Trump Corruption

“If you look at the real size of that crowd, it was never reported correctly. There were — it’s the biggest crowd I’ve ever spoken in front of by far. By far. I was going to and then Secret Service said you can’t, and then by the time— I would have, and then when I get back, I saw— I …

CNN reports: A New York appeals court judge on Thursday temporarily lifted the gag order placed on Donald Trump and his attorneys in his civil fraud trial following an emergency hearing. Associate Justice David Friedman of the First Judicial Department ruled from the bench. Trump’s lawyers had asked for the emergency relief earlier this week, arguing the gag order is …

The Insider reports: When it comes to Donald Trump’s estimates of his net worth, “questionable,” and “inconsistencies” are words you’d expect to hear only from his accuser, the state of New York. But on Wednesday, an expert accountant took the stand in Trump’s defense for a second day at the former president’s Manhattan fraud trial, and used these very words …

The Messenger reports: An attorney for one of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the Georgia election-racketeering case said at an emergency hearing Wednesday that he provided confidential video evidence to the media. “In being transparent with the court, and to make sure that nobody else gets blamed for what happened, and so I can go to sleep well tonight, judge, I …

Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: Failed ABC Fake News reporter Jonathan Karl just wrote another bad book. He works sooo hard, but has sooo little talent – Some people have it, and some people don’t. In the “book” he has the World’s most overrated celebrity, Kim Kardashian, supposedly telling me that she “would leverage her celebrity to get …

Courthouse News reports: Steven Witkoff isn’t a seasoned expert witness — far from it. He said as much when the Manhattan judge overseeing Donald Trump’s fraud trial asked Witkoff if he’d ever testified as an expert before that day. “I don’t think so,” Witkoff said. “My mother might think I am, but that’s about it, judge.” Nonetheless, Witkoff took the …

CNBC reports: Donald Trump and his co-defendants asked a judge Wednesday to grant a mistrial in the $250 million civil business fraud case that threatens the former president’s business empire. In a court filing, Trump, his two adult sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, the Trump Organization and its top executives argued that “the evidence of apparent and actual …

“It’s much like what he did on Jan. 6. It continues to be off the rails in terms of the extent to which his invective infects these proceedings and is the potential to intimidate witnesses. I believe that, you know, at some point, comments like this will result in Trump not only being sanctioned. But at some point, these types …

Politico reports: Former President Donald Trump’s renewed attacks on the family of special counsel Jack Smith and his repeated invective against likely witnesses in his Washington, D.C. criminal case warrant the urgent restoration of a gag order against him, prosecutors argued Tuesday. Smith’s team urged a federal appeals court in Washington to reinstate the gag order — which a three-judge …

The Detroit News reports: A Michigan judge ruled Tuesday that former President Donald Trump’s name can appear on primary ballots, saying it would be inappropriate to intervene and deem Trump ineligible. Michigan Court of Claims Judge James Robert Redford ultimately declined on Tuesday to bar Trump from getting a spot on the Feb. 27 primary ballot and refused to order …

The Washington Post reports: The Atlanta-area prosecutor leading the criminal racketeering case against former president Donald Trump and 14 allies alleging they broke the law when they sought to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia asked the judge overseeing the case to immediately issue an “emergency” protective order over discovery materials to prevent leaks of potential evidence. The recordings …

Posted just now to Trump’s Truth Social account: My great sister, Maryanne, passed away yesterday at the age of 86. A truly beautiful woman, tall and elegant, with a presence like no other, she was also a tremendous student, intellect, and Judge, in charge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, just below the U.S. Supreme …

“I agree with him. A lot of that stuff is actually happening. Look, he’s going into a bit more detail about draining the swamp, alright? You’re allowed to talk about draining the swamp. Are you following this? Now, they say that Donald Trump is like Hitler, he’s using the same words that Hitler used. Well, Hitler used the word chair, …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: Racist A.G. Letitia James is smirking all day long from her seat in Court, as New York continues to set records in murder and other violent crimes, and businesses flee to other States. “This is a law that’s rather bazar, this is a law that doesn’t require any victims (there are none, except me!), …

The Hill reports: Michael Cohen, previously a personal attorney of former President Trump, argued it could be “dangerous” to put his former boss behind bars, advocating instead for a prison-like house arrest. “He needs to be held accountable,” Cohen said in an interview on CNN Monday, when asked if the former president deserved jail time in any of his mounting …

CNN reports: The special counsel’s office is pushing back against Donald Trump using his Washington, DC, federal criminal trial as a spectacle, after Trump’s lawyers told the court this weekend he’d support cameras in the courtroom. Trump’s bid to open his DC federal criminal trial to cameras is “a transparent effort to demand special treatment, try his case in the …

“And he said to me, in a kind of excited tone, ‘Well, we don’t care, and we’re not going to leave. And I said, ‘What do you mean?’ And he said ‘Well, the boss’, meaning President Trump — and everyone understood ‘the boss,’ that’s what we all called him — he said, ‘The boss is not going to leave under …

Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: Deranged Jack Smith, Andrew Weissmann, Lisa Monaco, the “team of losers and misfits” from CREW, and all the rest of the Radical Left Zealots and Thugs who have been working illegally for years to “take me down,” will end up, because of their suffering from a horrible disease, TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME (TDS!), in …

The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump denigrated his domestic opponents and critics during a Veterans Day speech Saturday, calling those on the other side of the aisle “vermin” and suggesting that they pose a greater threat to the United States than countries such as Russia, China or North Korea. That language is drawing rebuke from historians, who compared …

The New York Times reports: Maryanne Trump Barry, a former federal judge who was an older sister of Donald J. Trump and served as both his protector and critic throughout their lives, has died. She was 86. Ms. Barry died at her home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, according to two people familiar with the matter. One of …