Trump Corruption

Politico reports: Donald Trump didn’t just beat Kamala Harris. He beat the system that tried to put him in jail. He was already the first former president ever to be charged with and convicted of felonies. Now he has become the first convicted felon ever to win a presidential election. And his victory virtually guarantees that he will never face …

The New York Times reports: Donald J. Trump rode a promise to smash the American status quo to win the presidency for a second time on Wednesday, surviving a criminal conviction, indictments, an assassin’s bullet, accusations of authoritarianism and an unprecedented switch of his opponent to complete a remarkable return to power. To roughly half the country, Mr. Trump’s rise …

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump will win the key battleground state of Georgia, CNN projects. There are 16 electoral votes at stake in Georgia. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election. Who won in 2020: Georgia is a relatively new battleground state in presidential politics and helped deliver President Joe Biden his White …

The Associated Press reports: Former President Donald Trump won the battleground state of North Carolina on Tuesday. Trump receives the state’s 16 electoral votes after defeating Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. Trump also won the state in 2016 and 2020, but Democrats had been optimistic. They also tried to link Trump to embattled Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson. By winning North …

The Associated Press reports: Former President Donald Trump won Iowa on Tuesday, claiming the state’s six electoral votes. Formerly considered a swing state, Iowa has proved to be a clear example of Trump’s appeal among Republican voters and his staying power in the GOP. A majority of Iowans backed Democrat Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 but chose Trump decisively …

CNN reports: A registered voter in Arizona sued Elon Musk and his pro-Trump super PAC in federal court Tuesday, accusing them of fraud for lying about their daily $1 million giveaway. The plaintiff, Jacqueline McAferty, signed Musk’s petition on October 20, after Musk said winners would be selected “randomly” from the group of people who signed his petition in support …

Newsweek reports: Donald Trump claims that there are “talks of massive cheating” in the crucial swing state of Philadelphia. He shared the comment on his platform Truth Social, adding, “Law Enforcement coming!!!” The former president has been making unfounded claims such as this one for weeks. This comes as millions of Americans cast their votes today in an election that …

CNN reports: Journalists from multiple news organizations have been denied credentials to former President Donald Trump’s election night watch event in West Palm Beach, Florida, in retaliation for their coverage of Trump’s campaign. Reporters at Politico, Axios, Puck, Voice of America and Mother Jones were among those denied credentials. Some, like Politico, had been previously granted access to the Tuesday …

The New York Times reports: Elon Musk plans to spend election night with former President Donald J. Trump, giving Mr. Trump direct access to the person controlling one of key information platforms on what could be a chaotic evening. Mr. Musk, according to three people with knowledge of his schedule, plans to be at Mar-a-Lago for some of the evening …

The Associated Press reports: A judge has ordered Rudy Giuliani to appear in a New York courtroom on Thursday to explain why he missed a deadline to surrender his belongings as part of a $148 million defamation judgment. U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman issued the order late Monday after lawyers for Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss reported …

West Palm Beach’s Fox affiliate reports: Trump cast his ballot at the Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreation Center on Palm Beach and spoke to reporters afterward, saying it “seems that the conservatives are voting very powerfully” and “it looks like Republicans have shown up in force.””It looks like we have a very substantial lead. It looks like we have many …

The New York Times reports: One by one, they testified under oath: a military spouse who moves every three years. A man just back from six months of traveling around the country. A graduate student temporarily away for school. All were eligible voters who had cast a mail ballot in Chester County, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia, before Election Day. …

The Huffington Post reports: Donald Trump launched into a wild new attack against Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) where he mouthed the word “bitch” as he railed against the former House speaker. “She’s a crooked person, she’s a bad person, evil, she’s an evil, sick, crazy b-.” Trump said, catching himself. He then mouthed the word twice without actually saying it. …

“Our message to Kamala Harris is very simple. The citizens of this country, they are not garbage for thinking you’re doing a bad job. The citizens of this country are not racist for thinking you ought to close down that damn southern border. The citizens of this country are not garbage for wanting to be able to afford groceries and …

The New York Times reports: Joe Rogan, the enormously popular podcast host who brought Donald J. Trump onto his show for a three-hour episode last month, endorsed the former president in a post on social media on Monday. Mr. Rogan  said Mr. Musk made “what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you’ll hear, and I agree with …

NBC News reports: A Pennsylvania judge on Monday declined an effort by the Philadelphia district attorney to stop Elon Musk’s America PAC from doling out cash prizes to registered voters. The judge’s injunction means Musk’s PAC will be able to do one last giveaway on Tuesday, the last day of the offer. hiladelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner sued Musk and …

“And here’s news, it’s breaking today. Sleepy Joe Biden has announced officially that he likes Trump more that he likes Ka-MAH-la. And he actually hates my guts, but he likes Trump more than he likes. He hates — they walked into the office. He just got 14 million votes. He voted for me. “That’s one of the ladies from North …

NOTUS reports: One Democratic member told NOTUS that he and about a half dozen other lawmakers had taken out legal insurance to pay for lawyers in case Trump tried to sue or arrest them. This member also said he had heard Democrats make jokes about getting another passport in front of foreign officials, in only a sort of joking kind …

The Guardian reports: Elon Musk’s pro-Trump group does not choose the winners of its $1m-a-day giveaway to registered voters at random, but instead picks people who would be good spokespeople for its agenda, an attorney for the billionaire said on Monday. Musk lawyer Chris Gober was trying to persuade a Pennsylvania judge that the giveaway was not an “illegal lottery”, …

“I went very viral. I was simply analyzing that it’s unhealthy for a political movement to try to encourage a wife to lie to their husband about who they vote for. I just think that’s really gross, honestly, about, like, the deceit between — like, the disharmony of a holy union. That’s just me. “This is the Julia Roberts ad …