Trump Corruption

Saudi Golf Event Flops: $1 Tickets, Meager Crowds

The Washington Post reports: This weekend’s LIV Golf event at Trump National Golf Club involved serious money — a total purse of $25 million — and took great efforts to present itself as golf with attitude. Or at least a personality. There were paratroopers before the first tee shot and T-shirt guns during breaks in the action. Top 40 and …

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Trump’s Saudi Golf Crowd Chants “Let’s Go Brandon”

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump was joined by some of his family, Fox News’s Tucker Carlson, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on his golf course, as “Let’s Go, Brandon,” chants broke out during the Saudi-backed LIV tournament. In a video posted to Twitter, chants broke out as the crowd spotted Trump, Carlson, Greene, Eric Trump, and Kimberly Guilfoyle …

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Trump: Biden Doesn’t Have COVID, He Has Dementia

The Washington Examiner reports: Former President Donald Trump accused President Joe Biden of having dementia rather than a COVID-19 rebound infection in a backhanded “get well” message on his Truth Social platform that spurred a wild rant Sunday. The former president began by trolling his successor on the social media site over his re-diagnosis. The sarcastic opener led Trump down …

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Trump Lawyers Ready Defense For Criminal Charges

Rolling Stone reports: Donald Trump’s lawyers are preemptively preparing a legal defense against criminal charges from the Justice Department, as the former president’s lawyers are increasingly anxious that their client will be prosecuted for his role in the attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Members of the ex-president’s legal team have already begun brainstorming strategy and potential defenses, according to …

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Trump Attacks Proposed Prisoner Swap For Brittney Griner: She Went To Russia “Loaded Up With Drugs”

Mediaite has the transcript: She went in there loaded up with drugs into a hostile territory where they’re very vigilant about drugs. They don’t like drugs. And she got caught. And now we’re supposed to get her out — and she makes, you know, a lot of money, I guess. We’re supposed to get her out for an absolute killer …

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Manafort: Michael Cohen Spied On Trump Campaign

Vox reports: The Trump campaign was actually being spied on in 2016, claims former Trump campaign chair and convicted felon Paul Manafort in his forthcoming book. It just wasn’t by anyone who Trump has accused of doing so on Twitter. Instead, Manafort writes, it was former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, who made himself administrator of the campaign server in an …

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Ivana’s Burial On Trump Golf Course Earns Tax Break

Salon reports: Ivana Trump, the first wife of former President Donald Trump, has been buried at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, where Trump himself plans to be buried one day. As several people on Twitter were quick to point out, New Jersey land used for cemetery purposes comes with a significant tax break. “New Jersey law exempts …

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Trump Illegally Uses Presidential Seal At NJ Golf Event

The Hill reports: Former President Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J., was spotted continuing to use the presidential seal despite an ethics complaint and federal law potentially banning its use of the seal at the venue. Photos taken Thursday while Trump hosted an event for the LIV Golf tournament, a Saudi-backed golf league that has faced controversy in light of …

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Hot Mic: Gaetz Promised Stone That He’d Be Pardoned

The Washington Post reports: As Roger Stone prepared to stand trial in 2019, complaining he was under pressure from federal prosecutors to incriminate Donald Trump, a close ally of the president repeatedly assured Stone that “the boss” would likely grant him clemency if he were convicted, a recording shows. At an event at a Trump property that October, Rep. Matt …

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NYT: Trump Cheated During His NJ Saudi Golf Event

The New York Times reports: His blast from a bunker had failed to reach the green and was nestled in some nasty rough. Instead, he had his caddie pick up the ball and march to the next tee. On another hole, when a birdie putt rolled nearly six feet past the hole, he casually scooped the ball up to end …

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Bolton Warns GOP: Trump Could Sink Senate Takeover

Mediate reports: Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, John Bolton, released a scathing statement on Friday warning the GOP of potential 2022 midterm losses that could result in the Democrats actually increasing their majority in the U.S. Senate. “Results indicate that Donald Trump is a significant drag on the general-election prospects of Republican candidates. “Independent and undecided voters, whose votes …

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Key Texts By Top Trump DHS Officials Are Missing

The Washington Post reports: Text messages for President Donald Trump’s acting homeland security secretary Chad Wolf and acting deputy secretary Ken Cuccinelli are missing for a key period leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to four people briefed on the matter and internal emails. This discovery of missing records for the senior-most Homeland …

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Kushner: Leaking Liar Bannon Physically Threatened Me

CNN reports: Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser writes that Bannon once yelled and threatened him in the Cabinet Room after Gary Cohn, a senior economic adviser, informed Kushner that Bannon was leaking negative information about him. “Steve, you gotta stop leaking on Gary,” Kushner said he told Bannon. “We’re trying to build a team here.” Kushner writes that Bannon responded: …

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Manafort Secretly Advised Trump’s 2020 Campaign

The Guardian reports: Paul Manafort indirectly advised Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign while in home confinement as part of a seven-year sentence for offenses including tax fraud – advice he kept secret as he hoped for a presidential pardon. “I didn’t want anything to get in the way of the president’s re-election or, importantly, a potential pardon,” Trump’s 2016 campaign manager …

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Ex-DOJ Official Cooperating With Jan. 6 Committee

CNN reports: Former Justice Department staffer Ken Klukowski, who worked with Jeffrey Clark at the agency, is cooperating in the DOJ’s January 6 criminal investigation, after investigators searched and copied his electronic records several weeks ago. “We’ve been fully cooperating both with the Department of Justice and the Select Committee, and we’ll continue with that cooperation,” Klukowski’s lawyer Ed Greim …

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RNC To Cut Off Paying Trump’s Legal Bills If He Runs

ABC News reports: Since October 2021, the Republican National Committee has paid nearly $2 million to law firms representing Trump as part of his defense against personal litigation and government investigations. But an RNC official told ABC News that as soon as Trump would announce he is running for president, the payments would stop because the party has a “neutrality …

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Trump Shrugs Off Saudi Arabia’s Role In 9/11 Attacks

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump told ESPN that “nobody’s gotten to the bottom of 9/11” as he defended his decision to host the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series at his Bedminster course. Trump faces outrage from the families of 9/11 victims. He told ESPN the tournament’s Saudi sponsors “have been friends of mine for a long time.” The September 11, …

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Jan. 6 Committee To Share Depositions With DOJ

The Hill reports: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has “formalized” a process for sharing information with the DOJ as the department ramps up its own probe into the deadly riot. Chair Bennie Thomspon (D-Miss.) said the DOJ will now be able to obtain copies of depositions from the committee, abandoning an earlier demand …

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Liar Threatens To Sue All Outlets Who Call Him A Liar

Talking Point Memo reports: Donald Trump said today that he plans to sue CNN for defamation, claiming the network and digital news outlet has been defaming him since the 2016 election. And he takes specific and particular issue with use of the term “Big Lie,” a phrase which nearly every mainstream news outlet in America has used. “I will also …

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Steve Mnuchin Interviews With Jan. 6 Committee

ABC News reports: The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is working to secure testimony from a growing number of officials in former President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News. Trump’s former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who reportedly discussed the possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment as a vehicle …

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