Trump Corruption

Politico: Trump Considered Issuing Blanket Pardons For All Capitol Rioters During Final Days Of His Presidency

Politico reports: In the final days of his presidency, Donald Trump seriously considered issuing a blanket pardon for all participants in the Jan. 6 riot, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. Between Jan. 6 and Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, Trump made three calls to one adviser to discuss the idea. “Do you think I …

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Vindman Sues Junior And Giuliani For “Retaliation”

Axios reports: Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani and Trump allies Julia Hahn and Daniel Scavino, alleging “intimidation and retaliation” for the attacks he faced in 2019 when he testified in the first impeachment hearing of former President Trump. The lawsuit alleges that “Trump and his allies … engaged in …

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Lawyer For Capitol Rioters: Trump Offering Pardons Makes Them “Far Less Likely To Cooperate” [VIDEO]

Mediaite reports: A lawyer representing several people charged in connection to the storming of the U.S. Capitol said Donald Trump is influencing the cases of his clients by offering them pardons. “So less likely to cooperate potentially,” CNN’s John Berman observed. “Far less likely to cooperate and probably more likely to proceed to a trial,” said attorney Robert Jenkins. Eventually, …

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Hush Money: Trump Donated $1M To Meadows Org

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump’s political action committee donated $1 million to the conservative nonprofit organization where his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, is a senior partner, according to a campaign finance report filed Monday night with the Federal Election Commission. In December, the House voted to recommend that the Justice Department pursue contempt of Congress charges …

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Riot Committee Member: Trump Is Witness Tampering

Politico reports: Rep. Pete Aguilar, a member of the House Jan. 6 select committee investigating the Capitol insurrection, on Wednesday said former President Donald Trump “absolutely” was tampering with the panel’s witnesses by discussing potential pardons for defendants charged in relation to the attack. “I think the question is more for my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. …

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Trump Demands Riot Committee Investigate Pence

The Daily Beast reports: Former President Donald Trump has urged congressional Jan. 6 investigators to open up a probe against his former vice president, Mike Pence, over his refusal to help Trump overturn the 2020 election result. Pence and Trump haven’t been on speaking terms since last year, when the then-VP went against Trump’s orders and fulfilled his duty to …

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Trump PAC Announces They Have $122M On Hand

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump’s political organization has amassed $122 million in cash reserves, his team announced Monday. The war chest he has stockpiled is unprecedented for a former President and underscores his financial dominance in Republican politics more than a year after leaving the White House and during a critical midterm cycle. Trump’s various political arms raised more …

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Pence’s Former Chief Of Staff Testifies Before Riot Panel

CNN reports: Marc Short, former Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, quietly testified before the House select committee investigating January 6 last week in response to a subpoena, sources tell CNN, in the most significant sign to date that Pence’s team is cooperating with the probe. Short, who was with Pence at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and …

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George Conway: Trump Should Be Read Miranda Rights

“Somebody really should read him his Miranda rights. He just is incriminating himself with all of these statements. This is just absurd. “He’s just not a smart man. He’s a very arrogant man. Sometimes, every so often, when it comes to his bad intent, he tells the truth. That’s what he’s telling here. “He wanted this election to be overturned …

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Trump: Pence “Could Have Overturned The Election”

“If the Vice President (Mike Pence) had ‘absolutely no right’ to change the Presidential Election results in the Senate, despite fraud and many other irregularities, how come the Democrats and RINO Republicans, like Wacky Susan Collins, are desperately trying to pass legislation that will not allow the Vice President to change the results of the election? Actually, what they are …

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Trump: I May Pardon The Rioters If Reelected [VIDEO]

The New York Times reports: Donald J. Trump said on Saturday that if elected to a new term as president, he would consider pardoning those prosecuted for attacking the United States Capitol on Jan. 6 of last year. He also called on his supporters to mount large protests in Atlanta and New York if prosecutors in those cities, who are …

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Trump Had Secret List Of Countries To Receive Vaccines

Politico reports: In planning for global vaccine distribution, the Trump administration created a secret list prioritizing friends like Israel and Taiwan over low- and moderate-income countries, according to interviews with five current and former officials who described the document to POLITICO. The list, detailed here for the first time, shows that U.S. officials initially planned to apportion the life-saving shots …

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Trump Declares Himself “45th And 47th” President

The New York Post reports: Donald Trump has confidently declared himself the “45th and 47th” US President. The former president made the remarks while playing a round of golf at one of his clubs, according to a video being shared widely on social media on Wednesday. As Trump was filmed walking to the first tee, one of his playing partners …

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Trump Lawyer Pleaded The Fifth Nearly 150 Times

CNN reports: A federal judge is forcing a conservative lawyer who had worked for then-President Donald Trump before the January 6 insurrection to respond to a House select committee subpoena of Chapman University for his emails — setting congressional investigators up to receive access to information they’ve wanted for months but had not been able to get. John Eastman had …

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The Kraken Likely Wrote Order To Seize Voting Machines

Vice News reports: A draft executive order that would have allowed former President Donald Trump to seize voting machines in the wake of the 2020 election was published in full for the first time on Friday, showing the lengths the Trump administration considered going to in their campaign to overturn the vote. The document is not signed, but new research …

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Georgia Court Approves Grand Jury In Trump Probe

CNN reports: An Atlanta-area district attorney investigating former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia will be allowed to seat a special grand jury this spring. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis requested last week to seat a special grand jury starting May 2. Fulton County Superior Court judges approved the request on Monday. The …

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Shitfaced Junior Unleashes Rant Against Biden [VIDEO]

The Independent reports: Donald Trump Jr released a seemingly odd rant against Joe Biden, leading to a pushback from critics. A nearly 5-minute video was uploaded by the businessman titled “Pathetic: Biden can’t read a teleprompter!” on Facebook on Friday. It has been viewed more than 380,000 times. “​​This is why you don’t do drugs kids. Slurred speech, lack of …

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Michael Cohen: Trump Told Me That If Any Of His Kids Have To Go To Jail, “Make Sure” It’s Junior [VIDEO]

The Insider reports: Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen claimed Trump said that if one of his kids had to go to prison over the family business to “make sure” it was Donald Jr., not Ivanka. Speaking to MSNBC on Saturday, Cohen said Trump gave him the instruction when his children were on the verge of being indicted …

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Trump Wails About Riot Panel’s Scrutiny Of His Spawn: “They Are Vicious People, They Will Go After Children”

The right wing Washington Examiner reports: Former President Donald Trump believes that his children are being targeted by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Jan. 6 commission and the New York attorney general to deflect attention from President Joe Biden’s failings. “It’s a very unfair situation for my children. Very, very unfair,” he told Secrets in a telephone call. “They are using …

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Judge Unmasks Scavino In Phone Records Court Fight

Buzzfeed News reports: Daniel Scavino Jr., who served as former president Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff, was revealed late Friday to be the person who had tried, and failed, to win a judge’s permission to fight a subpoena for his phone records in the Jan. 6 investigation using a pseudonym. The legal mystery began on Jan. 5 this year, …

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