Trump Corruption

CBS News reports: A federal jury on Friday ordered former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani to pay a total of $148 million to two former Georgia election workers who were at the center of baseless claims he spread in the wake of the 2020 presidential election. The jury of eight Washington, D.C., residents deliberated for roughly 10 hours across …

CNN reports: A binder containing highly classified information related to Russian election interference went missing at the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, raising alarms among intelligence officials that some of the most closely guarded national security secrets from the US and its allies could be exposed, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Its disappearance, which has not been previously …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: I got Impeached TWICE, was found NOT GUILTY, TWICE, but the Democrats never gave me the benefit or luxury of an Impeachment INQUIRY. Had they done so I never would have been Impeached They went straight to a Trial, before knowing anything about my complete and total innocence. WITCH HUNT! It was disgraceful. Biden …

The Messenger reports: A New York appellate court on Thursday denied former President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn gag orders barring him from attacking the principle law clerk of the state judge presiding over his civil fraud case. In a four-page ruling, New York’s Appellate Division, First Department noted that “the gravity of potential harm is small, given that the …

The Huffington Post reports: Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that gasoline prices are much higher than they truly are. It was a casual lie presented as hard fact that didn’t get much play during his speech at an Iowa rally. The former president has misrepresented gas prices before to drag President Joe Biden, but Trump’s latest fuel fib merited attention for …

Bloomberg News reports: A federal appeals court in Washington has agreed to expedite a decision on whether former President Donald Trump should be immune to criminal prosecution for actions he took to allegedly overturn the results of the 2020 election. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued an order late Wednesday setting a schedule under which …

The Messenger reports: Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial in New York drew to a close on Wednesday in the same manner that it began some 11 weeks earlier — with contentious recriminations about proceedings that could put the former president out of business in the Empire State. Court will now stand in recess for nearly a month, until a hearing …

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly called special counsel Jack Smith “deranged” and a “thug.” Now his attorneys are comparing him to the Grinch. Trump’s lawyers made the comparison in a court filing Wednesday urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to rule against Smith’s request for an expedited appeal on whether …

The Messenger reports: A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a temporary halt to any further proceedings that would move the Washington, D.C. election-subversion case against former President Donald Trump toward trial. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said she does not have jurisdiction over the case while the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals considers Trump’s appeal of his denied motion seeking …

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump cannot assert presidential immunity from a defamation lawsuit by E Jean Carroll, the writer who accused him of rape, a US appeals court ruled on Wednesday, dealing him another setback in litigation she has pursued. The second US circuit court of Appeals in Manhattan upheld a federal judge’s decision to reject Trump’s claim of immunity. …

The Daily Beast reports: New documents show that Donald Trump’s trusted advisers were warned that criminal charges could result from the “fake elector” schemes carried out in several states—part of an attempt by the Trump campaign and its allies to overturn the 2020 election that has since led to indictments in a number of states. According to communications given to …

The Washington Post reports: A bogus claim every 12 seconds, on average. That’s what a single five-minute clip of former president Donald Trump speaking in Iowa on Dec. 5 yielded. In the clip, from a Fox News “town hall” hosted by Sean Hannity and brought to our attention by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CFRB), Trump ludicrously asserts …

The Messenger reports: More than 30% of Republicans who responded to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll said they would not vote for former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election if a jury convicts him of a felony. Trump currently faces four criminal trials. These cases have posed a significant risk to his candidacy, especially if he receives a conviction …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: I wanted to testify on Monday, despite the fact that I already testified successfully, answering all questions having to do with the Fake, No Victims, No Jury lawsuit, thrown at me by the Corrupt Racist A.G., Letitia James, and presided over by a Trump hating judge who suffers from a massive case of Trump …

CNN reports: Three months after the FBI seized classified records from Mar-a-Lago last August, a longtime employee of Donald Trump’s private club quit his job. Within days, the former president did something he rarely did – Trump called the former employee on his cell phone to ask why he was leaving after two decades of working at the resort. But …

Courthouse News reports: The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to review a fast-tracked petition asking if Donald Trump can use his status as a former president to claim immunity from criminal charges related to his effort to overturn the 2020 election. The order came only hours after Special Counsel Jack Smith asked the justices to expedite consideration of Trump’s presidential …

Via press release from the Trump campaign: Crooked Joe Biden’s henchman, Deranged Jack Smith, is so obsessed with interfering in the 2024 Presidential Election, with the goal of preventing President Trump from retaking the Oval Office, as the President is poised to do, that Smith is willing to try for a Hail Mary by racing to the Supreme Court and …

CNN reports: Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday asked the Supreme Court to decide whether Donald Trump has any immunity from criminal prosecution for alleged crimes he committed while in office – the first time that the high court will weigh in on the historic prosecution of the former president. The extraordinary request is an attempt by Smith to keep …

The Messenger reports: An eight-person jury in Washington, D.C., was selected Monday for the civil trial of Rudy Giuliani, the iconic former New York mayor and personal attorney for Donald Trump who is on the hook for damages after a judge previously ruled he’s responsible for defaming two 2020 Georgia election workers. At the trial, expected to last up to …

Newsweek reports: A gag order should remain on Donald Trump because of the “hundreds of threatening, harassing, and antisemitic messages” a judge and his staff have received, the New York attorney general’s office said in a court filing. The former president’s lawyers are currently appealing Judge Arthur Engoron’s gag order in the lawsuit against Trump brought by New York Attorney …