Tag Archives: Trump corruption

Trump Spreads Homocon Site’s Attack On Carroll

Mediaite reports: On Friday, Trump’s campaign sent an email to the media with the subject line “ICYMI: ‘Trump Rape Accuser Admitted to Sexually Harassing Roger Ailes—Told Him He Was Her ‘Future Husband” and said simply “Read the full article by Jim Hoft with the Gateway Pundit here.” The site is a well-known promoter of far-right conspiracy theories, one of which …

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Truth Social Whistleblower Now Working At Starbucks

The Washington Post reports: About six months ago, Will Wilkerson was the executive vice president of operations for former president Donald Trump’s media business, a co-founder of Trump’s Truth Social website and a holder of stock options that might have one day made him a millionaire. Today, he is a certified barista trainer at a Starbucks inside a Harris Teeter …

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Rudy Giuliani Sued Over Unpaid $30,000 Phone Bill

The Daily Beast reports: Rudy Giuliani’s consulting firm hasn’t paid its phone bill, and the carrier is dragging the disgraced former New York City mayor’s company to court over the outstanding charges. That’s according to a summons filed in New York state court by Momentum Telecom, a company that sells internet-based calling technology. The Atlanta-based company says it was stiffed …

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Trump Embraces Convicted QAnon Rioter At NH Event

The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump on Thursday praised and embraced a woman convicted of defying police orders on the U.S. Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, 2021. “Listen, you just hang in there,” Trump told the woman, Micki Larson-Olson, who was found guilty on a misdemeanor charge of resisting police efforts to clear the grounds after the insurrection …

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Trump Lawyer Tries To Bring Up DNA At Rape Trial

The New York Times reports: In the last few minutes of questioning in the defamation trial involving the writer E. Jean Carroll on Thursday, Donald J. Trump’s lawyer Joseph Tacopina asked Ms. Carroll about the dress she wore on the day she says Mr. Trump raped her decades ago. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who is presiding over the civil trial …

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Second Firm Hired By Trump Found No Election Fraud

The Washington Post reports: Former president Trump’s campaign quietly commissioned a second firm to study election fraud claims in the weeks after the 2020 election, and the founder of the firm was recently questioned by the Justice Department about his work disproving the claims. Ken Block, founder of the firm Simpatico Software Systems, studied more than a dozen voter fraud …

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Trump Loses Appeal To Block Pence From J6 Testimony

The Associated Press reports: A federal appeals court on Wednesday night moved former Vice President Mike Pence closer to appearing before a grand jury investigating efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election, rejecting a bid by lawyers for former President Donald Trump to block the testimony. It was not immediately clear what day Pence might appear before …

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Manhattan Prosecutors Ask Judge To Issue Protective Order So Trump Won’t Post Threats Against Witnesses

ABC News reports: The Manhattan district attorney’s office has asked the judge overseeing the criminal case against former President Donald Trump to prevent him from publicizing evidence obtained during discovery. In a new motion, prosecutors said Trump’s defense attorneys “will not consent to a protective order” so they asked the judge to impose one. Prosecutors said they want to make …

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Trump Rape Trial Jurors Get Special Travel Protections

The Daily Beast reports: “God willing, nobody will ever know your names,” U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan told them all, noting that not even he would know who they are. The judge also noted that, unlike most trials where jurors simply show up in court with the rest of the public, U.S. Marshals in this case would meet jurors away …

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Trump: I Won’t Take Part In Debates, I Won’t Be Libeled

Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: I see that everybody is talking about the Republican Debates, but nobody got my approval, or the approval of the Trump Campaign, before announcing them. When you’re leading by seemingly insurmountable numbers, and you have hostile Networks with angry, TRUMP & MAGA hating anchors asking the “questions,” why subject yourself to being libeled …

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Trump’s Lawyers Warned As He No-Shows At Rape Trial

The Associated Press reports: For decades, Trump has seemed to shake off allegations, investigations and even impeachments. Now his “Teflon Don” reputation is about to face a new test: a jury of average citizens in a lawsuit accusing him of rape. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday in a trial over former advice columnist’s E. Jean Carroll’s claim that …

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Georgia DA To Unveil Decisions On Trump By Sept 1

ABC News reports: The Fulton County, Georgia, district attorney who has been probing possible criminal interference in the 2020 election will announce her charging decisions “in the near future,” the DA alerted law enforcement in a letter Monday. The correspondence from District Attorney Fani Willis served as notice “to ensure that our law enforcement community is ready to protect the …

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Trump Offers Crowd Pizza Slice He Took A Bite Out Of

Mediaite reports: Trump stopped at a pizza joint in Florida shortly after delivering a speech in Fort Myers on Friday night. At one point he asked fellow patrons if anyone wanted a previously-enjoyed slice of pie. CNN’s Kate Sullivan posted a video of Trump in which he asked if anyone would like a slice, but with a twist. “Does anybody …

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Judge Denies Trump’s Request To Give Jury “Security” Excuse If He Fails To Appear At Manhattan Rape Trial

Bloomberg News reports: The judge overseeing E. Jean Carroll’s civil sexual-assault lawsuit against Donald Trump is barring the former president’s lawyers from telling jurors that security concerns are to blame if he doesn’t show up at a trial starting next week. While defendants in such cases aren’t required to attend their trials, Trump is incorrect that the court and the …

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Trump Vows To Criminalize Homelessness If Elected

From the far-right Washington Times: Former President Trump has a plan to fix the homeless problem, saying he will work with states to outlaw urban camping and give street people the choice between going to rehab in tent cities or face jail time. “We want to take care of them, but they have to be off our streets,” Mr. Trump …

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Trump To Battle Push To Block Him From State Ballots

The Washington Post reports: Donald Trump’s campaign team is preparing for a state-by-state legal battle later this year over untested claims that a Civil War-era clause in the U.S. Constitution bars the former president from appearing on Republican primary ballots because of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Two nonprofit groups, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington …

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Trump Loses Another Attempt To Postpone Rape Trial

The Independent reports: A federal judge in New York City has rejected former president Donald Trump’s 11th-hour attempt to once again postpone his long-delayed civil defamation and rape trial on the grounds that publicity surrounding his recent indictment necessitated a “cooling-off” period to ensure an impartial jury. Judge Lewis Kaplan on Monday ordered the trial, which stems from two civil …

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SNL Runs Supercut Of Trump’s “Strong Men Crying” Lies

Mediaite reports: On the popular Weekend Update segment with Colin Jost and Michael Che, this week featured a montage of clips starring Trump talking about people crying over him that was longer than you’d expect. He does it a lot. “In an interview, Donald Trump claimed that New York police and court employees were crying when they arrested him. Why …

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Trump: “Gangs Of Hundreds Of Young People” Are “Carrying Out Refrigerators” From Department Stores

Trump invented superman thieves in his NRA speech today: You see these gangs of hundreds of young, usually young people go and attack a department store, department stores in San Francisco and Los Angeles and Chicago, and they run in by the hundreds and they’re running out carrying refrigerators and carrying air conditioners and big stuff. Big little everything. Fur …

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Trump Vows Vengeance On “Communist, Marxist” DAs

From Hair Furor’s latest rant, this time in a video: I will appoint U.S. Attorneys who will be the polar opposite of the Soros District Attorneys and others that are being appointed throughout the United States. Very unfair to our population. Very unfair to our country. They will be the 100 most ferocious legal warriors against crime and Communist corruption …

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