Trump Corruption

Trump Org Snorted Up Millions In British COVID Relief

Newsweek reports: Both of the former president’s resorts in the country—Trump Turnberry in Ayrshire and Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeenshire—suffered substantial losses last year despite receiving millions in government grants, according to financial reports their operating companies filed with the U.K. government this week. Trump Turnberry saw turnover plummet from $26.37 million (£19.7million) in 2019 to $8.97 million (£6.7 …

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Trump Spox Claims He’s Cooperating With Riot Panel

The Hill reports: A spokesman for former President Trump said he has cooperated with the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol but is seeking to block his bank records from the panel. Taylor Budowich — who, according to his Twitter profile, is the director of communications for Trump and his Save America PAC — revealed …

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Broke Roger Stone Now Selling Autographed Rocks

The Daily Beast reports: Roger Stone, a longtime GOP operator and friend of Donald Trump, was subpoenaed last month for documents and testimony related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Separately, he is facing a federal lawsuit over an alleged $2 million in unpaid taxes. This month, Stone announced that he’d be auctioning off personal memorabilia from …

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Riot Panel Asks SCOTUS To Expedite Trump’s Appeal

The Hill reports: The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is asking that the Supreme Court respond to former President Trump’s request that the justices block the National Archives from turning over his White House records to the panel by mid-January. The congressional panel filed an expedition request Thursday evening, hours after the former president …

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Riot Panel Focuses On Trump’s Inaction During Attack

The Washington Post reports: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is focusing intently on Donald Trump’s actions that day as it begins to discuss whether to recommend that the Justice Department open a criminal investigation into the former president. Committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) said in an interview that of particular interest is why …

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Shady Chinese Outfit Is Behind Trump’s Media Company

The Washington Post reports: A Chinese firm helping former president Donald Trump take his new media company public has been the target of investigations by federal securities regulators, who say the firm misrepresented shell companies with no products and few employees as ambitious, growing enterprises, documents and interviews show. Arc Capital, an investment advisory firm based in Shanghai, has repeatedly …

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Foreign Investors Pour $3B+ Into New Kushner Outfit

Reuters reports: Jared Kushner’s global investment firm, Affinity Partners, has raised more than $3 billion in committed funding from international investors, a person familiar with the fund-raising effort told Reuters on Thursday. Kushner plans to invest in American and Israeli companies that are looking for international expansion opportunities in India, Africa, the Middle East and other parts of Asia. He …

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Reminder: Trump Gave Big Donation To Candace Owens

Raw Story reports: It was just a few years ago that conservative Candace Owens was the CEO of a website that mocked the penis size of Donald Trump and now she’s taking $350,000 from him, and helping to promote him, recalled New York Times reporter Ken Vogel. Owens did an interview with Trump on Tuesday, but the interview came after …

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Trump Appeals To SCOTUS To Stop Release Of Riot Docs

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump appealed to the Supreme Court on Thursday to block the release of documents from his White House to the House committee investigating the January 6 riot at the Capitol, escalating his effort to keep about 700 pages of records secret. At issue are hundreds of documents including activity logs, schedules, speech notes and three …

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Famous Liar Suggests Capitol Riot Was A False Flag

The Daily Beast reports: Trump concurred with alarmist extraordinaire Candace Owens during her radio show that the riot may have been a false flag operation, citing the “reporting” done by acclaimed journalists Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan. “Right, it seems like that,” Trump affirmed. “And you have BLM and you had antifa people. I have very little doubt about that …

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Trump To Hold Mar-A-Lago Presser On Riot Anniversary

The Hill reports: Former President Trump announced he would hold a news conference from Mar-a-Lago on Jan. 6, the one-year anniversary of the riot at the U.S. Capitol that the former president himself was accused of inciting. “Why isn’t the Unselect Committee of highly partisan political hacks investigating the CAUSE of the January 6th protest, which was the rigged Presidential …

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O’Reilly: I Had To Console Trump After He Got Booed

The Daily Beast reports: Bill O’Reilly has revealed that he had to console Donald Trump after he was booed by his own supporters for getting a vaccine booster shot. Trump told MAGA fans that he’d had his COVID-19 booster during Sunday’s final stop on the “History Tour” he co-headlined with the disgraced ex-Fox News star. The revelation prompted a chorus …

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Junior: Turning The Other Cheek Has Gotten Us Nothing

Raw Story reports: Donald Trump Jr. told a group of young conservatives on Sunday that following the peaceful rules of the Christian Bible has “gotten us nothing.” According to Trump, conservatives have been playing tee-ball while liberals played “hardball.” He suggested that conservatives should not “turn the other cheek” despite the biblical instructions of Jesus Christ. “We’ve turned the other …

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Trump Sues New York AG To Stop Trump Org Probe

The New York Times reports: Donald J. Trump filed a lawsuit on Monday against the New York State attorney general, Letitia James, seeking to halt her long-running civil investigation into his business practices. The suit, filed in federal court in upstate New York by Mr. Trump and his family real estate business, argues that Ms. James’s inquiry, which has lasted …

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Kinzinger: We’re Looking Into Trump’s Potential Crimes

The Hill reports: Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) on Sunday said the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is looking into whether then-President Trump acted criminally in connection to the Capitol riots. Asked by co-anchor Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union” if the congressional panel is examining whether Trump violated a criminal statute with …

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Trump: Evangelicals “Love Israel More Than The Jews”

Politico reports: Former President Donald Trump veered into several antisemitic tropes in a recent interview, claiming that Israel used to have “absolute power over Congress” and saying that American Jews — the majority of whom vote Democratic — “either don’t like Israel or don’t care about Israel.” Trump also claimed that evangelical Christians in the United States “love Israel more …

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Trump Platform CEO Sued For “Brazen Act Of Fraud”

Axios reports: Private equity investor Brian Shevland is suing the CEO of the blank check company that it merging with former President Trump’s social media platform, claiming a “brazen act of fraud.” Big picture: The lawsuit comes just a week after Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC), led by Patrick Orlando, disclosed that it’s under investigation by federal securities regulators. Shevland …

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House Panel Finds Trump Undermined COVID Response

The Hill reports: The Trump administration deliberately undermined the nation’s coronavirus response for political purposes, including by weakening testing guidance and championing widespread “herd immunity,” according to a new report from the House panel investigating the pandemic response. The staff report released Friday was a summation of the year’s work investigating political interference in the pandemic response from Trump officials …

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Lying Liar Lies Again About Saving “Merry Xmas”

“This was in 2015 when I started campaigning. I said you’re going to say ‘Merry Christmas’ again, and now people are saying it. “Of course, they’re not saying a lot of other things like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson. You know, those names are being obliterated because of craziness. “But they are saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again. That was a …

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Trump Platform Partners With QAnon/Anti-Vax Hub

Talking Points Memo reports: Trump’s social network has a new partner, and it’s exactly what you’d expect. TRUTH Social is linking up with an online video provider that is known for hosting content that won’t make it past YouTube’s moderation policy. It’s called Rumble, and it’s become a favorite of a range of fringe characters, including QAnon supporters, far-right extremists, …

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