Trump Corruption

RFK Pushes His Daughter-In-Law For Top CIA Post

Axios reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign manager and daughter-in-law Amaryllis Fox Kennedy is making a push to serve as deputy director at the CIA next year — and RFK Jr. is making calls on her behalf, Axios has learned. The deputy position is one of the highest-profile intelligence jobs that remains open. Politico reported last month that Kash Patel, …

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Eric Trump Laughably Claims “Very Large Wall” Will Separate Trump Org Deals From The US Government

Reuters reports: The Trump Organization, Donald Trump’s family business, will have a “very large wall” separating its business activity from the U.S. government, the president-elect’s son, Eric Trump, said in an interview with Reuters in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday. The bulk of the Trump Organization’s business is in the United States, although it has significant interests overseas, including in Saudi …

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Trump To Give “Champion Of America” Awards To Kid Rock And Tucker Carlson At Mar-A-Lago QAnon Event

Politico reports: President-elect Donald Trump is set to host a gala fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday night where he will give “champion of America” awards to musician Kid Rock and conservative commentator Tucker Carlson. The event is a fundraiser for the America’s Future PAC led by Gen. Mike Flynn, who is also scheduled to appear at the event. It is …

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Trump’s DOJ Secretly Got Phone Records Of Dem Reps

CNN reports: The Justice Department secretly obtained phone records from two members of Congress and 43 staffers – including Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI – during sweeping leak investigations during Trump’s first term, according to a watchdog report released Tuesday. The new report from the Justice Department’s inspector general raises concerns about how the department …

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New York AG: I Won’t Drop Trump’s $454M Judgment

Fox News reports: New York Attorney General Letitia James said she will not drop the civil fraud case against President-elect Donald Trump, arguing presidents are not immune from civil litigation. Trump and his attorneys demanded that James drop her civil fraud case against him, his family and his businesses “for the greater good of the country” last month. Trump was …

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Politico: How The Cult Bullied Ernst On Pete Hegseth

Politico reports: In recent days, allies of Trump adopted an approach that is not novel for the president-elect and his followers: Make life extremely uncomfortable for anyone who dares to oppose him. The swarm of MAGA attacks that Sen. Joni Ernst has experienced is a warning of what’s in store for others who express skepticism of his personnel choices. Days …

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Fox Analyst Roasts Trump’s Threat To J6 Committee

Fox legal analyst Jonathan Turley writes: President-Elect Donald Trump gave President Joe Biden and his critics a major boost this weekend by stating on NBC’s Meet The Press that he believes that the entire J6 Committee “should go to jail.” Despite weeks of saying that he did not plan any campaign of retribution and “success will be my revenge,” Trump …

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Trump Again “Jokes” About Annexing Canada Into US

Forbes reports: President-elect Donald Trump mocked Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau—referring to him as a governor and Canada as a state—in a post on his Truth Social platform early on Tuesday, after Trudeau warned that a tariff war between the two countries would end up raising prices for Americans. Speaking at an event organized by the Halifax Chamber of Commerce …

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NYT: Trump’s Applicants Are Undergoing Loyalty Tests

The New York Times reports: The questions went further than just affirming allegiance to the incoming administration. The interviewers asked which candidate the applicants had supported in the three most recent elections, what they thought about the events of Jan. 6, 2021, and whether they believed the 2020 election was stolen. The sense they got was that there was only …

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J6 Attendee Now Working For Trump Transition Team

Politico reports: Pete Marocco, a former Trump administration official who was reportedly caught on camera inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is now working with President-elect Donald Trump’s transition on national security personnel matters, according to three people familiar with the situation. Marocco, who drew internal fire when he worked in numerous agencies in the Trump administration and more …

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Trump Claims Dems Want To “Get Rid Of Popular Vote”

The Daily Beast reports: President-elect Donald Trump launched a baffling claim Monday that “Democrats are fighting hard to get rid of the Popular Vote in future Elections.” In a post on his Truth Social network, he added: “They want all future Presidential Elections to be based exclusively on the Electoral College!” In fact, the popular vote has in recent decades …

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SCOTUS Upholds Trump’s Hush Money Case Gag Order

The Washington Examiner reports: The Supreme Court on Monday declined to lift a gag order restricting President-elect Donald Trump from making statements about jurors, court staff, and their families in his New York criminal case. Justice Samuel Alito handled the denial on behalf of the full court, marking the second time this year the justices have upheld the restrictions. There …

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Cheney Buries Trump Over His Threat To Imprison Her

Via press release from former Rep. Liz Cheney: Yesterday, President-elect Trump again lied about the January 6th Select Committee, and said members of the Committee ‘should go to jail’ for carrying out our constitutional responsibilities. Here is the truth: Donald Trump attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election and seize power. He mobilized an angry mob and sent them to …

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Judge Pauses Abuse Suit Against Education Nominee

The New York Times reports: A federal judge in Maryland has paused a lawsuit against Linda McMahon, the former World Wrestling Entertainment executive whom President-elect Trump chose for education secretary, while another court weighs a recent state law involving such cases. The lawsuit claims that Ms. McMahon and her husband, Vince McMahon — who together led W.W.E. starting in the …

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Trump Posts Image Depicting Himself As Moses

PolitiZoom reports: Our attention spans are shorter, we need spectacle, we need circus to get our attention at all. We’re no longer a serious people. That is the reason that a reality TV fraud is headed back to the White House. And oh, how he is being heralded now, as literally God-sent. It depicts Trump as not only a constitutional …

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Trump Flogs $199 Perfume With Photo Of Jill Biden

USA Today reports: Get a whiff of this: For $199, you can smell the sweet scent of victory. And who can resist that? Not even your enemies, according to President-elect Donald Trump, who is hawking his “Fight Fight Fight” line of men’s and women’s fragrances. In a Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump shared a picture of himself having a …

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Trump Names Alina Habba As White House Counselor

The Huffington Post reports: President-elect Donald Trump announced this weekend that he’d tapped his onetime defense attorney, acolyte Alina Habba, for a role in his second term. thoughts. Habba will serve as a counselor to Trump, a role that veteran Republican strategist Kellyanne Conway (of “alternative facts” fame) occupied during the returning POTUS’ first term. With Habba as his lawyer, …

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Trump: “I Can’t Guarantee” Tariffs Won’t Raise Prices

The Associated Press reports: Trump has threatened broad trade penalties, but said he didn’t believe economists’ predictions that added costs on those imported goods for American companies would lead to higher domestic prices for consumers. He stopped short of a pledge that U.S. households won’t be paying more as they shop. “I can’t guarantee anything. I can’t guarantee tomorrow,” Trump …

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Trump Calls For Imprisoning Entire Jan 6 Committee

Deadline reports: In his first sit down interview since winning the presidential election, Donald Trump told NBC News’ Meet the Press that he still plans to pardon those convicted for their role in storming the Capitol on January 6, 2021, while he said that the members of committee tasked with investigating it “should go to jail.” “Honestly, they should go …

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Federal Civil Servants Scramble To Shield Themselves As House Republicans Plot Mandatory MAGA Training

The Washington Post reports: As President-elect Donald Trump’s transition teams move into federal agencies, thousands of civil servants — and some of the Biden appointees they work for — are scrambling to insulate themselves from the new administration’s promised purge. Federal employees are scrubbing their Facebook and X accounts for any negative posts about Trump. Meanwhile, some agencies have moved …

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