Crime

Trump’s Propaganda Secretary Admits Trump Wants to Deploy Troops Only to ‘Democrat-Run’ Cities

Posted by on September 9, 2025 at 1:05 pm. 0 Comments :

For several weeks now Donald Trump has been deploying military troops to American cities on a mission that he says is to reduce crime. Never mind that each of the cities that he has already invaded have had declining crime rates before his deployments. And set aside the fact that it is illegal to use U.S. troops against American citizens.

Click here to post this article on Twitter or Click here to post on Bluesky

Donald Trump and Karoline Leavitt

It has been impossible not to notice that every city that Trump has designated as a destination for his army assignments – Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Chicago, New York, Baltimore – all just happen to have Black mayors who are Democrats. What a crazy coincidence, huh?

SEE THIS: Trump Threatens to Send His StormTrumpers to N.Y., L.A., and Chicago, Where Crime is Declining

Now Trump’s Propaganda Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, is shedding some light on how Trump chose the cities that he is sending soldiers to. Responding to a question at Tuesday’s White House press briefing about Trump’s domestic military mission and who is being targeted, Leavitt said that…

“These are the career criminals, the bad guys that we are picking up in Washington DC every day. The president would love to do this in every Democrat-run city across the country. And he hopes that more Democrats will call the White House to allow us to help them.”

Leavitt: "These are the bad guys that we are picking up in Washington DC every day. The president would love to do this in every Democrat-run city across the country."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-09-09T17:50:58.958Z

There’s a lot of bullpucky to unpack in that brief sound bite. For starters, Leavitt is lying that the people being detained and disappeared are “career criminals.” In fact, as many as 70% have no criminal records at all according to the Trump administration’s own data. Many are citizens or green card holders. And most were denied the due process that is guaranteed by the Constitution.

What’s more, it is peculiar that Leavitt says that they are picking up “bad guys” in D.C. every day, when Trump has been saying that he has cut crime 100%. In other words, according to Trump, there is no crime at all in D.C. anymore. So who are they arresting?

THEY JUST CAN'T STOP LYING!Trump's Attorney Genuflect, Pam Bondi, keeps posting these memes every day boasting about dozens of arrests in Washington, D.C., even though Trump says that there is ZERO crime there.

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2025-09-08T17:28:41.536Z

Finally, Leavitt lets on that Trump is actually only interested in occupying cities with Democratic leaders. As noted above, her admission that “The president would love to do this in every Democrat-run city” has been obvious. But now she is confirming that it is the official policy of the Trump administration. Why wouldn’t Trump “love” to do this in any of the cities with the most violent crime in red states? Doesn’t he care about the people in Tennessee, Missouri, Louisiana, or Arkansas? Or is he just laser-focused on going to war with Chicago…

WTHF? Trump is declaring war on…CHICAGO?He posted this on his Truth(less) (Anti)Social today.

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2025-09-06T17:14:45.497Z

RELATED STORIES:

Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse
on Twitter and Facebook and Bluesky and Threads.

And check out my books on Amazon:

Fox Nation vs. Reality:
The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.

Thanks so much for your support.

Trump’s Own Attorney General, Pam Bondi, Contradicts His Lie that ‘Crime is Down 100%’ in D.C.

Posted by on September 4, 2025 at 1:11 pm. 0 Comments :

Ever since Donald Trump launched his totalitarian military troop deployments to police American citizens in their homes, he has spread flagrant lies about the “success” he’s had in utterly eradicating crime. Never mind that the actual data fails to support his delusional reports, and that crime had already dropped to multiyear lows before he began.

Click here to post this article on Twitter or Click here to post on Bluesky

Fox News, Pam Bondi

Accurate statistics are anathema to aspiring dictators like Trump who rely on manufacturing fear to keep their faithful cult followers in line. And Trump hasn’t been shy about disseminating lies that cities like Washington, D.C., and Chicago, and New York, and Baltimore, and Los Angeles, are, in Trump’s words “hellholes.”, Also, they all happen to have Black mayors. But it’s surely just a coincidence that he cherry-picked those cities, right?

SEE THIS: Trump Threatens to Send His StormTrumpers to N.Y., L.A., and Chicago, Where Crime is Declining

On Thursday Trump expanded on his bullshittery saying that crime in Washington, D.C. had declined 100%. That means that it dropped to zero. At least he didn’t go farther and say it dropped 1,500% like he has with drug prices. But even this statement is preposterous. Along with false assertions that “restaurants were dying. [And] Nobody wanted to go out,” Trump said that…

“If you look at Washington D.C. three weeks ago, it was the same or worse, and now it is considered a totally safe zone. […] Washington D.C. is a totally safe city. You are not reporting any crime because there is none. They said crime is down 87%. Then I said ‘no it’s not. It’s down 100%.'”

Trump: “Washington, DC, is a totally safe city. You're not reporting any crime because there is none. They said crime is down 87%, and I said, No, it's not, it's down 100%.”

