Trump Corruption

The Detroit News reports: Then-President Donald Trump personally pressured two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers not to sign the certification of the 2020 presidential election, according to recordings reviewed by The Detroit News and revealed publicly for the first time. On a Nov. 17, 2020, phone call, which also involved Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, …

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that he’s “not an insurrectionist” in an apparent response to the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove him from the state’s 2024 primary election ballot, which President Joe Biden and others have commented on. “I’m not an Insurrectionist (“PEACEFULLY & PATRIOTICALLY”), Crooked Joe Biden is!!!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social …

Mike Godwin writes for the Washington Post: When people draw parallels between Donald Trump’s 2024 candidacy and Hitler’s progression from fringe figure to Great Dictator, we aren’t joking. Those of us who hope to preserve our democratic institutions need to underscore the resemblance before we enter the twilight of American democracy. And that’s why Godwin’s Law isn’t violated — or …

The Messenger reports: Attorneys for Donald Trump responded in a fiery court filing Wednesday night to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s request for a federal judge to approve jury selection steps in the Florida classified documents case against the former president. In the six-page filing, Trump’s attorneys said the request by Smith’s office for U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to authorize …

NBC News reports: In the 24 hours since the Colorado Supreme Court kicked former President Donald Trump off the state’s Republican primary ballot, social media outlets have been flooded with threats against the justices who ruled in the case. Advance Democracy, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, identified “significant violent rhetoric” against the justices and Democrats, often in direct response to Trump’s …

The Messenger reports: Former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss won their bid Wednesday night to immediately enforce a $146 million judgment against Rudy Giuliani. In the new filing, U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell, a Barack Obama appointee, lifted an automatic stay of 30 days she’d imposed on the verdict that allows Freeman and Moss to try …

Mediaite reports: A new poll conducted by YouGov America found that 54% of Americans — and even 24% of Republicans — approved of the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to kick former President Donald Trump off of its 2024 presidential primary ballot. According to the YouGov survey of 3,492 respondents, 54% of the country approve of the Court’s conclusion and 38% …

NBC News reports: Lawyers for Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to avoid deciding for now the key issue of whether the former president has broad immunity from actions he took challenging the 2020 presidential elections result. The court filing was in response to special counsel Jack Smith’s request last week asking the justices to circumvent the normal …

The Hill reports: Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb on Tuesday predicted the U.S. Supreme Court could rule “9-0” in favor of former President Trump in a potential appeal of Colorado Supreme Court’s new ruling that would kick Trump off the state’s ballot. “I think this case will be handled quickly, I think it could be 9-0 in the Supreme …

The New York Times reports: Former President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday doubled down on his widely condemned comment that undocumented immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” rebuffing criticism that the language echoed Adolf Hitler by insisting that he had never read the Nazi dictator’s autobiographical manifesto. He said on Tuesday night in a speech in Iowa that …

“Americans of faith are not a threat to our country, Americans of faith are the soul of our country and they have been from the beginning. I will defend religion and I will defend ‘In God We Trust.’ “And you know that very important phrase is under siege, you do know that right? We will defend it 100%. When Joe …

Ben Kochman writes for the New York Post: Donald Trump keeps sharing a photo on social media featuring a bright-red arrow pointing at the head of a bearded man at his civil fraud trial — claiming he is the son of the judge. The Post can now confirm that the pictured bespectacled, well-groomed target is not the kin of Manhattan …

“Unsurprisingly, the all-Democrat appointed Colorado Supreme Court has ruled against President Trump, supporting a Soros-funded, left-wing group’s scheme to interfere in an election on behalf of Crooked Joe Biden by removing President Trump’s name from the ballot and eliminating the rights of Colorado voters to vote for the candidate of their choice. We have full confidence that the U.S. Supreme …

The Daily Beast reports: A New York federal jury in May already found that Trump sexually abused the journalist E. Jean Carroll, awarding her $5 million. But that issue is coming back with a vengeance next month, with Trump bracing for a punishing second trial specifically over the way he defamed her from the White House by denying her claims. …

“Well, of course they’ll sue me again for it when I say that, but yeah, I do. But they want me– they want me to lie. They basically they are suing me in order to lie for them. I’m sorry, I can’t do it. If I showed you the evidence right now, and I think you’ve played it on your …

The Messenger reports: A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., agreed to hear oral arguments early next month on Donald Trump’s bid to dismiss Special Counsel Jack Smith’s election-subversion indictment on the ground that he had immunity while president from criminal prosecution. The D.C. Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals said in its one-page order that it will convene …

The Messenger reports: For at least the fifth time, former President Donald Trump on Monday lost an attempt to dismiss his civil fraud case through a maneuver seeking a directed verdict in his favor. In tossing Trump’s latest challenge, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron reminded the former president that “a lie is still a lie.” “At least five times …

CNN reports: Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the two Georgia election workers who won a nearly $150 million verdict against Rudy Giuliani for defamation on Friday, have sued him again, asking a federal judge to permanently prohibit him from lying about them. The lawsuit comes as Giuliani has continued to make false statements about their work as absentee ballot counters …

Reuters reports: Eight European diplomats interviewed by Reuters said there were doubts about whether Trump would honor Washington’s commitment to defend NATO allies and acute fears he would cut off aid to Ukraine amid its war with Russia. One diplomat, whose country is a NATO member, and one other diplomat in Washington said their missions have outlined in diplomatic cables …

“This case should have been brought in Georgia. It was brought in D.C. to get it before the most anti-Trump set of juries and judges in the world. I mean, if you’re a lawyer, you will tell your client or malpractice comes about, if you’re a Trump person, you’re not getting a fair trial in the District of Columbia. “Now, …