Tag Archives: Trump corruption

The Messenger reports: The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal case in Washington, D.C., said on Monday there’d be no changes to the March 2024 trial schedule despite pleadings from the former president to postpone his case beyond next November’s Election Day. “This trial will not yield to the election cycle, and we will not revisit the trial date,” U.S. …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: A Leaking, Crooked and Deranged Prosecutor, Jack Smith, who has a terrible record of failure, is asking a highly partisan Obama appointed Judge, Tanya Chutkan, who should recuse herself based on the horrible things she has said, to silence me, through the use of a powerful GAG ORDER, making it impossible for me to …

The Washington Post reports: Donald Trump’s legal battles crossed the Atlantic on Monday with the start of a hearing against a former MI6 officer’s intelligence consultancy, which Trump says caused him “personal and reputational damage and distress.” The 45th president is bringing a claim against Christopher Steele, a former British spy, and his consultancy, Orbis Business Intelligence, for alleged data …

The Daily Beast reports: Two weeks into Donald Trump’s bank fraud trial in New York, it’s clear that the former president has no intention of actually trying to win the legal battle at this stage. Instead, Trump’s legal team is working diligently to repurpose the trial as pretext for a future appeal—not to mention warping the proceedings into both a …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump said Tuesday fellow GOP candidates “eat their young” by working with Republicans like former Speaker Paul Ryan (Wis.) and Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah) to attempt to thwart Trump’s presidential run. “If [Romney] and RINO Paul fought as hard against Obama as they do against President Donald J. Trump, they would never have lost,” Trump …

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 …