Trump Corruption

Buzzfeed News reports: Former president Donald Trump’s campaign organization was ordered to pay more than $350,000 in legal fees and expenses for trying to enforce an “unenforceable” nondisclosure agreement against former staffer Alva Johnson, according to an order entered this month in a nonpublic arbitration case. An arbitrator found that even though Johnson’s effort to sue Trump failed — she …

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump is on the brink of withdrawing his endorsement from Alabama Senate hopeful Mo Brooks following a series of public and private missteps by the Republican congressman, including back-to-back statements this week in which Brooks declined to affirm Trump’s belief that the 2020 election result can be overturned. “I am baffled by the view that …

Raw Story reports: First, Stone expects the House of Representatives to elect Trump as its Speaker if they retake control of the lower congressional chamber in this year’s midterm elections. This is permitted in the United States Constitution. Next, Stone predicts that Biden’s Cabinet will invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him from office. Over what, he did not say. …

Politico reports: In late April of 2020, a top political appointee in the Trump administration called for Department of Homeland Security officials to scrutinize an unusual topic for a national security agency: possible voter fraud in the upcoming election. A subsequent directive included a focus on mail-in voting. That guidance came as then-President Donald Trump fomented claims that the expansion …

The Raleigh News & Observer reports: The State Bureau of Investigation is looking into allegations that a former Trump aide who once represented North Carolina in Congress may have committed voter fraud. Nazneen Ahmed, spokeswoman for Attorney General Josh Stein’s office, confirmed the investigation into former President Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows after the New Yorker first reported …

Axios reports: Fox News is suing the voting machine company Smartmatic in a bid to counter the latter’s defamation suit against the network. Fox now alleges Smartmatic exaggerated the financial damage caused by the reports, an alleged violation of a New York statute that deters lawsuits aiming to discourage free speech. Smartmatic stands “to make nearly $2 billion in annual …

From the world’s most famous liar: Fox News is putting on the terrible Nancy Mace of South Carolina at every opportunity they get. Fox Board Member (too bad!) Paul Ryan is pushing her so hard it’s ridiculous. She’s nasty, disloyal, and bad for the Republican Party. Her opponent, Katie Arrington, is wonderful and will do a much better job for …

The right wing Washington Examiner reports: Former President Donald Trump is effectively ruling out tapping former Vice President Mike Pence as his running mate should he mount a third White House bid in 2024 and win the Republican nomination. “I don’t think the people would accept it,” Trump told the Washington Examiner Tuesday evening during a wide-ranging telephone interview from …

Courthouse News Service reports: Democratic super PAC American Bridge filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission on Monday, claiming former President Donald Trump is violating campaign finance law by spending money on a bid for the White House that he hasn’t yet formally announced. The complaint cites Trump’s own statements about his 2024 political ambitions, including comments he made …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump on Monday said he is not using any campaign funding to construct a new plane. In a phone interview, Trump took issue with an article by The Hill over the weekend that cited a fundraising email his political action committee recently sent out. “The story was incorrect,” Trump told The Hill. “I already have …

From the world’s most famous liar: Time Warner, the owner of Fake News CNN, has just announced that they will be terminating a very popular and wonderful news network (OAN). Between heavily indebted Time Warner, and Radical Left Comcast, which runs Xfinity, there is a virtual monopoly on news, thereby making what you hear from the LameStream Media largely FAKE, …

Reuters reports: Donald Trump cannot countersue E. Jean Carroll, a writer who says he raped her in the mid-1990s, on the ground her defamation lawsuit against him violated a New York state law intended to protect free speech, a federal judge ruled on Friday. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan said a ruling for the former U.S. president would …

YouTube has removed Trump’s interview with an internet prank group, during which he spewed his usual lies about the 2020 election and declared “YMCA” to be the “gay national anthem.” Predictably, the world’s most famous liar is extremely upset about this: Whatever happened to free speech in our Country? Incredibly, but not surprisingly, the Big Tech lunatics have taken down …

The Guardian reports: Interrupting the certification of Joe Biden’s election win on 6 January last year as part of the scheme to return Donald Trump to office was known to be unlawful by at least one of the former president’s lawyers, according to an email exchange about the potential conspiracy. The former Trump lawyer John Eastman – who helped coordinate …

From the world’s most famous liar: I have a very important update on my plane, but I need to trust that you won’t share it with anyone. Do you remember Trump Force One? Before becoming the greatest President of all time, I traveled the Country in my plane, known as Trump Force One. I have a very important update on …

Axios reports: Former Trump White House senior adviser Stephen Miller on Wednesday filed a civil suit against the House Jan. 6 select committee in an attempt to block subpoenas of his phone records. “The Subpoena is overly broad and seeks information that is unrelated to the purposes whereby Congress established the Select Committee,” according to court filings out Wednesday. The …

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Law & Crime reports: Former President Donald Trump’s lawyer Jenna Ellis and nine other attorneys received ethics complaints for their participation in the wave of litigation seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, an advocacy group announced on Monday. Sent to courts, bar associations and disciplinary committees across the United States, the wave of 10 complaints was …

CBS News reports: A private, off-the-record gathering of conservative leaders and wealthy donors will convene this week in Sea Island, Georgia, with appearances by a Biden White House official and several critics of former President Donald Trump. Trump was not invited to the exclusive event, which will be attended by some of the Republican Party’s biggest donors, according to two …

Mediaite reports: Former Attorney General William Barr says he would vote for Donald Trump if he ran for the White House again, even after deeming the former president responsible for the storming of the U.S. Capitol. Barr spoke to NBC’s Savannah Guthrie on Monday to discuss the revelations of his upcoming memoir: One Damn Thing After Another. The former AG …