— The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) 2025-09-03T16:26:59.280Z

A city would have to have transformed into a fairytale utopia to have eliminated all crime. And no such city exists anywhere but in Trump’s twisted imagination. Well, also in the servile imaginations of Trump’s flunkies. For instance, his Attorney Genuflect, Pam Bondi, posted the following meme on Thursday…

Bondi posts a similar meme every day. And she also appears on Fox News almost daily with the same message. Which raises the obvious question: How can there be dozens of arrests every day in a city where Trumps insists there is zero crime? Are they arresting people who are innocent? Are they prosecuting thought crimes? Whatever the explanation, Bondi is contradicting her boss by bragging about all the criminals she has taken off of the streets that he says aren’t there.

For good measure, Trump’s U.S. Attorney for D. C., Jeanine Pirro, is boasting about the same criminal statistics as Bondi.

What’s more, Pirro, who hasn’t practiced law for twenty years, and who Trump recruited from Fox News (like his Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, and a couple of dozen others in his administration), is racking up an abysmal record as U.S. Attorney. So far she failed to get a Grand Jury indictment in a case against a woman who allegedly threatened Trump. She also failed to get an indictment of a man who was arrested for throwing a sandwich at an ICE agent. Even though it was on video. So much for the old saying about how easy it is to get a Grand Jury indictment because they will indict a ham sandwich.

With Bondi and Pirro daily announcing the crimes they have allegedly stopped, will Trump apologize and admit that he hasn’t totally eliminated crime in D.C. Sure. Right after he apologizes for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll and many other women, And right after he admits that he lost the election in 2020. And right after he actually criticizes his BFF Vladimir Putin. In short, right after he develops a conscience and grows a spine. And here’s a health tip: Don’t hold your breath.

RELATED STORIES:

Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse
on Twitter and Facebook and Bluesky and Threads.

And check out my books on Amazon:

Fox Nation vs. Reality:
The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.

Thanks so much for your support.

Trump Threatens to Send His StormTrumpers to N.Y., L.A., and Chicago, Where Crime is Declining

Posted by on August 22, 2025 at 2:29 pm. 0 Comments :

The burdens that fall upon aspiring dictators like Donald Trump are difficult to comprehend for mere proponents of democracy and freedom. They are constantly faced with treacherous choices involving maintaining their power and suppressing their unwilling subjects.

Click here to post this article on Twitter or Click here to post on Bluesky

Donald Trump

In the wake of Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops in the nation’s capital, he is now contemplating how he will deal with any other American city that he has deemed unfit for occupation by decent folks, by which he means white, Christian, MAGA devotees. Those are the cities that Trump complains are run by the “radical left lunatics” of the Democratic party.

SEE THIS: Trump’s ‘Weaponization Working Group’ Lives Down to Its Name with Threats to Persecute Democrats

In a post to his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, Trump threatened to send troops to New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, to do what he has already done in Washington, D.C. Which is to create a police-state environment and harass its residents and visitors.

Trump’s justification for invading these cities is his assertion that they are crime-ridden swamps where everyone is too frightened to leave their homes. Never mind that the evidence for that is nonexistent. To the contrary, crime in D.C. has been declining in recent years. Despite that, Trump posted a comment taking credit for that decline, and threatening local officials who fail to obey his authority…

“Washington, D.C. is SAFE AGAIN! The crowds are coming back, the spirit is high. […] As bad as it sounds to say, there were no murders this week for the first time in memory. Mayor Muriel Bowser must immediately stop giving false and highly inaccurate crime figures, or bad things will happen, including a complete and total Federal takeover of the City!”

That, however, was just an appetizer for Trump’s hunger for domination. He later told reporters that…

“To me, DC is very exciting. And a lot of people say, where is he going from there? Well, I have calls from politicians begging me to go to Chicago, begging me to go to New York, begging me to go to Los Angeles.”

Trump: "To me, DC is very exciting. And a lot of people say, where is he going from there? Well, I have calls from politicians begging me to go to Chicago, begging me to go to New York, begging me to go to Los Angeles … "

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-08-22T14:32:35.587Z

Yeah, sure. According to Trump, big strong men, with tears in their eyes, are begging for him to come to their rescue. Trump went on to lie about how he allegedly saved Los Angeles, and that everyone was “fudging the numbers” about crime having gone down in D.C.

Once again, it’s Trump’s numbers that are pure fiction. He says that people are going out to eat now for the first time in years. But the data from the restaurants in D.C. shows that dining has dropped as much as 31% since Trump sent in his troops.

The same is true more broadly for all crimes in the cities that Trump is now considering to occupy. Trump’s boasting that “there were no murders this week for the first time in memory,” is more evidence of either his severely flawed memory, or his flagrant dishonesty. And the brief pause in crime is much less impressive when you know that that happens all the time. For instance…

[Note: The following is sourced to ChatGPT and may not reflect some recent data due to delays in municipal crime reporting procedures and the peculiarities of AI. But the trends are likely to be pretty accurate over the long run]

Washington, D.C.: The most recent homicide was on August 5, eighteen days ago. The one before that was July 4, a month prior to the last one. In the first six months of 2025, the homicide rate declined by 19% compared to Jan-June 2024.

