Trump Corruption

The New York Times reports: President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inaugural committee is no longer selling tickets for major donors to attend his swearing-in and accompanying private events in Washington, according to five people briefed on the conversations. The committee has raised over $170 million, according to the people, who insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to share internal …

Deutsche Welle reports: Panama reiterated on Tuesday that the sovereignty of its eponymous ship canal was not up for discussion after US President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out military action to regain control. “The sovereignty of our canal is not negotiable and is part of our history of struggle,” Foreign Minister Javier Martinez-Acha said, adding that President Jose Raul …

The New York Times reports: Mexico’s president rejected several of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s assertions about her country and even joked that the United States should be called “Mexican America” after Mr. Trump said the Gulf of Mexico should be renamed the Gulf of America. President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico used her Wednesday morning news conference to show a world …

CNN Business reports: President-elect Donald Trump is considering declaring a national economic emergency to provide legal justification for a large swath of universal tariffs on allies and adversaries, four sources familiar with the matter told CNN, as Trump seeks to reset the global balance of trade in his second term. The declaration would allow Trump to construct a new tariff …

NBC News reports: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told reporters in Berlin on Wednesday that the leaders of the nations of the European Union would not tolerate the violation of the Danish territory’s borders, the sovereignty of which is a principle of international law. “In my discussions with our European partners, a certain lack of understanding has emerged with regard to …

“Governor Gavin Newscum refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way. “He wanted to protect an essentially worthless fish called …

Law & Crime reports: Mike Lindell has suffered another self-inflicted loss in long-running litigation over the $5 million he owes to an engineer who proved that data the Minnesota pillow magnate claimed was definitive proof of foreign interference in the 2020 presidential election was nothing of the sort. A federal magistrate judge in the North Star State on Monday said …

Politico reports: Attorney General Merrick Garland intends to publicly release special counsel Jack Smith’s final report detailing evidence that Donald Trump criminally conspired to subvert the 2020 election and disenfranchise millions of voters. But Garland will withhold from public release a second volume of the report describing Smith’s second case against Trump for amassing classified documents at Mar-a-Lago after leaving …

The Hill reports: President-elect Trump asked the Supreme Court to block his sentencing on Friday on 34 New York felony counts of falsifying business records. Trump’s emergency application asks the court to prevent the prosecution from moving ahead until his appeals implicating presidential immunity are resolved. “This Court should enter an immediate stay of further proceedings in the New York …

The Washington Post reports: Meta will dismantle its extensive fact-checking program in the United States, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday, ending a practice that has sought to limit the spread of falsehoods on its platforms but has been assailed as censorship in conservative circles. Zuckerberg acknowledged the changes are a “trade-off” that will allow more “bad stuff” to circulate …

“I mean, honestly, I didn’t see a single negative. They’re 100% interested in the idea being liberated from Denmark. I mean, we had crowds waving as we were landing. “For what I was able to see and experience, and again, these are people that feel they’ve been exploited, they have not been treated well by Denmark, they are prevented from …

The BBC reports: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has hit back at Donald Trump’s threat to use “economic force” to absorb Canada into the US saying there isn’t “a snowball’s chance in hell” to join the two. President-elect Trump has in recent weeks repeatedly needled Canada about it becoming the 51st US state. “You get rid of that artificially drawn …

The New York Times reports: Mr. Trump opened the unusual news conference on Tuesday by introducing Hussain Sajwani, the founder and chairman of DAMAC Properties, a Dubai-based real estate firm that partnered with the Trump family a decade ago to build the first Trump-branded golf course in the Middle East. Now, Mr. Trump said, DAMAC is planning to invest billions …

Puck News reports: You’re not alone in raising both eyebrows at Sunday’s news that Amazon will release a Melania Trump documentary directed by Brett Ratner, the Rush Hour filmmaker who has not made a Hollywood movie since 2018, when he was accused of sexual malfeasance by several women. (He’s denied the claims.) Of course, that this vanity documentary will air …

The Meidas Touch reports: On Truth Social, Trump posted a video of a man from Greenland asking him to purchase the Danish colony. As it turns out, the man, Timmy Zeeb, is a convicted drug dealer according to DR News. In Trump’s video post, Zeeb also seemed to call Americans “too fat” which Trump may have missed due to Zeeb’s …

The Hill reports: A New York appellate judge on Tuesday declined to suspend President-elect Trump’s Friday sentencing on his hush money criminal conviction. Judge Ellen Gesmer of the state’s midlevel appeals court rejected Trump’s emergency petition to immediately halt the proceeding, which is set to cement his status as a felon before he returns to the White House. Now, Trump …

Mediaite reports: President-elect Donald Trump said he would consider pardoning even “violent” January 6 protestors during a stream-of-consciousness press conference Tuesday morning at Mar-a-Lago. He went on to curiously suggest that members of the Lebanese group Hezbollah participated in the riots four years ago. “We’re looking at it and other people are there, and 26, 28 people from the FBI …

The Associated Press reports: President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would not rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, as he declared U.S. control of both to be vital to American national security. Speaking to reporters less than two weeks before he takes office on Jan. 20 and as a …

The Washington Post reports: The federal judge in Florida who dismissed the case against Donald Trump over his alleged mishandling of classified documents has temporarily blocked the Justice Department from releasing a report detailing the findings of that investigation by special counsel Jack Smith. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon barred Smith and Attorney General Merrick Garland from “releasing, sharing, or …

“Mexico’s really in trouble. A lot of trouble. Very dangerous place. We’re going to be announcing at a future date – pretty soon – we’re going to change, because we do most of the work there and it’s ours. We’re going to be changing. It’s sort of the opposite of Biden where he’s closing everything up, essentially getting rid of …