Trump Corruption

The New Republic reports: At the Economic Club of Chicago Tuesday, Donald Trump took a shot at a voting bloc he definitely needs to win in November: auto industry workers. While being interviewed by Bloomberg News editor in chief John Micklethwait, Trump spoke about how auto factories in the United States aren’t really building cars. “Mercedes-Benz will start building in …

CNBC reports: Donald Trump’s new crypto project is off to a rough start. World Liberty Financial, which aspires to be a sort of crypto bank, launched its token sale on Tuesday, a day after project co-founder Zachary Folkman said “well over 100,000 people” are on the whitelist to invest. But WLF’s website suffered regular and lengthy outages for much of …

CNN reports: Donald Trump on Tuesday declared himself the “father of IVF,” a fertility treatment that has come under threat following the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. It’s unclear what precisely the former president meant when he made the comment at a Fox News town hall in battleground Georgia that was billed as focusing on women’s …

“They always mention — you know, it’s a way of demeaning, they say, ‘Hannibal Lecter, why would he mention?’ Well, you know why, because he was a sick puppy, and we have sick puppies coming into our country. “I figured that’s a lot — that’s better than wasting a lot of words. You just say, ‘Hannibal Lecter. We don’t want …

The Hill reports: Bloomberg’s top editor, John Micklethwait, repeatedly pressed Trump at the Economic Club of Chicago over his plans to impose a universal tariff on imports and his threats to use tariffs on American companies that outsource their manufacturing. Micklethwait noted Trump’s plans would essentially halt trade with China, place at least a 10 percent tariff on European nations …

“Mike, thank you so much and thank you for going into the Christian community as well and opening people’s eyes to the stakes involved here. It is a spiritual war. Of course it’s Trump versus Harris, but it’s also God versus the enemy, good versus evil, however you want to cast it. “There’s something much bigger going on here and …

“I played football too. I didn’t particularly like it. I could catch the ball good but I didn’t particularly like having some guy that was, uh, lifting weights all day long and came from a bad neighborhood. Yeah, and he sees me, and they were tackling hard.” – Trump, drawing knowing snickers from his right wing podcast interviewers. Oh, and …

The Hill reports: Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, who served in the Trump administration, said Monday the public should take former President Trump “seriously” when he suggests using the military against American citizens. “Yes I do, of course,” Esper told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on “The Source” when asked whether he fears Trump would “try to utilize the National Guard, …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump abruptly canceled an interview on his economic plans with business channel CNBC, one of its anchors announced Tuesday. Joe Kernen, the conservative-leaning host of its flagship show Squawk Box, revealed the move during an interview with Charles Phillips, the Oracle chairman who is supporting  Harris, saying “Trump canceled.” The interview had not previously been …

The New York Times reports: The ad briefly shows the infamous 2019 hurricane map held up by Mr. Trump that was altered with a black marker to show a path into Alabama, as Mr. Trump had falsely suggested was forecast. Images of disasters flash by: homes damaged by a hurricane or destroyed by raging wildfires, a sky turned orange by …

“I’ve put out more Medical Exams than any other President in History, and aced two Cognitive Exams (the Doctor stated that my “cognitive exams were exceptional!”). I am far healthier than Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden, but especially, Kamala. “Also, I am far too busy campaigning to take time, from the 22 days left, as I am using every hour, of …

Mediaite reports: During a Trump campaign rally in Oaks, Pennsylvania, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said, “Tonight we have some special guests in the audience. We have a Gold Star family that is with us tonight. Mary and Charles Strange are here, where are they?” As the Gold Star parents approached the stage, Trump joked, “It’s a little harder to …

The Daily Beast reports: The co-manager of Donald Trump’s White House campaign has raked in $22 million and counting from the Republican nominee’s political operation in just two years, the Daily Beast has learned. Chris LaCivita, an influential GOP operative, reaped a $19 million financial windfall in 2022 when he served as a “strategic consultant” to two Trump-affiliated super PACs, …

The Washington Post reports: The town hall began with questions from preselected attendees for the former president. Donald Trump offered meandering answers on how he would address housing affordability and help small businesses. But it took a sudden turn after two attendees required medical attention. “Let’s not do any more questions. Let’s just listen to music. Let’s make it into …

Reuters reports: Donald Trump’s lawyers pushed on Monday to transfer to federal court the case in which he was convicted in a New York state court on charges involving covering up hush money paid to a porn star, a move that would give him the ability to end the prosecution if he regains the presidency. His lawyers renewed the request …

“Lyin’ Kamala Harris has wisely chosen Bret Baier, of FoxNews, to do a much needed interview, because he is considered to be ‘Fair & Balanced,’ though often very soft to those on the ‘cocktail circuit’ Left. “I would have preferred seeing a more hard hitting journalist, but Fox has grown so weak and soft on the Democrats, constantly polluting the …

The Minnesota Star-Tribune reports: The city of St. Cloud has sent a second invoice to the Trump campaign after it missed the Oct. 10 deadline to pay for about $209,000 in city services incurred at a July rally. The invoice, dated Sept. 10, breaks down the costs borne by the city that went above and beyond typical services: about $63,000 …

The Meidas Touch reports: Donald Trump’s online MAGA brigade has swarmed all over Fox’s Bret Baier today like he was a Capitol Police Officer on J6 after he posted on Twitter that he will be interviewing Kamala Harris this Wednesday. Most of the MAGA comments to Baier follow a consistent theme – that they lost all faith in Baier after …

CBS News reports: More than 230 doctors, nurses and health care professionals are calling on former President Donald Trump to release his medical records, arguing that he should be transparent about his health “given his advancing age.” “Trump is falling concerningly short of any standard of fitness for office and displaying alarming characteristics of declining acuity,” the 238 signatories wrote …

Forbes reports: A majority of economists believe former President Donald Trump’s proposed economic policies would lead to higher inflation than those of Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a survey published Monday by the Wall Street Journal. Some 68% of economists said inflation would be higher under Trump’s economic proposals than Harris, according to the Journal’s survey of 50 economists …