Trump Corruption

Special Counsel Subpoenas Meadows In J6 Probe

Bloomberg News reports: Mark Meadows, former President Donald Trump’s last chief of staff, has been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, according to a person familiar with the matter. Meadows was subpoenaed as part of an investigation being led by Special Counsel Jack Smith and would become the highest-ranking official who …

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Dems Seek Docs On Kushner’s $2 Billion Saudi Deal

The Washington Post reports: A senior Democrat on Tuesday renewed a request to Jared Kushner for documents outlining how the former White House official received $2 billion from a Saudi investment fund, writing that Kushner had failed to respond to an earlier inquiry and raising new questions about whether he had “improperly traded” on his government work to benefit his …

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Prosecutors Seek Testimony From Trump’s Lawyer

The New York Times reports: Prosecutors have sought approval from a federal judge to invoke what is known as the crime-fraud exception, which allows them to work around attorney-client privilege when they have reason to believe that legal advice or legal services have been used in furthering a crime. The fact that prosecutors invoked the exception in a sealed motion …

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Trump Lawyer: COVID Was Released To Wreck Election

“I don’t think people saw it coming and they wouldn’t have been able to do this without COVID. And I think that’s why a lot of Americans question: Did they intentionally release COVID for the purpose of messing up the 2020 election, or was it something that happened and they just took advantage of it? I mean, we don’t — …

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Trump Loses Appeal, Must Pay $110K Contempt Fine

Just in via press release: New York Attorney General Letitia James released the following statement after the Appellate Division, First Department ruled in favor of Attorney General James and upheld a ruling ordering Donald Trump to pay a $110,000 fine to the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) after he was found in contempt of court for his refusal to …

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Junior: I’m Not On Cocaine, I’m Just “Impassioned”

“I’ve been blessed beyond belief in this country. I got thrown into politics in my late 30s, and all the sudden, it’s like, hey, I just actually believe this stuff. I will more than happily fight for it. “It would have been a lot easier to shut the hell up and be a real estate developer. It’s so important to …

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Rolling Stone: Trump Has Floated “Group Executions”

Rolling Stone reports: The former president, if re-elected, is still committed to expanding the use of the federal death penalty and bringing back banned methods of execution, the sources say. He has even, one of the sources recounts, mused about televising footage of executions, including showing condemned prisoners in the final moments of their lives. Specifically, Trump has talked about …

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Trump Compares FBI’s Mar-A-Lago Search To Gestapo

Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: Many of the so-called “documents” that the “Gestapo” took in the Raid of Mar-a-Lago, unlike the”No Raids of Biden,” were merely inexpensive and very common folders with words such as “Presidential Reading,” “Confidential,” “Classified,” or other words stamped on the front cover. There was nothing inside of the folders because, during meetings where …

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Mike Pence To Challenge Special Counsel’s Subpoena

Politico reports: Mike Pence is preparing to resist a grand jury subpoena for testimony about former President Donald Trump’s push to overturn the 2020 election, according to two people familiar with the former vice president’s thinking. Pence’s decision to challenge Special Counsel Jack Smith’s request has little to do with executive privilege, the people said. Rather, Pence is set to …

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GA Judge Orders Partial Release Of Grand Jury Probe

Axios reports: Part of an Atlanta grand jury’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election will be made public on Thursday, Fulton County Judge Robert McBurney said Monday. The report’s recommendations are expected to influence Fulton District Attorney Fani Willis’ decision on whether — and whom — to indict for criminal conduct. National and local media outlets argued for …

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Trump Lawyer Claims Trump Was Using Classified Doc Folder To Block Phone Light That Kept Him Up At Night

The Huffington Post reports: An attorney for Donald Trump said the latest classified folder turned over to investigators was just that ― a folder, and a folder alone ― which the former president used to block a light that was bothering him at night. Timothy Parlatore downplayed the folder on CNN as “one of the more humorous aspects of this …

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Famous Loser Rages About Rihanna’s Performance

Yahoo News reports: Donald Trump has launched a fresh attack on Rihanna over her highly-applauded Super Bowl half-time show at Sunday night’s Super Bowl. The former president took to his Truth Social platform to fume: “EPIC FAIL: Rihanna gave, without question, the single worst Halftime Show in Super Bowl history. “This after insulting far more than half of our Nation, …

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Trump To Appeal Special Counsel’s Pence Subpoena

The Washington Examiner reports: Attorneys for former President Donald Trump will appeal the subpoena issued to former Vice President Mike Pence by the special counsel investigating the 45th president on executive privilege grounds, according to multiple reports. Sources close to Pence confirmed on Friday that the former vice president had been subpoenaed by special counsel Jack Smith. CBS News reports …

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Trump’s Secret 2020 Researchers Couldn’t Prove Fraud

The Washington Post reports: Former president Trump’s 2020 campaign commissioned an outside research firm in a bid to prove electoral fraud claims but never released the findings because the firm disputed many of his theories and could not offer any proof that he was the rightful winner of the election, according to four people familiar with the matter. The campaign …

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Trump Team Turns Over Laptop With Copied Docs

The Associated Press reports: Lawyers for former President Donald Trump voluntarily turned over to federal investigators additional papers marked as classified as well as a laptop belonging to a Trump aide, a person familiar with the situation said Friday night. The legal team also provided an empty folder with classified markings, according to the person, who spoke on condition of …

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Trump Attacks “No Talent” Super Bowl Singer Rihanna

The Hill reports: Former President Trump criticized singer Rihanna on Thursday ahead of her planned performance at the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday. “Without her “Stylist” she’d be NOTHING. Bad everything, and NO TALENT!” Trump posted on his Truth Social account. Trump’s post came in response to a post on the social media platform from Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) …

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Meta Reinstates Trump’s Facebook, Instagram Accounts

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts have been reinstated, a company spokesperson said Thursday. The reinstatement had been expected after Nick Clegg, Facebook’s president of global affairs, announced in late January that the suspension would be lifted. Facebook first suspended Trump’s accounts in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack, initially as an indefinite ban …

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Cohen: NYC Trump/Stormy Case Is About To “Take Off”

Politico reports: Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen expressed confidence Wednesday about the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal investigation into the former president’s hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels. “I believe that there is a case,” Cohen told reporters outside Manhattan Supreme Court before meeting with prosecutors for District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The “seriousness of the prosecutorial team” was “evident by their in-depth …

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Ex-Twitter Execs Testify Trump Tried To Censor Tweets

The Daily Beast reports: Spurred on by the so-called “Twitter Files,” the House Oversight Committee hearing on Twitter’s decision to temporarily block a 2020 New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop was supposed to show overwhelming proof that the social media giant was engaged in anti-conservative “censorship.” Instead, former Twitter officials revealed on Wednesday that former President Donald Trump …

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Cohen Meets With Prosecutors Investigating Trump

ABC News reports: Donald Trump’s one-time lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen arrived Wednesday at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office to meet with prosecutors investigating the former president’s role in alleged hush payments to a porn actress before the 2016 election. This is Cohen’s 15th interview with the district attorney’s office but the first since a recently convened grand jury began …

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