Trump Corruption

The Washington Post reports: Donald Trump’s luxury Washington hotel lost more than $70 million while he was in office despite reaping millions in payments from foreign governments, according to federal documents released by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Friday. The committee, chaired by Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.), released hundreds of pages of financial documents on the …

Mediaite reports: Donald Trump criticized President Joe Biden‘s handling of the Covid pandemic on Thursday, and blamed vaccine hesitancy on a lack of trust in Biden. “During my administration, everybody wanted the vaccine,” Trump said in a phone interview with Sean Hannity. “There was nobody saying ‘oh, gee, I don’t want to take it.’ Now they say that and that’s …

CNN reports: The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday released a sweeping report about how former President Donald Trump and a top lawyer in the Justice Department attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Trump directly asked the Justice Department nine times to undermine the election result, and his chief of staff Mark Meadows broke administration policy by pressuring a Justice …

The Daily Beast reports: Lewandowski, at first privately and then publicly through a lawyer, denied the details of the alleged incident. When that didn’t work, he resisted leaving. Lewandowski then subsequently settled on pitching Trumpworld a not-so-modest proposal: in exchange for his resignation, the super PAC and the pro-Trump team would pay him a large sum of money to go …

The Guardian reports: Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and other top aides subpoenaed by the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack are expected to defy orders for documents and testimony related to 6 January, according to a source familiar with the matter. The move to defy the subpoenas would mark the first major investigative hurdle …

Forbes reports: Donald Trump is worth an estimated $2.5 billion, leaving him $400 million short of the cutoff to make this year’s Forbes 400 list of America’s richest people. The real estate mogul is just as wealthy as he was a year ago, when he stood at No. 339 on the ranking, but he is down $600 million since the …

The New York Times reports: Allies of former President Donald J. Trump formed a new super PAC days after Corey Lewandowski, Mr. Trump’s former campaign manager and the leader of one of the largest pro-Trump super PACs, was accused of sexual misconduct. The move, an attempt to isolate Mr. Lewandowski and deny him a role in Mr. Trump’s political operation, …

The Insider reports: Former First Lady Melania Trump refused to meet with Republican Rep. Steve Scalise at the White House after he was shot in 2017 at a congressional baseball practice because she’d already visited him once in the hospital, according to a new book. Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham, who also served as Melania Trump’s chief of …

The Insider reports: A New York state court said that Donald Trump must submit to a deposition by Christmas, moving forward a stalled lawsuit from Summer Zervos, the former “Apprentice” contestant who accused the ex-president of sexual assault. In a virtual court hearing Monday afternoon, Michael Rand, a law clerk for New York State Judge Jennifer Schechter, who is overseeing …

The Daily Beast reports: Rudy Giuliani claimed in a recent deposition that the Trump campaign essentially had veto power over One America News reporter Christina Bobb’s stories while she volunteered for the Trump legal team following the 2020 presidential election. In a defamation lawsuit filed by former Dominion executive Eric Coomer against former President Donald Trump and several of his …

CNN reports: Melania Trump often appeared in public as first lady without much indication as to what she was thinking, or revealing, outside of her stoic and — at times — unsmiling visage. There was the impression she really did not care, nor could be bothered, with what the American public — and particularly the media — thought about her. …

The Insider reports: Former top White House aide Stephanie Grisham used a slew of colorful metaphors to describe former President Donald Trump’s White House in her forthcoming memoir. In one instance, she wrote that in the White House, “everything was like a clown car on fire running at full speed into a warehouse full of fireworks,” according to an excerpt …

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump is preparing to sue to block the release of White House records from his administration to the House select committee scrutinizing the 6 January attack on the Capitol by claiming executive privilege, potentially touching off an extended legal battle over disclosure. The former president also expects top aides – former White House chief of staff …

CNBC reports: House Democrats on Monday accused three Donald Trump associates — including billionaire Marvel Entertainment Chairman Ike Perlmutter — of breaking the law as they used their connection to the former president’s private golf club to shape veterans’ policies for their own benefit. Perlmutter, attorney Marc Sherman and doctor Bruce Moskowitz — known as the “Mar-a-Lago Trio” — refused …

The Daily Beast reports: A new book claims that former President Donald Trump’s aides specifically designated a White House official to play his favorite show tunes to soothe his temper. The startling assertion has been made by Stephanie Grisham, the first press secretary in American history to hold no press briefings, who plans to release a tell-all book next week. …

Mediaite reports: Former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham has revealed that former President Donald Trump acted inappropriately with her, even going so far as to call her from Air Force One to tell her that his “penis was not small or toadstool-shaped” according to a report from The Washington Post. During the early days of the Trump administration, adult …

The New York Times reports: Former President Donald J. Trump has lost an effort to enforce a nondisclosure agreement against Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former White House aide and a star on “The Apprentice” who wrote a tell-all book about serving in his administration. The decision in the case, which Mr. Trump’s campaign filed in August 2018 with the American …

The Washington Post reports: A major theme of the book is the culture of lies that pervaded Trump’s administration. “Casual dishonesty filtered through the White House as if it were in the air conditioning system,” Grisham writes. For example, in 2019, Trump went to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center without disclosing to the media that he was going, or …

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Newsweek reports: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has said former President Donald Trump “knows in his heart that he lost” the 2020 presidential election ahead of his visit to the state on Saturday. Raffensperger was interviewed by The Washington Examiner on Friday and reaffirmed that Trump “lost the election fair and square” but acknowledged it was difficult to counteract …