Trump Corruption

“I mean, honestly, I didn’t see a single negative. They’re 100% interested in the idea being liberated from Denmark. I mean, we had crowds waving as we were landing. “For what I was able to see and experience, and again, these are people that feel they’ve been exploited, they have not been treated well by Denmark, they are prevented from …

The BBC reports: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has hit back at Donald Trump’s threat to use “economic force” to absorb Canada into the US saying there isn’t “a snowball’s chance in hell” to join the two. President-elect Trump has in recent weeks repeatedly needled Canada about it becoming the 51st US state. “You get rid of that artificially drawn …

The New York Times reports: Mr. Trump opened the unusual news conference on Tuesday by introducing Hussain Sajwani, the founder and chairman of DAMAC Properties, a Dubai-based real estate firm that partnered with the Trump family a decade ago to build the first Trump-branded golf course in the Middle East. Now, Mr. Trump said, DAMAC is planning to invest billions …

Puck News reports: You’re not alone in raising both eyebrows at Sunday’s news that Amazon will release a Melania Trump documentary directed by Brett Ratner, the Rush Hour filmmaker who has not made a Hollywood movie since 2018, when he was accused of sexual malfeasance by several women. (He’s denied the claims.) Of course, that this vanity documentary will air …

The Meidas Touch reports: On Truth Social, Trump posted a video of a man from Greenland asking him to purchase the Danish colony. As it turns out, the man, Timmy Zeeb, is a convicted drug dealer according to DR News. In Trump’s video post, Zeeb also seemed to call Americans “too fat” which Trump may have missed due to Zeeb’s …

The Hill reports: A New York appellate judge on Tuesday declined to suspend President-elect Trump’s Friday sentencing on his hush money criminal conviction. Judge Ellen Gesmer of the state’s midlevel appeals court rejected Trump’s emergency petition to immediately halt the proceeding, which is set to cement his status as a felon before he returns to the White House. Now, Trump …

Mediaite reports: President-elect Donald Trump said he would consider pardoning even “violent” January 6 protestors during a stream-of-consciousness press conference Tuesday morning at Mar-a-Lago. He went on to curiously suggest that members of the Lebanese group Hezbollah participated in the riots four years ago. “We’re looking at it and other people are there, and 26, 28 people from the FBI …

The Associated Press reports: President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would not rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, as he declared U.S. control of both to be vital to American national security. Speaking to reporters less than two weeks before he takes office on Jan. 20 and as a …

The Washington Post reports: The federal judge in Florida who dismissed the case against Donald Trump over his alleged mishandling of classified documents has temporarily blocked the Justice Department from releasing a report detailing the findings of that investigation by special counsel Jack Smith. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon barred Smith and Attorney General Merrick Garland from “releasing, sharing, or …

“Mexico’s really in trouble. A lot of trouble. Very dangerous place. We’re going to be announcing at a future date – pretty soon – we’re going to change, because we do most of the work there and it’s ours. We’re going to be changing. It’s sort of the opposite of Biden where he’s closing everything up, essentially getting rid of …

Politico Europe reports: Greenland has made it clear that it is not for sale, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Tuesday, in response to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s fixation with buying the massive Arctic island. Frederiksen said Greenlandic Prime Minister Múte Egede “has been very, very clear … that there is a lot of support among the people of Greenland …

Newsweek reports: Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of the President-elect, has landed in Greenland with media personality Charlie Kirk and businessman Sergio Gor. “Greenland is beautiful,” Trump Jr. posted to X. Justin Wells, the producer of Art of the Surge, posted on X that they were filming for Season 2 of his Trump documentary series. The President-elect called into …

CNN reports: Donald Trump Jr. is expected to visit Greenland on Tuesday, just weeks after his father, US President-elect Donald Trump, ruffled feathers by reiterating his desire to obtain control over the autonomous Danish territory. In a Truth Social post Monday, the president-elect confirmed his son would be traveling to the island along with “various representatives” to “visit some of …

The Hill reports: President-elect Trump said on Monday that he’ll replace the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) leader. “We will [have a] new archivist,” Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on his show. According to federal law on the NARA website, Trump has the power to fire the archivist but must “communicate the reasons for any such removal …

NBC News reports: Lawyers for defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira filed a motion Monday night asking U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to block Smith, who prosecuted the case, from issuing his report. They cited the judge’s previous ruling that Smith’s appointment was unconstitutional. “The Final Report promises to be a one-sided, slanted report, relying nearly exclusively on evidence …

The Daily Beast reports: Rudy Giuliani reportedly snapped at a courtroom sketch artist during a hearing Monday, claiming that they made him look like his dog. Per Reuters, Giuliani told artist Jane Rosenberg, “You made me look like my dog!” during a break in the hearing, where a judge found the former New York City mayor in contempt after failing …

Religion News reports: The makers of the God Bless the USA Bible, endorsed by President-elect Donald Trump, have issued a new edition just in time for Trump’s second inauguration. Launched Monday (Jan 6.), the limited-run “Inauguration Day Bible” costs $69.99 — or four copies for $59.49 each — and features an embossed cover with Trump’s name and the date of …

CNN reports: Judge Juan Merchan has denied Donald Trump’s request to postpone his Friday sentencing for his hush money conviction, the judge said in a filing Monday. Trump’s lawyers are likely to appeal Merchan’s decision to a New York appeals court. Earlier Monday, Trump’s lawyers filed an appeal urging a New York appellate court to overturn Merchan’s two recent rulings …

The Guardian reports: The Danish king has shocked some historians by changing the royal coat of arms to more prominently feature Greenland and the Faroe Islands – in what has also been seen as a rebuke to Donald Trump. Less than a year since succeeding his mother, Queen Margrethe, after she stood down on New Year’s Eve 2023, King Frederik …

The Hill reports: The Manhattan district attorney’s office said Monday it opposes any suspension of President-elect Trump’s Jan. 10 sentencing on his New York criminal conviction ahead of his return to the White House. Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo argued in a new court filing that Trump’s intention to appeal decisions by Judge Juan Merchan allowing the conviction to stand does not …