Trump Corruption

The Huffington Post reports: Donald Trump boasted that his supporters had “no idea” what he did in the White House before launching into a nonsensical claim involving one of America’s NATO allies at a Georgia campaign rally on Wednesday. “I stopped wars with France,” said the GOP nominee as some supporters applauded him in the crowd. He continued, “France. You …

“Thank you for your support against a total degenerate named John Kelly, who made up a story out of pure Trump Derangement Syndrome Hatred! This guy had two qualities, which don’t work well together. “He was tough and dumb. The problem is his toughness morphed into weakness, because he became JELLO with time! The story about the Soldiers was A …

Politico reports: Mark Esper, who served as secretary of Defense under Donald Trump, backed former colleague John Kelly’s recent remarks that he believes Trump meets the definition of a fascist. Esper told CNN Wednesday that he has no reason to doubt Kelly’s “honesty or integrity” in relaying Trump’s previous comments. He encouraged the audience to look up the definition of …

Florida Politics reports: In a new ad from Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, Sgt. Aquilino Gonell says that when Trump calls the mob that tried to block certification of the 2020 election “warriors,” it’s an affront to him and his fellow officers. “He insults us,” Aquilino says in the 30-second clip, part of an aggressive, $370 million TV, radio and digital …

“I saw him most importantly, more than anything, invoke the Constitution when it came to the national command authority and execute the mission, the no fail mission of the United States of America and the Department of Defense to secure our freedom so they can print whatever they want. “And we could talk about the Vanessa Guillén again story. I …

Raw Story reports: During a fact check of Trump’s latest inflammatory claims about immigrants, Daniel Dale was asked by host Sara Sidner about Trump’s claim this week that “they’re emptying out their jails in the Congo and they’re delivering them to the border and they’re saying, ‘Congratulations, this is America.'” Dale went on to say that “there is no evidence …

ABC News reports: A proposed personnel roster circulating within Donald Trump’s campaign and transition operation lists Aileen Cannon, the federal judge who threw out Trump’s classified documents case, as a possible candidate for attorney general, multiple sources familiar with the matter have told ABC News. Cannon’s name appears on a document reviewed by ABC News titled “Transition Planning: Legal Principals,” …

CNN reports: In the immediate aftermath of the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, a number of conservatives and Republicans broke ranks with then-President Donald Trump and blamed him for the violence that day. Among them was Trump’s current campaign manager, Chris LaCivita. In a series of reposts on X – formerly Twitter – LaCivita shared comments calling …

Reuters reports: Donald Trump’s campaign has accused British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party of “blatant foreign interference” in the U.S. presidential election after some volunteers travelled to help campaign for Kamala Harris. The Republican candidate’s camp has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission in Washington, calling for an investigation into what it termed apparently illegal contributions from …

The Texas Tribune reports: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Biden administration on Tuesday, accusing the federal government of failing to help Texas check the citizenship status of some of the state’s registered voters — even as Paxton conceded that noncitizen voting is illegal and extremely rare. In the lawsuit, Paxton argued that the federal government is required to …

Politico reports: Howard Lutnick, the Wall Street CEO heading up Donald Trump’s transition operation, is facing accusations from some Trump insiders that he is improperly mixing his business interests with his duties standing up a potential administration. The alarm among Trump’s loyalists has been compounded by the belief that Lutnick has tried to sideline a host of aides and advisers …

The New York Times reports: Few top officials spent more time behind closed doors in the White House with President Donald J. Trump than John F. Kelly, the former Marine general who was his longest-serving chief of staff. With Election Day looming, Mr. Kelly — deeply bothered by Mr. Trump’s recent comments about employing the military against his domestic opponents …

Mediaite reports: John Kelly, Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff, went on the record with The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg and confirmed that Trump once told him that he wished he acted like the “German generals,” which he later clarified meant specifically “Hitler’s generals.” Goldberg wrote: This week, I asked Kelly about their exchange. He told …

The Atlantic reports: In April 2020, Vanessa Guillén, a 20-year-old Army private, was bludgeoned to death by a fellow soldier at Fort Hood, in Texas. The killer, aided by his girlfriend, burned Guillén’s body. Guillén’s remains were discovered two months later. Shortly after her remains were discovered, President Donald Trump himself invited the Guillén family to the White House. He …

CNN reports: A federal judge on Tuesday ordered former Donald Trump attorney and New York mayor Rudy Giuliani to turn over all his valuable possessions and his Manhattan penthouse apartment to the control of Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the Georgia election workers he defamed and to whom he now owes $150 million. Judge Lewis Liman of the federal court …

Politico reports: Former President Donald Trump is expected to record an interview with podcasting behemoth Joe Rogan on Friday. The interview will take place at Rogan’s studio in Austin, Texas, according to a person familiar with the plans. Rogan, who has more than 14 million followers on Spotify, has long occupied the top positions in national podcast ratings, and Trump’s …

CNN reports: National networks like CBS are not licensed, but local stations are. (And the parent company of CBS, Paramount Global, owns some local stations.) The licensing agency is the government’s FCC, which grants eight-year license terms, and hasn’t denied any license renewal in decades. Still, there is a conceivable chilling effect. Trump’s threats have grown so insistent that some …

Add another stupid lie to the mountainous pile: During a visit to the battleground state of North Carolina on Monday, former President Donald Trump claimed that his daughter Tiffany, graduated first in her class from Georgetown Law School. “She was a great student, and she went to a fantastic law school, graduated No. 1 in her class,” Trump said at …

The Daily Beast reports: Trumpo posted images to Truth Social on Monday night of a letter to the network from his legal representatives who claim “CBS and its 60 Minutes producers intentionally misled the public” and that the broadcaster’s “manipulative editing was aimed at causing confusion among the electorate regarding Vice President Kamala Harris’s abilities, intelligence and appeal.” The missive …

NBC News reports: The Supreme Court on Monday rejected disbarred lawyer Michael Cohen’s last-ditch effort to revive a civil rights claim against his former boss Donald Trump. The justices left in place lower court rulings that said Cohen could not pursue his allegation that then-President Trump and other officials violated his rights by putting him in solitary confinement for writing …