Trump Corruption

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump has not played golf since an apparent assassination attempt near one of his courses on Sept. 15, and he will not do so until after the election, according to a person close to the campaign. Trump was told that federal agents could not ensure his safety to a degree that they were comfortable …

Mediaite reports: Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) really did not want to answer a New York Times reporter’s question about former President Donald Trump losing the 2020 election, refusing to answer it a total of five times. Vance sat down with Lulu Garcia-Navarro for the paper’s podcast The Interview, which will air in full on Saturday. The Times posted a three-minute …

The Washington Post reports: Donald Trump’s campaign requested military aircraft for Trump to fly in during the final weeks of the campaign, expanded flight restrictions over his residences and rallies, ballistic glass pre-positioned in seven battleground states for the campaign’s use and an array of military vehicles to transport Trump. The requests are extraordinary and unprecedented — no nominee in …

“Trump’s all talk when it comes being tough on China.  Some of you heard this. We just found out his Trump-branded Bibles, yeah, they’re printed in China. This dude even outsourced God to China. “I’m going to try and be generous here. I don’t blame him. He didn’t notice the Made in China sticker because they put it inside the …

“I have more complaints on grocery. The word, grocery. You know, it’s sorta simple word, but it sorta means like everything you eat. The stomach is speaking. It always does. And, uh, I have more complaints about that. Bacon and things going up. Double. Triple. Quadruple.” – Multiple felon, accused rapist, and very stable genius Trump, who continues to attack …

The Daily Beast reports: The moderator for Kamala Harris’s Univision town hall personally debunked yet another teleprompter conspiracy theory cooked up by right-wing influencers. Conservative commentators claimed to have uncovered a “gotcha” moment when a Univision camera panning the room during Thursday’s event showed Harris speaking in front of a teleprompter with writing that then went black. “Watch them panic …

The Guardian reports: Mark Milley, a retired US army general who was chair of the joint chiefs of staff under Donald Trump and Joe Biden, fears being recalled to uniform and court-martialed should Trump defeat Kamala Harris next month and return to power. “He is a walking, talking advertisement of what he’s going to try to do,” Milley recently “warned …

NBC News reports: Four cities and a county confirmed to NBC News that they’re still waiting for the Trump campaign to pay bills often associated with reimbursements for the costs of local law enforcement and other first responder personnel. The final price tag is more than $750,000 for those five jurisdictions, with some bills dating back eight years. Reached for …

Tony Schwartz writes for the New York Times: “The Apprentice” tells Mr. Trump’s story through the lens of the two men who most influenced him: his father, Fred, and Roy Cohn, his longtime lawyer and one of the most notorious and disgraced fixers of the 20th century. What they had in common, and passed on to Donald in spades, was …

“Donald Trump said that about North Carolina. Republicans not getting help, Democrats getting help, that was Donald Trump. But that kind of misinformation gets out there, and whether it’s perpetrated by a politician or someone you think is someone of note and authority, it is wrong. It is bull. And it cannot be tolerated.” – Fox News host Neil Cavuto, …

Rolling Stone reports: Roger Stone has some ideas of his own. In undercover audio provided exclusively to Rolling Stone by liberal documentarian Lauren Windsor, the Trump ally and notorious Republican “dirty trickster” suggests bringing armed personnel to election locations in order to get the results they want. “We have to fight it out on a state-by-state basis, but you have …

“And then all of a sudden, you hear that they’re leaving Milwaukee or they’re leaving wherever they may be located. It’s very sad to see it. And it’s so simple. I mean, you know, this isn’t like Elon with his rocket ships that land within 12 inches on the moon where they wanted to land. Or he gets the engines …

The Independent reports: Melania Trump has claimed that “cancel culture” led to her son Barron being refused a bank account after the Trump clan left the White House. In her memoir Melania, which came on Tuesday, the former first lady complains that she and Barron felt the “venom of cancel culture” in the weeks after the January 6 Capitol riot …

The Scranton Times-Union reports: The Scranton Fire Department firefighters’ union had nothing to do with several signs stating “Scranton Firefighters for Trump” held and displayed by members of the public at the former president’s campaign event Wednesday in Scranton, the union announced on Facebook. Neither the International Association of Fire Fighters union nor its local chapter in Scranton, Local 60, …

The New York Times reports: Former President Donald J. Trump expressed irritation on Thursday that anyone would challenge his claim that he had been declared “man of the year” in Michigan many years ago. During a speech in Detroit, he triumphantly pulled out a news story to prove that he was right. The only problem: The news outlet that published …

The Associated Press reports: President Joe Biden on Thursday publicly admonished Donald Trump, telling his predecessor to “get a life, man” and try to help people impacted by a pair of devastating hurricanes rather than spreading misinformation about the federal response. Speaking at the White House on the government’s work to address Hurricanes Milton and Helene, Biden condemned the “reckless, …

The Verge reports: Federal Communications Commission Chair Jessica Rosenworcel rejected former President Donald Trump’s call to revoke CBS’s broadcast license Thursday, saying it a familiar threat that “should not be ignored.” “While repeated attacks against broadcast stations by the former President may now be familiar, these threats against free speech are serious and should not be ignored,” Rosenworcel said in …

“60 Minutes is a major part of the News Organization of CBS, which has just created the Greatest Fraud in Broadcast History. CBS should lose its license, and it should be bid out to the Highest Bidder, as should all other Broadcast Licenses, because they are just as corrupt as CBS — and maybe even WORSE! “With me, 60 Minutes …

“A giant Fake News Scam by CBS & 60 Minutes. Her REAL ANSWER WAS CRAZY, OR DUMB, so they actually REPLACED it with another answer in order to save her or, at least, make her look better. “A FAKE NEWS SCAM, which is totally illegal. TAKE AWAY THE CBS LICENSE. Election Interference. She is a Moron, and the Fake News …

Mediaite reports: Chris LaCivita, a senior advisor to — and the de facto co-campaign manager of — Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, slammed Fox News on Wednesday for covering a White House press conference on Hurricane Milton attended by both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Biden, Harris and many other leaders urged the public to listen to local …