Trump Corruption

Axios reports: Members of Congress in both parties exploded in anger Monday after the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic revealed he was inadvertently included in a highly-sensitive Trump administration Signal chat on airstrikes in Yemen.  “This is an outrageous national security breach and heads should roll,” Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.), a member of the Armed Services Committee, said in a statement …

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump praised Kansas City Chiefs Quarterback Patrick Mahomes’s MAGA family members and told OutKick founder and conservative radio host Clay Travis he’s invited the Super Bowl losers to the White House. Over the weekend, Travis scored an exclusive sit-down interview with Trump aboard Air Force One that featured plenty of questions you probably wouldn’t hear in …

CNN reports: President Donald Trump said Monday that he will impose tariffs of 25% on any nation that purchases oil from Venezuela. “Venezuela has been very hostile to the United States and the Freedoms which we espouse. Therefore, any Country that purchases Oil and/or Gas from Venezuela will be forced to pay a Tariff of 25% to the United States on …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump Jr. is headlining a group of conservative gun activists joining the board of online firearms retailer GrabAGun as it plans to go public later this year, the company announced Monday. GrabAGun is in the process of merging with a holding company led by businessman Omeed Malik, whose conservative-leaning venture fund 1789 Capital has invested …

Agence France-Presse reports: Greenland’s prime minister, Mute Egede, accused Washington on Monday of interfering in its political affairs by sending a US delegation to the Danish territory, which is coveted by US President Donald Trump. Egede said US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz would visit Greenland this week, along with Usha Vance, the wife of US Vice President JD Vance. …

NBC News reports: A federal appeals court panel of three judges will hear arguments today over the Trump administration’s deportation of five Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies Act. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia will listen to arguments by both sides on the government’s request to reverse U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s temporary restraining order, …

“Why would the now highly discredited 60 Minutes be doing a total ‘puff piece’ on George Clooney, a second rate movie ‘star,”’and failed political pundit. He fought hard for Sleepy Joe’s election and then, right after the Debate, dumped him like a dog. “Later, I assume under orders from the Obama camp, pushed all out for ‘Kamala,’ only to soon …

“Nobody likes a bad picture or painting of themselves, but the one in Colorado, in the State Capitol, put up by the Governor, along with all other Presidents, was purposefully distorted to a level that even I, perhaps, have never seen before. “The artist also did President Obama, and he looks wonderful, but the one on me is truly the …

USA Today reports: U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he believes the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy was carried out by Lee Harvey Oswald but asked if the gunman had help. When asked if he believes Oswald killed JFK, Trump responded, “I do. And I’ve always held that, of course he was, was he helped?” Trump told …

The Intercept reports: President Donald Trump’s administration wants to force people in the U.S. applying for green cards or citizenship to fork over their social media handles, in a move with far-reaching implications as the government cracks down on pro-Palestine activists. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS, which oversees naturalization and immigration, earlier this month proposed requesting social media …

The Washington Post reports: When Vladimir Putin heard Donald Trump had been shot in the ear at a rally in Pennsylvania last year, the Russian president said he went to his local church, met with his priest and prayed, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff said Friday in an interview with Tucker Carlson. Putin, according to Witkoff’s conversation with the man, …

CNN reports: The White House, through an outside event production company called Harbinger, is soliciting corporate sponsors for this year’s Easter Egg Roll, which is prompting major concerns from ethics experts and shock from former White House officials from both parties. The sponsorship offers range from $75,000 to $200,000, with the promise of logo and branding opportunities, according to a …

The New York Times reports: Within the Trump administration’s Defense Department, Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocketry is being trumpeted as the nifty new way the Pentagon could move military cargo rapidly around the globe. In the Commerce Department, SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service will now be fully eligible for the federal government’s $42 billion rural broadband push, after being largely shut …

“While the State of Maine has apologized for their Governor’s strong, but totally incorrect, statement about men playing in women’s sports while at the White House House Governor’s Conference, we have not heard from the Governor herself, and she is the one that matters in such cases. Therefore, we need a full throated apology from the Governor herself, and a …

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump expanded his retribution campaign against law firms on Friday night as he ordered his attorney general, Pam Bondi, to refer what she determined to be partisan lawsuits to the White House and recommend punitive actions that could cripple the firms involved. The directives were outlined in a sweeping memo in which Trump alleged that too …

NBC News reports: President Donald Trump in a Friday night memo rescinded any existing security clearances and access to classified information for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Vice President Kamala Harris and various other officials. The memo also states that the people named — 15 in all — will not have access to classified briefings or the ability …

CNN reports: President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed his involvement in invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport Venezuelan migrants, saying for the first time that he hadn’t signed the proclamation, even as he stood by his administration’s move. “I don’t know when it was signed, because I didn’t sign it,” Trump told reporters before leaving the White …

The Associated Press reports: When a White House adviser in the first Trump administration told TV viewers to “Go buy Ivanka stuff,” top government lawyers sprang into action, telling her she had violated ethics rules and warning her not to do it again. Government ethics experts have varying opinions on whether the 2017 criticism of Kellyanne Conway went far enough, …

“Let’s say Social Security didn’t send out their checks this month. My mother-in-law, who’s 94, she wouldn’t call and complain. She just wouldn’t. She’d think something got messed up and she’ll get it next month. A fraudster always makes the loudest noise, screaming, yelling and complaining. Anybody who’s been in the payment system and the process system knows the easiest …

The Washington Post reports: The Department of Homeland Security is eradicating three internal watchdog agencies that investigated complaints and advocated for immigrants, calling them “roadblocks” to immigration enforcement, a spokeswoman said Friday. DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin confirmed that the agency has ordered a “reduction in force” for the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, the Office of the Immigration …