Chicago: The most recent homicide was on August 14, nine days ago. The one before that was July 2, more than a month prior to the last one. The overall homicide trend in Chicago is down, with last year’s total being the lowest since 2019.

New York: The most recent homicide was on August 17, six days ago. The one before that was July 28, about three weeks prior to the last one. From January 1 through May 31, the city saw just 112 homicides, the lowest number on record for that period.

Los Angeles: The most recent homicide was on August 16, seven days ago. The one before that was July 10, more than a month prior to the last one. The city is on pace for its lowest yearly total in nearly 60 years.

Given the reality that crime is being well managed in America’s biggest cities, Trump’s hankering for a fascist takeover is hardly justified. It is just another attempt on his part to impose his tyrannical will on a nation that is deeply opposed to him and his anti-democratic policies. A recent Pew Research poll puts his approval at a dismal 38%, with 60% disapproval.

With his still unresolved connections to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, his failure to make any progress with Vladimir Putin in ending Russia’s war against Ukraine, and his incompetent economic agenda causing cost of living to increase, no wonder Trump is trying to focus the nation’s attention on some other atrocity for a while. It aint gonna work.

RELATED STORIES:

Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse
on Twitter and Facebook and Bluesky and Threads.

And check out my books on Amazon:

Fox Nation vs. Reality:
The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.

Thanks so much for your support.

Trump Warns West Point Graduates About the Troubles with ‘Trophy Wives’ – No, REALLY!

Posted by on May 24, 2025 at 12:42 pm. 0 Comments :

Taking a day off from his busy schedule of staged executive order signings, dinners with buyers of his meme coins, and golfing at his own resorts, Donald Trump ventured off to the United States Military Academy at West Point. The five-time draft dodger who called fallen soldiers “suckers” and “losers” was there ostensibly to deliver a commencement speech to inspire the cadets on their graduation.

Click here to post this article on Twitter or Click here to post on Bluesky

Donald Trump Baby at Podium

Unfortunately, Trump’s speech was just another one of the rabidly partisan campaign style rants that he disgorges at his cult rallies. Consequently, it was filled with lies, insults, and narcissistic exaltations of himself. It was indistinguishable from the self-serving propaganda that he unloads during the staged press avails where he reveals how ignorant he is about pretty much everything.

SEE THIS: What Trump Admits He Doesn’t Know: 13 Examples of His Failing Mental Acuity – or Blatant Lying

Commencement speeches are supposed to be events that will inspire graduating students in advance of the life journeys that they will shortly embark upon. But true to form, Trump’s speech hardly conformed to that grand tradition. Instead, he tainted the entire affair with his radical, far-right, MAGA-fied politics, and flattery of himself and his imaginary achievements in office.

Among Trump’s egomaniacal glorifications was one that was particularly appropriate. He told the story of his friend, real estate magnate William Levitt, who “lost momentum” and became a wretched loser who died bankrupt and alone. According to Trump…

“He ended up getting a divorce, found a new wife — could you say a trophy wife? I guess we can say a trophy wife. It didn’t work out too well. And that doesn’t work out too well, I must tell you, a lot of trophy wives. It doesn’t work out. But it made him happy for a little while, at least. But he found a new wife. He sold his little boat, he got a big yacht.”

In a pathetic commencement speech at West Point, Trump rambles about someone's trophy wife:"That doesn't work out too well, I must tell you. A lot of trophy wives."How inspiring, coming from an expert on trophy wives that don't work out well, who cheated on all of them.

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2025-05-24T16:52:46.800Z

Trump’s tale of Leavitt sounds awfully familiar. Trump himself was divorced – twice. Each time he remarried someone that could be described as a “trophy wife.” It didn’t work out well. He cheated on all three of them. His current wife Melania – a former model – rarely spends any time with him. She lives in New York, not at the White House or Mar-a-Lago. She probably made him happy for a little while, at least. But now she’s probably just trying to hold on until the will has been read.

Most of the rest of Trump’s speech wasn’t any better. Rather than imparting any gems of wisdom for his young audience, Trump battered them with political bullsh*t that they couldn’t care less about. They rarely applauded his raving madness that included the following…

“We are making deals with other nations that were not even –nobody thought it would be possible.”
Trump hasn’t made a single trade deal to mitigate his ludicrous, inflationary tariffs. He just has a framework with the UK, and some discussions with China. Nothing finalized with them or the nearly 200 other countries that he tariffed.

“We won 2750 districts against 505. 2750 against 505. We had a great mandate and it gives us the right to do what we want to do.”
The districts he won were mostly sparsely populated rural areas. The districts won by Kamala Harris were densely populated cities. And winning an election does not give you the right to violate the law or the Constitution, as Trump does every day.

