Trump Corruption

The Daily Beast reports: The Washington Post’s outgoing editor-at-large and longtime columnist has made explosive claims that its owner Jeff Bezos struck a deal with Donald Trump in order to kill the newspaper’s endorsement of Kamala Harris. Robert Kagan, who resigned from his position on Friday after more than two decades at the publication, told the Daily Beast that Trump’s …

The Independent reports: Donald Trump’s famous campaign slogan collided with his love of fast food as the former president promised to make McDonald’s ice cream machines “work great again.” The former president took to his Truth Social platform on Saturday night with a post that played off a popular meme that the franchise’s desert-making equipment is frequently out of commission. …

Courthouse News reports: A pair of Senate Democrats on Friday implored the Justice Department to launch an investigation into a political action committee run by billionaire Elon Musk that has been awarding enormous cash prizes to swing state voters — a scheme which some critics have framed as an effort to buy votes for former President Donald Trump. “Musk’s reward …

The Hill reports: Former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre is set to campaign with former President Trump in the critical swing state of Wisconsin next week. Trump’s campaign said that the Hall of Fame former NFL player will be a “special guest” speaker when Trump visits Green Bay, Wisc., on Oct. 30, less than a week before Election Day. …

The Daily Mail reports: MAGA fans streamed out of Donald Trump’s rally after in Michigan after the candidate was hours later after cutting cut a three-hour podcast interview with Joe Rogan in Texas. That may have been a smart way for Trump to reach millions of listeners to Rogan’s popular podcast, but it left fans watching videos in a chilly …

The Hill reports: The U.S. Army on Friday released a heavily redacted report on an incident at Arlington National Cemetery involving a staffer and aides with the Trump campaign when the former president visited the cemetery in August. The nonpartisan watchdog group American Oversight obtained a copy of the report, which offers very few details about the incident. It lists …

Politico reports: Donald Trump said Jack Smith should be “thrown out of the country” in a radio interview that aired Thursday evening, escalating his comments from earlier that day against the special counsel leading the federal government’s two criminal cases against him. “Jack Smith should be considered mentally deranged and he should be thrown out of the country,” the former …

The New York Times reports: Chinese hackers who are believed to have burrowed deep into American communications networks targeted data from phones used by former President Donald J. Trump and his running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, people familiar with the matter said on Friday. Investigators are working to determine what communications data, if any, was taken or observed …

“CEASE & DESIST: I, together with many Attorneys and Legal Scholars, am watching the Sanctity of the 2024 Presidential Election very closely because I know, better than most, the rampant Cheating and Skullduggery that has taken place by the Democrats in the 2020 Presidential Election. It was a Disgrace to our Nation! “Therefore, the 2024 Election, where Votes have just …

Politico reports: The chair of the conservative House Freedom Caucus says the North Carolina Legislature should consider allocating the state’s presidential electors to Donald Trump even before votes are counted in the swing state. Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) said Thursday that such a step by North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature “makes a lot of sense” given the devastation wrought by Hurricane …

The Huffington Post reports: Conservative attorney George Conway’s Anti-Psychopath PAC turned to clinical psychologists, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals to explain exactly why they believe former President Donald Trump is unfit to enter the Oval Office for a second term. Four such professionals slam the Republican nominee as a “malignant narcissist” incapable of caring about anyone but himself and …

From the editorial board of the New York Post: In 2021, when Biden-Harris took over, the country took a hard left turn, with disastrous results. Over these nearly four years, inflation has walloped Americans, millions of migrants have crossed the border illegally, some cities have been taken over by gangs and crime, radical and ridiculous culture wars over DEI and …

Forbes reports: Elon Musk’s pro-Trump super PAC continued its $1 million daily prize giveaway to registered voters in swing states who agreed to sign a petition on Thursday, despite reportedly being warned by the Justice Department that the prizes may be violating federal law. The Musk-backed America PAC announced on X it had given away $1 million to a man …

ABC News reports: Half the country sees former President Donald Trump as a fascist, amplifying concerns raised in recent days by Vice President Kamala Harris and past members of Trump’s own administration. Far fewer in a new ABC News/Ipsos poll level the same charge against Harris. Responding to one of the more incendiary salvos, 49% of registered voters in the …

The New York Times reports: Kamala Harris and Donald J. Trump are locked in a dead heat for the popular vote, 48 percent to 48 percent, the final national poll by The New York Times and Siena College has found, as Ms. Harris struggles for an edge over Mr. Trump with an electorate that seems impossibly and immovably divided. While …

Politico reports: More than a dozen former Trump administration officials on Friday came out in support of former chief of staff John Kelly, who went on the record this week to say the former president fits the definition of a fascist, would govern like a dictator and has no concept of the Constitution. In a new letter, shared exclusively with …

The Daily Beast reports: At a NewsNation town hall for undecided Detroit voters on Thursday night, vice presidential candidate JD Vance was interrupted by a call from his boss. Donald Trump phoned in with what he considered “quite an interesting” question: “How brilliant is Donald J. Trump? The answer should be easy.” Vance laughed hard at this for a full …

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump said Thursday the U.S. is “like a garbage can” for the rest of the world because of its border policies during an immigration-focused rally in Tempe, Arizona, less than two weeks out from Election Day. “They unleashed an army of migrant gangs waging a campaign of violence,” said Trump, who regularly uses dehumanizing …

CNN reports: A former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model is alleging that former President Donald Trump groped her in the 1990s, in what she believes was an attempt to show off for Jeffrey Epstein. In her first on-camera interview about the allegation, with CNN Thursday, Stacey Williams offered her most detailed public account of the alleged encounter, which she said occurred outside Trump’s office …

Politico reports: In early September 2020, wildfires tore through eastern Washington state, obliterating tens of millions of dollars of property, displacing hundreds of rural residents and killing a 1-year-old boy. But then-President Donald Trump refused to act on Gov. Jay Inslee’s request for $37 million in federal disaster aid because of a bitter personal dispute with the Democratic governor, an …