Trump Corruption

The Guardian reports: The Justice Department is weighing whether to grant immunity to the Trump adviser Kash Patel and force his testimony about claims that highly sensitive government documents the FBI seized from the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort were declassified, according to sources familiar with the matter. The status of the documents has emerged as relevant to the criminal investigation …

CNN reports: The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection is “in discussions” with former President Donald Trump’s attorneys about testifying under oath in the probe, Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the vice chairwoman of the panel, said Tuesday. Trump faces a Friday deadline to respond to the committee’s subpoena for documents, and a November 14 deadline …

NBC News reports: The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request from Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., to quash a grand jury subpoena in a Georgia prosecutor’s probe into alleged interference in the 2020 presidential election. The decision is a victory for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, whose office is investigating phone calls Graham made to Georgia election officials at …

Law & Crime reports: Two election workers in Georgia won a victory in federal court on Monday as a judge declined to dismiss their defamation lawsuit filed against former New York City mayor and Donald Trump’s longtime friend and erstwhile election attorney Rudy Giuliani. Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye“ Moss allege that the man once known as “America’s mayor” defamed …

Raw Story reports: During an appearance on The Chris Stigall Show this Tuesday, former President Donald Trump was asked about the attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband. “The glass it seems was broken from from the inside to the out, so it wasn’t a break-in, it was a break-out,” Trump said. Stigall then brought up the 911 recording from the attack …

The Associated Press reports: Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday put a temporary hold on the handover of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns to a congressional committee. Roberts’ order gives the Supreme Court time to weigh the legal issues in Trump’s emergency appeal to the high court, filed Monday. Without court intervention, the tax returns could have been provided …

Politico reports: In a 27-page ruling issued Monday night, U.S. District Court Judge Carl Nichols said that the Constitution’s “speech or debate” clause — which prohibits lawsuits against lawmakers for anything associated with their legislative work — applied in the case of the committee’s subpoenas to Meadows issued in the fall of 2021. Meadows is likely to appeal the ruling, …

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump on Monday asked the Supreme Court to block a congressional committee from accessing his tax records as a long-running legal battle reaches its final stage. Trump, who unlike other recent presidents refused to make his tax returns public amid scrutiny of his business affairs, turned to the justices after an appeals court in …

The Texas Tribune reports: On Monday, US Marshals took into custody Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips of True the Vote, for refusing to identify a confidential informant. Federal Judge Kenneth Hoyt delivered the order, holding the two in contempt of court for refusing to identify the informant. In filings and testimony, the basic facts and plot lines have shifted from …

Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: General Don Bolduc has run a great campaign to be the U.S. Senator from the beautiful State of New Hampshire. He was a strong and proud “Election Denier,” a big reason that he won the Nomination, but he then disavowed. He has since come back, at least on busing, but that is only …

“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 …