Trump Corruption

ABC News reports: Special counsel Jack Smith’s team has uncovered previously undisclosed details about former President Donald Trump’s refusal to help stop the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol three years ago as he sat watching TV inside the White House, according to sources familiar with what Smith’s team has learned during its Jan. 6 probe. Many of the exclusive …

“I didn’t like it when Ronald Reagan suggested it because we didn’t have the technology. We do have the technology now, and we’re going to build a giant dome over our country to protect us from a hostile source. And I think it’s a great thing, and it’s going to all be made in the United States. And that’s something …

The Associated Press reports: Trump spent much of the day assailing Biden, casting him as incompetent and the real threat to democracy. But he also attacked fellow Republicans, including the late Sen. John McCain of Arizona, whose “no” vote derailed GOP efforts to repeal former President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law. “John McCain, for some reason, couldn’t get his arm …

Chicago’s PBS affiliate reports: Republican Donald Trump didn’t submit a state loyalty oath that candidates in Illinois have been signing for more than a half century that asserts they won’t “advocate the overthrow of the government” — a pledge that holds new resonance on the third anniversary of the Jan. 6th insurrection. That’s a departure his presidential campaign is not …

“They’re saying, ‘Oh, Trump owns the Supreme Court, he owns it. He owns it. If they make a decision for him, it will be terrible. It’ll ruin their reputations. He owns the Supreme Court. He put on three judges. He owns the Supreme Court. If they rule in his favor, it will be horrible for them. And we’ll protest at …

“Crooked Joe is staging his pathetic pathetic fearmongering campaign event in Pennsylvania today. Did you see him? He was stuttering through the whole thing. He’s going, “ba da da da he’s a threat the democracy.’ They’ve weaponized government and he’s saying I’m a threat to democracy. “Joe Biden’s record is an unbroken streak of weakness, incompetence, corruption and failure. Other …

The Associated Press reports: New Mexico’s top prosecutor said Friday that the state’s five Republican electors cannot be prosecuted under the current law for filing election certificates that falsely declared Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 presidential race. However, Democratic Attorney General Raúl Torrez is making recommendations to state lawmakers that he says would enhance the security of the …

The Hill reports: The Supreme Court agreed to take up whether former President Trump can be disqualified from appearing on Colorado’s ballot over his actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, setting up a historic case that could upend the presidential election. The justices’ order sets the case up to be heard at a speedy pace, with oral arguments …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: Ron DeSanctimonious has one minor flaw against the Democrats — He has ZERO personality. If I didn’t endorse him, he would have finished, during the Primary, at 3%. NO LOYALTY! Bobblehead is now in third place, Jeff Roe has taken all of his money and quit, and he should get on a plane and …

The New York Times reports: The New York attorney general on Friday asked that the judge who had overseen the civil fraud trial of Donald J. Trump to penalize the former president about $370 million, saying the trial had demonstrated that he had gained that amount through unlawful conduct. The sum was well over the $250 million that the attorney …

The Messenger reports: “God Made Trump,” a new nearly three minute ad from former President Donald Trump’s campaign claims. “And on June 14th, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said ‘I need a caretaker,’ so God gave us Trump,” the narrator says in the same style that the Book of Genesis in The Bible is written, while …

Chicago’s NPR affiliate reports: Five voters formally objected to former President Donald Trump’s newly-filed state nominating petitions Thursday, citing his role fomenting the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in 2021 and now adding Illinois to the national debate about Trump’s legal status as a presidential candidate. The objectors believe Trump is disqualified as a presidential candidate and want the State …

Bloomberg News reports: Donald Trump accused Special Counsel Jack Smith of violating a court order that put the former president’s election-interference prosecution on hold while he appeals a ruling that struck down his immunity defense. In a filing Thursday in Washington, Trump’s lawyers argued that Smith and his team wrongfully ignored a stay of the case by continuing to file …

Yahoo News reports: Donald Trump’s businesses received nearly $8 million in payments from foreign governments while Trump was president, according to new research by Democrats on Capitol Hill. Unlike Republicans in their effort to pin corruption on President Joe Biden, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have receipts — more than 400 pages of them — showing payments to Trump’s …

“I don’t even know anyone on the ‘Q team’ per se. But, you know, as my father said when asked about it, he was like, ‘Yeah, those are the guys that– they really hate pedophiles, right?’ There’s like — like it’s a trick question. “It’s like, ‘Oh, yeah, they hate pedophiles. You must hate that that group of people.’ Like, …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump’s attorney Alina Habba on Wednesday said the former president is concerned the U.S. Supreme Court justices may rule against him in regard to the recent decisions in Colorado and Maine that kicked him off the states’ 2024 primary ballots. Responding to New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman’s recent comments about Trump’s concerns, Habba during …

CNBC reports: A New York federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a last-ditch effort by Donald Trump to delay his upcoming civil trial for defaming E. Jean Carroll after the writer accused the former president of raping her decades ago. Unless the U.S. Supreme Court accepts Trump’s appeal, he is expected to begin trial in the case on Jan. 16 …

The Washington Post reports: Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to ensure he can appear on primary ballots across the country this spring by invalidating a ruling from Colorado’s top court that said Trump is ineligible to serve as president again. Under the Colorado decision, which is also the focus of a separate appeal filed by the …

Mediaite reports: Donald Trump attacked his own former chief campaign spokesperson via his 2024 campaign account on X, in a shockingly vicious and vulgar tweet calling her a “TRAITOR” in an obvious warning to other Republicans and Fox Business hosts alike. The Trump campaign on Wednesday went ballistic on former 2020 campaign communications director Erin Perrine in a quote tweet …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: Page One: SUMMARY OF ELECTION FRAUD IN THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN THE SWING STATES: I am pleased to share a Report that is fully verified, most of the information was gotten from Government Sources, Tapes, and other Public Records, and compiled by the most highly qualified Election Experts in the Country. These numbers …