Trump Corruption

RNC Lawyer: We Need To “Cleanse The Nation Of Filth”

“They want to make pedophiles basically a type of protected class. I don’t mean that in the legal sense of the word, I just mean, you know, protecting pedophile rights or whatever the heck they’re going after. “All of the weird transgender stuff that they’re doing and then you have the, these, the Diddy case, the Epstein list, and everybody …

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John Deere: Trump Lied About Our Outsourcing Plan

CNN reports: When former President Donald Trump was challenged at a Tuesday event about the potential economic harms of his proposal for across-the-board tariffs on imported goods, Trump told what sounded like a tariff success story. He said that in response to his threat to impose hefty tariffs on John Deere if the storied American farm equipment maker went ahead …

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New Smith Filing: Yes, Trump Is Responsible For Jan 6

NBC News reports: A team of federal prosecutors led by special counsel Jack Smith said in a filing Wednesday that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump bears responsibility for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In a filing responding to Trump’s attempt to dismiss the case, Smith’s team said it “is incorrect” for Trump’s team to assert that the …

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Trump Again Promises Immunity For Abusive Cops

“We have to reinvigorate our police. We have great police that are not allowed to do their job if they do their job with gusto, which is what we want. We want them to be fair. And, you know, the sad thing is you’ll always have a bad apple and, you know, hundreds, hundreds and hundreds of arrests, one bad …

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Trump: Only Stupid People Give Top Jobs To Old People

The Independent reports: Donald Trump has said “only stupid people put old” people in positions on the Supreme Court – seemingly forgetting that he’s a 78-year-old man running for the top position in the executive branch. Trump made the remarks during an interview with Bloomberg while in Chicago on Tuesday. “It’s amazing, because I got three in four years,” Trump …

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Trump Repeats Threat: Military Can “Handle” My Critics

NBC News reports: During a taped town hall of all-women voters in Cumming, Georgia, with Fox News’ Harris Faulkner, the host asked Trump about his “enemy from within” comment, which he made during the network’s “Sunday Morning Futures” this past weekend. He also suggested that the military could be called in to handle any unrest on Election Day from “radical …

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UAW Union Labels Trump A “Scab” After Latest Insult

The New Republic reports: At the Economic Club of Chicago Tuesday, Donald Trump took a shot at a voting bloc he definitely needs to win in November: auto industry workers. While being interviewed by Bloomberg News editor in chief John Micklethwait, Trump spoke about how auto factories in the United States aren’t really building cars. “Mercedes-Benz will start building in …

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Trump’s New Crypto Site Crashes Hours After Launch

CNBC reports: Donald Trump’s new crypto project is off to a rough start. World Liberty Financial, which aspires to be a sort of crypto bank, launched its token sale on Tuesday, a day after project co-founder Zachary Folkman said “well over 100,000 people” are on the whitelist to invest. But WLF’s website suffered regular and lengthy outages for much of …

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Trump Tells Fox Town Hall “I’m The Father Of IVF”

CNN reports: Donald Trump on Tuesday declared himself the “father of IVF,” a fertility treatment that has come under threat following the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. It’s unclear what precisely the former president meant when he made the comment at a Fox News town hall in battleground Georgia that was billed as focusing on women’s …

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Trump’s Plan To Combat Grocery Costs: Hannibal Lecter

“They always mention — you know, it’s a way of demeaning, they say, ‘Hannibal Lecter, why would he mention?’ Well, you know why, because he was a sick puppy, and we have sick puppies coming into our country. “I figured that’s a lot — that’s better than wasting a lot of words. You just say, ‘Hannibal Lecter. We don’t want …

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Interviewer Tries To Explain Tariffs To Trump (He Fails)

The Hill reports: Bloomberg’s top editor, John Micklethwait, repeatedly pressed Trump at the Economic Club of Chicago over his plans to impose a universal tariff on imports and his threats to use tariffs on American companies that outsource their manufacturing. Micklethwait noted Trump’s plans would essentially halt trade with China, place at least a 10 percent tariff on European nations …

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Project 2025 Contributor: This Election Is “A Spiritual War, It’s God Versus The Enemy, It’s Good Versus Evil”

“Mike, thank you so much and thank you for going into the Christian community as well and opening people’s eyes to the stakes involved here. It is a spiritual war. Of course it’s Trump versus Harris, but it’s also God versus the enemy, good versus evil, however you want to cast it. “There’s something much bigger going on here and …

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Trump: I Didn’t Like Playing Football, I Didn’t Want “Some Guy From A Bad Neighborhood Tackling Me”

“I played football too. I didn’t particularly like it. I could catch the ball good but I didn’t particularly like having some guy that was, uh, lifting weights all day long and came from a bad neighborhood. Yeah, and he sees me, and they were tackling hard.” – Trump, drawing knowing snickers from his right wing podcast interviewers. Oh, and …

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Esper: Yes, Trump Would Use Military Against Critics

The Hill reports: Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, who served in the Trump administration, said Monday the public should take former President Trump “seriously” when he suggests using the military against American citizens. “Yes I do, of course,” Esper told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on “The Source” when asked whether he fears Trump would “try to utilize the National Guard, …

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CNBC Host Reveals That Trump Canceled Interview

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump abruptly canceled an interview on his economic plans with business channel CNBC, one of its anchors announced Tuesday. Joe Kernen, the conservative-leaning host of its flagship show Squawk Box, revealed the move during an interview with Charles Phillips, the Oracle chairman who is supporting  Harris, saying “Trump canceled.” The interview had not previously been …

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New Harris Ad Roasts Trump Over Disaster Responses

The New York Times reports: The ad briefly shows the infamous 2019 hurricane map held up by Mr. Trump that was altered with a black marker to show a path into Alabama, as Mr. Trump had falsely suggested was forecast. Images of disasters flash by: homes damaged by a hurricane or destroyed by raging wildfires, a sky turned orange by …

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Trump: Harris’s Allergies Are “Messy And Dangerous Condition That Very Clearly Impact Her Functioning”

“I’ve put out more Medical Exams than any other President in History, and aced two Cognitive Exams (the Doctor stated that my “cognitive exams were exceptional!”). I am far healthier than Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden, but especially, Kamala. “Also, I am far too busy campaigning to take time, from the 22 days left, as I am using every hour, of …

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Trump Jokes About Getting Shot To Gold Star Parents

Mediaite reports: During a Trump campaign rally in Oaks, Pennsylvania, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said, “Tonight we have some special guests in the audience. We have a Gold Star family that is with us tonight. Mary and Charles Strange are here, where are they?” As the Gold Star parents approached the stage, Trump joked, “It’s a little harder to …

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Trump’s Campaign Manager Is Raking In Millions

The Daily Beast reports: The co-manager of Donald Trump’s White House campaign has raked in $22 million and counting from the Republican nominee’s political operation in just two years, the Daily Beast has learned. Chris LaCivita, an influential GOP operative, reaped a $19 million financial windfall in 2022 when he served as a “strategic consultant” to two Trump-affiliated super PACs, …

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Trump Sways And Dances To Music For 39 Minutes

The Washington Post reports: The town hall began with questions from preselected attendees for the former president. Donald Trump offered meandering answers on how he would address housing affordability and help small businesses. But it took a sudden turn after two attendees required medical attention. “Let’s not do any more questions. Let’s just listen to music. Let’s make it into …

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