Trump Corruption

The Detroit Free Press reports: A judge issued a preliminary order Friday requiring Antrim County to preserve its election records and allow forensic photos to be taken from 22 county precinct tabulators used in the Nov. 3 election, but the case is not related to the disputed presidential contest. Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, claimed on Twitter Friday …

Mediaite reports: The spoof was focused around Melissa Carone, a contractor for Dominion, who used a Michigan hearing on Wednesday as a platform to make outlandish claims of voter fraud in a back-and-forth with a GOP lawmaker. Immediately, social media users compared the viral clip to an SNL skit and it was only Wednesday. Saturday’s skit had an array of …

The Washington Post reports: Two historian groups, an independent archive and a watchdog organization are suing President Trump and other administration officials to ensure compliance with records laws, the groups announced this week. With Trump facing “potential legal and financial exposure once he leaves office,” the groups said, “there is a growing risk that he will destroy records of his …

The New York Times reports: Taking the stage for his first rally as a lame duck president, Mr. Trump immediately, and falsely, claimed victory in the presidential race. “You know we won Georgia, just so you understand,” he said. “They cheated and rigged our presidential election, but we’ll still win,” Mr. Trump said, offering no evidence but nonetheless prompting about …

The Washington Post reports: President Trump called Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) on Saturday morning to urge him to persuade the state legislature to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the state and asked the governor to order an audit of absentee ballot signatures, the latest brazen effort by the president to interfere in the 2020 election. Hours before he …

The Associated Press reports: President Trump on Saturday demanded to know who the congressional Republicans were that acknowledged President-elect Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election. The president continues to promote claims, without evidence, that the election was rampant with voter fraud. However, Trump is growing isolated in his claims, and he has targeted Republicans that break from …

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump will return to the campaign trail on Saturday – not, notionally at least, in his quixotic and doomed attempt to deny defeat by Joe Biden, but in support of two Republicans who face January run-offs which will decide control of the US Senate. The president and first lady Melania Trump were due to appear at …

“The reason I went to the state legislatures, Sean, is because I saw what the courts were doing and I wanted to go around them so the facts could get out. Georgia court wouldn’t have allowed us to put those witnesses on. “The legislature did, in Michigan the same thing. We had two Democrat judges and they weren’t allowing us …

Mediaite reports: Lara Trump continued to cling to false hope and push conspiracy theories to claim on Fox News’ Hannity that President-elect Joe Biden won’t be sworn in to replace he father-in-law in the White House on January 20th. “The fact that we are here in December and we’re having to point these things out is mind-boggling,” Trump said. Citing …

CNN reports: The Trump administration prevented President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team from meeting with its counterparts at Pentagon intelligence agencies this week, according to a former senior intelligence official familiar with intelligence transition discussions. The slowdown means the Biden team has not yet been able to meet with officials from the military intelligence agencies within the Defense Department — including …

The Nevada Independent reports: President Donald Trump’s legal effort to overturn presidential results in Nevada has fallen short after a Carson City District Court judge rejected his team’s request to award the state’s six electoral votes to the incumbent. Judge James Russell ruled Friday against the Trump campaign’s unprecedented request to either block certification of the state’s presidential election results …

The Detroit Free Press reports: The Michigan Court of Appeals has rejected an appeal from the Trump presidential campaign challenging Michigan’s election results, in the latest in a series of court defeats for the president. The 2-1 decision, the court chastised the campaign for dragging its feet on the appeal, said the certification of Michigan’s election results by the Board …

Reuters reports: The campaign of President Donald Trump says it has filed a lawsuit in Georgia state court seeking to invalidate the presidential election results there – the latest in a series of legal challenges intended to reverse his loss to President-elect Joe Biden. In a statement, the Trump administration has said that the lawsuit would include sworn statements from …

NPR reports: Georgia Republicans are excited that Donald Trump is coming Saturday to Valdosta to help save Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. They’re also a little scared. They’re not entirely certain what to expect from the president’s first postelection rally. Though Trump will tell his supporters to head to the polls for Loeffler and Perdue, he’s also likely to …

The Minnesota Lawyer reports: About two hours before the State Canvassing Board met Tuesday, a group of petitioners led by GOP congressional Tyler Kistner filed suit to block the board from certifying the 2020 election results. The suit, which includes sitting Republican legislators Rich Draheim, Steve Drazkowski, Jeremy Munson, Tim Miller and Cal Bahr among its plaintiffs, failed in that …

Boing Boing reports: Donald Trump and his administration have effectively enacted a purge in the Defense Department, in the last 45 days of his term. On Friday, the Pentagon announced that two of Trump’s longtime loyalists, Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie, have been appointed to the department’s Defense Business Board. Neither Lewandowski nor Bossie have any Defense experience. Or business …

The Washington Post reports: President Trump’s campaign and its affiliated committees spent more than $1.1 million at Trump’s own properties in the last weeks of the 2020 campaign — continuing a pattern of self-enrichment in which Trump has converted $6.7 million from his campaign donors into revenue for his businesses since taking office, new campaign finance filings show. The filings …

Mediaite reports: Jenna Ellis visited Fox Business to push a voter fraud conspiracy which has already been rejected by Republican election officials. Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo brought Ellis in, on Friday morning, with a video showing Georgia election workers moving suitcases from underneath a table. “You see individuals going to this table, and underneath the table there are suitcases, …

Politico reports: President Donald Trump is considering preemptively pardoning as many as 20 aides and associates before leaving office, frustrating Republicans who believe offering legal reprieves to his friends and family members could backfire. Trump’s strategy, like much of his presidency, is nontraditional. He is eschewing the typical protocol of processing cases through the Justice Department. And he may argue …

Reuters reports: President Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee have raised $207.5 million since Election Day, according to a statement on Thursday, gathering donations to pay for challenges to Democrat Joe Biden’s win in the Nov. 3 poll. The post-election fundraising haul brought the combined fundraising of Trump committees between Oct. 15 and Nov. 23 to $495 million, …