Trump Corruption

“The case isn’t over until the sentencing is heard and sentence is imposed. I have absolutely no problem, frankly, with the prosecutors’ real concern about safety. “And look, there are wingnuts out there in the period of time between now and when the trial court’s role in this case ends. “I don’t think it’s worth taking the chance that anybody …

“The same deep state that removed Richard Nixon, the same deep state that went after Ronald Reagan and anybody else who stood up to them, that deep state became very insidious and in the 1950s smeared and attacked Joe McCarthy for speaking the truth about godless communism in very halls of our government. “They grab control of our academia to …

Politico reports: In a filing made public Friday, prosecutors cited “intensified” threats against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, his family and the office’s staff, disclosing that two people involved in the case received bomb threats at their homes on the first day of the trial. Prosecutors described those threats as “directly connected to defendant’s dangerous rhetoric about this prosecution.” They …

Bloomberg News reports: Steve Bannon, a longtime adviser to former President Donald Trump, is asking the US Supreme Court to keep him out of prison while he fights to overturn his conviction for contempt of Congress. The request was made after a divided appellate panel upheld a decision by US District Judge Carl Nichols that ordered Bannon to serve a …

Mediaite reports: Trump announced his ALL CAPS support for publicly posting the Ten Commandments in schools as the law goes into effect, mandating every classroom in Louisiana to do so. Trump has a long history of defying the core tenet of the separation of church and state or flouting his willful ignorance of it to appeal to evangelical voters, even …

Mediaite reports: Trump casually declared on Thursday that the CIA “was probably behind” former President John F. Kennedy’s assassination after revealing he was asked not to release files related to JFK during his first term as president. After Trump was asked on The All-In Podcast why he didn’t release all of the JFK files, despite previously promising to, Trump said: …

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump proposed “automatically” giving green cards to foreign nationals who graduate from a US college – comments that break from his efforts to curb both legal and illegal immigration while in office and stand in stark contrast to his inflammatory anti-immigrant rhetoric on the campaign trail. “What I want to do, and what I will …

The New York Times reports: Timothy Mellon, a reclusive heir to a Gilded Age fortune, donated $50 million to a super PAC supporting Donald J. Trump the day after the former president was convicted of 34 felonies, according to new federal filings, an enormous gift that is among the largest single disclosed contributions ever. The donation’s impact on the 2024 …

Raw Story reports: A new recording of former President Donald Trump reveals the ex-president slipping in a conversation and destroying his own lie. The new book “Apprentice in Wonderland” by Ramin Setoodeh tells some of the stories of the conversations with Trump, but the author has now given tapes to MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace. Setoodeh revealed that the conversation was part …

Politico reports: A federal appeals court has denied a last-minute bid by Steve Bannon, a longtime Donald Trump adviser and prominent conservative podcaster, to stave off a four-month jail sentence for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 select committee three years ago. A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 Thursday night that Bannon’s bid …

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump’s legal team filed a motion Thursday calling on New York Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron to recuse himself from the Trump civil fraud case. The 24-page filing said Judge Engoron should step aside in light of a state judicial conduct investigation launched last month. The probe is examining whether Engoron engaged in an …

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump will get the final word when he debates President Joe Biden on CNN next week, after a coin flip to determine podium placement and the order of closing statements. The coin landed on the Biden campaign’s pick — tails — which meant his campaign got to choose whether it wanted to select the president’s …

The New York Times reports: Shortly after Judge Aileen M. Cannon drew the assignment in June 2023 to oversee former President Donald J. Trump’s classified documents case, two more experienced colleagues on the federal bench in Florida urged her to pass it up and hand it off to another jurist, according to two people briefed on the conversations. The judges …

“The latest Fox News poll is TRASH! They used a biased, Democrat-leaning sample of voters, polling more Biden 2020 voters than Trump 2020 voters to skew the results in favor of Crooked Joe. “I am leading BIG in virtually every other poll, including in all of the key battleground states, like Wisconsin, where I just held a massive rally, and …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump said many controversial things in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in 2017, but it was something he told then-Puerto Rican Gov. Ricardo Rosselló about nuclear war while touring storm damage that stunned Rosselló. In a new memoir due out Tuesday, Rosselló recounts Trump’s visit to the island to tour damage from the category 5 …

The Miami Herald reports: A roadside billboard in Miami that draws comparisons between Donald Trump and dictators like Fidel Castro is aiming to strike a chord with South Florida Hispanics. For some, it’s touching a nerve. The billboard, which reads “No a los dictadores, no a Trump” – “No to dictators, no to Trump” – was posted Monday along the …

Law & Crime reports: Minnesota pillow magnate Mike Lindell has lost his final lawyer in a civil lawsuit over a disastrous challenge in which he failed to prove electoral interference and is now on the hook for over $5 million. In 2021, the outspoken supporter ofTrump issued the “Prove Mike Wrong” challenge at a South Dakota election fraud symposium — …

“Here’s the bottom line. It doesn’t matter whether Donald Trump is in Trump Tower, Mar-A-Lago, or anywhere else they may try to put him. “On the day that we, as the Republican Party, will be nominating him as our official candidate and our official nominee for president, he will accept that no matter where he is. “He will go on …

The Daily Beast reports: The billionaire former owner of the Washington Commanders is blocking the release of a biopic of Donald Trump which portrays the former president as a rapist. Dan Snyder, once described as the NFL’s worst franchise owner, might be able to stop The Apprentice hitting screens thanks to a bizarre twist: He helped finance the movie. He …

“Fifty-six men signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. We don’t often ask what became of them. I’m going to tell you what happened to them. “Twelve of them had their homes ransacked by the British and burned down to the ground. Five of them were captured by the British and tortured until their deaths. Nine of them died in …