Trump Corruption

ABC News reports: Former President Donald Trump’s final chief of staff in the White House, Mark Meadows, has spoken with special counsel Jack Smith’s team at least three times this year, including once before a federal grand jury, which came only after Smith granted Meadows immunity to testify under oath. The sources said Meadows informed Smith’s team that he repeatedly …

The Messenger reports: “I was tasked by Mr. Trump to increase the total assets based upon a number that he arbitrarily elected,” Cohen alleged. “And my responsibility, along with Allen Weisselberg, predominantly, was the reverse-engineer the various asset classes — increase those assets to achieve the number that Mr. Trump asked us.” Asked which number, Cohen responded: “Whatever Mr. Trump …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump’s legal team was denied on Tuesday when they sought to delay the former president’s civil fraud trial in New York over concerns related to Covid-19 in the courtroom. Trump is currently on trial in New York City to determine the penalties related to New York Attorney General Letitia James’s civil suit against Trump, his …

The Messenger reports: In a flurry of court filings Monday night, former President Donald Trump argued the federal charges against him in Washington, D.C., are being brought by “biased prosecutors” and should be dismissed on various grounds. In a series of four filings, Trump’s attorneys argued the charges against him should be dismissed on constitutional grounds including First Amendment protections, …

“They want to come in, they want to bring the same people that are shooting rockets at Israel, they want to come into the United States. I don’t think a lot of good things are going to happen. And I will implement strong ideological screening of all immigrants. If you hate America, if you want to abolish Israel, if you …

A fact check from CNN’s indefatigable Daniel Dale: Trump’s claim that “we didn’t have an attack for four years” isn’t true. The claim is inaccurate even if he was referring specifically to attacks by Islamic extremists. Trump’s own DOJ alleged that a mass murder in New York City in 2017, which killed eight people and injured others, was a terrorist …

“We did nothing wrong. This is all Biden, indictments and impeachments and this is all about Biden, he can’t do anything right. The only thing they know how to do is cheat in elections and election fraud. This is all by himself. All of these indictments that you see. I was never indicted. Practically never heard the word. It wasn’t …

First, this from the Associated Press: Former President Donald Trump signed up for the New Hampshire presidential primary on Monday, becoming the first person who has served as president to file such paperwork in person more than once. “Vote for Trump and solve your problems,” he wrote on the commemorative poster all the candidates are asked to sign. Also new …

ABC News reports: Attorneys for former President Donald Trump will ask a federal appeals court on Monday to overturn rulings that have kept alive writer E. Jean Carroll’s 2019 defamation lawsuit against him. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in July declined to dismiss Carroll’s case and limited some of Trump’s defenses. A trial is scheduled for January. The judge has …

ABC News reports: Former President Trump’s civil fraud trial is adjourned until Tuesday due to COVID-19 exposures, the New York attorney general’s office has announced. Officials did not say who had been exposed or when. Trump attended the trial on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week and said on Wednesday that he could return to court for the testimony of …

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: In the Fake Biden Inspired Fraud Case against me, brought by the CORRUPT A.G., Letitia “Peekaboo” James of New York State, a sadly Crime Infested Place, where people and businesses are fleeing to other States in record numbers, it is her and the highly partisan Judge, who has been overturned many times, …

“This is representative of our legal team. We’re representing President Trump and we’re representing the Trump campaign. When I finish Sidney Powell and then and then Jenna Ellis will follow me and we will present in brief the evidence that we’ve collected over the last I guess it is two weeks.” – Rudy Giuliani, in a resurfaced November 2020 video …

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: The Failing New York Times story, leaked by Deranged Jack Smith and the Biden “Political Opponent Abuser” DOJ, about a red haired weirdo from Australia, named Anthony Pratt, is Fake News. I never spoke to him about Submarines, but I did speak to him about creating jobs in Ohio and Pennsylvania, because …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump released a new advertisement via his Truth Social account on Saturday claiming Hillary Clinton is brainwashing voters into supporting President Joe Biden. The video starts off with a line of voters being “brainwashed” and blind folded as the former secretary of state praises the policies choices of the president. Clinton has not run or …

The New York Times reports: On the recordings, Mr. Pratt recounts how Mr. Trump shared with him in December 2019 what he describes as elements of a conversation the president had with Iraq’s leader right after a U.S. military strike there aimed at Iranian-backed forces. Days later, a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad would kill Iran’s top security and intelligence …

Posted this morning to Trump’s Truth Social account: Sidney Powell was one of millions and millions of people who thought, and in ever increasing numbers still think, correctly, that the 2020 Presidential Election was RIGGED & STOLLEN, AND OUR COUNTRY IS BEING ABSOLUTELY DESTROYED BECAUSE OF IT!!! Despite the Fake News reports to the contrary, and without even reaching out …

CNN reports: A judge has rejected three more attempts by former President Donald Trump and the Colorado GOP to shut down a lawsuit seeking to block him from the 2024 presidential ballot in the state based on the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban.” The flurry of rulings late Friday from Colorado District Judge Sarah Wallace are a blow to Trump, who …

Law & Crimes reports: A lawyer for Ivanka Trump submitted a filing Thursday night that sought to rubbish New York Attorney General Letitia James’ (D) “end run” attempt to compel testimony at former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial in New York. Attorney Bennet J. Moskowitz, of the law firm Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, said James’ “defective” subpoenas of …

Mediaite has the transcript: ABBY PHILLIP: A huge legal blow for former President Trump with a third co-defendant pleading guilty in the Georgia election interference case. And this time, it is the person who is at the heart of the fake electors plot.  I want to bring in now Kenneth Chesebro’s Attorney, Scott Grubman. Look, today your client has now …

CNN reports: Michael Cohen plans to testify Tuesday at the Trump civil fraud trial in New York, Donald Trump’s ex-attorney said, with the former president expected to attend. “It appears that I will be reunited with my old client @realDonaldTrump when I testify this Tuesday, October 24th at the @NewYorkStateAG civil fraud trial. See you there!” Cohen posted on the …