Trump Corruption

Kanye West Qualifies For Mississippi Ballot

ABC News reports: Kanye West will appear as a presidential candidate on Mississippi’s ballot in November, after being approved as a qualified candidate by the State Board of Election Commissioners on Tuesday. The rapper has already qualified to appear on the ballot as an independent candidate in several states, including Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Utah. To qualify in …

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Atlantic Editor: Twitter Mob Keeps Sources Anonymous

Politico reports: The Atlantic’s Jeffery Goldberg told MSNBC on Monday night that he believes “fear on a kind of superficial level of a Twitter mob” and a “fear of personal safety” kept his anonymous sources from going public with their allegations that Trump called fallen service members “losers” and “suckers” in 2018. Goldberg was pressed by MSNBC host Chris Hayes …

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Cohen: Trump Is A Cult Leader And I Was A Member

NBC News reports: President Donald Trump’s ex-fixer, Michael Cohen, told NBC News in an exclusive interview that he believes his former boss is a racist “cult leader” who would be wise to resign before he’s faced with potential criminal charges. “So one of the purposes of writing the book is really from one former cult member to the current ones,” …

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House Oversight Committee To Investigate Dejoy

The Washington Post reports: House Democrats are launching an investigation of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and called for his immediate suspension following accusations that he reimbursed employees for campaign contributions they made to his preferred GOP politicians, an arrangement that would be unlawful. Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.) said in a statement late Monday that the House Committee on Oversight …

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Trump Took Art From US Ambassador’s Residence

Bloomberg News reports: After Donald Trump’s planned trip to a French cemetery for fallen Marines was canceled in November 2018, the U.S. leader had some extra time on his hands in a mansion filled with artwork. The next day, he went art shopping — or the presidential equivalent. Trump fancied several of the pieces in the U.S. ambassador’s historic residence …

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Trump: I’m Getting “VERY High Marks” On Pandemic

The Metro reports: Donald Trump boasted that he is now getting ‘VERY high marks’ for his handling of ‘the China Virus’ as the US coronavirus death toll neared 190,000. Trump spoke despite the US having far more confirmed Covid-19 cases – 6.2million – than anywhere else in the world. India is currently in a distant second place, with 4.2million cases. …

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North Carolina AG To Probe DeJoy’s Donor Scheme

Law & Crime reports: Louis DeJoy, the Postmaster General, reportedly engaged in what is known as a straw-donor scheme back when he was chief executive of the company of New Breed Logistics. That news is on the radar of the attorney general of North Carolina, where DeJoy was based. AG Josh Stein, a Democrat, declined to speak directly to the …

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Schiff: Barr Is Lying About Election Threat From China

CNN reports: House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff on Sunday accused Attorney General William Barr of lying about intelligence related to foreign interference in the upcoming presidential election. In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union,” Schiff was asked about Barr’s claim from last week’s interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that China is interfering with the election …

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NYT: Tillis Benefited From DeJoy’s Forced Donations

The New York Times reports: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy cultivated an environment at his former company that left employees feeling pressured to make donations to Republican candidates, and rewarded them with bonuses for doing so, according to former employees. A review of campaign finance records shows that over a dozen management-level employees at New Breed would routinely donate to the …

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NBC: Trump May Fire Defense Sec. Mark Esper

NBC News reports: President Donald Trump has long been unhappy with Defense Secretary Mark Esper, and White House officials have talked to Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie about taking the top Pentagon job should Trump decide to fire Esper, three senior administration officials said. Two senior administration officials said Trump discussed the position directly with Wilkie at the White House …

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Germany Hits “Unscrupulous” Trump On “Vote Twice”

Agence France-Presse reports: German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Sunday that an “unscrupulous” President Donald Trump was trying to sow doubt about the US presidential election by urging his supporters to vote twice, which is illegal. “We owe an incredible number of things to the United States and the country remains one of our closest partners but… it is disturbing …

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WaPo: DeJoy Reimbursed Staffers’ Donations To GOP

The Washington Post reports: Louis DeJoy’s prolific campaign fundraising, which helped position him as a top Republican power broker in North Carolina and ultimately as head of the U.S. Postal Service, was bolstered for more than a decade by a practice that left many employees feeling pressured to make political contributions to GOP candidates — money DeJoy later reimbursed through …

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Cohen’s Book: Trump Said Supporters Would Think It’s “Cool” That He Slept With Porn Star Stormy Daniels

Another excerpt via the New York Daily News: Even as President Trump sought to buy porn star Stormy Daniels’ silence for $130,000 during the 2016 campaign, he saw little downside if the story of their affair became public, says ex-Trump fixer and disbarred lawyer Michael Cohen. “If it comes out, I’m not sure how it would play with my supporters. …

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Trump Calls On Cultists To Harass Owner Of Atlantic

The Independent reports: Donald Trump has lashed out at the widow of Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell Jobs, whose philanthropy organisation Emerson Collective owns The Atlantic magazine – which reported earlier this week that the president made disparaging comments about dead American military soldiers. The president called on his supporters to “call her, write her, let her know how you feel” …

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Cohen Book Lays Out Trump’s Racism And Corruption

The Washington Post reports: President Trump’s longtime lawyer and personal fixer, Michael Cohen, alleges in a new book that Trump made “overt and covert attempts to get Russia to interfere in the 2016 election” and that the future commander in chief was also well aware of Cohen’s hush-money payoff to adult-film star Stormy Daniels during that campaign. Trump loved Putin, …

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Trump Praises Claim He Showed Affection To Armless “Veteran” (Man In The Photo Was Born Without Arms)

Snopes reports: Radio personality Mark Simone shared the image in May 2017 with the caption: “Here’s a powerful picture that no news outlet will publish. It took place at a Trump rally when the President met a severely wounded veteran. This soldier lost both of his arms. The feeling of a handshake is lost to him. President Trump realized this, …

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West Loans Campaign $6.8M After Raising $11K

ABC News reports: Kanye West loaned $6.8 million to his 2020 presidential committee, essentially self-funding his campaign during the first month and a half of his run, his initial campaign disclosure report shows. In its first disclosure filing submitted to the Federal Election Commission on Friday, the West campaign reported bringing in a total of $6.8 million between July 15 …

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FBI Wondered If Trump Was “Manchurian Candidate”

The Washington Post reports: Former FBI agent Peter Strzok alleges in a new book that investigators came to believe it was “conceivable, if unlikely” that Russia was secretly controlling President Trump after he took office — a full-fledged “Manchurian candidate” installed as America’s commander in chief. In the book, “Compromised,” Strzok describes how the FBI had to consider “whether the …

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Hair Furor Rages At “Slimeball” Atlantic Reporter

Politico reports: President Trump on Saturday lashed out at the journalist behind this week’s explosive report that claimed he had disparaged slain American soldiers buried in France, calling the reporter a “slimeball.” Jeffrey Goldberg serves as editor-in-chief of The Atlantic and the magazine has stood by its story. Goldberg reported that Trump decided to not go to a ceremony at …

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Cohen: Trump Would Start A War To Win The Election

“Donald Trump will do anything and everything within which to win. I believe that includes manipulating the ballots, I believe that he would even go so far as to start a war in order to prevent himself from being removed from office. My biggest fear is that there will not be a peaceful transition of power in 2020.” – Michael …

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