Tag Archives: Trump corruption

Forbes reports: Buried in a heap of recently released financial paperwork sits a surprising revelation: Donald Trump had a foreign creditor he failed to disclose while running for president in 2016 and after assuming office in 2017. The documents, compiled by the Trump Organization and obtained by the New York attorney general, show a previously unreported liability of $19.8 million …

Politico Playbook reports: Donald Trump, the former president and the person that polls show is still the most likely GOP presidential nominee in 2024, today on Truth Social called for the suspension of the Constitution to overturn the 2020 election, citing false conspiracy theories about election fraud. “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of …

Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: The story in AP, written by the untalented and unreliable Jill Colvin, who I unfortunately got to know at the White House, is Fake News. We have very strong security, especially with the very talented Secret Service on premises, but when I know someone, as I did Ye, we’re not going to have …

CNN reports: The House Ways and Means Committee now has six years of Donald Trump’s federal tax returns, ending a yearslong pursuit by Democrats to dig into one of the former president’s most closely guarded personal details. The Treasury Department has complied with last week’s court order to hand over the documents, a spokesperson from the Treasury Department confirmed to …

CNN reports: Former Trump adviser Stephen Miller testified on Tuesday to a federal grand jury in Washington, DC, as part of the January 6, 2021, investigation, CNN has learned, making him the first known witness to testify since the Justice Department appointed a special counsel to oversee the criminal investigations around the former president. Miller was at the federal courthouse …

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: Many Republican Judges go out of their way to show they are beyond reproach, & will come down hard on people before them in order to prove they cannot be “bought” or in any way show favor to those who appointed them. People, including me, are oftentimes shocked by the lack of …

Bloomberg News reports: Donald Trump can’t claim presidential immunity to avoid a lawsuit that accuses him of civil rights violations in his efforts to undermine the results of the 2020 election, a federal judge ruled Monday. Trump had argued that he was “absolutely immune” from damages for actions within the “outer perimeter” of his official duties as president, and that …

CNN reports: Judge Juan Merchan reprimanded lawyers for the Trump Corporation for filing motions and new exhibits late Sunday night that they want to introduce Monday morning when they question Mazars accountant Donald Bender, telling them he will no longer accept any motions from the attorneys. Defense attorneys had submitted 18 exhibits to the prosecution around midnight. “It’s inconsiderate at …

Mediaite reports: Donald Trump took to Truth Social to rage against Jack Smith, the special counsel assigned by Attorney General Merrick Garland to oversee criminal probes into the former president. In posts that took full advantage of caps lock, Trump called Smith “compromised” and accused him of having a “soft name.” “Jack Smith (nice, soft name, isn’t it?), is a …

The Hill reports: Members of President Biden’s party are openly pining for Trump to become the 2024 Republican nominee, believing he is just too flawed to win a general election. They argue that the situation today is markedly different from 2016, not least because voters now know what they get with Trump in office. And Democrats are eager to have …

Salon reports: The former leader of the free world lashed out on Thursday at one of the prosecutors investigating alleged misconduct. “The Manhattan D.A. Case should never have been brought,” Trump posted to his Truth Social website. He also attacked the Mazars Group, which used to handle the accounting for the Trump Organization. Two minutes later, he returned to Truth …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: What are they doing in Arizona about the large number of voting machines in Republican areas that just happened to be “BROKEN” on Election Day, with tens of thousands of voters, standing in line for hours, unable to vote. They left the voting lines in complete exasperation, unable to return. When “mechanics” went in …

Law & Crime reports: CNN has struck back at Donald Trump over the former president’s defamation complaint against the network. In a motion filed Tuesday, CNN asked U.S. District Judge Anuraag Singhal to dismiss the Trump’s lawsuit. Trump claimed that the network’s “persistent association” of Trump to Adolf Hitler and Hitler’s “Big Lie” — that Jews were the source of …

The Independent reports: The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the imminent handover of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns to a congressional committee after a three-year legal fight. The court, without comment, rejected Trump’s plea for an order that would have prevented the Treasury Department from giving six years of tax returns for Trump and some of …

Politico reports: When Donald Trump plunged into the 2024 presidential race last week at his Mar-a-Lago club, he was surrounded by sidekicks, superfans and self-described sycophants. Among them was another subset of Trump world figures who look poised to help form the coalition behind his third presidential bid: those sympathetic to or even a part of the riot on the …

The Washington Post reports: Today, after a drawn-out legal fight, Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) is scheduled to appear before an Atlanta-area grand jury investigating whether attempts by Donald Trump and his associates to overturn the 2020 presidential election results amounted to criminal activity. Prosecutors in Fulton County, Ga., want to hear about conversations that Graham had with Georgia officials …

The Hill reports: Voters and Republican operatives alike are labeling former President Trump the biggest loser of the midterms, raising questions about his strength heading into 2024. In a Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released exclusively to The Hill on Monday, 20 percent of voters said Trump was the clear loser after the Nov. 8 election, while 14 percent said MAGA Republicans …

The Daily Beast reports: Ivanka Trump tried and failed last week to slink out of having a court-appointed monitor watch her financial moves, as New York prosecutors worry the Trump Organization and its executives may quietly try to relocate assets in anticipation of law enforcement action. In private letters, Ivanka’s attorneys tried to exclude her—and only her—from a New York …

“We’re a third-world country in our elections, and our borders are wide open with unknown people, many of them many, many millions, millions and millions. “Criminals, terrorists pouring into our country. Millions. And don’t believe when you hear two million or three million, I believe it’s ten million people. I believe it’s ten million. Our country is changing before our …

“What they oughta do immediately is say, ‘Hey, we’re not gonna give you one penny in the Justice Department.’ And they oughta start the impeachment process on Garland and Mayorkas, day one. “You want a special prosecutor? Then you raise the money yourself. Go raise your money, go special prosecute that. Enough nonsense with these people. They’re criminals. They twist …