Trump Corruption

Wired reports: The defiant fist-raised photo from his post-assassination-attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania—according to the Trump Watches marketing materials – will be etched on the back of Fight watch. According to the Associated Press, TheBestWatchesonEarth LLC advertised a product it can’t deliver, as that image is owned by the 178-year-old news agency. This week, the AP told WIRED it is pursuing …

Open Secrets reports: An initiative called Progress 2028 that purports to be Kamala Harris’ liberal counter to the conservative Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 is actually run by a dark money network supporting former President Donald Trump. Building America’s Future, the dark money group at the helm of the network, has steered money to a constellation of groups and initiatives boosting …

Politico reports: Former President Donald Trump’s transition operation is compiling lists of names of people to keep out of a second Trump administration. The lists of undesirable staffers include people linked to the Project 2025 policy blueprint; officials who resigned in protest of Trump’s response to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol; and others perceived as disloyal …

The Associated Press reports: Former President Donald Trump on Friday compared the people jailed on charges that they stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to the more than 120,000 people of Japanese origin incarcerated on U.S. soil during World War II. “Why are they still being held? Nobody’s ever been treated like this,” he said in an interview …

Fox News reports: Former President Donald Trump recalled one of the “craziest” nights of his young life in a recent interview with Tyrus on his OutKick show. On “Maintaining with Tyrus,” Trump was asked what the all-time best prizefight he had been to. Trump was heavily involved in the boxing world. Trump Plaza and Trump Taj Mahal put on some …

Raw Story reports: Donald Trump was scheduled to appear with former Fox News personality Dan Bongino for an interview on Friday, but a few minutes into their discussion, the ex-president abruptly ended the questioning. Bongino, who has been supportive of Trump in the past, appeared to be confused. “Can I get, Dan, off the record, I gotta get going,” Trump …

CNN reports: Special counsel Jack Smith on Friday released a massive trove of heavily redacted documents in his 2020 election subversion criminal case against former President Donald Trump. There are nearly 2,000 pages in a massive trove of documents released Friday, but nearly all of the pages appear to be completely redacted. The redacted appendices filed on the public docket …

The Washington Post reports: During Donald Trump’s presidency, his D.C. hotel charged the U.S. Secret Service 300 percent or more above standard government rates on multiple occasions, and at times charged the government agency more than it did other patrons — including a Chinese business and members of a foreign royal family, according to a new report released Friday by …

Ainsley Earhardt: Now they’re ramping up their rhetoric. And when she sat down with Bret there, she said, talking about you, “he’s unstable.” When she was speaking at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, she called you “unstable and unhinged.” And then in this new ad that they’ve rolled out, she’s saying “unhinged, more unstable and unchecked.” What is your response …

The Bulwark reports: Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis privately told Bob Woodward that he agrees with the assessment laid out in his book War, which paints Donald Trump as a unique and menacing threat to the country. Woodward said he recently received an email from Mattis, who served under Trump before resigning in protest. In the email, Mattis seconded the …

Politico Playbook reports: Recently, it’s become something of a pattern: Trump is scheduled for an interview with a neutral media outlet, the date nears and then … things fall apart. It happened just this week to planned Trump sit-downs with NBC in Philadelphia and CNBC’s “Squawk Box” — and that’s on the heels of him backing out of a “60 …

The Washington Post reports: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump used his remarks at a Catholic charity banquet here on Thursday to skewer prominent Democrats, often in off-color terms. He mispronounced Vice President Kamala Harris’s name and said she had “no intelligence whatsoever.” He questioned the manhood of Harris’s running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. …

Politico reports: U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has agreed to release a dossier of evidence amassed by special counsel Jack Smith, ruling Thursday that the high public interest in the document outweighs Trump’s demand that she keep it hidden until after the election. In a five-page ruling, Chutkan rejected Trump’s argument that releasing the potentially explosive material constitutes election interference. …

Posted this afternoon to Truth Social: Why won’t 60 Minutes release the fraudulent tapes of Lyin’ Kamala’s Interview with them? Could it be because it was a COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER, or that they “CREATED” many additional new answers for her, not just the one where she was so embarrassingly CAUGHT. In normal times, what happened on 60 Minutes, (deceptively …

“Hi, my name is Dawnya Ferdinansen with UAW Local 14 of Toledo, Ohio. I am an 18-year UAW member in good standing. I’m making this video in response to Trump’s statement that auto workers just assemble parts out of a box. “I challenge you, Trump, to one full 12-hour day in any auto assembly plant. I want to see you …

The New Republic reports: Donald Trump has pulled out of two major interviews Thursday, after the Republican presidential nominee made several appearances this week that went disastrously awry. Trump had been scheduled to do an interview with NBC News’s senior business correspondent Christine Romans that would air Monday. The former president also canceled his speech to an NRA convention on …

“So I always feel that with the climate and I have been a great, I have been an environmentalist. I built many things. I own Doral right next door and we did that in a very environment—I got awards, environmental awards for the way I built it, for the water, the way I use the water, the sand, the mixing …

“Great job by Bret Baier in his Interview with Lyin’ Kamala Harris. She has a massive and irredeemable case of TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME – So bad, in fact, that she is barely able to talk about any subject other than the man who had the best economy ever, the strongest border in history, and who just got the UNANIMOUS ENDORSEMENT …

Axios reports: Politics is spilling into dating as young people say how someone else votes will affect their feelings. The consequences are steeper for those supporting former President Trump. By the numbers: 43% of people between the ages of 18 and 34 say they’d have a more negative view of a date if told they voted for Trump, according to …

The Washington Post reports: Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance asserted Wednesday for the first time since joining the Republican ticket that Donald Trump did not lose the 2020 election after previously sidestepping questions from reporters and his opponent on the debate stage over two weeks ago. Vance, answering a reporter’s question in Williamsport, Pa., said that there were “serious problems …