Trump Corruption

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump will testify in his own defense at the civil defamation trial in New York, his attorney Alina Habba said in court. Habba told Judge Lewis Kaplan that it will be “very brief.” The parties are first discussing what Trump will say and which questions he will answer. As he sits at the defense table, …

“I think the border is a very important issue for Donald Trump. And the fact that he would communicate to Republican senators and congresspeople that he doesn’t want us to solve the border problem because he wants to blame Biden for it is really appalling. But the reality is that that we have a crisis at the border. The American …

ABC News reports: Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro was in federal court Thursday to be sentenced for defying a congressional subpoena to cooperate with the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Navarro was convicted in September on one count of contempt of Congress over his refusal to appear for a deposition …

CNN reports: Donald Trump lost another bid to throw out a defamation suit by E. Jean Carroll on Thursday, as the former president braces to testify in an effort to limit additional damages on top of a $5 million sexual abuse verdict last year. “The motion is denied,” senior U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled, after Carroll’s case wrapped in …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump made a whopping 37 posts about sexual assault accuser E. Jean Carroll within the space of just 20 minutes on Wednesday evening ahead of his defamation trial in New York. In just 20 minutes, Trump published 37 posts about Carrol – an average of 1.85 posts per minute – attacking the former Elle magazine …

The Huffington Post reports: Donald Trump on Wednesday privately pressured Senate Republicans to “kill” a bipartisan deal to secure the U.S. border because he doesn’t want President Joe Biden to chalk up a win ahead of the 2024 presidential election, according to a source familiar with the tenuous negotiations on the package. Trump directly reached out to several GOP senators …

Bloomberg News reports: Two days after his decisive victory in the New Hampshire primary, Donald Trump is set to take the witness stand in New York to rebut defamation claims by writer E. Jean Carroll — testing his ability to sway a federal jury and a judge he’s already clashed with. Trump’s plan to testify Thursday gives him a chance …

Reuters reports: Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro will be sentenced in Washington federal court on Thursday for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Federal prosecutors are seeking six months in prison for Navarro, writing in a court papers that he “chose allegiance to former President …

The Messenger reports: Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday posted on his social media platform Truth Social that anyone who makes a “contribution” to former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley’s campaign will be “permanently barred from the MAGA camp.” The former president repeated his “Birdbrain” nickname for Haley and called the former South Carolina governor “average.” “When I ran for Office …

Mediaite reports: Former Trump staffer Dylan Quattrucci was caught on camera being thrown out of former President Donald Trump’s victory party after he posted a picture with Trump attorney Alina Habba. Quattrucci was also caught on camera telling “piece of shit” cops to kill themselves during the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Trump lashed out Monday over a …

Politico Europe reports: Donald Trump isn’t known for his love of classic British guitar band The Smiths — even though they have a song called “Bigmouth Strikes Again” that could be an ideal soundtrack for his planned return to the White House. But a Smiths song — “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want” — was played at …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump lashed out at his 2020 White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Tuesday after McEnany advised him to focus on uniting the party, securing independents, and winning the general election instead of attacking Nikki Haley. Reacting to Haley’s advice in a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “I don’t need any advice from RINO …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump’s numerous false claims after winning the New Hampshire GOP primary Tuesday prompted cable networks to issue lengthy fact-checks of the notoriously truth-averse former president. MSNBC, which had opted not to take Trump’s Iowa caucus victory speech live, this time went another route, with Rachel Maddow explaining: “This is a decision that we revisit constantly …

The Independent reports: Donald Trump threatened that Nikki Haley would be “under investigation” if she beat him in the Republican primary after defeating her in New Hampshire. The former president appeared to threaten his former UN ambassador after she vowed to continue her fight for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. “Just a little note to Nikki, she is not going …

Bloomberg News reports: Donald Trump’s expected testimony in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial against him has been delayed for a third time after a juror fell ill and the former president’s legal team reported Covid exposures at a recent dinner. US District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Tuesday issued a brief order saying the trial won’t take place in Manhattan on …

Posted this afternoon to Trump’s Truth Social account: I GET MUCH BETTER POLE NUMBERS AGAINST BIDEN THAN NIKKI HALEY, NOT EVEN CLOSE!!! The level of Excitement and Enthusiasm in New Hampshire is incredible. They want STRONG BORDERS, A GREAT ECONOMY WITH NO INFLATION, LOW TAXES & REGULATIONS, A POWERFUL MILITARY, ENERGY INDEPENDENCE, & JUST PLAIN COMMON SENSE. WE WILL MAKE …

CNN reports: The federal appeals court in Washington, DC, declined to rehear arguments over whether former President Donald Trump can be prohibited from talking about witnesses and court staff while he awaits trial in the special counsel’s January 6 criminal case. The 11 judges from the DC Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday declined to touch the case after a …

Posted just now to Trump’s Truth Social account: Why does Fox keep putting New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu on??? Every time I mention his name at a Rally, they BOOO like crazy. He’s all jacked up on something, but he ran for President, without having the courage to announce, and did really poorly. To have this loser on so much …

Mediaite reports: President Joe Biden’s campaign social media team pounced when former President Donald Trump slurred through an incoherent chunk of a rally speech and also appeared to commit a gaffe in which he quoted himself in the third person. The Biden campaign has become increasingly aggressive in going after Trump on the issue of his cognitive abilities — and …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump’s rally in Laconia, New Hampshire was plagued by repeated interruptions from hecklers, protesters, and a QAnon chant on Monday. At several moments throughout the rally, protesters and hecklers could be heard shouting at the former president as his supporters shouted back. Trump could be seen looking on, visibly irritated by the disruptions. Later on …