Trump Corruption

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

The Washington Post reports: The retired federal judge assigned to review the contents of 18 electronic devices seized from Rudolph W. Giuliani’s home and offices in Manhattan last spring has withheld about half of what former president Donald Trump’s personal lawyer argued should be kept out of the hands of investigators because it was privileged. More than 3,000 communications were …

Politico reports: Among the records that Donald Trump’s lawyers tried to shield from Jan. 6 investigators are a draft executive order that would have directed the defense secretary to seize voting machines and a document titled “Remarks on National Healing.” The text of the draft executive order is published here for the first time. The executive order — which also …

Politico reports: Donald Trump says his perceived rift with Gov. Ron DeSantis is “fake news” even as the Republican governor won’t back down over their high-profile split over Covid-19 vaccine boosters. During an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Thursday night, Trump praised DeSantis and said he continues to have a good relationship with him. His comments come after …

The Washington Post reports: On Dec. 14, 2020, the day of the electoral college vote, Republican electors convened in the capitals of five states that Joe Biden had won. They declared themselves “duly elected and qualified” and sent signed certificates to Washington purporting to affirm Donald Trump as the actual victor. At the time, the gatherings in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, …

Roll Call reports: A federal judge in Washington rejected a request Thursday to stop a House committee from using bank records it obtained through a subpoena as part of the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Taylor Budowich, a spokesman for former President Donald Trump, wanted the court to require the committee and its members to …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is requesting a special grand jury to aid in her investigation of former President Donald Trump and his efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results. In a Thursday letter to Christopher S. Brasher, chief judge of Fulton County’s Superior Court, Willis said the move was needed because a “significant number …

CNN reports: Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, chairman of the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot, told reporters on Thursday that the panel will be inviting former President Donald Trump’s daughter and then-White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump to talk to the committee This is a major step for the panel closing in on the former President’s inner circle. …

The Guardian reports: The former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham told the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack that Donald Trump hosted secret meetings in the White House residence in days before 6 January, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The former senior Trump aide also told House investigators that the details of whether Trump actually …

The New York Daily News reports: One of the most egregious alleged examples of the family’s “misstated objective facts” could be found at the top of the twice-impeached former president’s Midtown Manhattan skyscraper. Trump has since 2012 claimed in tax and banks records that his triplex penthouse in Trump Tower was 30,000 square feet, according to New York AG Letitia …

The New York Times reports: The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused a request from former President Donald J. Trump to block the release of White House records concerning the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Only Justice Clarence Thomas noted a dissent. A special House committee investigating the attack sought the records from the National Archives, which gave both President …

Raw Story reports: Every American has the right to not incriminate themselves in court or in a deposition. According to the court documents for New York Attorney General Letitia James’ probe of the Trump Organization, Eric Trump spent six hours doing exactly that. Showing screen captures of the court documents, lawyer Luppe B. Luppen quoted a revealing piece in the …

The New York Times reports: The New York State attorney general, Letitia James, accused Donald J. Trump’s family business late Tuesday of repeatedly misrepresenting the value of its assets to bolster its bottom line, saying in court papers that the company had engaged in “fraudulent or misleading” practices. The filing came in response to Mr. Trump’s recent effort to block …

CNN reports: The House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol has subpoenaed and obtained records of phone numbers associated with one of former President Donald Trump’s children, Eric Trump, as well as Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is engaged to Donald Trump Jr., sources tell CNN. It appears to be the first time the select committee has issued …

The Hill reports: MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski mocked former President Trump for sending a statement Monday morning attacking his show. “Will Morning Joe be canceled? He and Mika’s ratings are very low—they are having an extremely hard time finding an audience to listen to the Fake News they spurn,” Trump said in his statement. “Losing them would …