Trump Corruption

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump will deliver remarks in about thirty-five minutes amid a highly contested presidential race, the White House has announced in an updated schedule. Two days after the election, votes in a handful of battleground states are still being counted with election officials saying the race between Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden is …

The New York Times reports: If he is forced to vacate the White House on Jan. 20, Mr. Trump is likely to prove more resilient than expected and almost surely will remain a powerful and disruptive force in American life. He received at least 68 million votes, or five million more than he did in 2016, and commanded about 48 …

From an op-ed in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel: I didn’t sign up to be threatened, harassed, taunted, harangued and even physically assaulted. But I got all of this, and more. Trump supporters treated the outside of my polling place in West Boca Raton like a college football tailgate party. There were overflowing coolers; cardboard cutouts of Trump and his wife …

The Detroit News reports: Michigan Court of Claims Judge Cynthia Stephens said she plans to deny a request from the President Donald Trump campaign to stop the counting of Michigan ballots. Stephens said she will issue a written order by Friday afternoon. Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has already told local election officials to give access to poll challengers, Stephens …

The Associated Press reports: President Trump has taken to Twitter again Thursday morning, commenting on the recent states Joe Biden has won. Elections are run by individual state, county and local governments. Trump’s public comments have no impact on the tallying of votes across the country. So far, the vote count across the country has been conducted efficiently and without …

The Washington Post reports: Westminster Management, an apartment company owned in part by White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, has submitted hundreds of eviction filings in court against tenants with past due rent during the pandemic, according to interviews with more than a dozen tenants and a review of hundreds of the company’s filings. A state eviction moratorium currently bars …

The New York Times reports: The Justice Department told federal prosecutors in an email early on Wednesday that the law allowed them to send armed federal officers to ballot-counting locations around the country to investigate potential voter fraud, according to three people who described the message. The email created the specter of the federal government intimidating local election officials or …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: The Georgia Republican Party and President Donald Trump’s campaign filed a lawsuit late Wednesday alleging that Chatham County is improperly counting absentee ballots received after the state’s deadline. The petition, filed in Chatham County Superior Court, was the third filed by the Trump campaign, all in states with close races where ballots were still being counted …

Phoenix’s ABC News affiliate reports: Several hundred protesters gathered outside of the Maricopa County Elections Office on Wednesday night as the votes from the 2020 elections continued to be counted. The group had gathered around 7:30 p.m. and attempted to get inside the office, according to ABC15. Protesters could be heard chanting “count those votes” and chastising Fox News Channel …

The Hill reports: Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D) said Wednesday that the Trump campaign does not have a “legal pathway” should it look to sue the state over its vote counting. “They don’t have a legal pathway to challenge. We are legally counting valid ballots, and there’s not a way to stop that,” Hobbs said on CNN. Arizona …

“They’re taking down the president of the United States. If the president of the United States does not call Bill Barr now, today, this moment — what is it? Section 232 of the Defense Act — and send U.S. marshals out to San Francisco and arrest Jack Dorsey today — I said it on Vice the other day and that …

The Independent reports: Rudy Giuliani says he is “en route” to Pennsylvania with a legal team to challenge election results in the key battleground state. On Tuesday afternoon, Donald Trump’s lawyer took to Twitter to allege “massive cheating” in the state, falsely claiming that Democrats are trying to “steal” the 2020 presidential election. Election officials in Pennsylvania — a state …

The Washington Post reports: A group of international election observers on Wednesday praised the U.S. vote as calm and orderly but condemned President Trump’s “baseless allegations” of fraudulent ballot counts and suggestion that the tally be stopped midstream, saying he had undermined public confidence in democratic institutions. “Nobody — no politician, no elected official, nobody — should limit the people’s …

CBS News reports: The Trump campaign says it’s suing to stop Pennsylvania’s vote count over lack of “transparency” and seeking to intervene in a Supreme Court case. Pennsylvania is still counting ballots. Voters turned out in large numbers for an election that produced few of the glitches some had feared. But the state’s decision to greatly expand mail-in voting means …

Politico reports: A federal judge thrashed the U.S. Postal Service Wednesday, and suggested he might seek testimony from Postmaster General Louis DeJoy for declining to comply with a last-minute court order to deploy postal inspectors to sweep facilities for undelivered ballots. “Someone may have a price to pay for that,” said Judge Emmet Sulliivan of the U.S. District Court of …

“As votes in Michigan continue to be counted, the presidential race in the state remains extremely tight as we always knew it would be. “President Trump’s campaign has not been provided with meaningful access to numerous counting locations to observe the opening of ballots and the counting process, as guaranteed by Michigan law. “We have filed suit today in the …

“Despite ridiculous public polling used as a voter suppression tactic, Wisconsin has been a razor thin race as we always knew that it would be. There have been reports of irregularities in several Wisconsin counties which raise serious doubts about the validity of the results. The President is well within the threshold to request a recount and we will immediately …

The Washington Post reports: Top Trump campaign officials told allies, surrogates and donors in a call Wednesday morning that they expected a slate of legal challenges and had already deployed lawyers to a range of states. “We are in recount territory in Wisconsin, in Michigan, the same way,” deputy campaign manager Justin Clark said, according to a recording of the …

The New York Daily News reports: President Trump claimed Wednesday that “surprise ballot dumps” were killing his chances of winning reelection as Joe Biden edged ahead in key states. After prematurely claiming victory after midnight, Trump angrily accused Democrats of engineering a massive turnaround while he slept. Biden took the lead early Wednesday in states that would give him 270 …

TechCrunch reports: Twitter took action against the tweet quickly, placing it behind a warning and adding a misinformation label. The company explained its actions in a tweet, stating that the president’s message contained a “potentially misleading claim about an election.” As of 12AM PT the result of the presidential election remained far from clear, with both candidates holding potential paths …