Trump Corruption

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 …

Mediaite reports: What’s the latest on 2024?” Newsmax host Greg Kelly asked the younger Trump. “There’s a lot of people that are missing Trump,” said Eric Trump. “And I think every single day that Biden messes up our nation, I think it further incentivizes my father and frankly our entire family to do it again.” Trump said he thinks the …

Politico reports: Former president Donald Trump’s fundraising arm is once again advertising on Facebook after the social media giant banned the ex-president from using the site. Starting late last week, Save America Joint Fundraising Committee, a joint venture between Trump’s Save America leadership PAC and his Make America Great Again PAC, has spent $3,506 on Facebook ads promoting Trump’s upcoming …

The Daily Beast reports: According to two people familiar with the matter, Trump had asked advisers and lawyers in early 2019 about what the Federal Communications Commission, the courts systems, and—most confusingly to some Trump lieutenants—the Department of Justice could do to probe or mitigate SNL, Jimmy Kimmel, and other late-night comedy mischief-makers. To those who heard it, Trump’s inquiries …

The New York Daily News reports: His first choice was treasury secretary. But he would have settled for ambassador to Italy. A Chicago banker accused of loaning $16 million to Paul Manafort in a bid for a high-level post in the Trump administration will face trial starting Tuesday in Manhattan Federal Court. Stephen Calk, 54, is accused of providing Manafort, …

The New York Times reports: The suit, filed in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan on the eve of the mayoral election, argued that the January decision by Mayor Bill de Blasio to end the company’s 20-year contract to run the public golf course in the Bronx had no legitimate legal basis and was meant only to punish former …

The Washington Post reports: A U.S. judge on Monday dismissed most claims filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of D.C., Black Lives Matter and others who in lawsuits accused the Trump administration of authorizing an unprovoked attack on demonstrators in Lafayette Square last year. The plaintiffs asserted the government used unnecessary force to enable a photo op of Trump …

“I’ve always liked Mike and I’m very disappointed that he didn’t send it back to the legislatures when you have more votes than you have voters in some cases, and when you have the kind of things that were known then. “I was disappointed that he didn’t send it back. I felt that he had the right to send it …