Trump Corruption

Trump Campaign To Ignore “Safe Harbor” Deadline

Via press release from the Trump campaign: “The ‘Safe Harbor Deadline’ is a statutory timeline that generally denotes the last day for states to certify election results. However, it is not unprecedented for election contests to last well beyond December 8. “Justice Ginsburg recognized in Bush v. Gore that the date of ‘ultimate significance’ is January 6, when Congress counts …

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Judge: Flynn’s Pardon Doesn’t Mean He Is Innocent

The Associated Press reports: A federal judge dismissed Michael Flynn’s prosecution Tuesday after President Trump’s pardon, but said the act of clemency does not mean the former national security adviser is innocent of lying to FBI agents about his talks with the Russian government before Trump took office. In formally ending Flynn’s three-year legal saga, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. …

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Axios: Trump Lawyer Jenna Ellis Has Tested COVID+

Axios reports: President Trump’s lawyer Jenna Ellis has informed associates she tested positive for the coronavirus, multiple sources tell Axios, stirring West Wing fears after she attended a senior staff Christmas party on Friday. Driving the news: There are concerns about the potential for another White House superspreader event, though it was unclear whether Ellis posed a risk when she …

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Former Cybersecurity Official Chris Krebs Sues Trump Campaign And Lawyer Joe diGenova For Defamation

The Washington Post reports: The former top U.S. cybersecurity official responsible for securing November’s presidential election sued the Trump campaign and one of its lawyers for defamation Tuesday, asserting that they conspired to falsely claim the election was stolen, attack dissenting Republicans and fraudulently reap political donations. Christopher Krebs, who was fired Nov. 17 by President Trump after he refuted …

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Jarvanka Buy $30M Lot On FL’s “Billionaire’s Bunker”

The New York Post‘s Page Six reports: Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have splurged on a $30 million-plus lot of land on Miami’s uber-swanky and high-security Indian Creek Island — known as the “Billionaire’s Bunker” — Page Six can exclusively reveal. Ahead of President Trump’s exit from the White House, the couple is busy making plans for life after DC …

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Trump Team Hits Electoral “Safe Harbor” Deadline

The Washington Post reports: Trump’s efforts to reverse the election results run into a new hurdle Tuesday, known as “safe harbor” day under federal law. The 1887 law sets a deadline of six days before the convening of the electoral college for states to certify their election results. While the deadline is not mandatory, the law prohibits Congress from undoing …

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Trump Rages At “Dumb And Corrupt” Georgia Lt Gov

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump, desperately ramping up his attacks on allegedly disloyal Republicans as his electoral defeat looms ever larger, lashed out at Georgia’s Republican lieutenant governor, Geoff Duncan, on Monday night and said he “should be replaced.” Duncan had moved up Trump’s hit list after several, recent reality-based comments. Earlier on Monday, for example, Duncan offered a thinly …

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Walter Reed Doctor Loses Gig For Criticizing Trump

CBS News reports: Dr. James Phillips, the emergency room physician who publicly criticized President Trump’s decision to drive with Secret Service agents to greet supporters while he was hospitalized with COVID-19 in October, has been removed from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center’s schedule starting in January. Colleagues of Dr. Phillips were surprised that a disaster medicine specialist would be …

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Axios: Trump Planning To Hand Out Mass Pardons

Axios reports: President Trump isn’t just accepting pardon requests but blindly discussing them “like Christmas gifts” to people who haven’t even asked, sources with direct knowledge of the conversations told Axios. Behind the scenes: Trump recently told one adviser he was going to pardon “every person who ever talked to me,” suggesting an even larger pardon blitz to come. As …

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Trump Pressures PA House Speaker To Overturn Result

The Washington Post reports: President Trump called the speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives twice during the past week to make an extraordinary request for help reversing his loss in the state, reflecting a broadening pressure campaign by the president and his allies to try to subvert the 2020 election result. The calls, confirmed by House Speaker Bryan Cutler’s …

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REPORT: Trump May Not Return From FL Xmas Trip

CNN reports: Where President Donald Trump decides to spend the final weeks of his presidency has become a matter of internal speculation as aides wonder whether he’ll leave the White House for the holidays — and never return. At this stage, there are plans for Trump to remain at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach over Christmas and New Year’s, …

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Cruz Offers To Argue Trump’s PA Case Before SCOTUS

Via press release from Sen. Ted Cruz: Because of the importance of the legal issues presented, I’ve publicly urged the US Supreme Court to hear the case brought by Congressman Mike Kelly, congressional candidate Sean Parnell and state legislature candidate Wanda Logan challenging the constitutionality of the presidential election results in Pennsylvania. The petitioners’ legal team has asked me whether …

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Vax Maker CEOs Reject Invite To White House PR Stunt

STAT News reports: Both Pfizer and Moderna, the two major drug manufacturers likely to receive emergency authorizations for a Covid-19 vaccine in the coming weeks, have rejected invitations from President Trump to appear at a White House “Vaccine Summit” on Tuesday, according to two sources familiar with the event’s planning. The Trump administration has openly feuded with Pfizer in recent …

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1500 Lawyers Demand Sanctions For Trump’s Lawyers

The New York Times reports: Arguing that “a license to practice law is not a license to lie,” nearly 1,500 lawyers issued a letter on Monday calling on bar associations across the country to investigate and, if needed, penalize the members of President Trump’s legal team, including the architect of his post-election strategy, Rudolph W. Giuliani. “It is indefensible for …

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Trump Megadonors To Control Vaccine Distribution

Bloomberg News reports: Federal officials have said states will receive initial deliveries of the two vaccines within 24 hours of regulatory approval. Pfizer’s vaccine may be approved as soon as next week, Vice President Mike Pence has said. Each shot will be tracked by a computer system at HHS built by Palantir Technologies Inc. and Oracle Corp., another senior administration …

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Trump’s Election Lawsuits May Be Nearing Their End

CNN reports: There is a sense developing within Donald Trump’s legal team and what remains of his campaign staff that their efforts to overturn or delay the results of the election are coming to an end, multiple sources tell CNN, despite what the President has said publicly. Trump said in a 46-minute video released last week that they would continue …

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Erick Erickson Rips Cultist Lies About Georgia “Audit”

Via email from right wing columnist Erick Erickson: On social media, more than 10,000 people have shared the results of a forensic audit in Ware County, Georgia. I keep getting asked about it. Voting machines were seized and a court-ordered audit happened. It turns out the machines really were throwing votes for Trump to Biden. In the test of the …

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Trump Posts Fox Host’s Call For SCOTUS To “Intercede”

“What we see here is fraud perpetrated against the people of Pennsylvania, against the American people and the Electoral College process by politicians who violated the constitution repeatedly, who violated the rule of law by a rogue state Supreme Court. “Unless the U.S. Supreme Court exercises legitimacy their power of judicial review, we have a potential constitutional crisis in the …

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Ivanka Posts Photo Of Trump Before Mount Rushmore

The Hill reports: Ivanka Trump is sharing a photo of President Trump that shows him smiling alongside the past commanders in chief depicted on Mount Rushmore. Trump’s 39-year-old daughter, a White House senior adviser, tweeted the photo on Monday. The snapshot appeared similar to one the president had tweeted in August, when he denied a New York Times report that …

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Melania Announces Completion Of WH Tennis Pavilion

Via press release from the White House: First Lady Melania Trump is pleased to announce the completion of the new White House tennis pavilion. The project included the refurbishment of the White House Tennis Court and Grandchildren’s Garden along with construction of the new building. Planning for the project began in early 2018. In June of 2019, the project was …

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