Category: Donald Trump scandals

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Trump Is Worried About Self-Incrimination In Michael Cohen Lawsuit

Donald Trump is worried that the discovery phase of the lawsuit he filed against Michael Cohen might incriminate him in other ongoing criminal matters he currently faces.

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DOJ Calls Trump’s Delay Tactics ‘Exactly Backward’ and Defense ‘Borderline Frivolous’

The Special Counsel’s office prosecutors replied to Trump’s efforts to indefinitely postpone his criminal trial date in the classified documents case and to use the Presidential Records Act as a defense.

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View from Trump Country: Insiders Make Sense Of The Latest Poll

Let’s unpack the noise right now about how the second felony indictment of former president Donald J Trump has caused his support to go up.

Nicolle Wallace on Trump taking the fifth on MSNBC.

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Nicolle Wallace Devastates Trump And Shows Why Him Taking The 5th Matters

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace played a round-up of investigators and prosecutors saying that beyond a reasonable doubt, Trump committed crimes. Video: .@NicolleDWallace plays a round-up of prosecutors and investigators saying that beyond a reasonable doubt Trump committed crimes. pic.twitter.com/3NVcqtM9FD — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) January 31, 2023 Wallace said, ” Let me pull back the curtain…

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The GOP’s Cover Is Blown As Russian State TV Calls Donald Trump Their ‘Partner’

Russia listens to Trump’s pleas for their help, wants to help, does help, and views Trump as a partner in their genocide.

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It Gets Real For Trump In Georgia As His Lawyers Meet With Prosecutors About Criminal Election Interference Investigation

Rachel Maddow reported that the criminal investigation into Trump’s election interference in Georgia now has his lawyers meeting with prosecutors.

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Bipartisan Group of Former Lawmakers Files Brief Against Trump’s Claim of Executive Privilege

he brief, which is slated to hit the docket in the D. C. federal District Court on Friday, contends that no possible argument about executive privilege could overcome Congress’ need for documents to probe the violent attack on the Capitol — one fueled by Trump’s false claim that the 2020 election was stolen.

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Trump’s Lawyers Plead Immunity From the IRS to Avoid Congressional Scrutiny

Trump’s lawyers contend Congress has no authority to investigate individuals and cannot demand personal, confidential information.

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Officers Want Trump And GOP In Congress Investigated For Collaborating With 1/6 Attackers

Officers Fanone and Hodges asked the Select Committee to investigate what every patriot in this country is desperate to understand: Which powerful figures in the Republican Party coordinated with the terrorists.

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Opinion: Eric Trump’s Grifter Wife Funneled Dog Rescue Charity Funds To Trump

Grifting is not solely familial, but in Trump’s case, it always leads back to the biggest grifter in American history – Donald Trump.

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Trump Should Be Terrified As Michael Cohen Leads Manhattan DA Toward A Criminal Indictment

What’s happening at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has all the makings of a coming criminal indictment.

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Rachel Maddow Tells Trump To Brace For A Criminal Trial After Supreme Court Tax Return Ruling

The Supreme Court’s decision to allow the release of the ex-president’s tax returns means a criminal trial could be coming for Trump.

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Michael Cohen Predicts A Trump Indictment Is Coming Soon

Michael Cohen predicted on Monday night that a Trump indictment is coming soon based on recent actions from the Manhattan DA’s Office.

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Trump’s Financial Crimes Are Unraveling As The Manhattan DA Subpoenas NYC Tax Agency

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office continues to ramp up its fraud investigation into Donald Trump’s company.

Lindsey Graham On Fox News Sunday Futures

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Spineless Lindsey Graham Says It’s Not His Job To Hold Trump Accountable

Lindsey Graham is essentially admitting that he has no intention of being an open-minded juror in Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial.

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‘An Insurrectionist President’: House Dem Calls Trump’s Impeachment Trial An Open-And-Shut Case

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) called Donald Trump’s Senate trial – set to start on Tuesday – an open-and-shut case against the ex-president.

House Impeachment Article Delivered to Senate

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History Is Made As The House Officially Triggers Trump’s Second Senate Impeachment Trial

The House of Representatives officially delivered its latest article of impeachment against Donald Trump to the United States Senate.

Eric Swalwell makes slam dunk impeachment case

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Eric Swalwell Outlines Slam Dunk Case For Senate To Convict Donald Trump

Rep. Eric Swalwell made a clear and concise case for why Donald Trump should be convicted in the Senate’s upcoming impeachment trial.

