Trump Corruption

The Washington Post reports: House Democrats are launching an investigation into Donald Trump’s meeting with oil executives last month at his Mar-a-Lago Club, where the former president asked the executives to steer $1 billion to his 2024 campaign and promised to reverse dozens of President Biden’s environmental policies. The probe comes after The Washington Post on Thursday first reported the …

CNN reports: Donald Trump’s latest attempt to end the gag order against him in the hush money trial was denied by a New York appeals court on Tuesday. “We find that Justice Merchan properly weighed petitioner’s First Amendment Rights against the court’s historical commitment to ensuring the fair administration of justice in criminal cases, and the right of persons related …

ABC News reports: Federal prosecutors on Tuesday requested the judge overseeing ex-Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s criminal contempt of Congress case to order that he begin his four-month prison sentence, after an appeals court last week upheld his conviction. Prosecutors said there is no legal basis for Judge Carl Nichols to continue the stay on Bannon serving his sentence after …

“Virtually every Legal Analyst and Scholar said yesterday, at the end of the day, THAT THERE IS NO CASE, AND THAT THIS WITCH HUNT SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN BROUGHT, AND SHOULD BE THROWN OUT NOW!!! “WHY WASN’T THIS HOAX BROUGHT SEVEN YEARS AGO, INSTEAD OF IN THE MIDDLE OF MY WINNING CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT — ELECTION INTERFERENCE. “The problem is …

“They wanna take my father down in New York. They wanna do it civilly, they wanna do it criminally, they wanna do it in Georgia, they want to try to do it in Washington, D.C. “They go to the farthest-left areas of this country, they have radical prosecutors all with one thing in common, they’re all funded by Soros, every …

Reuters reports: New York Justice Juan Merchan, Trump declared on Truth Social, is a “highly conflicted” overseer of a “kangaroo court.” Trump supporters swiftly replied to his post with a blitz of attacks on Merchan. The comments soon turned ugly. Some called for Merchan and other judges hearing cases against Trump to be killed. In a review of commenters’ posts …

The Daily Beast reports: Eric Trump was spotted tweeting in the middle of his dad’s trial on Monday by a NBC News reporter—an apparent violation of rules put in place by Judge Juan Merchan that ban the use of electronics inside the New York City courtroom. There was no indication on whether Eric, Donald Trump’s second youngest son, will face …

The New York Times reports: At the end of a tense court day in his criminal trial in Manhattan, former President Donald J. Trump on Thursday sent an email to his followers with a dramatic subject line: “I stormed out of court!” The reality was far more muted. When the day ended, Mr. Trump calmly left the courtroom, as is …

ABC News reports: Donald Trump Jr. visited Peter Navarro in a Miami federal prison. Navarro, the former Trump White House adviser, was convicted in September of two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to provide testimony and documents to the House Select Committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Trump Jr. confirmed the visit to …

From the New York Times‘ live-blog: Jonathan Swan May 13, 2024, 12:48 p.m. ET Michael Cohen says that Trump explicitly told him they needed to do whatever they could to suppress Stormy Daniels’s story until at least after the election, because it wouldn’t matter at that point. Maggie Haberman May 13, 2024, 12:50 p.m. ET Cohen also recalls asking Trump …

“First of all, I’m disappointed in the courtroom. I’m hearing, ‘Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump.’ He is former President Trump. Give him some respect. I mean, that’s what that place is in there. It’s no respect. Here is what I’m seeing, too. It is depressing. That courtroom is depressing. This is New York City. The icon of our country, and we …

The Hill reports: Some Republican lawmakers think Trump needs to step up his appeals to disaffected GOP voters, especially women, after Nikki Haley won 128,000 votes in solidly Republican Indiana despite ending her presidential campaign in early March. “It says a lot about the need for an engagement strategy,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said of Haley winning 21 percent of …

Politico reports: Michael Cohen testified today that he enjoyed working for Donald Trump. He also testified that he sometimes lied and bullied in order to achieve what Trump wanted. Asked if he sometimes lied for Trump, Cohen said, “I did. It was what was needed to accomplish the task.” “Did you bully people?” prosecutor Susan Hoffinger asked. “Yes, ma’am,” Cohen …

“What this judge is getting away with is disgraceful, including the fact that we have thousands of people and 100,000 people in New Jersey. They would like to show their support. It’s like an armed camp outside. You can’t get one person within three blocks of this courthouse.” – Trump, with senators J.D. Vance and Tommy Tuberville hovering behind him …

Law & Crime reports: Rudy Giuliani, while ranting over the weekend that his WABC radio show was canceled for using the platform to repeat 2020 election conspiracy theories despite warnings from higher-ups, noticeably encouraged Dr. Maria Ryan, his ousted “Uncovering the Truth” co-host and girlfriend, to sue the station over a “hostile work environment” for women. But there’s just one …

Mediaite reports: Trump went on the attack in the middle of the night ahead of the biggest day of testimony in his criminal trial — but his target was Hollywood superstar Whoopi Goldberg. Trump — bound by a gag order — used the occasion of a 1:36 a.m. Truth Social outburst to blurt out an attack on the Emmy-Grammy-Oscar-Tony (EGOT) …

“So I always keep this fake Hollywood money in my car so when a homeless person asks for money, then I give him like a fake $5 bill, so I feel good about myself, they feel good. And then, when they go to use it, they get arrested so I’m actually like helping clean up the community. You know, getting …

The Associated Press reports: He once said he would take a bullet for Donald Trump. Now Michael Cohen is prosecutors’ biggest piece of legal ammunition in the former president’s hush money trial. But if Trump’s fixer-turned-foe is poised to offer jurors this week an insider’s view of the dealings at the heart of prosecutors’ case, he also is as challenging …

Law & Crime reports: Rudy Giuliani is being sued yet again by defamed Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea ArShaye “Shaye” Moss. And this time, they are asking a court to shut him up for good. In December 2023, the two women won a $148 million default defamation verdict over a campaign against the women in which Giuliani falsely …

The Independent reports: Jim Mattis, onetime secretary of defense for the Trump administration, described the former president as “a madman in a circular room screaming,” a new book reveals. The revelation was made by Tom Bossert, Donald Trump’s homeland security adviser from 2017 to 2018, and published in The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis. The new …