Tag Archives: Trump corruption

NBC News reports: Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen will not testify next week in the $250 million civil fraud case against the former president because of a health-related issue, two sources confirmed to NBC News on Friday. It was not immediately clear how long Cohen’s testimony would be delayed. “Unfortunately I need to attend to a pre-existing medical condition that …

The Associated Press reports: Donald Trump’s top corporate deputies considered adding a “presidential premium” to his Trump Tower penthouse, Mar-a-Lago resort and other assets during his White House years, a gambit that would’ve padded his net worth by nearly $145 million, an executive at the former president’s company testified Friday. State lawyers contend that merely going through the exercise underscores …

Law & Crime reports: At least one lawsuit seeking to kick Donald Trump off of the 2024 ballot under the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment is speeding towards a late October trial after a state judge rejected the former president’s free speech arguments and refused to grant his “special motion to dismiss” on Thursday. Anti-SLAPP suit laws, the judge …

The Messenger reports: Former President Donald Trump appeared again to mix up Barack Obama and Joe Biden just weeks after he inexplicably told an audience that he was leading Obama in the polls “by a lot.” During an interview on Fox Radio Thursday, Trump insisted to host Brian Kilmeade that Iran was behind the deadly Hamas rocket attack and incursion …

Protect Democracy reports: On October 11, 2023, a judge issued a sweeping victory for former Trump campaign staffer Jessica Denson, signing off on a class-action settlement that will permanently free all 2016 Trump Campaign workers from the Campaign’s illegal NDA. Denson first sued to invalidate the NDA in 2018 as a pro se litigant, won an initial decision in March …

The Hill reports: Israel’s communications minister said recent comments by former President Trump criticizing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and complimenting the Hezbollah militant group “wound the spirit of Israel’s fighters and its citizens.” Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi told his Israel’s Channel 13 it is “shameful that a man like that, a former U.S. president, abets propaganda and disseminates things that …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump claimed that had the 2020 presidential election not been “rigged” against him, Israel would not have been attacked by Hamas over the weekend. The election was not rigged. Speaking in West Palm Beach, Florida on Wednesday night, Trump addressed the attack and said that if he were still president, it would not have happened. …

The Hill reports: Attorneys for former President Trump are seeking a judge’s permission to subpoena the former chair of the House Committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, repeating a disputed claim that the panel failed to turn over all the evidence it collected. The filing from Trump — which also seeks to subpoena six other …

Mediaite reports: On Tuesday, the son of former President Donald Trump got on X and posted a disturbing video of militants shooting into a room filled with bloody and mangled corpses. The Trump scion claimed that he got the video from a “source within Israel,” heavily suggesting that it came from the last five days of Hamas’ murderous atrocities through …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: I hereby demand a full apology from the failing Forbes Magazine, and their third rate psycho writer, Dan Alexander, for the many false and libelous articles they have written about me, and for the cooperation they have given to the Racist and Incompetent A.G. of New York State, Peekaboo James. You see, Forbes is …

The Messenger reports: Special Counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday cited security concerns and Donald Trump’s recent social media activity as reasons to get prospective Washington, D.C., jurors to fill out a written questionnaire ahead of the jury selection process for the former president’s upcoming March 2024 trial. The 11-page motion filed Tuesday from Smith’s office centers around their 2020 election …

Forbes responds to Trump’s latest tirade: Removed from The Forbes 400, Trump responds as he always has—by lying about his net worth and saying he should be higher on the list. We take extraordinary care in valuing his fortune, and our ownership—which does not include China’s wealth fund—plays no role in that effort. Twice a year, we publish a detailed …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: China owned (China Investment Corp, the Country’s Sovereign wealth Fund!), and very badly failing, Forbes “Magazine,” which lost most of its relevance long ago, and which knows less about me than Stormy Daniels (who doesn’t know me at all!) or Rosie O’Donnell, took me off their Fake Forbes 400 list, just by a “whisker,” …

Raw Story reports: Trump, who has been criticized for increasingly violent rhetoric as his legal cases have put more pressure on him, began discussing photos of Biden on the beach. “I have a much better body than him,” the former president said at the rally. He then added that he’s “not sure” he would want to “expose it with the …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: The ridiculous story put out today about me talking to a Mar-a-Lago member about U.S. Submarines, is false and ridiculous, other than the fact that I will often state that we make the best Submarines and Military Equipment anywhere in the World—A pretty well known fact! These fake stories are put out by corrupt …

CNBC reports: A New York appeals court on Friday refused to stay the ongoing civil business fraud trial of Donald Trump and his company, but did halt a judge’s order to cancel the business certificates of Trump’s companies in the state. The ruling came after Trump’s business fraud trial ended its first week of proceedings in Manhattan Supreme Court. New …

The Daily Beast reports: A week into his bank fraud trial, Donald Trump late Thursday night dropped his oddly aggressive lawsuit against the judge overseeing the case—a move that had been seen as a last-minute scramble to avert a potential unraveling of the tycoon’s real estate empire. But that happened anyway when Justice Arthur F. Engoron concluded the former president …

The New York Times reports: Shortly after he left office, former President Donald J. Trump shared apparently classified information about American nuclear submarines with an Australian businessman during an evening of conversation at Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence in Florida, according to two people familiar with the matter. The businessman, Anthony Pratt, a billionaire member of Mar-a-Lago who runs …

Bloomberg News reports: Donald Trump gave up on the $500 million lawsuit he filed against his estranged former lawyer Michael Cohen, just four days before the former president was due to answer questions under oath in the case. Trump’s notice of voluntary dismissal was filed Thursday night in federal court in Miami, without giving a reason. It comes at the …

Fox News reports: Former President Donald Trump told Fox News Digital that he would accept a short-term role as speaker of the House of Representatives to serve as a “unifier” for the Republican Party until lawmakers reach a decision on who should take on the post. Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was removed as speaker of the House on Tuesday after …