Trump Corruption

Trump Calls New York Fraud Trial Judge A “Criminal”

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: Judge Engoron’s Valuation of Mar-a-Lago, the most spectacular property in Palm Beach, Florida, IS FRAUDULENT! He states a value of 18 Million Dollars, knowing full well that it is worth, perhaps, 50 to 100 times that amount. Engoron is working diligently to misrepresent me, and my net worth, which is substantially MORE than is …

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Trump: “Imprison” Bowman For Pulling Fire Alarm

“Will Congressman Jamal Bowman be prosecuted and imprisoned for very dangerously pulling and setting off the main fire alarm system in order to stop a Congressional vote that was going on in D.C. His egregious act is covered on tape, a horrible display of nerve and criminality. It was a very dangerous ‘Obstruction of an Official Proceeding,’ the same as …

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Chesebro Loses Bid To Suppress Fake Electors Memos

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee on Friday denied a motion by former Trump campaign attorney Kenneth Chesebro to toss out emails and memos he wrote detailing a plan to use a Republican slate of electors in Georgia and six other swing states won by Democrat Joe Biden. Chesebro’s lawyers had argued that the documents …

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Lawsuit Seeks To Bar Trump From Michigan 2024 Ballot

Michigan Live reports: Former President Donald Trump should be ineligible to appear on either of Michigan’s 2024 ballots due to his involvement with the Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol, according to a lawsuit filed in the Michigan Court of Claims Friday. The suit hinges on the concept that Trump, during his 2020 re-election campaign – and afterwards, …

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Feds: Trump’s Alleged Gun Purchase Is “Possible Crime”

The Washington Post reports: Federal prosecutors said in a Friday night filing that former president Donald Trump may have broken the law if he bought a handgun at a recent campaign stop in South Carolina. “The defendant either purchased a gun in violation of the law and his conditions of release, or seeks to benefit from his supporters’ mistaken belief …

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DOJ Cites Threat To Milley In New Push For Gag Order

The New York Times reports: Federal prosecutors on Friday reasserted the need to impose a gag order on former President Donald J. Trump in the case accusing him of seeking to overturn the 2020 election. They said that even after they first asked a judge three weeks ago to limit his remarks, Mr. Trump has continued to wage “a sustained …

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Trump Expected To Attend New York Fraud Trial

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump will travel to New York on Sunday and is planning to attend next week’s civil fraud trial against him, his business and some of his children, according to two people briefed on the matter. Trump is expected to be in the Manhattan courtroom on Monday and Tuesday before departing on Wednesday, though the …

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Trump: Wealthy Californians “Don’t Smell So Good”

Spectrum News reports: Pledging to win California in 2024, Donald Trump said he will solve the border crisis within 24 hours of taking office should he win the Republican nomination and be re-elected president. Trump spoke to a packed and rowdy ballroom at a Marriott hotel in Anaheim, Calif., the site of the California GOP Convention, surrounded by supporters waving …

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First Defendant In Trump Georgia Case Pleads Guilty

Reuters reports: Former Republican poll watcher Scott Hall on Friday pleaded guilty to five criminal counts in the Georgia elections case, according to a live feed of a court hearing. Hall and 18 others, including former U.S. President Donald Trump, were indicted in Fulton County, Georgia, last month with conspiring to reverse Trump’s 2020 presidential election loss in the state. …

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Experts: Trump’s Legal Costs Could Top $50 Million

Reuters reports: Donald Trump’s political operation has helped pay the legal expenses of more than a dozen people contacted by prosecutors investigating the former president, tying up millions of dollars that otherwise could be used for his 2024 White House bid. Reuters has identified 13 potential witnesses or co-defendants who were represented by law firms that received payments from a …

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Trump Attacks “Disloyal Liar Birdbrain” Nikki Haley

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: I’m up 56 Points, so the Debates would seem to be a complete waste of time. I’m also up 10 on Crooked Joe! What is the RNC doing? They should be fighting against Election Interference & the Pennsylvania Voter Registration Scam. The Debates should be ENDED, BAD for the Republican Party! I was in …

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NY Post: Melania Trump Has Renegotiated Her Prenup

The New York Post reports: Sources tell Page Six that Melania Trump has “quietly” renegotiated her prenuptial agreement with Donald Trump in advance of his potentially serving a second term in the White House. An insider told us of the agreement between the couple who married in 2005, “Over the last year, Melania and her team have been quietly negotiating …

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Trump Drops Bid To Move GA Case To Federal Court

The Hill reports: Former President Trump won’t try to move his Georgia criminal prosecution to federal court, his lawyer said Thursday. The surprising turn of events comes weeks after Steve Sadow, Trump’s attorney, notified the state judge that Trump may attempt such a move. “President Trump now notifies the Court that he will NOT be seeking to remove his case …

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Trump Busted In Whopper About Mar-A-Lago’s Value

The Messenger reports: Former President Donald Trump has sought to discredit a New York judge’s blockbuster ruling threatening his business empire by arguing that Mar-a-Lago alone is worth more than a billion dollars. But fewer than three years ago, his tax representative told Palm Beach County officials that Trump “agrees” his private club in South Florida is worth just $26.6 …

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Trump Loses Appeal To Delay New York Fraud Trial

The New York Times reports: A civil trial in which Donald J. Trump is accused of fraudulently inflating the values of his properties could begin as soon as Monday, after a New York appeals court rejected the former president’s attempt to have evidence against him thrown out. The appeals court, in a terse two-page order Thursday, turned aside Mr. Trump’s …

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Trump And Spawn Listed As NY Fraud Trial Witnesses

The Messenger reports: Former President Donald Trump and three of his adult children are among the fact witnesses New York Attorney General Letitia James expects to call in a civil fraud trial set to begin on Monday. Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and former Trump attorney-turned-critic Michael Cohen are included in a list of fact witnesses James filed …

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Trump Claims He’ll Seize Foreign-Owned Car Factories

“I’m here tonight to lay out a vision for a revival of economic nationalism. The Wall Street predators, the Chinese cheaters and the corrupt politicians have hurt you. I will make you better. “For years, foreign nations have looted and plundered your hopes, your dreams and your heritage, and now they’re going to pay for what they have stolen and …

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DOJ Accuses Trump Of Attempt To “Derail” Docs Case

The New York Times reports: Federal prosecutors on Thursday accused former President Donald J. Trump’s lawyers of trying to employ an arcane law governing the use of classified material to “intentionally derail” the timing of his trial on charges of mishandling national security documents and obstructing efforts to retrieve them. The accusation of deliberate foot-dragging by the prosecutors in the …

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Junior Wails That The Court Took His NY Fishing Cabin

“If you read the letter of the law, theoretically, my cabin in upstate New York, because it’s owned in an LLC, that is a corporation, and therefore, because I’m a part of it, somehow that has to be disbanded. And so well, so then what or who actually owns my cabin at this point? This has been done in such …

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Trump Planted Fake Autoworkers At Michigan Event

The Detroit News reports: About 400 to 500 Trump supporters were inside a Drake Enterprises facility for the speech. Drake Enterprises employs about 150 people, and the UAW doesn’t represent its workforce. It wasn’t clear how many auto workers were in the crowd for the speech, which was targeted at them. One individual in the crowd who held a sign …

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