Trump Corruption

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 …

“They spy, they illegally seize. Look what they did to Mike Lindell. Look what they did to the pro-life activists in Pennsylvania. Raiding his home for, you know, not even a real crime here. A misdemeanor shoving that was thrown out of court. “If you have a thought crime, not actual crime, they’re going to show up at your door, …

The New York Times reports: A top Justice Department official told former President Donald J. Trump’s lawyers in recent weeks that the department believed he had not returned all the documents he took when he left the White House, according to two people briefed on the matter. The outreach from the official, Jay I. Bratt, who leads the department’s counterintelligence …

Posted this afternoon to Trump’s Truth Social account: Great news for the United States Senate, and our Country itself. Liddle’ Ben Sasse, the lightweight Senator from the great State of Nebraska, will be resigning. If he knew he was going to resign so early in his term, why did he run in the first place? But it’s still great news! …

Florida Politics reports: Hurricane Ian left Gulf Coast residents asking for water, electricity and places to shower. But at least one congressional candidate is asking for “emergency” campaign donations. A new mailer from Anna Paulina Luna, headlined as an “emergency contribution reply,” shows the Pinellas Republican in military fatigues and asks for donations. But it wants checks written to “Anna …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump told the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) Hispanic Leadership Conference in Miami, Florida on Wednesday a pollster once told him he could defeat George Washington and Abraham Lincoln on the same ticket. Trump, not known for his modesty, made the off claim during a free-wielding speech in which he falsely claimed former presidents like …

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to intervene in the dispute over materials the FBI seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate this summer. His emergency request with Supreme Court is the latest example of the former President seeking to involve the justices in investigations that entangle him – at a time when the high court’s legitimacy …

Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: Herschel Walker is being slandered and maligned by the Fake News Media and obviously, the Democrats. Interestingly, I’ve heard many horrible things about his opponent, Raphael Warnock, things that nobody should be talking about, so we don’t. Herschel has properly denied the charges against him, and I have no doubt he is correct. …

Politico reports: Big investors are starting to eye the exits on the $1.3 billion bid to take former President Donald Trump’s new social media startup public. The hedge funds, trading firms and other major backers are questioning whether the financial riches that first attracted them to the transaction are still strong enough to hold their interest in a deal fraught …

Politico reports: A week before the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, attorneys spearheading Donald Trump’s last-ditch bid to remain in power emailed with disparaging jokes about their client. “A shame you are not in DC and could contribute to violation of the emoluments clause,” Trump lawyer Bruce Marks wrote in the Dec. 30 email to attorney Kenneth Chesebro, a …

CNN reports: The National Archives alerted lawyers for former President Donald Trump in May 2021 that Trump’s letters with North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un – and two dozen boxes of records – were missing, according to new correspondence the Archives released on Monday. Gary Stern, general counsel for the National Archives and Records Administration, wrote to former Trump White …

Axios reports: Former President Donald Trump is seeking to delay proceedings, including his deposition, in the defamation lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll, an author who has alleged he raped her in the mid-1990s, according to a letter from his attorney filed in federal court Monday. Trump’s lawyer requested that the court either substitute the U.S. government as the defendant …