Here Are Some Crimes That Trump Could Potentially Be Charged With
Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner took a guess at some of the crimes Trump might be charged with if he is indicted in Manhattan.
Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner took a guess at some of the crimes Trump might be charged with if he is indicted in Manhattan.
Mark Pomerantz gave details to Rachel Maddow about the size and scope of Trump’s crimes that is a nightmare for the former president.
In a bombshell filing in response to John Eastman’s lawsuit, the 1/6 Committee claims to have evidence that Trump and his associates committed three crimes.
Democrats are telling Joe Biden to get ready to punch back hard on Ukraine, and warning that the corruption of Trump’s kids will be fair game in the election.
The fact that Donald Trump ordered Soleimani’s killing seven months ago takes us into criminal territory that also ought to be impeachable. There’s nothing new about Trump breaking the law, or committing crimes when we consider every time he obstructed justice and tried to intimidate witnesses. This, however, is the first time we’re aware of…
According to an opinion piece in the New Yorker, Democrats would be wasting their time bringing articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. For one thing, the Republican-controlled Senate would never let it happen even if the House successfully started the process. But perhaps more importantly, Democrats may win politically — and harm Trump more…
Donald Trump’s biographer thinks our current president is about to go through hell. Writing in Bloomberg,Tim O’Brien has predicted that the coming months will be excruciatingly painful for Trump, as House Democrats conduct a thorough probe of his personal finances. O’Brien is considered an expert on Trump’s finances after doing more than a decade of…
The Associated Press (AP) is reporting this morning about Donald Trump’s new strategy for dealing with the many investigations he is facing from federal and state prosecutors, as well as from House Democrats. Apparently the president plans to keep fighting without realizing he has already lost the battle. According to the AP, Trump is beefing…
Michael Cohen will show Congress a “hush money” check from President Donald Trump, signed while he was in office, during his public testimony to Congress on Wednesday, Axios today reported. Citing an unnamed source, Axios said the check was an incremental payment reimbursing Cohen for a payment made to Stormy Daniels in the fall of…
This could be Donald Trump’s week from hell. The conservative Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning that it has obtained exclusive information concerning this week’s planned testimony from former Donald Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen. According to the Journal: “The President’s ex-lawyer will tell House committees he witnessed Trump’s ‘lies, racism and cheating,’ as…
POLITICO is reporting this morning that after a recent secret meeting 100 Republican donors were left with very serious concerns about Donald Trump’s re-election campaign team, his plan and his strategy for the 2020 election. The GOP donors met recently at the Trump International Hotel to hear presentations from Trump’s 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale…
The mainstream media has long insisted that there is a Department of Justice (DOJ) policy that prevents it from indicting a sitting president. However, there actually is no such policy. As a result, Donald Trump may very well be indicted and charged with various crimes while he is still in office. First, it is important…
A change to House rules will greatly help Democratic investigations of President Trump and his administration, according to a new report from The Hill. The change allows staff of House committees to conduct interviews of witnesses under oath without any members of Congress present. This frees up the time of legislators to do other work…
Democrats in the House will soon launch a “vast†and comprehensive series of investigations into Donald Trump’s ties to Russia. And, according to a new report, the focus of the investigations will be on Trump’s criminal relationship with Vladimir Putin, and the alleged money laundering and other crimes that they committed together. The report states…
Last night the federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) subpoenaed the financial records from Donald Trump’s inauguration committee.  This is a good indication that the SDNY prosecutors plan to bring criminal charges very soon against Donald Trump, members of his family, and others in his inner circle. The crimes they will probably…
Two experts from Princeton University published an article this morning in USA Today saying that Democrats must immediately take action to impeach Donald Trump. If they don’t, they wrote, the president may do irreparable harm to our democracy. Princeton professors Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer want to send this message to Democrats: they should not…
Donald Trump’s businesses, run by his children, have employed undocumented immigrants for years. After numerous media reports about these immigrants being mistreated and then fired, the president’s son Eric yesterday announced a new company policy to deal with the problem.  He said that the Trump Organization now plans to institute the federal E-Verify program in…
A desperate and unhinged Donald Trump took to his favorite platform this morning — Twitter — to make outlandish statements, defend himself, and promise that he would still build a border wall with Mexico. The president has come under withering attack from his right-wing base of conservative voters and media personalities since yesterday. One such…
In an article published in The New Republic Wednesday a national security expert says that President Donald Trump committed crimes publicly, as he convinced his allies to lie to law enforcement for him. According to investigative journalist Marcy Wheeler, a national security expert, Trump repeatedly suborned perjury “in plain sight†and has never been charged…
