Trump Corruption

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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Video Outtakes Show Trump Refusing To Condemn Riot

The Washington Post reports: One day after the last rioter had left the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, President Donald Trump’s advisers urged him to give an address to the nation to condemn the violence, demand accountability for those who had stormed the halls of Congress and declare the 2020 election to be decided. He struggled to do it. …

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Prosecution Rests In Bannon’s Criminal Contempt Trial

NPR reports: The prosecution against former Trump political adviser Steve Bannon inched toward a conclusion Wednesday after the Justice Department presented evidence that Bannon flouted multiple warnings that he risked criminal charges for defying a subpoena and rested its case. Outside the courthouse afterwards, Bannon spoke briefly to reporters. He asked why Jan. 6 committee Chairman Bennie Thompson wasn’t present …

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Trump Aide Rants About “Anti-White” Jan. 6 Committee

CNN reports: A former Trump White House aide who met with the January 6 committee earlier this week went on a profane and sexist rant on a livestream after his testimony, where he railed against the lawmakers and attacked other witnesses, according to audio posted to his Telegram. The aide, Garrett Ziegler, met with the House panel on Tuesday. In …

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Senators Intro Bipartisan Reform Of Electoral Count Act

NPR reports: After months of negotiations, a bipartisan group of senators on Wednesday announced two proposals related to election administration, including one to reform the Electoral Count Act, a widely criticized 1887 law that governs the process of casting and counting Electoral College votes and that came under fresh scrutiny following attempts to invalidate the presidential election results on Jan. …

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Giuliani Ordered To Testify Before Georgia Grand Jury

NBC News reports: A New York judge has ordered Rudy Giuliani to testify before the Georgia special grand jury hearing evidence in an investigation into possible 2020 election interference by former President Donald Trump and others, court filings show. The order came after Giuliani, who was Trump’s personal attorney, failed to appear at a July 13 hearing before the judge …

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New Docs Detail Trump’s Plan To Exploit 2020 Census

The New York Times reports: A new stash of documents obtained by Congress has confirmed that the Trump administration pushed to add a citizenship question to the census to help Republicans win elections, not to protect people’s voting rights, a House committee report concluded on Wednesday. The report from the Committee on Oversight and Reform, the culmination of a yearslong …

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DOJ: Running For President Won’t Immunize Trump

Bloomberg News reports: The Justice Department’s investigation into efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election results won’t be deterred if the former president declares his intention to run again, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said. “We’re going to continue to do our job, to follow the facts wherever they go, no matter where they lead, …

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Secret Service Turns Over Single Text Message To DHS

CNN reports: The Secret Service was only able to provide a single text exchange to the DHS inspector general who had requested a month’s worth of records for 24 Secret Service personnel, according to a letter to the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, and obtained by CNN. The revelation provides insight into the concern raised in a recent …

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Trump Presses WI Speaker To Decertify 2020 Election

Milwaukee’s ABC News affiliate reports: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says former President Donald Trump called him last week in another attempt to convince Wisconsin Republicans to decertify the state’s 2020 presidential results. The conversation came after the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled absentee ballot drop boxes in the state illegal. “It’s very consistent,” Vos said of the call in an interview …

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11 Georgia Fake Electors Deemed “Criminal Targets”

Politico reports: Eleven of the 16 Republicans who falsely signed certificates claiming to be Georgia’s valid presidential electors say they’ve been deemed criminal “targets” by the Fulton County district attorney [photo], who is investigating efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election results in the state. In a court filing seeking to be excused from testifying …

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Graham Agrees To Accept GA Grand Jury’s Subpoena

CNBC reports: Sen. Lindsey Graham agreed Tuesday to accept service of a subpoena for his testimony before a Georgia grand jury investigating possible criminal meddling in the 2020 election by then-President Donald Trump. But Graham, R-S.C., still retained his right to challenge the legality of the subpoena, a court filing showed. The Atlanta-based grand jury is seeking evidence related to …

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Secret Service Claims It Can’t Recover Deleted Texts

CNN reports: The US Secret Service produced an “initial set of documents” to the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection on Tuesday, in response to a subpoena last week that was issued amid reports of potentially missing text messages from the day of the insurrection. “Our delivery included thousands of pages of documents, Secret Service cell phone …

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Jury Selection Complete For Bannon’s Criminal Trial

CNN reports: Steve Bannon’s trial on contempt of Congress charges now has a jury. Fourteen jurors — 9 men and 5 women — will be sworn in shortly at the federal district courthouse in Washington, DC, now. The jury includes a State Department employee, an art salesman, a NASA contractor, a doctor, an architect and a handful of DC government …

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Liar Melts Down Over Colbert Charges Being Dropped

From the world’s most famous liar: Wow! Prosecutors have just dropped all charges against ratings challenged Colbert Show staffers, who entered the Capitol illegally, disregarded police warnings, wouldn’t leave the premises, and were very loud and disruptive late into the evening, with no security present as is mandated by law. These Radical Left lunatics, from a failing show, were treated …

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Trump Security Official To Testify At Thursday Hearing

CNN reports: Matthew Pottinger, who served on former President Donald Trump’s National Security Council before resigning in the immediate aftermath of January 6, 2021, will testify publicly at Thursday’s prime-time hearing held by the House select committee investigating the US Capitol attack, according to multiple sources familiar with the plans. Pottinger is slated to appear alongside former Trump White House …

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Garland Extends Barr Rule On Investigating Candidates

Newsweek reports: U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memo on May 25 extending a Department of Justice policy from 2020 that requires investigators to clear any investigations into presidential candidates or their staff with the attorney general. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow revealed the existence of the memo on her show on Monday. The memo reiterates a policy introduced by former …

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Pulitzer Prize Board Rejects Threats By Famous Liar

Via press release: The Pulitzer Prize Board has an established, formal process by which complaints against winning entries are carefully reviewed. In the last three years, the Pulitzer Board has received inquiries, including from former President Donald Trump, about submissions from The New York Times and The Washington Post on Russian interference in the U.S. election and its connections to …

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