“I was investigated more than the great, late Alphonse Capone. Alphonse Capone was a monster.”
Trump loves to brag that he is a worse “monster” than the notorious mob boss, Al Capone. Which is true. Trump has a couple of dozen more felony convictions than Capone, and is responsible for more death.

“The job of the U.S. Armed forces is not to host drag shows, to transform foreign cultures, but to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun.”
So Trump thinks that it’s his job to threaten all other countries to accept his perverse brand of democracy at “the point of gun.” That’s the rhetoric of a mad tyrant who wants to rule the world. And it’s consistent with his talk of invading and/or annexing Mexico, Canada, and Greenland.

Hopefully the West Point Cadets can shake this off and get on their lives without this staining their day of accomplishment and pride. It’s too bad they didn’t have the far better, more inspirational, more intelligent, commencement speaker that the University of Maryland was lucky enough to get…

“Life is better when we leap together.” Kermit the Frog delivered a commencement speech at the University of Maryland on Thursday, the alma mater of his creator, Jim Henson. nyti.ms/4dwMuhQ

— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2025-05-23T15:28:14.784Z

RELATED STORIES:

Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse
on Twitter and Facebook and Bluesky and Threads.

And check out my books on Amazon:

Fox Nation vs. Reality:
The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.

Thanks so much for your support.

What’s Keeping Snowflake Trump Awake at Night? Springsteen, Beyoncé, and Oprah, Oh My!

Posted by on May 19, 2025 at 9:31 pm. 0 Comments :

Poor crybaby Donald Trump is spending sleepless nights massaging his wounded ego that can’t handle the fact that he is unloved by America’s most admired and talented celebrities. He is suffering terribly with having to console himself with losers like Kid Rock and Roseanne Barr. What a pity.

Click here to post this article on Twitter or Click here to post on Bluesky

Donald Trump, Snowflakes

In the deepest recesses of his lonely nights, Trump is still sobbing into his MyPillow over the results of the 2024 election that he waged against Kamala Harris. Even though he won (by a historically small margin), he is inconsolable that he failed to get every vote, or to avoid any criticism. He is still whining over contrived complaints that no one buys except his cult devotees.

SEE THIS: 60 Minutes Interview of Kamala Harris that Drove Trump to Sue CBS is Nominated for an Emmy

So early on Monday morning, Trump was awake and posting pathetic comments on his failing Twitter rip off, Truth Social. At 1:34 AM Trump lashed out at some of the beloved Americans that had the audacity to reject him and endorse Kamala Harris. He bleated that…

“HOW MUCH DID KAMALA HARRIS PAY BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN FOR HIS POOR PERFORMANCE DURING HER CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT? WHY DID HE ACCEPT THAT MONEY IF HE IS SUCH A FAN OF HERS? ISN’T THAT A MAJOR AND ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION? WHAT ABOUT BEYONCÉ? …AND HOW MUCH WENT TO OPRAH, AND BONO???”

We now interrupt this yowling to state for the record that none of what Trump is grousing about is true. PolitiFact and others researched these baseless allegations last October when Trump first raised them about Beyoncé and “found no credible reporting that Beyoncé was paid for her endorsement or comments at the rally.”

Trump has offered no new evidence of any payments since then for Beyoncé, or Springsteen, or Oprah, or Bono. The only thing he’s offered is his relentless sniveling. And on the basis of that he is threatening to have Harris and/or the celebrities who supported her, investigated for some unspecified crime…

“I am going to call for a major investigation into this matter. Candidates aren’t allowed to pay for ENDORSEMENTS, which is what Kamala did, under the guise of paying for entertainment. In addition, this was a very expensive and desperate effort to artificially build up her sparse crowds. IT’S NOT LEGAL! For these unpatriotic ‘entertainers,’ this was just a CORRUPT & UNLAWFUL way to capitalize on a broken system.”

Once again, Trump is trafficking in imaginary improprieties. Harris didn’t pay for endorsements or for entertainment. She did pay for certain production costs that the law stipulates must be paid for. Those payments went to the contractors who did the production work, not the artists. But Trump still wasn’t satisfied. At 9:11 AM the same morning he posted another tantrum saying that…

“According to news reports, Beyoncé was paid $11,000,000 to walk onto a stage, quickly ENDORSE KAMALA, and walk off to loud booing for never having performed, NOT EVEN ONE SONG! Remember, the Democrats and Kamala illegally paid her millions of Dollars for doing nothing other than giving Kamala a full throated ENDORSEMENT. THIS IS AN ILLEGAL ELECTION SCAM AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL! IT IS AN ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION! BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, OPRAH, BONO AND, PERHAPS, MANY OTHERS, HAVE A LOT OF EXPLAINING TO DO!!!”

Naturally, Trump didn’t bother to post links to any of the alleged “news reports” that he said reported that “Beyoncé was paid $11,000,000.” But in his defense, he had a good reason for not posting those links. They don’t exist. There is likewise no video of anyone booing Beyoncé, so he didn’t post that either. But he did repeat his preposterous charge that something Harris did was “AN ILLEGAL ELECTION SCAM AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL!”