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Impeachment Manager Calls Lindsey Graham A Disgrace For Trying To Stop Senate Trial

Rep. Dean blasted Graham for apparently forgetting that Trump incited an attack that targeted his own vice president and members of Congress.

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Capitol Attack Shows That Trump Is Basically The Leader Of A White Supremacist Terror Cell

The mob that descended on D.C. on Jan. 6 was filled with pro-Trump white supremacists, many of whom were on the FBI terrorist watchlist.

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Trump Officials Are Panicking About Being ‘Unemployable’ After Leaving The White House

Participating in a violent coup – or even standing silently by as Donald Trump encourages one – isn’t something that looks good on a resume.

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Rep. Jerry Nadler Calls For Immediate Vote To Impeach Trump Over Capitol Attack

With Mike Pence reportedly opposing an attempt to remove Trump via the 25th Amendment, House Democrats could move quickly on impeachment.

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Congressional and Senate Republicans Who Incited Traitorous Attack Must Be Removed and Tried for Sedition

The Patriotic Millionaires issued a statement calling for those members of the House and Senate who incited with Trump the violent, armed insurrection to be removed from office and tried for sedition.

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Joy Reid Calls Trump A ‘Dime Store Dictator’ Whose Crimes Make Watergate Look Like Child’s Play

Reid ripped Donald Trump’s effort to pressure the Georgia secretary of state, calling the outgoing president a dime store dictator.

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Adam Schiff Blasts Trump For Getting Played By Putin As Russia Hacks U.S. Nuclear Agency

Rep. Adam Schiff said that Trump is the worst person to be leading the country in the midst of a serious Russian cyber attack.

Doctor calls Trump's covid response criminal

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‘Enough To Actually Put Him In Jail’: Doctor Calls Trump’s COVID Response Medically Criminally Negligent

Nearly a year into this pandemic, more than 315,000 Americans have died in no small part because of Donald Trump’s negligence.

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Trump Wants To Pardon Ivanka And Jared After They Raked In Huge Profits Under His Presidency

Trump is considering pardoning Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner at a time when they have profited massively from his presidency.

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Report Reveals Trump Avoided Paying Taxes On Nearly $300 Million In Loans

Another bombshell published by The New York Times revealed that Trump avoided paying taxes on nearly $300 million in loans he received.

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Rachel Maddow Blows The Lid Off Trump’s Scheme To Kneecap CDC Disease Detective Teams

Rachel Maddow blew the lid off Donald Trump’s scheme to kneecap CDC disease detective teams in the middle of a pandemic.

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Michael Cohen To Maddow: If Trump Loses To Biden, He Will Resign And Have Mike Pence Pardon Him

Cohen told Maddow that he believes that if Trump loses to Joe Biden, he will resign and have Mike Pence pardon him.

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New Book Accuses Trump Family Of Lining Their Pockets With Inaugural Committee Funds

In the book, an ex-friend of the First Lady described how she was scapegoated in the midst of a scandal involving the inaugural committee.

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Trump Apparently Thought He Could Pay Robert Mueller To Drop The Russia Investigation

Donald Trump seemingly believed he could pay Special Counsel Robert Mueller to drop the Russia investigation if it started to zero in on him.

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Trump Is Shattering Records For Presidential Corruption – And It Isn’t Even Close

A record-breaking number of close associates and aides to Donald Trump have been indicted over the course of his first term.

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Ali Velshi Tears Bill Barr Apart For Playing Dumb While Protecting Trump’s Criminal Friends

Barr repeatedly denied having any knowledge about cases involving Trump’s corrupt allies, from Michael Flynn to Roger Stone to Michael Cohen.

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Trump Pressured The British Government To Drum Up Business For His Scotland Golf Resort

Donald Trump used the power of the presidency to pressure a foreign government into ginning up business for his golf resort in Scotland.

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Rachel Maddow Says New York Prosecutors Could Fast-Track Trump Tax Return Subpoena

It’s plausible for investigators to fast-track the process, which opens up the possibility of resolving the fight over Trump’s tax returns before November.

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GOP Group Rains Hell On Trump In Devastating New Ad Focused On His Declining Health

The spot zeroed in on Trump’s unsteady walk down a ramp at West Point over the weekend, as well as his inability to hold a glass of water with one hand.

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Steve Schmidt Says Even Trump’s Crooked Campaign Knows The MAGA Con Is Coming To An End

This election is likely to be close, but polling shows that Donald Trump’s great con could reach its conclusion this November.

