Trump Corruption

CNN reports: A redacted version of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit has been released after a federal judge’s orders. CNN is reviewing the document now. The affidavit was filed by the Justice Department when it sought a warrant to search former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this month. It lays out why investigators believed there was probable cause that …

Fox Business reports: Former President Donald Trump’s social media outfit, Truth Social, is locked in a bitter battle with one of its vendors claiming that the platform is stiffing the company out of more than $1 million in contractually obligated payments, FOX Business has learned. If the allegations are true, they would suggest that Truth Social’s finances are in significant …

The New York Times reports: A New York City-owned golf course managed by former President Donald J. Trump’s family business is expected to host a Saudi Arabia-backed tournament in October, a city official confirmed on Thursday. The women’s golf tournament, part of the Aramco Team Series, was approved to be held at the Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point in …

Politico reports: The Atlanta-area grand jury investigating Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election is demanding testimony from Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, about his involvement in the effort. Filings in the case show Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney overseeing the investigation, ordered Meadows to appear for a Sept. 27 interview. She’s also seeking Sept. …

The Associated Press reports: A judge on Thursday ordered the Justice Department to make public a redacted version of the affidavit it relied on when federal agents searched the Florida estate of former President Donald Trump to look for classified documents. The directive from U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart came hours after federal law enforcement submitted under seal the portions …

Politico reports: An attorney who helped develop former President Donald Trump’s last-ditch strategy to subvert the 2020 election moved Thursday to block a subpoena for his testimony to an Atlanta-area grand jury investigating potential crimes connected to the effort. Kenneth Chesebro, who helped craft a plan to use false presidential electors to undermine the certification of Joe Biden’s victory, contended …

Colby Hall writes at Mediaite: Is former President Donald Trump freaking out? I mean, given the spate of legal actions in the wake of his questionable business and presidential behavior and the criminal investigations that have followed, it would totally make sense if he were panicking. And a Thursday-morning flurry of social media posts suggests that he is no longer …

Posted last night to Truth Social: The Democrats have Mitch McConnell and his lovely wife, Elaine “Coco” Chao, over a barrel. He and she will never be prosecuted, as per the last paragraphs of this story, as long as he continues to give the Radical Left the Trillions and Trillions of Dollars that they constantly DEMAND. He was afraid to …

The Washington Post reports: About two dozen boxes of presidential records stored in then-president Donald Trump’s White House residence were not returned to the National Archives and Records Administration in the final days of his term even after Archives officials were told by a Trump lawyer that the documents should be returned, according to an email from the top lawyer …

CNBC reports: Digital World Acquisition Corp., the special purpose acquisition company that agreed to take Trump Media and Technology Group public, warned Monday that potential damage to former President Donald Trump’s popularity could hurt his firm. The warning came in a securities filing that set a Sept. 6 shareholder meeting to determine whether to delay the deadline for completing a …

Politico reports: The National Archives found more than 700 pages of classified material — including “special access program materials,” some of the most highly classified secrets in government — in 15 boxes recovered from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in January, according to correspondence between the National Archivist and his legal team. The May 10 letter — posted late Monday on …

Mediaite reports: It might actually be good for former President Donald Trump to have the country’s nuclear codes at home, his son Donald Trump Jr. argued on Monday. At a campaign event for Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Trump Jr. blasted the FBI’s raid of his father’s Mar-a-Lago property. “By the way, for the record, I’d say that if Donald Trump …

The New York Times reports: The initial batch of documents retrieved by the National Archives from former President Donald J. Trump in January included more than 150 marked as classified, a number that ignited intense concern at the Justice Department and helped trigger the criminal investigation that led F.B.I. agents to swoop into Mar-a-Lago this month seeking to recover more, …

CNN reports: The Justice Department has issued a new grand jury subpoena to the National Archives for more documents as part of its investigation into the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, two sources familiar with the investigation tell CNN. This latest subpoena, issued on August 17, is in addition to a subpoena the Department of Justice sent …

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump’s legal team has asked a federal judge to appoint a “special master” to ensure the Justice Department returns any of his private documents seized during the search of Mar-a-Lago two weeks ago. Trump is asking for a special master — a third-party attorney — to oversee the review of evidence gathered from the beach …

The Insider reports: A $650,000 “charitable contribution” former President Donald Trump’s political committee made to the Smithsonian Institution will fund portraits of Donald and Melania Trump for the National Portrait Gallery, a Smithsonian official confirmed to Insider. The contribution, which Trump’s Save America PAC disclosed without explanation in a Federal Election Commission filing Saturday, will “support the artists’ fees, shipping, …

Politico reports: The federal magistrate judge who authorized the warrant to search Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate emphasized Monday that he “carefully reviewed” the FBI’s sworn evidence before signing off and considers the facts contained in an accompanying affidavit to be “reliable.” Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart offered his assessment in a 13-page order memorializing his decision to consider whether to unseal …

The Hill reports: Republicans who support former President Trump more than they support the GOP climbed to 41 percent in August, up 7 points from May when 34 percent said they supported Trump more than the party, according to an NBC News poll released Sunday. A slim majority of Republicans, or 50 percent, say they support the party more than …

The Insider reports: Jared Kushner spoke about the raid on Mar-a-Lago for the first time on Sunday, after widespread speculation that he could have been a mole to the FBI. Speaking to Mark Levin, Kushner painted the FBI’s actions as part of a longstanding playbook against former President Donald Trump by bungling “enemies,” arguing that this is happening because Trump …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump on Saturday called his former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao “crazy” and accused her and her family of working to “get rich on China.” Trump’s attack came in a TruthSocial post knocking Chao’s husband, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), for saying the GOP might face a tight race to flip the Senate, in part …