Trump has always been fond of accusing others of violating the law. It’s called projection. He is the only president who has earned 34 felony convictions. And he is the candidate who had billionaires like Elon Musk contributing millions of dollars to his campaign. And he is the one who launched a meme coin that could serve as a virtual depository for untraceable bribes from conflicted persons, including foreign operatives.

Unfortunately, Trump is also the one who yells the loudest to deflect from the criminal activities that he regularly engages in. And that deflection also draws attention away from his abhorrent policies, such as deporting migrants to foreign gulags without due process, shutting down critical government agencies that save lives in the U.S. and internationally, cutting programs that Americans rely on like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and trashing the Constitution’s protections for the free press.

But at least he’s on top of the scandalous affairs of which pop stars are backing which politicians. Someone else will take of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and the coming recession. Trump has his tiny hands full with fantasies about Springsteen and Beyoncé.

RELATED STORIES:

Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse
on Twitter and Facebook and Bluesky and Threads.

And check out my books on Amazon:

Fox Nation vs. Reality:
The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.

Thanks so much for your support.

HUH? Fox News Makes the Most Bizarre Justification Yet for Trump Accepting a Free Jet From Qatar

Posted by on May 14, 2025 at 2:45 pm. 0 Comments :

The recent revelation that Donald Trump is preparing to accept a $400 million plane from Qatar to replace Air Force One has been leading the news cycle for three days now. For better or worse, it has taken precedence over his junket to the Middle East, his phony trade deals with the UK and China, his unlawful and unenforceable drug price reductions, and his efforts to defy the constitutional protection of habeas Corpus laws.

Click here to post this article on Twitter or Click here to post on Bluesky

Fox News Sad

Naturally, Trump’s always predictable reaction to the torrent of criticism that he has received for his latest self-enriching enterprise has been predominantly to deny, lie, and insult his critics, whether they be Democrats, Republicans, or journalists. Especially journalists…

SEE THIS: Scaredy Trump Attacks Reporter to Dodge Questions About His $400 Million Gift Plane from Qatar

Fortunately for Trump, he will always have Fox News to carry water for him as he seeks to flood the zone with bullpucky and gaslight his gullible cult disciples. To that end, the “Curvy Couch” potatoes of Fox and Friends embarked on a path of shameless Trump-fluffing to absolve him of any guilt for eagerly grabbing the gift of a flying palace from a Middle Eastern nation with whom he is doing business. Spinning furiously, they said that…

Brian Kilmeade: The question is the optics. What does Qatar want in return for a multi billion dollar plane?
Lawrence Jones: I think we would be crazy not to accept the plane. I think people have been watching way too many spy movies. And if you think the United States government and our Defense Department is not going to strip the plane – everybody is talking about technology. Could they be spying on us? Of course. We have foreign assets that want to spy on us. But they are not going to take the plane as is. They will break it apart. They will put the necessary military assets on there. The technology is there.
Kilmeade: Flip the couches to the other side.
Jones: I think it’s a gift. I think it’s totally okay.
Ainsley Earhardt: Look, the left is going crazy about this. But they have to be careful. They are fine with Harvard getting all these gifts from these Middle Eastern countries. And Bill Ackman says “the hypocrisy is staggering. If the Pentagon took a $400 million plane from Qatar, it would rightly spark outrage over foreign influence. Yet universities pocket billions from the same regimes and get a free pass.” American universities are getting billions in gifts from foreign countries and they are okay with that. Remember Barack Obama supported Harvard for going after Trump?

Jones is parroting Trump himself who said that “It would be stupid” not to accept the plane. His reasoning rested solely on the claim that it’s free. Let’s get back to that nonsense in moment. First, let’s note that free gifts are not permitted under the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause. And it would be ridiculous to suggest that just because something is free that it’s okay. Would it be okay for someone with matters pending before a senator or a judge to give them a free Mercedes or Rolex?

As to whether the plane is actually free, NBC News reports that it could cost more than a billion dollars to “strip the plane” and then rebuild it with the added security enhancements that the president’s plane requires. Plus it could take years to complete the transformation. So the planes currently being built by Boeing to replace Air force One could be delivered first. And Trump would end up getting a free plane for his library that was never used as Air Force One.

Perhaps the most preposterous take in this Fox News segment is Earhardt’s comparison of Trump accepting a multimillion plane from a foreign government, to Harvard accepting academic donations. To begin with, Earhardt is actually agreeing that Trump’s acceptance of the plane is improper and “would rightly spark outrage over foreign influence.” Her complaint is only that Democrats might be hypocritical for not also being outraged about Harvard. Which is not even remotely similar.

Unlike Trump’s gift, there is nothing in the Constitution prohibiting Harvard from taking such donations. Harvard isn’t using those funds in any endeavor that would impact national security. In fact, as reported by The Harvard Crimson, they are used for financial aid, graduate fellowships, research funding, and related educational and operational expenses. And the donations they receive are fully disclosed as required by law.

