Trump Corruption

USA Today reports: Rudy Giuliani held a press conference Saturday at a landscaping business named Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Northeast Philadelphia, prompting the similarly named luxury hotel to clarify it was not involved. “To clarify, President Trump’s press conference will NOT be held at Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia,” the Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia at Comcast Center tweeted ahead of …

Mary Trump writes for The Guardian: This is what Donald’s going to do: he’s not going to concede, although who cares. What’s worse is he’s not going to engage in the normal activities that guarantee a peaceful transition. All he’s got now is breaking stuff, and he’s going to do that with a vengeance. I’ve always known how cruel he …

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump played “YMCA” at a lot of his 2020 campaign rallies, to the point where the president’s dancing to the song became a meme among his supporters online. After news of his election loss broke, massive crowds of people took to the streets in a number of cities in celebration. Outside the White House, they played …

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump is not conceding to President-elect Joe Biden, promising unspecified legal challenges seeking to overturn the outcome of the race for the White House. Trump said in a statement that “our campaign will start prosecuting our case in court to ensure election laws are fully upheld and the rightful winner is seated.” Trump was …

The Hill reports:  The Wall Street Journal editorial board on Friday issued a stern warning urging President Trump to “concede gracefully” if Democratic nominee Joe Biden is named the ultimate winner of the presidential race, saying Trump’s “legacy will be diminished greatly if his final act is a bitter refusal to accept a legitimate defeat.” “If Mr. Biden has 270 …

The New York Post reports: Eric Trump tweeted out a phone number that was supposedly a place to report voting irregularities — but all callers got was just some of the president’s old campaign speeches about Hillary Clinton’s email scandal. When the number is dialed, no one answers. Instead, a loop of Trump’s campaign speeches is played over and over …

CNN reports: President Trump’s campaign attorneys worked into the night attempting to justify the President’s baseless claims of widespread electoral fraud as Joe Biden edged into the lead. In what may be a sign of how the campaign is viewing what could be its final hours, a source said they set up a hotline to take incoming calls about alleged …

The Hill reports: President Trump on Friday warned Democratic nominee Joe Biden against “wrongfully” claiming to be president elect, as the former vice president appeared on the cusp of winning the race for the White House. “Joe Biden should not wrongfully claim the office of the President. I could make that claim also. Legal proceedings are just now beginning!” Trump …

The Washington Post reports: A Republican firm run by a top aide to President Trump’s 2020 campaign appears to have helped send unmarked text messages on Thursday that urged supporters in Philadelphia to converge outside a building where local election officials were counting votes. “ALERT: Radical Liberals & Dems are trying to steal this election from Trump!” began the short …

CNN reports: Top aides, including his chief of staff Mark Meadows, have not attempted to come to terms with the President about the reality of what is happening. Instead, they have fed his baseless claim that the election is being stolen from underneath him. Trump has acknowledged to some allies he recognizes the electoral math will not work in his …

Law & Crime reports: It’s Friday morning and it’s not looking good for President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign. Sensing the Georgia was slipping away from a Republican presidential candidate for the first time since 1992, when Bill Clinton won the Peach State, the Trump campaign threatened to pursue a recount in the state. As of right now, Joe Biden has …

Fox News reports: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told “Hannity” Thursday he will donate $500,000 to the Trump campaign’s legal efforts to challenge election procedures in multiple states, including Pennsylvania, Michigan and Nevada. “I’m here tonight to stand with President Trump,” Graham told host Sean Hannity. “He stood with me, he’s the reason we’re going to have a …

Yahoo News reports: As Donald Trump faces the possibility of being a one-term president, the boorish leader is reportedly planning not to concede to his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, if the former vice president is victorious in the 2020 general election. According to CBS News, Trump may break a 124-year American tradition by not giving a concession speech in the …

Axios reports: One of President Trump’s top allies publicly rebuked him on Thursday night for failing to produce evidence to support his unfounded claims that Democrats were stealing the election from him. Driving the news: “We heard nothing today about any evidence,” former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said on ABC. “This kind of thing, all it does is inflame …

From the New York Post: President Trump repeated his unfounded claim that his political opponents were trying to steal the election from him during a briefing on Thursday evening as he trailed his opponent and remaining swing states were leaning toward a Joe Biden presidency. The president railed against what he called “illegal votes,” not acknowledging that the US election …

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump will deliver remarks in about thirty-five minutes amid a highly contested presidential race, the White House has announced in an updated schedule. Two days after the election, votes in a handful of battleground states are still being counted with election officials saying the race between Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden is …

The New York Times reports: If he is forced to vacate the White House on Jan. 20, Mr. Trump is likely to prove more resilient than expected and almost surely will remain a powerful and disruptive force in American life. He received at least 68 million votes, or five million more than he did in 2016, and commanded about 48 …

From an op-ed in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel: I didn’t sign up to be threatened, harassed, taunted, harangued and even physically assaulted. But I got all of this, and more. Trump supporters treated the outside of my polling place in West Boca Raton like a college football tailgate party. There were overflowing coolers; cardboard cutouts of Trump and his wife …

The Detroit News reports: Michigan Court of Claims Judge Cynthia Stephens said she plans to deny a request from the President Donald Trump campaign to stop the counting of Michigan ballots. Stephens said she will issue a written order by Friday afternoon. Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has already told local election officials to give access to poll challengers, Stephens …

The Associated Press reports: President Trump has taken to Twitter again Thursday morning, commenting on the recent states Joe Biden has won. Elections are run by individual state, county and local governments. Trump’s public comments have no impact on the tallying of votes across the country. So far, the vote count across the country has been conducted efficiently and without …