Trump Corruption

Reuters reports: The Trump administration can for now continue its mass firings of federal employees, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, rejecting a bid by a group of labor unions to halt President Donald Trump’s dramatic downsizing of the roughly 2.3 million-strong federal workforce. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington, D.C. federal court is temporary while …

The New York Times reports: President Donald Trump phoned Team USA on Thursday morning to express his support ahead of the 4 Nations Face-Off championship game against Canada, after he had already stoked simmering political tensions that morning in a post to his Truth Social account in which he once again referred to Canada as the “Fifty First State” and …

The San Francisco Chronicle reports: The Presidio Trust, a federal agency charged with running and protecting the historic San Francisco park, should be “eliminated” because it is “unnecessary,” according to an executive order issued by the White House on Wednesday night. The order calls for cutting all federal funding to the Presidio Trust that is not legally necessary. The order, titled …

NBC News reports: A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late on Wednesday declined the Justice Department’s request to immediately reinstate President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship, setting up a potential emergency application to the Supreme Court. Legal experts have said Trump’s order conflicted with the Fourteenth Amendment, which extends American citizenship to anyone …

“We’ve also required that all federal employees must once again show up to work. It’s a new phenomenon, you know, since COVID showed up, to work in person like the rest of us. So, I mean, it doesn’t work when you don’t show up. “And I see companies now are all going back to it. They’re all going back. It’s …

Yahoo Sports reports: Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe was arrested on Tuesday while protesting during a city council meeting in Huntington Beach, California. Kluwe, 43, was protesting the city’s approval of a public library plaque that was designed to use words to spell out “MAGA.” “’MAGA’ is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy and most importantly, ‘MAGA’ is explicitly a Nazi movement,” …

The Associated Press reports: While flying back to Washington aboard Air Force One on Wednesday night, a reporter asked President Donald Trump whether Elon Musk would pursue budget cuts at the Pentagon. His response might be confusing to anyone who hasn’t spent the last several days monitoring Musk’s account on X. Trump said Musk would be looking at Fort Knox, the legendary …

Miami’s ABC affiliate reports: President Donald Trump arrived at Miami International Airport Wednesday, went to Trump National Doral, and was set to go to the Faena Hotel in Miami Beach. Trump was set to be a guest speaker during Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund’s FII PRIORITY Miami 2025 conference attracting billionaires. A coalition of human rights groups released a statement …

Axios reports: Elon Musk plans to “check with” President Trump about a proposal to send Americans rebate checks with money saved through slash-and-burn DOGE cuts. The proposal is for $5,000 “dividend” checks, a number that comes from Musk’s original goal of saving the government $2 trillion via budget cuts. The idea came from James Fishback, CEO of investment firm Azoria …

The Independent reports: Days after suggesting he is above the law, Donald Trump declared himself “king” following his administration’s push to strike down new tolls for Manhattan drivers to raise funds for the city’s aging mass transit system. “CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD,” he wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday. “Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE …

The Insider reports: President Donald Trump on Wednesday endorsed a House Republican budget plan that could cut billions from Medicaid, just hours after pledging that the healthcare program for millions of disabled and low-income Americans would not be touched. Republican leaders have called for massive spending cuts to finance trillions in tax cuts and other provisions. House conservatives won a …

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump went ballistic on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday, blaming him for the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine as well as the death of “MILLIONS” in a post on Truth Social. Trump’s scathing, falsehood-ridden attack on the Ukrainian leader comes one day after he first blamed Ukraine for supposedly starting the conflict and claimed …

The Associated Press reports: Over the past few days, President Donald Trump and billionaire adviser Elon Musk have said on social media and in press briefings that people who are 100, 200 and even 300 years old are improperly getting benefits — a “HUGE problem,” Musk wrote. Part of the confusion comes from Social Security’s software system based on the COBOL …

Reuters reports: Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Tuesday that sectoral tariffs on pharmaceuticals and semiconductor chips would also start at “25% or higher”, rising substantially over the course of a year. He did not provide a date for announcing those duties and said he wanted to provide some time for drug and chip makers to set …

NBC News reports: Budget experts say that even if Trump succeeds at slashing the spending his Musk-led DODE is targeting — like USAID and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives governmentwide — his policies would still substantially add to the deficit if they come to fruition. Trump has called for a series of steep tax cuts that would add at least …

“We inherited it. And inflation is back. I’m only here for two and a half weeks. Inflation is back. No, think of it. Inflation’s back and they said, ‘Oh, Trump.’ I had nothing to do with it. These people have run the country. They spent money like nobody’s ever spent. They were given $9 trillion to throw out the window. …

The Daily Beast reports: President Donald Trump charged millions of dollars for a single 15-minute meeting and has privately boasted of making $500 million from deep-pocketed executives looking to gain his favor, according to the Wall Street Journal. The paper reported that Meredith O’Rourke, Trump’s top fundraiser, said a minutes-long sit down with the MAGA chief would sting into the …

The New York Times reports: The Department of Government Efficiency, the federal cost-cutting initiative championed by Elon Musk, published on Monday a list of government contracts it has canceled, together amounting to about $16 billion in savings itemized on a new “wall of receipts” on its website. Almost half of those line-item savings could be attributed to a single $8 …

The New York Times reports: President Trump’s media company sued a Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Wednesday, accusing him of illegally censoring right-wing voices on social media. The unusual move was made all the more extraordinary by its timing: Just hours earlier, the Brazilian justice had received an indictment that would force him to decide whether to order the arrest …

“It’s hard to see somebody out-Spicer Sean Spicer or out-Huckabee Sarah Huckabee Sanders, but Karoline Leavitt—she’s making a run for it. “You know, she just might get on Trump’s all-star team of liars. She might be on the bench right now, but if she keeps working hard, does her homework, she just might make it onto the team. “It’s a …