Trump Corruption

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 …

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump’s federal election interference trial in Washington, D.C., will no longer begin on March 4, Judge Tanya Chutkan wrote in a court order released on Friday. It is unclear when the trial will now start. Chutkan’s ruling comes as the D.C. Circuit Court has not yet decided on whether the former president is immune …

CNN reports: Attorney Roberta Kaplan said former President Donald Trump threw papers across a table and stormed off during a deposition at Mar-a-Lago after learning that his legal team had agreed to provide her lunch. Kaplan said she told him that his attorneys had “graciously offered to provide” her team with lunch — a common civil practice between opposing legal …

The Daily Beast reports: As Donald Trump fights off four criminal indictments and a host of other costly civil cases, his political money machine is once again footing the bill for his lawyers. But in a new filing with the Federal Election Committee this week, one particular line item stuck out: payments to private investigators. But Trump wasn’t looking into …

ABC News reports: Special counsel Jack Smith’s team has questioned several witnesses about a closet and a so-called “hidden room” inside former President Donald Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago that the FBI didn’t check while searching the estate in August 2022, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. As described to ABC News, the line of questioning in several interviews …

The New York Times reports: Allen H. Weisselberg, a longtime lieutenant to Donald J. Trump, is negotiating a deal with Manhattan prosecutors that would require him to plead guilty to perjury, people with knowledge of the matter said. As part of the potential agreement with the Manhattan district attorney’s office, Mr. Weisselberg would have to admit that he lied on …

CNBC reports: A verdict in the New York civil business fraud trial of former President Donald Trump — which had been anticipated Wednesday — is now expected to arrive in early to mid-February, a court spokesman said. That new timeline for the written decision by Judge Arthur Engoron is still a “rough estimate” and “subject to modifications,” said Alfred Baker, …

The Meidas Touch reports: Most people on social media got a great laugh over the idea that Kid Rock, Ted Nugent and Jon Voight could come even remotely close to the influence of Swift on an election since they only appeal to a tiny segment of the population that is already very much in the MAGA camp. But Donald Trump …

The Washington Post reports: U.S. officials are debating how thick of a security blanket they will wrap around the federal courthouse in downtown Washington for former president Donald Trump’s trial — a practical and symbolic measure of the case’s importance that must balance safety with the ongoing functions of a city and a public courthouse. Proposed changes for what could …

Mediaite reports: Donald Trump’s political operation is reeling after spending around $60 million on legal fees pertaining to the four criminal indictments and various ongoing civil lawsuits against him. Save America PAC, Trump’s primary PAC heading into his likely rematch with President Joe Biden, once had over $100 million in the bank. Now, it has just a little over $5 …