Trump Corruption

“Tell them to make the microphone louder! It’s terrible! Are the teleprompters not working? Not even a little bit. Great job! And then I don’t pay the company that does it, right? And then I end up with a story, ‘Trump doesn’t pay.’ “I don’t pay contractors that do a shitty job. And that’s a shitty job! That’s a shitty …

The Independent reports: Donald Trump is no stranger to accusations that he has little regard for the well-being of his rallygoers. On Sunday, he added fuel to that fire. “Do you feel the breeze? I don’t want anybody going on me. We need every voter,” he said. “I don’t care about you. I just want your vote. I don’t care.” …

Law & Crime reports: Attorneys representing creditors of Rudy Giuliani on Friday said they plan to subpoena the former New York City mayor’s spokesperson in order to ascertain a bevy of financial details – including certain potential assets and liabilities – as his bankruptcy case moves on. The subpoena aims to obtain all documents or communications related to “expenses, fees, …

Reuters reports: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will hold an outdoor rally in sweltering Las Vegas, Nevada, on Sunday, seeking to shore up support in a swing state he lost twice but which polls suggest is leaning his way in the Nov. 5 election. It will be Trump’s first large-scale rally since a New York jury found him guilty on …

“Low INSULIN PRICING was gotten for millions of Americans by me, and the Trump Administration, not by Crooked Joe Biden. He had NOTHING to do with it. It was all done long before he so sadly entered office. All he does is try to take credit for things done by others, in this case, ME!” – Trump, posting to Truth …

Britain’s Sky News reports: Donald Trump is in breach of a British High Court order to pay £300,000 in legal costs to the former spy who compiled a salacious dossier alleging Russian interference in the 2016 US election. Sky News can reveal Trump has failed to comply with the costs order with Christopher Steele, the former MI6 agent who compiled …

“Then I got two prosecutors. Fani…the ho. [Audience roars.] I’m sorry. Fawny! Forny! F-A-N-I is not Fawny. And I’m not calling her Fawny. I could drop the ‘ho’ part if she’d just quit and go away. But to me, if you spell your name F-A-N-I, you’re Fanny.” – Bankrupt and effectively disbarred former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, speaking at yet …

First, here’s what happened on Tuesday in the US House: Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) on Tuesday started naming all the countries that would bar Donald Trump from entering once he is officially a convicted felon, while listing reasons he believed his Republican colleagues were “in a cult.” Swalwell listed all the countries while Chair Jim Jordan of Ohio yelled over …

The Washington Post reports: Donald Trump is vowing to wrest key spending powers from Congress if elected this November, promising to assert more control over the federal budget than any president in U.S. history. The Constitution gives control over spending to Congress, but Trump and his aides maintain that the president should have much more discretion — including the authority …

From a 2020 PolitiFact report: President Donald Trump exaggerated his contributions to historically Black colleges and universities during the final presidential debate, claiming he “saved” the minority institutions when he signed a bill to permanently extend a stream of federal funding beyond 2019. Trump’s insistence that he “saved” HBCUs goes too far. His debate-night claim also ignored that HBCUs received …

The Hill reports: President Biden’s reelection campaign dropped an ad that hits former President Trump over his rhetoric about veterans on the week of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy. The one-minute video, entitled “What Trump Thinks,” includes quotes of Trump making negative comments about military members, some of which he has denied since they were first …

CNN’s indefatigable fact-checker Daniel Dale writes: In a Fox News interview on Wednesday, Trump said, “Hard to believe, they have some states passing legislation where you can execute the baby after birth. It’s crazy.” Facts First: Trump’s claim is false. No state has passed or is passing a law that allows the execution of a baby after it is born. …

Mediate reports: Former President Donald Trump boasted that a new Natasha Owens song has proclaimed him “The Chosen One” — that “God has chosen President Trump to push back against the evil in our country.” Hot on the heels of the jury in the Stormy Daniels hush money trial returning “guilty” verdicts on all 34 felony counts comes a new …

Politico reports: Donald Trump is courting a Christian advocacy organization that wants to ban all abortions and calls the procedure “child sacrifice,” a stringent position that contradicts his own less restrictive approach and stated intention to let states decide the issue. Trump is scheduled to make a virtual appearance Monday at an event hosted by the Danbury Institute, an organization …

“Well, revenge does take time, I will say that. And sometimes revenge can be justified, Phil, I have to be honest. Sometimes it can. I think the country is really worse for what they’ve done, and I think you see that when you look at the poll numbers. When you see that almost $400 million has poured in since this …

“It is a Total and Complete American Tragedy that the Crooked Joe Biden Department of Injustice is so desperate to jail Steve Bannon, and every other Republican, for that matter, for not SUBMITTING to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, made up of all Democrats, and two CRAZED FORMER REPUBLICAN LUNATICS, Cryin’ Adam Kinzinger, and Liz ‘Out of Her Mind’ …

The Independent reports: On Wednesday, Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity, “Look, when this election is over, based on what they’ve done, I would have every right to go after them, and it would be easy because it’s Joe Biden.” After a five-week trial in New York, Trump was found guilty for falsifying business records to pay adult film star …

CBS News reports: Trump ally Steve Bannon is set to appear in a Washington, D.C. federal courtroom on Thursday as a judge weighs whether to clear the way for Bannon to serve out a four-month prison sentence. Prosecutors pushed last month for the former White House chief strategist to be sent to prison after an appeals court denied a request …

Axios reports: The Democratic National Committee is escalating its attacks on former President Trump as a “convicted felon,” with a billboard that will greet him outside of Phoenix today when he attends his first post-conviction event there, Axios has learned. It’s the DNC’s first paid ad using “convicted felon” — and another clear indication that Biden’s campaign will seize upon …

“As the co-chair of the RNC, I can guarantee you I am well aware of all the ways that they are trying to sway the election and rig it in every single state. “We have lawsuits out in so many states right now and the problem is that the Democrats want to make it easier to cheat and harder to …