Tag Archives: Trump corruption

Trump Spending 91 Cents For Every Dollar He Raises

Bloomberg News reports: Former President Donald Trump raised $24 million in the third quarter, a 41% increase over the previous quarter, but he spent $22 million to do it. Trump spent 91 cents to raise every dollar, according to the latest filings with the Federal Election Commission. The high-cost, low-margin fundraising came as Trump’s legal problems mounted following revelations from …

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WaPo: Bitter Infighting At Trump’s Truth Social

The Washington Post reports: Will Wilkerson, then an executive at former president Donald Trump’s start-up Trump Media & Technology Group, was at a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., coffee shop with company co-founder Andy Litinsky last October when Trump called Litinsky with a question: Would he give up some of his shares to Trump’s wife, Melania? Trump had already been given 90 …

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Clown Car Of Crazies To Help Giuliani Save Law License

Axios reports: Rudy Giuliani plans to defend himself in an upcoming legal ethics case — and he’ll have help from a number of 2020 election deniers. Giuliani could lose his ability to practice law in Washington, D.C., if he loses the case, similar to how he can’t practice in the state of New York over his election fraud claims. Giuliani’s …

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Feds Investigate Mar-A-Lago Aides On Moving Docs

The Wall Street Journal reports: The aides, Walt Nauta and Will Russell, are witnesses in the Justice Department’s investigation into the handling of presidential and classified records taken from the White House but aren’t formally cooperating with the probe. Federal officials have expressed concern about whether Mr. Trump took documents on flights as he traveled from Mar-a-Lago to his other …

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DOJ Formally Appeals Appointment Of Special Master

CNN reports: The Justice Department officially appealed the appointment of the special master, who is overseeing the review of documents seized from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, in a brief filed with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday. The Justice Department centered their brief on sweeping criticism of lower court Judge Aileen Cannon’s actions, arguing she had …

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Trump Threatens To Sue Pulitzer Prize Board Members

Fox News reports: Former President Trump ramped up his fight against the Pulitzer Prize Board on Thursday with a letter informing individual members they could be exposed to a defamation suit.The letter said they could be liable over the 2018 National Reporting prizes given to The New York Times and Washington Post for “totally debunked” coverage of alleged collusion between …

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Trump Sends BATSHIT 14-Page Letter To Jan. 6 Panel

The Hill reports: Former President Donald Trump on Friday skirted the question of whether he would testify under subpoena in a 14-page response to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol, instead doubling down on his disproven claims that the 2020 election was stolen. Trump posted a letter to committee chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) one day …

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NYT: Trump Wants To Testify, Only If He Can Do It Live

The New York Times reports: Mr. Trump believes he is his own best spokesman and can explain his actions to anyone, and he often ignores the counsel of lawyers, who would almost certainly tell him not to appear voluntarily. Since it became public that the House select committee planned to subpoena Trump for his testimony, the former president has been …

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Trump Rages About Subpoena, Tells The Usual Lies

Posted this afternoon to Trump’s Truth Social account: The Unselect Committee knowingly failed to examine the massive voter fraud which took place during the 2020 Presidential Election – The reason for what took place on January 6th. Why didn’t the Unselect Committee ask me to testify months ago? Why did they wait until the very end, the final moments of …

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January 6 Committee Votes 9-0 To Subpoena Trump

From the New York Times live blog: Thompson is delivering a scorching indictment of Trump as he lays the groundwork for a subpoena. Multiple times today, committee members called Trump “the center” of the Jan. 6 events. Cheney just motioned for a vote to subpoena Trump. “He must be accountable. He is required to answer for his actions,” Thompson said. …

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SCOTUS Denies Trump In Mar-A-Lago Docs Battle

CNN reports: The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an emergency request from former President Donald Trump to intervene in the dispute over classified documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate in August. Trump had asked the justices to reverse a federal appeals court and allow a special master to review about 100 documents marked classified, a move that could have opened …

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Trump Recruited RNC Chair To Assemble Fake Electors

Mediaite reports: Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-FL) detailed on Thursday how Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, was recruited by then-President Donald Trump to aid in his scheme to assemble “fake electors” to change the result of the electoral college and remain in power. “President Trump’s efforts to unlawfully overturn the results of the 2020 election were not …

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NBC: Jan. 6 Committee Will Vote To Subpoena Trump

NBC News reports: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol plans to vote to subpoena former President Donald Trump, sources familiar with the committee’s plans told NBC News Thursday. Members of the panel, which held what was expected to be its final hearing before the midterm elections Thursday, had previously said that they were still considering …

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Trump Repeats His “She’s Too Ugly To Rape” Defense

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: I don’t know this woman, have no idea who she is, other than it seems she got a picture of me many years ago, with her husband, shaking my hand on a reception line at a celebrity charity event. She completely made up a story that I met her at the doors …

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Trump Employee To Feds: He Told Me To Move Docs

The Washington Post reports: A Trump employee has told federal agents about moving boxes of documents at Mar-a-Lago at the specific direction of the former president, according to people familiar with the investigation, who say the witness account — combined with security-camera footage — offers key evidence of Donald Trump’s behavior as investigators sought the return of classified material. The …

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New Evidence Shows Trump Was Warned Of Violence

The Washington Post reports: The probably final public hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol is expected to highlight newly obtained Secret Service records showing how President Donald Trump was repeatedly alerted to brewing violence that day, and he still sought to stoke the conflict. The committee plans to share in Thursday’s …

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DOJ To SCOTUS: Deny Trump’s Appeal On Stolen Docs

Axios reports: The Justice Department on Tuesday said President Trump’s appeal for the Supreme Court to weigh in on the ongoing Mar-a-Lago probe should be denied. Driving the news: Trump’s legal team previously asked in a filing to the Supreme Court for the special master be allowed to review the near 100 documents marked as classified that were found at …

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Trump Vows Revenge On Enemies In New Bizarre Video

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump posted a video message that suggested he is preparing to “run like the wind” and “tear the shit out of” opponents like Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and the January 6 committee. Trump is still banned from Twitter — for the time being — but on Monday night, he posted a bizarre video …

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Trump Has Spent More On Lawyers Than Candidates

The Washington Post reports: Donald Trump’s political operation has spent more money since he left office on lawyers representing the former president and a pair of nonprofits staffed by former Cabinet members than it has on Republican congressional campaigns, according to a review of financial filings. Trump’s leadership PAC, Save America, has blitzed supporters in recent days with fundraising solicitations …

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39% Of GOP Voters: We’ll Blame Loss On Election Fraud

The Hill reports: About 39 percent of Republicans will blame election fraud if the GOP doesn’t win control of Congress in the November midterm elections according to a new Axios/Ipsos poll. The poll documents the widening divide between Democrats and Republicans, who appear to be growing less and less likely to accept the outcome of an election if their party …

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