Trump Corruption

The Hill reports: Trump, on Truth Social on Sunday, posted a piece from former Trump administration aide Kash Patel published in The Federalist last week, in which Patel claimed Cheney and the House Jan. 6 committee “suppressed evidence” about the former president’s authorization of National Guard troops during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection. “SHE SHOULD BE PROSECUTED FOR WHAT …

“When you’re using public airwaves and you cover a candidate for months, you cover him as a negatively as possible — or her, could be her — and then, all of a sudden that candidate wins in a landslide and it’s very exciting and everybody wants to watch and you don’t cover his speech, it’s incredible. “I guess it was …

The New York Times reports: Former President Donald J. Trump, at an event on Saturday ostensibly meant to boost his preferred candidate in Ohio’s Republican Senate primary race, gave a freewheeling speech in which he used dehumanizing language to describe immigrants, maintained a steady stream of insults and vulgarities and predicted that the United States would never have another election …

“Stormy Daniels is probably one of the oldest, legendary ‘Let’s get Trump’ cases that we saw come out. Her attorney, I believe, is in prison or was, probably disbarred. Michael Cohen yet again reared his ugly head in that. “And here we go years and years later. They decide, oh, guess what, he’s the GOP nominee. Let’s bring up this …

Forbes reports: The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors filed a motion in bankruptcy court on Friday to compel Rudy Giuliani to sell his $3.5 million Florida condo to pay off part of his debts. The filing said the sale of the Palm Beach condo would be available to satisfy the claims of Giuliani’s creditors, adding that since the home is …

The New York Times reports: As many as three nights a week, Donald J. Trump has been hosting private dinners at Mar-a-Lago, schmoozing with some of the Republican Party’s biggest financiers as he races to address a sizable cash shortfall against President Biden. Despite years of professing massive wealth and boasting of his desire to “drain the swamp,” the deeply …

The Washington Post reports: A senior aide to former president Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to keep him out of prison while he appeals his conviction for refusing to testify before Congress about his involvement in efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Peter Navarro, a 74-year-old economist, is required to report to a prison in Miami by …

NBC News reports: The trial in the New York hush money case against former President Donald Trump has been delayed until the middle of April, Judge Juan Merchan ruled Friday. Merchan said the trial — originally scheduled to begin March 25 — would be pushed back 30 days from Friday. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg had previously said he would …

“Well, let me tell you what: If there’s anyone paying attention to the details in 2024, it’s Donald Trump. Who is now running, co-running the RNC? Lara Trump. Why? Because he understands that the devil’s in the details, so he puts his brilliant daughter-in-law in charge of our RNC apparatus so that all that Reince talked about, wise, wise man …

Atlanta’s ABC affiliate reports: Either Fani Willis goes or Nathan Wade does – that was the ruling from Fulton County Superior Court Scott McAfee on Friday in the Georgia election interference case. Channel 2 Action News confirms that Fulton County District Attorney’s Office has accepted special prosecutor Nathan Wade’s resignation from the election interference case. In the letter, it says …

The Washington Post reports: New York prosecutors said Friday that they expect to get an additional 15,000 pages of potential evidence in Donald Trump’s hush money case — the latest and probably last batch of such papers that may end up delaying the first criminal trial of a former president. In a new filing to New York Supreme Court Justice …

“The political class in this city cannot deal with the problems we face. This is why they hate Trump. Trump’s not perfect. He’s far from perfect. That he’s an instrument of divine providence is no doubt in my mind because I was there. I saw it. “No money, no organization, a plane, a man, a message, and just go around …

CBS News reports: Federal prosecutors were put on notice as far back as 2016 that Alexander Smirnov, the confidential FBI informant whose alleged lies about President Biden’s business dealings fueled — and then damaged — a Republican impeachment effort, was a known “liar and a fraudster.” Smirnov, 43, was indicted last month for allegedly fabricating a story about President Biden …

“While respecting the Court’s decision, we believe that the Court did not afford appropriate significance to the prosecutorial misconduct of Willis and Wade, including the financial benefits, testifying untruthfully about when their personal relationship began, as well as Willis’ extrajudicial MLK ‘church speech,’ where she played the race card and falsely accused the defendants and their counsel of racism. We …

ABC News reports: Judge Scott McAfee said his long-awaited ruling on the effort to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis “should” come out Friday. “I made a promise to everybody. These kind of orders take time to write. I need to make sure I say exactly what I want to, and I plan to stick to the timeline I …

The Associated Press reports: A federal judge appeared reluctant Thursday to dismiss the classified documents prosecution of Donald Trump after his lawyers argued for hours that the case trampled on the former president’s rights. As Trump looked on in the courtroom, his attorneys pressed U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to throw out the case, arguing he was legally entitled to …

The New York Times reports: Less than two weeks before Donald J. Trump is set to go on trial on criminal charges in Manhattan, the prosecutors who brought the case proposed a delay of up to 30 days, a startling development in the first prosecution of a former American president. The Manhattan district attorney’s office, which accused Mr. Trump of …

“They released Hillary Clinton. She hammered her phones. She used all sorts of acid testing and everything else. They call it BleachBit but it’s essentially acid that will destroy everything within ten miles. I mean, what she did was unbelievable. Nothing happens to her. Nothing happens to Bill Clinton. He took it out in his socks, you know? It was …

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump’s motorcade arrived at the courthouse in Fort Pierce, Florida, for the 10 a.m. ET hearing in the classified documents case. Judge Aileen Cannon, who is overseeing the case, has set apart an entire day to hear arguments on whether the prosecution should be thrown out on the basis of Trump’s claims about his presidential …

The Guardian reports: Back in 2020, Alexander Smirnov was paid $600,000 by a company called Educational Transformation Technologies (ETT), prosecutors said. That same year, Smirnov began lying to the FBI about the Bidens, according to his indictment. ETT Investment Holding Limited was registered in the UK on 6 March 2020. Shah Khan, an investor who purchased the Plaza Hotel in …