Trump Corruption

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 …

“The World is on fire and spiraling out of control. We have no leadership, no one running the Country. We have a non-existent President in Joe Biden, and a completely absent Vice President, Kamala Harris, who is too busy fundraising in San Francisco, a City which she and Gavin Newscum totally destroyed, and staging fake photo ops. No one is …

“We’re going to move education back to the states where they can run their educational programs, and they’ll do great. And you take states like Iowa and Idaho and so many, they’ll have great education. “But we have to get out of this Washington thing. Half the buildings in Washington are occupied by education. And you’ll have to get through …

Playbook reports: Touring devastation in Georgia, Trump declared falsely that local leaders hadn’t been able to connect with Biden. (In fact, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said he’d talked with Biden, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said his state got what it needed.) Trump was first to visit the damage in person, and he launched a GoFundMe that has raised more …

NBC News reports: Kamala Harris is launching a seven-figure ad blitz about health care targeting Donald Trump’s calls to replace the Affordable Care Act with a mystery plan he hasn’t yet released. The ad campaign, first reported by NBC News, is aimed at elevating the issue and capitalizing on what polling says is a weakness for Trump. The new 60-second …

“Walz was very good in debates. I want to repeat that Tim Walz is very good in debates. Really good. He’s been a politician for nearly 20 years. He’ll be very well prepared.He’s not going to be the wildly gesticulating effeminate caricature we see at rallies pointing to Kamala Harris and dancing about on the stage.” – Trump senior advisor …

The Associated Press reports: Donald Trump repeatedly spread falsehoods Monday about the federal response to Hurricane Helene despite claiming not to be politicizing the disaster as he toured hard-hit areas in south Georgia. The former president claimed upon landing in Valdosta that President Joe Biden was “sleeping” and not responding to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, who he said was “calling …

Go Erie reports: The bills are piling up for former President Donald Trump’s campaign. The city of Erie will bill Trump’s campaign for costs incurred by the Erie Bureau of Police and other departments for his rally Sunday at the Bayfront Convention Center, according to Renee Lamis, chief of staff for Mayor Joe Schember, who said the city is reviewing …

Mediaite reports: Donald Trump claimed on Monday that “nobody thought” a storm as devastating as Hurricane Helene would make landfall at this point in the year despite the fact that it is currently peak hurricane season. In remarks made in Valdosta, Georgia on Monday, Trump lamented that “the devastation wrought by this storm is incredible.” “It’s so extensive, nobody thought …

“We are now heading to Valdosta, Georgia, in order to pay my respects and bring lots of relief material, including fuel, equipment, water, and other things, to the State. Many politicians and Law Enforcement will be there. “We’ll be saying hello to Franklin Graham, Burt Jones, Tyler Harper, Mike Collins, Austin Scott, Russ Goodman, Sam Watson, and the Mayor of …

“Another FAKE and STAGED photo from someone who has no clue what she is doing. You have to plug the cord into the phone for it to work! “Biden and Harris abandoned Americans in Afghanistan. They sacrificed Americans to an Open Border, and now, they have left Americans to drown in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and elsewhere in the …

“On behalf of President Trump and our campaign, we want to extend our thoughts and our prayers to the thousands across our country who have been affected. “Yesterday we went to Erie, Pennsylvania and the president made a point on the plane on the way there that we need to address this at top of our speech and he did …

“It will be a very scary time for our country [if Harris wins]. I think this election is a choice between freedom and communism. “Standing for the First Amendment versus censorship that is led not just by Big Tech but the federal government, aiding and abetting that censorship. “We saw it in the 2020 election and lead up to that. …

The New York Times reports: For Jamie McGregor, a businessman in Springfield, Ohio, speaking favorably about the Haitian immigrants he employs has come to this: death threats, a lockdown at his company and posters around town branding him a traitor for hiring immigrants. They came by the hundreds — phone calls, emails and letters from white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other …

CNN reports: Donald Trump on Sunday repeated his personal insults about Vice President Kamala Harris’ mental state as some GOP allies urged him to stay on message and avoid such attacks after he made similar remarks at a rally the night before. “Joe Biden became mentally impaired. It’s sad, but lying Kamala Harris, honestly, I believe she was born that …

The Daily Beast reports: Former President Donald Trump openly admitted that he “hated” to pay his workers overtime at the Trump organization and would even replace those who spoke out about it—comments the Harris campaign immediately seized upon. “I shouldn’t say this,” he said, but continued on anyway. “I know a lot about overtime. I hated to give overtime, I …