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Trump Busted For Grifting Nearly $1M From Taxpayers Through Payments To His Private Company

Despite his promises, Donald Trump hasn’t drained the swamp of D.C. corruption since he took office in 2017. He is the swamp.

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Rachel Maddow Crushes Trump’s Lawyers For Arguing That He’s Too Busy To Be Investigated

Trump’s lawyers were in the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday arguing that he is too busy to cooperate with any type of investigation.

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Opinion: American Democracy and Covid-19 Penetrate Trump’s Walls of Privilege

Despite Trump’s best efforts to assume privilege from laws and icky peasant illnesses like COVID-19, the pesky features of democracy penetrate his walls. In two days, three people within Trump’s inner circle tested positive for COVID-19. News broke late Friday night that his daughter Ivanka’s personal assistant tested positive. Also testing positive is Trump’s valet,…

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Steve Schmidt Tells Trump What His Legacy Will Be: Mass Death, Suffering And Economic Collapse

What’s almost as bad as the mass death and suffering is that Donald Trump doesn’t seem to care that it’s all happening under his watch.

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Mask Factory Blasts Live And Let Die As Trump Tours Facility

As Donald Trump toured a mask factory in Arizona, the Guns N’Roses cover of Live And Let Die blasted over the factory’s speaker system.

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Adam Schiff Is Ready To Drop The Hammer On Trump’s Family Of Grifters

Donald Trump and his family’s grifting will never stop. Neither should the aggressive oversight by Democrats in the House.

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Jared And Ivanka Are Likely Profiting From The Coronavirus Crisis

It would be naive to think that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump weren’t trying to profit from the coronavirus crisis wreaking havoc across the globe.

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Trump Throws A Delusional Tantrum And Blames The Media For Coronavirus Shutdown

Trump is throwing a tantrum because of the immediate pushback that he has gotten for his idea to “reopen the economy” by Easter.

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Trump Is Trying To Cover Up How Many Americans Are Filing Unemployment Claims

As the economy continues its slide into recession, the Trump administration is trying to cover up how many people are filing for unemployment.

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Opinion: Trump And His GOP Cult Are Too Blind To Govern During This Time Of Crisis

The least they can do is let the adults handle things for the next eight months until voters can send them back to where they belong.

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Ari Melber Busts GOP For Committing The Same Abuse Of Power That Got Trump Impeached

Melber said the GOP is committing the very same abuse of power that Donald Trump was impeached over, and he urged Americans not to normalize it.

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Trump Could Face Criminal Charges If He Pardons Roger Stone

A pardon of Roger Stone could be used in a potential criminal conspiracy charge against Donald Trump once he leaves office.

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Rachel Maddow Reveals The Real Reason Trump Intervened In The Roger Stone Case

It’s always been laughable to suggest that the man who ran a fake university and a slush fund charity somehow cares about the rule of law.

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Top Homeland Security Democrat Calls Trump An Active National Security Threat

By inviting Russian interference in the U.S. election, Trump is jeopardizing America’s national security and undermining democracy.

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Trump’s Pardons Prove That His Entire Impeachment Defense Was A Joke

Donald Trump doesn’t give a damn about corruption; he never has. His spree of pardons on Tuesday just confirms that fact.

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Rachel Maddow Warns That Trump And Barr Will Use The DOJ To Take Away The Supreme Court’s Power

Trump and Barr could try to use the DOJ to prevent the release of the president’s tax returns – even if SCOTUS rules that they should be disclosed.

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Trump Admits He’s Guilty Of The Impeachment Charges Now That He’s Been Fake Acquitted

Donald Trump said that he did, in fact, personally send Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine to dig up dirt on his political opponents.

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Trump Brags About Traitor Barr Betraying the Country for Him

Trump spent Wednesday morning making sure everyone knows that he knows that Attorney General Bill Barr is not only actively interfering on Trump’s behalf in cases the Justice Department is handling, but that Bill Barr took control of the Mueller case against the Republican President.

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Rachel Maddow Calls Trump’s DOJ Meddling A ‘Rule Of Law Emergency’

Over the past 24 hours, Donald Trump and William Barr have been busy creating what MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow called a rule of law emergency.

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Rachel Maddow Says Giuliani And Barr Appear To Be Joining Forces To Dig Up False Dirt On Dems

It’s starting to look like Rudy Giuliani and William Barr are joining forces to dig up dirt on Donald Trump’s election year political opponents.

