Tag Archives: Trump corruption

The Daily Beast reports: The little-known insurance company that rescued Donald Trump by providing a last-minute $175 million bank fraud bond isn’t just unlicensed in New York; it hasn’t even been vetted by a voluntary state entity that would verify it meets minimum “eligibility standards” to prove financial stability. Perhaps even more troubling, the legal document from Knight Specialty Insurance …

The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump, who has wavered between highlighting and downplaying his role in curtailing abortion rights, suggested Monday that the politically volatile issue should be left to states, after months of mixed signals about his position. “My view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint, the states will …

Newsweek reports: Donald Trump has claimed that President Joe Biden “soiled” himself in the Oval Office in yet another baseless, wild rant about his political nemesis. The former president made the remarks during a speech at a fundraiser hosted by billionaire financier John Paulson in Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday night . “The Resolute Desk is beautiful,” Mr Trump allegedly …

Rolling Stone reports: Donald Trump promised to keep billionaires’ taxes low at a fundraising dinner Saturday night in Palm Beach, Fla., held at the home of billionaire John Paulson. A Trump campaign official told NBC News that the former president “spoke on the need to win back the White House so we can turn our country around, focusing on key …

Newsweek reports: Amid Donald Trump’s upcoming New York hush money trial, the former president compared himself to anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela on Saturday night, sparking ridicule across social media. Trump took to Truth Social, his social media platform, to criticize the case and the gag order as the former president said he would gladly go to jail and become a …

“He’s looking rather svelte. And that caught the eye, as you can imagine, of many on social media and elsewhere. And there has been a lot of chatter about whether he is on the big ‘O.’ “And by that, I mean, Ozempic, to the point where The New York Times, my employer, actually ended up writing to the campaign to …

The Washington Post reports: And after relying on a longtime personal doctor and then two White House physicians who had attested to his well-being in office, Trump turned to an unknown: Bruce A. Aronwald, a 64-year-old osteopathic physician from New Jersey — and a longtime member of Trump’s Bedminster golf club. Trump began his political career in 2015 by releasing …

NBC News reports: Lawyers for Donald Trump have again asked the judge presiding over his upcoming criminal trial to recuse himself from the former president’s case, this time citing an “unacceptable appearance of impropriety.” In a court filing made public Friday night, Trump attorneys Todd Blanche and Emil Bove contended Judge Juan Merchan has a conflict of interest because his …

NBC News reports: For the mere price of $2.5 million, people who raise money for former President Donald Trump can secure a “personalized” pair of “Never Surrender” high-top sneakers, according to a donor-access program menu shared with NBC News by a person close to the Republican National Committee. Buck-rakers who hit that minimum for entry into the “Trump Victory Trust” …

CNN Business reports: Shares of Truth Social owner Trump Media & Technology Group tumbled 9% on Friday, sinking to their lowest level since the company went public last week. The selloff has erased nearly $2 billion from the value of former President Donald Trump’s stake in the company this week. Trump Media shared surged to as high as $79.38 on …

“I think what happened is you know that white stuff that they happened to find, which happened to be cocaine in the White House, I don’t know, I think something’s going on there, because I watched this State of the Union, and he was all jacked up at the beginning. By the end, he was fading fast. There’s something going …

The Hill reports: The D.C. Bar’s three-member board of responsibility panel found Thursday that former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark likely violated at least one ethics rule in his efforts to help former President Trump stay in office after losing the 2020 presidential election. Clark is accused of attempting to engage in conduct involving dishonesty and attempting to engage in …

Politico reports: The Biden administration put the finishing touches Thursday on a plan to restrict presidents from unilaterally nixing civil service protections from large swaths of the federal workforce, as former President Donald Trump renews his vow to uproot a perceived “deep state” if he is returned to the White House. While a future president could take steps to squelch …

The New York Times reports: Former President Donald J. Trump spoke recently with Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, their first publicly disclosed conversation since Mr. Trump left office in January 2021, according to two people briefed on the discussion who were not authorized to speak publicly about it. If President Biden manages to clinch a trilateral …

“What those people did when they violently attacked the Capitol, in order to stop a constitutionally-mandated meeting of the Congress to accept the results of the Electoral College, is a stain on our history. And every one of those sons a bitches who did that, we oughta find them, try them, and send them to jail. “And one of the …

The New York Times reports: The judge overseeing Donald J. Trump’s criminal case in Manhattan rejected his last-ditch bid to delay a trial beyond April 15, removing one of the final obstacles to the first prosecution of a former American president. Mr. Trump had asked the judge to delay the trial until after the Supreme Court rules on whether he …

The Daily Beast reports: When billionaire financier Don Hankey underwrote Donald Trump’s $175 million bond this week, it wasn’t the first time that Trump had taken money out of his pocket—nine months into Trump’s first term in office, his Justice Department sued Hankey’s financial company for unlawful lending practices. The subject of that suit, however, also revealed a historical commonality …

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump’s social media company Trump Media managed to go public last week only after it had been kept afloat in 2022 by emergency loans provided in part by a Russian-American businessman under scrutiny in a federal insider-trading and money-laundering investigation. Through leaked documents, the Guardian has learned that ES Family Trust operated like a shell company …

Axios reports: Former President Trump at a Tuesday night rally in Wisconsin said he wants Election Day this year to be called “Christian visibility day.” It comes as Republicans criticize the Biden White House for recognizing Transgender Day of Visibility — which happened to fall on Easter Sunday this year. “Such total disrespect to Christians, and Nov. 5 is going …

The New York Times reports: Mr. Trump held at least 75 percent of the vote in every state as of 11 p.m. But Nikki Haley, who dropped out of the race early last month, still took at least 10 percent of the vote in all four states, a sign of lingering discontent in the Republican Party with Mr. Trump’s candidacy. …