Trump Corruption

The Associated Press reports: Speaking in Atlanta ahead of a fundraiser, the presumptive Republican nominee renewed his running criticism of Biden’s reaction to the Israel-Hamas war and the administration’s support for the rights of LGBTQ Americans, including transgender persons. “Biden has totally lost control of the Israel situation,” said Trump, whose rise in 2016 depended heavily on white Christian conservatives. …

Reuters reports: A New York appeals judge on Wednesday denied Donald Trump’s third last-ditch attempt this week to delay his April 15 criminal trial on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, paving the way for the first-ever trial of a former U.S. president. During an earlier hearing, Trump lawyer Emil Bove said the trial should be …

NBC News reports: House Speaker Mike Johnson will travel to Mar-a-Lago Friday for remarks on “election integrity” with former President Donald Trump, two sources directly familiar with the plans confirmed to NBC News. Asked by NBC News what his press conference with Trump will focus on, Johnson said, “You’ll have to see. I look forward to going down there.” When …

CNN reports: The Republican National Committee last week sent out a scripted call to voters’ phones on behalf of new co-chair Lara Trump saying Democrats committed “massive fraud” in the 2020 election. It’s the latest example of how the RNC under the former president’s daughter-in-law is perpetuating lies about the 2020 election, even as prominent Republicans say the party needs …

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would not sign a federal abortion ban if one reached his desk were he to be elected in November. It’s Trump’s firmest response to date on a national abortion ban. He has simultaneously claimed credit for appointing the Supreme Court justices who helped overturn Roe v. Wade while distancing himself …

The New York Post reports: Donald Trump filed another appeal in a criminal “hush money” case in his continued effort to try to delay trial from going forward Monday. The former president is seeking to overturn trial Judge Juan Merchan’s ruling that he isn’t immune from the criminal charges on the grounds of presidential immunity. The embattled real estate tycoon …

“They had to restore trust in the RNC. The first thing that they did is they went in there, and they got rid of the vast majority of the RNC, and there were a lot of Never Trumpers there, I hate to say it. The second they did that, all of the sudden the spigots got turned on and, you …

Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: The White House Thugs should not be allowed to have these dangerous and unfair Biden Trials during my campaign for President. All of them, civil and criminal, could have been brought more than three years ago. It is an illegal attack on a Political Opponent. It is Communism at its worst, and Election …

The Associated Press reports: Allen Weisselberg, a former longtime executive in Donald Trump’s real estate empire, is set to be sentenced Wednesday for lying under oath in the ex-president’s New York civil fraud case. Weisselberg, 76, is expected to be sentenced to five months in jail after pleading guilty last month to two counts of perjury. The ex-chief financial officer …

“Oh, he’s getting convicted. I don’t really think there’s a lot of mystery about that. He shouldn’t, but he’s going to get convicted. The jury’s going to hate him. Manhattan went 92%, between 87 and 92% for Joe Biden. That’s where this is going to be tried. These are not Trump lovers. + “Look, I think the jury’s going to …

The New York Post reports: Donald Trump’s lawyer in his “hush money” case served the wrong guy with court papers — demanding that a Brooklyn man with nothing to do with the upcoming trial turn over evidence, prosecutors said Tuesday. The pre-trial flub came after Trump attorney Todd Blanche sent a subpoena to a man they believed to be former …

The Associated Press reports: A New York appeals court judge Tuesday rejected the latest bid by former President Donald Trump to delay his hush money criminal trial, a week before jury selection was set to start. Trump’s lawyers had wanted the trial postponed indefinitely while he fights a gag order that bars him from commenting about jurors, witnesses and others …

NBC News reports: During an interview that aired Monday night on “Real America’s Voice,” Trump claimed Democrats don’t want to talk about Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel on Oct. 7 because Biden “is no fan of Israel.” “Any Jewish person that votes for Biden does not love Israel and frankly, should be spoken to,” Trump said. Trump argued that Biden, …

The New York Times reports: Jared Kushner’s investment fund is not especially large by global finance standards. But as he gets it fully up and running, each step is bringing with it ethical issues that would only grow if his father-in-law, Donald J. Trump, should win another term as president. His $3 billion fund is financed almost entirely from overseas …

Axios reports: Special counsel Jack Smith in a filing asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reject former President Trump’s claims that he’s immune from prosecution in the 2020 federal election case said “no person is above the law.” “The Framers never endorsed criminal immunity for a former President, and all Presidents from the Founding to the modern era have known …

NBC News reports: The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s hush money case in New York has approved a questionnaire for jury selection and instructions for prospective jurors in the trial, which is set to begin next week. In a letter Monday, state Judge Juan Merchan provided attorneys in the case with a jury questionnaire that consists of 42 numbered …

Law & Crime reports: A distinguished group of retired four-star generals and admirals from the U.S. military have argued in a brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday that Donald Trump’s claims of absolute “presidential immunity” from criminal prosecution tied to Jan. 6 is an “assault” on the “foundational commitments” underpinning democracy and if his argument is allowed …

Axios reports: Republicans’ impeachment probe of President Biden is unraveling because of a lack of evidence — but their work could become the basis for federal investigations and even prosecutions of the Biden family if Donald Trump wins re-election, Axios has learned. Trump has vowed retribution against his enemies if he wins in November. House Republicans have struggled to show …

ABC News reports: A judge has denied former President Donald Trump’s last-minute attempt Monday to delay his criminal trial in New York and move the case out of Manhattan. Trump’s attorneys asked an intermediary appellate court to stay the April 15 trial date, arguing overwhelming pretrial publicity made it impossible to find a fair and impartial jury even with a …

“Senator Lindsey Graham is doing a great disservice to the Republican Party, and to our Country. At first he wanted no Abortions under any circumstances, then he was up to 6 weeks, where you’re allowed Abortion, now he’s up to 15 weeks, where you’re allowed Abortion, but what he doesn’t understand, or perhaps he does, is the Radical Left Democrats, …