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Chuck Schumer Calls For An Investigation Into Trump’s Illegal Witness Retaliation

Trump is retaliating against impeachment witnesses and trying to discourage anyone in the future from speaking out about his abuses.

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Joy Reid Calls Susan Collins A Trump-Appeasing Coward In Blistering Takedown

Joy Reid didn’t hold back in a blistering takedown of Maine Sen. Susan Collins, who voted to acquit Donald Trump in the Senate impeachment trial.

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Lisa Murkowski Announces She’ll Vote To Acquit Trump Even Though He’s Guilty

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) announced on Monday that she will not put her country first in the looming Senate vote on whether to convict Donald Trump

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Trump White House Threatens Bolton Not to Publish His Book

The White House is threatening John Bolton that he can’t publish his book as is.

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House Democrats Shred Trump’s Claim That A Rigged Election Should Judge His Crimes

House Managers point out that Trump’s claims that he can’t be convicted in the Senate because he has done nothing wrong, and that the proper way to deal with his abuse of power is via an election that he is actively working to cheat by bribing a foreign country, and is actually one reason why he was impeached.

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Opinion: Mitch’s Impeachment Trial Is, Goosey Lucy Goes To the Senate

Working hand in glove with Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell is producing a Soviet-style sham trial reminiscent of a Kafka novel. It’s got the long arduous hours, giving equal validity to evidence laid out by the Democrats and to the slop Trump’s lawyers threw together because they have nothing else to counter the facts. Contrary to…

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Ex-RNC Chair Blasts ‘Un-American’ GOP Senators For Taking An Oath They Know They Won’t Keep

Michael Steele unloaded on GOP senators on Thursday, saying they should ashamed of themselves for taking an oath they don’t plan to keep.

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Republicans Take Oath To Be Impartial While Ignoring Impeachment Evidence

Parnas told Maddow that he delivered a message to a top aide to Zelenskyy, Sergei Sheyfir, that “it was all aid… we would stop giving them any kind of aid…” unless there was an announcement of an investigation into Joe Biden.

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McConnell’s Sham Trial Is Going Up In Flames As Enough GOP Senators Will Vote To Call Witnesses

Ultimately, if the reporting is true and there are, indeed, enough Republican votes to call witnesses, then Nancy Pelosi’s strategy was success.

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Russia Caught Hacking Burisma To Help Trump Find Election Dirt On The Bidens

Donald Trump knows that he needs foreign help to win again in 2020. Russia’s new actions show that they know he needs it, too.

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Opinion: We’re On The Brink Of War With Iran Because Pompeo Was Sad

Trump escalated a conflict with Iran because the president needed something to brag about and the Secretary of State was feeling morose because he couldn’t get an assassination the last time he asked the president for one. We are living in chilling times as we continue the descent into the dystopian hell that Trump promised…

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Rachel Maddow Puts Mike Pence At The Center Of Trump’s Criminal Ukraine Plot

It’s clear that the vice president was a key player in Trump’s plot to extort a foreign power into handing over dirt on a political opponent.

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‘Handful’ Of GOP Senators Are Considering Breaking From Trump And McConnell On Sham Trial

McConnell wouldn’t be going on Fox News to spout off if he was so sure that his Senate caucus was fully onboard with a phony trial.

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Opinion: Impeachment Is The Christmas Present Trump Deserves

Days after Speaker Pelosi led the House to impeach Donald Trump, the president and Republican leaders continue to feel the same sting a child feels when punished. The fact that impeachment happened before Congress and the President went to their holiday destinations means Donald Trump got the Christmas present he deserved. For once, the return…

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Opinion: Yes, Republicans, The Impeachment Process Has Been A Partisan Sham – Because Of You

This process has been a partisan sham because the GOP has sold its soul to a man whose entire presidency is built on a publicity stunt gone wrong.

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Trump Reeling As 53% Of Voters Believe Democrats Were Right To Impeach

Donald Trump and Republicans claim the House-led impeachment inquiry was driven by politics, not facts, but the American people disagree.

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Mitch McConnell Is Struggling To Get 51 Senate Votes Against Trump’s Removal

Mitch McConnell is still scrambling to get to 51 votes in the Senate to prevent a humiliating, bipartisan vote in favor of removal.

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LA Times Drops Blistering Editorial Calling Trump’s Letter To Pelosi Proof Of His Insanity

The media needs to call Trump’s letter what it is: the insane rantings of an individual who is manifestly unfit to be president of the United States.

