Trump Corruption

Trump Shares Far-Right Loon’s Attack On NY Law Clerk

The Meidas Touch reports: Trump is taking advantage of the lifted gag order in his New York Civil Court case by reposting an attack article on Judge Engoron’s law clerk. Engoron had previously fined Trump twice for violations of the gag order. The article Trump reposted from The National Pulse uses a video posted by an individual behind the Twitter …

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Appeals Court Likely To Uphold Trump’s J6 Gag Order

The New York Times reports: A federal appeals court in Washington appeared to signal at a hearing on Monday that it would keep in place at least some version of the gag order placed on former President Donald J. Trump in the criminal case accusing him of plotting to overturn the 2020 election. But a three-judge panel of the court …

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Today: DC Court Hears Trump’s Appeal Of J6 Gag Order

NPR reports: A federal appeals court will consider restraints Monday on the former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump, who’s asking the judges to free him from a gag order in his federal election interference case. Trump’s bombastic remarks about prosecutors and witnesses are pitting his First Amendment rights against the need to protect next year’s trial. Multiple courts …

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Trump: 2024 Is The Final Battle To Destroy My Enemies

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: 2024 is our final battle. With you at my side, we will demolish the Deep State, we will expel the warmongers from our government, we will drive out the globalists, we will cast out the Communists, Marxists, and Fascists, we will throw off the sick political class that hates our Country, we will rout …

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Trump Rambles About Golden Showers At Iowa Rally

The Insider reports: Former President Donald Trump said that his wife, Melania, didn’t believe allegations that sex workers had urinated on him because he is a “germaphobe.” “‘He was with four hookers’ — you think that was good that night to go up and tell my wife? ‘”It’s not true darling, I love you very much, it’s not true,'” Trump …

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Ungagged Trump Calls For Prosecuting NY Court Clerk

Posted just now to Trump’s Truth Social account: The Judge committed FRAUD in my Trial by valuing my assets at a tiny fraction of what they are really worth in order to make his FAKE CASE against me – And everyone, including his crooked and highly partisan Law Clerk, Allison Greenfield, and Racist A.G. Letitia James, knows it. The Judicial …

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GA Prosecutors Seek August 2024 Trial Date For Trump

Courthouse News reports: Prosecutors filed a motion Friday requesting a Aug. 5, 2024, trial date for the election subversion case against former President Donald Trump and multiple other defendants in Georgia. In the filing, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said the proposed trial date “balances potential delays from defendant Trump’s other criminal trials in sister sovereigns and the other …

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Colorado Judge Rejects Bid To Ax Trump From Ballot

CNN reports: A Colorado judge has rejected an attempt to remove former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 primary ballot based on the claim that he is constitutionally barred from office because of the January 6 insurrection. The major decision issued Friday by Colorado District Judge Sarah Wallace comes after judges in Minnesota and Michigan also refused to remove …

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Trump Loses Bid To Strike Riot Mentions From J6 Case

The New York Times reports: The federal judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s trial on charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election rejected on Friday a request by Mr. Trump’s lawyers to remove language from his indictment describing the role he played in the violence that erupted at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The ruling by the …

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NY Judge Rejects Trump’s “Nonsensical” Mistrial Bid

The Daily Beast reports: The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s bank fraud trial is having none of the former president’s attempts to call for a mistrial, defending his law clerk and his own ability to be impartial as the real estate tycoon makes a longshot bid to scrap the entire legal battle. In a six-page order on Friday, Justice Arthur F. …

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MI Trump Ballot Case Appealed To State Supreme Court

The Associated Press reports: Attorneys for a group of Michigan activists are asking the state Supreme Court to hear an appeal of a lower court’s ruling that would allow former President Donald Trump’s name on the state’s presidential primary ballot. Filings late Thursday afternoon seek an “immediate and expedited consideration” for appeal and an “emergency application” to bypass the state …

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Trump Claims He Wanted To Stop The Rioters In Person

“If you look at the real size of that crowd, it was never reported correctly. There were — it’s the biggest crowd I’ve ever spoken in front of by far. By far. I was going to and then Secret Service said you can’t, and then by the time— I would have, and then when I get back, I saw— I …

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Appeals Court Lifts Gag Order In Trump’s Fraud Case

CNN reports: A New York appeals court judge on Thursday temporarily lifted the gag order placed on Donald Trump and his attorneys in his civil fraud trial following an emergency hearing. Associate Justice David Friedman of the First Judicial Department ruled from the bench. Trump’s lawyers had asked for the emergency relief earlier this week, arguing the gag order is …

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Trump’s Expert Witness Questions His Shady Finances

The Insider reports: When it comes to Donald Trump’s estimates of his net worth, “questionable,” and “inconsistencies” are words you’d expect to hear only from his accuser, the state of New York. But on Wednesday, an expert accountant took the stand in Trump’s defense for a second day at the former president’s Manhattan fraud trial, and used these very words …

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Trump Co-Defendant’s Lawyer: I Leaked Those Videos

The Messenger reports: An attorney for one of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the Georgia election-racketeering case said at an emergency hearing Wednesday that he provided confidential video evidence to the media. “In being transparent with the court, and to make sure that nobody else gets blamed for what happened, and so I can go to sleep well tonight, judge, I …

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Trump Rips “Overrated” Kim Kardashian, Praises Kanye West In Rant About Quid Pro Quo For Football Players

Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: Failed ABC Fake News reporter Jonathan Karl just wrote another bad book. He works sooo hard, but has sooo little talent – Some people have it, and some people don’t. In the “book” he has the World’s most overrated celebrity, Kim Kardashian, supposedly telling me that she “would leverage her celebrity to get …

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Trump Megadonor Testifies As Expert In NY Fraud Case

Courthouse News reports: Steven Witkoff isn’t a seasoned expert witness — far from it. He said as much when the Manhattan judge overseeing Donald Trump’s fraud trial asked Witkoff if he’d ever testified as an expert before that day. “I don’t think so,” Witkoff said. “My mother might think I am, but that’s about it, judge.” Nonetheless, Witkoff took the …

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Trump Files Demand For Mistrial In NY Fraud Case

CNBC reports: Donald Trump and his co-defendants asked a judge Wednesday to grant a mistrial in the $250 million civil business fraud case that threatens the former president’s business empire. In a court filing, Trump, his two adult sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, the Trump Organization and its top executives argued that “the evidence of apparent and actual …

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Ex-Trump WH Lawyer: His Threats Will Land Him In Jail

“It’s much like what he did on Jan. 6. It continues to be off the rails in terms of the extent to which his invective infects these proceedings and is the potential to intimidate witnesses. I believe that, you know, at some point, comments like this will result in Trump not only being sanctioned. But at some point, these types …

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DOJ Appeals For Renewed Gag Order In Trump J6 Case

Politico reports: Former President Donald Trump’s renewed attacks on the family of special counsel Jack Smith and his repeated invective against likely witnesses in his Washington, D.C. criminal case warrant the urgent restoration of a gag order against him, prosecutors argued Tuesday. Smith’s team urged a federal appeals court in Washington to reinstate the gag order — which a three-judge …

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