The past week has not been easy for supporters of Donald Trump, especially those who believe he is innocent of conspiring with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election. On Thursday BuzzFeed News published allegations that he instructed his former attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about a proposed Trump Tower real estate project…
A BuzzFeed News report published late Thursday night found that President Donald Trump has been implicated in federal crimes by directing Michael Cohen to lie to Congress. According to the report, Trump directed Cohen to lie about the 2016 Trump Tower Moscow negotiations, and Special Counsel Robert Mueller has evidence to prove it. BREAKING: President…
Sheldon Whitehouse, the senior Democratic senator from Rhode Island, said yesterday that Congress is almost ready to indict President Donald Trump. He also indicated that he is hopeful that Trump may soon face actual criminal charges. Whitehouse, a former U.S. attorney and attorney general for Rhode Island, was on CNN Tuesday night speaking to anchor…
Julian Castro said Tuesday night that if he wins the presidency in 2020 Donald Trump would not receive a pardon for his crimes. The former Obama cabinet official implied that the current president would likely be charged with multiple felonies in coming months. If Trump is indicted for federal crimes, Castro said he could expect…
Before conman Donald Trump sold America on him becoming president, he was conning working-class people who invested hundreds of thousands of dollars with him, and lost all their money. And his three oldest children were helping him do it. At least that is what a lawsuit filed last fall charged. Yesterday lawyers for Donald Trump,…
President Donald Trump engaged in campaign violations and colluded with Russia, committing both crimes “in plain sight†according to an op-ed published in USA Today. Ethics watchdogs Fred Wertheimer and Norm Eisen wrote the op-ed, pointing out Trump’s obvious crimes. One, of course, occurred when Trump’s longtime attorney, Michael Cohen, implicated the president in a…
It just became official: the Republican Party is now the party of Donald Trump, which will probably result in disaster for them in the 2020 elections. POLITICO is reporting that the GOP has basically re-branded itself as the “Trump Party:†“President Donald Trump is planning to roll out an unprecedented structure for his 2020 reelection,…
Presidential historian Jon Meacham said Tuesday that actions taken by Donald Trump may represent the “definition of treason.” This would be the case if Trump was aware of Russia‘s efforts to interfere and help him win the 2016 election. Meacham, who is an expert on the history of U.S. presidents said: “If, in fact, and…
Federal prosecutors in New York are investigating President Trump’s inaugural committee for misspending donated funds from the record $107 million it received. Investigators are examining financial wrongdoing, and are scrutinizing donors who may have written sizable checks in exchange for access to the Trump administration, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. Many Different Crimes…
With all of the news that has come out recently about crimes committed by Donald J. Trump, many people are asking this one all-important question: How the heck can this joker still be President of the United States? For some unknown reason, Trump still has the backing of Republicans in Congress and about one-third of…
George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, is continuing his attacks on President Donald Trump, which apparently has caused some marital friction. In addition to trashing dubious legal claims by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani on Twitter Friday, Conway also lambasted the president in a Washington Post editorial that he co-wrote with former…
Former Trump attorney and “fixer†Michael Cohen dropped some new bombshells on Friday when he told ABC News that Donald Trump knew that it was “wrong†when he paid hush money to two former mistresses during the 2016 presidential campaign. He also said that Trump knew about Donald Trump, Jr. and other top campaign officials…
Two top lawyers say it is now time for President Donald Trump to negotiate a plea deal and resign from office in order to minimize his legal liability. Both former U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal and former chief White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter reached the same conclusion yesterday after more evidence was disclosed making…
Former Judge Andrew Napolitano, legal analyst for Fox News, said that yesterday the people of America learned without question that federal prosecutors in New York have clear evidence that President Donald Trump committed a felony. “Career prosecutors here in New York have evidence that the president of the United States committed a felony by ordering…
The newly-elected Attorney General for the State of New York has some big plans. And they involve the President of the United States, his children, and his business. After being elected on November 6, Letitia James promised she would begin large-scale investigations of “President Donald Trump, his family and anyone in his circle who may…
Fox News’ senior legal analyst Andrew Napolitano said Monday that President Donald Trump may be charged with three separate crimes. He also said that Trump could be indicted while still the president. Prosecutors from the Southern District of New York (SDNY) filed a court document on Friday saying that Trump directed his former lawyer Michael…
Federal prosecutors in New York have been investigating Trump Organization executives to determine if they were also involved in campaign finance violations, the New York Times is reporting this morning. Last week the New York prosecutors recommended a substantial prison term for President Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen. In the sentencing memo filed with the…
