Trump Corruption

Trump Lied 24 Times In Five Minutes In Fox Town Hall

The Washington Post reports: A bogus claim every 12 seconds, on average. That’s what a single five-minute clip of former president Donald Trump speaking in Iowa on Dec. 5 yielded. In the clip, from a Fox News “town hall” hosted by Sean Hannity and brought to our attention by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CFRB), Trump ludicrously asserts …

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31% Of GOP Voters Wouldn’t Vote For Trump As Felon

The Messenger reports: More than 30% of Republicans who responded to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll said they would not vote for former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election if a jury convicts him of a felony. Trump currently faces four criminal trials. These cases have posed a significant risk to his candidacy, especially if he receives a conviction …

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Trump Claims Gag Order Prevented Him From Testifying

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: I wanted to testify on Monday, despite the fact that I already testified successfully, answering all questions having to do with the Fake, No Victims, No Jury lawsuit, thrown at me by the Corrupt Racist A.G., Letitia James, and presided over by a Trump hating judge who suffers from a massive case of Trump …

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Trump Repeatedly Contacted Witness In Docs Case

CNN reports: Three months after the FBI seized classified records from Mar-a-Lago last August, a longtime employee of Donald Trump’s private club quit his job. Within days, the former president did something he rarely did – Trump called the former employee on his cell phone to ask why he was leaving after two decades of working at the resort. But …

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SCOTUS Agree To Fast-Track DOJ’s Immunity Query

Courthouse News reports: The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to review a fast-tracked petition asking if Donald Trump can use his status as a former president to claim immunity from criminal charges related to his effort to overturn the 2020 election. The order came only hours after Special Counsel Jack Smith asked the justices to expedite consideration of Trump’s presidential …

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Trump Melts Down Over Jack Smith’s SCOTUS Ploy

Via press release from the Trump campaign: Crooked Joe Biden’s henchman, Deranged Jack Smith, is so obsessed with interfering in the 2024 Presidential Election, with the goal of preventing President Trump from retaking the Oval Office, as the President is poised to do, that Smith is willing to try for a Hail Mary by racing to the Supreme Court and …

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Jack Smith Asks SCOTUS To Decide On Trump Immunity

CNN reports: Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday asked the Supreme Court to decide whether Donald Trump has any immunity from criminal prosecution for alleged crimes he committed while in office – the first time that the high court will weigh in on the historic prosecution of the former president. The extraordinary request is an attempt by Smith to keep …

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Jury Seated In Georgia Election Workers Vs Giuliani

The Messenger reports: An eight-person jury in Washington, D.C., was selected Monday for the civil trial of Rudy Giuliani, the iconic former New York mayor and personal attorney for Donald Trump who is on the hook for damages after a judge previously ruled he’s responsible for defaming two 2020 Georgia election workers. At the trial, expected to last up to …

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NY AG Details Hundreds Of Threats By Trump Cultists

Newsweek reports: A gag order should remain on Donald Trump because of the “hundreds of threatening, harassing, and antisemitic messages” a judge and his staff have received, the New York attorney general’s office said in a court filing. The former president’s lawyers are currently appealing Judge Arthur Engoron’s gag order in the lawsuit against Trump brought by New York Attorney …

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Trump Hasn’t Deleted Posts That Spawned Gag Orders

The Daily Beast reports: Trump’s strategy has been simple: say whatever he wants, inspire a gag order, appeal the decision, and even if the gag order is upheld, refuse to delete the social media posts he made during the confusion. Trump then watches his old posts take on a life of their own, inspiring violent threats against his intended targets …

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Trump Flakes On Testifying In New York Fraud Trial

NBC News reports: In an eleventh-hour reversal, former President Donald Trump announced Sunday he will not go back on the witness stand in the $250 million civil fraud trial against him and his company. “I have already testified to everything & have nothing more to say other than this is a complete & total election interference (Biden campaign!) witch hunt” …

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Trump Blames NY AG For Exxon “Fleeing Our Country” And Moving Its HQ To Dallas, Which Happened In 1989

The Messenger reports: “Businesses are fleeing our country,” Trump said at the event Saturday evening. “It’s business-unfriendly and they’re going to other places.” But the former president selected an odd example to demonstrate the phenomenon: Exxon Mobil’s move from New York to … Dallas, Texas. Trump also appeared to blame New York Attorney General Letitia James for Exxon’s departure, despite …

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Trump: A General Who Has Seen Soldiers Die Said My “Pussy” Tape Response Was Bravest Thing He’d Seen

“A general, who’s a fantastic general, actually said to me, ‘Sir, I’ve been on the battlefield. Men have gone down on my left and on my right. I stood on hills where soldiers were killed. But I believe the bravest thing I’ve ever seen was the night you went on to that stage with Hillary Clinton, after what happened. And …

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DOJ Debunks Trump With Words Of His Own Officials

Politico reports: Special counsel Jack Smith on Saturday sharply rejected former President Donald Trump’s contention that foreign governments may have changed votes in the 2020 election, laying bare new details about his team’s extensive probe of the matter and its access to a vast array of senior intelligence officials in Trump’s administration. In a 45-page filing, Smith’s team describes interviewing …

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Trump Vows To Indemnify “Policemen, Precincts, Cities, And States” From Any Police Brutality Lawsuits [VIDEO]

“We are going to do something that I will say is slightly controversial but it shouldn’t be. We are going to indemnify policemen and precincts and states and cities from being sued. We want them to do their job. Our police and law enforcement has to come back and they want to come back and they want to do their …

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Trump Used Donor Funds To Pay Fraud Trial Witness

NBC News reports: An expert witness in the $250 million civil fraud trial against Donald Trump said in court Friday that the former president’s political action committee has paid for a portion of his fees to testify on behalf of the defense. Eli Bartov, an accounting professor at New York University, said that his $900,000 in compensation was split between …

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Trump Suggests He Could Indict Obama For “Murder”

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump went on a posting bender Saturday that included a threat to indict former President Barack Obama for “murder” — in a case that theoretically would implicate Trump as well. He reposted a message from conservative pro-Trump attorney Mike Davis, who suggested the ruling against Trump’s presidential immunity defense could allow Trump to indict Obama …

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Junior: The Attempt To Burn MLK’s Home Is A “Psy-Op”

Mediaite reports: Donald Trump Jr. claimed video of a woman allegedly trying to burn down Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth home in Atlanta, GA, was just a ploy to get more people to “vote Democrat.” The former president’s son retweeted the video showing a woman using a red canister to splash liquid around the structure and foliage. She also reportedly …

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Fraud Trial Defense Witness Billed Trump Around $877K

The Messenger reports: Donald Trump nodded approvingly toward his attorney after his final defense expert testified on Thursday that the fraud case against the former president, his family and his business lacks any evidence. “My main finding is that there is no evidence whatsoever of any accounting fraud,” Eli Bartov, a research professor of accounting at New York University’s Stern …

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Appeals Court Upholds Gag Order In Trump’s J6 Case

The Washington Post reports: A federal appeals court narrowed an order limiting what former president Donald Trump can say about people involved in the criminal case alleging that he tried to subvert the 2020 election results, saying he cannot talk about witnesses’ involvement or single out other individuals in ways likely to interfere with the case. “The First Amendment unquestionably …

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