Trump Corruption

Axios reports: Elon Musk’s super PAC did not announce a lottery winner Wednesday in its daily $1 million giveaway that sparked concern from legal experts and prompted a warning from the Justice Department. The DOJ sent a letter notifying America PAC, Musk’s pro-Trump group, that its lottery could violate federal law against paying people to register to vote, per multiple …

The Daily Beast reports: Partners at the Wall Street firm backing Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social used company funds to pay for prostitutes, abused drugs, partied with strippers and lost millions of dollars gambling, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal. EF Hutton is also being investigated for securities fraud, and investors have accused its …

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that, if elected to a second term in November, he would immediately fire special counsel Jack Smith, who brought two federal indictments against Trump. Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt asked Trump if he plans to pardon himself or fire Smith on the day he would take the oath of office. “It’s …

The Detroit News reports: West Michigan Republican and former U.S. Rep. Fred Upton is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 bid for the White House, saying his party’s nominee, former President Donald Trump, is divisive, unhinged and has “not changed his colors.” “Watching Trump day after day, he’s ignored the advice of many senior, respected Republicans to stay on the …

The Times Of London reports: More than a quarter of Americans believe that civil war could break out after this year’s presidential election, according to polling for The Times. Fears that an eruption of violence is very or somewhat likely are shared across the political divide by 27 per cent of American adults, including 30 per cent of women and …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump responded to a town hall with Vice President Kamala Harris by falsely stating she called him “Hitler.” On Wednesday night, Harris took questions from CNN’s Anderson Cooper and from voters who are somehow still undecided.“Let me ask you tonight,” Cooper said. “Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?” “Yes, I do,” she replied. …

Politico reports: The Democratic National Committee is running a billboard tonight outside Donald Trump’s rally in Las Vegas emblazoned with the headline of a bombshell report Kamala Harris and her allies have seized on to cast Trump as power hungry and “unhinged.” “Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’” the billboard reads, referencing an Atlantic report out …

The Huffington Post reports: Donald Trump boasted that his supporters had “no idea” what he did in the White House before launching into a nonsensical claim involving one of America’s NATO allies at a Georgia campaign rally on Wednesday. “I stopped wars with France,” said the GOP nominee as some supporters applauded him in the crowd. He continued, “France. You …

“Thank you for your support against a total degenerate named John Kelly, who made up a story out of pure Trump Derangement Syndrome Hatred! This guy had two qualities, which don’t work well together. “He was tough and dumb. The problem is his toughness morphed into weakness, because he became JELLO with time! The story about the Soldiers was A …

Politico reports: Mark Esper, who served as secretary of Defense under Donald Trump, backed former colleague John Kelly’s recent remarks that he believes Trump meets the definition of a fascist. Esper told CNN Wednesday that he has no reason to doubt Kelly’s “honesty or integrity” in relaying Trump’s previous comments. He encouraged the audience to look up the definition of …

Florida Politics reports: In a new ad from Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, Sgt. Aquilino Gonell says that when Trump calls the mob that tried to block certification of the 2020 election “warriors,” it’s an affront to him and his fellow officers. “He insults us,” Aquilino says in the 30-second clip, part of an aggressive, $370 million TV, radio and digital …

“I saw him most importantly, more than anything, invoke the Constitution when it came to the national command authority and execute the mission, the no fail mission of the United States of America and the Department of Defense to secure our freedom so they can print whatever they want. “And we could talk about the Vanessa Guillén again story. I …

Raw Story reports: During a fact check of Trump’s latest inflammatory claims about immigrants, Daniel Dale was asked by host Sara Sidner about Trump’s claim this week that “they’re emptying out their jails in the Congo and they’re delivering them to the border and they’re saying, ‘Congratulations, this is America.'” Dale went on to say that “there is no evidence …

ABC News reports: A proposed personnel roster circulating within Donald Trump’s campaign and transition operation lists Aileen Cannon, the federal judge who threw out Trump’s classified documents case, as a possible candidate for attorney general, multiple sources familiar with the matter have told ABC News. Cannon’s name appears on a document reviewed by ABC News titled “Transition Planning: Legal Principals,” …

CNN reports: In the immediate aftermath of the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, a number of conservatives and Republicans broke ranks with then-President Donald Trump and blamed him for the violence that day. Among them was Trump’s current campaign manager, Chris LaCivita. In a series of reposts on X – formerly Twitter – LaCivita shared comments calling …

Reuters reports: Donald Trump’s campaign has accused British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party of “blatant foreign interference” in the U.S. presidential election after some volunteers travelled to help campaign for Kamala Harris. The Republican candidate’s camp has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission in Washington, calling for an investigation into what it termed apparently illegal contributions from …

The Texas Tribune reports: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Biden administration on Tuesday, accusing the federal government of failing to help Texas check the citizenship status of some of the state’s registered voters — even as Paxton conceded that noncitizen voting is illegal and extremely rare. In the lawsuit, Paxton argued that the federal government is required to …

Politico reports: Howard Lutnick, the Wall Street CEO heading up Donald Trump’s transition operation, is facing accusations from some Trump insiders that he is improperly mixing his business interests with his duties standing up a potential administration. The alarm among Trump’s loyalists has been compounded by the belief that Lutnick has tried to sideline a host of aides and advisers …

The New York Times reports: Few top officials spent more time behind closed doors in the White House with President Donald J. Trump than John F. Kelly, the former Marine general who was his longest-serving chief of staff. With Election Day looming, Mr. Kelly — deeply bothered by Mr. Trump’s recent comments about employing the military against his domestic opponents …

Mediaite reports: John Kelly, Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff, went on the record with The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg and confirmed that Trump once told him that he wished he acted like the “German generals,” which he later clarified meant specifically “Hitler’s generals.” Goldberg wrote: This week, I asked Kelly about their exchange. He told …