Trump Corruption

CNBC reports: Former President Donald Trump on Thursday sued Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and others for allegedly conspiring to “weave a false narrative” during the 2016 presidential election that Trump and his campaign were colluding with Russia. Trump’s RICO suit says that Clinton, who was his Democratic opponent in that election, and other defendants as part of the …

Mediaite reports: Donald Trump Jr. is following in his father’s footsteps by announcing he will launch an online platform to compete with one that’s been mean to people named Trump. Trump Jr. is working with some of former President Donald Trump’s former staffers on “MxM News,” a news aggregation app “that they hope will compete with the likes of Apple …

The New York Times reports: One of the senior Manhattan prosecutors who investigated Donald J. Trump believed that the former president was “guilty of numerous felony violations” and that it was “a grave failure of justice” not to hold him accountable, according to a copy of his resignation letter. The prosecutor, Mark F. Pomerantz, submitted his resignation last month after …

Earlier this week a federal court ruled that Stormy Daniels’ appeal in her Trump defamation case was not filed in a “timely basis” and therefore she’s on hook for his supposed $300,000 in legal costs. Trump, of course, fired out a gloating press release and today Daniels issued a lengthy response. It reads, in part: In response to that ridiculous …

Knewz reports: Former Donald Trump presidential campaign chair and once-convicted felon Paul Manafort was removed from a Miami flight bound for Dubai on March 20, officials confirmed. Manafort was convicted in federal court of tax and bank fraud and ordered to serve a term in prison. He was released in May 2020 and pardoned by Trump before he left office …

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 …