Trump Corruption

Reuters reports: Donald Trump on Monday asked the New York judge overseeing his criminal case on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star to delay the trial until the U.S. Supreme Court finishes reviewing his claim of presidential immunity in a separate case. The hush money trial is set to begin on March 25 in a New …

Reuters reports: Donald Trump laid out some of his financial priorities on Monday and defended his planned 10% across-the-board tariffs, saying any resulting price increase for families could be offset by tax cuts and calling for his 2017 tax cuts to be extended. The Republican U.S. presidential candidate, speaking in an interview on CNBC, also called for action on popular …

Politico reports: Former Trump White House aide Peter Navarro has been ordered to report to a Miami prison on March 19 to begin serving a four month sentence for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 select committee. Navarro, who is urging a federal appeals court to stay the sentence while he attempts to overturn his conviction, faces the prospect …

CNN reports: To Donald Trump, Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán is “fantastic,” Chinese leader Xi Jinping is “brilliant,” North Korea’s Kim Jong Un is “an OK guy,” and, most alarmingly, he allegedly said Adolf Hitler “did some good things,” a worldview that would reverse decades-old US foreign policy in a second term should he win November’s presidential election, multiple former senior …

The Insider reports: Software engineer Ken Block told Business Insider ahead of the release of his forthcoming book “Disproven,” that he was paid about $750,000 to conduct research that would verify the existence of mass voter fraud in swing states, including Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Despite the massive payday, Block couldn’t find any. He even disproved some …

The Guardian reports: On Sunday, just ahead of the last award of the night – best picture – getting doled out to Oppenheimer, host Jimmy Kimmel addressed the crowd at the 96th Academy Awards to share a review he had received about his performance as host of the ceremony. “Has there EVER been a WORSE HOST than Jimmy Kimmel at …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump just had to post a $91.6 million bond while he appeals the verdict in the defamation case won by his rape accuser, E. Jean Carroll. But that whopping sum wasn’t enough to get him to stop trashing her. On the campaign trail Saturday, Trump once again denied sexually abusing Carroll in the 1990s—even though …

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Mediaite reports: Trump mocked President Joe Biden for stuttering during his State Of The Union speech while offering an “open hand” to “disillusioned Democrats.” Trump slammed media pundits for praising Biden’s speech and called on “disillusioned democrats” to vote across the aisle for him in order to end the “miserable nightmare of the Biden presidency.” After saying he wanted to …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump continued to heap praise on Viktor Orbán on social media Saturday after he and Melania hosted a lavish party celebrating the Hungarian autocrat. Orbán changed the country’s constitution multiple times, and “has faced international criticism over democratic standards, media freedom and minority rights,” Reuters reported. Trump has a well-known fondness for dictators, having lauded …

“The bottom line is, it’s Biden versus Trump. We want to live in a world that we want to live in and enjoy living in, not live in a nightmare. Vote for Trump – you’ll get a nightmare. Vote for Biden and we’ll be back to normalcy. I just don’t want to feel the way I did, and many of …

The New York Times reports: The bond is a promise from the company offering it — Federal Insurance Company, an arm of the insurance giant Chubb — to cover Mr. Trump’s judgment if he loses his appeal and fails to pay. In exchange, Mr. Trump must pay the company a premium and pledge collateral, including as much cash as possible. …

The Associated Press reports: Viktor Orbán is taking his blueprint on dismantling democracy to Mar-a-Lago. The Hungarian prime minister first won power through a democratic election, then proceeded to weaken the institutions of that democracy by eroding the legal system, firing civil servants, politicizing business, attacking the press and intimidating opposition parties and demagoguing migration. Former President Donald Trump has …

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump has posted a $91.6 million bond as he appeals the judgment against him in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case. The notice of Trump’s bond and appeal was made with the federal court in New York on Friday. In January, a federal jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million in damages as a result of Trump’s …

CNN reports: Donald Trump is wasting little time putting his imprint on the Republican Party just days after becoming its presumptive presidential nominee. As the Republican National Committee meets here Friday for its spring meeting, members are set to elevate Trump’s endorsed candidates – North Carolina GOP chairman Michael Whatley and the former president’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump – to serve …

The Telegraph reports: Donald Trump accused Joe Biden of being on drugs as he furiously attacked the president’s “angry, polarising, and hate-filled” State of the Union address. Mr Trump posted live commentary of Mr Biden’s speech on his social media platform Truth Social on Thursday night. In one post, he wrote: “THE DRUGS ARE WEARING OFF!” in an apparent dig …

Forbes reports: Former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform was plagued with a barrage of outages just minutes into President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech—impairing Trump’s plans for a live rebuttal of the president’s annual address. Truth Social users flagged outages on the website just after 9 p.m. Thursday, according to the Downdetector outage tracker website that recorded …

CNBC reports: Donald Trump on Thursday lost a bid to delay paying an $83.3 million civil defamation judgment to writer E. Jean Carroll. The denial of Trump’s request by Manhattan federal court Judge Lewis Kaplan means the former president by Monday must either pay that amount to Carroll, or put up a bond or assets to cover the value of …

Bloomberg News reports: New York state court judge Juan Merchan on Thursday ruled the names, homes and businesses addresses of the jurors in Donald Trump’s upcoming hush-money trial will not be released publicly to prevent tampering. Prosecutors have demonstrated that Trump “has an extensive history of publicly and repeatedly attacking trial jurors and grand jurors,” the judge wrote in his …

Politico reports: U.S. intelligence officials are planning to brief Donald Trump on national security matters if he secures the GOP nomination this summer — despite concerns about his handling of classified information. The decision would be in keeping with a tradition that dates back to 1952, but it would mark the first time an administration has volunteered to share classified …