Trump Corruption

“We’re moving them back from Washington, where you have people that don’t care about New York, frankly. You know, in Washington, I don’t know if you ever noticed that you got Department of Education, Department of Education. You got half the buildings are Department of Education. “I never saw – you don’t need any of them. You know, I want …

NBC News reports: The five men who comprise the Central Park Five, and now call themselves the Exonerated Five, have filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump for defamation in connection with his remarks during the presidential debate. The lawsuit focuses on the Sept. 10 presidential debate in Pennsylvania, where Trump said that the five men — Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, …

“You look at the evangelical vote that the president was talking about – I mean the real president – the president was talking about the other night, what is it like, about 40, 50, 60% of the evangelicals don’t vote because they think it’s fixed. “Well I tell you what, if you think it’s fixed, you better vote because we’ll …

Axios reports: Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) engaged in a tense text exchange last week, Axios has learned. Johnson told Axios in an exclusive interview on Saturday that he reached out to Cheney — a former close ally and friend — after she took aim at him on NBC’s “Meet the Press” over certifying the …

The Wall Street Journal reports: “You’d have to be a psychopath to say you enjoy this,” said Maricopa County’s top election official for voting by mail, Stephen Richer [photo], a Republican. The building has added metal detectors and armed guards. On Election Day, as workers tabulate ballots behind new fencing and concrete barriers, drones will patrol the skies overhead, police …

Via press release from CBS News: Former President Donald Trump is accusing 60 Minutes of deceitful editing of our Oct. 7 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. That is false. 60 Minutes gave an excerpt of our interview to Face the Nation that used a longer section of her answer than that on 60 Minutes. Same question. Same answer. But …

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump served up french fries Sunday at a Philadelphia-area McDonald’s, oversalting spuds and peppering in some jabs at Vice President Kamala Harris. The franchise in Feasterville was closed for normal business during Sunday’s photo op. The customers who went through the drive thru were pre-selected by the franchise and the local Trump campaign team, …

ABC News reports: Before recently sentencing a rioter to prison, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said he prays Americans accept the outcome of next month’s election. But the veteran judge expressed concern that Donald Trump and his allies are spreading the same sort of conspiracy theories that fueled the mob’s Jan. 6, 2021, riot. “That sore loser is saying the …

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports: Gov. Josh Shapiro suggested Sunday that law enforcement authorities should investigate entrepreneur Elon Musk’s offer to pay $1 million a day to voters in Pennsylvania and other swing states who sign up to support a petition favoring gun rights and opposing efforts to stop the spread of misinformation. Mr. Shapiro questioned the legality of America PAC, …

“I don’t know. I don’t know if it’s true or not true. Well, what about the goose? The geese? What about the geese? What happened there? They were all missing. “Howie, I have no idea. I said something. The big problem is that you can’t put 30,000 people into a 50,000-person town or city and expect this city to even …

“What they’ve done is so terrible. Who’s ever heard of anything like this? Adam shifty Schiff. He’s a crooked guy. He’s a crooked politician 100 percent. He’s going to be a senator now.  Can you believe it? “But again, he’s an enemy. An enemy. He wanted to put my son in jail, and my son didn’t even know what he …

Politico reports: Election observers, elected leaders and some of Trump’s own allies agree on one operating premise: On election night, no matter what the results show, how many votes remain uncounted and how many advisers tell him otherwise, Donald Trump will declare himself the winner. And from there, he could embark on a risky but plausible challenge to overturn the …

CNBC reports: “Mark Cuban is a Loser,” Trump wrote in a Saturday Truth Social post. “Wouldn’t take his phone calls anymore while at the White House, and he went rogue. A weak and pathetic ‘bully,’ he’s got nothing going. Really low clubhead speed, a total non-athlete!” Trump’s insults come several days after Cuban mocked the Republican presidential nominee’s tariff proposals …

The Associated Press reports: His father had Alzheimer’s disease late in life, one potential risk factor. Trump’s public appearances are often marked by rambling. He regularly confuses timelines, events and people.  At a town hall-style forum in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Trump seemed to have no recollection of meeting with a severely injured veteran and his family. The veteran’s wife noted …

The Washington Post reports: Seventeen days from the election, here in arguably the most decisive swing state, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump spent the first 10 minutes of his speech without mentioning politics. Instead, he delivered a long tribute to Arnold Palmer, the late golfer who was born here and is the namesake of the airport where Trump was speaking. …

The Daily Beast reports: A cringe-inducing video featuring Lara Trump dancing to a remixed Taylor Swift song has earned Donald Trump’s campaign ridicule and prompted calls for the pop superstar to sue over the track’s use. Posted to the Trump campaign’s official account Thursday, the clip features a bevy of women supporters of the GOP nominee—including the former president’s daughter-in-law, …

“Listen, the reality is this country is not working right now. It’s not working. Everything is unaffordable. There’s not a single person watching this right now that thinks anything in this country is affordable because it’s not. We have a candidate right now in Kamala that can’t even get through an interview. These aren’t serious people. She’s never actually had …

The Hill reports: Bruce Springsteen is sounding off on Donald Trump after the former president spent much of a recent campaign event listening to songs, with the “Born in the U.S.A.” singer saying that “swaying to music” is his job. “The whole thing of standing and swaying for 40 minutes at your town hall? I mean, swaying to music, that’s …

“Early voting is underway, so get everyone you know and go out and vote. Go tomorrow. It’s just starting. Go and vote. Make sure you vote and bring all our friends that want to vote for us. “Tell them, ‘Jill. Get your fat husband off the couch. Get that – get that fat pig off the couch. Tell him to …

USA Today reports: Donald Trump’s rally in Detroit hit a snag on Friday night when the audio stopped working and the Republican presidential nominee passed the time walking around on the stage for about 18 minutes waiting for a fix. The former president was in the middle of a riff about the economy in Michigan’s largest city when his microphone …