Trump Corruption

The Insider reports: A new advert for President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has used an image of pro-democracy protests in Ukraine from 2014 to show what it called “chaos & violence” in the US. The ad, published Tuesday, shows a picture of a group of protesters appearing to attack a police officer, who is on the ground, next to a …

The New York Times reports: The American ambassador to Britain, Robert Wood Johnson IV, told multiple colleagues in February 2018 that President Trump had asked him to see if the British government could help steer the world-famous and lucrative British Open golf tournament to the Trump Turnberry resort in Scotland, according to three people with knowledge of the episode. The …

First, a couple of reminders: During a bizarre Sunday interview filled with falsities and ridiculous statements, President Donald Trump claimed Joe Biden “doesn’t even know he’s alive” while boasting about his own mental health. Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace told the president that according to recent polling, including a Fox News poll, the American people say Biden is more …

Courthouse News reports: Former Trump fixer Michael Cohen, who was recently sent back to prison after being released to home confinement due to Covid-19, claims in a lawsuit filed Monday that he is being punished for writing — and intending to publish — a book critical of the president. While released to home confinement, the president’s former attorney was photographed …

“What happened in Portland over the weekend, it was not only unlawful and unconstitutional, it’s just plain wrong. Sending armed, untrained police into the streets wearing fatigues without the knowledge or consent of the local police actually caused more violence. All the people that they arrested, they didn’t file one criminal complaint. “You have a lot of peaceful demonstrators. The …

Reuters reports: President Donald Trump on Monday said he plans to send law enforcement personnel to some major U.S. cities, as a federal crackdown on anti-racism protests including use of unmarked cars and unidentified officers in camouflage in Portland, Oregon, angers people across the country. “We’re sending law enforcement,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “We can’t let this …

We can’t wait not to watch: President Trump on Monday said he will resume giving regular coronavirus briefings this week, reviving a practice that is controversial among some aides as infections surge across the United States. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office he would deliver a briefing at 5 p.m. on Tuesday. It would mark his first time participating …

Axios reports: President Trump and top White House officials are privately considering a controversial strategy to act without legal authority to enact new federal policies — starting with immigration, administration officials tell Axios. The White House thinking is being heavily influenced by John Yoo, the lawyer who wrote the Bush administration’s justification for waterboarding after 9/11. Yoo detailed the theory …

New from the Lincoln Project: The Lincoln Project’s latest video, “New”, lambasts the irony of Ivanka Trump, in her White House role solely due to the unbridled nepotism of her father, advising America’s jobless to simply “find something new”. “It’s condescending and painfully ironic that as hard-working, everyday Americans find themselves unemployed because of Trump’s mishandling of this pandemic, his …

Oregon Public Radio reports: The Oregon Department of Justice is suing several federal agencies for civil rights abuses, and state prosecutors will potentially pursue criminal charges against a federal officer who seriously injured a protester. The federal lawsuit names the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Marshals Service, the United States Customs and Border Protection and the Federal Protective …

The Washington Post reports: The Trump administration is trying to block billions of dollars for states to conduct testing and contact tracing in the upcoming coronavirus relief bill, people involved in the talks said Saturday. The administration is also trying to block billions of dollars that GOP senators want to allocate for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and …

USA Today reports: The short and understated sentiment made no mention of the animosity that developed between the two men early that developed when Lewis questioned the legitimacy of Trump’s 2016 election victory and the president attacked Lewis’ district. Trump, however, was far less loquacious in his tweet than many of his senior aides. Trump signed a proclamation ordering flags …

Bloomberg News reports: Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is paying for ads on Facebook Inc.’s social media platforms urging supporters to sign a petition banning Bytedance Ltd.’s TikTok, as the White House ramps up rhetoric to restrict the video app in the U.S. “TikTok has been caught red handed by monitoring what is on your phone’s Clipboard,” read all the ads …

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump’s demoted campaign manager Brad Parscale said he’s excited to continued his fight against “America’s biggest enemy”: the media. The tweet is just his second since leaving his post as Trump’s 2020 campaign manager. His comments come in the midst of a pandemic that’s killed over 140,000 Americans as the country’s unemployment rate is still above …

NBC News reports: President Donald Trump lashed out at his niece, Mary Trump, and former national security advisor John Bolton in a pair of tweets Friday, leveling his most direct criticism to date as both books have become best-sellers. His tirade comes as both books have become instant best-sellers and cleared major legal hurdles to publish their unflattering portraits of …

Politico reports: The White House is blocking CDC officials from testifying next week at a hearing on reopening schools, the House Education and Labor Committee told POLITICO on Friday. Separately, the CDC confirmed that more guidance for opening schools won’t be released until later this month. Committee Chair Bobby Scott had invited CDC Director Robert Redfield, or a designee, to …

Business Insider reports: The Trump campaign has launched an internal audit of spending irregularities during Brad Parscale’s tenure as campaign manager. Jeff DeWit, the 2020 campaign’s chief operating officer, confirmed the spending review but said it wasn’t specifically focused on Parscale. “We want an effective and efficient organization, and we’re certainly not targeting anybody,” DeWit told Insider. “We don’t like …

Two days in row that a Fox host has done this: “Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace in a new interview shut down President Trump’s claim that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is in favor of defunding the police. The president blamed a recent rise in violence on Democratic leadership, saying urban centers are “stupidly run.” When Wallace noted …

Bloomberg Law reports: The U.S. Supreme Court put a clash over a grand jury subpoena for President Donald Trump’s financial records on a fast track, formally returning it to the appeals court level ahead of schedule. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance had asked the justices not to wait 25-plus days, as they normally do after issuing an opinion. The court …

Just in from the watchdog group CREW: Ivanka Trump’s official endorsement of Goya products on social media was an apparent violation of federal ethics rules and standards of conduct, according to a complaint filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) with the Office of Government Ethics. Federal ethics regulations prohibit any employee from endorsing “any product, service …