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‘Poor Mitch McConnell’: Schumer Shreds Majority Leader For Destroying The Senate To Save Trump

Chuck Schumer said Mitch McConnell’s cover-up campaign for the corrupt president will do long-term damage to the U.S. Senate.

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Massive Crowds Flood The Streets On Impeachment Eve To Demand Trump’s Removal

Images from major cities all across the country show that there is no shortage of enthusiasm for Donald Trump’s impeachment.

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It’s Official: A Majority Of House Members Will Vote To Impeach Donald Trump

The number of House lawmakers voting in favor of impeachment articles against Trump crossed the majority mark Tuesday evening.

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Biden Hits Trump Where It Hurts By Tweeting The Latest Fox News Poll Directly To Him

Trump is the least popular president in modern American history, so it’s no surprise that he feels the need to regularly invent good poll numbers.

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‘Let’s Have All The Witnesses’: GOP Rep Breaks With Trump, Calls On Rudy And Mulvaney To Testify

Ever since Mitch McConnell admitted to Sean Hannity that he essentially wants a show trial In the Senate, he has faced bipartisan pushback.

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House Republicans Privately Admit They Want To Vote For Impeachment

There is no other way to accurately describe Republicans members of Congress: They are spineless cowards putting party before country.

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Bill Barr Is Threatening To Take Down Any FBI Official Who Investigates Election Interference

Bill Barr is bending over backward to protect Donald Trump, and in the process, he’s burning the Justice Department to the ground.

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Trump And McConnell Plotting To Have Senate Trial Without Allowing A Single Witness

Once again, the best evidence that this president is guilty of the alleged high crimes and misdemeanors is to just examine his behavior.

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Jim Jordan Gives Up On Arguing The Facts And Turns Impeachment Hearing Into Trump 2020 Ad

The GOP gave up on arguing against the substance of the two impeachment articles and instead auditioned for spots in the president’s next campaign ad.

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Nadler Calls Out GOP For Shamelessly Shielding Trump And Putting America On Path To Tyranny

Rep. Jerry Nadler tore into Republicans as they attempted to invalidate the second article of impeachment – obstruction of Congress – against Donald Trump.

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Democrats Will Hit Trump With Two Articles Of Impeachment For Abuse Of Power And Obstruction

Before Christmas, Donald Trump will likely become the first president in United States history to be impeached by the House of Representatives.

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House Dem Humiliates Matt Gaetz By Fact-Checking Him In Real Time During Impeachment Hearing

While the GOP lies in defense of this corrupt president, Democrats have passed meaningful legislation and kept their promise to hold Trump accountable.

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One Of America’s Largest Newspapers Drops Editorial Bomb On Trump By Endorsing Impeachment

The L.A. Times dropped an editorial bomb on Donald Trump on Saturday, calling for the president’s impeachment and urging Republicans to join in the effort.

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GOP Senators In Swing States Are Panicking Over Impeachment Vote

A handful of GOP senators are concerned that voting to clear Trump of any wrongdoing will come back to haunt them in 2020 and beyond.

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Russia Was Listening To Trump’s Calls As He Shook Down Ukraine For Political Dirt

Even setting aside Trump’s Ukraine shakedown, it should be disturbing to all Americans that he continues to allow foreign surveillance of his calls.

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Ex-GOP Rep Warns McConnell That Following Trump’s Impeachment Strategy Could Cost Him The Senate

If Mitch McConnell follows Donald Trump’s lead on impeachment, the Republicans could lose their Senate majority next year.

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Bill Barr Is Actively Conducting Ukraine-Style Shakedown Schemes All Over The Globe

With the nation’s attention fixed on the Ukraine scandal, it’s easy to forget that Bill Barr is running similar pressure campaigns all around the globe.

Devin Nunes Accuses Democrats of Impeachment Drug deal

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Impeachment Report Makes It Clear: Devin Nunes Was A Key Player In Trump’s Ukraine Scheme

A growing body of evidence indicates that Nunes was a key player in Trump’s scheme to bribe Ukraine into handing over political dirt on the Bidens.

Adam Schiff smacks down Jim Jordan whistleblower lie

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Opinion: Whistleblowing Is a Defense of Democracy, Not a Capital Offense

If you’re an immigrant, you have known blistering rhetoric and tweets for three years. You’ve lived with anti-immigrant policies that are so cruel and extreme that if anything in this world was made for a string of expletives, it’s the Miller-Trump anti-immigrant program. If you’re the Whistleblower whose complaint opened up the Ukraine investigation, Donald…

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