Trump Corruption

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 …

The New York Times reports: Mr. Meadows — Mr. Trump’s final White House chief of staff — initially declined to answer certain questions, sticking to his former boss’s position that they were shielded by executive privilege. But when prosecutors working for the special counsel, Jack Smith, challenged Mr. Trump’s executive privilege claims before a judge, Mr. Meadows pivoted. Even though …

From a statement distributed by John Eastman’s lawyers: I am here today to surrender to an indictment that should never have been brought. It represents a crossing of the Rubicon for our country, implicating the fundamental First Amendment right to petition the government for redress of grievances. As troubling, it targets attorneys for their zealous advocacy on behalf of their …

Axios reports: Conservative lawyer John Eastman turned himself in to the Fulton County jail on Tuesday as part of the 2020 election interference case in Georgia, according to the jail’s online database. Eastman, one of former President Trump’s 18 co-defendants in the sprawling case, had until Friday at noon to surrender to authorities, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis had …

CNN reports: Scott Hall, one of former President Donald Trump’s 18 co-defendants, has turned himself in to the Fulton County jail, according to the jail’s online database. Hall, who works as a bail bondsman in Atlanta, was charged by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis with crimes related to his alleged involvement in the Coffee County, Georgia, voting systems breach. …

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: The failed District Attorney of Fulton County (Atlanta), Fani Willis, insisted on a $200,000 Bond from me. I assume, therefore, that she thought I was a “flight” risk – I’d fly far away, maybe to Russia, Russia, Russia, share a gold domed suite with Vladimir, never to be seen or heard from …

ABC News reports: A Fulton County judge has set former President Donald Trump’s bond at $200,000.. Trump and the other 18 defendants in the case have been given until Friday at noon to appear at the Fulton County Jail. All the defendants’ bond agreements include a provision that they “shall perform no act to intimidate any person known to him …

CNN reports: Donald Trump and several co-defendants in the sweeping Georgia racketeering case are expected to work out the terms of their bond Monday with the Fulton County district attorney’s office, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Donald Trump’s legal team has arrived at the Fulton County courthouse where they are expected to meet with the district attorney’s …

NBC News reports: John Eastman, the lawyer charged by prosecutors in Georgia with helping to orchestrate former President Donald Trump’s fake elector scheme, has agreed to a $100,000 bond in the case, court filings show. In a “consent bond order” listed on the Fulton County Superior Court website, Eastman and prosecutors agreed to a $100,000 bond on the charges Eastman …

Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: Governor Kemp of Georgia is fighting hard against the Impeachment of the crooked, incompetent, & highly partisan D.A. of Fulton County, Fani Willis, who has allowed Murder and other Violent Crime to MASSIVELY ESCALATE. Crime in Atlanta is WORST IN NATION. She should be impeached for many reasons, not just the Witch Hunt …