Trump Corruption

The Guardian reports: Trump had to be asked twice during the televised town hall event in Iowa to deny that he would abuse power to seek revenge on political opponents if re-elected to the White House. “Under no circumstances, you are promising America tonight, you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody?” Hannity asked Trump in the interview taped …

The Washington Post reports: In a new court filing, prosecutors working for special counsel Jack Smith went further than in their August indictment in attempting to tie him to that day’s violence, saying they intended to introduce evidence of his other acts both before the November 2020 presidential election and subsequent alleged threats to establish his motive, intent and preparation …

NBC News reports: The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has sent prospective jurors a “pre-screening” form asking about their availability to appear in person Feb. 9 to fill out a written questionnaire for use in the jury selection process for a March 4 trial. A resident in Washington, D.C., who received one of the forms in the …

The Washington Post reports: Ever since he was indicted on charges of interfering in the 2020 election results, Donald Trump has relished the chance to use the case in Washington as a venue to air his baseless claims of fraud. Now he is using it to circulate a new set of falsehoods: that the federal government staged or incited violence …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: The perverts and losers at the failed and once disbanded Lincoln Project, and others, are using A.I.(Artificial Intelligence) in their Fake television commercials in order to make me look as bad and pathetic as Crooked Joe Biden, not an easy thing to do. FoxNews shouldn’t run these ads, just as low ratings CNN & …

The Messenger reports: Donald Trump’s legal team on Monday sought to appeal a gag order barring the former president from speaking about a judge’s law clerk to New York’s highest court. An intermediate appellate court last week reinstated the gag order blocking Trump and his attorneys from making any statements about Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron’s staff. Since that …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: Crazy Liz Cheney, who suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome at a level rarely seen before, writes in her boring new book that Keven McCarthy said he came to Mar-a-Lago after the RIGGED election because, “the former president was depressed and not eating.” That statement is not true. I was not depressed, I WAS ANGRY, …

The Meidas Touch reports: On Tuesday, Trevian Kutti took to Instagram Live to appeal for legal donations to fight charges listed in the Fulton County District Attorney’s RICO indictment against Trump, Kutti, and 17 other codefendants. Kutti faces charges related to compelling false statements from a witness, specifically Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman. During the video, Kutti appeared to threaten …

“There’s no question. He’s already done it once. And in fact, if you look at what he did in the run-up to January 6th, in terms of his pressure on the Vice President not to count legitimate electoral votes, his pressure on the Department of Justice, on state officials, and then refusing to send help when the Capitol was under …

Reuters reports: Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, told his supporters on Saturday to “go into” Philadelphia and two other Democratic-run cities to “guard the vote” in 2024, repeating his unfounded claims of widespread election fraud in 2020 as justification for the call to action. “So the most important part of what’s coming up is to guard …

“I will not rest until your family can afford a beautiful home and a brand new beautiful car of your choice. Combustion, electric, any way you want it, you can have lots of choices. And that’s the way it should be. I’m not saying electric cars are bad. They have problems, they have big problems. There is a danger to …

The Washington Post reports: Never before had a president used his constitutional clemency powers to free or forgive so many people who could be useful to his future political efforts. A Washington Post review of Trump’s 238 clemency orders found that dozens of recipients have gone on to plug his 2024 candidacy through social media and national interviews, contribute money …

“A lot of people are starting to recognize Trump is a cult leader. He turned MAGA into a cult, and so they’re listening to– he gaslights ’em and gives out a lot of lies. First, he started with the love bombing, and he keeps doing that, but actually, I don’t think we need to be afraid of Trump as much …

The Associated Press reports: Donald Trump is not immune from prosecution in his election interference case in Washington, a federal judge ruled Friday, knocking down the Republican’s bid to derail the case charging him with plotting to overturn the 2020 presidential election. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan’s decision tees up a legal fight over the scope of presidential power that …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: Judge Engoron’s Wife deleted her account yesterday, because what she said, in any other Court in the Nation, would call for an immediate Mistrial with sanctions against the Judge and the Attorney General. We demand to see her account before it was deleted, and all other Family Members likewise. Judge Engoron is a Trump …

Politico reports: Donald Trump can be sued over claims that he incited violence on Jan. 6, 2021, an appeals court ruled Friday, rejecting the former president’s argument that he is entirely immune from being held liable for incendiary remarks that preceded the attack on the Capitol. The three-judge panel concluded that Trump’s actions as a candidate for president would not …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump seemingly endorsed a call for Capitol Police officers who repelled rioters on January 6, 2021 to be prosecuted on Truth Social Thursday. Trump’s post linked to another one from earlier this week on X, which showed officers grappling with and using their batons to pushback on the rioters. “The Capitol cops beat the hell …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump lashed out at the reinstated gag order in his signature fashion — by quadrupling down on unproven conspiracy claims that Judge Arthur Engoron’s wife has posted hateful memes on social media proving an anti-Trump bias. Trump’s Truth Social account shows many screen-captured anti-Trump social media posts that Trump claims Engoron’s wife posted with the …

CNBC reports: A New York appeals court Thursday reinstated a gag order on Donald Trump in his $250 million civil business fraud trial. The order bars Trump from making public statements about the staff of Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron, who is presiding over the ongoing trial. Engoron had imposed that order on Trump, and later his attorneys, after …

ABC News reports: One of former president Donald Trump’s current attorneys told special counsel Jack Smith’s team that, within days of the Justice Department issuing a subpoena last year for all classified documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, she “very clearly” warned Trump that if he failed to fully comply — but then swore he did — “it’s going to be …