Trump Corruption

Ivanka Loses Appeal To Evade Testifying In Fraud Trial

The Messenger reports: The former president’s daughter Ivanka Trump lost her bid Thursday to pause her upcoming testimony on Wednesday, shortly after her father is anticipated to take the stand in his $250 million civil fraud case. The two-page order of New York’s Appellate Division, First Department rejected her motion for a stay pending appeal. Though it does not resolve …

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Trump Appeals J6 Gag Order, May Take It To SCOTUS

The New York Times reports: Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump filed an emergency request to a federal appeals court on Thursday seeking to lift the gag order imposed on him in the criminal case in which he stands accused of trying to overturn the 2020 election. The lawyers asked the appeals court to keep the pause of the …

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Trump Salutes During Altered National Anthem Sung By Capitol Insurrectionists, Says “I Call Them J6 Hostages”

The Hill reports: Former President Trump on Thursday referred to those jailed over their actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol as “hostages” during a rally with supporters in Texas. Trump walked on stage at a Houston rally to Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” as he typically does. But when it concluded, a song in which …

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Trump: “Stand Against Tyrants That Support MAGA”

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump told fans to oppose “tyrants that support” the MAGA movement in a video gaffe that still hasn’t been deleted 24 hours after President Joe Biden’s campaign highlighted it. Biden’s campaign has been highlighting a raft of Trump gaffes recently — mixing up Biden and former President Barack Obama, misidentifying countries, not knowing what town …

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Arguments Begin In Trump Minnesota Ballot Case

ABC News reports: Former President Donald Trump’s legal battles continue to mount as oral arguments begin on Thursday in Minnesota, where the state’s Supreme Court will decide whether or not the case to prevent him from appearing on the state’s ballot. If the justices decide the case against Trump should move forward, they could appoint a special master to oversee …

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Trump Celebrates Exit Of “Super RINO” Rep. Ken Buck

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: Good news for the Country! Congressman Ken Buck of Colorado, a weak and ineffective Super RINO if there ever was one, announced today that he won’t be running again, which is a great thing for the Republican Party. He knew long ago he could never win against MAGA, so now he is, …

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Junior At Fraud Trial: I Know Nothing About Our Books

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump Jr took the stand in the ongoing fraud trial against his father and the family business on Wednesday and tried to distance himself from the financial statements at the center of the case. When asked to slow down, the fast-talking Trump Jr said: “I apologize, your honor. I moved to Florida but I kept the …

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Judge May Push Back Timeline For Stolen Docs Trial

The Washington Post reports: The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s indictment for allegedly mishandling national security secrets suggested at a hearing Wednesday that she might push back the planned trial timeline, as courts wrestle with the growing complexity of juggling four separate criminal cases and an ongoing civil trial against the former president. Judge Aileen M. Cannon listened to prosecutors argue …

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Ivanka To Appeal Order To Testify In NY Fraud Trial

The Messenger reports: Ivanka Trump’s attorney notified a judge on Wednesday that she plans to appeal an order enforcing a subpoena compelling her testimony in her father’s civil fraud case. Former President Donald Trump and his sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. have been on trial for the better part of four weeks over claims that they fraudulently inflated …

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Expert Testifies Trump’s Scam Cost Banks $168 Million

The Hill reports: The Trump Organization’s skewed statements of financial condition may have cost banks more than $168 million in interest, according to an expert witness hired by the New York attorney general’s office. Michiel McCarty, chairman and CEO at the investment bank M.M. Dillon & Co., testified Wednesday to his “lost interest calculations” for banks that handed out loans …

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TODAY: Trump Junior To Testify In New York Fraud Trial

The Associated Press reports: When Donald Trump became president in 2017, he handed day-to-day management of his real estate empire to his eldest sons, Donald Jr. and Eric. Now, as the Trumps fight to keep the family business intact, the brothers are set to testify in the New York civil fraud case that threatens their Trump Organization’s future. Donald Trump …

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Trump Rages At NY Judge: “Leave My Children Alone”

Posted this morning on Trump’s Truth Social account: This Rigged Trial, brought by the Racist New York State A.G. Letitia James before Trump and developer Hating Judge, Arthur Engoron, which should have never been brought in that the so-called STAR WITNESS, SleazeBag Lawyer (for many people) Michael Cohen, admitted last week on the stand that he LIED, and also that …

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Trump Preemptively Sues MI To Keep Name On Ballot

Axios reports: Former President Trump filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to bar Michigan’s top elections official from booting his name off the state’s ballot for the 2024 presidential elections. The suit asks the court to affirm that Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) lacks the authority to assess his qualifications, including regarding the 14th Amendment argument at the center …

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Trump Vows To Create “The United States Of America”

Mediaite reports: Trump promised to invent the country he led as president for four years, stating, “It’s gonna be called the United States of America.” He made the bold pledge in a video posted to his Truth Social platform on Tuesday, in which he railed against President Joe Biden. “These highly political Biden lawsuits and indictments shouldn’t be allowed to …

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Judge: ACLU Can’t Argue Against Trump’s Gag Order

The Messenger reports: The federal judge overseeing the election-subversion case against Donald Trump on Tuesday declined to allow the American Civil Liberties Union to enter a legal brief in the proceedings. The ACLU on Oct. 25 submitted a motion seeking the court’s permission to enter an amicus brief in the case in which it argued that a partial gag order …

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Conway: Trump Will Have To “Liquidate Everything”

“He’s already been found to have committed fraud, that his books and records, that his statements of financial condition are false. And the judge has already ruled that there was no triable issue of fact on whether or not they were false. And as a result, the judge said– ordered that Trump and the Trump Organization, the ability to do …

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Junior Wails: They Want My Dad Jailed For 1000 Years

“It shows you what happens when you’re in a kangaroo court, Eric. It doesn’t matter what the rules are, it doesn’t matter what the Constitution says, it doesn’t matter what general practices and business would be. It doesn’t matter. They have a narrative, they have an end goal, and they’ll do do whatever it takes to get there. They want …

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GOP Megadonor: “Divisive Trump Belongs In Jail”

CNN reports: Leon Cooperman, the hedge fund billionaire who has famously clashed with Sen. Elizabeth Warren over her proposed wealth tax, is cautioning voters against returning Donald Trump to the White House. “It would be terrible for the country if Donald Trump were reelected,” Cooperman told CNN in a phone interview late last week. “He’s a divisive human being who …

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Politico: “Trump Still Can’t Find Hungary On A Map”

Politico Europe reports: Someone get Donald Trump a map! Less than a week after the former U.S. president confused Hungary and Turkey — calling Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán the leader of Turkey — Trump got Hungary’s borders all wrong. “Did anybody ever hear of Viktor Orbán? He’s the head of Hungary. Hungary fronts on both Ukraine and Russia,” Trump …

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LIVE VIDEO: Trial Begins In Trump Colorado Ballot Case

The Associated Press reports: A weeklong hearing on one lawsuit to bar Trump from the ballot in Colorado begins Monday, while on Thursday oral arguments are scheduled before the Minnesota Supreme Court on an effort to kick the Republican former president off the ballot in that state. Whether the judges keep Trump on the ballot or boot him, their rulings …

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