Trump Corruption

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump did not win the 2020 presidential election, but has obsessively clung to his baseless claims of election fraud, and a new poll shows the overwhelming majority of his supporters are singing the same fact-free tune. The ex-president lost over 60 state and federal cases attempting to overturn the 2020 election results, with many of …

The BBC reports: Former US President Donald Trump has said “it is great to be home” as he arrived in Aberdeen on a visit to his Scottish golf properties. It is Mr Trump’s first visit to the UK since 2019 after leaving office. He attended a ceremony to break ground on a new course at his Aberdeenshire resort, Trump International …

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump will participate in a CNN presidential town hall next week in New Hampshire, the network announced Monday. The event, hosted by “CNN This Morning” anchor Kaitlan Collins and airing at 9 p.m. ET on May 10, will feature the former president taking questions from New Hampshire Republicans and undeclared voters who plan to vote …

CBS News reports: Judge Lewis A. Kaplan on Monday denied a motion by former President Donald Trump’s lawyers to declare a mistrial the civil battery and defamation lawsuit against him that was brought by advice columnist E. Jean Carroll. In a letter filed early Monday, Trump’s attorney Joe Tacopina alleged Kaplan had made “pervasive unfair and prejudicial rulings” against the …

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump has asked the judge to declare a mistrial in his civil battery and defamation trial, arguing the judge has made “pervasive unfair and prejudicial rulings” against him. Trump attorney Joe Tacopina, in a letter filed overnight Monday, said alternatively he would ask Judge Lewis Kaplan to “correct the record for each and every instance …

From Trump’s interview last night with Fox’s Mark Levin: Look, they say that Andrew Jackson was the most vilified person. His wife died during this thing, and they said such horrible things. And he had a very tough presidency. He was a very good president. He was a great general and a good president. Abraham Lincoln, they say, was, you …

“Everyone knows President Trump will win any debate. And the people want to see him, however why go into a rigged, stacked system that we’ve seen before? They’re choosing networks that have tried to set President Trump up in the past. They’re choosing the Reagan Library, which would maybe sound great in the past, but it’s run by the publisher …

Mediaite reports: On Friday, Trump’s campaign sent an email to the media with the subject line “ICYMI: ‘Trump Rape Accuser Admitted to Sexually Harassing Roger Ailes—Told Him He Was Her ‘Future Husband” and said simply “Read the full article by Jim Hoft with the Gateway Pundit here.” The site is a well-known promoter of far-right conspiracy theories, one of which …

The Washington Post reports: About six months ago, Will Wilkerson was the executive vice president of operations for former president Donald Trump’s media business, a co-founder of Trump’s Truth Social website and a holder of stock options that might have one day made him a millionaire. Today, he is a certified barista trainer at a Starbucks inside a Harris Teeter …

The Daily Beast reports: Rudy Giuliani’s consulting firm hasn’t paid its phone bill, and the carrier is dragging the disgraced former New York City mayor’s company to court over the outstanding charges. That’s according to a summons filed in New York state court by Momentum Telecom, a company that sells internet-based calling technology. The Atlanta-based company says it was stiffed …

Mediaite reports: Liz Cheney is incensed after Donald Trump publicly hugged a Jan. 6 rioter in New Hampshire Thursday, and she warned the GOP that they are “endorsing his conduct.” Cheney retweeted NBC’s Vaughn Hilliard, who wrote, “To note: This J6 Defendant who was embraced by Trump last night is a member of Negative48 & when I interviewed her last …

“So if India charges our companies a hundred, we charge their companies a hundred. It’s very simple, and yet we have people in Congress that say, ‘No, I don’t think that’s good.’ “Lindsey Graham, the progressive from South Carolina – [audience boos] – no, he’s a progressive, but he’s got some good things too, OK? “Lindsey Graham, I said to …

The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump on Thursday praised and embraced a woman convicted of defying police orders on the U.S. Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, 2021. “Listen, you just hang in there,” Trump told the woman, Micki Larson-Olson, who was found guilty on a misdemeanor charge of resisting police efforts to clear the grounds after the insurrection …

The New York Times reports: In the last few minutes of questioning in the defamation trial involving the writer E. Jean Carroll on Thursday, Donald J. Trump’s lawyer Joseph Tacopina asked Ms. Carroll about the dress she wore on the day she says Mr. Trump raped her decades ago. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who is presiding over the civil trial …

NBC News reports: Former Vice President Mike Pence appeared Thursday before the federal grand jury convened as part of the special counsel investigation into former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss and remain in power, according to a source familiar with the matter. The testimony is a significant development in the special counsel’s probe, as Pence …

The Washington Post reports: Former president Trump’s campaign quietly commissioned a second firm to study election fraud claims in the weeks after the 2020 election, and the founder of the firm was recently questioned by the Justice Department about his work disproving the claims. Ken Block, founder of the firm Simpatico Software Systems, studied more than a dozen voter fraud …

The Associated Press reports: A federal appeals court on Wednesday night moved former Vice President Mike Pence closer to appearing before a grand jury investigating efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election, rejecting a bid by lawyers for former President Donald Trump to block the testimony. It was not immediately clear what day Pence might appear before …

Law & Crime reports: Wasting little time to cut to the heart of her allegations, writer E. Jean Carroll launched into her testimony on Wednesday by telling a jury: “I’m here because Donald Trump raped me, and when I wrote about it, he said it didn’t happen.” “He lied and shattered my reputation, and I’m here to try to get …

ABC News reports: The Manhattan district attorney’s office has asked the judge overseeing the criminal case against former President Donald Trump to prevent him from publicizing evidence obtained during discovery. In a new motion, prosecutors said Trump’s defense attorneys “will not consent to a protective order” so they asked the judge to impose one. Prosecutors said they want to make …

The Daily Beast reports: “God willing, nobody will ever know your names,” U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan told them all, noting that not even he would know who they are. The judge also noted that, unlike most trials where jurors simply show up in court with the rest of the public, U.S. Marshals in this case would meet jurors away …