Trump Corruption

The Guardian reports: NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg, has said any attack on the western military alliance would be met with a “united and forceful response”, after Donald Trump invited Russia to attack member countries that he perceived as not meeting their financial obligations. Stoltenberg said in a statement: “Any suggestion that allies will not defend each other undermines all of …

Bloomberg reports: The White House pushed back against Donald Trump’s claim that he told NATO leaders while president that he would encourage Russia to invade members of the alliance who didn’t meet their defense commitments. “Encouraging invasions of our closest allies by murderous regimes is appalling and unhinged – and it endangers American national security, global stability, and our economy …

“I need to start with the fact that Donald Trump had a rally today, and in that rally, he mocked my husband’s military service. And I’ll say this, Donald, if you have something to say, don’t say it behind my back. Get on a debate stage and say it to my face. “I have long talked about the fact that …

The Meidas Touch reports: Trump loves to tell the story about how he threatened the other NATO countries to “pay up.” He casts this as if they owe us money that they refuse to pay. It is simply a question of them increasing their own defense budgets – not money they owe us. But Trump has now taken this earlier …

“She said I will never run against him. Then she comes over to see me at Mar-A-Lago, says, ‘Sir, I will never run against you.’ She brought her husband. Where’s her husband? Oh, he’s away. He’s away. What happened to her husband? Where’s her husband? Where is he? He’s gone. He knew. He knew!” – Trump, at today’s South Carolina …

Law & Crime reports: In a new motion, special counsel Jack Smith shredded Donald Trump’s latest attempt to indefinitely delay the classified documents case in Florida before U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, urging the court to resist the former president’s efforts to “stop at nothing” to delay facing a jury. “Their objective is plain — to delay trial as long …

The Daily Beast reports: Few Republican tropes are as overused as the George Soros boogeyman. When it comes to right-wing conspiracies, the Hungarian-born Jewish billionaire and philanthropist is the tried-and-true secret ingredient to give any conspiracy theory legs, no matter how absurd. For instance, did your favorite ex-president get indicted for allegedly falsifying business records to conceal a hush-money payout …

“Judge Kaplan has at least entered judgment in the second Carroll trial. That starts the clock for Trump’s post-trial motions and for him to post a bond. Specifically, federal rules governing civil cases stay a plaintiff’s execution on a judgment for 30 days after the entry of judgment, which effectively means he has 30 days to provide a bond or …

CNN reports: Peter Navarro, a former trade adviser to President Donald Trump who was convicted of contempt of Congress, has been ordered to report to prison after a judge denied Navarro’s effort to stay out of prison while he appeals the conviction. Navarro was sentenced by Judge Amit Mehta in late January to four months behind bars after a jury …

“I think it was an insurrection caused by Nancy Pelosi. This was an insurrection, if it was an insurrection, which, there were no guns, there were no anything, except for the fact that they shot Ashli Babbitt. Somebody from, at least four, shot Ashli Babbitt. So unnecessary, so sad, so horrible. But there were no guns. There were no anything. …

Reuters reports: U.S. Supreme Court justices on Thursday appeared skeptical toward a judicial decision kicking former President Donald Trump off the ballot in Colorado for participating in an insurrection during the 2021 Capitol attack in a case with major implications for the Nov. 5 election. The nine justices heard arguments in Trump’s appeal of a Dec. 19 ruling by Colorado’s …

ABC News reports: Federal authorities are currently investigating a series of threats made online to a potential witness related to special counsel Jack Smith’s classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, according to a new court filing from Smith’s team. In the filing late Wednesday in federal court in Florida, Smith’s team asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, the …

The Associated Press reports: The Supreme Court hears arguments Thursday over whether former President Donald Trump can be kept off the 2024 ballot because of his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, culminating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. There are no cameras in the courtroom, but since the pandemic, the court has livestreamed its argument …

Mediaite reports: Rudy Giuliani said in bankruptcy court on Wednesday that Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign owes him $2 million in legal fees. “At that point, he had a tremendous number of complaints that there had been fraud in the election,” Giuliani said in a meeting with creditors and the office of the U.S. Trustee in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in …

CNBC reports: The Supreme Court is set Thursday morning to hear oral arguments on an effort by former President Donald Trump to reverse a ruling by Colorado’s top court barring him from that state’s 2024 Republican presidential primary ballot. The arguments, which are expected to last several hours, come as Trump has a commanding lead in the national GOP primary …

Posted this afternoon to Trump’s Truth Social account: If a President does not have Immunity, the Opposing Party, during his/her term in Office, can extort and blackmail the President by saying that, “if you don’t give us everything we want, we will Indict you for things you did while in Office,” even if everything done was totally Legal and Appropriate. …

The Washington Post reports: The irony of Donald Trump’s assertion that he would seek to have dictatorial powers for the first day of his presidency is that he was supposed to be saying he had no authoritarian inclinations at all. Hannity aired clips of observers offering warnings about Trump’s embrace of authoritarian rhetoric and offered Trump a chance to tamp …

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: The Bud Light ad was a mistake of epic proportions, and for that a very big price was paid, but Anheuser-Busch is not a Woke company, but I can give you plenty that are, am building a list, and might just release it for the World to see. Why not, the Radical …

The Daily Beast reports: In an email to the AG and Trump defense team on Monday, Justice Arthur F. Engoron asked for both sides to respond to the news that former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg is secretly negotiating a guilty plea with another law enforcement agency: the Manhattan District Attorney. “As the presiding magistrate, the trier of …

“There’s really three major findings that the D.C. Court of Appeals makes here. First of all, they reject this notion of blanket immunity. They say it is not, and cannot be, that a president simply can never be charged for anything that happens during his time in office. “Second, the Court of Appeals in D.C. says, if we’re asking the …