Trump Corruption

NYT: Top Trump 2020 Official May Be About To Flip

The New York Times reports: Michael Roman, a top official in former President Donald J. Trump’s 2020 campaign, is in discussions with the office of the special counsel Jack Smith that could soon lead to Mr. Roman voluntarily answering questions about a plan to create slates of pro-Trump electors in key swing states that were won by Joseph R. Biden …

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Trump Sets Aside $5.5M For E. Jean Carroll Judgement

CNN reports: Lawyers for Donald Trump asked a judge on Friday to sign off on an agreement with E. Jean Carroll’s attorneys to transfer $5.5 million to a court-controlled account in a step toward satisfying the judgment from the defamation lawsuit. The agreement is Trump’s first step toward paying Carroll after a jury awarded her $5 million in damages after …

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Trump Hosts Fundraiser For Rioters At His NJ Resort

NBC News reports: Former President Trump spoke on Thursday at a fundraiser on behalf of people charged in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol — even as he faces scrutiny from national and state prosecutors for his own actions surrounding the attempt to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 election win. “I’m going to make a …

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Fake Electors Get Limited Immunity For Testimony

CNN reports: Special counsel Jack Smith has compelled at least two Republican fake electors to testify to a federal grand jury in Washington in recent weeks by giving them limited immunity, part of a current push by federal prosecutors to swiftly nail down evidence in the sprawling criminal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The testimony, described to …

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WSJ: Audio Tape Convinced DOJ Of Trump’s Motives

The Wall Street Journal reports: Justice Department and FBI officials disagreed back in August about whether their investigation into the handling of sensitive documents justified the search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Fewer officials had doubts earlier this month, when prosecutors took an even bolder step: asking a grand jury to indict the former president on 37 counts. What turned …

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Trump Returns To Claiming Docs Were “Planted”

Posted this morning to Trump’s Truth Social account: Congress will hopefully now look at the ever continuing Witch Hunts and ELECTION INTERFERENCE against me on perfectly legal Boxes, where I have no doubt that information is being secretly “planted” by the scoundrels in charge, the Perfect Phone Calls (Atlanta), the illegal DOJ/Pomerantz/Manhattan D.A. Hoax, where virtually EVERYONE agrees THERE IS …

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Trump Receives First Batch Of Evidence In Docs Case

CNN reports: Special counsel Jack Smith has begun producing evidence in the Mar-a-Lago documents case to Donald Trump, according to a Wednesday court filing that hints that investigators collected for the case multiple recordings of the former president – not just audio of an interview Trump gave at Bedminster for a forthcoming Mark Meadows memoir. Prosecutors in the filing used …

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House Votes To Censure Schiff In Party Line Result

NPR reports: The House of Representatives has voted to censure Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff for his past actions while chair of the House Intelligence Committee in leading investigations into then-President Donald Trump. The vote was entirely along party lines, with the California congressman calling the resolution “false and defamatory.” Democrats attempted to kill the bill from advancing but were outvoted. …

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Trump: “It’s Not A Great Thing To Talk About” The Vax

“I have a Democrat friend who is very smart. He said, ‘I don’t understand one thing about you. I watch your rallies, they’re incredible. You talk about defeating ISIS, you talk about taxes, you talk about regulation, you talk about everything. You never said — I’ve never heard you talk about the incredible job did you with the vaccines.’ “Because, …

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Coup Plotter Has Bad Start To Disbarment Hearing

The Daily Beast reports: A highlight of Tuesday’s proceedings was Eastman’s attempt to call a man named Joseph Fried as an expert witness. Fried is a public accountant who wrote an eBook that questioned the legitimacy of Biden’s presidential win. California State Bar Court Judge Yvette Roland saw right through the strange request. “I don’t see how Mr. Fried is …

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Erick Erickson: Trump Confessed On Fox, “Game Over”

Right wing commentator Erick Erickson writes: Trump sat with Bret Baier last night and all but admitted to a felony. He also insisted again that he only hired the best people in the White House, like Christopher Wray and Anthony Fauci. But it is the document issue that is the problem. Forget the presidential records act. Forget the espionage act. …

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Trump: Hunter Biden’s Plea Is “Election Interference”

Posted this afternoon to Trump’s Truth Social account: The Hunter/Joe Biden settlement is a massive COVERUP & FULL SCALE ELECTION INTERFERENCE “SCAM” THE LIKES OF WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN IN OUR COUNTRY BEFORE. A “TRAFFIC TICKET,” & JOE IS ALL CLEANED UP & READY TO GO INTO THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION – AND THIS AS CROOKED DOJ, STATE, & …

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Bannon Blames Fox’s Murdoch For Trump’s Confession

Media Matters has the transcript: I don’t know why President Trump is doing interviews on Fox like that. I mean, it’s contentious, it’s nit-picky. It’s just not the way you comport yourself. It’s not an interview, it’s an interrogation, and it’s not acceptable, but, his handlers, you know, are greater minds than ours, so, yeah, I guess you’re going to …

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Christie: Trump Just Admitted To Obstructing Justice

“Last night he said the reason he didn’t give the documents back was because he’s just so very busy and he didn’t have time to respond to a grand jury subpoena because he needed to get his golf shirts and pants out of the box. I mean, does anybody in America believe this? “I think the problem is going to …

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REPORT: Trump Team Suspects Mark Meadows Is A Rat

Rolling Stone reports: Earlier this year, Donald Trump sent some of his lawyers and political advisers on a “small fact-finding mission,” as a person with knowledge of the matter describes it to Rolling Stone. The former president wanted to know, according to that source and another person close to Trump: “What is Mark doing?” Trump was referring to his former …

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Guilfoyle: Attacks On Trump Only Make Him Stronger

Junior’s mistress writes for the Moonie Times: Donald J. Trump is unlike any force we’ve ever seen in American politics. The more he’s attacked, the stronger he gets. Following the latest effort by the “Get Trump” establishment to destroy his candidacy through a weaponized justice system, the former president and 2024 GOP front-runner is dominating in the polls, seeing a …

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TODAY: Coup Plotter’s Disbarment Hearing Begins

The Associated Press reports: An effort to disbar conservative attorney John Eastman, who devised ways to keep Trump in the White House after his defeat in the 2020 election, will begin Tuesday in Los Angeles. Eastman is expected to spend the day testifying before the State Bar of California in a proceeding that could result in him losing his license …

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Judge Sets August 14 Date For Trump’s Docs Trial

Axios reports: A Florida federal judge on Tuesday scheduled the criminal trial of former President Donald Trump for his alleged illegal retention of classified government documents to begin Aug. 14. But experts do not expect the trial to begin nearly so early, given the time needed to resolve complicated legal issues before a jury starts hearing testimony and being presented …

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Barr: Incorrigible Trump “Brings Calamity On Himself”

Bill Barr writes for The Free Press: Trump is a deeply flawed, incorrigible man who frequently brings calamity on himself and the country through his dishonesty and self-destructive recklessness. Even his supporters, who can’t help but acknowledge that he is own worst enemy, know it. For the sake of the country, our party, and a basic respect for the truth, …

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Fox Analyst Roasts Trump’s “Too Busy” Excuse [VIDEO]

“His answers on the matters of the law seem to me to verge on incoherent. He seemed to be saying that the documents were really his and that he didn’t give them back when he was requested to do when they were subpoenaed because, you know, he wasn’t ready to because he sorted them and separated the classified information or …

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