Trump Corruption

The New York Daily News reports: President Trump on Monday derided Georgia’s GOP leadership as turncoat “Republicans in name only” even as the party scrambles to stay unified for the crucial upcoming U.S. Senate run-off elections. Spewing unfounded claims about his loss in the state, Trump trashed Gov. Brian Kemp and top GOP lieutenants for failing to back his dead-end …

Via press release from Newsmax: Since election day, various guests, attorneys and elected officials have appeared on Newsmax TV and offered opinions and claims about Smartmatic and Dominion Systems, both companies that offer voting software in the U.S. Newsmax would like to clarify its news coverage and note it has not reported as true certain claims made about these companies. …

Well, of course they’re thinking about it: The U.S. government is weighing a request to declare Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman immune from a federal lawsuit accusing him of targeting for assassination a former top intelligence officer who could disclose damaging secrets about the prince’s ascent to power, according to legal documents related to the case. A State Department recommendation …

Politico reports: Over the next month,the president would conduct a sweeping campaign to personally cajole Republican Party leaders across the country to reject the will of the voters and hand him the election. In his appeals, he used specious and false claims of widespread voter fraud, leaning on baseless allegations that corrupt Democrats had conspired at every level to steal …

Mediaite reports: A Fox News poll finds that 22 percent of Americans believe President Donald Trump will be remembered as one of the country’s greatest presidents — while 42 percent say he’ll be remembered as one of the worst. While his overall approval/disapproval rating remained fairly consistent through most of his term, the number of Americans rating the economic trends …

CNN reports: Attorney Sidney Powell, who has repeatedly pushed baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, was spotted leaving the White House late Sunday evening just days after a heated Oval Office meeting with some of President Donald Trump’s advisers. She was spotted by CNN leaving the residence side of the White House shortly before 9 p.m. ET. Powell denied …

The Washington Post reports: President Trump said Sunday that he has spoken with Sen.-elect Tommy Tuberville, the Alabama Republican who suggested last week that he supports a potential challenge to the electoral vote count when the House and Senate convene next month to formally affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. Trump said in an interview with Rudolph W. Giuliani, his personal …

Axios reports: President Trump’s closest confidants no longer expect him to imminently announce he’s running in 2024, three sources who’ve recently discussed the matter with the president tell Axios. Trump doesn’t want to announce a run before Jan. 20 — an idea he had initially toyed with — because it would show his base he’s given up his fight to …

ABC News reports: President Trump in an early morning tweet dismissed a New York Times report that he had entertained a proposal from former national security adviser Michael Flynn to declare martial law. The Times reported Saturday that Trump asked during a White House meeting that also involved Flynn’s lawyer, Sidney Powell, about a recommendation his former aide had made …

The Washington Post reports: “I think he’s just done with covid,” said one of Trump’s closest advisers who, like many others interviewed for this story, spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly discuss internal deliberations and operations. “I think he put it on a timetable and he’s done with covid. It just exceeded the amount of time he gave …

CNN reports: White House officials had drafted a statement assigning blame to Russia for the attack and were preparing to release it Friday afternoon but were told to stand down, according to people familiar with the plans. Officials initially weren’t told why the statement was pulled back. The statement placed blame on Russia for orchestrating the attack but left open …

Axios reports: Senior Trump administration officials are increasingly alarmed that President Trump might unleash — and abuse — the power of government in an effort to overturn the clear result of the election. These officials tell me that Trump is spending too much time with people they consider crackpots or conspiracy theorists and flirting with blatant abuses of power. Their …

The New York Times reports: President Trump on Friday discussed making Sidney Powell, who as a lawyer for his campaign team unleashed a series of conspiracy theories about a Venezuelan plot to rig voting machines in the United States, a special counsel investigating voter fraud, according to two people briefed on the discussion. Most of his advisers opposed the idea, …

NBC News reports: President Donald Trump commented for the first time on Saturday on the hacking campaign that has torn through U.S. government and businesses that many experts believe is the work of Russian intelligence and downplayed the security breach as well as attempted to deflect blame away from Russia. Trump’s comments contradict what members of his own government have …

The Washington Post reports: “From Steve Bannon’s War Room Pandemic and John Solomon’s Just the News to Raheem Kassam’s National Pulse, to Newsmax, and One America News Network,” Peter Navarro writes, “Americans hungry for facts and breaking developments have been able to find such critical information only by following this alternative coverage.” Put another way, Americans seeking dubious or debunked …

Politico reports: The tension between the Trump administration and President-elect Joe Biden’s team spilled out into the open on Friday, as officials traded accusations over the status of a series of Defense Department transition meetings that a Biden spokesperson called “invaluable” for national security. Biden spokesperson Yohannes Abraham directly contradicted acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller’s claims that the two teams …

Business Insider reports: President Donald Trump’s most powerful advisor, Jared Kushner, approved the creation of a campaign shell company that secretly paid the president’s family members and spent almost half of the campaign’s $1.26 billion war chest, a person familiar with the operation told Insider. The operation acted almost like a campaign within a campaign. It paid some of Trump’s …

The Washington Post reports: Trump has named 17 people to his 1776 Commission, which he created by executive order the day before the election to promote what he describes as “patriotic education” in schools — intended to push back against curriculum that provides an unvarnished account of America’s history of racism. Among those he appointed to the commission, which is …

Axios reports: President Trump plans to issue a wave of pardons today, moving to expedite acts of clemency before Christmas, according to a source with direct knowledge and advocates who have been briefed on the plans. What to watch: Trump has been considering pardons for friends and allies, as Axios reported, interrupting conversations with associates to spontaneously suggest he add …

The Birmingham News reports: President Donald Trump praised incoming Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville after reports surfaced that the freshman lawmaker may back Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks’ Electoral College challenge. In a tweet, Trump called Tuberville “a great champion and man of courage.” “More Republican Senators should follow his lead,” the President tweeted. “We had a landslide victory, and then it …