Tag Archives: Trump corruption

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly called special counsel Jack Smith “deranged” and a “thug.” Now his attorneys are comparing him to the Grinch. Trump’s lawyers made the comparison in a court filing Wednesday urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to rule against Smith’s request for an expedited appeal on whether …

“Look, Trump’s not a conservative. He’s an authoritarian narcissist. So I think they [Cheney and Kinzinger] basically called him out for that. He’s a populist, authoritarian narcissist. So historically speaking, all of his tendencies are basically where narcissism takes him, which is whatever makes him popular, makes him feel good at any given moment. “He doesn’t think in classical liberal-conservative …

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump cannot assert presidential immunity from a defamation lawsuit by E Jean Carroll, the writer who accused him of rape, a US appeals court ruled on Wednesday, dealing him another setback in litigation she has pursued. The second US circuit court of Appeals in Manhattan upheld a federal judge’s decision to reject Trump’s claim of immunity. …

The Washington Post reports: A bogus claim every 12 seconds, on average. That’s what a single five-minute clip of former president Donald Trump speaking in Iowa on Dec. 5 yielded. In the clip, from a Fox News “town hall” hosted by Sean Hannity and brought to our attention by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CFRB), Trump ludicrously asserts …

The Messenger reports: More than 30% of Republicans who responded to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll said they would not vote for former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election if a jury convicts him of a felony. Trump currently faces four criminal trials. These cases have posed a significant risk to his candidacy, especially if he receives a conviction …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: I wanted to testify on Monday, despite the fact that I already testified successfully, answering all questions having to do with the Fake, No Victims, No Jury lawsuit, thrown at me by the Corrupt Racist A.G., Letitia James, and presided over by a Trump hating judge who suffers from a massive case of Trump …

CNN reports: Three months after the FBI seized classified records from Mar-a-Lago last August, a longtime employee of Donald Trump’s private club quit his job. Within days, the former president did something he rarely did – Trump called the former employee on his cell phone to ask why he was leaving after two decades of working at the resort. But …

Via press release from the Trump campaign: Crooked Joe Biden’s henchman, Deranged Jack Smith, is so obsessed with interfering in the 2024 Presidential Election, with the goal of preventing President Trump from retaking the Oval Office, as the President is poised to do, that Smith is willing to try for a Hail Mary by racing to the Supreme Court and …

Semafor reports: NBC News has demanded that Donald Trump’s campaign remove a video that includes audio deceptively edited to seem like it comes from an NBC correspondent after the third presidential debate, two people familiar with the exchange told Semafor. The video in question, shared by a top Trump adviser, opens with authentic footage of NBC News senior Capitol Hill …

NBC News reports: In an eleventh-hour reversal, former President Donald Trump announced Sunday he will not go back on the witness stand in the $250 million civil fraud trial against him and his company. “I have already testified to everything & have nothing more to say other than this is a complete & total election interference (Biden campaign!) witch hunt” …

The Messenger reports: “Businesses are fleeing our country,” Trump said at the event Saturday evening. “It’s business-unfriendly and they’re going to other places.” But the former president selected an odd example to demonstrate the phenomenon: Exxon Mobil’s move from New York to … Dallas, Texas. Trump also appeared to blame New York Attorney General Letitia James for Exxon’s departure, despite …

“A general, who’s a fantastic general, actually said to me, ‘Sir, I’ve been on the battlefield. Men have gone down on my left and on my right. I stood on hills where soldiers were killed. But I believe the bravest thing I’ve ever seen was the night you went on to that stage with Hillary Clinton, after what happened. And …

NBC News reports: An expert witness in the $250 million civil fraud trial against Donald Trump said in court Friday that the former president’s political action committee has paid for a portion of his fees to testify on behalf of the defense. Eli Bartov, an accounting professor at New York University, said that his $900,000 in compensation was split between …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump went on a posting bender Saturday that included a threat to indict former President Barack Obama for “murder” — in a case that theoretically would implicate Trump as well. He reposted a message from conservative pro-Trump attorney Mike Davis, who suggested the ruling against Trump’s presidential immunity defense could allow Trump to indict Obama …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: So many people are asking what I thought of history’s lowest rated “presidential” debate, & how would I rate the players. It’s so easy to be a critic, but who on this subject would be better than me. To begin with, I thought Ron DeSanctimonious was terrible, with his bobble head facial movements & …

Mediaite reports: Donald Trump Jr. claimed video of a woman allegedly trying to burn down Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth home in Atlanta, GA, was just a ploy to get more people to “vote Democrat.” The former president’s son retweeted the video showing a woman using a red canister to splash liquid around the structure and foliage. She also reportedly …

Reuters reports: A courtroom portrait led Donald Trump to deliver a blunt self-assessment on Thursday: “I gotta lose some weight.” The former president’s banter with a courtroom artist came as he made an appearance at his ongoing civil fraud trial in New York. Outside the courtroom, the former president, 77, told news reporters that the trial was a “fraud” and …

The Washington Post reports: Donald Trump filed notice on Thursday saying he will appeal a D.C. judge’s ruling that he was not immune from being charged with federal crimes for his efforts to undo the outcome of the 2020 election, either by his former role as president or the Constitution’s rules for impeachment. How and when the U.S. Circuit Court …

Axios reports: Former President Trump, if elected, would build a Cabinet and White House staff based mainly on two imperatives: pre-vetted loyalty to him and a commitment to stretch legal and governance boundaries, sources who talk often with the leading GOP presidential candidate tell Axios. Trump would fill the most powerful jobs in government with men like Stephen Miller, Sen. …

CBS News reports: Former President Donald Trump is expected to attend proceedings Thursday in his New York civil fraud trial as his defense calls its final expert witness to the stand. Trump has attended the trial, which began on Oct. 2, eight previous times — including for his Nov. 6 testimony. That day, he clashed with the judge, Arthur Engoron, …