Trump Corruption

Republic World reports: Donald Trump claims that the secret ingredient to President Joe Biden’s big speeches is the “cocaine” that is supposedly being “pumped” into him. In an interview with conspiracy theorist Wayne Allyn Root on Wednesday, the 77-year-old said that “I think they pump him up, absolutely,” but casually left out who he was precisely referring to with the …

Politico reports: Amid Donald Trump’s desperate bid to subvert the 2020 election, a top adviser, Boris Epshteyn, sent out an “urgent POTUS request” to a small group of allies. “Need best examples of ‘election fraud’ that we’ve alleged that’s super easy to explain,” he wrote in a Dec. 7, 2020 text message. “Doesn’t necessarily have to be proven but does …

Posted last night to Trump’s Trump Social account: Page 1: The DOJ will not defend me in the E. Jean Carroll civil case, which is all part of the political Witch Hunt, lawyered up by a political operative who I just beat in another case, financed by a big political funder, and “judged” by a Clinton appointee who truly hates …

Rolling Stone reports: Donald Trump is once again mad online, this time because a federal prosecutor he appointed struck a plea deal with Hunter Biden that didn’t involved the president’s son being put to death. “Weiss is a COWARD, a smaller version of Bill Barr, who never had the courage to do what everyone knows should have been done,” the …

The Hill reports: The Justice Department on Tuesday said it will no longer defend former President Trump as being immune in writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit. The DOJ had previously certified that Trump was acting in the scope of his employment as president when he made allegedly defamatory statements denying Carroll’s account that Trump sexually assaulted her in the …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: The selection of two Fulton County grand juries will be made Tuesday, with one of the panels expected to decide whether to hand up an indictment for alleged criminal interference in the 2020 presidential election. One set of jurors is likely to be asked to bring formal charges against former President Donald Trump and other well-known …

CNBC reports: Former President Donald Trump on Monday night asked a federal court to hold off on setting a date for the criminal trial over his handling of classified documents, arguing that the unprecedented case requires “a measured consideration and timeline.” Attorneys for Trump and Walt Nauta, the former president’s valet and co-defendant, also noted that it will be “challenging” …

Posted this afternoon to Trump’s Truth Social account: I love Iowa, protected & expanded Ethanol, got 28 Billion Dollars from China for our great Farmers, ended the Estate (Death!) Tax on farms, made the best TRADE deals in history (USMCA, China, & many more), introduced the World to our FARMERS, & kept Iowa’s “First in the Nation” status. I opened …

ESPN reports: LIV Golf League officials announced Monday that the $50 million team championship will be played Oct. 20-22 at Trump National Doral, which is owned by former U.S. President Donald Trump. The three-day team championship was originally scheduled to be played Nov. 3-5 at Royal Greens Golf & Country Club in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. “We’re thrilled to return to …

Posted this afternoon to Hair Furor’s Truth Social account: Was Crooked Joe Biden on Cocaine when he instructed the FBI/DOJ to illegally invade my home, Mar-a-Lago, in complete and total violation of my 4th Amendment Rights? Was he on Cocaine, or various other substances, when he, for the first time in U.S. history, had his political opponent, who is leading …

The Washington Examiner reports: An attorney for former President Donald Trump was booted from the New York attorney general’s case against Trump, and will now serve in a new role with a Trump-aligned political action committee. Alina Habba will take the lead in a new position for the Save America Leadership PAC, according to a press release on Friday. Habba …

Bloomberg News reports: A federal appeals court tossed out what remained of Donald Trump’s unsuccessful legal fight to stop his former vice president-turned-rival Mike Pence from testifying about efforts to overturn the 2020 election. A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit issued a sealed order on Friday granting a request by Special Counsel Jack Smith’s …

NBC News reports: In the book, excerpts of which were obtained first by NBC News, Miles Taylor describes having heard about Trump’s interest in “tapping” the phones of White House aides in a bid to stanch press leaks. Former White House chief of staff John Kelly said in an interview with NBC News that Trump had wanted to pursue leakers …

The Hill reports: Two civil rights organizations are launching a campaign to pressure state governments to disqualify former President Trump from appearing on ballots in 2024. The groups say secretaries of state are empowered by the 14th amendment to bar Trump from running for office because of the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection. Starting Sunday, Mi Familia Vota and Free …

CBS News reports: Special counsel Jack Smith’s two investigations of former President Donald Trump cost more than $9 million in the first five months after Smith was tapped in November 2022 by Attorney General Merrick Garland to oversee the Justice Department’s ongoing Trump-related investigations, according to expenditure statements released Friday. Smith is investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election …

The Washington Post reports: Individual prosecutors involved in the classified documents case against former president Donald Trump are facing substantial harassment and threats online and elsewhere, according to extremism experts and a government official familiar with the matter. At the same time, two officials said, federal agencies have not observed a general increase in threats against law enforcement in the …

Reuters reports: Rudy Giuliani should lose his law license in Washington for directing former President Donald Trump’s failed legal challenge to the 2020 presidential election results in Pennsylvania, an attorney ethics review panel has recommended. A District of Columbia Bar committee that heard evidence in the case last year concluded in a report released on Friday that Giuliani, a close …

CNN reports: Special counsel Jack Smith’s team has signaled a continued interest in a chaotic Oval Office meeting that took place in the final days of the Trump administration, during which the former president considered some of the most desperate proposals to keep him in power over objections from his White House counsel. Multiple sources told CNN that investigators have …

From the watchdog group CREW: One hundred seventy-four defendants from 37 states who were charged for their participation in the January 6th insurrection have said they were answering Donald Trump’s calls when they traveled to Washington and joined the violent attack on the Capitol. CREW’s examination of court filings, transcripts, and news items regarding defendants in January 6th cases shows …

The Messenger reports: Walt Nauta, Donald Trump’s personal assistant who was indicted with the former president in the federal classified documents case, finally hired a South Florida criminal defense attorney to represent him Thursday as he prepares to plead not guilty at his arraignment in Miami. Sasha Dadan, a 34-year-old Republican all-purpose criminal defense attorney who ran in 2018 for …