dana Bash have acquitted …

“I’ve never been more proud of him as a person. The guy’s got backbone unlike anybody I’ve ever met in my entire life. He’s just been an absolute warrior. But they’re torturing him. They did this from the second he came down the escalator they started going after him. “You go after a man tirelessly. You try and bankrupt him. …

Axios reports: Former President Trump ran up the national debt by about twice as much as President Biden, according to a new analysis of their fiscal track records. Trump’s contribution was significantly higher, according to the fiscal watchdogs at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, thanks to both tax cuts and spending deals struck in his four years in …

The Associated Press reports: After Melania Trump missed key events in her husband’s presidential bid earlier this year — from the kickoff of the 2024 election in Iowa to Donald Trump’s Super Tuesday victory party — reporters asked the former first lady whether she planned to hit the campaign trail. Her response: “Stay tuned.” But since making that comment in …

“You mentioned in your opening about African American support. You mentioned that certain communities are coming over to my father. It’s exactly because of this. They’re doing the same to Donald Trump as they did to so many of those communities for so long. These people are saying, ‘Huh, it’s really interesting. They did this to us for a long …

Politico reports: Former President Donald Trump suggested in two speeches Saturday that migrants coming to the U.S. should have their own fighting league, remarking that they’re “nasty, mean” and “tough people” who could beat the country’s top fighters. Speaking first to a crowd of conservative Christians at a Faith & Freedom Coalition gathering in Washington, D.C., Trump said he shared …

“You look at our airports where flights are being delayed four days where people are pitching tents in an airport because their flight is so, you know, it’s never gonna even happen. “We’ve never seen anything like it. And we’ve become like, you know, we, we are a failing nation where we’ve become a third world nation in many ways. …

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he knows who his vice presidential pick will be — and gave a clue about his or her likely debate night plans. When asked by NBC News during a Philadelphia campaign stop whether he has decided on his vice presidential pick, Trump responded, “in my mind, yeah,” adding that …

“Now they’ll say all these stories are terrible. Well, these stories have, you know, you heard my story in the boat with the shark, right? I got killed on that. “They thought I was rambling. I’m not rambling. They wanna make boats. And they’re demanding that they be battery-operated. All electric. I was in South Carolina at this wonderful family …

“Just think of what we’ve already achieved, and we’ve done things that nobody thought possible. Together, we stood up to the communists, Marxist, and fascists to defend religious liberty like no other president has ever done. “And I have the wounds all over my body. If I took this shirt off, you’d see a beautiful, beautiful person. But you’d see …

Law & Crime reports: The prosecutor overseeing former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case called him out for lying to his online audience that “the FBI was out to kill him and his family.” Special counsel Jack Smith said in a motion seeking to modify Trump’s conditions of release to prohibit further statements that “pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable …

“The case isn’t over until the sentencing is heard and sentence is imposed. I have absolutely no problem, frankly, with the prosecutors’ real concern about safety. “And look, there are wingnuts out there in the period of time between now and when the trial court’s role in this case ends. “I don’t think it’s worth taking the chance that anybody …

“The same deep state that removed Richard Nixon, the same deep state that went after Ronald Reagan and anybody else who stood up to them, that deep state became very insidious and in the 1950s smeared and attacked Joe McCarthy for speaking the truth about godless communism in very halls of our government. “They grab control of our academia to …

Politico reports: In a filing made public Friday, prosecutors cited “intensified” threats against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, his family and the office’s staff, disclosing that two people involved in the case received bomb threats at their homes on the first day of the trial. Prosecutors described those threats as “directly connected to defendant’s dangerous rhetoric about this prosecution.” They …

Bloomberg News reports: Steve Bannon, a longtime adviser to former President Donald Trump, is asking the US Supreme Court to keep him out of prison while he fights to overturn his conviction for contempt of Congress. The request was made after a divided appellate panel upheld a decision by US District Judge Carl Nichols that ordered Bannon to serve a …

Mediaite reports: Trump announced his ALL CAPS support for publicly posting the Ten Commandments in schools as the law goes into effect, mandating every classroom in Louisiana to do so. Trump has a long history of defying the core tenet of the separation of church and state or flouting his willful ignorance of it to appeal to evangelical voters, even …