Trump Corruption

Via press release from CBS News: Former President Donald Trump is accusing 60 Minutes of deceitful editing of our Oct. 7 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. That is false. 60 Minutes gave an excerpt of our interview to Face the Nation that used a longer section of her answer than that on 60 Minutes. Same question. Same answer. But …

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump served up french fries Sunday at a Philadelphia-area McDonald’s, oversalting spuds and peppering in some jabs at Vice President Kamala Harris. The franchise in Feasterville was closed for normal business during Sunday’s photo op. The customers who went through the drive thru were pre-selected by the franchise and the local Trump campaign team, …

ABC News reports: Before recently sentencing a rioter to prison, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said he prays Americans accept the outcome of next month’s election. But the veteran judge expressed concern that Donald Trump and his allies are spreading the same sort of conspiracy theories that fueled the mob’s Jan. 6, 2021, riot. “That sore loser is saying the …

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports: Gov. Josh Shapiro suggested Sunday that law enforcement authorities should investigate entrepreneur Elon Musk’s offer to pay $1 million a day to voters in Pennsylvania and other swing states who sign up to support a petition favoring gun rights and opposing efforts to stop the spread of misinformation. Mr. Shapiro questioned the legality of America PAC, …

“I don’t know. I don’t know if it’s true or not true. Well, what about the goose? The geese? What about the geese? What happened there? They were all missing. “Howie, I have no idea. I said something. The big problem is that you can’t put 30,000 people into a 50,000-person town or city and expect this city to even …

“What they’ve done is so terrible. Who’s ever heard of anything like this? Adam shifty Schiff. He’s a crooked guy. He’s a crooked politician 100 percent. He’s going to be a senator now.  Can you believe it? “But again, he’s an enemy. An enemy. He wanted to put my son in jail, and my son didn’t even know what he …

Politico reports: Election observers, elected leaders and some of Trump’s own allies agree on one operating premise: On election night, no matter what the results show, how many votes remain uncounted and how many advisers tell him otherwise, Donald Trump will declare himself the winner. And from there, he could embark on a risky but plausible challenge to overturn the …

CNBC reports: “Mark Cuban is a Loser,” Trump wrote in a Saturday Truth Social post. “Wouldn’t take his phone calls anymore while at the White House, and he went rogue. A weak and pathetic ‘bully,’ he’s got nothing going. Really low clubhead speed, a total non-athlete!” Trump’s insults come several days after Cuban mocked the Republican presidential nominee’s tariff proposals …

The Associated Press reports: His father had Alzheimer’s disease late in life, one potential risk factor. Trump’s public appearances are often marked by rambling. He regularly confuses timelines, events and people.  At a town hall-style forum in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Trump seemed to have no recollection of meeting with a severely injured veteran and his family. The veteran’s wife noted …

The Washington Post reports: Seventeen days from the election, here in arguably the most decisive swing state, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump spent the first 10 minutes of his speech without mentioning politics. Instead, he delivered a long tribute to Arnold Palmer, the late golfer who was born here and is the namesake of the airport where Trump was speaking. …

The Daily Beast reports: A cringe-inducing video featuring Lara Trump dancing to a remixed Taylor Swift song has earned Donald Trump’s campaign ridicule and prompted calls for the pop superstar to sue over the track’s use. Posted to the Trump campaign’s official account Thursday, the clip features a bevy of women supporters of the GOP nominee—including the former president’s daughter-in-law, …

“Listen, the reality is this country is not working right now. It’s not working. Everything is unaffordable. There’s not a single person watching this right now that thinks anything in this country is affordable because it’s not. We have a candidate right now in Kamala that can’t even get through an interview. These aren’t serious people. She’s never actually had …

The Hill reports: Bruce Springsteen is sounding off on Donald Trump after the former president spent much of a recent campaign event listening to songs, with the “Born in the U.S.A.” singer saying that “swaying to music” is his job. “The whole thing of standing and swaying for 40 minutes at your town hall? I mean, swaying to music, that’s …

“Early voting is underway, so get everyone you know and go out and vote. Go tomorrow. It’s just starting. Go and vote. Make sure you vote and bring all our friends that want to vote for us. “Tell them, ‘Jill. Get your fat husband off the couch. Get that – get that fat pig off the couch. Tell him to …

USA Today reports: Donald Trump’s rally in Detroit hit a snag on Friday night when the audio stopped working and the Republican presidential nominee passed the time walking around on the stage for about 18 minutes waiting for a fix. The former president was in the middle of a riff about the economy in Michigan’s largest city when his microphone …

NBC News reports: Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump on Friday called the judge overseeing the Jan. 6-related federal criminal case against him “the most evil person,” despite threats U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has already faced from his supporters. Trump also called special counsel Jack Smith, who has faced threats from Trump supporters as well, “a sick puppy” — a …

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 …