Trump Corruption

The Nevada Independent reports: President Donald Trump’s legal effort to overturn presidential results in Nevada has fallen short after a Carson City District Court judge rejected his team’s request to award the state’s six electoral votes to the incumbent. Judge James Russell ruled Friday against the Trump campaign’s unprecedented request to either block certification of the state’s presidential election results …

The Detroit Free Press reports: The Michigan Court of Appeals has rejected an appeal from the Trump presidential campaign challenging Michigan’s election results, in the latest in a series of court defeats for the president. The 2-1 decision, the court chastised the campaign for dragging its feet on the appeal, said the certification of Michigan’s election results by the Board …

Reuters reports: The campaign of President Donald Trump says it has filed a lawsuit in Georgia state court seeking to invalidate the presidential election results there – the latest in a series of legal challenges intended to reverse his loss to President-elect Joe Biden. In a statement, the Trump administration has said that the lawsuit would include sworn statements from …

NPR reports: Georgia Republicans are excited that Donald Trump is coming Saturday to Valdosta to help save Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. They’re also a little scared. They’re not entirely certain what to expect from the president’s first postelection rally. Though Trump will tell his supporters to head to the polls for Loeffler and Perdue, he’s also likely to …

The Minnesota Lawyer reports: About two hours before the State Canvassing Board met Tuesday, a group of petitioners led by GOP congressional Tyler Kistner filed suit to block the board from certifying the 2020 election results. The suit, which includes sitting Republican legislators Rich Draheim, Steve Drazkowski, Jeremy Munson, Tim Miller and Cal Bahr among its plaintiffs, failed in that …

Boing Boing reports: Donald Trump and his administration have effectively enacted a purge in the Defense Department, in the last 45 days of his term. On Friday, the Pentagon announced that two of Trump’s longtime loyalists, Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie, have been appointed to the department’s Defense Business Board. Neither Lewandowski nor Bossie have any Defense experience. Or business …

The Washington Post reports: President Trump’s campaign and its affiliated committees spent more than $1.1 million at Trump’s own properties in the last weeks of the 2020 campaign — continuing a pattern of self-enrichment in which Trump has converted $6.7 million from his campaign donors into revenue for his businesses since taking office, new campaign finance filings show. The filings …

Mediaite reports: Jenna Ellis visited Fox Business to push a voter fraud conspiracy which has already been rejected by Republican election officials. Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo brought Ellis in, on Friday morning, with a video showing Georgia election workers moving suitcases from underneath a table. “You see individuals going to this table, and underneath the table there are suitcases, …

Politico reports: President Donald Trump is considering preemptively pardoning as many as 20 aides and associates before leaving office, frustrating Republicans who believe offering legal reprieves to his friends and family members could backfire. Trump’s strategy, like much of his presidency, is nontraditional. He is eschewing the typical protocol of processing cases through the Justice Department. And he may argue …

Reuters reports: President Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee have raised $207.5 million since Election Day, according to a statement on Thursday, gathering donations to pay for challenges to Democrat Joe Biden’s win in the Nov. 3 poll. The post-election fundraising haul brought the combined fundraising of Trump committees between Oct. 15 and Nov. 23 to $495 million, …

The Hill reports: Trump administration health officials are issuing increasingly dire warnings about the coronavirus and its rapid spread across the country, drawing a sharp contrast to the president’s reluctance to acknowledge the severity of the crisis head on. President Trump has been largely silent when it comes to warning the public about the need for precautions or announcing major …

The Independent reports: Donald Trump has doubled down on his threat to veto a $740 billion defense bill that does not include a repeal of protections for internet companies. Congressional negotiators reached a compromise deal on Thursday regarding the National Defense Authorisation Act (NDAA), which addresses pay for service members, troop levels and weapons procurement. It is not clear exactly …

The Daily Mail reports: The star witness in Trump’s ‘voter fraud’ case in Michigan only finished probation a few months ago for committing computer crime, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal. Mellissa Carone, 33, was sentenced to 12 months of probation for the offense in September 2019, stemming from an incident in November 2018. The mother-of-two had struck a plea deal with …

The Hill reports: Lawmakers on Thursday officially unveiled a compromise defense bill that excludes President Trump’s demanded repeal of a key liability protection for online tech platforms. The compromise National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes a requirement that the Pentagon rename Confederate-named military bases in three years. Trump has threatened to veto the NDAA over both issues. Senate Armed Services …

The Washington Post reports: When five patients died of the coronavirus in a 32-hour span at Renown Regional Medical Center, Jacob Keeperman turned to Twitter on Sunday to thank his colleagues in Reno, Nev., for all their support, tweeting out a recent selfie of him on the day the alternate care site had opened. “Everyone is struggling to keep their …

The Associated Press reports: The official serving as President Donald Trump’s eyes and ears at the Justice Department has been banned from the building after trying to pressure staffers to give up sensitive information about election fraud and other matters she could relay to the White House. Heidi Stirrup, an ally of top Trump adviser Stephen Miller, was quietly installed …

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports: The Wisconsin Supreme Court threw out President Donald Trump’s election lawsuit Thursday, two days after he asked the justices to revoke the certification of a contest he lost by nearly 21,000 votes. In the 4-3 decision, the justices said they would not accept the case he filed directly with them. The president can try to …

Business Insider reports: Among the three oldest Trump children, Trump Jr. has been talked about the most for a possible career in politics. The chatter has involved running for Senate or perhaps even president in 2024 should his father opt not to try again. “I never want to rule it out,” Trump Jr.told Bloomberg Radio in March 2019. “I’m 41. …

Law & Crime reports: Attorneys Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and their co-counsel submitted a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit at 11:58 p.m. on Wednesday, asking the court to issue a temporary injunctive order to decertify the presidential election, and order Republican Georgia defendants Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “preserve …

The Daily Beast reports: One of the witnesses the Trump legal team presented on Wednesday night—the second day of hearings—was Melissa Carone, who claims she worked as a contractor for Dominion Voting Systems. Despite struggling to coherently explain her job duties during her first day of testimony, Carone was brought back by the Trump team—and again had trouble articulating what …