Trump Corruption

Special Counsel To Make Announcement Tonight

CNN reports:  The federal grand jury hearing evidence in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election handed up an indictment on Tuesday in the federal courthouse in Washington, DC. The foreperson of the grand jury along with a Justice Department prosecutor were present in the courtroom when the indictment was returned. A judge agreed to …

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Trump Claims He’s Being Indicted Today At 5PM

Posted just now to Trump’s Truth Social account: I hear that Deranged Jack Smith, in order to interfere with the Presidential Election of 2024, will be putting out yet another Fake Indictment of your favorite President, me, at 5:00 P.M. Why didn’t they do this 2.5 years ago? Why did they wait so long? Because they wanted to put it …

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Bannon Urges Trump To Pick RFK Jr. As Running Mate

“We stay maniacally focused in the general, particularly as – remember this – the firestorm of the lawfare will start next spring with him. If you can walk through that, which you can do, you can walk through that fire, which you can do and I think, get 55 percent or more of the country. And I think if somehow …

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Trump Gets Partial Immunity In Election Worker’s Suit

Bloomberg News reports: A Pennsylvania state court judge ruled that presidential immunity is broad enough to protect Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was rigged, even if he didn’t really believe the conspiracy. Judge Michael Erdos in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas on Monday granted Trump immunity on two claims made in a 2021 lawsuit by …

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Trump Grand Jury Seen Arriving At DC Courthouse

NBC News reports: Members of the D.C. grand jury hearing evidence and testimony in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into 2020 election interference are arriving at the courthouse and heading up to the 3rd floor grand jury area. A new indictment was filed last week in a separate special counsel investigation of Trump involving his alleged mishandling of classified records. …

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Trump Rape Testimony May Be Used In Stormy Case

The Daily Beast reports: The Manhattan district attorney seeking to jail Donald Trump over his hush money payment to a porn star is seeking to potentially weaponize the same piece of damning evidence that nailed the former president at his rape trial: the deposition where he said stars like him get away with sexual harassment “unfortunately—or fortunately.” It’s now up …

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New Trump Defense Fund May Be “Flipping” Insurance

Axios reports: Former President Trump’s new legal defense fund for aides and employees may double as both an act of benevolence and a potential insurance policy against a practice he has long loathed: flipping. New federal charges against Trump — who once said cooperating with prosecutors in exchange for leniency “ought to be illegal” — rely in large part on …

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Donors Have Spent $108K This Year On Melania’s Hair

Raw Story reports: A pro-Trump super PAC paid more than $100,000 in the first months of 2023 for Melania Trump’s hairstylist, according to Save America’s newly released operating expenses report. Save America lists the $108,000 payment to Hervé Pierre Braillard as “strategy consulting.” The same super PAC in 2022 paid Braillard $132,00 for “strategy consulting” in 2022, Business Insider reports. …

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Trump Spox: Murdoch And Fox Want To Destroy Trump

Media Matters has the transcript: STEVE BANNON (HOST): He just put out a tweet about, or Truth Social, about the debate. And he took a poll at the debate at the time that was happening. Now he’s saying he may watch for VP candidates. I want to make sure President Trump knows that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Kari Lake …

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Trump: I Expect Next Indictment “Any Day Now”

Posted just now to Trump’s Truth Social account: I assume that an Indictment from Deranged Jack Smith and his highly partisan gang of Thugs, pertaining to my “PEACEFULLY & PATRIOTICALLY Speech, will be coming out any day now, as yet another attempt to cover up all of the bad news about bribes, payoffs, and extortion, coming from the Biden “camp.” …

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Mar-A-Lago Staffer Arraigned And Out On $100K Bond

NBC News reports: The Mar-a-Lago property manager charged in a new indictment alongside Donald Trump in the alleged mishandling of classified government documents after the former president left office was unable to enter a plea in court on Monday after being unable to secure a Florida-based lawyer. Carlos De Oliveira, 56, wearing a navy suit and glasses, entered the Miami …

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Trump Loses Bid To Disqualify Georgia District Attorney

The Messenger reports: Former President Donald Trump cannot block widely anticipated indictments against him in Georgia, nor can he disqualify the district attorney expected to bring them, a judge ruled on Monday morning. The petition requested that the Fulton County grand jury report recommending indictments be inadmissible in Willis’ case, calling any evidence procured from the grand jury interviews and …

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Georgia DA: The Work Is Done, “We’re Ready To Go”

Atlanta’s NBC affiliate reports: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is speaking just ahead of potential charges being filed against former President Donald Trump and his allies. It’s still unclear if Trump will be charged by D.A. Willis, but 11Alive is getting a little more insight into what we can expect in the coming days. Willis said she’s holding true …

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Trump Team To Create New Legal Defense Fund

The New York Times reports: Former President Donald J. Trump’s team is creating a legal-defense fund to handle some of the crush of legal bills stemming from the investigations and criminal indictments involving him and a number of employees and associates, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The fund, which is expected to be called the Patriot …

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Mar-A-Lago Staffer Had Received DOJ Target Letter

CNN reports: Yuscil Taveras, a Mar-a-Lago employee who oversees the property’s surveillance cameras, received a target letter from federal prosecutors after former President Donald Trump was first indicted in June on charges related to his alleged mishandling of classified documents after leaving office, sources told CNN. Taveras also met with investigators following the initial indictment in the classified documents case …

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Trump PAC Seeks $60M Refund To Pay His Legal Bills

The New York Times reports: The political action committee that former President Donald J. Trump is using to pay his legal bills faced such staggering costs this year that it requested a refund on a $60 million contribution it made to another group supporting the Republican front-runner, according to two people familiar with the matter. The decision signals a potential …

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Trump Denies Deleting Mar-A-Lago Security Video

Yet another all-caps rant from Hair Furor: MAR-A-LAGO SECURITY TAPES WERE NOT DELETED. THEY WERE VOLUNTARILY HANDED OVER TO THE THUGS, HEADED UP BY DERANGED JACK SMITH. WE DID NOT EVEN GO TO COURT TO STOP THEM FROM GETTING THESE TAPES. I NEVER TOLD ANYBODY TO DELETE THEM. PROSECUTORIAL FICTION & MISCONDUCT! ELECTION INTERFERENCE! Trump spiraling out-of-control. Screams in all-caps …

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NBC: Only Four Out Of 44 Former Trump Cabinet Members Have So Far Publicly Endorsed Him For 2024

NBC News reports: NBC News reached out to 44 of the dozens of people who served in Trump’s Cabinet over his term in office. Most declined to comment or ignored the requests. A total of four have said publicly they support his run for re-election. Several have been coy about where they stand, stopping short of endorsing Trump. Then there …

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Trump PAC Has Spent $40M In Legal Costs In 2023

The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump’s political group spent more than $40 million on legal costs in the first half of 2023 to defend Trump, his advisers and others, according to people familiar with the matter, financing legal work that has drawn scrutiny from prosecutors about potential conflicts of interest between Trump and witnesses. Save America, the former …

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Trump Appeals To Move Hush Money Case To DC

Courthouse News reports: Donald Trump asked a federal appeals court Friday to reverse a federal judge’s decision to keep his hush-money criminal case in a New York state court that the former president claims is “very unfair” to him. Trump’s lawyers filed a notice of appeal with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan after U.S. District Judge …

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