Trump Corruption

Trump Declares He’s “Willing To Go To Jail” [VIDEO]

“They’re getting beaten very badly by me in the polls. They think the only way they can catch me is to stop me from speaking. They want to take away my voice and a judge gave a gag order today. “Did you hear that? On speech, which I believe is totally unconstitutional what she did. A judge gave a gag …

Read More »

Trump Hotels Accountant Admits “Overstating” Assets

ABC News reports: Trump Hotels chief accounting officer Mark Hawthorn testified that in 2018 he inadvertently overstated the value of Trump’s assets by relying on Trump’s statement of financial condition. When an outside accounting firm requested the amount of Trump’s liquid assets, Hawthorn said he consulted the financial statement that listed “cash equivalents in excess of $290 million.” The New …

Read More »

Trump Vows To Appeal New Gag Order: “Witch Hunt!”

Bloomberg News reports: In announcing the partial gag order, US District Judge Tanya Chutkan said that Trump’s free speech rights under the First Amendment had to “yield” to the administration of justice and the protection of witnesses, and did not permit him to launch a “smear campaign.” Chutkan said that if the government believed Trump had violated her order, she …

Read More »

Judge Sticks To March Trial Date In Trump’s J6 Case

The Messenger reports: The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal case in Washington, D.C., said on Monday there’d be no changes to the March 2024 trial schedule despite pleadings from the former president to postpone his case beyond next November’s Election Day. “This trial will not yield to the election cycle, and we will not revisit the trial date,” U.S. …

Read More »

Trump Rages As Judge Considers Issuing Gag Order

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: A Leaking, Crooked and Deranged Prosecutor, Jack Smith, who has a terrible record of failure, is asking a highly partisan Obama appointed Judge, Tanya Chutkan, who should recuse herself based on the horrible things she has said, to silence me, through the use of a powerful GAG ORDER, making it impossible for me to …

Read More »

Trump Sues Former UK Spy For “Reputational Damage”

The Washington Post reports: Donald Trump’s legal battles crossed the Atlantic on Monday with the start of a hearing against a former MI6 officer’s intelligence consultancy, which Trump says caused him “personal and reputational damage and distress.” The 45th president is bringing a claim against Christopher Steele, a former British spy, and his consultancy, Orbis Business Intelligence, for alleged data …

Read More »

How Trump Is Twisting New York Case To Set Up Appeal

The Daily Beast reports: Two weeks into Donald Trump’s bank fraud trial in New York, it’s clear that the former president has no intention of actually trying to win the legal battle at this stage. Instead, Trump’s legal team is working diligently to repurpose the trial as pretext for a future appeal—not to mention warping the proceedings into both a …

Read More »

Tomorrow: Gag Order Arguments In Trump J6 Case

The Associated Press reports: U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan will hear arguments Monday in Washington over whether Trump has gone too far with remarks such as calling prosecutors a “team of thugs” and one possible witness “a gutless pig.” It is the biggest test yet for Chutkan, underscoring the unprecedented complexities of prosecuting the former Republican president as the judge …

Read More »

Trump Rages That “Republicans Eat Their Young”

The Hill reports: Former President Trump said Tuesday fellow GOP candidates “eat their young” by working with Republicans like former Speaker Paul Ryan (Wis.) and Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah) to attempt to thwart Trump’s presidential run. “If [Romney] and RINO Paul fought as hard against Obama as they do against President Donald J. Trump, they would never have lost,” Trump …

Read More »

Health Issue To Delay Cohen/Trump Court Showdown

NBC News reports: Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen will not testify next week in the $250 million civil fraud case against the former president because of a health-related issue, two sources confirmed to NBC News on Friday. It was not immediately clear how long Cohen’s testimony would be delayed. “Unfortunately I need to attend to a pre-existing medical condition that …

Read More »

GA Jurors To Hear Giuliani Intentionally Hid Assets

Yahoo News reports: The judge presiding over the upcoming damages trial against Rudy Giuliani said Friday she will tell jurors that the former Trump lawyer intentionally hid financial documents and other records in defiance of court orders. In a five-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell said the move was necessary given “Giuliani’s continued and flagrant disregard of this Court’s …

Read More »

Trump Wanted “Presidential Premium” Added To Assets

The Associated Press reports: Donald Trump’s top corporate deputies considered adding a “presidential premium” to his Trump Tower penthouse, Mar-a-Lago resort and other assets during his White House years, a gambit that would’ve padded his net worth by nearly $145 million, an executive at the former president’s company testified Friday. State lawyers contend that merely going through the exercise underscores …

Read More »

Trump Lied About Israel’s Role In Killing Iranian General

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump falsely characterized Israel’s role in his administration’s assassination of Iran’s top general during remarks this week, according to three U.S. officials familiar with the planning of the operation. Trump said Wednesday that Israel planned to be part of the January 2020 operation that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani but abruptly backed out the …

Read More »

Former Trump Org CFO May Have Committed Perjury

The Messenger reports: The Trump Organization’s former chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg’s testimony reached an abrupt and unexpected end on Thursday afternoon, just hours after Forbes magazine accused the convicted tax cheat of perjuring himself during an earlier stint as a witness. Weisselberg insisted on Tuesday from the witness stand that he “never focused” on calculating the square footage of …

Read More »

Trump Loses Bid To Dismiss Colorado Ballot Challenge

Law & Crime reports: At least one lawsuit seeking to kick Donald Trump off of the 2024 ballot under the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment is speeding towards a late October trial after a state judge rejected the former president’s free speech arguments and refused to grant his “special motion to dismiss” on Thursday. Anti-SLAPP suit laws, the judge …

Read More »

Trump Keeps Confusing Biden With Obama [AUDIO]

The Messenger reports: Former President Donald Trump appeared again to mix up Barack Obama and Joe Biden just weeks after he inexplicably told an audience that he was leading Obama in the polls “by a lot.” During an interview on Fox Radio Thursday, Trump insisted to host Brian Kilmeade that Iran was behind the deadly Hamas rocket attack and incursion …

Read More »

Truth Social Merger Deal Appears To Have Fallen Apart

Reuters reports: Digital World Acquisition Corp, the SPAC that plans to merge with former U.S. President Donald Trump’s media and technology company, said this week it would return to investors $533 million raised for the deal, after some have already backtracked on $467 million of commitments. The development means the end of the so-called private investment in public equity (PIPE) …

Read More »

Judge Frees All Trump Campaign Staffers From NDAs

Protect Democracy reports: On October 11, 2023, a judge issued a sweeping victory for former Trump campaign staffer Jessica Denson, signing off on a class-action settlement that will permanently free all 2016 Trump Campaign workers from the Campaign’s illegal NDA. Denson first sued to invalidate the NDA in 2018 as a pro se litigant, won an initial decision in March …

Read More »

Trump: Scalise Is Too Sick With Cancer To Be Speaker

“He is in serious trouble from the standpoint of his cancer. He’s got to get better for himself. I’m not talking about even the country now. “I’m saying he’s got to get better. And this is tremendous stress. All of the things that you hear about and, you know, things that you don’t want to get involved in from the …

Read More »

Trump To Appear In NYC Court For Cohen’s Testimony

The Messenger reports: The former president and 2024 GOP frontrunner plans to fly from Iowa after a Monday rally and head to New York State Supreme Court on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, according to a source familiar with his travel plans. “He wants to be there. This is his personal business, his family business. So it cuts a little closer,” …

Read More »