Tag Archives: Trump corruption

Trump Ordered To Pay Nearly $1M For Frivolous Suit

The New York Times reports: In a scathing ruling, a federal judge in Florida on Thursday ordered Donald J. Trump and one of his lawyers together to pay nearly a million dollars in sanctions for filing a frivolous lawsuit against nearly three dozen of Mr. Trump’s perceived political enemies, including Hillary Clinton and the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey. …

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WH Condemns Trump’s Call To Imprison Reporters

Politico reports: Trump’s remarks drew a pointed retort from President Joe Biden’s White House, which opposed any efforts to question reporters. “The freedom of the press is part of the bedrock of American democracy,” White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement shared exclusively with POLITICO. “Calling for egregious abuses of power in order to suppress the Constitutional rights …

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Trump: Imprison Reporters Until They Reveal Sources

Posted this afternoon to Trump’s Truth Social account. The Supreme Court has just announced it is not able to find out, even with the help of our ‘crack’ FBI, who the leaker was on the R v Wade scandal. They’ll never find out, & it’s important that they do. So, go to the reporter & ask him/her who it was. …

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Peter Navarro Must Face Contempt Of Congress Charge

CNN reports: A federal judge declined Thursday to dismiss the criminal contempt of Congress charge brought against former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro for his failure to comply with a subpoena from the House select committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. In his opinion, US District Judge Amit Mehta dismantled a wide variety …

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Trump Mistook Photo Of Rape Accuser For His Ex-Wife

The Washington Post reports: Donald Trump mistook his sexual assault accuser E. Jean Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples when shown a photograph from the 1990s in a deposition at Mar-a-Lago last year, potentially undermining one of the common defenses he has used to deny an attack. Trump, who is being sued by Carroll, an author and advice columnist, for …

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Jared Kushner Claims He Had “Screaming Matches” With Trump Over His Lies About Election, Voter Fraud

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and top White House adviser, Jared Kushner, described to author Chris Whipple his aggressive confrontations with then-President Trump following his loss in the 2020 election and subsequent allegations of voter fraud. Whipple’s new book, out this week, The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House, includes a section in which Kushner …

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Trump Now Claims Stolen Docs Were “Empty Folders”

Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: Page 1: The Fake News Media & Crooked Democrats (That’s been proven!) keep saying I had a “large number of documents” in order to make the Biden Classified Docs look less significant. When I was in the Oval Office, or elsewhere, & “papers” were distributed to groups of people & me, they would …

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Trump Petitions Facebook To Reinstate His Account

NBC News reports: Mounting a comeback for the White House, Donald Trump is looking to regain control over his powerful social media accounts.  With access to his Twitter account back, Trump’s campaign is formally petitioning Facebook’s parent company to unblock his account there after it was locked in response to the U.S. Capitol riot two years ago. “We believe that …

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NYC Prosecutors Appear To Revive Trump/Stormy Probe

The New York Times reports: The Manhattan district attorney’s office on Tuesday took a significant step forward in its investigation of Donald J. Trump, meeting with his former personal lawyer about hush money paid to a porn star who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump. The questioning of the lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, offered the clearest sign yet …

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Trump Wails: “Disloyal” Evangelicals Have Dumped Me

Mediaite reports: Donald Trump is lashing out at evangelical leaders not supportive enough of his 2024 presidential campaign. Speaking to Real America’s Voice this week, Trump called out the “great disloyalty” in politics when discussing his support among evangelical leaders. “That’s a sign of disloyalty. There’s a great disloyalty in the world of politics and that’s a sign of disloyalty,” …

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Trump Claims Accuser Said “It’s Very Sexy To Be Raped”

The Insider reports: Former President Donald Trump claimed that E. Jean Carroll, who has accused him of sexual assault, said that “rape was sexy” and “indicated that she loved it” when he was deposed in connection to her defamation lawsuit in October. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan unsealed a portion of Trump’s deposition on Friday after his lawyers lost a bid …

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Trump Loses “Absurd” Bid To Boot Defamation Suit

Reuters reports: A U.S. judge on Friday rejected as “absurd” former President Donald Trump’s effort to dismiss writer E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit accusing him of defamation and battery after he denied raping her in the mid-1990s. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan said there was no merit to Trump’s argument that Carroll’s battery claim under New York’s Adult Survivors …

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Trump Organization Fined Maximum $1.6M In NY Case

The New York Times reports: Former president Donald J. Trump’s family real estate business was ordered on Friday to pay a $1.6 million criminal penalty for its conviction on tax fraud and other charges, a stinging rebuke and the maximum possible punishment. The sentence, handed down by a judge in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, caps a lengthy legal ordeal …

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Trump Calls Special Counsel Jack Smith A “Terrorist”

“This prosecutor should resign. He’s a terrorist. He is a Trump-hater. His best friends are Weissmann and all of these characters. Lisa Monaco at the Justice Department, one of the top officials. “This is a disgraceful situation. He should resign. His wife hates Trump probably even beyond him. And his wife and his wife has a sister who openly hates …

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Trump To Hold First Campaign Event In South Carolina

Politico reports: Former President Donald Trump is planning to hold his first public campaign event of the year in South Carolina, in what aides are portraying as a first step into a more public phase of his 2024 White House run. Trump is slated to make an appearance in late January in Columbia, S.C. It will not be a rally, …

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Trump Team Hit With Sweeping J6-Related Subpoena

The Washington Post reports: A wide-ranging subpoena sent to Trump campaign officials last month shows new areas of investigative interest as part of the Justice Department’s extensive Jan. 6 criminal probe, according to a copy reviewed by The Washington Post. The subpoena seeks any communications or information about Dominion and Smartmatic, two voting technology companies that were subjected to a …

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Former Trump Org CFO Sentenced To Five Months

Forbes reports: Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization’s longtime chief financial officer, was sentenced to five months in state prison on Tuesday after pleading guilty to criminal tax fraud for evading taxes for years by taking gifts and other off-the-books compensation from former President Donald Trump’s family business. Weisselberg, who was taken into custody on Tuesday immediately after being sentenced, is …

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Trump Rages Against Hitler Comparisons In New Filing

The Daily Beast reports: Former President Donald Trump is doubling down on his “I am not Hitler” defamation lawsuit against CNN by adopting the Nazi strategy of attacking journalists as liars, with court papers claiming—without irony—that “Americans are split when asked if the media is actually an enemy of democracy.” In the latest court filings, Trump’s lawyers paradoxically argued that …

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Special Counsel Jack Smith Subpoenas Rudy Giuliani

CNN reports: Special counsel Jack Smith’s team has subpoenaed Donald Trump’s former attorney Rudy Giuliani, asking him to turn over records to a federal grand jury as part of an investigation into the former president’s fundraising following the 2020 election, according to a person familiar with the subpoena. The subpoena, which was sent more than a month ago and has …

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Trump Calls For Ousting 18 Republican Senators

Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: Great job Kevin! We must now stop Mitch McConnell and his China flagrant boss, Coco Chow. It’s as though he just doesn’t care anymore, he pushes through anything the Democrats want. The $1.7 TRILLION quickly approved Bill of the week before was HORRIBLE. Zero for USA Border Security. If he waited just ten …

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