Trump Corruption

Via press release: Today Republican Accountability Project launched a new six-figure ad campaign targeting Donald Trump for his fourth indictment in the Georgia RICO case. The “Trump Rap Sheet” campaign will be running 60-second ads on Fox News all week in the Phoenix, Milwaukee, and Atlanta markets. And we will be running a billboard in Times Square all week that …

CNN reports: Donald Trump and his lawyers may be the busiest people in the country next year. The former president faces criminal trials in four different cities — Washington, DC, New York, Atlanta and Ft. Pierce, Florida — as well as an active campaign schedule. Even putting the campaign aside, Trump would have an extraordinarily packed year. Judge Tanya Chutkan …

The Washington Post reports: U.S. Judge Tanya S. Chutkan has scheduled Donald Trump’s D.C. trial on charges of attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election for March 4, 2024. A separate hearing is being held in Atlanta to determine whether Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, can move his election-related indictment from state to federal court. Prosecutor Molly Gaston …

The New York Times reports: Every year, New York City’s Department of Transportation collects tens of millions of dollars from property owners in return for permission to place street furniture on, over or under city sidewalks. This includes, but is not limited to, signs, filigreed lampposts, benches, bollards, planters, permanent trash receptacles, delivery ramps, underground vaults and just about anything …

CNBC reports: Donald Trump will be arraigned Sept. 6 in Atlanta in the criminal case where he is accused of conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, a court docket showed Monday morning. Trump’s arraignment will take place at 9:30 a.m. ET that day, and he will be asked to enter a plea in the case. His former …

Posted this morning to Trump’s Truth Social account: Roomer are strong in political circles that Ron DeSanctimonious, whose Presidential run is a shambles, and whose poll numbers have absolutely crashed, putting him 3rd and 4th in some states, will be dropping out of the Presidential race in order to run, in Florida, against Rick Scott for Senate. Now that’s an …

The Wall Street Journal reports: The U.S. presidential election is more than a year away, but allies and adversaries around the world have already begun to contemplate—and even plan for—the return of Donald Trump to the White House. For many foreign capitals, the possibility of a second Trump administration is a source of anxiety. Allies from Paris to Tokyo regard …

The New York Times reports: Five defendants have already sought to move the state case to federal court, citing their ties to the federal government. The first one to file — Mark Meadows, Mr. Trump’s chief of staff during the 2020 election — will make the argument for removal on Monday, in a hearing before a federal judge in Atlanta. …

CNN reports: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will lay out the first details of her sprawling anti-racketeering case against former President Donald Trump, his White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and 17 other co-defendants at a federal court hearing on Monday morning. This will be the first time that substantive arguments will be made in court about the …

Reuters reports: A federal judge on Monday is expected to set a start date for former U.S. President Donald Trump’s criminal trial on charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat in a failed bid to keep himself in power. The criminal case brought in Washington, D.C., by Special Counsel Jack Smith is one of four that Trump, the …

ABC News reports: The poll, released after his fourth indictment, over efforts to reverse his 2020 loss in Georgia, shows that he’s not getting the post-indictment bounce with Americans that he’s been touting on the campaign trail. “Any time they file an indictment, we go way up in the polls,” Trump boasted during a Republican Party dinner in Montgomery, Alabama, …

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: The Republicans in Congress, though well meaning, keep talking about an Impeachment “Inquiry” on Crooked Joe Biden. Look, the guy got bribed, he paid people off, and he wouldn’t give One Billion Dollars to Ukraine unless they “got rid of the Prosecutor.” Biden is a Stone Cold Crook-You don’t need a long …

Posted just now to Trump’s Truth Social account: I have the Staysure Senior PGA Championship in Aberdeen, Scotland, on my great course, and I can’t go. I have to stay around and fight off the Crazed Radical Left Lunatics, Communists, Marxists, and Fascists. I wouldn’t want to be in Europe and watch this COUNTRY DESTROYING Scum work their disgusting and …

The Hill reports: An attorney and legal spokesperson for former President Trump on Sunday insisted that his team has no concerns over the mounting criminal charges he faces, which carry hundreds of years in prison, and maintained there is no need to prep the former president for numerous upcoming trials. “How do you logistically handle, you know, prepping a client …

Politico reports: Donald Trump has turned his Georgia mugshot into a record-breaking fundraising haul. The former president has raised $7.1 million since he was booked at an Atlanta jail Thursday evening, according to figures provided first to POLITICO by his campaign. On Friday alone, Trump raised $4.18 million, making it the single-highest 24-hour period of his campaign to date, according …

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: I am pleased to report, for those that care, that I just won the Senior Club Championship (must be over 50 years old!) at Bedminster (Trump National Golf Club), shooting a round of 67. Now, some people will think that sounds low, but there is no hanky/lanky. Many people watch, plus I …

Posted early this morning to Trump’s Truth Social account: The Security Tapes from Mar-a-Lago that evil and sinister prosecutor, Deranged Jack Smith, “leaked” or otherwise stated were deleted or altered were, in fact, NOT deleted or altered. It was a Fake Story put out by the government THUGS. Those tapes were openly handed over, without protest or litigation, and then …

Miami’s ABC affiliate reports: A South Florida lawyer has filed a civil lawsuit against Donald Trump in which he argues that the former president is ineligible for office. When asked why he is suing, Boynton Beach-based attorney Lawrence Caplan said on Friday it’s all laid out in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Caplan added other lawsuits may follow. …

Politico reports: Attorney John Eastman, an architect of Donald Trump’s last-ditch bid to subvert the 2020 election, may not postpone his ongoing disbarment hearings just because he’s been indicted in Georgia, a California judge ruled Friday. Yvette Roland, a judge on the California State Bar Court, said Eastman had effectively waived any rights against self-incrimination by taking the stand in …

From the far-right site quoted by Trump on Truth Social: On Thursday, leading 2024 Republican presidential contender and 45th President Donald J. Trump blew up the internet after the Fulton County jail reported his book in height and weight at 6’3″, 215 pounds — truly impressive stats from a truly impressive man of the people. As many pointed out, Donald …