Trump Corruption

Arizona Requests Smith Report For Fake Electors Cases

Salon reports: Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is requesting former special counsel Jack Smith’s findings in his probe of Donald Trump’s alleged election subversion plot, a week before the president-elect gains the power to shut down the report. In a Sunday letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, Mayes requested the full case, including Smith’s findings against alleged conspirators, in …

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House GOP Bill Authorizes Trump To Buy Greenland

Axios reports: House Republicans on Monday introduced a bill that would allow President-elect Trump to enter into negotiations with Denmark to acquire Greenland. Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) is introducing the two-page “Make Greenland Great Again Act.” It’s the latest in a series of proposed Republican legislation to bring Trump’s vision of a new, sprawling American empire to fruition. Rep. Marjorie …

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Trump Inauguration: MAGA Rally, Fireworks, Three Balls

Politico reports: With one week until Inauguration Day, President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural committee has announced the schedule, which includes a MAGA victory rally, three inaugural balls and a firework celebration. “President Trump is dedicated to uniting the country through the strength, security, and opportunity of his America First agenda,” committee co-chairs Steve Witkoff and Kelly Loeffler said in a press …

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Judge Unblocks Release Of Smith’s January 6 Report

The Associated Press reports: A federal judge said Monday that the Justice Department can release special counsel Jack Smith’s investigative report on President-elect Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who was appointed to the bench by Trump, is latest back and forth in a court dispute over the report from the special …

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Trump Vowed To End Ukraine War In First 24 Hours, Now His Ukraine/Russia Envoy Says Give Him 100 Days

Fox News reports: Donald Trump’s designated special envoy for Ukraine and Russia said the president-elect wants the biggest war in Europe since WWII to end as soon as possible, as it’s set to enter its third year in February. Keith Kellogg, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general who served in Trump’s first administration, told “America Reports” on Wednesday that the …

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J6 Rioter: I Won’t Accept Pardon From “Felon Trump”

Raw Story reports: A woman in her seventies served two months hard time after being found guilty for rioting on Jan. 6, but she is promising to refuse any pardon from “felon” Donald Trump. Pam Hemphill, from Boise, Idaho, was once all in on Trump, but she condemned the former and incoming President in an appearance on CNN earlier this …

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Musk Has Already Influenced Policy To Benefit Himself

NOTUS reports: When Musk killed a government spending package last month — which he described as “criminal” and a waste of money — he also killed the passage of a long-debated measure to scrutinize American companies’ investments in sensitive Chinese industries, such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing and semiconductors. The outbound investment screening bill, which was tucked into the original …

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Felon-Elect Celebrates California Wildfires With Meme

The Independent reports: Donald Trump has reposted a bad taste meme on his Truth Social platform making light of the Los Angeles wildfires. The image circulated by the president-elect replaces the city’s famous Hollywood sign with the phrase “Trump Was Right” as the hills around it burn, his latest criticism of California’s Democratic leadership as the blazes continue to rage, …

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Waltz: Invading Greenland Is “Always On The Table”

ABC News reports: Trump has repeatedly expressed interest in acquiring Greenland and the Panama Canal, even not ruling out using the U.S. military to do so if he saw fit. Asked if Trump was serious about using military power, Waltz said, “What he’s very serious about is the threats that we’re facing in the Arctic — the threats that we’re …

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Trump Team Begins Loyalty Purge Of Civil Servants

The Associated Press reports: Incoming senior Trump administration officials have begun questioning career civil servants who work on the White House National Security Council about who they voted for in the 2024 election, their political contributions and whether they have made social media posts that could be considered incriminating by Trump’s team. At least some of these nonpolitical employees have …

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Military Fears Trump Will Deploy Them Domestically

Politico reports: According to nearly a dozen retired officers and current military lawyers, as well as scholars who teach at West Point and Annapolis, an intense if quiet debate is underway inside the U.S. military community about what orders it would be obliged to obey if President-elect Donald Trump decides to follow through on his previous warnings that he might …

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Michael Cohen Reveals He Asked Biden For Pardon

“I put in the application for a presidential pardon because I believe that Joe Biden has the same responsibility to me that he had to his own son. And I would expect that the same exact pardon that he gave his son has to go to me and to anybody else that’s on that enemies list, whether they want it …

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Felon-Elect Lies That Smith Was “Fired By The DOJ”

Newsweek reports: Donald Trump has claimed that “deranged” Jack Smith was fired as special counsel by the Department of Justice ahead of the president-elect’s return to office. In a post on Truth Social in the early hours on Sunday ET, Trump said that Smith had been “fired” from the DOJ after he “left town empty-handed” without any federal prosecutions against …

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BREAKING: Jack Smith Resigns From Justice Dept

Politico reports: Special counsel Jack Smith has completed his work on two criminal investigations of President-elect Donald Trump and resigned Friday from the Justice Department. Word of Smith’s departure came in a court filing Justice Department officials submitted to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon Saturday afternoon, urging her not to extend a court order she issued last week blocking release …

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DOJ Asks Court To Swiftly Unblock Final Smith Report

The Associated Press reports: The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to move swiftly in reversing a judge’s order that had blocked the agency from releasing any part of special counsel Jack Smith’s investigative report on President-elect Donald Trump. The emergency motion late Friday is the latest back and forth in a court dispute over whether any portion …

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Trump Org Claims It Will Limit Trump’s Involvement

NBC News reports: The Trump Organization on Friday unveiled a new ethics plan that it says will limit President-elect Donald Trump’s involvement in management decisions and other aspects of the business while he is in the White House. Trump will have “limited access” to the company’s financial information, receiving only “general business updates,” according to a five-page white paper on …

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Trump Now Can’t Own Firearms, Must Submit DNA

The Associated Press reports: Unless the conviction for falsifying business records is someday overturned, Trump will have felonies on his criminal record, which will affect some of his rights. Can he own a gun? No. Under federal law, people convicted of felonies are not allowed to possess firearms. Does he have to give a DNA sample? By law, every person …

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UPDATE: Giuliani Found In Contempt For Second Time

The post below has been updated… NBC News reports: A federal judge on Friday found Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court for his continued defamation of two former Georgia election workers, just days after a different federal judge held him in contempt for failing to turn over his assets to them as ordered. In a courtroom in Washington, D.C., U.S. …

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Tammy Duckworth: Pete Hegseth Has Less Experience Than “The Manager Of The Average Applebee’s” Store

The Hill reports: Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), a decorated combat veteran and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, says President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense is dangerously unqualified and has less management experience than someone running an Applebee’s restaurant. “The manager of the average Applebee’s has probably managed more people than Pete Hegseth,” Duckworth said during …

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Husband Of Trump Pick To Pay $1.7M Over Hush Money

NBC News reports: The Securities and Exchange Commission said Friday that World Wrestling Entertainment co-founder Vince McMahon will pay more than $1.7 million in relation to charges that he failed to disclose payment agreements related to sexual assault charges. The SEC said McMahon circumvented WWE internal accounting controls and caused material misstatements in the company’s 2018 and 2021 financial statements. …

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