Trump Corruption

From the New York Times live blog: Thompson is delivering a scorching indictment of Trump as he lays the groundwork for a subpoena. Multiple times today, committee members called Trump “the center” of the Jan. 6 events. Cheney just motioned for a vote to subpoena Trump. “He must be accountable. He is required to answer for his actions,” Thompson said. …

CNN reports: The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an emergency request from former President Donald Trump to intervene in the dispute over classified documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate in August. Trump had asked the justices to reverse a federal appeals court and allow a special master to review about 100 documents marked classified, a move that could have opened …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-FL) detailed on Thursday how Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, was recruited by then-President Donald Trump to aid in his scheme to assemble “fake electors” to change the result of the electoral college and remain in power. “President Trump’s efforts to unlawfully overturn the results of the 2020 election were not …

ABC News reports: The House Jan. 6 committee will once again dive into Donald Trump’s efforts to undermine the outcome of the 2020 presidential race in a public hearing just 25 days before Election Day. The panel will reconvene at 1 p.m. on Thursday for what could be its final hearing before it releases a final report on its findings …

NBC News reports: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol plans to vote to subpoena former President Donald Trump, sources familiar with the committee’s plans told NBC News Thursday. Members of the panel, which held what was expected to be its final hearing before the midterm elections Thursday, had previously said that they were still considering …

Via press release from New York AG Letitia James: New York Attorney General Letitia James took action today to stop Donald Trump and the Trump Organization from continuing to engage in the significant fraudulent and illegal business activity outlined in Attorney General James’ September 2022 lawsuit pending trial. In a motion for a preliminary injunction filed today, Attorney General James …

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: I don’t know this woman, have no idea who she is, other than it seems she got a picture of me many years ago, with her husband, shaking my hand on a reception line at a celebrity charity event. She completely made up a story that I met her at the doors …

The Washington Post reports: A Trump employee has told federal agents about moving boxes of documents at Mar-a-Lago at the specific direction of the former president, according to people familiar with the investigation, who say the witness account — combined with security-camera footage — offers key evidence of Donald Trump’s behavior as investigators sought the return of classified material. The …

The Associated Press reports: Former President Donald Trump will have to sit for a deposition next week in a defamation lawsuit filed by a writer who says he raped her in the mid-1990s, a judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan rejected a request by Trump’s lawyers that the planned testimony be delayed. The deposition is now scheduled …

The Washington Post reports: The probably final public hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol is expected to highlight newly obtained Secret Service records showing how President Donald Trump was repeatedly alerted to brewing violence that day, and he still sought to stoke the conflict. The committee plans to share in Thursday’s …

Axios reports: The Justice Department on Tuesday said President Trump’s appeal for the Supreme Court to weigh in on the ongoing Mar-a-Lago probe should be denied. Driving the news: Trump’s legal team previously asked in a filing to the Supreme Court for the special master be allowed to review the near 100 documents marked as classified that were found at …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump posted a video message that suggested he is preparing to “run like the wind” and “tear the shit out of” opponents like Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and the January 6 committee. Trump is still banned from Twitter — for the time being — but on Monday night, he posted a bizarre video …

The Washington Post reports: Donald Trump’s political operation has spent more money since he left office on lawyers representing the former president and a pair of nonprofits staffed by former Cabinet members than it has on Republican congressional campaigns, according to a review of financial filings. Trump’s leadership PAC, Save America, has blitzed supporters in recent days with fundraising solicitations …

NBC News reports: Christina Bobb, the attorney who signed a letter certifying that all sensitive records in former President Donald Trump’s possession had been returned to the government, spoke to federal investigators Friday and named two other Trump attorneys involved with the case, according to three sources familiar with the matter. The certification statement, signed June 3 by Bobb, indicated …

The Insider reports: Former President Donald Trump addressed the FBI’s raid on his Mar-a-Lago resort at a Sunday rally in Arizona, making a series of misleading claims as he sought to portray the investigation as part of a plot against him. Trump baselessly claimed that other presidents, including Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, had mishandled classified information yet faced …

The Daily Beast reports: At a rally Sunday evening in Arizona, Trump claimed that George H.W. Bush “took millions and millions of documents to a former bowling alley pieced together with what was then an old and broken Chinese restaurant.” “They put them together. And it had a broken front door and broken windows. Other than that, it was quite …

Raw Story reports: MyPillow founder Mike Lindell begged Speaker Nancy Pelosi to let him testify before the House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Lindell was interviewed by Right Side Broadcasting ahead of Trump’s rally in Minden, Nevada. “I’m going to tell you, that fake Jan. 6 charade that’s going on, shame on them,” Lindell …

Mediaite reports: At his Saturday rally in Nevada, ex-president Donald Trump spent a lot of time telling the crowd that former presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, and Barack Obama — not to mention Hillary Clinton — were all much worse about retaining documents, and that the Mar-a-Lago raid and subsequent investigations are a “hoax.” “When will …

The Associated Press reports: A federal judge in Phoenix on Friday refused to put on hold her order requiring phone records of the Arizona Republican Party leader to be turned over to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, pending an appeal. U.S. District Judge Diane Humetewa said state GOP Chair Kelli Ward had …

The New York Times reports: Late last year, as the National Archives ratcheted up the pressure on former President Donald J. Trump to return boxes of records he had taken from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago club, he came up with an idea to resolve the looming showdown: cut a deal. Mr. Trump, still determined to show he had …