Trying to equate Trump, a known felon with 34 convictions for financial fraud, and his breach of constitutional law, to Harvard’s commonplace and legal academic fundraising, is really just a demonstration of how desperate Fox News is to find any justification for an unjustifiable act by a criminal president. And that desperation only makes their failure more apparent and pathetic.

RELATED STORIES:

Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse
on Twitter and Facebook and Bluesky and Threads.

And check out my books on Amazon:

Fox Nation vs. Reality:
The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.

Thanks so much for your support.

Trump Celebrates Peace Officers Memorial Day, Doesn’t Mention Pardoning January 6th Cop Killers

Posted by on May 13, 2025 at 1:00 pm. 0 Comments :

Donald Trump is taking the first foreign junket of his second occupation of the White House this week. His first stop is Saudi Arabia, where is is shamelessly sucking up to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the man who murdered Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, and gave Trump’s daughter (Ivanka) and son-in-law (Jared Kushner) two billion dollars.

Click here to post this article on Twitter or Click here to post on Bluesky

Donald Trump, Police

Trump’s pilgrimage to the Persian Gulf states will also include visits to the United Arab Emirates, where he’s building a new golf resort, and Qatar, who just offered him a gift of a $400 million “flying palace” to replace Air Force One. He didn’t bother to speak of either of those glaring conflicts of interest in his initial public statements. Not that he would have anything relevant to say, even if he were asked.

SEE THIS: Scaredy Trump Attacks Reporter to Dodge Questions About His $400 Million Gift Plane from Qatar

Trump did, however, make time to recognize that May 15 is Peace Officers Memorial Day. He posted a message on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, commemorating the day that honors America’s law enforcement officers and their families. He, or the AI bot/intern that he designated, wrote that…

“On Peace Officers Memorial Day and during Police Week, we honor our brave officers who serve on the front lines to protect our families, safeguard our communities, and shoulder a burden of responsibility that most Americans cannot fathom. This week and always, we honor the courageous men and women serving in law enforcement and memorialize those who sacrificed their lives defending the thin blue line.”

It’s always a nausea-inducing affair when Trump pretends to care about law enforcement. After all, he is a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist who viciously disparages the police, prosecutors, and judges when they do their duty to enforce the laws that he has broken. Even worse, he granted pardons to the 1,500 January 6th insurrectionists who stormed the United States Capital on his behalf, resulting in more than 140 officers being hospitalized and five of them dying. More recently he proposed to pay his violent thugs reparations.

MORE HERE: Trump Floats Proposal to Pay Reparations for the January 6th Insurrectionists Who Assaulted Cops

Trump, of course, didn’t mention any of that in his perfunctory statement that only served to cover his asinine imitation of support for the police. The only support he has for police is when he can employ them to advance his fascist police state aspirations. However, in his extended proclamation, he did mention some other points that were equally as absurd and out of touch with reality. For instance…

“A nation in chaos ceases to be a citadel of liberty.”
And who is more responsible for deliberate and destructive chaos than Trump?

“Tragically, the previous administration allowed lawlessness to permeate our country.”
As usual, Trump used this event to malign his predecessor, President Biden, who actually did respect law enforcement and presided over a historic decline in crime. This was verified by PolitiFact.

“I am fulfilling my promise to make America safe again by reclaiming sovereignty on the border and restoring the rule of law in communities nationwide.”
What Trump means by “restoring the rule of law” is to apprehend suspected migrants and ship them off to foreign gulags without due process. Also, he seeks weaponize the Justice Department so that he can persecute his political foes. Also, he advocates for immunizing bad cops to use brutality without consequences.

“The oath to serve and protect comes with extraordinary risk and sacrifice.”
Is this like the oath that Trump took to uphold the Constitution that he has already forgotten about and is violating?

“I have asked the Congress to codify my Executive Order mandating the death penalty for the murder of a police officer.”
That’s nice. Except that murdering a police officer is already a capital offense and has been for thirty years, since the passage of the Federal Death Penalty Act of 1994.

Like everything else that Trump does, this is purely an exercise in whatever benefits him. It is a PR stunt whose value is completely undone by his prior words and misdeeds. He simply has zero moral authority to pretend to honor the heroes who he has so frequently insulted and worked against.

RELATED STORIES:

Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse
on Twitter and Facebook and Bluesky and Threads.

And check out my books on Amazon:

Fox Nation vs. Reality:
The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.

Thanks so much for your support.

Scaredy Trump Attacks Reporter to Dodge Questions About His $400 Million Gift Plane from Qatar

Posted by on May 12, 2025 at 1:41 pm. 1 Comments :

The most predictable response by Donald Trump to any question more probing than how handsome he is, will almost always be an attack on the reporter as “fake news” or simply a “low IQ” person. It’s his simple-minded method of avoiding having to justify the latest atrocity he has thrust onto the nation.

