Trump Corruption

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 …

Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: I see that everybody is talking about the Republican Debates, but nobody got my approval, or the approval of the Trump Campaign, before announcing them. When you’re leading by seemingly insurmountable numbers, and you have hostile Networks with angry, TRUMP & MAGA hating anchors asking the “questions,” why subject yourself to being libeled …

The Associated Press reports: For decades, Trump has seemed to shake off allegations, investigations and even impeachments. Now his “Teflon Don” reputation is about to face a new test: a jury of average citizens in a lawsuit accusing him of rape. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday in a trial over former advice columnist’s E. Jean Carroll’s claim that …

ABC News reports: The Fulton County, Georgia, district attorney who has been probing possible criminal interference in the 2020 election will announce her charging decisions “in the near future,” the DA alerted law enforcement in a letter Monday. The correspondence from District Attorney Fani Willis served as notice “to ensure that our law enforcement community is ready to protect the …

The New York Daily News reports: The first of three bombshell cases facing Donald Trump in his home state will head to trial this week in a civil rape lawsuit brought by writer E. Jean Carroll — including allegations waiting five years to make it before a panel of New Yorkers. Jury selection starts Tuesday in Manhattan federal court in …

Bloomberg News reports: The judge overseeing E. Jean Carroll’s civil sexual-assault lawsuit against Donald Trump is barring the former president’s lawyers from telling jurors that security concerns are to blame if he doesn’t show up at a trial starting next week. While defendants in such cases aren’t required to attend their trials, Trump is incorrect that the court and the …

CNN reports: Donald Trump’s attorney on Wednesday said the former president “wishes” to appear at next week’s civil trial where a jury will hear columnist E. Jean Carroll’s assault and defamation claims against him – but his attendance should not be necessary because it would be a “burden” on the city and court. The letter to the judge, from attorney …

Reuters reports: Former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg was released from jail on Wednesday, according to New York City Department of Correction records. Weisselberg was sent to New York’s Rikers Island jail on Jan. 10 for helping engineer a wide-ranging 15-year tax fraud scheme at former President Donald Trump’s family business. He was sentenced to five months behind …

From the far-right Washington Times: Former President Trump has a plan to fix the homeless problem, saying he will work with states to outlaw urban camping and give street people the choice between going to rehab in tent cities or face jail time. “We want to take care of them, but they have to be off our streets,” Mr. Trump …