Trump Corruption

The Hill reports: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s (R) daughter said she thinks the biggest threat to America is former President Trump. Caroline Giuliani has spoken out in recent days about her father’s entanglements with Trump and the upcoming election. She joined CNN’s Erin Burnett on Wednesday, elaborating on a recent Vanity Fair op-ed in which she announced …

Axios reports: A new Harris campaign ad says former President Trump is “not fit” to serve as commander-in-chief as it uses his own former top officials to support its case. The ad, titled “Unstable Threat,” which launched Thursday and is airing across battleground states, seeks to paint Trump’s presidency as chaotic at a time when national security is in the …

“Individual freedom is a fundamental principle that I safeguard. Without a doubt, there is no room for compromise when it comes to this essential right that all women possess from birth. Individual freedom. What does ‘my body, my choice’ really mean?” – Melania Trump, in a new video promoting her memoir, which will be released on Tuesday and is currently …

The New York Times reports: As a presidential candidate in 2015, Donald J. Trump declined to release his medical records, instead offering a four-paragraph letter from his personal doctor proclaiming that he would be “the healthiest person ever elected to the presidency.” In 2020, when he was hospitalized with Covid and running for re-election, Mr. Trump’s doctors gave minimal information …

Politico reports: Smith reveals that Trump was alone in the Oval Office dining room when he issued an incendiary tweet about Pence during some of the most violent moments of the attack. Rioters — some of them chanting “hang Mike Pence!” — amplified the tweet, which accused Pence of lacking “the courage to do what should have been done.” Many …

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he would revoke Temporary Protected Status for the Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, and deport them if he is reelected in November. “You have to remove the people, and you have to bring them back to their own country. They are, in my opinion, it’s not legal,” Trump said in …

Bloomberg News reports: Donald Trump’s campaign spent more than it raised for the second month in a row as the Republican nominee struggles to keep pace with Democrat Kamala Harris’ robust fundraising operation. Trump’s campaign said it raised $160 million in September and entered October — and the final, expensive 35 days of the election season — with $283 million …

“The release of this falsehood-ridden, Unconstitutional, J6 brief immediately following Tim Walz’s disastrous Debate performance, and 33 days before the Most Important Election in the History of our Country, is another obvious attempt by the Harris-Biden regime to undermine and Weaponize American Democracy, and INTERFERE IN THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. “Deranged Jack Smith, the hand picked Prosecutor of the Harris-Biden …

ABC News reports: Special counsel Jack Smith has outlined new details of former President Donald Trump and his allies’ sweeping and “increasingly desperate” efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, in a blockbuster court filing aimed at defending Smith’s prosecution of Trump following the Supreme Court’s July immunity ruling. Trump intentionally lied to the public, state election officials, and his …

Axios reports: Former President Trump on Tuesday referred to brain injuries more than 100 U.S. troops sustained in an Iranian attack on a base in Iraq as “headaches.” The Republican presidential nominee made the comments after being asked Tuesday if he believed he “should have been tougher on Iran” following the attack. “What does injured mean? You mean because they …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump Jr. lashed out at anyone who would compare his father to Adolf Hitler as he appeared on a CNN special after Tuesday’s vice presidential debate. He forgot one thing: that the man he was supposed to be stumping for, Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance, did exactly that himself. “The media has radicalized the …

AlterNet reports: During his appearance at a manufacturing facility in Waunakee, Wisconsin — a suburb of the state’s capital, Madison — the 2024 GOP nominee claimed that there’s an app cartel leaders use to drop off immigrants in the United States. “They have an app that’s being used by the cartel leaders — people making billions of dollars,” Trump said. …

The New Jersey Advance reports: Days after calling Vice President Kamala Harris “mentally disabled” and “mentally impaired,” former president Donald Trump has added a new charge for his Democratic presidential opponent — murder. Trump said that Harris killed Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old Maryland resident who was allegedly raped and murdered by 23-year-old undocumented migrant Victor Martinez Hernandez while she was …

TIME Magazine reports: J.D. Vance attempted to distort his own position on abortion in the vice presidential debate on Oct. 1, suggesting that he “never supported a national ban.” In the past, he has said that he “certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally” and was “sympathetic” to the view that a national ban was needed to stop women …

The New York Times reports: It was a substantive and mostly civil debate between two Midwestern men that laid bare the policy chasm between the two parties on immigration, abortion and foreign policy. But no issue made clearer the size and stakes of the country’s current political divide than the final topic of the night, when Mr. Vance refused to …

The Meidas Touch reports: Trump’s latest fundraising effort, a GoFundMe for victims of Hurricane Helene, has raised serious concerns about transparency — concerns that seem justified given past charity sanctions involving the Trump family and the GOP nominee’s well-documented record of dishonesty. As of this writing, the GoFundMe has raised over $3 million. It is described as “an official response …

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump has backed out of a previously scheduled interview with “60 Minutes,” the most-watched newsmagazine in the United States, CBS News said Tuesday evening. CBS disclosed Trump’s change of plans a few hours before the network hosts a vice-presidential debate between Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, and Kamala Harris’s running mate, Minnesota Gov. …

The Washington Post reports: Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent the Justice Department’s inspector general a letter Monday asking him to investigate whether Trump appointees “interfered with and, ultimately, blocked” a criminal probe into U.S. intelligence that the Egyptian government sought to give Donald Trump $10 million to boost his 2016 presidential campaign. The Post reported that, five …

NOTUS reports: Donald Trump’s lawyers are scrambling to get ahead of what could be this election’s October surprise: the public release of special counsel Jack Smith’s report detailing evidence in the election fraud case against the former president. In a court filing on Tuesday, Trump’s legal team accused the Department of Justice of putting together a “politically motivated manifesto” specifically …

The Washington Post reports: The president who set new benchmarks for false and misleading claims — more than 30,000 of them during his term, in fact — leads a MAGA movement that increasingly shamelessly treats misinformation as a political strategy. The barrage is so constant that it often leaves journalists with a dilemma. How do you tell the story when …