Trump Corruption

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 …

Gizmodo reports: The website for former President Donald Trump’s legal defense fund appears to have been hacked and defaced over the weekend. As of the writing of this blog, the defacement is still live on the site and has not been taken down. The Patriot Legal Defense Fund is a fundraising effort launched about a week ago by high-level members …

Atlanta’s NBC affiliate reports: Friday looms as the deadline for when former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants must turn themselves in at the Fulton County Jail following an indictment last week that alleges their efforts to reverse Trump’s election loss in 2020 constituted a criminal conspiracy. According to a report by NBC News before the weekend, Trump is unlikely …

NBC News reports: Donald Trump confirmed Sunday that he will skip the first Republican presidential primary debate Wednesday — and indicated he may not attend future ones, either. The former president wrote on his Truth Social media platform that polling shows him leading in the Republican primary field by such a wide margin that he doesn’t need to stand alongside …

“The first thing is, I don’t think I’m giving anything away, I’m just going to tell you my strategy. I’m going to follow Mark Meadows and file as soon as I do the arraignment, I’m going to file a motion for removal to federal court, which I would say almost virtually will be granted. Yes, there are things we didn’t …

CNN reports: Former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows has asked a federal court to order all charges against him brought by Fulton County, Georgia, prosecutors last week to be dismissed, since he says the charges relate to his then-role in the federal government. In a weekend filing, Meadows argues he should have immunity from the state’s 2020 election interference …

Axios reports: “Well first off, the handling of classified materials is enormously serious in the life of the nation, but in my case, I was never made aware of any broad-based effort to declassify documents,” Mike Pence told ABC News’ Jon Karl during an interview on “This Week”. “There is a process that the White House goes through to declassify …

ABC News reports: Appearing to contradict former President Donald Trump’s primary public defense in the classified documents case, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has told special counsel Jack Smith’s investigators that he could not recall Trump ever ordering, or even discussing, declassifying broad sets of classified materials before leaving the White House, nor was he aware of …

“Democrats are trying to take away the American people’s choice of who they want for president. That is a direct threat to our Constitutional Republic. It cannot stand and they need to act. The time for words is over. All we are going to get are sternly worded tweets? I’m sorry, that’s not good enough. “President Trump has called the …

Via press release from the Trump campaign: President Donald J. Trump will grant the right to use his “Seal of Approval” to an exclusive group of candidates and committees that the President endorses or otherwise supports. The purpose of the Seal is to help President Trump’s donors distinguish between authorized uses of his name and likeness, and unauthorized uses including …

Posted this morning to Trump’s Truth Social account: I easily won the Great State of Georgia in 2016, did a fantastic job, as President, for Georgia and the entire USA, received 10 Million more votes than I got, nationwide, in 2016, got by far the most votes in history for a sitting President, but shockingly, “LOST” Georgia. All this despite …

The New York Times reports: Mr. Giuliani’s son, Andrew, who has an independent relationship with the former president, visited Mr. Trump at his club in New Jersey this month in the hope of getting his father’s huge legal bills covered. Mr. Giuliani, 79, who was criminally charged alongside Mr. Trump this week in Georgia, is currently sitting on what one …

The Daily Mail reports: As the deadline for Donald Trump to surrender for booking in Georgia looms, online sportsbooks are going wild with proposition bets on everything from his tie color to his body weight at booking. One bookmaker site, Antigua-based BetOnline, on Friday offered an over/under of 273.5 pounds for Trump’s weight upon his surrender to authorities in Fulton …

NBC News reports: Law enforcement officials are anticipating that former President Donald Trump will surrender at a Fulton County, Ga. jail no earlier than Thursday, three senior law enforcement officials who are familiar with the plan said. These officials, who asked for anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the plan, said they expect the surrender to …

The New York Times reports: Former President Donald J. Trump plans to upstage the first Republican primary debate on Wednesday by sitting for an online interview with the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, according to multiple people briefed on the matter. In the past 24 hours, Mr. Trump has told people close to him that he has made up …

Reuters reports: A U.S. judge on Friday declared that Donald Trump had filed a “frivolous” appeal of his decision not to dismiss the first of writer E. Jean Carroll’s two defamation lawsuits stemming from her claims that he raped her. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan also denied Trump’s bid to delay the case while he appeals. “Mr. Trump …

The Hill reports: Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official charged alongside former President Trump on 2020 election-related crimes in Georgia, is opposing prosecutors’ request for a March trial. Clark’s attorney called Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s (D) proposal “highly premature” and expressed concerns about her prosecution on multiple grounds. “The indictment was filed at approximately 10:30 PM on …

“You know what the plans I like, Kari? Those are all great. Those are all fantastic. But the plans that I know he has because I asked him last week when I sat down with him in Bedminster – he’s gonna go after the deep state. I’d love to see him – and he said he will. Chris Wray, FBI, …

CNN reports: The current thinking among Donald Trump’s campaign advisers and those close to the former president is that he is not planning on participating in next week’s Republican presidential primary debate, three sources familiar with his plans tell CNN, and has been proposing counterprogramming to the event. The sources say that Trump has not done any prep for the …

CNN reports: When conspiracy theorist Alex Jones marched his way to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, riling up his legion of supporters, an unassuming middle-aged man in a red “Trump 2020” hat conspicuously tagged along. Videos and photographs reviewed by CNN show the man dutifully recording Jones with his phone as the bombastic media personality ascended to the …