Trump Corruption

ABC News reports: Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday slammed former President Donald Trump for insinuating President Joe Biden authorized his potential assassination during the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago resort in August 2022 for confidential government material, pointing out that a similar Justice Department memo on the use of deadly force was also used in the FBI search of …

The New York Times reports: Senate Democrats opened an investigation on Thursday into former President Donald J. Trump’s meeting with oil and gas executives last month to determine whether Mr. Trump offered a “policies-for-money transaction” when he asked for $1 billion for his 2024 campaign. Over a chopped steak dinner, Mr. Trump told about 20 oil and gas executives that …

“BREAKING FROM TRUMP: BIDEN’S DOJ WAS AUTHORIZED TO SHOOT ME! It’s just been revealed that Biden’s DOJ was authorized to use DEADLY FORCE for their DESPICABLE raid in Mar-a-Lago. You know they’re just itching to do the unthinkable. “So before the day is over, I’m calling on ONE MILLION Pro-Trump patriots to chip in and say, STOP THE WITCH HUNT …

“Evan Gershkovich, the Reporter from The Wall Street Journal, who is being held by Russia, will be released almost immediately after the Election, but definitely before I assume Office. He will be HOME, SAFE, AND WITH HIS FAMILY. Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, will do that for me, but not for anyone else, and WE WILL BE PAYING NOTHING!” – …

“License to shoot and kill — there were innocent people standing around Mar-a-Lago. People staying there, friends, guests. “What happens if Donald Trump is there and sees someone — an FBI agent roughing up Barron Trump or Melania Trump in their — in her closet, which we know they went through, and decides to push back? “Is there gonna be …

“The very first line under the RNC’s ‘Top News’ claims that ‘deadly force was authorized against Trump during an FBI raid at Mar a Lago.’ That, you know, the intent of that being a possible assassination. “Now, among those documents was something called a law enforcement operations order, which explains what agents are allowed to do and what they’re allowed …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump on Wednesday explained his rationale for not taking the stand in his hush money trial despite saying for months he would be willing to do so. “Because he made rulings that makes it very difficult to testify,” Trump said. “Anything I did, anything I did in the past they can bring everything up. And …

CNN reports: A hearing in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case devolved into shouting Wednesday as attorneys battled over an alleged threat made last year to a defense attorney. The morning proceeding in Fort Pierce, Florida, had been scheduled for Walt Nauta, one of former President Donald Trump’s co-defendants, to present arguments that special counsel Jack Smith’s team had selectively and …

“An armed invasion of the man’s home [Mar-A-Lago], with a teenage son there, with no indication of arms or any armed resistance. None. Except to create a dramatic effect! You know, January 6th had a damn Hollywood producer doing it. And they snowed everybody on the left, and boy, they got a lot of our people pissing in their pants. …

“Everybody talks about him suing a lot of people. They don’t talk about his success rate though, you know. If I was him, I would be sitting in, New Jersey, Florida or wherever he is now, or New York, and I would thinking, ‘Oh, this is like crazy random guy and some like, liberal cunts in Cannes. They did this …

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ABC News reports: Rudy Giuliani agreed to cease accusations of election fraud against Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million judgment after a judge found the former New York City mayor guilty of defaming the two women. On Tuesday, Giuliani “agreed to never again accuse either [Ruby] Freeman or [Shaye] Moss …

Mediaite reports: Donald Trump once again attacked Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over the former president’s criminal trial in Manhattan. This time, he urged those watching to “take a look at where” the Colombia-born Merchan “comes from.” “The judge hates Donald Trump,” the former president insisted. “Just take a look. Take a look at him. Take a look at …

NBC News reports: Smartmatic alleges that Newsmax has destroyed evidence in the voting machine company’s lawsuit against the right-wing news channel over false claims that Smartmatic helped “rig” the 2020 election, according to court documents made public this week. Lawyers for Florida-based Smartmatic allege that Newsmax engaged in a “cover-up” by destroying texts and emails of key executives that would …

Axios reports: Former President Trump’s attorneys found classified documents in his bedroom four months after the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, per court documents unsealed Tuesday. The judge wrote in an 87-page opinion that, “Notably, no excuse is provided as to how the former president could miss the classified-marked documents found in his own bedroom at Mar-a-Lago.” A witness scanned the contents …

“Why would you justify this insanity? Look at the clowns that they put on there — you don’t subject yourself to that nonsense. You are going into a kangaroo court. There’s nothing more. Nothing less. There’d be absolutely no reason, no justification to do that whatsoever.” – Donald Trump Jr., responding to MSNBC reporter Vaughn Hillyard asking why Trump has …

The New York Times reports: Tomorrow’s private luncheon to benefit MAGA Inc., a pro-Trump super PAC, comes about a month after Mr. Trump hosted energy executives over dinner at Mar-a-Lago, his resort in Florida. He asked them to donate $1 billion to his campaign so that he could retake the White House and dismantle Mr. Biden’s climate regulations, including the …

“Donald Trump today doubled down on his promise to leave ‘everything up to the states,’ suggesting he would allow states to have different policies on birth control and emergency contraception bans. “When a local Pittsburgh station asked Trump if he would support restrictions around contraception, he said, ‘Things really do have a lot to do with the states and some …

CBS News reports: The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York is hearing arguments from both sides about what instructions he should give jurors before they begin deliberating next week. Justice Juan Merchan will craft what’s known as the jury “charge,” laying out the legal issues that jurors must consider to reach a verdict. Prosecutors and …

A classic Trump exchange with a Pittsburgh news anchor: DONALD TRUMP: We had Covid. They used Covid to cheat. And that’s one of those things. And everybody knows it. And most of the people in Pennsylvania know too. It’s going to be much harder for them to cheat, but they will try. It’s a sad thing. It’s a sad commentary …