Trump Corruption

Trump Loses Attempt To Lift Contempt Of Court Charge

CNBC reports: A New York judge Friday denied a request by lawyers for former President Donald Trump to lift a contempt of court finding despite the submission of new sworn affidavits from Trump and his attorneys that argue he has complied with a subpoena from the state attorney general. Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron said that the new affidavits …

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Giuliani To Appear Before Riot Committee Next Month

CNN reports: Rudy Giuliani is expected to appear next month before the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection, according to sources familiar with the matter. The expected appearance comes after months of negotiations between lawmakers and the former mayor of New York, who served as former President Donald Trump’s personal attorney for much of his presidency. In …

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Trump Defies $10K/Day Contempt Fine, Files Appeal

Courthouse News reports: Defying orders for him to pay $10,000 a day until he turns over records sought for a civil investigation in New York, former President Donald Trump appealed a state judge’s contempt order on Wednesday. Trump brought the appeal two days after Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron ruled against Trump from the bench with a gavel bang. New …

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Trump Testifies That He Fears “Dangerous Fruit” Will Be Thrown At Him: “You Can Get Killed With Those Things”

The Insider reports: Donald Trump worried that “dangerous” fruits could be flung at him by protesters, according to newly-released excerpts from his sworn deposition for an upcoming trial in New York. “It’s very dangerous stuff,” Trump said in the deposition, invoking a fruit-basket worth of potential projectiles, including tomatoes, pineapples, and, perplexingly, bananas. “You can get killed with those things,” …

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Trump Admin Gave Trump-Linked Outfit $700M Loan

The New York Times reports: Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday released a report alleging that top Trump administration officials awarded a $700 million pandemic relief loan to a struggling trucking company in 2020 over the objections of career officials at the Defense Department. The report, released by the Democratic staff of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, describes the …

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New York AG Nearly Done Unraveling Trump Org Scams

CNN reports: Lawyers for the New York State Attorney General’s Office said they are nearly finished with their civil investigation into the Trump Organization, after taking steps to unravel the real estate company’s assets that they described as being as complex as a “Russian nesting doll.” They still want to search two cell phones belonging to former President Donald Trump …

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Filing To SEC Promises Trump Won’t Rejoin Twitter

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump says he won’t go back onto Twitter even if Elon Musk lets him—and the SPAC behind his own social-media platform wants everyone to know, including U.S. regulators. Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC), the blank-check company planning to take Trump’s Truth Social network public, filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission on Tuesday a copy …

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Trump To Fox: I Won’t Return To Musk-Owned Twitter

Fox News reports: Former President Trump will not return to Twitter, even if Elon Musk purchases the social media company and reinstates his account, instead using his own TRUTH Social as the sole platform for his voice. The former president told Fox News Monday that he will formally join his own TRUTH Social over the next seven days, as planned. …

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CNN Obtains 2319 Of Mark Meadows’ Text Messages

CNN reports: CNN has obtained 2,319 text messages that former President Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows sent and received between Election Day 2020 and President Joe Biden’s January 20, 2021 inauguration. The vast trove of texts offers the most revealing picture to date of how Trump’s inner circle, supporters and Republican lawmakers worked behind the scenes …

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New York AG Presses For Contempt Order For Trump

CBS News reports: New York Attorney General Letitia James urged a judge Friday to “coerce” former President Donald Trump into complying with a subpoena demanding searches of three of his mobile devices and multiple document storage sites. Trump failed to meet a court-ordered March 31 deadline to turn over subpoenaed material, claiming he had none of the documents demanded by …

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McCarthy Grovels Before Trump After Leaked Audio

The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) spoke on the phone Thursday night about a newly released audio of McCarthy telling Republican leaders that Trump should resign in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, according to two people familiar with the conversation. The audio contradicted McCarthy’s claim …

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Junior To Appear Voluntarily Before Riot Committee

ABC News reports: The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack is expected to meet with Donald Trump Jr. in the coming days, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News. Trump Jr.’s appearance is voluntary and comes after the committee invited him to speak with their investigators, sources told ABC News. The panel has not subpoenaed him. …

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Bannon Cronies Plead Guilty In Border Wall Scam

Law & Crime reports: Two of the men indicted with Steve Bannon years ago pleaded guilty on Thursday to allegations that the former White House chief strategist dodged through a pardon obtained from former President Donald Trump, his former boss. Iraq War veteran Brian Kolfage and Bannon’s friend Andrew Badolato, who received no clemency from Trump, admitted that they conspired …

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Trump Ordered To Pay Omarosa $1.3M In Legal Fees

And the hits just keep coming: The Trump campaign has been ordered by an arbitrator to pay more than $1.3 million in attorney fees for Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former White House staffer and “Apprentice” star, who wrote a scathing account of her time in the White House, following a yearslong legal battle over a nondisclosure agreement. A person familiar …

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Hillary To Court: Toss Trump’s Lawsuit “With Prejudice”

Politico reports: Hillary Clinton is moving quickly to shut down an epic federal lawsuit that former President Donald Trump filed last month accusing her, her political allies and various government officials of a racketeering conspiracy to propagate false claims about Trump and Russia in connection with the 2016 presidential race. In a motion filed Wednesday with a federal court in …

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Morgan: Just Before My Interview With Enraged Trump, Nigel Farage Sent Him A List Of My Attacks On Trump

Piers Morgan writes for the New York Post: “Piers, we have a problem.” I was standing inside the gilded confines of Trump’s exclusive Mar-a-Lago private members’ resort and one of my production team was brandishing a document with a concerned look on his face. “This is a collection of quotes you’ve apparently said about President Trump in the past two …

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Trump Stalks Out Of Piers Morgan Interview, Calls Him “Dishonest” After Being Confronted On Big Lie [VIDEO]

The New York Post reports: Former President Donald Trump blasted Piers Morgan as “very dishonest” while walking out of an interview with the TV presenter and Post columnist after being pressed on his claims that he lost the 2020 presidential election due to voter fraud. Trump became increasingly frustrated with Morgan’s questions, at one point calling him a “fool,” according …

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GA Prosecutor Lays Out Timeline For Trump Grand Jury

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will wait until after the May 24 primaries to call in witnesses to testify about whether former President Donald Trump tried to illegally overturn election results in Georgia in 2020. Selection of a special grand jury will begin on May 2, but the group won’t hear from witnesses until June …

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Guilfoyle Meets With Riot Committee For Nine Hours

The Insider reports: Kimberly Guilfoyle, the fiancée of Donald Trump Jr., met with the January 6 panel investigating the Capitol riot for nine hours on Monday. Guilfoyle arrived for a meeting with committee investigators at around 10 a.m. on Monday and left nine hours later. Guilfoyle is the third Trump family member to have spoken to the panel in the …

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Trump Condemns Leading AZ GOP Senate Candidate

The Arizona Independent reports: On Monday, former President Trump blasted Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, leaving Arizona Republicans wondering just which GOP Senate candidate would finally win his coveted endorsement. Trump alleged that Brnovich had received “massive information on the fraud and so-called ‘irregularities’” surrounding the 2020 election but “seems to be doing nothing about it.” Now, even money is …

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