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White House 'money laundering operation' exposed by ex-DOJ pardon attorney: 'Shady'After records revealed the donors behind President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom, former Justice Department pardon attorney Liz Oyer called the project “basically a money laundering operation.” Oyer made the charge Thursday in a YouTube video reacting to a Washington Post investigation published that morning. The Post obtained an internal…
Fact-checkers wreck Trump's 'phony' inflation claims from all angles: 'He's misstating'President Donald Trump is citing precise inflation numbers on the campaign trail that CNN’s Daniel Dale says can’t be squared with the data, and the White House hasn’t said where they came from. At a Tuesday rally in Alaska , Trump said inflation had been “1.7” over the last three months and that former President Joe Biden had “real inflation of 19…
Chaos engulfs Education Dept over Trump’s ‘cartoon’ student loans plan: reportThe Trump administration’s rush to spin off the Education Department’s student loan office has thrown the agency into chaos, with one official involved in the planning dismissing the effort as “basically just a cartoon,” The Washington Sun reported Thursday. Current and former officials told The Sun the department is taking a chaotic approach that is…
Trump operatives caught torching his ‘Golden Goose’ in misleading attack mailer: reportPresident Donald Trump's own political operation is quietly attacking Democrats over an industry the president has spent months hyping as a windfall. No Going Back PAC, an offshoot of Trump's super PAC MAGA Inc ., sent out a mailer targeting Jamie Ager, the Democrat running in North Carolina's 11th Congressional District, for being "open to large AI data…
GOP analyst comes unglued over nonsensical Trump 'blood money' plan: 'Nefarious!'A GOP analyst came unglued on CNN on Thursday while discussing President Donald Trump's plan to send "blood money" to Russia in exchange for a little diesel fuel. Marc Short, the former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, told CNN's Boris Sanchez that Trump's plan to import Russian diesel fuel in an attempt to offset high costs ahead of the…
Trump aide’s firm quietly pocketed millions from crypto giant his law now governs: WSJA Trump White House crypto adviser's family business quietly collected millions from a company with everything riding on the law he was shepherding. Bo Hines , who led the Trump administration's push for the Genius Act stablecoin law, kept a one-third stake in his consulting firm Nxum while Tether, the world's largest stablecoin issuer, steered millions…
DOJ insiders spot fatal flaw in Trump White House’s revenge probe over public snub: reportThe White House helped steer a Justice Department probe into major TV networks, but some inside the department doubt it will survive. The White House was a driving force behind the DOJ's antitrust investigation into the networks' brief suspension of pooled presidential coverage, three people familiar with the matter told Semafor on Wednesday. Some inside…