Trump Corruption

INDICTMENT: Illegal Conspiracy To Undermine Election

CNN reports: The indictment against Donald Trump alleges the former president was involved in a conspiracy to undermine the integrity of the 2016 election. Prosecutors alleged Trump was part of an unlawful plan to suppress negative information — including an illegal payment of $130,000 that was ordered by the defendant to suppress information that would hurt his campaign. The indictment …

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Trump Demands NYC Trial Be Moved To Staten Island; Junior, Eric Trump, MTG Post Photo Of Judge’s Daughter

The Daily Mail reports: Donald Trump has demanded that the Stormy Daniels hush money case be moved from Manhattan to the more Republican-friendly Staten Island. The former president tore into the judge’s supposed anti-Trump sentiment on Truth Social and said the new location would be ‘very fair and secure’, as protesters and the world’s media swarmed the Manhattan court where …

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Trump Pleads Not Guilty To All 34 Felony Charges

Reuters reports: Donald Trump, the former president and front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records after an investigation into hush money paid to a porn star. A photo taken by a photographer in the courtroom showed Trump sitting at the defense table, flanked by lawyers. Five photographers were …

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Trump Now In Courtroom After Being Fingerprinted

ABC News reports: Former President Donald Trump has been processed as a criminal defendant, including having his fingerprints taken. Trump then entered a Manhattan courtroom for an unprecedented arraignment. Trump didn’t speak to the press as he headed into the courtroom at 2:28 p.m., nearly one hour after he entered the courthouse at 1:23 p.m. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg …

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Trump Placed Under Arrest At Manhattan Courthouse

NBC News reports: Donald Trump has arrived at the New York City courthouse where he was arrested and will be arraigned later Tuesday on dozens of charges related to hush money payments — the first time in American history that a former president will face criminal charges. Trump arrived at the courthouse at 100 Centre St. in Lower Manhattan in …

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LIVE VIDEO: Trump Surrenders At NYC Courthouse

The New York Times reports: Donald J. Trump is expected to surrender to the authorities in Manhattan on Tuesday and appear in court for the first time as a criminal defendant to face more than two dozen felony charges, a remarkable spectacle that will play out before a divided nation. On Tuesday morning, as helicopters circled overhead, the streets outside …

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Appeals Court: Trump Aides Must Testify In GA Case

The Hill reports: The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the Department of Justice Tuesday in ordering testimony from former chief of staff Mark Meadows and other top Trump White House staffers in DOJ’s Jan. 6 investigation. Trump had appealed a sealed decision from then-D.C. District Court Judge Beryl Howell last week that rejected his claims of executive privilege …

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34 Felony Charges Equal Potential 136 Year Sentence

Mediate reports: The maximum sentences for the 34 felony counts former President Donald Trump reportedly faces add up to a staggering 136 years in prison — although he’s not likely to face anything near that number. Yahoo! News Chief investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff attributed his reporting to “a source who has been briefed on the procedures for the arraignment of …

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What To Expect During Today’s Historic Arraignment

The New York Daily News reports: Trump, 76, is expected to appear before State Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan in Manhattan around 2:15 p.m. Tuesday on still-unknown criminal charges stemming from prosecutors’ long-running investigation into his business dealings. Trump is expected to arrive at the DA’s offices in the lower Manhattan courthouse at 100 Centre St several hours before appearing …

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Judge Allows Still Cameras Before Trump Arraignment

ABC News reports: Judge Juan Merchan will allow five pool still photographers to snap for several minutes before the arraignment formally starts, according to a decision issued Monday night. No video cameras will be allowed, though Judge Merchan conceded, “That this indictment involves a matter of monumental significance cannot possibly be disputed. Never in the history of the United States …

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Trump Demands That Alvin Bragg “Indict Himself”

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: Wow! District Attorney Bragg just illegally LEAKED the various points, and complete information, on the pathetic Indictment against me. I know the reporter and so, unfortunately, does he. This means that he MUST BE IMMEDIATELY INDICTED. Now, if he wants to really clean up his reputation, he will do the honorable thing …

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Trump Lawyers Beg Judge To Ban Courtroom Cameras

Reuters reports: Beefing up his legal team, Trump hired Todd Blanche, a prominent white-collar criminal defense lawyer and former federal prosecutor, to lead his defense, two sources familiar with the matter said. Blanche and other Trump lawyers on Monday urged the judge not to allow videography, photography and radio coverage of the arraignment. In a letter to the court, they …

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Forbes Slices $700 Million From Trump’s Net Worth

Forbes reports: The former president’s fortune dropped from an estimated $3.2 billion last fall to $2.5 billion today. The biggest reason? His social media business, once hyped to the moon, has come crashing down, erasing $550 million from his net worth—so far. In December 2021, a group of big-money investors promised to inject $1 billion in cash into the venture—but …

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Networks Go Full “OJ In A White Bronco” As Trump’s “Perp Force One” Departs Florida For LaGuardia [Video]

The Hill reports: Former President Trump departed his Florida home Monday afternoon as he travels to New York City for his Tuesday court date. Trump’s motorcade departed his Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach shortly after 12:15 p.m. EDT en route to a local airport. CNN, Fox News and MSNBC all aired live coverage of the SUVs making their way …

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Fox: Secret Service Agents To Testify In Docs Probe

Newsweek reports: A number of Secret Service agents are set to testify as part of the federal investigation into Donald Trump handling of classified documents, according to reports. Fox News’s Bret Baier said on Twitter that “multiple “Secret Service agents connected to the former president have been subpoenaed and are “expected to testify before the D.C. grand jury likely on …

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Trump To Hold Mar-A-Lago Presser After NYC Arrest

“I think the entire world will be watching just how strong and just how fervent he is that we must continue this Make America Great Again movement because you can’t have Trump policies without President Trump. Nobody wants to go see the tribute band when the Rolling Stones are still playing. They’re here for President Trump and the Republican Party …

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Feds Have New Obstruction Evidence In Docs Case

The Washington Post reports: Justice Department and FBI investigators have amassed fresh evidence pointing to possible obstruction by former president Donald Trump in the investigation into top-secret documents found at his Mar-a-Lago home, according to people familiar with the matter. The additional evidence comes as investigators have used emails and text messages from a former Trump aide to help understand …

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Barr Suggests Trump Would Lie On Witness Stand

From the Fox News Sunday transcript: BREAM: I’ll ask you what I asked Jim Trusty as well. If the president was your client, would you put him on the stand? Because I’ve got to imagine, in any of these cases, if it gets to trial, he’s going to want to defend himself. BARR: Yeah. Well, I mean, I’m not his …

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Trump Lawyer: We’ll Challenge Every Charge We Can

CNN reports: “We’re not doing anything at the arraignment because that would be showmanship and nothing more because we haven’t even seen the indictment yet. We will take the indictment, we will dissect it, the team will look at every potential issue that we will be able to challenge and we will challenge it,” Joe Tacopina told CNN’s Dana Bash. …

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Haberman: Cameras Needed In Court Or Trump Will Lie

“There is a compelling public interest argument to make. It is absolutely true that New York is really regressive in terms of cameras in the courtroom. I do expect there’ll be an argument made. I’m not sure what the ruling will be on that. One of the things we saw over and over – both with Michael Cohen, in terms …

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