On Thursday, a federal judge once again ruled — in keeping with the Supreme Court decision earlier this year — that President Donald Trump must hand over his tax returns to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr., according to the New York Times: “A federal judge on Thursday rejected President Trump’s latest effort to block […]
A former White House counsel says Donald Trump Jr. and the 2020 Trump reelection committed wire fraud with a series of text messages they sent out to potential donors. Norm Eisen, who is a former White House Special Counsel for Ethics and Government Reform in the Obama administration was made aware of the texts by […]
Not so very long ago, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was the one of the few Republicans who didn’t appear to be utterly subservient to President Donald Trump. Graham often criticized Trump and even warned it would be “the beginning of the end” of Trump’s presidency if he fired Special Counsel Robert Mueller. But those days […]
In 2019, prosecutors with the Southern District of New York (SDNY) opened up a new front in the investigation of criminal acts by the Trump 2016 campaign and the president himself, sending a sweeping subpoena to the Trump inaugural committee that includes charges of money laundering and fraud. The subpoena reads like something that would […]
Much like his father-in-law, Donald Trump, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner is a terrible businessman. Kushner is supposedly in the real estate business, but in reality he’s little more than a slumlord who has failed miserably when he’s made large investments in buildings such as the one he bought at 666 Park Avenue. (Interesting […]
If there’s one thing Donald Trump fears more than any other, it’s that anyone other than his accountants or attorneys will get a look at his banking and tax records. He even told the New York Times back in 2017 that if Special Counsel Robert Mueller dared to look at his finances or those of […]
With each news cycle, Donald Trump draws closer to being a failed one-term president who was unable to rise to the greatest challenge of his presidency: The national crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Consider some of the headlines that have been burned into the public mentality: Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, […]
The $1.8 trillion coronavirus financial relief package that President Donald Trump said would be on his desk no later than today remains bottled up in Congress, in large part because Republicans in the House and Senate insist on stuffing the bill with billions in corporate welfare that would benefit some of the richest multinational corporations […]
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) is in very big trouble, and it could wind up costing him his congressional seat. The Fresno Bee reports that a non-partisan group, the Campaign Legal Center, is alleging that Nunes has been receiving gifts in direct violation of House ethics rules. Specifically, Nunes is accused of receiving legal services: “A […]
For decades now, there have been rumors that Donald Trump and the Trump Organization have accepted questionable financing from less than savory sources such as organized crime, money laundering operations, and foreign governments. And while there have been hints of proof here and there, most of it was inconclusive or only provided a partial view […]