Click here to post this article on Twitter or Click here to post on Bluesky

Donald Trump Angry

Trump is seriously deluded if he believes that insulting journalists actually constitutes a rational reply to a substantive inquiry on subjects that the American people care about. But that’s how he operates, and he seems to be convinced that it satisfies the public. Never mind that most recent surveys show that the people are far from satisfied.

SEE THIS: Trump Marks His First 100 Days By Glorifying Why Most Americans See Him as ‘A Dangerous Dictator’

Yet another growing controversy of Trump’s own creation emerged over the weekend that reveals his intention to accept a gift 747 plane, from his dear friends in Qatar, that he can use to replace the current Air Force One. And naturally, the Qataris are doing this purely out of the kindness of their hearts with no ulterior motive whatsoever, because that’s just how they are.

There are numerous problems with such an arrangement, including the obvious ethical breach, the flagrant violation of the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause, and matters of national security related to a such a critical mode of transportation possibly being technologically compromised. So it it was not surprising that Trump would be asked about it in his next press avail, which took place Monday morning. He engaged in the following exchange with ABC News correspondent Rachel Scott…

Scott: What do you say to people who view that luxury jet as a personal gift to you?
Trump: You’re ABC fake news, right? Let me tell you – you should be embarrassed asking that question. They’re giving us a free jet. I could say “No, no, no. I want to pay a billion or $400 million” or whatever it is. Or I can say “Thank you very much.” […]

It’s not a gift to me. It’s a gift to the Department of Defense. And you should know better, because you’ve been embarrassed enough. And so has your network. Your network is a disaster. ABC is a disaster.”

Reporter: “What do you say to people who view that luxury jet as a personal gift to you?”Trump: “You're ABC fake news right?… You should be embarrassed asking that question. They're giving us a free jet.”

— The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) 2025-05-12T16:16:02.317Z

There’s a lot of derp to unpack in that reply. Let’s begin with the fact that Scott wasn’t asking Trump to justify the gift, only what he would tell the American people who were concerned about it. But that was too much for Trump, who had no coherent answer, so he insulted the reporter.

What’s more, Trump lied that the plane would be a gift to the Department of Defense. He later admitted that, after he leaves the White House (if he does), the plane would be given to his presidential library. But presidential libraries are privately funded through non-profit organizations established by the former President or their supporters. So it is still a gift to the president.

Furthermore, Trump justifies accepting the gift because it’s free. So according to Trump, giving a free Mercedes to a senator before a vote would be okay? Or giving a free home to a judge before a ruling? What’s next? Vladimir Putin gives the U.S. a free building to use as its embassy in Moscow?

Trump’s Propaganda Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, was on Fox News Monday morning (as usual) to whitewash this sleazy transaction. She discussed the issue with Fox and Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade…

Kilmeade: Do you worry that if the Qataris give us something like this that they’ll want something in return?
Leavitt: Absolutely not. Because they know President Trump, and they know he only works with the interests of the American public in mind.

KILMEADE: Do you worry that if they Qataris give us something like this that they'll want something in return?LEAVITT: Absolutely not, because they know President Trump and they know he only works with the interests of the American public in mind

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-05-12T13:43:36.991Z

Really? If Trump was the least bit concerned about “the best interest of the American public,” he wouldn’t have imposed his recessionary Trump Taxes (aka tariffs) on America’s international trading partners; he wouldn’t be dismantling critical government agencies and cutting services such as Medicare and Medicaid; he wouldn’t be aligning himself with authoritarian tyrants and alienating American allies.

If the world knows anything about Trump, it’s that he is relentlessly transactional, and is always in it for himself. This latest scam is just the most recent proof.

MORE HERE: SRSLY? WH Propaganda Secretary: It’s ‘Ridiculous’ to Say Trump Does Anything For His Own Benefit

REALTED STORIES:

Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse
on Twitter and Facebook and Bluesky and Threads.

And check out my books on Amazon:

Fox Nation vs. Reality:
The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.

Thanks so much for your support.

Is This a Joke? Trump’s Attorney Genuflect, Pam Bondi, Tells Fox News ‘No One Is Above the Law’

Posted by on April 25, 2025 at 1:48 pm. 2 Comments :

One of the most chronic complaints of Donald Trump and his cult cabal has been his assertion that there has been a “weaponization” of government, particularly with regard to the Justice Department. His feelings on this subject are surely driven by the fact that he has been the most criminally active president in history, with a rap sheet longer than mobster Al Capone’s. Which, for some reason, he likes to brag about.

Click here to post this article on Twitter or Click here to post on Bluesky

Fox News, Pam Bondi

However, the only real evidence of such weaponization actually comes from the Trump administration itself. From the outset of his reoccupation of the White House, Trump has embarked on mission of malevolence aimed at all manner of civil servants, but especially the judiciary.

SEE THIS: Trump is on a Crusade to Intimidate and Impeach Judges Who Dare to Rule Against Dear Leader

On Friday morning there was a chilling example of this malignant behavior in a report that Trump’s FBI had arrested a sitting judge in Wisconsin on charges of obstructing justice by allegedly helping an illegal immigrant evade arrest. The charge is a typically specious exercise in the fascistic philosophy that permeates everything that Trump and his cronies are doing.

