Trump Corruption

NBC News reports: For the mere price of $2.5 million, people who raise money for former President Donald Trump can secure a “personalized” pair of “Never Surrender” high-top sneakers, according to a donor-access program menu shared with NBC News by a person close to the Republican National Committee. Buck-rakers who hit that minimum for entry into the “Trump Victory Trust” …

CNN Business reports: Shares of Truth Social owner Trump Media & Technology Group tumbled 9% on Friday, sinking to their lowest level since the company went public last week. The selloff has erased nearly $2 billion from the value of former President Donald Trump’s stake in the company this week. Trump Media shared surged to as high as $79.38 on …

Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: Rebecca Lavrez, also known as the “J6 Praying Grandma,” has been unfairly targeted by Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ, and now faces up to 1 YEAR in prison for peacefully walking around the Capitol, and praying for our Failing Nation on January 6th! Rebecca is a 72-year-old Grandmother and Small Business Owner from Colorado, …

Axios reports: A group of House Democrats on Friday introduced legislation on Friday to rename a federal prison in Miami after former President Trump. It’s a response to a bill proposed by several House Republicans to rename Dulles Airport in D.C. after the ex-president and presumptive GOP presidential nominee. The two-page measure would re-designate the Miami Federal Correctional Institution in …

The Washington Post reports: When asked by conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday whether he was “100 percent with Israel,” the former president did not give a direct answer but emphasized the optics of the ongoing conflict, saying the country is “losing the PR war.” “They’re releasing the most heinous, most horrible tapes of buildings falling down,” Trump said. …

The Associated Press reports: Rudy Giuliani will be allowed to remain in his Florida condo for now after a New York bankruptcy judge on Thursday declined to rule on a motion filed by his creditors that would’ve forced him to sell the Palm Beach estate. At a hearing, Judge Sean Lane acknowledged the “significant” concern that Giuliani was sinking money …

“I think what happened is you know that white stuff that they happened to find, which happened to be cocaine in the White House, I don’t know, I think something’s going on there, because I watched this State of the Union, and he was all jacked up at the beginning. By the end, he was fading fast. There’s something going …

The Hill reports: The D.C. Bar’s three-member board of responsibility panel found Thursday that former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark likely violated at least one ethics rule in his efforts to help former President Trump stay in office after losing the 2020 presidential election. Clark is accused of attempting to engage in conduct involving dishonesty and attempting to engage in …

“All of the competitors to TRUTH SOCIAL, especially those in the Radical Left Democrats Party who are failing at every level, like to use their vaunted ‘disinformation machine’ to try and convince people, and it is not easy to do, that TRUTH is not such a big deal and doesn’t ‘get the word out’ as well as various others, which …

CNN reports: A federal judge will not dismiss the classified documents charges against former President Donald Trump, who argued that he had the authority to take classified or sensitive documents with him after he left the White House. The short order from US District Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday leaves open the possibility that Trump could still use the argument …

Reuters reports: A Georgia judge on Thursday rejected Donald Trump’s bid to dismiss criminal charges in the state’s 2020 election interference case against him, which the Republican former U.S. president argued violate his free speech rights. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee found that the indictment alleges statements by Trump and 14 others charged in the case were made …

Politico reports: The Biden administration put the finishing touches Thursday on a plan to restrict presidents from unilaterally nixing civil service protections from large swaths of the federal workforce, as former President Donald Trump renews his vow to uproot a perceived “deep state” if he is returned to the White House. While a future president could take steps to squelch …

The New York Times reports: Former President Donald J. Trump spoke recently with Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, their first publicly disclosed conversation since Mr. Trump left office in January 2021, according to two people briefed on the discussion who were not authorized to speak publicly about it. If President Biden manages to clinch a trilateral …

“What those people did when they violently attacked the Capitol, in order to stop a constitutionally-mandated meeting of the Congress to accept the results of the Electoral College, is a stain on our history. And every one of those sons a bitches who did that, we oughta find them, try them, and send them to jail. “And one of the …

The New York Times reports: The judge overseeing Donald J. Trump’s criminal case in Manhattan rejected his last-ditch bid to delay a trial beyond April 15, removing one of the final obstacles to the first prosecution of a former American president. Mr. Trump had asked the judge to delay the trial until after the Supreme Court rules on whether he …

The Daily Beast reports: When billionaire financier Don Hankey underwrote Donald Trump’s $175 million bond this week, it wasn’t the first time that Trump had taken money out of his pocket—nine months into Trump’s first term in office, his Justice Department sued Hankey’s financial company for unlawful lending practices. The subject of that suit, however, also revealed a historical commonality …

From the Justice Department: U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “Michael and Gerald Shvartsman admitted in court that they received confidential, inside information about an upcoming merger between DWAC and Trump Media and used that information to make profitable, but illegal, open-market trades. Insider trading is cheating, plain and simple, and today’s convictions should remind anyone who may be tempted to …

Mediaite reports: Habba was a guest o the Patrick Bet-David-hosted PBD Podcast for nearly two hours, during which she dispensed a familiar menu of patter about Trump’s many legal cases. But in one segment, Habba was asked how much of the $83 million award Carroll will actually get, and Habba went off, vowing Trump’s victim will not only get “ZERO” …

“Biden’s DOJ treated Catholics like terrorists. If you were a practicing Catholic, you were a domestic terrorist. If you bought a bible, you were marked by your banks and that information was given to said FBI and DOJ. They think church-going patriots are terrorists.” – Donald Trump Jr., who recently claimed that Robert Kennedy Jr. is an “FBI plant” and …

The New York Times reports: In an open display of frustration, federal prosecutors on Tuesday night told the judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s classified documents case that a “fundamentally flawed” order she had issued was causing delays and asked her to quickly resolve a critical dispute about one of Mr. Trump’s defenses — leaving them time to appeal …