Trump Corruption

Schiff Calls On DOJ To Launch Investigation Into Trump

The Hill reports: “If the department were now to take the position that you can’t investigate or indict a former president, then a president becomes above the law. That’s a very dangerous idea that the founders would have never subscribed to,” Rep. Adam Schiff said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “Even more dangerous, I think in the case of Donald …

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Kinzinger: GOP Leaders Are Lying About Everything

“Ladies and gentlemen, particularly my Republican friends, your leaders, by and large, have been lying to you.  They know stuff that’s very different than what they’re telling you. “They know the election wasn’t stolen, but they’re going to send out fundraising requests, they’re going to take your money from you, and they’re going to use you to stay in power. …

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Liz Cheney: Protecting Democracy From Donald Trump Is More Important Than Saving My House Seat [VIDEO]

“I am working hard here in Wyoming to earn every vote, but I will also say this: I’m not going to lie. I’m not going to say things that aren’t true about the election. My opponents are doing that, certainly, simply for the purpose of getting elected, “If I have to choose between maintaining a seat in the House of …

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Trump Attacks “Evil, Nutjob, Psycho” Nancy Pelosi And Calls For “Liberating Children From Marxist Teachers”

Mediaite reports: Ex-president Donald Trump went long and went off when he spoke on Saturday at the Turning Points Action conference in Tampa, Florida, telling his audience that he was “so off-script” and mowing through a host of grievances and enemies on his list. “People like crazy Nancy Pelosi — she’s nuts. I’m telling you, she’s a nut job,” said …

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WSJ: Trump “Utterly Failed” The Test Of His Character

From the Wall Street Journal editorial board: Mr. Trump took an oath to defend the Constitution, and he had a duty as Commander in Chief to protect the Capitol from a mob attacking it in his name. He refused. He didn’t call the military to send help. He didn’t call Mr. Pence to check on the safety of his loyal …

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NY Post: Trump Is “Unworthy” To Be President Again

From the New York Post editorial board: As his followers stormed the Capitol, calling on his vice president to be hanged, President Donald Trump sat in his private dining room, watching TV, doing nothing. For three hours, seven minutes. To his eternal shame, as appalled aides implored him to publicly call on his followers to go home, he instead further …

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Secret Service Examines Phones For Texting Metadata

CNN reports: Secret Service investigators were scrutinizing the phones of 10 Secret Service personnel that contained metadata showing text messages were sent and received around January 6, 2021, but were not retained, two sources told CNN. The scrutiny came after the Department of Homeland Security inspector general asked for the text records last year of 24 individuals at the Secret …

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Axios: Trump Plotting Massive Purge Of Federal Workers

Axios reports: Former President Trump’s top allies are preparing to radically reshape the federal government if he is re-elected, purging potentially thousands of civil servants and filling career posts with loyalists to him and his “America First” ideology, people involved in the discussions tell Axios. The impact could go well beyond typical conservative targets such as the Environmental Protection Agency …

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Jury Begins Deliberations In Bannon’s Contempt Trial

CNN reports: Steve Bannon’s attorney Evan Corcoran veered several times into subjects the court wouldn’t allow him to discuss with the jury as he wrapped up his closing argument for Bannon’s innocence. A patter of objections from the Justice Department team that the judge agreed with led to a rocky final few minutes of Bannon’s case. Among other things, Corcoran …

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DC Cop Confirms Account Of Motorcade Altercation

The Hill reports: A Washington, D.C., police officer corroborated previous testimony Thursday that former President Trump got into a “heated discussion” about going to the Capitol with his supporters after his speech on Jan. 6, 2021. The Jan. 6 panel presented clips of testimony from Sgt. Mark Robinson (Ret.) of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, who was assigned to Trump’s …

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Campaign Aides Blasted Trump’s Ignoring Of Dead Cop: Everything He Said About Backing The Blue Was A Lie

Politico reports: Two of the senior-most aides to former President Donald Trump — Tim Murtaugh, communications director for his reelection campaign, and Matthew Wolking, a campaign spokesman — slammed their candidate for failing to acknowledge the death of U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick in the days following the Jan. 6 attack. Murtaugh called Trump’s silence “shitty.” He then said: …

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Trump Refused Call From Pentagon, But Called Senators

Rolling Stone reports: President Trump ignored a Jan. 6 call from Pentagon officials seeking a coordinated response to the Capitol attack, according to national security officials’ testimony released Thursday. Trump instead was calling Republican senators to ask them to delay certification of the 2020 election, according to testimony given to Congress’ Jan. 6 committee and released at Thursday’s hearing. In …

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Trump Ignored Pleas To Call Off Riot For 187 Minutes

The New York Times reports: As a mob of his supporters assaulted the Capitol, former President Donald J. Trump sat in his dining room off the Oval Office, watching the violence on television and choosing to do nothing for hours to stop it, an array of former administration officials testified to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack in …

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Outtakes Show Trump Refusing To Say Election Is Over

Yahoo News reports: A day after an angry mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, then-President Donald Trump filmed a three-minute video in the East Room of the White House condemning the violence. It took him nearly an hour to tape the message. In outtakes shown during the House select committee’s prime time hearing on Thursday …

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LIVE VIDEO: Jan. 6 Committee Hearing Day Eight

The New York Times reports: The wall-to-wall cable news and network coverage of Thursday’s prime-time Jan. 6 committee hearing will once again have a notable gap: Fox News. Fox will not carry the hearing live, instead reserving what are typically its highest-rated hours for its usual programming lineup of Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham. Its sister network, Fox …

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Melania Claims She Didn’t “Immediately Denounce” Riot Because She Was Very Busy Photographing WH Carpets

Fox News reports: Former first lady Melania Trump said Thursday that she was “fulfilling” her official duties as first lady of the U.S. on Jan. 6, 2021, telling Fox News Digital exclusively that had she been fully informed of the events taking place at the Capitol during the day, she “would have immediately denounced the violence.” “As with all First …

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Trump Wanted To Take Back Speech Given After Riot

Rolling Stone reports: The day after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, then-President Trump released a video finally, reluctantly agreeing to a transfer of power to the “new” Biden administration. As soon as two days after the release of the White House video, however, Donald Trump wanted a mulligan. A person with direct knowledge of the matter tells Rolling Stone that …

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Criminal Probe Opened Into Secret Service’s Texts

CNBC reports: The Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog has opened a criminal investigation into the destruction of Secret Service phone text messages related to the days around the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News. The Secret Service was informed of the probe Wednesday night by the office of the Inspector General of …

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Bannon To Present No Defense In Contempt Trial

The Hill reports: Steve Bannon’s lawyers will not call any witnesses or introduce any new evidence in his criminal contempt trial after prosecutors spent less than two days laying out their case against the former White House strategist. David Schoen, one of the attorneys representing Bannon, told a federal judge Thursday morning they will not mount a defense in the …

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Trump’s Spent $2M On Lawyers For Jan. 6 Witnesses

The Daily Beast reports: It’s been widely reported that former President Donald Trump has covered legal expenses for witnesses testifying before the Jan. 6 committee, but the full amount that Trump has been forking over has largely remained a mystery. A new federal filing has fleshed that number out. And it turns out, it’s a lot higher than previously reported. …

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