Trump Corruption

Fox Silent On Trump’s New Demand To Be Reinstated

Colby Hall writes at Mediaite: Former President Donald Trump has insisted that he immediately be re-installed as president or that a new election be called. His reasoning? A Mark Zuckerberg interview in which the Facebook founder reiterated his previous claim that the FBI warned him of a potential dump of Russian misinformation weeks before the 2020 general election that Trump …

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AP: Trump To Argue Presidents Are Above The Law

The Associated Press reports: A newly unsealed FBI document about the investigation at Mar-a-Lago not only offers new details about the probe but also reveals clues about the arguments former President Donald Trump’s legal team intends to make. A May 25 letter from one of his lawyers, attached as an exhibit to the search affidavit, advances a broad view of …

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REPORT: Trump Bragged He Had “Sex Intel” On Macron

Rolling Stone reports: On the FBI’s list of documents seized from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, item 1a is listed solely as “info re: President of France.” For Trump, that has been a subject of intense — and tawdry — interest for years. Specifically, Trump has bragged to some of his closest associates — both during and after his time in …

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DOJ Completes Review Of Docs Seized At Mar-A-Lago

The Associated Press reports: The Justice Department has completed its review of potentially privileged documents seized from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate this month and has identified “a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information,” according to a court filing Monday. The filing from the department follows a judge’s weekend order indicating that she was inclined …

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Trump Calls On FBI Agents To Revolt Against Leadership

Mediaite reports: Though he was careful not to use the word, former President Donald Trump appeared to call for the rank and file of the FBI to revolt against its leadership over the search and seizure of classified documents from his Mar-a-Lago home and possible looming criminal indictment. Despite the facts of the case, in a TruthSocial post from Sunday …

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REPORT: Trump’s Legal Team Is “Comically Inept”

“Publicly, what they’re saying is this is rallying Republicans to Trump’s defense. This makes it more likely that he will run for president, more likely that he will win the Republican nomination. Campaigning against this political action by the FBI and the DOJ. “Privately, they are really concerned. And one of the big concerns here is that Trump has nobody …

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Trump Took Boxes Of Classified Docs On Foreign Trips

The Washington Post reports: “Any documents that made it to the White House residence were these boxes Trump carried around with him,” explained Stephanie Grisham, a former senior White House staffer. “Usually the body man would have brought them upstairs for Trump or someone from the outer-Oval at the end of the day. They would get handed off to the …

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Lara Trump Claims FBI Search Was Unconstitutional

Mediaite reports: “Whenever you have documents seized that had were attorney-client privilege and absolutely you know these individuals have perused through them, have checked them out, that is a violation of Donald Trump’s constitutional rights,” she said. “How is that acceptable in any way?” “Something like this violates 250 years of jurisprudence,” said Trump. “The longer you go in America …

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Trump Judge To Appoint Special Master In FBI Search

The New York Times reports: A federal judge in Florida gave notice on Saturday of her “preliminary intent” to appoint an independent arbiter, known as a special master, to conduct a review of the highly sensitive documents that were seized by the F.B.I. this month during a search of Mar-a-Lago. In an unusual action that fell short of a formal …

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Feds Conduct “Damage Assessment” Of Stolen Docs

CNN reports: Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines has sent a letter to the House Intelligence and House Oversight committee chairs, saying the intelligence community is conducting a damage assessment of the documents taken from former President Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago, according to a letter obtained by CNN. According to the affidavit, a “preliminary review” of the 15 boxes …

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Rove Thinks Mar-A-Lago Mole Is A Secret Service Agent

“The Secret Service – and this is just my own personal conjecture, no information other than simply knowing the Secret Service is there – they have no statutory responsibility over classified material. “But they are sworn federal law officers. They are law enforcement, and they have a responsibility to report a crime, and particularly after a letter is sent from …

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Dershowitz: DOJ Has Enough To Indict Trump But Won’t

Axios reports: Donald Trump’s former attorney Alan Dershowitz said Friday that the Department of Justice has enough evidence to indict the former president but doesn’t expect it to happen. Dershowitz said on Fox News’s “Hannity” that “there is enough evidence here to indict Trump.” “But Trump will not be indicted in my view because the evidence doesn’t pass what I …

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Republicans Go Quiet After DOJ’s Release Of Affidavit

The New York Times reports: In the minutes and hours after the F.B.I.’s search of former President Donald J. Trump’s residence in Florida this month, his supporters did not hesitate to denounce what they saw as a blatant abuse of power and outrageous politicization of the Justice Department. But with the release of a redacted affidavit detailing the justification for …

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WaPo: Trump’s Truth Social Is In “Financial Peril”

The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump’s Truth Social website is facing financial challenges as its traffic remains puny and the company that is scheduled to acquire it expresses fear that his legal troubles could lead to a decline in his popularity. The company has seen its stock price plunge nearly 75 percent since its March peak and reported …

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Junior Posts Meme About His Father’s Genitals

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump Jr. responded to the release of the heavily redacted affidavit that provided justification for the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago by posting a meme on his Instagram account of his father, former President Donald Trump, with a comically large black bar over his crotch. “Redact this!!!” Trump Jr. captioned the photo. The meme follows similarly …

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Biden Roasts Trump’s Claim Of Declassifying All Docs

Bloomberg News reports: President Joe Biden mocked former President Donald Trump’s claim that he declassified documents the FBI seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this month. “I’ve declassified everything in the world, I’m president, I can do it all?” Biden told reporters, impersonating his predecessor as he departed the White House on Friday. “C’mon, ‘declassified everything?’” he added, waving his …

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New York Times: Trump Must Be Indicted If Guilty

From the New York Times editorial board: The disturbing details of his post-election misfeasance, meticulously assembled by the Jan. 6 committee, leave little doubt that Mr. Trump sought to subvert the Constitution and overturn the will of the American people. The president, defeated at the polls in 2020, tried to enlist federal law enforcement authorities, state officials and administrators of …

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REPORT: Affidavit More Incriminating Than Expected

Slate reports: Even with about half of its 38 pages blacked out for security reasons, the Justice Department’s affidavit to get a warrant to search Donald Trump’s residency at Mal-a-Largo is more damning than many of the former president’s critics expected. The affidavit, written on Aug. 5 and released by a judge on Friday, reported that 15 boxes of documents, …

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Trump Calls Affidavit “Total Public Relations Subterfuge”

Politico reports: Records the FBI obtained from Trump’s Florida home in advance of the Aug. 8 search bore indications they contained human source intelligence, intercepts under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and signals intelligence, as well as other tags indicating high sensitivity. Several of those tightly-controlled documents contained Trump’s “handwritten notes,” the partially-redacted affidavit detailing the Justice Department investigation says. …

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Kushner: My Mom Asked Me If I Colluded With Russia

Mediaite reports: Jared Kushner’s own mother asked him if he was colluding with Russia, the former White House official revealed to Newsmax on Friday. “She’s reading articles online. Chuck Schumer and my parents, you know they used to be friends and we were Democrats and he’s going around the Upper East Side telling everybody that I’m going to be indicted. …

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