Trump Corruption

The Hill reports: Tucker Carlson brought up former Attorney General William Barr in unusual fashion, raising a report he wrote about the death of Jeffrey Epstein in prison. Carlson questioned why Barr wrote in his biography that Epstein likely killed himself, a nod to conspiracy theories that Epstein was killed in prison. Trump said he did not know, but he …

The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump suggested that the United States could see intensifying political violence, saying in a new interview that tensions in the country were reaching a boiling point. Asked by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson whether the nation is headed toward open conflict, Trump responded: “I don’t know. I can say this: There’s a …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump Jr. and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) raged Wednesday night at Fox News after they were denied entry to the network’s post-debate “spin room,” where candidates and their teams gather to talk to the press. Earlier reports had already indicated that Trump allies would be prevented from entering, considering he wasn’t appearing at the …

Forbes reports: A federal judge on Wednesday rejected a bid from former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows to delay his imminent arrest in Fulton County, Georgia, after Meadows and several other Trump allies-turned-defendants pushed for a federal trial in a broad Georgia election interference case that ensnared former President Donald Trump. Meadows’ attorney, John Moran, had requested an emergency …

Reuters reports: Rudy Giuliani’s mugshot was released by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday, shortly after he surrendered at an Atlanta jail to be booked on charges alleging he and others attempted to subvert the 2020 election results in Georgia. Giuliani, who was Trump’s personal attorney, spearheaded efforts to challenge the election results after Trump’s loss. He faces 13 …

CBS News reports: The Mar-a-Lago IT employee who, according to a federal court filing, implicated former President Donald Trump and two of his aides in an alleged pressure campaign to delete security camera footage at the Florida resort was advised by special counsel Jack Smith’s team that he would not face perjury charges after he amended his testimony, a source …

The Associated Press reports: Rudy Giuliani surrendered to authorities in Georgia on Wednesday on charges alleging he acted as former President Donald Trump’s chief co-conspirator in a plot to subvert the 2020 election. The former New York City mayor, celebrated as “America’s mayor” for his leadership after 9/11, is charged with Trump and 17 other people under Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump will headline a $100,000 per person fundraiser to aid in the legal defense of his one-time personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, according to The New York Times’ Shane Goldmacher. The Sept. 7 event will be held at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, an invite posted by Goldmacher said. The ticket buys …

From a motion filed this morning by Meadows’ lawyers: District Attorney Fani Willis has made clear that she intends to arrest Mr. Meadows before this Court’s Monday hearing and has rejected out of hand a reasonable request to defer one business day until after this Court’s hearing. Absent this Court’s intervention, Mr. Meadows will be denied the protection from arrest …

NBC News reports: Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s personal lawyer who championed the former president’s bogus election fraud claims, said he will turn himself in to authorities in Georgia on Wednesday to face racketeering charges alleging he meddled in the state’s 2020 presidential election. “I’m going to Fulton County to comply with the law, which I always do,” he told reporters …

Posted this morning to Trump’s Truth Social account: For the first time in three years, brave American Patriots will be able, in Court, to show how the Presidential Election of 2020 was RIGGED & STOLLEN. For those RINOS, Radical Left Democrats, Communists, Marxists, Fascists , & others who say, “Don’t Look Back, Look Forward,” they either do not want to …

The Messenger reports: Former President Donald Trump is skipping the first Republican primary debate, but he’d never pass up an opportunity to troll his closest GOP rival. Trump supporters ribbed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on the eve of the first presidential debate, standing outside Fiserv Forum on Tuesday with signs that said “BE LIKABLE & SHOW EMOTION, Ron!” The former …

CNN reports: Rudy Giuliani still hasn’t found a Georgia-based lawyer and is getting help from former New York Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Fulton County election subversion case, to help him find legal representation, sources familiar with the matter tell CNN. Kerik, who is not a lawyer, has agreed to assist Giuliani at no cost through …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office late Tuesday night released booking photos of the first two defendants to surrender after being charged with conspiring to overturn the results of Georgia’s 2020 election. Atlanta bondsman Scott Hall and Trump campaign attorney John Eastman were booked at the Fulton County Jail earlier in the day and released on bond …

“I think, unfortunately, for a media company that I used to work for, you would expect better. But this is just really pathetic messaging. They’re just stepping out on themselves here. It’s backfiring spectacularly. It’s taking distraction away from the focus on the debate. And I’d just like to see somebody try to stop Don Jr. and me from going …

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump is expected to surrender at the Fulton county jail on Thursday evening on racketeering and conspiracy charges over his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state of Georgia, according to two people briefed on the matter. The former president – seeking to distract from the indignity of the surrender …

Hopefully this guy is just the first of many: A Trump employee who monitored security cameras at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate abruptly retracted his earlier grand jury testimony and implicated Trump and others in obstruction of justice just after switching from an attorney paid for by a Trump political action committee to a lawyer from the federal defender’s office in …

The Daily Beast reports: Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has asked a federal court to intervene in moving his deadline to surrender in the Georgia election RICO indictment. Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official who is one of 18 co-defendants indicted alongside Donald Trump in a racketeering case in Georgia, also asked a judge Tuesday to …

USA Today reports: Legal costs over Donald Trump’s alleged attempts to steal the 2020 election have prompted one of his co-defendants to turn to social media to ask why the former president and his donors aren’t doing more to help. “I was reliably informed Trump isn’t funding any of us who are indicted,” said former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis on …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Trump campaign attorney John Eastman has been released from the Fulton County Jail after being booked and spending a couple of hours inside. “I’m confident that when the law is faithfully applied in this proceeding, all of my co-defendants and I will be fully vindicated,” Eastman told reporters outside the jail after being released. When asked …