Trump Corruption

Ken Cuccinelli Testifies Before Federal Grand Jury In DC

CNN reports: Former Trump-era Department of Homeland Security official Ken Cuccinelli testifed before a federal grand jury in Washington, DC, on Thursday. Cuccinelli headed into the grand jury area just before 10 a.m. ET at the federal courthouse, where prosecutors looking at efforts to undermine the 2020 election as part of special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation are also gathered. “Yep,” …

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Trump: I Could End The Ukraine War Within 24 Hours

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: If I were president, the Russia/Ukraine war would never have happened, but even now, if president, I would be able to negotiate an end to this horrible and rapidly escalating war within 24 hours. Such a tragic waste of human life!!! FIRST COME THE TANKS, THEN COME THE NUKES. Get this crazy …

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California Bar Seeks To Disbar John Eastman, Files New Notice Of 11 Disciplinary Charges For Cultist Batshittery

Just in via press release: The State Bar of California’s Chief Trial Counsel George Cardona announced today the filing of a Notice of Disciplinary Charges (NDC) against attorney John Charles Eastman (State Bar No. 193726). The 11 charges arise from allegations that Eastman engaged in a course of conduct to plan, promote, and assist then-President Trump in executing a strategy, …

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Trump Melts Down Over DirecTV Dropping Newsmax

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: WOW. AT&T DIRECTV REMOVES NEWSMAX FROM ITS CHANNEL LINEUP. This disgusting move comes after ‘deplatforming’ OAN last year. The Radical Left seems to have taken over the mind and soul of AT&T. This is a big blow to the Republican Party, and to America itself. For DIRECTV to drop very popular NEWSMAX, …

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Elaine Chao Responds To Trump’s Racist Attacks

Politico reports: While former President Donald Trump’s taunts at Elaine Chao — demeaning her as “Coco Chow” or a variation of Mitch McConnell’s “China-loving wife” — have been mostly met with silence from fellow GOP officials, the main target of them is now speaking out. “When I was young, some people deliberately misspelled or mispronounced my name. Asian Americans have …

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Compulsive Liar Lies That He Fired Deborah Birx

Trump is desperate win favor with the anti-vaxxers: One of the greatest privileges I had as President was firing Deborah Birx. The only thing she had going was nice scarves. I remember so well when she was lecturing the American people not to leave their homes for Thanksgiving, and then she traveled hundreds of miles to visit her family, who …

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Meta To Reinstate Trump On Facebook And Instagram

The New York Times reports: Just over two years after Donald J. Trump’s accounts were suspended from Facebook and Instagram, Meta, the owner of the platforms, said on Wednesday that it would reinstate the former president’s access to the social media services. Mr. Trump, who had the most followed account on Facebook when he was barred, will in the coming …

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Challengers Wait To See What Happens With Trump

Politico reports: By this time four years ago, the Democratic presidential campaign was in full swing, with Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg and Kirsten Gillibrand all having opened exploratory committees or announced runs. This go around, the Republican field is frozen in place. The proximate cause of the frozen primary is Trump, the former president and only declared candidate …

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Georgia DA: Decision On Charging Trump Is “Imminent”

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis suggested Tuesday that a decision on whether to seek indictments is “imminent” following an eight-month special grand jury investigation into whether former President Donald Trump and his allies criminally meddled in Georgia’s 2020 elections. Her comments came at the beginning of a 90-minute hearing in which Superior Court Judge Robert …

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Trump Seeks To Intervene In Navarro Prosecution

Politico reports: Donald Trump is once again making a last-ditch bid to help a former aide avoid prosecution for defying the Jan. 6 select committee. A lawyer for Trump issued a letter this week endorsing the decision by former White House adviser Peter Navarro to blow off a subpoena from the Jan. 6 select committee by making blanket claims of …

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GA Prosecutors Brace For Violence If Trump’s Indicted

The New York Times reports: For the last two years, prosecutors in Atlanta have been conducting a criminal investigation into whether the Trump team interfered in the presidential election in Georgia. With the wide-ranging inquiry now entering the indictment phase, the central question is whether Mr. Trump himself will face criminal charges. Prosecuting Mr. Trump would likely raise fears of …

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Famous Cheater: I Just Won My Own Golf Tournament

The Daily Beast reports: Proving his own humble admission that he is “always the best at sports,” Donald J. Trump seized the gold medal at his own Florida club’s senior golf championship on Sunday. Even more incredibly, the former president was able to claim victory despite completely skipping the tourney’s first day, having been in North Carolina for Lynette “Diamond” …

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REPORT: Trump Plans To Ditch Truth Social For Twitter

Rolling Stone reports: Donald Trump and his 2024 campaign are laying the groundwork for his big, bombastic return to major social media platforms. Such a return, though, would inevitably involve Trump screwing over one of his own companies — and he’s been telling confidants that he is prepared to do just that. When Trump first founded Trump Media & Technology …

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GOP Now Uninterested In Using Former Trump Hotel

The Insider reports: Republican spending at the infamous DC hotel that was once owned by former President Donald Trump has dwindled to a pittance since he sold it, FEC records show. The glittering Trump International Hotel housed and entertained numerous Republican officials, candidates and lawmakers throughout the Trump presidency. But a new report from the ethics watchdog Citizens for Responsiblity …

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Trump Withdraws Frivolous Suit Against New York AG

ABC News reports: Less than a day after receiving a warning from a federal judge, former President Donald Trump has withdrawn his lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James. The withdrawal came in a brief document filed Friday morning with U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks, who late Thursday warned Trump’s legal team that the lawsuit appeared to verge on …

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Trump Ordered To Pay Nearly $1M For Frivolous Suit

The New York Times reports: In a scathing ruling, a federal judge in Florida on Thursday ordered Donald J. Trump and one of his lawyers together to pay nearly a million dollars in sanctions for filing a frivolous lawsuit against nearly three dozen of Mr. Trump’s perceived political enemies, including Hillary Clinton and the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey. …

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WH Condemns Trump’s Call To Imprison Reporters

Politico reports: Trump’s remarks drew a pointed retort from President Joe Biden’s White House, which opposed any efforts to question reporters. “The freedom of the press is part of the bedrock of American democracy,” White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement shared exclusively with POLITICO. “Calling for egregious abuses of power in order to suppress the Constitutional rights …

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Trump: Imprison Reporters Until They Reveal Sources

Posted this afternoon to Trump’s Truth Social account. The Supreme Court has just announced it is not able to find out, even with the help of our ‘crack’ FBI, who the leaker was on the R v Wade scandal. They’ll never find out, & it’s important that they do. So, go to the reporter & ask him/her who it was. …

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Peter Navarro Must Face Contempt Of Congress Charge

CNN reports: A federal judge declined Thursday to dismiss the criminal contempt of Congress charge brought against former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro for his failure to comply with a subpoena from the House select committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. In his opinion, US District Judge Amit Mehta dismantled a wide variety …

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Trump Mistook Photo Of Rape Accuser For His Ex-Wife

The Washington Post reports: Donald Trump mistook his sexual assault accuser E. Jean Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples when shown a photograph from the 1990s in a deposition at Mar-a-Lago last year, potentially undermining one of the common defenses he has used to deny an attack. Trump, who is being sued by Carroll, an author and advice columnist, for …

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