Trump Corruption

The Messenger reports: “Businesses are fleeing our country,” Trump said at the event Saturday evening. “It’s business-unfriendly and they’re going to other places.” But the former president selected an odd example to demonstrate the phenomenon: Exxon Mobil’s move from New York to … Dallas, Texas. Trump also appeared to blame New York Attorney General Letitia James for Exxon’s departure, despite …

“A general, who’s a fantastic general, actually said to me, ‘Sir, I’ve been on the battlefield. Men have gone down on my left and on my right. I stood on hills where soldiers were killed. But I believe the bravest thing I’ve ever seen was the night you went on to that stage with Hillary Clinton, after what happened. And …

Politico reports: Special counsel Jack Smith on Saturday sharply rejected former President Donald Trump’s contention that foreign governments may have changed votes in the 2020 election, laying bare new details about his team’s extensive probe of the matter and its access to a vast array of senior intelligence officials in Trump’s administration. In a 45-page filing, Smith’s team describes interviewing …

“We are going to do something that I will say is slightly controversial but it shouldn’t be. We are going to indemnify policemen and precincts and states and cities from being sued. We want them to do their job. Our police and law enforcement has to come back and they want to come back and they want to do their …

NBC News reports: An expert witness in the $250 million civil fraud trial against Donald Trump said in court Friday that the former president’s political action committee has paid for a portion of his fees to testify on behalf of the defense. Eli Bartov, an accounting professor at New York University, said that his $900,000 in compensation was split between …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump went on a posting bender Saturday that included a threat to indict former President Barack Obama for “murder” — in a case that theoretically would implicate Trump as well. He reposted a message from conservative pro-Trump attorney Mike Davis, who suggested the ruling against Trump’s presidential immunity defense could allow Trump to indict Obama …

Mediaite reports: Donald Trump Jr. claimed video of a woman allegedly trying to burn down Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth home in Atlanta, GA, was just a ploy to get more people to “vote Democrat.” The former president’s son retweeted the video showing a woman using a red canister to splash liquid around the structure and foliage. She also reportedly …

The Messenger reports: Donald Trump nodded approvingly toward his attorney after his final defense expert testified on Thursday that the fraud case against the former president, his family and his business lacks any evidence. “My main finding is that there is no evidence whatsoever of any accounting fraud,” Eli Bartov, a research professor of accounting at New York University’s Stern …

The Washington Post reports: A federal appeals court narrowed an order limiting what former president Donald Trump can say about people involved in the criminal case alleging that he tried to subvert the 2020 election results, saying he cannot talk about witnesses’ involvement or single out other individuals in ways likely to interfere with the case. “The First Amendment unquestionably …

Reuters reports: A courtroom portrait led Donald Trump to deliver a blunt self-assessment on Thursday: “I gotta lose some weight.” The former president’s banter with a courtroom artist came as he made an appearance at his ongoing civil fraud trial in New York. Outside the courtroom, the former president, 77, told news reporters that the trial was a “fraud” and …

The Washington Post reports: Donald Trump filed notice on Thursday saying he will appeal a D.C. judge’s ruling that he was not immune from being charged with federal crimes for his efforts to undo the outcome of the 2020 election, either by his former role as president or the Constitution’s rules for impeachment. How and when the U.S. Circuit Court …

The Guardian reports: Fulton county prosecutors have signaled they want prison sentences in the Georgia criminal case against Donald Trump and his top allies for allegedly violating the racketeering statute as part of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, according to exchanges in private emails. “We have a long road ahead,” the Fulton county district attorney, Fani Willis, wrote …

Axios reports: Former President Trump, if elected, would build a Cabinet and White House staff based mainly on two imperatives: pre-vetted loyalty to him and a commitment to stretch legal and governance boundaries, sources who talk often with the leading GOP presidential candidate tell Axios. Trump would fill the most powerful jobs in government with men like Stephen Miller, Sen. …

CBS News reports: Former President Donald Trump is expected to attend proceedings Thursday in his New York civil fraud trial as his defense calls its final expert witness to the stand. Trump has attended the trial, which began on Oct. 2, eight previous times — including for his Nov. 6 testimony. That day, he clashed with the judge, Arthur Engoron, …

The Messenger reports: “The only potential harm that exists here is the risk of violence against Justice Engoron’s staff if this Court grants a writ of prohibition,” Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron’s attorney David Nocenti wrote in a 15-page appellate filing, in boldface text. Engoron questions why Trump’s lawyers would fight so strenuously against such a narrow order. The …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: Crazy Liz Cheney, who may be responsible for destroying the evidence from the J6 Unselect Committee, making all cases, past and present, highly questionable, AT BEST, is suffering from a massive case of TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME. She just lost her Congressional Seat by the largest margin EVER, now is desperately looking for something else …

CNN reports: Prosecutors in the Georgia election subversion case against former President Donald Trump have officially listed former Vice President Mike Pence as one of the witnesses who could be called to testify at trial, according to multiple sources familiar with court documents that remain under seal. Pence, who has appeared before a federal grand jury as part of special …

“Nuclear weapons are the biggest problem we have. And we have a man that can’t put two sentences together. We have a man that doesn’t know he’s alive. And he’s backed up by the media. The biggest problem we have is the media. The media’s fake. I came up with the term a long time ago and they won’t talk …

The Messenger reports: The bid to boot Donald Trump from the Colorado 2024 ballot via the 14th Amendment goes before the state Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon for oral arguments. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is appealing District Judge Sarah Wallace’s ruling that allowed Trump to remain among the possible Republican presidential candidates for Colorado voters to choose …

Politico reports: Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, two Georgia election workers who have been tormented by harassment and threats since 2020, were prepared Tuesday to confront the man they view as the chief instigator of their suffering: Rudy Giuliani. But Giuliani was a no-show at a federal court hearing in the duo’s defamation lawsuit, prompting a lashing for his attorney …