Tag Archives: Trump corruption

Mark Meadows Surrenders At Fulton County Jail

The Daily Beast reports: Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, surrendered to authorities in Georgia on Thursday on allegations he—along with the former president and 17 others—schemed to keep Trump in power after losing the 2020 election. Along with the onetime Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, Meadows had begged for an urgent delay to the deadline for his …

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Trump Replaces Lawyer Ahead Of Georgia Surrender

The New York Times reports: Just before his visit to an Atlanta jail to be booked on 13 felony counts, Donald J. Trump has shaken up his Georgia legal defense team, adding Steve Sadow, a veteran criminal defense lawyer who has taken on a number of high-profile cases. Mr. Trump’s decision comes soon after one of his lawyers, Drew Findling, …

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Trump: Jeffrey Epstein “Probably Committed Suicide”

The Hill reports: Tucker Carlson brought up former Attorney General William Barr in unusual fashion, raising a report he wrote about the death of Jeffrey Epstein in prison. Carlson questioned why Barr wrote in his biography that Epstein likely killed himself, a nod to conspiracy theories that Epstein was killed in prison. Trump said he did not know, but he …

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Trump Suggests US Could See More Political Violence

The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump suggested that the United States could see intensifying political violence, saying in a new interview that tensions in the country were reaching a boiling point. Asked by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson whether the nation is headed toward open conflict, Trump responded: “I don’t know. I can say this: There’s a …

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Gambling Site Takes Bets On Trump’s Skin Color In His Mugshot: MAGA Mango, Terrorist Tangerine, Russia Rust

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: The site BetOnline is dealing only in facts. As the world waits for what could be the first-ever presidential mug shot, the betting site is letting gamblers lay odds on all sorts of stats, including Trump’s weight at booking. The site Bovada is taking bets on whether the former president will be handcuffed and what sorts …

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Trump To Host $100K/Ticket Fundraiser For Giuliani

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump will headline a $100,000 per person fundraiser to aid in the legal defense of his one-time personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, according to The New York Times’ Shane Goldmacher. The Sept. 7 event will be held at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, an invite posted by Goldmacher said. The ticket buys …

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Meadows Appeals Refusal To Delay His Surrender

From a motion filed this morning by Meadows’ lawyers: District Attorney Fani Willis has made clear that she intends to arrest Mr. Meadows before this Court’s Monday hearing and has rejected out of hand a reasonable request to defer one business day until after this Court’s hearing. Absent this Court’s intervention, Mr. Meadows will be denied the protection from arrest …

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Trump: I’m Proud To Be Arrested Over “Stollen Election”

Posted this morning to Trump’s Truth Social account: For the first time in three years, brave American Patriots will be able, in Court, to show how the Presidential Election of 2020 was RIGGED & STOLLEN. For those RINOS, Radical Left Democrats, Communists, Marxists, Fascists , & others who say, “Don’t Look Back, Look Forward,” they either do not want to …

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First Mugshots Of Trump’s Co-Defendants Released

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office late Tuesday night released booking photos of the first two defendants to surrender after being charged with conspiring to overturn the results of Georgia’s 2020 election. Atlanta bondsman Scott Hall and Trump campaign attorney John Eastman were booked at the Fulton County Jail earlier in the day and released on bond …

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Jenna Ellis Wails: Why Won’t Trump Pay My Legal Bills?

USA Today reports: Legal costs over Donald Trump’s alleged attempts to steal the 2020 election have prompted one of his co-defendants to turn to social media to ask why the former president and his donors aren’t doing more to help. “I was reliably informed Trump isn’t funding any of us who are indicted,” said former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis on …

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Pro-Trump PAC Launches “Pick Your Favorite VP” Site

Mediaite reports: A MAGA Super PAC is trolling the eight GOP presidential contenders who qualified to debate on Wednesday by asking voters to choose their “favorite VP” to run alongside Donald Trump. “Make America Great Again Inc.” created a web site, vpdebate2024.com. Voters were also encouraged to “click the expand icon” to view info on the candidates. Doing so reveals …

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Eastman Surrenders At Georgia’s Fulton County Jail

Axios reports: Conservative lawyer John Eastman turned himself in to the Fulton County jail on Tuesday as part of the 2020 election interference case in Georgia, according to the jail’s online database. Eastman, one of former President Trump’s 18 co-defendants in the sprawling case, had until Friday at noon to surrender to authorities, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis had …

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Trump: I Could Flee To Russia And Live With Putin

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: The failed District Attorney of Fulton County (Atlanta), Fani Willis, insisted on a $200,000 Bond from me. I assume, therefore, that she thought I was a “flight” risk – I’d fly far away, maybe to Russia, Russia, Russia, share a gold domed suite with Vladimir, never to be seen or heard from …

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Trump’s Bond Conditions: No Threats On Social Media

ABC News reports: A Fulton County judge has set former President Donald Trump’s bond at $200,000.. Trump and the other 18 defendants in the case have been given until Friday at noon to appear at the Fulton County Jail. All the defendants’ bond agreements include a provision that they “shall perform no act to intimidate any person known to him …

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Hackers Deface Pro-Trump “Patriot Defense Fund” Site

Gizmodo reports: The website for former President Donald Trump’s legal defense fund appears to have been hacked and defaced over the weekend. As of the writing of this blog, the defacement is still live on the site and has not been taken down. The Patriot Legal Defense Fund is a fundraising effort launched about a week ago by high-level members …

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Wait Is On At GA Jail For Trump And Co-Defendants

Atlanta’s NBC affiliate reports: Friday looms as the deadline for when former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants must turn themselves in at the Fulton County Jail following an indictment last week that alleges their efforts to reverse Trump’s election loss in 2020 constituted a criminal conspiracy. According to a report by NBC News before the weekend, Trump is unlikely …

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Trump Confirms: “I Will Not Be Doing The Debates”

NBC News reports: Donald Trump confirmed Sunday that he will skip the first Republican presidential primary debate Wednesday — and indicated he may not attend future ones, either. The former president wrote on his Truth Social media platform that polling shows him leading in the Republican primary field by such a wide margin that he doesn’t need to stand alongside …

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Giuliani: “Scientific Evidence” Will Prove My Innocence

“The first thing is, I don’t think I’m giving anything away, I’m just going to tell you my strategy. I’m going to follow Mark Meadows and file as soon as I do the arraignment, I’m going to file a motion for removal to federal court, which I would say almost virtually will be granted. Yes, there are things we didn’t …

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Trump To “Grant His Seal Of Approval” To Candidates And “Protect Donors And Supporters From Scammers”

Via press release from the Trump campaign: President Donald J. Trump will grant the right to use his “Seal of Approval” to an exclusive group of candidates and committees that the President endorses or otherwise supports. The purpose of the Seal is to help President Trump’s donors distinguish between authorized uses of his name and likeness, and unauthorized uses including …

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Giuliani Sent His Son To Beg Trump For Financial Help

The New York Times reports: Mr. Giuliani’s son, Andrew, who has an independent relationship with the former president, visited Mr. Trump at his club in New Jersey this month in the hope of getting his father’s huge legal bills covered. Mr. Giuliani, 79, who was criminally charged alongside Mr. Trump this week in Georgia, is currently sitting on what one …

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