Trump Corruption

“You mentioned in your opening about African American support. You mentioned that certain communities are coming over to my father. It’s exactly because of this. They’re doing the same to Donald Trump as they did to so many of those communities for so long. These people are saying, ‘Huh, it’s really interesting. They did this to us for a long …

Politico reports: Former President Donald Trump suggested in two speeches Saturday that migrants coming to the U.S. should have their own fighting league, remarking that they’re “nasty, mean” and “tough people” who could beat the country’s top fighters. Speaking first to a crowd of conservative Christians at a Faith & Freedom Coalition gathering in Washington, D.C., Trump said he shared …

“You look at our airports where flights are being delayed four days where people are pitching tents in an airport because their flight is so, you know, it’s never gonna even happen. “We’ve never seen anything like it. And we’ve become like, you know, we, we are a failing nation where we’ve become a third world nation in many ways. …

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he knows who his vice presidential pick will be — and gave a clue about his or her likely debate night plans. When asked by NBC News during a Philadelphia campaign stop whether he has decided on his vice presidential pick, Trump responded, “in my mind, yeah,” adding that …

“Now they’ll say all these stories are terrible. Well, these stories have, you know, you heard my story in the boat with the shark, right? I got killed on that. “They thought I was rambling. I’m not rambling. They wanna make boats. And they’re demanding that they be battery-operated. All electric. I was in South Carolina at this wonderful family …

“Just think of what we’ve already achieved, and we’ve done things that nobody thought possible. Together, we stood up to the communists, Marxist, and fascists to defend religious liberty like no other president has ever done. “And I have the wounds all over my body. If I took this shirt off, you’d see a beautiful, beautiful person. But you’d see …

Law & Crime reports: The prosecutor overseeing former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case called him out for lying to his online audience that “the FBI was out to kill him and his family.” Special counsel Jack Smith said in a motion seeking to modify Trump’s conditions of release to prohibit further statements that “pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable …

“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 …