Tag Archives: Trump corruption

Court Nixes Trump’s Bid To Take NV Electoral Votes

The Nevada Independent reports: President Donald Trump’s legal effort to overturn presidential results in Nevada has fallen short after a Carson City District Court judge rejected his team’s request to award the state’s six electoral votes to the incumbent. Judge James Russell ruled Friday against the Trump campaign’s unprecedented request to either block certification of the state’s presidential election results …

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Michigan Appeals Court Tosses Yet Another Trump Suit

The Detroit Free Press reports: The Michigan Court of Appeals has rejected an appeal from the Trump presidential campaign challenging Michigan’s election results, in the latest in a series of court defeats for the president. The 2-1 decision, the court chastised the campaign for dragging its feet on the appeal, said the certification of Michigan’s election results by the Board …

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Trump Campaign Sues To “Nullify” Georgia Election

Reuters reports: The campaign of President Donald Trump says it has filed a lawsuit in Georgia state court seeking to invalidate the presidential election results there – the latest in a series of legal challenges intended to reverse his loss to President-elect Joe Biden. In a statement, the Trump administration has said that the lawsuit would include sworn statements from …

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MN Supreme Court Boots Bid To Delay Certification

The Minnesota Lawyer reports: About two hours before the State Canvassing Board met Tuesday, a group of petitioners led by GOP congressional Tyler Kistner filed suit to block the board from certifying the 2020 election results. The suit, which includes sitting Republican legislators Rich Draheim, Steve Drazkowski, Jeremy Munson, Tim Miller and Cal Bahr among its plaintiffs, failed in that …

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Trump Appoints Lackeys To Pentagon Business Board

Boing Boing reports: Donald Trump and his administration have effectively enacted a purge in the Defense Department, in the last 45 days of his term. On Friday, the Pentagon announced that two of Trump’s longtime loyalists, Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie, have been appointed to the department’s Defense Business Board. Neither Lewandowski nor Bossie have any Defense experience. Or business …

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Conway: Biden Will Prevail, Count On Me For Any Help

“The president wants to exhaust all of his legal avenues, as he has made clear many times. His team is doing that, and that is his right. “If you look at the vote totals in the Electoral College tally, it looks like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will prevail. “I assume the electors will certify that and it will be …

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Trump Campaign Still Spending Big At Trump Properties

The Washington Post reports: President Trump’s campaign and its affiliated committees spent more than $1.1 million at Trump’s own properties in the last weeks of the 2020 campaign — continuing a pattern of self-enrichment in which Trump has converted $6.7 million from his campaign donors into revenue for his businesses since taking office, new campaign finance filings show. The filings …

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Politico: Trump Weighing Pardons For Up To 20 Cronies

Politico reports: President Donald Trump is considering preemptively pardoning as many as 20 aides and associates before leaving office, frustrating Republicans who believe offering legal reprieves to his friends and family members could backfire. Trump’s strategy, like much of his presidency, is nontraditional. He is eschewing the typical protocol of processing cases through the Justice Department. And he may argue …

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Trump And RNC Have Grifted $207M Since Election Day

Reuters reports: President Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee have raised $207.5 million since Election Day, according to a statement on Thursday, gathering donations to pay for challenges to Democrat Joe Biden’s win in the Nov. 3 poll. The post-election fundraising haul brought the combined fundraising of Trump committees between Oct. 15 and Nov. 23 to $495 million, …

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Trump Silent As Admin Issues Dire COVID Warnings

The Hill reports: Trump administration health officials are issuing increasingly dire warnings about the coronavirus and its rapid spread across the country, drawing a sharp contrast to the president’s reluctance to acknowledge the severity of the crisis head on. President Trump has been largely silent when it comes to warning the public about the need for precautions or announcing major …

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WSJ: Trump Lawyer Jenna Ellis Lied On Her Resume

The Wall Street Journal reports: In her online bios, Ms. Ellis has portrayed herself as “an experienced defense attorney who was formerly an attorney for the U.S. Department of State and a Colorado prosecutor.” She also has described herself as a constitutional-law attorney and as having “extensive experience in litigation in both trial and appellate levels.” Ms. Ellis’s work as …

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Giuliani’s Star MI Witness Has Computer Crime Record, Sentenced To 12 Months Probation In 2019 Plea Deal

The Daily Mail reports: The star witness in Trump’s ‘voter fraud’ case in Michigan only finished probation a few months ago for committing computer crime, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal. Mellissa Carone, 33, was sentenced to 12 months of probation for the offense in September 2019, stemming from an incident in November 2018. The mother-of-two had struck a plea deal with …

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Trump Uses Doctor’s Selfie To Claim COVID Is Hoax

The Washington Post reports: When five patients died of the coronavirus in a 32-hour span at Renown Regional Medical Center, Jacob Keeperman turned to Twitter on Sunday to thank his colleagues in Reno, Nev., for all their support, tweeting out a recent selfie of him on the day the alternate care site had opened. “Everyone is struggling to keep their …

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Miller Aide Banned From DOJ Offices For Snooping

The Associated Press reports: The official serving as President Donald Trump’s eyes and ears at the Justice Department has been banned from the building after trying to pressure staffers to give up sensitive information about election fraud and other matters she could relay to the White House. Heidi Stirrup, an ally of top Trump adviser Stephen Miller, was quietly installed …

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Cultists Continue To Rain Death Threats On Officials

The New York Times reports: Across the nation, election officials and their staff have been bombarded this month with emails, telephone calls and letters brimming with menace and threats of violence, the result of their service in a presidential election in which the defeated candidate’s most ardent followers have refused to accept the results. The noose may be approaching meme …

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Wisconsin Supreme Court Tosses Trump Campaign Suit

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports: The Wisconsin Supreme Court threw out President Donald Trump’s election lawsuit Thursday, two days after he asked the justices to revoke the certification of a contest he lost by nearly 21,000 votes. In the 4-3 decision, the justices said they would not accept the case he filed directly with them. The president can try to …

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Stone: North Korean Boats Dumped Ballots In Maine

Newsweek reports: With the Electoral College expected to meet on December 14, Trump has intensified his claims of widespread election fraud. Democrat President-elect Joe Biden was widely projected to be the winner of the election despite Trump’s protestations. During an interview on The Alex Jones Show, Stone said he had received further proof of election fraud. “I just learned of …

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Trump Files “Personal” Suit To Unseat WI Electors

Via press release from the Trump campaign: Today President Donald J. Trump filed a lawsuit against the Wisconsin Elections Commission, et. al. in his personal capacity as a candidate for re-election to the office of President of the United States. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Division. The complaint is …

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Ivanka Deposed In Probe Of 2016 Inauguration Funds

CNN reports: Ivanka Trump, the President’s daughter and adviser, sat for a deposition Tuesday with investigators from the Washington, DC, attorney general’s office as part of its lawsuit alleging the misuse of inaugural funds, according to a court filing. In January, the DC attorney general’s office sued the Trump Organization and Presidential Inaugural Committee alleging they abused more than $1 …

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Trump Posts 46-Minute Lie-Filled “Important” Video

The Huffington Post reports: President Donald Trump on Wednesday released a lie-packed video on Facebook falsely claiming there was massive “fraud” in last month’s election, which he lost by 7 million votes to Democrat Joe Biden. The 46-minute, 8-second video, shot in the White House, recycled a host of debunked claims that together paint a global conspiracy designed to make …

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