Trump Corruption

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 …

The Hill reports: “Prosecuting a President for official acts violates the Constitution and threatens the bedrock of our Republic. President Trump respectfully disagrees with the DC Circuit’s decision and will appeal it in order to safeguard the Presidency and the Constitution,” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement. Cheung echoed the argument Trump himself has made repeatedly in …

Bloomberg News reports: Donald Trump can be prosecuted for trying to overturn the 2020 US election, a federal appeals court ruled, rejecting his claim of immunity and moving him closer to trial before November’s presidential vote as he seeks to return to the White House. The decision by a three-judge panel with the US Court of Appeals for the DC …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump said during an interview Monday that he did not endorse Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), who won re-election in 2022 and is now one of the architects of the immigration bill that Trump opposes. The problem: Trump did endorse him. “Just to correct the record, I did not endorse Sen. Lankford. I didn’t do it. …

CNN reports: Most Americans want to see a verdict on the federal charges former President Donald Trump faces related to election subversion in 2020 before this year’s presidential election, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. About half of Americans, 48%, say it’s essential that a verdict is reached before the election, and another 16% that they’d prefer …

Politico Magazine today published a number of takes about the potential fallout should the Supreme Court actually disqualify Trump from the ballot. Here’s the first one, authored by a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace fellow: The question carries the implicit suggestion that we should worry about violence from a Supreme Court decision more than from other possible outcomes. In fact, …

Posted this morning to Trump’s Truth Social account: Only a fool, or a Radical Left Democrat, would vote for this horrendous Border Bill, which only gives Shutdown Authority after 5000 Encounters a day, when we already have the right to CLOSE THE BORDER NOW, which must be done. This Bill is a great gift to the Democrats, and a Death …

NBC News reports: On the original ballot, Biden and Trump are tied 42%-42% among voters ages 18 to 34. But when these voters are asked about their ballot choice if Trump is convicted, they break for Biden by 15 points, 47%-32%. Similarly, Latinos go from Trump 42%, Biden 41% on the first ballot — to Biden 45%, Trump 35% on …

The Associated Press reports: On Thursday, the nation’s highest court is scheduled to hear arguments over whether Trump can remain on the ballot in Colorado, where the state’s Supreme Court ruled that he violated Section 3. It’s the first time in history that the nation’s highest court has heard a case on Section 3, which was used to keep former …

Rolling Stone reports: During an interview aired Sunday, Fox News host Maria Bartiromo gave former President Donald Trump a chance to explain away his remarks in a December town hall that he’d only be a dictator on “day one.” Trump brushed it off: “It was with Sean Hannity, and we were having fun, and I said ‘I’m going to be …

Axios reports: Donald Trump is virtually assured of winning all 26 of the delegates available in Nevada’s GOP caucuses Thursday, but his team is worried that the state’s plan to hold a primary two days before the caucuses could wind up embarrassing the former president. Nevada’s confusing combination of a state-run primary and party-run caucuses has set up a scenario …

Raw Story reports: Donald Trump on Saturday made waves by comparing himself to the “King of Rock & Roll,” Elvis Presley. Truth Social, that people are constantly comparing him to the legend. He then asked what others thought about it. “For so many years people have been saying that Elvis and I look alike. Now this pic has been going …

The Washington Post reports: In October 2021, former president Donald Trump announced that his media company, the owner of the platform Truth Social, had sealed an incredible deal: a merger with a “special purpose acquisition company” that would deliver to his firm $300 million toward his promise of giving “a voice to all.” By then, however, the insider trading by …

“BIDEN JUST CALLED ME A SICK F-WORD! Friend, but you know he doesn’t just think that about me, he thinks that about EVERY SINGLE ONE of my proud supporters. HE THINKS THAT ABOUT YOU! Hillary Clinton calls us deplorables. “Biden will spit on us & call us every curse word in the dictionary. BUT I WILL NEVER STOP LOVING YOU …

The Meidas Touch reports: When Joe Biden became the first president to join a picket line this past September for the UAW, the Trump campaign scrambled to do something to counter the move. Michigan is a critical state for both campaigns, and when auto workers went on strike last fall, Biden made it clear that he was on the side …