Trump Corruption

Trump: Picking My VP Is A Version Of “The Apprentice”

“I’d love to do it during the convention, which would be you know, or just slightly before the convention, like Monday. Love to do it on Tuesday or Wednesday, actually, but for a lot of complex reasons that you people understand, pretty much don’t do that. It’s like a highly sophisticated version of The Apprentice.” – Hair Furor, in an …

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Judge Tosses Giuliani’s Attempt To Declare Bankruptcy

The Guardian reports: A New York judge dismissed Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy case on Friday, clearing the way for two Georgia election workers to try and recover nearly $150m Giuliani was ordered to pay them for defaming them after the 2020 election. The ruling by US bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane comes after lawyers for the two women, Ruby Freeman and her …

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Trump: Clooney Is A “Very Disloyal Backstabber Third Rate Actor” And I Will “Gladly Accept His Endorsement”

The Hill reports: Former President Trump is blasting George Clooney as “very disloyal” for the actor’s New York Times essay calling on President Biden to bow out of the White House race. “Whether you like Biden or not, you know, he’s been nice to Clooney,” Trump said Friday. “I thought it was very disloyal, backstabber, third-rate movie actor,” Trump told …

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East Palestine Mayor To Speak At GOP Convention

Politico reports: Trent Conaway, the mayor of East Palestine, Ohio, is slated to speak at next week’s Republican National Convention. Trump visited East Palestine on Feb. 22, 2023, weeks after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in the northeastern Ohio village. Trump advisers view the visit as a turning point in his campaign, which had a rocky start. In November …

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EU Leaders Slam Orban After He Visits Trump In Florida

Bloomberg News reports: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban traveled to Florida to meet Donald Trump in the latest stop on his self-styled “peace mission” to resolve the war in Ukraine, which has angered Western allies. Orban posted a photo with the Republican nominee and former US president at his Mar-a-Lago resort, showing the pair giving a thumbs up, in a …

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Melania Trump Expected To Attend GOP Convention

The Independent reports: Former first lady Melania Trump will reportedly make a rare public appearance by attending next week’s Republican National Convention in Wisconsin. The former president’s wife has largely been absent from the 2024 campaign trail and did not attend Donald Trump’s high-profile hush money trial in New York alongside other Trump family members earlier this year. It remains …

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Trump Seeks Dismissal Of NY Hush Money Charges

The Washington Post reports: Donald Trump’s legal team has formally asked a judge to toss out the former president’s hush money conviction and the indictment that led to his trial, saying last week’s Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity means some of the evidence prosecutors used should not have been allowed. In a motion made public on Thursday, Trump’s lawyers …

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LA Times Board: One Candidate Is Unfit, It’s Not Biden

From the editorial board of the Los Angeles Times: It’s unbelievable that the nation is spending so much time on the question of Biden’s verbal acuity, when the greatest concern ought to be that his challenger is a self-aggrandizing felon and twice-impeached election-denier. Trump fomented the Jan. 6 insurrection, shows contempt for the rule of law and shamelessly lies in …

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Viktor Orban To Meet With Trump At Mar-A-Lago Today

The Guardian reports: Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, will fly to Mar-a-Lago on Thursday to meet with Donald Trump, according to two sources with knowledge of the meeting. Orbán has enraged his Nato allies by meeting with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping en route to the alliance’s summit in Washington DC. He has also met with Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv, …

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Over 140 Former Trump Staffers Are Involved In Project 2025, Which Trump Claims He “Knows Nothing About”

CNN reports: Six of Trump’s former Cabinet secretaries helped write or collaborated on the 900-page playbook for a second Trump term published by the Heritage Foundation. Four individuals Trump nominated as ambassadors were also involved, along with several enforcers of his controversial immigration crackdown. In fact, at least 140 people who worked in the Trump administration had a hand in …

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NYT Editorial Board: Trump Is “Simply Unfit To Lead”

From the editorial board of the New York Times: Mr. Trump has shown a character unworthy of the responsibilities of the presidency. He has demonstrated an utter lack of respect for the Constitution, the rule of law and the American people.  Instead of a cogent vision for the country’s future, Mr. Trump is animated by a thirst for political power: …

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Trump Attacks “Fake Movie Actor” George Clooney

“So now fake movie actor George Clooney, who never came close to making a great movie, is getting into the act. He’s turned on Crooked Joe like the rats they both are. “What does Clooney know about anything? He uses the Democrat ‘talking point’ that Biden, the WORST President in the history of the United States, has ‘saved our Democracy.’ …

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Trump Plans To Cut Intelligence Sharing With NATO

Politico reports: Donald Trump is considering a reduction in intelligence sharing with members of NATO, which depends on the U.S. for the type of information that has helped Ukraine fend off Russia, according to foreign officials informed of the plans. Trump advisers have told allied countries the reduced intel sharing would be part of a broader plan to scale back …

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Fake Electors To Serve As GOP Convention Delegates

CNN reports: Seven battleground states are sending fake electors and others who worked to upend the 2020 election results to represent their state parties at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where they will officially anoint Donald Trump as their presidential nominee. The fake electors and other election deniers identified by CNN include several who are currently facing criminal charges …

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Cohen Asks SCOTUS To Revive His Suit Against Trump

NBC News reports: Michael Cohen asked the Supreme Court to wade into his fight with former President Donald Trump after a federal appeals court rejected his latest attempt to seek compensation for being jailed in what another judge called an act of retribution. In a filing he will make with the court on Wednesday, Cohen asked for a review of …

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Judge Likely To Boot Giuliani’s Bankruptcy Attempt

Politico reports: A New York federal judge is poised to dismiss Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy case, expressing concern Wednesday that Giuliani has used the proceedings to obfuscate his assets and delay paying a massive defamation penalty to two Georgia election workers. “I’m leaning toward dismissal, frankly, because I am concerned that the past is prologue,” U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane said …

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Trump: I Didn’t Know What NATO Was Before 2016

“You know I saved NADDO [sic] because when I went down — hey, Barack Hussein Obama, has anyone ever heard of him? “He would go, he would go and, you know, go to wherever the holding had a meeting and he’d make a nice speech and Bush would go and make a nice speech and he would leave, in all …

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Trump Advisors Weasel Their Way Into NATO Summit

Reuters reports: Several high-ranking European officials have met with a top foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump during the ongoing NATO summit in Washington this week, as America’s allies gird for the possible reelection of the former president. Keith Kellogg, a retired lieutenant general who served as the chief of staff to Trump’s National Security Council, told Reuters he has …

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Trump: Nobody Eats Bacon Anymore Thanks To Biden

The Guardian reports: It was a standard Trump stump speech, full of evidence-free claims that his 2020 election defeat was fraudulent; baseless accusations that overseas nations were sending to the US “most of their prisoners”; and a laughable assertion that a gathering of supporters numbering in the hundreds was really a crowd of 45,000. It also touched on the surreal. …

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Trump Challenges Biden To $1M Charity Golf Match

The Independent reports: Donald Trump challenged Joe Biden to another presidential debate “this week” and a golf match that he claimed would be “bigger than the Ryder Cup or even the Masters” during his latest campaign rally. The former president took to the stage at Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami, Florida — which he described as “one of …

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