Trump Corruption

New Trump Lie: I Picked Milwaukee To Host Convention

First, a typical Trump story from the New York Times: When Republicans gather in Milwaukee next month to nominate him for president, Donald J. Trump planned to stay not in the convention’s host city but at a Trump hotel in Chicago, some 90 miles away, according to three people briefed on the former president’s logistics. That changed midafternoon on Tuesday, …

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Roger Stone Boasts Of Plan To Challenge 2024 Election

Rolling Stone reports: If there’s anything more alarming than Donald Trump and his allies’ plans to wreak havoc on the 2024 election, it’s how comfortable they are telling anyone who asks exactly what they plan to do. In an undercover recording obtained by liberal journalist Lauren Windsor, Roger Stone brags that the former president and his cadre are on “offensive …

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Truth Social Warns: Trump’s Actions Could Tank Us

CNBC reports: Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group dropped more than 13% on Tuesday, continuing the stock’s tumble following the conviction of former President Donald Trump, the company’s majority shareholder. Trump Media shares, which trade under the ticker “DJT,” are down about 40% since May 30, when a New York jury found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of …

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Jenna Ellis Pleads Not Guilty In AZ Fake Electors Case

NBC News reports: Jenna Ellis, an attorney for Donald Trump during his 2020 presidential campaign, pleaded not guilty Tuesday in the “fake electors” case in Arizona, where she and 17 other defendants face forgery, fraud and conspiracy charges related to alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. All 18 of those charged have pleaded not guilty in Arizona. Ellis …

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Lara Trump Recites Ads For “COVID Cure” Company

Media Matters reports: On her podcast, RNC co-chair Lara Trump maintains a collection of conservative-branded utility, doomsday prep, and supplement company sponsors. Throughout her show, Trump has promoted election denial and conspiracy theories which claim that Democrats will try to steal the 2024 election. In the 41 episodes between March 8, when she was elected co-chair, and June 12, Lara …

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New York High Court Upholds Trump’s Gag Order

CNN reports: New York’s highest court has declined to hear Donald Trump’s appeal on the gag order in his hush money case, according to a decision list posted Tuesday. The gag order, issued by Judge Juan Merchan in the criminal case against Trump, remains in effect. Separately, Trump has asked Merchan to terminate the gag order ahead of his sentencing …

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Judge Rips Giuliani Over “Messy” Bankruptcy Actions

The New York Times reports: Rudolph W. Giuliani’s creditors and the judge overseeing his bankruptcy case aired their frustrations with him in court on Monday after months in which he has provided incomplete information about his finances, missed filing deadlines or failed to have his lawyers respond at all. Mr. Giuliani’s creditors have asked the bankruptcy judge to appoint an …

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Trump Campaign Funnels Millions Into Mystery Outfit

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump’s political operation has routed more than $3 million so far this year through a Delaware limited liability company whose owners are not publicly disclosed, according to campaign finance records — a strategy that mirrors past efforts to mask exactly how his campaign is spending donor cash. The money has been paid to Launchpad …

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Fauci Recounts Trump’s Screaming F-Bombs In Memoir

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump shouted foul-mouthed abuse at Anthony Fauci, then lurched into telling him he loved him—and claimed he would win the 2020 election in a “fucking landslide,” the top medical adviser reveals in his new memoir. In the eagerly awaited book, Fauci describes conversations with Trump during the COVID-19 pandemic in which the then-president would “announce …

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Trump Attacks “Sloppy, Rotund” Illinois Governor

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: Sloppy J.B. Pritzker, the Rotund Governor from the once great State of Illinois, who makes Chris Christie look like a male model, and whose family wanted him out of the business because he was so pathetic at helping them run it, has presided over the destruction and disintegration of Illinois at levels never seen …

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21% Of Independents Now Less Likely To Vote Trump

Politico reports: In the weeks since the verdict, both parties have sought to shape the public’s initial reaction, with Republicans largely denouncing it and Democrats citing the result as further evidence that Trump is unfit for office. To figure out how this unprecedented moment is being processed by the electorate, POLITICO Magazine partnered with Ipsos in a new survey. Among …

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New Biden Ad Blitz Targets Trump’s Conviction [VIDEO]

NBC News reports: The Biden campaign announced a $50 million advertisement investment Monday as part of its effort to demonstrate the contrast between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump in the days leading up to the first presidential debate at the end of June. As part of the $50 million investment, the campaign is releasing a 30-second advertisement …

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Dem Groups Plan Resistance Tactics Should Trump Win

The New York Times reports: Opponents of Donald J. Trump are drafting potential lawsuits in case he is elected in November and carries out mass deportations, as he has vowed.  Democratic-run state governments are even stockpiling abortion medication. A sprawling network of Democratic officials, progressive activists, watchdog groups and ex-Republicans has been taking extraordinary steps to prepare for a potential …

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Trump Wishes Happy Father’s Day To “Degenerates”

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump issued another one of his signature holiday greetings on Sunday, wishing dads across America a Happy Father’s Day – “including the radical left degenerates” who are supposedly ruining the country. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, who has been convicted of falsifying business records in New York and is under indictment in three other jurisdictions, …

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Ex-Aide Says Trump Spoke About “Executing People”

Newsweek reports: Former President Donald Trump spoke about “executing people” during his tenure, former White House aide Alyssa Farah Griffin said on a Mediaite podcast. The former aide mentioned an interview between CNN’s Kaitlan Collins and Trump’s former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr from April. Griffin said that Collins “asked about an anecdote that I had shared about a meeting …

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Trump Vows To End Ukraine Aid As “President-Elect”

Politico reports: Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday blasted the scale of U.S. support for Ukraine and said that if he is reelected in November he would immediately “have that settled.” At a campaign rally in Detroit, Trump criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, calling him “the greatest salesman of all time” for Kyiv’s push to secure U.S. support in …

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Trump Packs Black Detroit Church With White Cultists

The Washington Post reports: Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump repeated his characterization of Black communities as dangerous and depressed on Saturday, courting voters in a city he has called “hell” and “totally corrupt” as his campaign hopes incremental gains with Black voters could be decisive in swing states. “Look, the crime is most rampant right here and in African American …

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Trump Brags About Acing Dementia Test And Then Confuses Name Of GOP Rep Who Administered Test

The Associated Press reports: Donald Trump on Saturday night suggested President Joe Biden “should have to take a cognitive test,” only to confuse who administered the test to him in the next sentence. “He doesn’t even know what the word ‘inflation’ means. I think he should take a cognitive test like I did,” the former president said of Biden during …

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Lara Trump Vows To Prosecute “Election Cheaters”

The Hill reports: Lara Trump, the co-Chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) and former President Trump’s daughter-in-law, promised Friday to prosecute anyone who cheats in an election, threatening “we will track you down.” “This year is the year we do it,” Lara Trump said at Turning Point USA’s Detroit convention. “We are also sending a loud and clear message …

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Lara Trump: Unlike Dems, “We Speak Truth And Facts”

“You have to make that contrast for people out there because there are some people who watch the wrong thing out there, get their news from the wrong information sources, and they have been bamboozled a little bit shall we say. “And that’s the difference between Republicans and Democrats. We speak in truth and facts on this side. The other …

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