Trump Corruption

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump accused Kamala Harris of running a campaign of hate at his Mar-a-Lago club in a display of projection days after his rally in New York became embroiled by racist and crude comments that aides worried might have broken through to voters in the final days of the presidential race. The event was open to reporters …

Axios reports: If he winds up losing the election, Trump already has lined up a scapegoat. Trump is making clear that he’ll blame Michael Whatley, the RNC chair who Trump tasked with building the party’s massive “election integrity” team. In fact, in private conversations with allies recently, Trump has said he believes the only reason he could lose the election …

Politico reports: Donald Trump has a serious Puerto Rico problem — in Pennsylvania. Many Puerto Rican voters in the state are furious about racist and demeaning comments delivered at a Trump rally. Some say their dismay is giving Kamala Harris a new opening to win over the state’s Latino voters, particularly nearly half a million Pennsylvanians of Puerto Rican descent. …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump says he does not know the controversial comedian who performed at his Madison Square Garden rally Sunday and didn’t hear him speak — his most extensive public comments yet on the controversy surrounding Tony Hinchcliffe’s remarks about Puerto Rico. “I don’t know him; someone put him up there. I don’t know who he is,” …

“You’re not recognizable if something goes wrong. If something goes wrong, and Marjorie Taylor Greene with that beautiful blonde hair is driving down the highway in a hydrogen car, and the problem with the hydrogen car, if something goes wrong, it’s like the atom bomb went off. You’re not recognizable. But they say, ‘We think we have it under control.’ …

The Bulwark reports: Donald Trump’s campaign was left scrambling Sunday night after roast-comic Tony Hinchcliffe made insulting jokes about Hispanic and black people on stage at the ex-president’s Madison Square Garden rally. The lines sparked immediate backlash and even condemnation from fellow Republicans. But four top campaign sources said it could have been even worse. “He had a joke calling …

CNN reports: The fate of Rudy Giuliani’s $3.5 million Palm Beach, Florida, condo, which he says is his primary residence, is now in the hands of a federal judge in Manhattan. He plans to stay in the Palm Beach condo now but will be blocked from doing anything that could diminish its value while the judge sorts out whether his …

“FoxNews spends far too much time promoting the Democrats, their surrogates, and their agenda. Today I watched, over and over again, an angry and totally out of control Michelle Obama trying to save the dying Campaign of Comrade Kamala Harris. “I’m leading in Michigan, by a lot, because of great support from Autoworkers, Arab Americans, Jewish Americans, and all other …

NBC News reports: Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is suing Elon Musk and his super PAC to block their million-dollar giveaway to registered voters, seeking to halt the lottery-style stunt that election experts, and the Justice Department, have warned might violate federal law. Krasner is seeking an injunction: He argued in a filing Monday that the effort is an illegal, …

Politico reports: If Donald Trump loses on Nov. 5, the racist carnival he curated at Madison Square Garden could be remembered as the day that cost him this margin-of-error election. As Kamala Harris visited a Puerto Rican restaurant in Pennsylvania, talking about her “Puerto Rican Opportunity Economy Task Force,” Trump was at Madison Square Garden, where Tony Hinchcliffe, the host …

CNN reports: Most voters think former President Donald Trump will not concede if he loses the 2024 presidential election, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, with a sizable minority of his backers saying losing candidates have no obligation to do so. And should legal challenges related to the election find their way to the Supreme Court, a …

“The major broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) operate on free licenses of public spectrum in exchange for requirements to serve the public interest. They no longer do, and this is an obsolete model anyway. The spectrum should be auctioned off, with the proceeds used to pay down the national debt. “Of course, the networks can bid on the spectrum, and …

NBC News reports: Sen. JD Vance on Saturday defended Trump’s comments calling Democratic leaders “the enemy from within,” saying that inflation, slowing military recruitment and the migrant crisis are a “way bigger threat than any foreign threat.” These problems, the Ohio Republican told NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” are “caused by broken leadership.” Vance, who has emerged as a leading …

The Daily Beast reports: The Washington Post’s outgoing editor-at-large and longtime columnist has made explosive claims that its owner Jeff Bezos struck a deal with Donald Trump in order to kill the newspaper’s endorsement of Kamala Harris. Robert Kagan, who resigned from his position on Friday after more than two decades at the publication, told the Daily Beast that Trump’s …

The Independent reports: Donald Trump’s famous campaign slogan collided with his love of fast food as the former president promised to make McDonald’s ice cream machines “work great again.” The former president took to his Truth Social platform on Saturday night with a post that played off a popular meme that the franchise’s desert-making equipment is frequently out of commission. …

Courthouse News reports: A pair of Senate Democrats on Friday implored the Justice Department to launch an investigation into a political action committee run by billionaire Elon Musk that has been awarding enormous cash prizes to swing state voters — a scheme which some critics have framed as an effort to buy votes for former President Donald Trump. “Musk’s reward …

The Hill reports: Former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre is set to campaign with former President Trump in the critical swing state of Wisconsin next week. Trump’s campaign said that the Hall of Fame former NFL player will be a “special guest” speaker when Trump visits Green Bay, Wisc., on Oct. 30, less than a week before Election Day. …

The Daily Mail reports: MAGA fans streamed out of Donald Trump’s rally after in Michigan after the candidate was hours later after cutting cut a three-hour podcast interview with Joe Rogan in Texas. That may have been a smart way for Trump to reach millions of listeners to Rogan’s popular podcast, but it left fans watching videos in a chilly …

The Hill reports: The U.S. Army on Friday released a heavily redacted report on an incident at Arlington National Cemetery involving a staffer and aides with the Trump campaign when the former president visited the cemetery in August. The nonpartisan watchdog group American Oversight obtained a copy of the report, which offers very few details about the incident. It lists …

Politico reports: Donald Trump said Jack Smith should be “thrown out of the country” in a radio interview that aired Thursday evening, escalating his comments from earlier that day against the special counsel leading the federal government’s two criminal cases against him. “Jack Smith should be considered mentally deranged and he should be thrown out of the country,” the former …