Trump Corruption

“Donald Trump talks a lot of nonsense. The birtherism. ‘I have my investigators there in Hawaii. Look what we found out.’ “It’s all a lie, 99.9% of everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie. He’s not going to stay in the White House past January 20th. They will remove him. He knows that. “After Christmas, he usually …

The Associated Press reports: Vice President Pence is no longer going to Florida on vacation as planned this week, administration officials say. Pence is instead staying back in Washington as the president seeks to overturn results in a number of states with unproven allegations of widespread voter fraud, officials say. Pence argued to senators Tuesday they should stick with the …

The Washington Post reports: A Pennsylvania postal worker whose claims have been cited by top Republicans as potential evidence of widespread voting irregularities admitted to U.S. Postal Service investigators that he fabricated the allegations, according to three people briefed on the investigation and a statement from a House congressional committee. Richard Hopkins’ claim that a postmaster in Erie, Pa., instructed …

Mediaite reports: All throughout his presidency, Donald Trump made a lot of public appearances sounding off on whatever’s been on his mind, but aside from golfing over the weekend, he hasn’t made any public appearances in days, instead sticking to Twitter to complain about the election. “Last time we saw him was on Thursday when he came out to speak,” …

USA Today reports: President Donald Trump’s campaign launched its broadest challenge yet to the results of the election that appears destined to push him from office, accusing Pennsylvania officials of running a “two-tiered” voting system – in-person and mail – that violates the U.S. Constitution. Legal experts said the case has little chance of succeeding, for a variety of reasons: …

Vice News reports: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo just became the latest high-ranking Republican official to insist, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary, that President Trump didn’t actually lose the 2020 election. “There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration,” Pompeo said in a briefing on Tuesday. Pompeo’s wild-eyed departure from reality comes as Trump continues …

The Wall Street Journal reports: President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team is considering legal action if the Trump administration doesn’t formalize Mr. Biden’s win and give him access to crucial government resources. The General Services Administration, a little-known government agency, is tasked with “ascertaining” the results of the presidential election, a technical designation that would trigger the flow of government resources …

The Miami Herald reports: Being vice president is a tough job. Especially one who has just been voted out of office and is fighting to stay in it. So we can’t blame Mike Pence for wanting a little R&R. Where is he going? Florida, of course. VPOTUS isn’t heading to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach or Disney World near Orlando. …

New this morning from The Federalist: A savvy embattled leader will prepare for all possible outcomes, and make war on all fronts possible. Democrat leadership doesn’t only do that because they have evil ideology and character. They do it because it works. That means right now President Trump needs a skunkworks team coming up with as many political land mines …

NPR reports: Obamacare is back before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, with opponents challenging it for a third time. The first attempts to derail the law failed in the high court by votes of 5-to-4 and 6-to-3. But the makeup of the court is very different now, with three justices appointed by President Trump – among them new Justice Amy …

The Arizona Republic reports: Republican officials behind a lawsuit alleging poll workers “incorrectly rejected” votes cast in person on Election Day will make their case in front of a Maricopa County Superior Court judge later this week. The defendants — Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes and the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors — also will …

The Washington Post reports: As president, Donald Trump selectively revealed highly classified information to attack his adversaries, gain political advantage and to impress or intimidate foreign governments, in some cases jeopardizing U.S. intelligence capabilities. As an ex-president, there’s every reason to worry he will do the same, thus posing a unique national security dilemma for the Biden administration, current and …

The Hill reports: A group of Republican state attorneys general on Monday called on the Supreme Court to consider a case challenging a lower court ruling extending the mail-in ballot deadline in Pennsylvania. Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, joined by nine other state attorneys general, said the justices should block a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision allowing mail-in ballots postmarked by …

The Washington Post reports: The Trump White House on Monday instructed senior government leaders to block cooperation with President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team, escalating a standoff that threatens to impede the transfer of power and prompting the Biden team to consider legal action. Officials at agencies across the government who had prepared briefing books and carved out office space for …

People Magazine reports: For the record, President Donald Trump’s ex-wife Ivana Trump is sick of all of this too. “I just want this whole thing to be over with, one way or the other,” Ivana, 71, tells PEOPLE. “I really don’t care.” Without evidence, the president has argued the 2020 contest was “stolen” from him and that the votes for …

NBC News reports: The head of the branch of the Justice Department that prosecutes election crimes resigned Monday hours after Attorney General William Barr issued a memo to federal prosecutors to investigate “specific allegations” of voter fraud before the results of the presidential race are certified. Richard Pilger, who was director of the Election Crimes Branch of the DOJ, sent …

Law & Crime reports: The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to block the certification of the Pennsylvania election results that tipped Joe Biden decisively across the threshold to become President-elect of the United States. “Nothing less than the integrity of the 2020 Presidential election is at stake in this action,” the 85-page complaint states. Teased out by …

CNBC reports: Attorney General William Barr has authorized federal prosecutors across the U.S. to pursue “substantial allegations” of voting irregularities before the 2020 presidential election is certified, despite little evidence of fraud. Barr’s action comes days after Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump and raises the prospect that Trump will use the Justice Department to try to challenge the …

Mediaite reports: Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto abruptly cut away from a Trump campaign press conference led by Kayleigh McEnany Monday afternoon. Shortly after her baseless allegation that the Democratic party was “welcoming fraud and you are welcoming illegal voting,” Cavuto cut in abruptly by saying “whoa, whoa, whoa, I just think we have to be very clear.” “She’s charging …

The Daily Beast reports: Most normal people reacted to the news that Pfizer appears to have created an effective COVID-19 vaccination with pure joy. However, Donald Trump Jr. is, very clearly, not a normal person. The soon-to-be-even-more-irrelevant oldest son of the outgoing president responded by apparently suggesting that the pharma company timed its announcement to damage his dad. The timing …