Trump Corruption

Oregon Supreme Court: Trump Stays On Ballot For Now

CNN reports: The Oregon Supreme Court on Friday declined to hear a bid to remove former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot based on the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban,” saying it’s waiting for the US Supreme Court to rule on the issue. Trump has prevailed in other states, where courts dismissed lawsuits on procedural grounds and never grappled with …

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Trump’s Name Stripped From Bronx Golf Course

The New York Daily News reports: The only Trump-branded business in the Bronx is officially no more. Casino and entertainment company Bally’s on Thursday formally stripped former President Donald Trump’s name from the Bronx golf course it bought from his namesake family business last year. The 18-hole course in Ferry Point Park, which has been called Trump Links since the …

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Trump Had Rehearsed Today’s NY Courtroom Tirade

Rolling Stone reports: According to two people familiar with the matter who spoke to Rolling Stone, in recent weeks Trump had told several close allies of his intention to personally deliver a closing argument, and at times previewed some of the things he wanted to say before the judge. One of the sources describes it as the ex-president informally “rehearsing” …

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Evangelicals Blast “God Made Trump” Ad: “Sickening”

The Christian Post reports: Evangelical leaders in Iowa have slammed a “sickening” video depicting former president Donald Trump as a messianic figure released just over a week ahead of the Iowa Republican caucuses. The video, called “God Made Trump,” was created by Dilley Meme Team, a group of online content creators that calls itself “Trump’s Online War Machine” and is …

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Trump Demands “Damages” In NY Fraud Trial Tirade, Attacks AG, Judge Tells His Lawyer “Control Your Client”

The New York Times reports: Donald J. Trump on Thursday unexpectedly delivered remarks in his own defense on the final day of his civil fraud trial in Manhattan, attacking the judge to his face, declaring himself “an innocent man” and calling the New York attorney general’s case against him “a fraud on me.” Mr. Trump’s remarks were chaotic and emotional …

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Trump Again Blames New York AG For Exxon Moving Headquarters To Dallas, Which Happened Back In 1989

As was reported here last month: “Businesses are fleeing our country,” Trump said at the event Saturday evening. “It’s business-unfriendly and they’re going to other places.” But the former president selected an odd example to demonstrate the phenomenon: Exxon Mobil’s move from New York to … Dallas, Texas. Trump also appeared to blame New York Attorney General Letitia James for …

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Trump Rages That New York Fraud Trial Is “Ludacris”

The Independent reports: In a post lambasting New York’s attorney general, Donald Trump unintentionally name dropped one of the most beloved rappers of the 2000s. Writing on his social media platform Truth Social on Tuesday, Mr Trump decried the civil fraud case against him in New York, for which the attorney general, Letitia James, has called on him to be …

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NY Fraud Trial Judge Gets Bomb Threat At His Home

The New York Times reports: Nassau County authorities on Thursday responded to a bomb threat at the house of the judge presiding over the civil fraud trial of Donald J. Trump. A spokesman for the Nassau County police department confirmed that there was an investigation at the house of the judge, Arthur F. Engoron, who in several hours is expected …

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Fox News Hosts Offer No Push Back After Trump Lies That Democrats Want To “Kill Babies Even After Birth”

“In the debate with Hilary Clinton, I said, you know, she is willing to rip the baby out of the womb in the ninth month. And you know, I never heard this — it happened to me. It just came to me during that debate. I didn’t go up there thinking I was going to say that. And she even …

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TODAY: Closing Arguments In Trump’s NY Fraud Trial

ABC News reports: After hearing 11 weeks of testimony, a judge on Thursday will hear closing arguments in a court case that could dismantle former President Donald Trump’s New York-based business empire. The final decision in Trump’s civil fraud trial — which Judge Arthur Engoron is expected to issue later this month — could not only cost Trump hundreds of …

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Trump On Inciting Violence: I Never Started Any Wars

Fox News provides the transcript: BRET BAIER: You seemed to issue a warning that if in the courts and even the U.S. Supreme Court, if they didn’t treat you fairly, that maybe there would be bedlam in the country. Used that word bedlam in the country. And in the last two days, at the same time, in the last two …

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Trump Claims He’s Decided About His Running Mate

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump indicated he has made up his mind about whom he would like to be his running mate should he win the Republican presidential nomination. “Well, I can’t tell you that, really,” Trump told Fox News during a town hall in Iowa on Wednesday when the moderators asked him who is in the running …

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Fraud Trial Judge: Trump Can’t Give Closing Arguments

The Associated Press reports: Donald Trump won’t make his own closing argument in his New York civil business fraud trial after his lawyers objected to the judge’s insistence that the former president would stick to “relevant” matters. Judge Arthur Engoron rescinded permission on Wednesday, a day ahead of closing arguments in the trial. The trial could cost Trump hundreds of …

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Ex-Trump Spox: He Said WH Aide Should Be Executed

The Messenger reports: During a discussion on The View Wednesday about Trump’s appearance at his presidential immunity hearing earlier this week in D.C., Alyssa Farah Griffin said of her former boss, “In a meeting I was in in the Oval Office with a dozen other staffers, [Trump] said an aide should be executed for leaking something negative about him.” She …

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Top EU Official: In 2020 Trump Vowed That US Would “Never” Defend NATO Nations If They Were Attacked

Politico Europe reports: One of Europe’s most senior politicians recounted how former U.S. President Donald Trump privately warned that America would not come to the EU’s aid if it was attacked militarily. “You need to understand that if Europe is under attack we will never come to help you and to support you,” Trump told European Commission President Ursula von …

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National Review: It’s Not Too Late To Dump Trump

From the editorial board of the National Review: Trump feels inevitable, but nothing is settled until Republicans actually caucus and vote. They would be well advised to opt for one of the alternatives who are far and away better on the merits, more likely to win in November, and, if elected, more likely to deliver — free from the wild …

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Habba Rips “Hypothetical” Of Trump Ordering Murder

Sean Hannity: “What about the issue of the immunity case? Going before three judge panel arguments were held earlier today. At times, based on reports I read, it’s almost seem to go off the rails asking, well, what if the president instructs SEAL Team Six to kill innocent people? Would the president be acting in his capacity as the president …

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WaPo: Violent Threats To Political Leaders Are Surging

The Washington Post reports: Bomb threats last week caused evacuations at state capitol buildings across the country. Federal authorities arrested and charged a man with threatening to kill a congressman and his children, while other members of Congress dealt with swatting incidents. The Maine secretary of state and the Colorado Supreme Court, both of which recently deemed Donald Trump ineligible …

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Trump Wants To Give Closing Arguments In Fraud Trial

ABC News reports: Former President Trump intends to personally deliver part of the defense’s closing argument at the conclusion of his civil fraud trial in New York on Thursday, sources familiar with the former president’s strategy tell ABC News. The defendants in the case — Trump, his two eldest sons and two former Trump Organization executives — are represented by …

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Trump Posts Racist Birther Claim About Nikki Haley

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump shared a post from the Gateway Pundit this week claiming that Nikki Haley is disqualified from being president or vice president because her parents were “not U.S. citizens at the time of her birth.” “In @Nikki Haley’s situation, reports indicate that her parents were not U.S. citizens at the time of her birth in …

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