For some unknown reason it took a Swiss newspaper to discover how Tucker Carlson really feels about Donald Trump. In an interview with “Die Weltwoche,†Switzerland’s leading German-language weekly, the Fox News host was very blunt: “I don’t think he’s capable,†he said. Carlson also made clear that he strongly dislikes the self-aggrandizement and boasting…
A conservative newspaper, The Washington Examiner, published an article today citing legal experts who discussed the topic of Donald Trump’s impeachment. According to many such experts Trump could legally be impeached for crimes he committed before becoming president. These experts say that the U.S. Constitution does not require that “high crimes and misdemeanors†actually be…
Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney, has reached a new plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller. According to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Cohen is expected to plead guilty to lying to congressional committees. “Michael Cohen, Pres Trump’s former personal attorney, reaches new plea deal with Mueller this morning.  Expected to enter guilty plea for…
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston is now reporting that an international human rights organization has requested that prosecutors in The Netherlands open a criminal investigation into several multi-billion dollar money laundering schemes that were facilitated by Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and a law firm where he used to work. #HumanRights Group Calls For…
The bombshell investigative report about Trump family tax fraud published yesterday by the New York Times could bankrupt President Donald Trump and his family. Even though the statutes of limitations may have expired for criminal tax fraud (because the events took place so long ago) that would not be the case for the imposition of…
Attorney Alan Dershowitz argued on Monday that all Americans are at risk of being targeted by special counsel Robert Mueller. In so doing he accomplished two of the biggest goals of right-wing media: He undermined the credibility of law enforcement officials, such as the FBI and the Department of Justice, and He furthered the idea…
Donald Trump operates like a typical mob boss, in charge of an organized crime family. As events of the past week have shown, he surrounds himself with sleazy characters who live in the shadows and commit many different types of crimes, most of which they are never held accountable for. Reading the indictments written by…
In the course of Michael Cohen’s guilty plea this week, the president’s former lawyer admitted his part in a high-level cover-up, including the use of hush money, designed to influence the 2016 election. And he accused President Trump of directing this violation. This is different from our daily dose of the president’s tweets and attacks.He…
There are two big unanswered questions concerning yesterday’s Michael Cohen plea deal: Is Cohen a cooperating witness who has “flipped†on Trump and will be working with prosecutors to bring down the president? Since Trump has not been indicted as a co-conspirator, when might that change and when might the president actually be indicted? It…
Michael Cohen is lucky, because as he faces the biggest legal challenge of his life and takes on the President of the United States there is someone available to help him who has been through very similar experiences: John Dean. Dean of course was the White House counsel during the administration of Richard Nixon and…
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, threw cold water on Trump’s witch hunt claims by saying that there is evidence of a Trump/Russia criminal conspiracy.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo this week has made a criminal case against Donald Trump much more likely. First, on Wednesday, we reported that: “New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday opened the door to a possible criminal case against the Donald J. Trump Foundation with a statement from his counsel that Cuomo was prepared…
One thing that was accomplished with Rod Rosenstein’s announcement of 12 new indictments against Russians on Friday was to provide proof once again that Roger Stone has a long history of lying. To go through all of the many provable instances of Stone’s lying would take too much time, but there are a few key…
Former Donald Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen shook up the White House and most of America with his revelations in an ABC News interview over the weekend that he was no longer loyal to the president and that he was likely to cooperate with federal investigators in order to protect his family. In response, and…
Editor’s Note 11:30 Am: There were two titles on this article, one was incorrect (titles are filled in at the top and bottom of a post, the bottom is filled in automatically and doesn’t update with changes but it is the one used on some social media). The Senators said Trump could be, not is,…
In April we reported that Alan Dershowitz believes the president is above the law. On Tuesday night the former Harvard law professor went on CNN to give another ridiculous opinion, saying that he believes it is legal for the president to obstruct justice. Dershowitz has been one of President Trump’s strongest supporters in recent months,…
A heavily sourced report that Donald Trump pressured Mitch McConnell and other top Republicans to end the Russia investigation is a textbook example of obstruction of justice.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) accused Trump of obstructing justice by firing James Comey to interfere with the Russia investigation.
Donald Trump has officially committed an impeachable offense by using taxpayer resources to promote his private Florida club.