Trump Corruption

“With Paul Pelosi, that’s a terrible thing, with all of them it’s a terrible thing. Look at what’s happened to San Francisco generally. Look at what’s happening in Chicago. It was far worse than Afghanistan. “We have to give the police back their dignity, their respect. They can solve the problem. But today if a police officer says something that’s …

The Hill reports: Republican aides and strategists privately expect Attorney General Merrick Garland to pursue an indictment of former President Trump within 60 to 90 days after Election Day, predicting the window for prosecuting Trump will close once the 2024 presidential campaign gains momentum. GOP aides also warn that an indictment of Trump by the Biden administration would further polarize …

The Associated Press reports: Donald Trump is lashing out at the judge handling the New York attorney general’s fraud lawsuit against him and his company, calling him “vicious, biased, and mean” in a social media post just days before the case’s first court hearing. The former president, who has been on the losing side of Judge Arthur Engoron’s rulings in …

Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: TRUTH SOCIAL has become somewhat of a phenomena. Last week it had bigger numbers than all other platforms, including TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, and the rest. It also looks and works better to my eye. I am very happy that Twitter is now in sane hands, and will no longer be run by Radical …

Bloomberg News reports: A federal appeals court rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to reconsider a ruling that his tax returns must be disclosed to a congressional committee. The order from the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit clears the way for the House Ways and Means Committee to get Trump’s financial documents, although the former president could …

The Insider reports: A man summoned for jury duty in the New York criminal tax-fraud trial of former President Donald Trump’s international real-estate company was excused by a judge Thursday after saying the former commander in chief made him sick to his guts. The then-prospective juror, a middle-age man, told Justice Juan Manuel Merchan of the New York Supreme Court …

NBC News reports: Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., a close ally of former President Donald Trump, has dropped his lawsuit against the Department of Justice requesting the return of all cell phone data seized by the FBI earlier this year. Perry’s lawyers filed a motion Wednesday to dismiss the case, but did not provide an explanation for the move in the …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump claimed to Dinesh D’Souza that some people voted up to 28 times on election day in 2020 to deny him reelection. The former president, who did not say where he came up with the number, made the claim during a Monday interview on D’Souza’s podcast on Rumble. Trump said “cheating” occurred across the country. …

The New York Times reports: Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff who was deeply involved in efforts to keep former President Donald J. Trump in power after the 2020 election, was ordered on Wednesday to travel to Atlanta to testify in a criminal investigation into election meddling. Mr. Meadows, 63, has been fighting to avoid appearing before …

Politico reports: Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is resisting a subpoena from Atlanta-area prosecutors investigating efforts by Donald Trump to subvert the 2020 election in Georgia, according to newly filed court records. Meadows is urging a judge in Pickens County, S.C., where he now resides, to reject an effort by Fulton County, Georgia, to subpoena him for …

Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: As he fully understands, writer Bob Woodward never got my permission to release tapes of my various interviews with him.Those tapes were allowed only for purposes of making sure that he got my quotes & statements correct for “the WRITTEN WORD,” in other words, for his, nevertheless, highly inaccurate book. The tapes are …

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: ’60 Minutes’ is not a News Show, it is a Democrat propaganda machine. Their story last night on Election Fraud was a JOKE! The evidence is massive, not to even mention that State Legislatures did not grant necessary approvals, the FBI paid people to, essentially, ‘get Trump,’ and then told Facebook and …

“I don’t think his lawyers will want him to show up. Because he has to testify under oath. But I don’t think he’ll show up. I don’t think he is man enough. “We’ll see if he is man enough to show up. And the public should make their judgment. No one is above the law. If we believe that, then …

The Houston Chronicle reports: As former President Donald Trump hosted a MAGA-palooza near Corpus Christi this weekend, he still hasn’t paid back the city of El Paso the more than $500,000 he owes for hosting his 2019 rally there, a city spokeswoman confirmed. Shortly after the Walmart mass shooting that left 22 dead in El Paso, Trump scheduled a large …

“We are going to proceed in terms of the questioning of the former president under oath. It may take multiple days, and it will be done with a level of rigor and discipline and seriousness that it deserves. “He’s not going to turn this into a circus. This isn’t going to be first debate against Biden and the circus and …

“They don’t want to mention this because I think it’s so terrible. You take the writer because you’re never gonna find another, going through phone records. “It’s been a long time. You take the writer and/or the publisher of the paper, and you say ‘Who is the leaker? National security.’ And they say ‘We’re not gonna tell you.’ They say …

The Washington Post reports: Trump Organization, former president Donald Trump’s namesake company, is set to go on trial Monday for alleged tax crimes — the result of a lengthy investigation into the company and its executives related to fraud and other potentially illegal business practices. Trump is not charged personally and the portion of the investigation for which he still …

Law & Crime reports: Former President Donald Trump continued his longstanding quest to undo Section 230 and deal a blow to Big Tech immunity in the form of an amicus brief Friday, supporting Florida’s parallel efforts at the U.S. Supreme Court. Trump, who was infamously banned from Twitter in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, urged …

Axios reports: A senior White House lawyer expressed concerns to President Trump’s advisers and attorneys about the president signing a sworn court statement verifying inaccurate evidence of voter fraud, according to emails from December 2020 obtained by Axios. Why it matters: The emails shed new light on a federal judge’s explosive finding Wednesday that Trump knew specific instances of voter …

The Washington Post reports: Eleven allies of and advisers to former president Donald Trump have been convicted or pleaded guilty in recent years to various offenses, with their total sentences nearing 30 years of imprisonment. Those convicted include three top campaign officials, two top White House officials, two former business employees, several campaign and transition advisers, and Trump’s longest-serving informal …