Trump Corruption

Reuters reports: State police in Michigan have obtained warrants to seize voting equipment and election-related records in at least three towns and one county in the past six weeks, police records show, widening the largest known investigation into unauthorized attempts by allies of former President Donald Trump to access voting systems. The previously unreported records include search warrants and investigators’ …

Axios reports: The House’s Jan. 6 committee has turned to a renowned former network news executive to hone a mountain of explosive material into a captivating multimedia presentation for a prime-time hearing Thursday. James Goldston — former president of ABC News, and a master documentary storyteller who ran “Good Morning America” and “Nightline” — has joined the committee as an …

The Daily Beast reports: Despite Donald Trump’s own followers booing and calling Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) a “RINO,” the ex-president sent out a statement late Saturday night endorsing McCarthy in his quest for 2022 re-election. “Congressman Kevin McCarthy is an outstanding Representative,” Trump wrote, calling the GOP House leader “strong” and “fearless.” However, after posting the endorsement to …

The New York Times reports: The day before a mob of President Donald J. Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff called Mr. Pence’s lead Secret Service agent to his West Wing office. The chief of staff, Marc Short, had a message for the agent, Tim Giebels: The president was going …

The Insider reports: Former President Donald Trump is leaving Florida to avoid the swampy summer months. Trump left his beachside Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach and as of Friday is at his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, according to a Republican source. Trump’s move north means much of the Republican political braintrust will follow. GOP political hopefuls have flocked …

Bloomberg News reports: Donald Trump and three of his children agreed to be questioned under oath for up to seven hours each in a class-action lawsuit over their yearslong promotion on “Celebrity Apprentice” of a troubled multi-level marketing company. The former president, along with Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump, are among more than a dozen people who …

Axios reports: The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 riot questioned the Justice Department “puzzling” decision to not indict former President Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows or Dan Scavino [photo], Trump’s deputy chief of staff, for contempt of Congress. The DOJ informed the Jan. 6 committee Friday it would not charge Meadows or Scavino, the same day the department …

The New York Times reports: “Based on the individual facts and circumstances of their alleged contempt, my office will not be initiating prosecutions for criminal contempt as requested in the referral against Messrs. Meadows and Scavino,” Matthew M. Graves, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, wrote to Douglas N. Letter, the general counsel of the House, on Friday. …

The Daily Beast reports: MSNBC could only take so much of Peter Navarro’s unhinged ranting on Friday afternoon, pulling away from the former Trump adviser just minutes after he emerged from a courthouse and addressed reporters about his federal indictments. “I am a devotee of breaking news as much as anyone but there’s only so much bug-eyed gibberish we can …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump’s former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been ordered to appear in a Spanish court to explain a possible U.S. government plot to kidnap and assassinate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, ABC Spain reports, citing legal sources close to the case. Yahoo News broke the news of the alleged 2017 plot last September, reporting that …

Mediaite reports: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has hired a new public relations person in Kristin Davis, perhaps more widely known as the Manhattan Madam, a nickname she earned after running a high end prostitution ring in the 2000s. Davis was previously charged with promoting prostitution for her work as a madam. Among her clients were some significant …

CNN reports: A federal grand jury has indicted former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro for contempt of Congress after he refused to cooperate in the House January 6 committee’s investigation. Navarro has said he would subpoena President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, members of the committee investigating the January 6 attack, and other “clowns and kangaroos” if the …

Mediaite reports: Jimmy Kimmel called out Donald Trump Jr. for boasting that items on his website were “Designed and embroidered in the USA” when they were actually made in China. “The hypocrisy, they don’t even try to hide it anymore,” Kimmel said on Thursday night. The host then pulled up an image of an “FJB,” a.k.a “F*ck Joe Biden,” hat …

CNN reports: Several close allies of Steve Bannon have been subpoenaed to testify before a New York state grand jury investigating his fundraising for a private border wall effort, people familiar with the investigation tell CNN. The district attorney’s office launched the criminal investigation into Bannon’s “We Build the Wall” crowd-fundraising activities early last year after Trump pardoned Bannon on …

The New York Times reports: A House committee said on Thursday that it was investigating whether Jared Kushner, former President Donald J. Trump’s son-in-law and former adviser, traded on his government position to land a $2 billion investment in his new private equity firm from a prominent Saudi Arabian wealth fund. Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, the New York Democrat who …

CNN reports: Former Attorney General William Barr on Thursday met with the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol as CNN spotted him inside a room used by the panel to conduct interviews. Barr met with the panel for just over two hours today, according to an official familiar with the meeting. CNN previously reported …

Georgia Public Radio reports: The top Georgia election official who refused to “find” votes for former President Donald Trump testified Thursday about the infamous call and other attempts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is one of the first subpoenaed witnesses to testify in front of a special grand jury impaneled in Fulton County …

Fox News reports: Former President Donald Trump is calling on the Pulitzer Prize Board to revoke prizes awarded to the New York Times and Washington Post in 2018 for their coverage of the Russia investigation, threatening legal action if they do not comply. In a letter to Pulitzer administrator Marjorie Miller, Trump noted that he twice previously made the request, …

Posted just now to Truth Social: Our Legal System is CORRUPT, our Judges (and Justices!) are highly partisan, compromised or just plain scared, our Borders are OPEN, our Elections are Rigged, Inflation is RAMPANT, gas prices and food costs are “through the roof,” our Military “Leadership” is Woke, our Country is going to HELL, and Michael Sussmann is not guilty. …

CNN reports: An Atlanta-area prosecutor investigating former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results has subpoenaed state Attorney General Chris Carr, according to a copy of the subpoena obtained by CNN. In December 2020, Trump phoned Carr and warned him not to rally other Republicans to oppose a lawsuit Trump’s allies had filed with the Supreme Court …