Trump Corruption

The Guardian reports: On a visit to Europe to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the first world war, Donald Trump insisted to his then chief of staff, John Kelly: “Well, Hitler did a lot of good things.” The remark from the former US president on the 2018 trip, which reportedly “stunned” Kelly, a retired US Marine Corps …

The Insider reports: Donald Trump took a “sudden interest” in Ghislaine Maxwell’s case as he was considering who to pardon in the final week of his presidency, journalist Michael Wolff alleges in a new book. Maxwell, a close associate of Jeffrey Epstein, is awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, to which she has pleaded not guilty. Epstein died in jail last …

The Insider reports: Donald Trump’s family has cut off Rudy Giuliani, and the former president has been irked that the lawyer asked to be paid for his work challenging Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, a new book says. On Sunday, The Times of London published an excerpt from “Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency,” the coming book …

CNN reports: House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn said Sunday he doesn’t want to see a former president testify before the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection but that Donald Trump should do so “if it comes to that.” “They should go wherever the facts lead. They may be able to get what they want and need without him …

The New York Times reports: President Donald J. Trump twice sought to talk on the phone with the Republican leader of Arizona’s most populous county last winter as the Trump campaign and its allies tried unsuccessfully to reverse Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s narrow victory in the state’s presidential contest, according to the Republican official and records obtained by The Arizona …

ABC News reports: President Donald Trump was distraught as he watched Trump Organization Allen Weisselberg walk into Manhattan court in handcuffs, according to ABC News reporter John Santucci, who said the former president called the 15-count indictment a “disgrace.” Santucci asked Trump about the “perp walk” videos of Weisselberg in handcuffs. “The president was unaware of that,” he explained. “He …

The New York Times reports: The Trump Organization, the real estate business that catapulted Donald J. Trump to tabloid fame, television riches and ultimately the White House, will be charged Thursday with fraud and tax crimes, according to two people who were briefed on the matter. The Manhattan district attorney’s office, which has been conducting the investigation, also brought charges …

The New York Times reports: Donald J. Trump’s long-serving chief financial officer, Allen H. Weisselberg, surrendered on Thursday to the Manhattan district attorney’s office as he and the Trump Organization prepared to face charges in connection with a tax investigation, people with knowledge of the matter said. The exact charges were not yet known. Prosecutors were expected to unseal an …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump is the fourth lowest ranking U.S. president, according to C-SPAN’s 2021 President Historians Survey. C-SPAN’s survey, first conducted in 2000, includes 142 historians, professors and other professional observers of the presidency who gave all former presidents a score from one to 10 in multiple different leadership characteristics. The results are then averaged to tabulate …

The Wall Street Journal reports: The Manhattan district attorney’s office is expected to charge the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer with tax-related crimes on Thursday, people familiar with the matter said, which would mark the first criminal charges against the former president’s company since prosecutors began investigating it three years ago. The defendants are expected to appear in …

Just in from the world’s most famous loser: Just like in the 2020 Presidential Election, it was announced overnight in New York City that vast irregularities and mistakes were made and that Eric Adams, despite an almost insurmountable lead, may not win the race. The fact is, based on what has happened, nobody will ever know who really won. The …

The Insider reports: Former President Donald Trump was prepared to become an active user of social-media site Parler if it banned his critics — but it resisted doing so, according to an excerpt from an upcoming Michael Wolff book. In an excerpt from “Donald Trump’s January 6: The view from inside the Oval Office,” published in New York Magazine on …

Donald Trump Jr. today posted a bizarre, slurring, red-eyed rant against President Biden that leapt between disjointed claims about hacking McDonald’s and Biden giving the nuclear football to Putin. Junior’s performance has sent Twitter’s wags wondering is he was drunk, stoned, or drunk and stoned. Watch below and give us your own assessment. It appears Don Jr. is going through …

Via press release from a world famous loser: Had Mitch McConnell fought for the Presidency like he should have, there would right now be Presidential Vetoes on all of the phased Legislation that he has proven to be incapable of stopping. He never fought for the White House and blew it for the Country. Not to mention he lost two …

The Washington Post reports: Prosecutors in New York have given former president Donald Trump’s attorneys a deadline of Monday afternoon to make any final arguments as to why the Trump Organization should not face criminal charges over its financial dealings, according to two people familiar with the matter. That deadline is a strong signal that Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. …

Mediaite reports: Bill Barr, you will recall, publicly stated on December 1st that the Justice Department has seen no evidence of “fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election.” Privately, ABC’s Jonathan Karl reports, after Barr made that December 1st statement, he met with Trump, who was fuming. Trump brought up Barr’s AP interview. …

The New York Times reports: Responding to interest from President Donald J. Trump, White House aides drafted a proclamation last year to invoke the Insurrection Act in case Mr. Trump moved to take the extraordinary step of deploying active-duty troops in Washington to quell the protests that followed the killing of George Floyd, two senior Trump administration officials said. The …

The New York Times reports: The Manhattan district attorney’s office has informed Donald J. Trump’s lawyers that it is considering criminal charges against his family business, the Trump Organization, in connection with fringe benefits the company awarded a top executive, according to several people with knowledge of the matter. If the case moves ahead, the district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance …

Politico reports: Former President Donald Trump is bronzed, rested and politically bloodthirsty. Having spent months in semi-retirement after his election loss in 2020, Trump is set this weekend to kick off a series of political events. Aides and confidants say the goal is to boost his standing in anticipation of a possible future run and to scratch that never-soothed itch …

The Hill reports: A report from the GOP-controlled Michigan state Senate released Wednesday found no evidence of fraud in the 2020 election. “The Committee can confidently assert that it has been thorough in examination of numerous allegations of unlawful actions, improper procedures, fraud, vote theft, or any other description which would cause citizens to doubt the integrity of Michigan’s 2020 …