Trump Corruption

The Daily Beast reports: Bernie Kerik, the former NYPD commissioner who collected evidence of supposed election fraud for the Trump campaign in 2020, has cut a deal to turn over records to Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith as part of the investigation into Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Smith previously sought the documents, which are …

The Insider reports: Former President Donald Trump’s becoming more and more unfavorable amongst Republicans as the 2024 presidential election approaches, according to a recent Pew Research poll. According to the poll, conducted between July 10 and 16, the share of Republican and Republican-leaning independents who view the former president as “unfavorable” has risen from 24% in 2022 to 32% in …

“They’re going to try to do anything to stop Trump. This talking point that it’s ‘No, they really want to run against Trump,’ no, that play is a Fourteenth Amendment play. They want to do the insurrection thing like they used from the Civil War days to prevent him from ever being on the ballot. “But Megyn, honestly, like, at …

From a midnight post to Trump’s Truth Social account: Do you think that A.G. Garland, and Deranged Jack Smith, understand that we are in the middle of a major political campaign for President of the United States? Have they looked at recent poll numbers? Why didn’t they bring these ridiculous charges years before – Why did they wait to bring …

Courthouse News reports: As Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis prepares to announce charges in the coming weeks in her investigation of potential criminal interference with Georgia’s 2020 election, former President Donald Trump has made a last-ditch effort to block the indictment he likely faces. Chief Judge Ural Glanville recused the entire judicial bench of the Fulton County court from …

The Hill reports: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) has been contacted by the federal special counsel investigating former President Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, Kemp’s office confirmed Friday. Former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) was also contacted for the investigation. Trump called Ducey multiple times to pressure him to overturn Arizona’s election results. The move shows overlap between …

The Huffington Post reports: Former President Donald Trump dodged what he described as a “great question” on faith from an Iowa woman during a pre-recorded Fox News town hall earlier this week. Trump, in a new clip from the Sean Hannity-hosted event, dished out a response to a woman who asked him how his faith has “grown” since his decision …

The Independent reports: Donald Trump’s new lawyer will ask a judge to allow cameras in a federal courtroom if the one-term president is indicted with January 6 election fraud charges by the Department of Justice. Mr Trump has said that he received a target letter from special counsel Jack Smith who could be set to bring criminal charges against the …

Via press release from the Trump campaign: Today’s order by Judge Cannon is a major setback to the DOJ’s crusade to deny President Trump a fair legal process. The extensive schedule allows President Trump and his legal team to continue fighting this empty hoax. Crooked Joe Biden is losing and attempting to use his weaponized DOJ against his top political …

“I will use Title 42 to end the child trafficking crisis by returning all trafficked children to their families in their home countries and without delay, and I will urge Congress to ensure that anyone caught trafficking children across our border receives the death penalty immediately and that includes also for women, because women as you know are number one …

The New York Times reports: Michael D. Cohen, the longtime fixer to Donald J. Trump, who was set to go to trial next week against his former boss’s company in a dispute over legal fees, is expected to settle his lawsuit with the Trump Organization, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. Mr. Cohen’s lawsuit, filed in 2019, …

West Palm Beach’s ABC affiliate reports: A judge on Friday set a jury trial date of May 20, 2024 for former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case in Fort Pierce. U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon issued a written order, saying the trial will start at 9:30 a.m. on that date. Trump and co-defendant …

The Guardian reports: The Fulton county district attorney investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state of Georgia has developed sufficient evidence to charge a sprawling racketeering indictment next month, according to two people briefed on the matter. The racketeering statute in Georgia requires prosecutors to show the existence of an “enterprise” – and a …

From Trump’s interview yesterday with an Iowa podcaster: DOUG WAGNER: Is it something that concerns you of the people making sure that they don’t go out of their right mind if something like that happens, if that, for example, they do say — Jack Smith says, OK, I’m going to put Donald Trump in jail? DONALD TRUMP: I think it’s …

Reuters reports: A U.S. judge on Wednesday denied former U.S. President Donald Trump’s bid to move from New York state court to federal court the case against him stemming from a hush money payment to a porn star. “Trump has failed to show that the conduct charged … is for or relating to any act performed by or for the …

NBC News reports: The letter that former President Donald Trump received from special counsel Jack Smith informing him that he is a target of the federal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election mentions three federal statutes related to the deprivation of rights, conspiracy to defraud the U.S., and tampering with a witness. Those three federal statutes were …

Posted today to Trump’s Trump Social account: These vicious Communists, Marxists, Fascists, and Radical Left Democrats have attacked my lawyers at a level never seen before, and yet I keep on winning. Any attorney that represents me is either a fool, or a Great American Patriot that History will love and cherish! Followed by this: THESE LUNATICS AND THUGS ARE …

ABC News reports: A federal judge in New York on Wednesday denied former President Donald Trump’s request for a new trial in the defamation and battery case brought by E Jean Carroll that resulted in a $5 million damage award. Trump had sought a new trial after a New York jury in May found him liable for sexually assaulting the …

“There’s a legal debate about it but based on my review, he can pardon himself. But even if he can’t pardon himself, if he can get into office before the cases are resolved, he can pull the case back. “He’s going to be the person appointing the Attorney General of the United States, and I’m very sure it will not …

“Think of President Xi. Central casting, brilliant guy. You know, when I say he’s brilliant, everyone says, ‘Oh that’s terrible.’ Well, he runs 1.4 billion people with an iron fist. Smart, brilliant, everything perfect. There’s nobody in Hollywood like this guy. I got them to pay us $28 billion because they screwed our farmers for years.” – Donald Trump, in …