Trump Corruption

ABC News reports: Donald Trump’s one-time lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen arrived Wednesday at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office to meet with prosecutors investigating the former president’s role in alleged hush payments to a porn actress before the 2016 election. This is Cohen’s 15th interview with the district attorney’s office but the first since a recently convened grand jury began …

“Joe Biden’s weaponized Justice Department – and I’m a victim of it – is persecuting his political opponents. His administration is waging war on free speech. They’re trying to indoctrinate and mutilate our children. “He’s leading us to the brink of World War III. Under Biden, the murder rate has reached the highest in the history of our country. And …

The New York Daily News reports: Donald Trump is headed to trial in New York City this spring in writer E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit alleging he raped her and then defamed her by saying she was lying about the sexual assault, a judge ruled Tuesday. Manhattan Federal Court Judge Lewis Kaplan set an April 25 trial date hours after Trump’s …

The Guardian reports: US officials have offered to provide a closed-door briefing to congressional leaders about their review of about 300 classified-marked documents retrieved from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort last year, sources familiar with the matter said. The precise nature of the briefing remains unclear. The offer from the justice department and the Office of the Director for National Intelligence …

Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: The Chinese Balloon situation is a disgrace, just like the Afghanistan horror show, and everything else surrounding the grossly incompetent Biden Administration. They are only good at cheating in elections, and disinformation — and now they are putting out that a Balloon was put up by China during the Trump Administration, in order …

Bloomberg News reports: Former President Donald Trump is getting ready to write a check to a Florida court for more than $1 million — but he’s hoping to get the money back. Trump and one of his lawyers, Alina Habba, offered to post a $1.03 million bond to appeal a judge’s order sanctioning them $937,989 for filing a “frivolous” conspiracy …

The New York Times reports: Donald J. Trump grew his business, fortune and fame “through a pattern of criminal activity,” according to a new book by a veteran prosecutor, who reveals that the Manhattan district attorney’s office once considered charging the former president with racketeering, a law often used against the Mafia. The prosecutor, Mark F. Pomerantz, resigned in protest …

“Frankly, I don’t think Putin wanted to do it. I think he was sort of forced in by the statements being made by Biden. It can be negotiated within 24 hours. You have to get them both in a room. And there are things you can say to them, which I won’t reveal now, which will guarantee that this war …

“He had nothing! He was dead, he was leaving the race, he came over and he begged me, begged me, for an endorsement. He was getting ready to drop out. “There were tears coming down from his eyes. He said, ‘If you endorse me, I’ll win.’ So I end up doing it, and he wins. “They say it was like …

The New York Times reports: In December 2021, Mr. Trump was taken aback by the boos he received from an ardently pro-Trump audience after he told them he had taken a coronavirus booster shot. The boast has since vanished from his speeches and now Mr. Trump is trying to blunt Mr. DeSantis’s perceived advantage with the anti-vaccine base. In a …

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump vowed in a video released Tuesday that, if re-elected, he would punish doctors who provide gender-affirming care to minors and push schools to “promote positive education about the nuclear family” and “the roles of mothers and fathers” as part of a wide-ranging set of policies to use federal power to target transgender people. …

Bloomberg News reports: New York’s attorney general said she will seek sanctions against former President Donald Trump, his three oldest children and their lawyers for making “demonstrably false” denials in response to the state’s $250 million fraud suit. Attorney General Letitia James said Tuesday in a letter to the court that the Trumps’ formal answer to the state’s suit was …

CBS News reports: Trump sat for questioning under oath on Aug. 10, and the video shows him politely answering the opening questions from state Attorney General Letitia James. But as the questioning about his finances began in earnest, the former president—and now candidate for that same office—invoked the Fifth Amendment and continued to do so for nearly four hours. “This …

Bloomberg News reports: In a lawsuit filed Monday against Bob Woodward, Simon & Schuster Inc., and the publisher’s parent company Paramount Global, Trump claimed that although he had given Woodward consent to record their conversations “for the sole purpose of a book,” that didn’t extend to packaging those recordings as an audiobook. The complaint alleges violations of Trump’s copyright interests …

Posted on the Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo: Peter Navarro is a brave and dedicated American patriot who deserves a medal for his distinguished White House public service. Instead, they put Peter Navarro in leg irons — and now they want to put him in prison. Why do Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden want to put Peter Navarro in prison now? …

Post this afternoon to Trump’s Truth Social account: With murders and violent crime surging like never before in New York City, the Radical Left Manhattan D.A., Alvin Bragg, just leaked to the Fake News Media that they are still going after the Stormy ”Horseface” Daniels Bull….!Working closely with the Weaponized Justice Department, this is a continuation of the Greatest Witch …

The New York Times reports: The Manhattan district attorney’s office on Monday will begin presenting evidence to a grand jury about Donald J. Trump’s role in paying hush money to a porn star during his 2016 presidential campaign, laying the groundwork for potential criminal charges against the former president. The grand jury was recently impaneled, and witness testimony will soon …

The New York Times reports: Former President Donald J. Trump’s golf courses will host three tournaments this year for the breakaway league that Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is underwriting, deepening the financial ties between a candidate for the White House and top officials in Riyadh. LIV Golf, which in the past year has cast men’s professional golf into turmoil …

Time Magazine reports: Well, that was something. By the time former President Donald Trump left a high school auditorium Saturday afternoon—his return to the campaign trail after an unusually sleepy start to his 2024 campaign—he had ricocheted off many of his standbys: indulging conspiracy theories, nursing conservatives’ fears about race and gender, and offering an alternative reality to his successor’s …

The New York Times reports: In September, former President Donald J. Trump went on Truth Social, his social network, and shared an image of himself wearing a lapel pin in the form of the letter Q, along with a phrase closely associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory movement: “The storm is coming.” In doing so, Mr. Trump ensured that the …