Trump Corruption

Trump To NY Court Sketch Artist: “I Gotta Lose Weight”

Reuters reports: A courtroom portrait led Donald Trump to deliver a blunt self-assessment on Thursday: “I gotta lose some weight.” The former president’s banter with a courtroom artist came as he made an appearance at his ongoing civil fraud trial in New York. Outside the courtroom, the former president, 77, told news reporters that the trial was a “fraud” and …

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Trump Appeals Ruling Against Immunity On J6 Charges

The Washington Post reports: Donald Trump filed notice on Thursday saying he will appeal a D.C. judge’s ruling that he was not immune from being charged with federal crimes for his efforts to undo the outcome of the 2020 election, either by his former role as president or the Constitution’s rules for impeachment. How and when the U.S. Circuit Court …

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GA Prosecutors Expect Jail Sentences In Trump Cases

The Guardian reports: Fulton county prosecutors have signaled they want prison sentences in the Georgia criminal case against Donald Trump and his top allies for allegedly violating the racketeering statute as part of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, according to exchanges in private emails. “We have a long road ahead,” the Fulton county district attorney, Fani Willis, wrote …

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Axios: How Trump Will Build “Loyalty-First Cabinet”

Axios reports: Former President Trump, if elected, would build a Cabinet and White House staff based mainly on two imperatives: pre-vetted loyalty to him and a commitment to stretch legal and governance boundaries, sources who talk often with the leading GOP presidential candidate tell Axios. Trump would fill the most powerful jobs in government with men like Stephen Miller, Sen. …

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Today: Trump Attends Defense Testimony In Fraud Trial

CBS News reports: Former President Donald Trump is expected to attend proceedings Thursday in his New York civil fraud trial as his defense calls its final expert witness to the stand. Trump has attended the trial, which began on Oct. 2, eight previous times — including for his Nov. 6 testimony. That day, he clashed with the judge, Arthur Engoron, …

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NY Judge: Lifting Trump’s Gag Order Risks Violence

The Messenger reports: “The only potential harm that exists here is the risk of violence against Justice Engoron’s staff if this Court grants a writ of prohibition,” Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron’s attorney David Nocenti wrote in a 15-page appellate filing, in boldface text. Engoron questions why Trump’s lawyers would fight so strenuously against such a narrow order. The …

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Trump Attacks “Crazy Cheney” After Her Book Hits #1

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: Crazy Liz Cheney, who may be responsible for destroying the evidence from the J6 Unselect Committee, making all cases, past and present, highly questionable, AT BEST, is suffering from a massive case of TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME. She just lost her Congressional Seat by the largest margin EVER, now is desperately looking for something else …

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CNN: Pence On Witness List In Trump’s Georgia Case

CNN reports: Prosecutors in the Georgia election subversion case against former President Donald Trump have officially listed former Vice President Mike Pence as one of the witnesses who could be called to testify at trial, according to multiple sources familiar with court documents that remain under seal. Pence, who has appeared before a federal grand jury as part of special …

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Trump: I Would Be Executed If I Did What Biden Does

“Nuclear weapons are the biggest problem we have. And we have a man that can’t put two sentences together. We have a man that doesn’t know he’s alive. And he’s backed up by the media. The biggest problem we have is the media. The media’s fake. I came up with the term a long time ago and they won’t talk …

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Today: CO Supreme Court Hears Trump Ballot Case

The Messenger reports: The bid to boot Donald Trump from the Colorado 2024 ballot via the 14th Amendment goes before the state Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon for oral arguments. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is appealing District Judge Sarah Wallace’s ruling that allowed Trump to remain among the possible Republican presidential candidates for Colorado voters to choose …

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Giuliani No-Shows Hearing With GA Election Workers

Politico reports: Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, two Georgia election workers who have been tormented by harassment and threats since 2020, were prepared Tuesday to confront the man they view as the chief instigator of their suffering: Rudy Giuliani. But Giuliani was a no-show at a federal court hearing in the duo’s defamation lawsuit, prompting a lashing for his attorney …

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Trump: I’ll Only Be A Dictator On “Day One” [VIDEO]

The Guardian reports: Trump had to be asked twice during the televised town hall event in Iowa to deny that he would abuse power to seek revenge on political opponents if re-elected to the White House. “Under no circumstances, you are promising America tonight, you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody?” Hannity asked Trump in the interview taped …

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DOJ: Trump Incited Violence To Block Election Results

The Washington Post reports: In a new court filing, prosecutors working for special counsel Jack Smith went further than in their August indictment in attempting to tie him to that day’s violence, saying they intended to introduce evidence of his other acts both before the November 2020 presidential election and subsequent alleged threats to establish his motive, intent and preparation …

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Potential Trump Jurors Get Questionnaires In J6 Case

NBC News reports: The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has sent prospective jurors a “pre-screening” form asking about their availability to appear in person Feb. 9 to fill out a written questionnaire for use in the jury selection process for a March 4 trial. A resident in Washington, D.C., who received one of the forms in the …

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Trump Filing Claims Undercover Feds Incited J6 Riot

The Washington Post reports: Ever since he was indicted on charges of interfering in the 2020 election results, Donald Trump has relished the chance to use the case in Washington as a venue to air his baseless claims of fraud. Now he is using it to circulate a new set of falsehoods: that the federal government staged or incited violence …

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Hair Furor Claims Lincoln Project Video Features AI

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: The perverts and losers at the failed and once disbanded Lincoln Project, and others, are using A.I.(Artificial Intelligence) in their Fake television commercials in order to make me look as bad and pathetic as Crooked Joe Biden, not an easy thing to do. FoxNews shouldn’t run these ads, just as low ratings CNN & …

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Trump To Appeal NY Gag Order To State’s High Court

The Messenger reports: Donald Trump’s legal team on Monday sought to appeal a gag order barring the former president from speaking about a judge’s law clerk to New York’s highest court. An intermediate appellate court last week reinstated the gag order blocking Trump and his attorneys from making any statements about Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron’s staff. Since that …

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Trump Admits To Rage-Eating After Losing Election

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: Crazy Liz Cheney, who suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome at a level rarely seen before, writes in her boring new book that Keven McCarthy said he came to Mar-a-Lago after the RIGGED election because, “the former president was depressed and not eating.” That statement is not true. I was not depressed, I WAS ANGRY, …

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Trump Codefendant Appears To Threaten GA Witness

The Meidas Touch reports: On Tuesday, Trevian Kutti took to Instagram Live to appeal for legal donations to fight charges listed in the Fulton County District Attorney’s RICO indictment against Trump, Kutti, and 17 other codefendants. Kutti faces charges related to compelling false statements from a witness, specifically Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman. During the video, Kutti appeared to threaten …

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Liz Cheney: Trump Will Try To Stay In Power Forever

“There’s no question. He’s already done it once. And in fact, if you look at what he did in the run-up to January 6th, in terms of his pressure on the Vice President not to count legitimate electoral votes, his pressure on the Department of Justice, on state officials, and then refusing to send help when the Capitol was under …

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