Trump Corruption

CBS News reports: A federal appeals court on Tuesday granted special counsel Jack Smith’s bid to end the case against President-elect Donald Trump arising from his alleged mishandling of sensitive government documents, effectively bringing to a close the historic and unprecedented case against the nation’s former and next president. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit said in …

Politico reports: The Trump transition has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Biden White House, incoming chief of staff Susie Wiles announced on Tuesday — a move that clears the way for coordination with the federal agencies they will soon take over. The Trump team’s unprecedented delay in signing these agreements, weeks after being declared the winner of the …

Politico reports: Rudy Giuliani lashed out in court Tuesday at the federal judge who ordered him to turn over his belongings to the two Georgia women who won a $148 million defamation verdict against him, telling the judge “every implication you make is against me.” “I don’t have a car. I don’t have a credit card,” Giuliani told U.S. District …

The Meidas Touch reports: The latest editions of the God Bless the USA Bible, endorsed by Trump, will set you back an additional $10 due to Trump’s name being emblazoned on the cover. A review of Trump’s Bible webpage reveals Trump is now selling two new editions, each priced at $69.99 for now: one to commemorate his inauguration as the …

The Guardian reports: Trump declared on Monday evening that he would impose 25% tariffs on all goods from Canada and Mexico, and an additional 10% on China, if they did not stop what he claimed was illegal immigration and fentanyl smuggling. But although he has called tariffs the most “beautiful word in the dictionary”, about 69% of Americans think tariffs …

The Daily Mail reports: Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has butted heads with Elon Musk and Donald Trump Jr. over the Biden Administration’s costly electric vehicle program. President-elect Donald Trump is being pushed to reverse Biden’s “radical” electric vehicle (EV) policies within the first 100 days he’s back in the White House. Buttigieg, Don Jr. and Musk got into a spat …

The Washington Post reports: A top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump asked potential administration nominees to give him monthly consulting fees in exchange for advocating for them to Trump, a written review by Trump’s legal team concluded. The scathing review of Boris Epshteyn, a top lawyer to Trump who has extensive sway in the transition, was prepared by Trump’s attorneys …

Axios reports: Trump is considering naming an AI czar in the White House to coordinate federal policy and governmental use of the emerging technology, Trump transition sources told Axios. Elon Musk won’t be the AI czar, but is expected to be intimately involved in shaping the future of the debate and use cases, the sources said. Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy …

The New York Times reports: The civil lawsuit from District Attorney Larry Krasner of Philadelphia against Elon Musk and his super PAC, America PAC, has been officially dropped, according to a new filing from Krasner’s office. Krasner had sued Musk and the group because of their attempt to stage what Krasner called an illegal lottery in which Musk’s group gave …

CNN reports: President-elect Donald Trump on Monday promised massive hikes in tariffs on goods coming from Mexico, Canada and China starting on the first day of his administration, a policy that could sharply increase costs for American businesses and consumers. The move, Trump said, will be in retaliation for illegal immigration and “crime and drugs” coming across the border. “On …

The Meidas Touch reports: It looks like another grift of Donald Trump’s may be ending before it even starts. Today, Gibson Guitars sent a cease and desist letter to the owner of Trump Guitars, 16 Creative. While Donald Trump does not own Trump Guitars, he has publicly called on his supporters to purchase the guitars and the company dubs the …

The New York Times reports: Trump has always demanded loyalty from his aides, but few have answered the call quite like Natalie Harp. A 33-year-old former far-right cable host, Ms. Harp is nearly always at Mr. Trump’s side. She has written him a series of devotional letters, including one that said, “You are all that matters to me.” Once, when …

Reuters reports: A U.S. judge on Monday dismissed the federal criminal case accusing Donald Trump of attempting to overturn his 2020 election defeat after prosecutors moved to drop that prosecution and a second case against the president-elect, citing Justice Department policy against prosecuting a sitting president. The order from U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan puts an end to the federal …

“These cases, like all of the other cases I have been forced to go through, are empty and lawless, and should never have been brought. Over $100 Million Dollars of Taxpayer Dollars has been wasted in the Democrat Party’s fight against their Political Opponent, ME. “Nothing like this has ever happened in our Country before. They have also used State …

CNN reports: Attorneys for Donald Trump conducted an internal investigation into allegations that one of his top aides, Boris Epshteyn, has sought to gain financially from his influence with Trump and others in the president-elect’s orbit, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. The internal investigation, which was confirmed by half a dozen sources and is not criminal in …

The New York Times reports: The special counsel, Jack Smith, asked a federal judge in Washington on Monday to dismiss the indictment charging President-elect Donald J. Trump with plotting to subvert the 2020 election, bowing to a Justice Department policy that says it is unconstitutional to pursue prosecutions against sitting presidents. Minutes after the filing in Washington, Mr. Smith made …

MSNBC reports: Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday asked U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to dismiss the federal election interference case against President-elect Donald Trump. Once Trump won the presidential election, that meant that his two federal criminal cases (this one and the classified documents case) would eventually go away, whether by lawyers in the current Justice Department or the …

From a Washington Post opinion column: Let’s be clear: From a legal standpoint, Trump does not need a presidential pardon. Special counsel Jack Smith is in the process of shutting down his federal investigations. If Smith does not close his cases, Trump can simply fire him the second he takes office. But while Trump might not need Biden’s pardon, America …

The Independent reports: Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order that would remove transgender servicemembers from the military as soon as his first day in office. The president-elect is reportedly preparing to issue an order following his inauguration on January 20 that would effectively ban trans people serving in the military — and then medically discharge the thousands …

The New York Times reports: Trump is keeping secret the names of the donors who are funding his transition effort, a break from tradition that could make it impossible to see what interest groups, businesses or wealthy people are helping launch his second term. Mr. Trump has so far declined to sign an agreement with the Biden administration that imposes …