Trump Corruption

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 …

The Daily Beast reports: A court-ordered financial auditor has caught Donald Trump quietly moving $40 million from the Trump Organization into a personal bank account—seemingly so the former president could pay his whopping $29 million tax bill. Trump isn’t supposed to be moving any money around without alerting Barbara S. Jones, a former federal judge in New York tasked with …

Axios has a rundown of today’s crazy:  Nov. 29, 12:36 am: Doubled down on his pledge to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, saying “Obamacare Sucks!!!” Nov. 29, 12:55 am: Accused writer E. Jean Carroll of fabricating sexual assault allegations against him, despite twice being found liable for defamation for similar comments. Nov. 29, 12:50 pm: Posted a link …

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: MSNBC (MSDNC) uses FREE government approved airwaves, and yet it is nothing but a 24 hour hit job on Donald J. Trump and the Republican Party for purposes of ELECTION INTERFERENCE. Brian Roberts, its Chairman and CEO, is a slimeball who has been able to get away with these constant attacks for …

NBC News reports: Among the points backing Donald Trump’s argument that the 14th Amendment doesn’t disqualify him from office is one that, at first glance, is a mix of laughable and disturbing: He never took an oath to “support” the Constitution. Why would the former president emphasize such a thing? That’s because Section 3 of the amendment disqualifies insurrectionists who …

The Associated Press reports: Donald Trump has embraced the rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 as patriots, vowed to pardon a large portion of them if he wins a second term and even collaborated on a song with a group of jailed defendants. In his election interference case in Washington, his lawyers are taking a different …

The Messenger reports: Former President Donald Trump’s lead attorney on Tuesday asked the New York judge presiding over his client’s civil fraud trial to throw out the lawsuit based on testimony by a high-ranking Deutsche Bank executive. “This witness has again testified that the bank conducted its own due diligence,” said Trump’s lead attorney Christopher Kise, who also represents the …

The Messenger reports: In a pair of late-night court filings Monday, attorneys for Donald Trump accused Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team of withholding records and information they believe is necessary to challenge the facts and assumptions underlying the Washington, D.C. election-subversion felony federal criminal charges against the former president. Trump’s legal team filed the two motions just before a midnight …

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump will take the stand in his own defense next month in his $250 million civil fraud trial, his attorneys said in court Monday. Trump will be the defense’s last witness, on Dec. 11, his attorney Chris Kise said. In the week preceding the former president’s testimony, his son Eric Trump is scheduled to …

The Guardian reports: Fulton county prosecutors do not intend to offer plea deals to Donald Trump and at least two high-level co-defendants charged in connection with their efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, according to two people familiar with the matter, preferring instead to force them to trial. The individuals seen as ineligible include Trump, his former White …

“You have to be part of a society whenever you, you know, become a citizen of another country, and I think, you know, people are starting to see in a lot of even school systems right now where they’re teaching things in English, and they’re teaching them in Spanish, because we have had so many people coming from South America, …

ABC News reports: Eric Trump needed help with the Trump Organization’s finances after the company’s chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg was removed from his role following his indictment in 2021, according to Trump Hotels executive Mark Hawthorn. According to Hawthorn’s testimony, the company relied on an outdated and inefficient approach to bookkeeping, including authorizing only three individuals — Weisselberg, Donald …

Raw Story reports: Judge Tanya Chutkan just shut down Donald Trump’s latest conspiracy theory. According to a court filing, Trump requested that prosecutors turn over “missing materials” from the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack and attempt to overthrow the 2020 election. But, according to a response from Chutkan Monday, those “missing materials” don’t exist and thus can’t …

ABC News reports: In their filing this morning arguing against the trial’s limited gag order, Trump attorneys Clifford Robert, Chris Kise, and Alina Habba downplayed Trump’s connection to the threats against Judge Engoron and his clerk, and argued that they do not justify the gag order’s limit on Trump’s constitutional right to free speech. “The president has never threatened her …

The Messenger reports: A New York judge on Monday rejected a request by Donald Trump’s attorneys to call a retired federal judge appointed to monitor and potentially, dissolve the former president’s business empire as a defense witness in his civil fraud trial. In 2022, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron appointed ex-U.S. District Judge Barbara Jones to serve as a …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: Whenever I sarcastically insert the name Obama for Biden as an indication that others may actually be having a very big influence in running our Country, Ron DeSanctimonious and his failing campaign apparatus, together with the Democrat’s Radical Left “Disinformation Machine,” go wild saying that “Trump doesn’t know the name of our President, (CROOKED!) …

The Daily Mail reports: He has an estimated net worth of $2.6 billion according to a Forbes report last month – but Donald Trump’s fortune is pitted against $200 million worth of debt from his portfolio of luxury real estate, resorts, and golf courses. And just like their famous father, Don Jr, 45, Eric, 39, and Ivanka Trump, 42, have …

The Daily Beast reports: Trump said he is “seriously looking at alternatives” to the Affordable Care Act if he returns to the White House, reigniting his longstanding crusade against former President Barack Obama’s signature health-care law. Trump’s failed effort in 2017 to repeal the health-care law was blasted at the time over the prospect of millions of Americans losing their …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: Bob Vander Plaats, the former High School Accountant from Iowa, will do anything to win, something which he hasn’t done in many years. He’s more known for scamming Candidates than he is for Victory, but now he’s going around using Disinformation from the Champions of that Art, the Democrats. I don’t believe anything Bob …