Trump Corruption

Fortune reports: Donald Trump’s designated government efficiency co-czar, Vivek Ramaswamy, signaled his intention to scrutinize a loan granted by the Biden administration to EV manufacturer Rivian, a rival of Tesla. Ramaswamy, the founder of several biotech firms collectively known as the “Vants,” is due to take charge of the quasi-official Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, once Trump is sworn …

The Wall Street Journal reports: For local sheriffs who have long talked tough on immigration, their time has come. Trump’s transition team is already pursuing new spaces they can repurpose into short-term detention centers near large, Democratic-run cities. It is also weighing a broad mix of changes to give sheriffs more power, with rewards for jurisdictions that cooperate, and financial …

The New York Times reports: During the campaign, Trump swore he had “nothing to do with” a right-wing policy blueprint known as Project 2025 that would overhaul the federal government, even though many of those involved in developing the plans were his allies. Mr. Trump even described many of the policy goals as “absolutely ridiculous.” And during his debate with …

Fox News reports: Trump’s campaign spokesperson and incoming White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said Wednesday “no decisions on this issue have been made,” when asked if Trump would discharge transgender military personnel after international reports this week claimed that he would. “These unnamed sources are speculating and have no idea what they are actually talking about. No policy should …

Raw Story reports: Less than two weeks after being elected president of the United States for a second time, the campaign for President-elect Donald Trump started back up with its fundraising emails — with an early appeal for the holidays. “Make Christmas Merry Again” reads a banner with an image of holiday lights across an email selling “MAGA wrapping paper.” …

A classic American tradition continues: Happy Thanksgiving to all, including to the Radical Left Lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our Country, but who have miserably failed, and will always fail, because their ideas and policies are so hopelessly bad that the great people of our Nation just gave a landslide victory to those who want to MAKE …

Last night Trump posted this to Truth Social: Just had a wonderful conversation with the new President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo. She has agreed to stop Migration through Mexico, and into the United States, effectively closing our Southern Border. We also talked about what can be done to stop the massive drug inflow into the United States, and also, …

CNN reports: President-elect Donald Trump’s team submitted an ethics plan guiding the conduct of its members throughout the transition period that does not appear to include provisions for one key member of the team: the president himself. “There does not appear to be a provision addressing the requirement for the president-elect to address his conflicts of interest,” said Valerie Smith …

USA Today reports: Donald Trump had been the president-elect for just two days when he reportedly spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Nov. 7. Normally, the U.S. would be able to document that the call had happened. But not this time. That’s because the State Department, which traditionally helps coordinate phone calls between incoming presidents and world …

CNN reports: When President-elect Donald Trump said Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would recommend major cuts to the federal government in his administration, many public employees knew that their jobs could be on the line. Now they have a new fear: becoming the personal targets of the world’s richest man – and his legions of followers. Musk reposted two X …

Bloomberg News reports: Billionaire Elon Musk called for eliminating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, highlighting the renewed threat under President-elect Donald Trump to a regulatory agency that has long been a target of Republicans and business advocacy groups. “Delete CFPB. There are too many duplicative regulatory agencies,” Musk wrote in a post on his social-media platform X early Wednesday. The …

CBS News reports: A federal appeals court on Tuesday granted special counsel Jack Smith’s bid to end the case against President-elect Donald Trump arising from his alleged mishandling of sensitive government documents, effectively bringing to a close the historic and unprecedented case against the nation’s former and next president. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit said in …

Politico reports: The Trump transition has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Biden White House, incoming chief of staff Susie Wiles announced on Tuesday — a move that clears the way for coordination with the federal agencies they will soon take over. The Trump team’s unprecedented delay in signing these agreements, weeks after being declared the winner of the …

Politico reports: Rudy Giuliani lashed out in court Tuesday at the federal judge who ordered him to turn over his belongings to the two Georgia women who won a $148 million defamation verdict against him, telling the judge “every implication you make is against me.” “I don’t have a car. I don’t have a credit card,” Giuliani told U.S. District …

The Meidas Touch reports: The latest editions of the God Bless the USA Bible, endorsed by Trump, will set you back an additional $10 due to Trump’s name being emblazoned on the cover. A review of Trump’s Bible webpage reveals Trump is now selling two new editions, each priced at $69.99 for now: one to commemorate his inauguration as the …

The Guardian reports: Trump declared on Monday evening that he would impose 25% tariffs on all goods from Canada and Mexico, and an additional 10% on China, if they did not stop what he claimed was illegal immigration and fentanyl smuggling. But although he has called tariffs the most “beautiful word in the dictionary”, about 69% of Americans think tariffs …

The Daily Mail reports: Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has butted heads with Elon Musk and Donald Trump Jr. over the Biden Administration’s costly electric vehicle program. President-elect Donald Trump is being pushed to reverse Biden’s “radical” electric vehicle (EV) policies within the first 100 days he’s back in the White House. Buttigieg, Don Jr. and Musk got into a spat …

The Washington Post reports: A top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump asked potential administration nominees to give him monthly consulting fees in exchange for advocating for them to Trump, a written review by Trump’s legal team concluded. The scathing review of Boris Epshteyn, a top lawyer to Trump who has extensive sway in the transition, was prepared by Trump’s attorneys …

Axios reports: Trump is considering naming an AI czar in the White House to coordinate federal policy and governmental use of the emerging technology, Trump transition sources told Axios. Elon Musk won’t be the AI czar, but is expected to be intimately involved in shaping the future of the debate and use cases, the sources said. Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy …

The New York Times reports: The civil lawsuit from District Attorney Larry Krasner of Philadelphia against Elon Musk and his super PAC, America PAC, has been officially dropped, according to a new filing from Krasner’s office. Krasner had sued Musk and the group because of their attempt to stage what Krasner called an illegal lottery in which Musk’s group gave …