Trump Corruption

The New York Times reports: Trump was ordered by a federal judge on Friday to sit for a deposition next week in the defamation lawsuit he brought this spring against ABC News and one of its anchors, George Stephanopoulos.  The deposition, if it is held, will take place even as Trump is in the throes of defending several of his …

Bloomberg News reports: President-elect Donald Trump suggested that the US government has not been forthcoming about mysterious drone sightings that have alarmed residents of New Jersey and should offer more information about the incidents. “Can this really be happening without our government’s knowledge,” Trump said in a post to his Truth Social network on Friday. “I don think so! Let …

CNN reports: President-elect Donald Trump on Friday said the Republican Party would try to eliminate daylight saving time, calling it “inconvenient” and “costly.” “The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t! Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation,” Trump posted on Truth …

The Daily Beast reports: Kimberly Guilfoyle could have a diplomatic incident on her manicured hands before she is even confirmed as ambassador to Greece. Guilfoyle’s comments on a 2015 episode of Fox News’ The Five have resurfaced, in which she called Greek citizens “freeloaders” and suggested they relied too much on the government. In a rant directed at the Greeks, …

Politico reports: Top House Oversight Democrat Jamie Raskin is seeking information from the Trump-Vance transition team about how nominees will undergo background checks, including a “clear assurance” that an FBI background check will be performed for all Trump administration picks. Raskin (D-Md.) sent a letter on Friday to Howard Lutnick and Linda McMahon, the co-chairs of the Trump-Vance transition, saying …

The Washington Post reports: President-elect Donald Trump featured on this list for the 10th straight year. As usual with Trump, it’s hard to isolate a particular falsehood, but we focused on four — two having to do with immigration, one on tariffs and another on the unemployment rate. Trump sought to weaponize Hurricane Helene relief efforts, accusing the Biden administration …

Fox News reports: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is joining the list of U.S. tech titans donating to President-elect Trump’s inaugural fund, a spokesperson exclusively told Fox News Digital. “President Trump will lead our country into the age of AI, and I am eager to support his efforts to ensure America stays ahead,” Altman said in a written statement. Altman reportedly …

CNN reports: Nevada prosecutors have refiled criminal charges against the six Republican “fake electors” who tried to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 defeat in that state. The retooled charges were announced Thursday by Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, a Democrat. His original case, filed last year, was thrown out by a Las Vegas judge who concluded it was filed in the …

The Associated Press reports: The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and others on Friday rejected an attempt by former Trump campaign lawyer Kenneth Chesebro to invalidate his guilty plea. Chesebro, Trump and 17 others were charged in August 2023 in a sprawling indictment that accused them of participating in a sweeping scheme to try to …

CNBC reports: The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday charged global financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald with violating laws related to regulatory disclosures by so-called blank-check companies before they raise money from the public. Cantor’s chairman and CEO, Howard Lutnick, was recently nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to lead the Commerce Department. Lutnick is co-chair of Trump’s transition team. Cantor …

Axios reports: Vice President-elect Vance, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in their social media posts falsely conflated the FBI’s acknowledgement that several informants were at the riot and even entered the Capitol with a long-running conspiracy theory that the FBI staged the attack to discredit then-President Trump. The report explicitly said that no FBI employees were present and that no …

Business Insider reports: Boeing’s delivery delays are hurting president-elect Donald Trump’s dreams of flying on a new Air Force One jet. The project to build two new jets is so late that Boeing has told the US Air Force it expects to deliver the planes in 2029 or later, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. In 2018, the planemaker …

“Just finished a meeting with the International Longshoremen’s Association and its President, Harold Daggett, and Executive VP, Dennis Daggett. There has been a lot of discussion having to do with ‘automation’ on United States docks. “I’ve studied automation, and know just about everything there is to know about it. The amount of money saved is nowhere near the distress, hurt, …

Reuters reports: The Trump transition team wants the incoming administration to drop a car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Elon Musk’s Tesla, according to a document seen by Reuters, a move that could cripple the government’s ability to investigate and regulate the safety of vehicles with automated-driving systems. Musk, the world’s richest person, spent more than a quarter of a billion …

USA Today reports: President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be the top health insurance regulator in the country, Dr. Mehmet Oz, has invested in companies that do business with the agency he would run. Oz, Trump’s choice to run Medicare, Medicaid and the insurance marketplace under the Affordable Care Act, owned up to $33.7 million stock in these companies when he …

Politico reports: Trump’s pick of longtime loyalist Kari Lake to lead Voice of America has some Arizona Republicans breathing a sigh of relief. Lake has for the last two election cycles dominated Republican politics in Arizona, running and losing back-to-back races for governor and Senate — and earning her the ire of some of her fellow conservatives in the state. …

“I was in the legislative branch. We were investigating, as per the request from Congress to do that. We obviously came up with answers that embarrassed Trump. He was embarrassed by it. It showed that he was completely complicit for 187 minutes while violence happened. He frankly wanted his vice president to be– to have violence against him. And that …

The New York Times reports: President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming Middle East adviser, Massad Boulos, has enjoyed a reputation as a billionaire mogul at the helm of a business that bears his family name. Mr. Boulos has been profiled as a tycoon by the world’s media, telling a reporter in October that his company is worth billions. Mr. Trump called him …

NBC News reports: Asked whether his presidency would be a “failure” if grocery prices don’t come down, Trump responded it would not, while blaming the current administration for the way it handled inflation that led to higher food prices in the first place. “Look, they got them up. I’d like to bring them down. It’s hard to bring things down …

The New York Times reports: For the third year in a row, Elon Musk’s charitable foundation did not give away enough of its money. And it did not miss the mark by a small amount. New tax filings show that the Musk Foundation fell $421 million short of the amount it was required to give away in 2023. Now, Mr. …