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Former president Donald Trump remains under fire for comments about terminating the Constitution
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Donald Trump took to Truth Social to decry how he was the victim of “THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME” after two subsidiaries of the Trump Organization were found guilty of all charges stemming from what prosecutors described as a sweeping, multi-decade tax fraud scheme.
“OUR COUNTRY IS IN BIG TROUBLE. WHAT A MESS!” posted the ex-president in a late-night rant, hours after jurors rendered a guilty verdict on all of the 15 charges included in an indictment filed last year against the subsidiaries and chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg.
Meanwhile, January 6 committee chairman Rep Bennie Thompson has told reporters that they will be making criminal referrals to the Department of Justice. He did not go into further detail adding that the committee investigating the 2021 Capitol riot still had to discuss the matter further.
As part of the investigation into the Mar-a-Lago classified documents scandal, Mr Trump’s legal team arranged for a third-party search of his Bedminster golf club and Trump Tower in New York.
Nothing was found at either property, but two classified documents were found at a Florida storage unit and turned over to the FBI, a report says.
Eric Garcia writes:
He holds no office and his popularity is waning. But Republicans are stuck with his candidates and having to answer for his every word.
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He holds no office and his popularity is waning. But Republicans are stuck with his candidates and having to answer for his every word
Recently minted Twitter owner Elon Musk says the company’s prior management team’s work liaising with political campaigns and the US government amounted to an egregious violation of the US Constitution’s freedom of speech guarantees.
Former president Donald Trump says the company’s October 2020 decision to temporarily restrict sharing of an unflattering story about Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden proves the last presidential election (which he lost) was tainted by “massive and widespread fraud and deception” that should be remedied by “termination” of the US Constitution and reinstating him as president.
But national security experts and former social media executives who spoke to The Independent in the days following Mr Musk’s leaking of internal company documents to a sympathetic former Rolling Stone journalist say the limited excerpts of the documents revealed in a lengthy Twitter thread late Friday show nothing out of the ordinary — and nothing even close to what Mr Musk alleges.
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Donald Trump lamented losing Fox News as an ally on his Truth Social social media platform after his daughter-in-law was dropped by the network.
Maroosha Muzaffar reports.
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Donald Trump did not disclose a $19.8m loan from a South Korean conglomerate with links to North Korea when he was the president, according to a new report.
The documents obtained by the New York attorney general showed an unreported liability Mr Trump owed to South Korean company Daewoo, reported Forbes.
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The Daily Show host Trevor Noah laid into Donald Trump following the news that the Trump Organization had been found guilty of tax fraud. The former president’s company was convicted on Tuesday, 6 December, of helping its top executives dodge taxes on off-the-books benefits such as Manhattan apartments and luxury cars. Neither Mr Trump nor his family members were on trial. Noah joked that Trump would be “going to prison,” not as an inmate, but to visit “the lower-ranking” people “who did this without his knowledge or his permission.” Sign up for our newsletters.
Maggie Haberman of The New York Times was asked by CNN’s Poppy Harlow what the impact of the Trump Organization verdict would be on Donald Trump himself as well as the actual company.
Here’s her response (via Mediaite)
I don’t think this is good for the Trump Organization. I think it raises questions, among other things, Poppy, about what new business they’re going to be able to attract. Although to be fair, it’s not as if partners in business that they might have been engaging with weren’t aware that there was this whiff of corruption around them in terms of allegations from the Manhattan district attorney, I think it is going to make things very hard.
I think there’s a question about how long they stay a New York company, do they try to relocate to Florida, which is where Trump is and where most of his family is?
But this is the company that was the launch pad for Donald Trump. It helped him, you know, establish himself as a businessman and then sort of create this hype around himself that was not always met by reality. And this is a huge, huge, huge blow. Even though he was not charged personally here, this is very problematic for him.
NBC News senior Capitol Hill correspondent notes that on day 22 of the Trump 2024 campaign, while he rages against the fake news, he is yet to hold a campaign event outside of his own home.
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