Trump Corruption

Yahoo Sports reports: Before the World Series arrived in Atlanta, the Braves announced that former president Donald Trump would be attending Saturday night’s Game 4. Saturday afternoon, just before 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time, Trump sent an email to his mailing list, which read, in full: “Looking forward to being at the World Series in Atlanta tonight. Thank you to the …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump is looking to withhold 770 pages of documents from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to court documents filed by the National Archives. In a court document filed on Saturday, John Laster, who runs the National Archive’s White House Liaison Division, says the former president is looking …

The New York Times reports: A little-known Miami banker named Patrick Orlando had been discussing a deal with Mr. Trump since at least March, according to people familiar with the talks and a confidential investor presentation reviewed by The New York Times. That was well before his SPAC, Digital World Acquisition, made its debut on the Nasdaq stock exchange last …

Politico reports: Sixty-six former lawmakers, including two dozen Republicans, have signed on to a legal brief urging a federal judge to reject former President Donald Trump’s effort to block Jan. 6 investigators from accessing his White House’s records. The brief, which is slated to hit the docket in the D.C. federal District Court on Friday, contends that no possible argument …

From the Wall Street Journal editorial board: The progressive parsons of the press are aflutter that we published a letter to the editor Thursday from former President Trump, objecting to our editorial pointing out that he lost Pennsylvania last year by 80,555 votes. We trust our readers to make up their own minds about his statement. And we think it’s …

NBC News reports: Lawyers for former President Donald Trump urged a federal judge late Tuesday to block the Treasury Department and the IRS from giving his tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee. Trump’s taxes have long been the Democrats’ “white whale,” the lawyers said. The committee sued the Treasury Department when it refused to hand over the …

The Washington Post reports: The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is expected to subpoena John Eastman, the pro-Trump legal scholar who outlined scenarios for denying Joe Biden the presidency, according to the panel’s chairman. “It will happen,” Chair Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) said in an interview Tuesday of a subpoena for Eastman, who played …

The Insider reports: On Tuesday, a Florida federal judge ruled that former President Donald Trump’s status as a US president doesn’t exclude him from Twitter’s terms of service, according to court documents seen by Insider. On Tuesday, Florida District Judge Robert N. Scola Jr granted Twitter’s motion to transfer the case to the Northern District of California, as required by …

Politico reports: As Covid-19 surged last winter, the Trump White House was torn between competing factions on how to manage the pandemic, including whether to let the virus spread unchecked to reach herd immunity, former coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx told congressional investigators. Birx and other doctors pressed the Trump administration to intensify efforts to control disease spread, according to …

Axios reports: RightForge, an internet infrastructure company that courts conservatives, will host former President Trump’s new social media platform, CEO Martín Avila told Axios on Monday. By relying on a web hosting service that won’t cut ties over controversial comments, Trump’s new platform could avoid the problems conservative network Parler faced when Amazon pulled its web services following the Capitol …

The Hill reports: Truth Social, the new social media platform that former President Trump says he is rolling out, will combat censorship and the “self-righteous scolds and self-appointed arbiters” who Trump said decide what everyone else is allowed to “think, say, share, and do.” “The corruption of these platforms cannot be ignored,” Trump said in a statement issued by Trump …

CNN reports: President Joe Biden has once again refused to assert executive privilege over more documents that former President Donald Trump has sought to keep out of the hands of the committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. According to a letter obtained by CNN, White House counsel Dana Remus informed National Archivist David Ferriero on Monday …

From the world’s most famous liar: What good is it if FOX News speaks well of me when they continually allow horrible and untruthful anti-Trump commercials to be run — and plenty of them. In the good old days, that would never have happened and today it happens all of the time. Ratings-challenged CNN and MSNBC would never run a …

Reuters reports: A U.S. judge will consider on Nov. 4 former President Donald Trump’s claim of executive privilege in response to a document request from a congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol. Trump on Monday sued the Jan. 6 Select Committee, alleging members made an illegal request for his White House records as part of …

The National Review reports: John Eastman now tells National Review in an interview that the first of the two strategies Giuliani highlighted on stage — having Pence reject electoral votes — was not “viable” and would have been “crazy” to pursue. What makes that admission remarkable is that Eastman was the author of the now-infamous legal memo making the case …

The Huffington Post reports: Donald Trump’s proposed social media company came as news to some of its investors ― and at least one pulled out when he learned his money was now tied to the former president. “Many investors are grappling with hard questions about how to incorporate their values into their work,” hedge fund manager Boaz Weinstein told The …

CNN reports: The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives is expected to vote Thursday to hold Steve Bannon, one of former President Donald Trump’s closest allies, in criminal contempt of Congress after he defied a subpoena from the committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol. The action marks a significant escalation in how far the panel is willing to go …

Deadline Hollywood reports: Donald Trump said that he’s launching a new social media service, Truth Social, through a newly formed company called Trump Media and Technology Corp. According to the announcement, the company also intends a subscription video on demand service, TMTG+, that will feature “non-woke” entertainment programming. The press release also announced that Scott St. John would serve as …

The Washington Post reports:  All the committee’s subpoenas: Of the 19 former Trump aides, advisers and rally organizers subpoenaed by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, only one — Steve Bannon — has so far refused to cooperate with the investigation. The House is expected to vote today on the resolution to hold Bannon in contempt. And …

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump has announced plans to launch a social media platform called TRUTH Social that will rolled be out early next year. The former president, who was banned from Facebook and Twitter earlier this year, says his goal is to rival the tech companies that have denied him the megaphone that was paramount to his rise. “I’m …