Trump Corruption

The Washington Post reports: A document describing a foreign government’s military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities, was found by FBI agents who searched former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and private club last month, according to people familiar with the matter, underscoring concerns among U.S. intelligence officials about classified material stashed in the Florida property. Some of the seized documents …

Mediaite reports: Former Attorney General Bill Barr blasted a ruling by a judge to appoint a special master in the case involving Donald Trump’s improper retention of government documents. The ruling has been derided by legal experts. Appearing on Tuesday’s The Story with Martha MacCallum, Barr added his name to that list. “The opinion, I think, was wrong and I …

The Hill reports: Hillary Clinton said in a new interview that she believes former President Trump encouraged and led a seditious conspiracy that culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack. “I would not be honest if I didn’t say I think there was a seditious conspiracy against the government of the United States, and that’s a crime,” Clinton told …

CNN reports: A federal judge has granted former President Donald Trump’s request to appoint a “special master” to review materials that the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago last month. The decision, from Trump-appointed District Judge Aileen Cannon, is a significant victory for the former president. It orders a third-party attorney, from outside the government, be brought in to review the materials …

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump once tried to pay a lawyer he owed $2 million with a deed to a horse. The bizarre scene is described in Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump and the Corruption of Justice, a book by David Enrich of the New York Times that will be published next week. Enrich reports that …

The Insider reports: Former President Donald Trump tore into Fox News on Sunday, accusing the network of amplifying a Democratic agenda and going harder on Republicans than Democrats. While criticizing Fox News on Sunday, Trump also said that if the network’s cable-news competitor CNN adopted a conservative approach, he would support it. “If ‘low ratings’ CNN ever went Conservative, they …

The Insider reports: Former President Donald Trump baselessly accused Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman of using drugs and disparaged his clothing while speaking at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on Saturday night. In his speech, Trump claimed without evidence that Fetterman supports “taxpayer-funded drug dens and the complete decriminalization of illegal drugs including heroin, cocaine and crystal meth and ultra-lethal …

ABC News reports: And though Saturday’s rally was in support of his Pennsylvania candidates, Trump spent the vast majority of his speech focused on his own issues– mainly with the FBI, the Department of Justice, fellow Republicans and Joe Biden. “Joe Biden came to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to give the most vicious, hateful and divisive speech ever delivered by an American …

CNN reports: Within a week of the FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows handed over texts and emails to the National Archives that he had not previously turned over from his time in the administration, sources familiar with the matter tell CNN. Meadows’ submission to the Archives was part …

The New York Times reports: “As more information comes out, the actions of the department look more understandable,” Mr. Barr told The New York Times in a phone interview, speaking of the decision by the current attorney general, Merrick B. Garland, to seek a search warrant of the complex at Mar-a-Lago. “It seems to me they were driven by concern …

The Insider reports: Former President Donald Trump lashed out at his one-time ally Bill Barr on Friday after the former attorney general defended the DOJ’s raid on Mar-a-Lago. In an interview with Fox News on Friday, Barr dismissed arguments that the DOJ’s decision to raid Mar-a-Lago was an overstep. “I personally think, for them to have taken things to the …

The Washington Post reports: Former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone and his deputy Pat Philbin appeared before a federal grand jury investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, Friday — spending about four hours behind closed doors with jurors and prosecutors. Cipollone became the highest-ranking White House aide known to appear before the grand jury in …

The Independent reports: Trump’s attorney general Bill Barr offered some harsh words against his former boss as new details were released about documents seized from Mar-a-Lago by the FBI. “I think for them to take things to the current point they probably have pretty good evidence. People say this was unprecedented.” “Well, it’s also unprecedented for a POTUS to take …

The New York Times reports: Mr. Trump has spent more than a decade on social media attacking enemies, cozying up to far-right ideas and sharing false information. He used Twitter to perpetuate the lie that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and later deemed one investigation after another partisan witch hunts. But, as his legal exposure …

The Guardian reports: The FBI’s detailed inventory list of materials seized from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort was made public on Friday morning, providing a closer look at the highly-sensitive government documents that were retrieved from the former president’s office and a storage area at the property. The inventory was unsealed after the federal judge overseeing Trump’s request for a special …

Posted last night to Truth Social: If you look at the words and meaning of the awkward and angry Biden speech tonight, he threatened America, including with the possible use of military force. He must be insane, or suffering from late stage dementia! Someone should explain to Joe Biden, slowly but passionately, that MAGA means, as powerfully as mere words …

The New York Times reports: A federal judge signaled on Thursday that she remained open to granting former President Donald J. Trump’s request to appoint an independent arbiter to go through documents the F.B.I. seized from him last month, but stopped short of making a final decision. After a nearly two-hour hearing, the judge, Aileen M. Cannon of the Federal …

CNN reports: Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone and his former deputy Patrick Philbin are expected to appear Friday before a grand jury in Washington, DC, that’s investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol and the events leading up to it, a person familiar with the matter tells CNN. CNN previously reported that Cipollone and Philbin had …

Fox News reports: Nearly two months after the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling in a case about a House Oversight Committee subpoena on an accounting firm for former President Trump’s financial records, Trump’s lawyers revealed that all parties involved have reached a settlement agreement. Attorneys from the law firm Consovoy McCarthy notified the federal appellate court of …

Former Fox News host Andrew Napolitano writes: It gives me no joy to write this piece. Even a cursory review of the redacted version of the affidavit submitted in support of the government’s application for a search warrant at the home of former President Trump reveals that he will soon be indicted by a federal grand jury for three crimes: …