Trump Corruption

Trump Immunity Hearing Concludes, It Didn’t Go Well

CNN Politics reports: Judge Florence Pan challenged Trump lawyer John Sauer over the importance of granting Trump immunity over “other public interests,” saying that the former president’s arguments are “not fully aligned with the institutional interests of the executive branch.” Judges are supposed to “conduct a balancing test,” Pan said, “where we balance the need for the asserted immunity versus …

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Judge Rips Trump Lawyer’s “Paradoxical” Arguments

ABC News reports: Appeals court Judge Karen Henderson appeared skeptical that Donald Trump was acting within his official duties when he tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, saying that Trump attorney John Sauer’s arguments appear “paradoxical.” “I think it is paradoxical to say that his constitutional duty to take care of the laws be faithfully executed allows him …

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Trump Lawyer In Immunity Appeal: He Could Only Be Prosecuted For Assassinating Rival If First Impeached

CNN reports: Trump lawyer John Sauer said Tuesday that a president who ordered the military to assassinate a political rival or sold pardons to criminals could only be criminally prosecuted if they are first impeached and convicted by Congress. Appeals court Judge Florence Pan, a nominee of President Joe Biden, posed the hypothetical questions to flesh out the bounds of …

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Trump Hopes Economy Crashes In “Next 12 Months”

Bloomberg News reports: “We have an economy that’s incredible, when there’s a crash, I hope it’s going to be during this next 12 months because I don’t want to be Herbert Hoover,” Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, told host Lou Dobbs in an interview broadcast Monday on an online platform run by Mike Lindell. Trump has a long record of …

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Trump Loses Immunity Appeal In E. Jean Carroll Case

The Independent reports: Donald Trump lost yet another attempt to avoid a trial stemming from a defamation lawsuit from E Jean Carroll, after a federal appeals court panel in New York refused to rehear his “immunity” defence one week before the trial is set to begin. A single-page order from the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on …

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Trump Lies That He’s “Forced” To Appear In DC Court

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: In the final week leading up to the FIRST VOTE of the 2024 election, there’s nothing I’d rather be doing than spending every one of those days on the campaign trail speaking directly with voters like YOU. But sadly, Crooked Joe and the Radical Democrats have turned our once Free Republic into a Third …

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Trump Team Blasts “False” Claims Of Epstein Victim

The Messenger reports: A spokesperson for former President Donald Trump slammed claims that he regularly had sex with a woman at Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan mansion as “simply false” on Monday. “These baseless accusations have been fully retracted because they are simply false and have no merit,” Steven Cheung, a spokesperson for Trump, said in a statement. In one undated email …

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Judge: Trump Can’t Argue He Didn’t Rape Columnist

The Associated Press reports: A judge late Saturday said former President Donald Trump’s lawyers can’t present legal arguments to a jury assessing damages at a defamation trial on a jury’s conclusion last year that he didn’t rape a columnist in the mid-1990s. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan made the determination in an order in advance of a Jan. 16 …

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Trump Seeks Dismissal Of Georgia Case: I’m Immune

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump is seeking to have the sweeping criminal conspiracy case against him in Georgia thrown out by arguing he is protected from prosecution under presidential immunity. Trump’s immunity claims in the Georgia case, filed on Monday as part of a motion to dismiss state-level criminal charges against the former president, are similar to those argued …

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Dems Are Wary Of Biden Agreeing To Debate Trump

The Hill reports: Democratic lawmakers are leery about the prospect of President Biden debating former President Trump, fearing that putting the two on stage together would only elevate the likely GOP nominee. Trump has skipped every Republican presidential primary debate thus far but says he’s eager to debate Biden. Democratic lawmakers, however, are not relishing that scenario. “I would think …

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Trump Claims He’ll Attend Immunity Appeal Hearing

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: I will be attending the the Federal Appeals Court Arguments on Presidential Immunity in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Of course I was entitled, as President of the United States and Commander in Chief, to Immunity. I wasn’t campaigning, the Election was long over. I was looking for voter fraud, and finding it, …

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NYT Board: Reelecting Trump Will Endanger The World

From the New York Times editorial board: As president, he wielded power carelessly and often cruelly and put his ego and his personal needs above the interests of his country. Now, as he campaigns again, his worst impulses remain as strong as ever — encouraging violence and lawlessness, exploiting fear and hate for political gain, undermining the rule of law …

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Aide: Trump Was “Just Not Interested” In Stopping Riot

ABC News reports: Special counsel Jack Smith’s team has uncovered previously undisclosed details about former President Donald Trump’s refusal to help stop the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol three years ago as he sat watching TV inside the White House, according to sources familiar with what Smith’s team has learned during its Jan. 6 probe. Many of the exclusive …

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Trump: “We’re Going To Have The Greatest Dome Ever”

“I didn’t like it when Ronald Reagan suggested it because we didn’t have the technology. We do have the technology now, and we’re going to build a giant dome over our country to protect us from a hostile source. And I think it’s a great thing, and it’s going to all be made in the United States. And that’s something …

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Trump Mocks John McCain’s POW Injuries [VIDEO]

The Associated Press reports: Trump spent much of the day assailing Biden, casting him as incompetent and the real threat to democracy. But he also attacked fellow Republicans, including the late Sen. John McCain of Arizona, whose “no” vote derailed GOP efforts to repeal former President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law. “John McCain, for some reason, couldn’t get his arm …

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Trump Did Not Sign Illinois State Loyalty Oath Pledge Not To “Advocate For Overthrowing The Government”

Chicago’s PBS affiliate reports: Republican Donald Trump didn’t submit a state loyalty oath that candidates in Illinois have been signing for more than a half century that asserts they won’t “advocate the overthrow of the government” — a pledge that holds new resonance on the third anniversary of the Jan. 6th insurrection. That’s a departure his presidential campaign is not …

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Trump Appears To Warn Of Riot Over SCOTUS Ruling

“They’re saying, ‘Oh, Trump owns the Supreme Court, he owns it. He owns it. If they make a decision for him, it will be terrible. It’ll ruin their reputations. He owns the Supreme Court. He put on three judges. He owns the Supreme Court. If they rule in his favor, it will be horrible for them. And we’ll protest at …

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Trump Rages Over Biden’s “Fearmongering” Speech

“Crooked Joe is staging his pathetic pathetic fearmongering campaign event in Pennsylvania today. Did you see him? He was stuttering through the whole thing. He’s going, “ba da da da he’s a threat the democracy.’ They’ve weaponized government and he’s saying I’m a threat to democracy. “Joe Biden’s record is an unbroken streak of weakness, incompetence, corruption and failure. Other …

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New Mexico AG Says He Can’t Prosecute Fake Electors

The Associated Press reports: New Mexico’s top prosecutor said Friday that the state’s five Republican electors cannot be prosecuted under the current law for filing election certificates that falsely declared Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 presidential race. However, Democratic Attorney General Raúl Torrez is making recommendations to state lawmakers that he says would enhance the security of the …

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SCOTUS Agrees To Review Trump’s Colorado Ballot Ban

The Hill reports: The Supreme Court agreed to take up whether former President Trump can be disqualified from appearing on Colorado’s ballot over his actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, setting up a historic case that could upend the presidential election. The justices’ order sets the case up to be heard at a speedy pace, with oral arguments …

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