Trump Corruption

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump praised Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, for “having the courage of her convictions” when she told the Jan. 6 committee on Thursday that she still believes the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Thomas was a close ally of Trump while he was in office and would often meet with …

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: Is McConnell approving all of these Trillions of Dollars worth of Democrat sponsored Bills, without even the slightest bit of negotiation, because he hates Donald J. Trump, and he knows I am strongly opposed to them, or is he doing it because he believes in the Fake and Highly Destructive Green New …

Yahoo News reports: Given “what we know about the ongoing investigations into Donald Trump,” a narrow majority of registered voters (51%) now believe he should not “be allowed to serve as president again in the future,” according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll. Just 35% of voters say Trump should be allowed to serve again. The rest (14%) are unsure. …

Politico reports: The Justice Department moved to quickly dismantle the independent review of documents seized from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, contending that the review — ordered by U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon — is impeding its criminal investigation. In a 15-page filing asking a federal appeals court to speed its consideration of the issue, prosecutors complained the “special master” …

The Guardian reports: According to a new book, Donald Trump came up with his famous excuse for not releasing his tax returns on the fly – literally, while riding his campaign plane during the 2016 Republican primary. Maggie Haberman writes: “Trump thought for a second about how to ‘get myself out of this’, as he said. He leaned back, before …

Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: Here we go again! Another Fake book is out, this one, supposedly very boring and stale, by self appointed head case, Failing (unfunded liability!) New York Times writer, Maggie Hagerman. it she tells many made up stories, with zero fact checking or confirmation by anyone who would know, like me. In one case …

Axios reports: New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman reports in her book — “Confidence Man,” out Tuesday — that former President Trump had threatened internally to go after her phone records to expose leakers. “Trump, angry about my published stories, would bellow that he wanted administration officials to obtain my phone records and identify my sources,” Haberman writes. “It did …

Axios reports: Judge Aileen Cannon ruled Thursday that former President Trump no longer has to submit a sworn statement about the accuracy of the FBI’s inventory on items seized from Mar-a-Lago, as the deadline to do so from the special master loomed. Cannon sided with Trump’s legal team, which objected to special master Raymond Dearie’s request he back up his …

The Washington Post reports: A company that organized a lucrative series of post-White House paid speeches for former president Donald Trump is now struggling to pay vendors, investors and employees, angering Trump allies who supported the effort. The American Freedom Tour, which struck a multi-million-dollar deal with Trump after he left office, has lost two top executives and canceled events …

Reuters reports: Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are resisting a federal judge’s instruction to submit a sworn declaration on whether they believe the government’s list of property taken from Trump’s Florida estate is accurate. According to a letter publicly filed by Trump’s lawyers on Wednesday, the former president’s legal team told Senior U.S. Judge Raymond Dearie, who is reviewing …

NPR reports: Ginni Thomas, a longtime GOP activist who is also the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, will appear Thursday before the House Jan. 6 panel. The closed-door session was confirmed by sources familiar with the committee’s work. The committee first asked to interview Ginni Thomas about her communications with those pushing a plan to reject the results …

Bloomberg News reports: Former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell’s countersuit challenging a voting machine maker’s $1.3 billion defamation suit against her was dismissed by a federal judge. Powell, who widely spread a false conspiracy theory that Dominion Voting Systems Inc. rigged the 2020 presidential election against Donald Trump, claimed that the company was abusing the legal process by suing her. …

The Independent reports: According to an early copy of New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman’s new book obtained by CNN, the then-president was seconds away from firing off a tweet that would’ve alerted his daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner, that they were no longer employed in the White House. Both Ivanka and Kushner were working as senior …

The Washington Post reports: As president, Donald Trump weighed bombing drug labs in Mexico after one of his leading public health officials came into the Oval Office, wearing a dress uniform, and said such facilities should be handled by putting “lead to target” to stop the flow of illicit substances across the border into the United States. “He raised it …

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: U.S. “Leadership” should remain “cool, calm, and dry” on the SABOTAGE of the Nord Stream Pipelines. This is a big event that should not entail a big solution, at least not yet. The Russia/Ukraine catastrophe should NEVER have happened, and would definitely not have happened if I were President. Do not make …

“We had something special going two years ago. We were leading the world in every category, every group within our country was leading. African Americans, Asian Americans, women, men, Hispanics. Everybody was leading. Young people, old people. “They [Democrats] are looking to destroy the country. You know, I say it often, our challenge within, the danger from within, meaning people …

CNN reports: The newest addition to former President Donald Trump’s legal team, Chris Kise, has been sidelined from the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation less than a month after he was brought on to represent Trump in the matter, two sources familiar with the move tell CNN. Kise is expected to remain on Trump’s legal team but is not leading the work …

Law & Crime reports: Former President Donald Trump’s post-election lawyer John Eastman is asking a federal judge in California to shield from the Jan. 6 Committee an additional 558 documents from his Chapman University email account. Eastman’s lawyers said they’ll produce 18 of the 576 documents requested by the committee, but they believe the remaining 558 are protected through previous …

CNBC reports: Digital World Acquisition Corp, the blank-check company looking to take Trump Media and Technology Group public, has changed its listed address to a UPS Store in Miami. The change from a Miami office building to a UPS address came with DWAC’s regulatory filing on Friday disclosing that some investors pulled out tens of millions of dollars. The company …

NBC News reports: A high-ranking member of the far-right Oath Keepers organization who has been charged in connection with the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot exchanged messages in November 2020 with former Trump White House aide Andrew Giuliani about election issues. That same Oath Keeper member, Kellye SoRelle, also tried to text a White House number on Dec. 20, according …