Trump Corruption

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump has angrily threatened to end the careers of Republicans foolhardy enough to oppose his cuts to PBS and NPR. The president‘s threat Thursday night on Truth Social came as the Senate approaches a deadline of July 18 to approve $9.4 billion in DOGE-inspired cuts included in a package of spending cuts, which the House …

NBC News reports: President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the United States would apply a 35% tariff to all imports from Canada beginning next month, reviving tensions with a major trade partner that had largely dissipated in recent weeks. “Instead of working with the United States, Canada retaliated with its own Tariffs,” Trump wrote in the letter shared on Truth …

Axios reports: Multiple governors say they’re being increasingly pushed to scrounge for disaster recovery money without the support they traditionally rely on from the federal government. The president has the sole power to issue disaster declarations, but states are finding emergencies that would usually qualify for federal assistance are being slow-walked or denied in recent months. In April, the Trump …

The New York Times reports: Typically, the F.B.I. has turned to polygraph tests to sniff out employees who might have betrayed their country or shown they cannot be trusted with secrets. Since Kash Patel took office as the director of the F.B.I., the bureau has significantly stepped up the use of the lie-detector test, at times subjecting personnel to a …

ABC News reports: A division of the Department of Homeland Security created a team that was instructed to look into more than 5,000 people who were named on a doxxing website that lists purported critics of Israel on U.S. college campuses, a government official testified in federal court Wednesday. This is the first time a government official has detailed how …

Deadline reports: T-Mobile is the latest company to end its diversity, equity and inclusion programs as it tries to gain FCC approval for certain transactions. In a letter to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, the company said that after a review, “T-Mobile is ending its DEI-related policies as described below, not just in name, but in substance. We have made the …

The Hill reports: President Trump on Wednesday announced plans to impose a 50 percent tariff on all goods from Brazil, in part due to the prosecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro over an alleged plot to remain in power after losing an election. Trump, who has criticized Brazil’s treatment of Bolsonaro in recent days, cited the ongoing trial in a …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump has praised the president of Liberia for speaking “such good English”, seemingly unaware that Liberia’s official language is, in fact, English. The awkward remark was made as the U.S. president hosted five African leaders on Wednesday for lunch at the White House to discuss potential economic opportunities. After inviting Liberian president Joseph Boakai to …

NBC News reports: President Trump posted more letters to other countries, including the Philippines, Iraq and Moldova, outlining what the tariff rates on their goods will be if they don’t reach trade agreements with the U.S. by Aug. 1. The largest trading partner included in the batch of letters is the Philippines, with which the U.S. had a trade deficit …

The Associated Press reports: As commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick oversees the U.S. government’s vast efforts to monitor and predict the weather. The billionaire also ran a financial firm, which he recently left in the control of his adult sons, that stands to benefit if President Donald Trump’s administration follows through on a decade-long Republican effort to privatize government weather forecasting. …

Newsweek reports: Audio of Trump speaking at a private meeting with fundraisers in 2024 about a conversation with Putin was broadcast by CNN. “The fact is that there were no telephone conversations then,” said Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the Kremlin, state news agency Tass reported. “After all, we are talking, as far as I understand, about the period when Trump …

The Guardian reports: House Democrats on Tuesday demanded that the justice department release documents related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking case that mentions or references Donald Trump, citing a comment by Elon Musk after he fell out with the president this year. The House Judiciary Committee’s ranking member, Jamie Raskin, together with 15 other Democrats sent a six-page …

“He was worth four or five billion dollars. Most of it’s– half of it’s in cash. And he wants to have lunch with me over one million dollars. You know the guy. He wants to have lunch– I said, ‘You know, one million dollars is not a lot. You’re worth five or six billion dollars. You’re much richer than that. …

“It has been brought to my attention that the Great State of Florida, which I won BIG three times, and where I am a proud Resident, has renamed an important four-mile stretch of Southern Boulevard, in Palm Beach County, to ‘PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP BOULEVARD.’ Thank you to Palm Beach County, Governor Ron DeSantis, and all of Florida’s great State …

Axios reports: Copper prices notched record highs Tuesday after President Trump signaled plans to impose a 50% tariff on the commodity. The price of copper figures into a wide variety of goods, including building construction, electronics, transportation equipment and industrial machinery. Copper futures were up more than 9.5% at 3:08pm to $5.51 per pound. At one point today, the commodity …

From the Wall Street Journal editorial board: In letters to Japan’s Prime Minister and South Korea’s President, Mr. Trump huffs and puffs again about bilateral trade deficits, which he mistakenly thinks are a sign of foreign exploitation. “We must move away from these longterm, and very persistent, Trade Deficits,” he says. Hence the new 25% tariffs, starting Aug. 1. What …

Bloomberg News reports: President Donald Trump said his administration is weighing whether to take control of the city of Washington, DC, to help combat crime, in a move that would represent a dramatic upheaval to the capital’s half-century of home rule. “We could run DC. I mean, we’re looking at DC,” Trump said during a cabinet meeting Tuesday, where he …

The Daily Beast reports: President Donald Trump was apparently all buddy-buddy with President Barack Obama at the late Jimmy Carter’s funeral, even imploring his erstwhile nemesis to play golf with him. The High Lord of MAGA apparently tried to woo his Democratic predecessor by “enticing him with descriptions of Trump’s courses around the world,” according to an advance copy of …

The Hill reports: President Trump on Tuesday said he would not provide an “amnesty” program that would offer help to farms and migrant farm workers, but did announce a new program intended to support the agriculture industry. Trump has heard complaints from the agriculture industry in recent weeks that massive raids have disrupted their businesses. “There’s no amnesty,” Trump said. …

Axios reports: President Trump on Tuesday insisted the August 1 tariff deadline set this week in letters to U.S. trading partners is firm and won’t change. Why it matters: It’s the opposite of what he said Monday night. “There has been no change to this date, and there will be no change. In other words, all money will be due …