Trump Corruption

Meadows Loses Appeal To Move Trial To Federal Court

USA Today reports: A federal appeals court refused Wednesday to reconsider former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’ request to move his Georgia racketeering charges to federal court, where he has argued the charges should be dismissed. Meadows, one of former President Donald Trump’s 14 remaining co-defendants in the case, had argued that he should be shielded from state …

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ABC: Trump To Offer $100M Bond In $465M Judgment

ABC News reports: Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are seeking to pause the enforcement of the penalties in his civil fraud trial, telling the court that he intends to post a bond of only $100 million — well short of the $464 million judgment ordered by Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron. Engoron’s judgment ordered Trump to pay a …

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Carville To Lara Trump: “Steal Every Dollar You Can”

“These people want to be stolen from. That’s the long and short of it. The people that give Trump money or the RNC money are begging to be stolen from. And Trump is going to accommodate them. They’re very blunt and very upfront about what they doing. “I know a lot of Republicans, friends of mine from my days in …

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Trump Pays New York Times $400,000 In Failed Lawsuit

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump has paid almost $400,000 to The New York Times to cover the newspaper’s legal costs in his failed lawsuit against the publication and its reporters over the disclosure of his tax records in a 2018 article. A judge last month ordered the former president to pay up after his case was dismissed in May …

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Trump Seeks To Block Stormy, Cohen From Testifying

The Hill reports: Former President Trump’s lawyers in his hush-money case on Monday demanded a New York judge block key witnesses from testifying in Trump’s first criminal trial set to begin next month. Trump attorney Todd Blanche moved to block testimony from Michael Cohen, Trump’s ex-fixer, and two women he paid to stay quiet about affairs they alleged with Trump: …

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Prosecutor Seeks Gag Order In Trump/Stormy Case

ABC News reports: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Monday asked a judge to impose a gag order on former President Donald Trump, who is charged in New York with falsifying business records related to hush money he paid to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Trump is already under a limited gag order in his federal election interference case in …

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Chesebro Lied About Running Secret Twitter Account

CNN reports: Kenneth Chesebro, the right-wing attorney who helped devise the Trump campaign’s fake electors plot in 2020, concealed a secret Twitter account from Michigan prosecutors, hiding dozens of damning posts that undercut his statements to investigators about his role in the election subversion scheme. Chesebro denied using Twitter, now known as the platform X, or having any “alternate IDs” …

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Trump Files Notice Of Appeal Of $454M Judgement

The Associated Press reports: Donald Trump has appealed his $454 million New York civil fraud judgment, challenging a judge’s finding that Trump lied about his wealth as he grew the real estate empire that launched him to stardom and the presidency. The former president’s lawyers filed a notice of appeal Monday asking the state’s mid-level appeals court to overturn Judge …

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Trump Faces Ticking Clock On Massive Civil Judgments

The Washington Post reports: Trump now owes New York at least $454 million — the $355 million penalty plus interest, which is now accruing at a rate of $114,000 per day. Separately, he faces an $83.3 million judgment in a federal defamation case brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll. Most of Trump’s wealth is tied up in real estate, …

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Trump Renews Attacks On “Disloyal” Prince Harry

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump has reopened his attacks on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, saying Harry will be “on his own” if Trump wins a second term. Speaking at CPAC on Saturday, Trump said of Harry: “I wouldn’t protect him. He betrayed the queen. That’s unforgivable. He would be on his own if it was down to me.” …

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Trump To Pit Judges Against Each Other To Avoid Trial

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers see a major opportunity this week to use his criminal document mishandling case in Florida to create an impasse on his calendar for the two federal judges overseeing his major criminal cases. A primary aim for Trump’s legal team is to put the judge in DC overseeing the 2020 federal election obstruction case, Tanya Chutkan, in a position where …

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Politico: Intel Agencies Fear Possible Return Of Trump

Politico reports: Former top officials from Donald Trump’s administration are warning he is likely to use a second term to overhaul the nation’s spy agencies in a way that could lead to an unprecedented level of politicization of intelligence. Trump, who already tried to revamp intelligence agencies during his first term, is likely to re-up those plans — and push …

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Trump Loses Bid To Stay $83 Million Carroll Judgment

ABC News reports: Judge Lewis Kaplan has declined to grant a stay of Donald Trump’s $83.3 million judgment in his defamation case and requested a written response from columnist E. Jean Carroll’s lawyers. “The Court declines to grant any stay, much less an unsecured stay, without first having afforded plaintiff a meaningful opportunity to be heard,” Kaplan wrote in an …

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Trump Campaign Spox Claims He Will End Early Voting

“She’s acting more like a Democrat than a Republican. Her campaign is now funded by big Democrat donors, the very same who are funding some of the political persecution and witch hunts that we see being waged against President Trump right now. “And so Nikki Haley is delusional. Voters are not listening to her, and we won’t either. And again, …

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Trump Wins South Carolina Republican Primary

Yahoo News reports: Donald Trump cruised to a victory Saturday in South Carolina’s Republican primary, beating rival Nikki Haley in her home state and continuing his march to the nomination and a White House rematch with Joe Biden in November. By about 7 am (1200 GMT) Sunday, major national news outlets had Trump just shy of 60 percent of the …

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RNC Member Seeks To Block Paying Trump’s Legal Bills

The Associated Press reports: At least one member of the Republican National Committee is working to slow Donald Trump’s attempted takeover of the organization by pushing to keep the committee neutral until Trump is officially the presidential nominee and avoid picking up his legal bills. Two draft resolutions are being circulated by Henry Barbour, a national committeeman from Mississippi, for …

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Trump At CPAC: I Asked Staff About Giving Myself The Congressional Medal Of Honor, I Was So Brave [Video]

“I sat with the pilots. the best-looking human beings I’ve ever seen. Not my thing. but they are handsome. Central casting. Better looking than Tom Cruise and taller. “I see my staff and I said, ‘Let me ask you a question. Is the president of the United States allowed to give himself the Congressional Medal of Honor because I did …

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Newsmax Host Reads Disclaimer After Trump Lies

Mediaite reports: Newsmax host Carl Higbie punctuated a speech by former President Donald Trump in South Carolina by stating it is his network’s position that the results of the 2020 election were “legal and final.” After Trump’s speech, which Newsmax aired in its entirety, Higbie greeted viewers. “I never get tired of that guy,” he said before adding a caveat …

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Trump Tells Black Conservatives: People Say Blacks Like Me So Much Because Of All My Criminal Charges [Video]

“I got indicted a second time and then a third time and a fourth time! And a lot of people said that that’s why the Black people like me, because they have been hurt so badly and discriminated against. And they actually viewed me as– I’m being discriminated against. It’s been pretty amazing. “These lights are so bright in my …

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Judge Sets March 1 Hearing On Disqualifying Willis

Axios reports: A Fulton County judge will hear arguments on March 1 over efforts to disqualify District Attorney Fani Willis from Georgia’s 2020 election interference case against former President Trump. A ruling by Judge Scott McAfee to remove Willis from the case or adjust charges, as Trump and other co-defendants have sought, would have massive implications for the case — …

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