Trump Corruption

The New York Times reports: Elon Musk plans to spend election night with former President Donald J. Trump, giving Mr. Trump direct access to the person controlling one of key information platforms on what could be a chaotic evening. Mr. Musk, according to three people with knowledge of his schedule, plans to be at Mar-a-Lago for some of the evening …

The Associated Press reports: A judge has ordered Rudy Giuliani to appear in a New York courtroom on Thursday to explain why he missed a deadline to surrender his belongings as part of a $148 million defamation judgment. U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman issued the order late Monday after lawyers for Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss reported …

West Palm Beach’s Fox affiliate reports: Trump cast his ballot at the Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreation Center on Palm Beach and spoke to reporters afterward, saying it “seems that the conservatives are voting very powerfully” and “it looks like Republicans have shown up in force.””It looks like we have a very substantial lead. It looks like we have many …

The New York Times reports: One by one, they testified under oath: a military spouse who moves every three years. A man just back from six months of traveling around the country. A graduate student temporarily away for school. All were eligible voters who had cast a mail ballot in Chester County, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia, before Election Day. …

The Huffington Post reports: Donald Trump launched into a wild new attack against Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) where he mouthed the word “bitch” as he railed against the former House speaker. “She’s a crooked person, she’s a bad person, evil, she’s an evil, sick, crazy b-.” Trump said, catching himself. He then mouthed the word twice without actually saying it. …

“Our message to Kamala Harris is very simple. The citizens of this country, they are not garbage for thinking you’re doing a bad job. The citizens of this country are not racist for thinking you ought to close down that damn southern border. The citizens of this country are not garbage for wanting to be able to afford groceries and …

The New York Times reports: Joe Rogan, the enormously popular podcast host who brought Donald J. Trump onto his show for a three-hour episode last month, endorsed the former president in a post on social media on Monday. Mr. Rogan  said Mr. Musk made “what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you’ll hear, and I agree with …

NBC News reports: A Pennsylvania judge on Monday declined an effort by the Philadelphia district attorney to stop Elon Musk’s America PAC from doling out cash prizes to registered voters. The judge’s injunction means Musk’s PAC will be able to do one last giveaway on Tuesday, the last day of the offer. hiladelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner sued Musk and …

“And here’s news, it’s breaking today. Sleepy Joe Biden has announced officially that he likes Trump more that he likes Ka-MAH-la. And he actually hates my guts, but he likes Trump more than he likes. He hates — they walked into the office. He just got 14 million votes. He voted for me. “That’s one of the ladies from North …

NOTUS reports: One Democratic member told NOTUS that he and about a half dozen other lawmakers had taken out legal insurance to pay for lawyers in case Trump tried to sue or arrest them. This member also said he had heard Democrats make jokes about getting another passport in front of foreign officials, in only a sort of joking kind …

The Guardian reports: Elon Musk’s pro-Trump group does not choose the winners of its $1m-a-day giveaway to registered voters at random, but instead picks people who would be good spokespeople for its agenda, an attorney for the billionaire said on Monday. Musk lawyer Chris Gober was trying to persuade a Pennsylvania judge that the giveaway was not an “illegal lottery”, …

“I went very viral. I was simply analyzing that it’s unhealthy for a political movement to try to encourage a wife to lie to their husband about who they vote for. I just think that’s really gross, honestly, about, like, the deceit between — like, the disharmony of a holy union. That’s just me. “This is the Julia Roberts ad …

CNN reports: On his social media platform, Musk has posted a seemingly endless stream of political messages, many in support of Trump and far-right political narratives, generating more than 17.1 billion views since the July endorsement, according to the Center for Countering Digital Hate. Musk’s enormous megaphone generated twice as many views as all political ads on the platform combined …

The New York Times reports: James O’Keefe, the conservative influencer who founded and formerly led Project Veritas, has assembled a corps of election workers and poll monitors planning to secretly film voting and ballot counting in states across the country. The group intends to use hidden cameras to record and then publicize video to support their claims of fraud or …

“Early voting, I know a lot of people here have done it already in North Carolina, which means you now have, I’m seeing all the heads nod, it means you now have all day tomorrow to bring your friends to the polls. Don’t fall for the psyops. You see this stuff, right? Half this stuff is designed to demoralize you, …

Mediaite reports: Invoking language generally reserved for the darker, sexually-frustrated parts of the internet, Cheung referred to Patrick Dillon, the husband of Jennifer O’Malley Dillon, Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign manager, as a “cuck husband” who “has no idea what he’s talking about because he’s used to not knowing what’s going on behind his back.” The tweet, which was still …

The New York Post reports: Rudy Giuliani is exploring running for New York City mayor next year, political insiders say — and the disgraced ex-Hizzoner isn’t outright denying it. Giuliani, reached by The Post on Sunday at his Palm Beach, Fla. home, said, “I’m not going to say never, ever, ever.” Giuliani said Sunday that the idea of him running …

The Daily Beast reports: Herschel Walker, the retired NFL running back and failed GOP Senate candidate, stumbled over his words in his first political appearance of the 2024 election cycle, asking voters to cast their ballots for Donald Trump Jr. before quickly realizing his error and urging voters to vote for Trump Jr.’s father instead. “It is time for it …

Axios reports: Behind the bluster, former President Trump’s campaign is preparing staff members to wind down the operation while privately acknowledging that Trump could lose Tuesday’s election. It’s unusual for Trump or his campaign to portray anything but rosy scenarios. But an email to staff on Friday offered a clear-eyed view of what could happen in this coin-flip election. Zoom …

The Hill reports: A judge on Friday rejected Elon Musk’s attempt to move to federal court a lawsuit challenging his $1 million daily giveaways to registered voters in swing states, enabling a hearing to proceed before Election Day. Musk’s attorneys have accused Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner (D) of attempting to rush a court-ordered stop to the giveaways. By trying …