Trump Corruption

ABC News reports: Prosecutors in New York are taking no position on former President Donald Trump’s request to delay sentencing of his “hush money” conviction until after the November election. Instead, the Manhattan district attorney’s office said in a letter Monday it would defer to Judge Juan Merchan. Trump is currently scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 18 after a jury …

CNN reports: Former Trump chief of staff and retired Marine Gen. John Kelly rejected former President Donald Trump’s comments that the Presidential Medal of Freedom that honors civilians was “much better” than the Medal of Honor given to service members, telling CNN that the two honors are “Not even close. No equivalency of any kind.” The Presidential Medal of Freedom …

Law & Crime reports: Pro-Donald Trump defamation attorney L. Lin Wood must pay three of his former law partners a combined $4.5 million after he was found liable for defaming them on social media, a jury on Friday determined. In March, a federal judge ruled in the plaintiffs’ favor on a motion for summary judgment — finding Wood liable but …

The Washington Post reports: “This was an overthrow of a president. This was an overthrow,” Trump said at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Saturday, referring to Harris replacing Biden on the ticket. He later added: “They deposed a president. It was a coup of a president. This was a coup.” “This is Donald Trump’s playbook: ‘There’s a deep state, …

“We had to turn away lots of people yesterday in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, but Comrade Kamala Harris’ Social Media Operation showed empty seats, long before the Rally started, early in the afternoon when, in actuality, we had to turn away 11,500 people! “She’s a Crooked Radical Left Politician, and always will be! Everything she touches turns bad, just like California, and …

The New York Daily News reports: “The Kamala campaign is starting to panic now that Swifties for Trump is starting to gain some momentum,” one X user with 294,000 followers posted as that word combination trended. “Yes, you can be a swiftie and a Trump supporter,” wrote an X user who goes by @trumpswiftie. “And don’t judge me.” Swift endorsed …

From a 2020 report by FactCheck.org: Some viral social media posts misleadingly suggest that piles of bricks are being staged ahead of the protests over the death of George Floyd to incite violence. We reviewed five social media posts making such claims and found no evidence of staging. In many cases, the bricks had been delivered for construction projects, or …

“Donald Trump is despicable. He doesn’t deserve to be commander in chief. And certainly those remarks are consistent with where he’s always been. He thinks that we’re suckers and losers. “Do voters want a five-time draft dodger who denigrates military men and women and our veterans and calls us suckers and losers, who doesn’t want to have his picture taken …

“The polls tend to radically overstate Democrats, we certainly saw that during the summer of 2020 and summer of 2016 and, of course, a lot of those polls were wrong when it came to Election Day. What we have certainly seen is that Kamala Harris got a bit of a sugar high a couple of weeks ago, but what we’ve …

The New York Times reports: Willie Brown, the former mayor of San Francisco, had a message for former President Donald J. Trump on Saturday afternoon: Keep my name out of your mouth or get sued. He stood with his longtime lawyer, Joe Cotchett, on a sidewalk in downtown San Francisco, outside John’s Grill, the Saturday spot on Mr. Brown’s lunchtime …

ABC News reports: Former President Donald Trump at his rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, continued to focus on attacking Vice President Kamala Harris on the economy, President Joe Biden dropping out and personal attacks on her appearance. “Don’t ever call a woman beautiful, because that’ll be the end of your political career, please.” Trump began, later going on to say, “But …

Via press release from the Veterans Of Foreign Wars: On Thursday, former President Donald Trump spoke at an event where he made some flippant remarks about the Medal of Honor and the heroes who have received it. In the video that has circulated online and in the media, the former president was recognizing Miriam Adelson in the audience who he …

“If you think things are expensive now, they will get 100 times WORSE if Kamala gets four years as President. “Under her plan, Kamala will implement SOVIET Style Price Controls. She will abolish private health care, and make California’s ridiculous tax policies the law of the land, meaning EVERY American will be taxed up to 80% of their income! If …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump on Friday announced the leadership for his transition team that will steer policy and personnel efforts ahead of his potential return to the White House. Trump’s official transition will be led by two top donors to his campaign: Linda McMahon, who previously served as head of the Small Business Administration during Trump’s first term, …

“I watched Sheldon sitting so proud in the White House when we gave Miriam the Presidential Medal of Freedom. That’s the highest award you can get as a civilian. It’s the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor. “But civilian version, it’s actually much better because everyone [who] gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, they’re soldiers. They’re either in very …

“She wants to take away your private health care. There are many people in this country who spend a lot of money on private health care. “It’s the best health care in the world, by the way. But they want to do it. They worked hard to make money and they want to do it under her. You’re not going …

The New York Times reports: Donald J. Trump’s latest financial disclosure lists more than $100 million in liabilities stemming from three civil lawsuits he lost in New York that required him to obtain bonds to pay the judgments — but also profits from licensing fees at Trump-branded properties in Dubai and Oman, as well as income that he made from …

“Virtually 100% of the net job creation in the last year has gotten to migrants. You know that? Most of the job creation has gone to migrants. In fact, I’ve heard that substantially more than — uh, beyond, actually beyond the number of 100%, it’s a much higher number than that, but the government hasn’t caught up with that yet, …

“We’re leading in the polls. We were leading Biden by a lot. We’re leading now. But I think when she’s exposed, I think we’re going to beat her by a lot more than we would have beaten Biden by because he had a little group of people that have been voting for him for a long time. She doesn’t have …

“You’re allowed to rob a store as long as it’s not more that $950. Has anyone every heard of this? You’ve got thieves going into stores with calculators calculating how it is because if it’s less than $950 they can rob it and not get charged. That was her that did that.” – Trump, today at his New Jersey resort. …