True to form, whenever there is a crisis connected to the Trump regime, he dispatches his subordinates to Fox News. Many of them spend more time on Fox than they do in their offices doing their jobs. That may actually be a blessing in disguise. In this case, it was Attorney Genuflect, Pam Bondi, who took her place on the Fox News pedestal to deliver her propaganda pitch to Fox hosts John Roberts and Sandra Smith. She began by insulting the whole of the judicial system…

Bondi: What has happened to our judiciary is beyond me.
Smith: When the American public hears this and they think these were once outstanding people in their communities, and their professions, and they put it on the line for this. Have you dug into their motive? What inspired them to carry out these acts and harbor criminals?
Bondi: They’re deranged is all I can think of. I cannot believe… I think that some of these judges think they are beyond and above the law. And they are not. And we’re sending a very strong message today, if you are harboring a fugitive, we don’t care who you are. If you’re helping hide one, if you’re giving a TdA [Tren de Aragua gang] member guns, anyone who is illegally in this country, we will come after you and prosecute you. We’ll find you.

Bondi declares war on the courts: "What has happened to our judiciary is beyond me … they are deranged … we are sending a very strong message today … we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-04-25T17:11:59.990Z

Notice that Smith openly takes Bondi’s side, expressing her horror that this judge would put her reputation on the line, and falsely stating as a matter of fact that the judge was harboring criminals. To which Bondi replied that the only explanation for such behavior was that the judge is “deranged.” That is not a legal argument. It is a childish insult that reveals Bondi’s legal ineptitude. She also throws in an extraneous reference to someone giving guns to gang members, which no one has even hinted at. But this was just the beginning. They went on…

Roberts: Very significant development that you’re arresting judges now. Now it could be that the judges engaged in some terribly bad behavior and deserve to be arrested. But you know what critics will say. That this is the government that is expanding the powers of Article 1 of the Constitution, now they’re arresting judges. How do you respond to that?
Bondi: No one is above the law. No one is above the law in this country. And if you are destroying evidence, if you are obstructing justice, if you have victims sitting a courtroom of domestic violence, and you’re escorting a criminal defendant out a back door, it will not be tolerated. It is a crime in the United States of America. It doesn’t matter who you are. You are going to be prosecuted.”

ROBERTS: Critics will say this is the government expanding the powers of Article 1 of the Constitution, now they're arresting judges. How do you respond?BONDI: Nobody is above the law

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-04-25T17:13:12.277Z

How any credible journalist could listen to that response and not break out in hysterical laughter is hard to fathom. Although Fox News need not worry about that because they don’t employ any credible journalists.

Bondi’s clinging to the notion that “no one is above the law” is hypocritical in the extreme. Her boss, Trump, has literally been adjudicated to be above the law by the right-wing members of the Supreme Court who ruled that he has immunity for official acts, which they seem to define as anything that he says is official.

Meanwhile, Trump has 34 pending felony convictions for which he has not been sentenced. There are 54 more felony charges for which he has not been tried. And he continues to rack up more criminal acts, such his shuttering independent government agencies over which he has no jurisdiction. And his firing of thousands of employees without complying with the legal prerequisites to do so. And his deportations of people without providing the due process that the law demands. And his refusing to obey federal court orders and injunctions.

But other than that, no one is above the law. Well, except for all the MAGA politicians who break the law with impunity. And all of Trump’s oligarch pals who get away with flagrant financial crimes. And about 1,500 violent insurrections who stormed the Capitol in an attempt to undermine democracy, and put 140 police officers in the hospital, who all got presidential pardons. But other than that…

RELATED STORIES:

Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse
on Twitter and Facebook and Bluesky and Threads.

And check out my books on Amazon:

Fox Nation vs. Reality:
The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.

Thanks so much for your support.

White House ‘Corrects’ a New York Times Headline – Winds Up Affirming Trump’s Contempt of Court

Posted by on April 18, 2025 at 2:37 pm. 0 Comments :

The second occupation of the White House by Donald Trump has proven to be far more destructive of the laws and principles of the United States and its Constitution than even the most pessimistic prognosticators imagined. And exacerbating the damage done is the fact that Trump routinely makes matters worse when he is confronted with his offenses.

Click here to post this article on Twitter or Click here to post on Bluesky

Donald Trump

That was demonstrated this week when Sen. Chris Van Hollen travelled to El Salvador to arrange a meeting with his Maryland constituent, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was abducted by Trump’s thugs and carted off to a gulag in El Salvador without the due process that everyone is entitled to in the American justice system. Garcia has also suffered the defamatory abuse of Trump’s MAGA media propagandists.

SEE THIS: Trump DHS Official on Fox News Likens Wrongly Deported Migrant, Abrego Garcia, to Osama Bin Laden

After first being refused, Van Hollen was eventually permitted to see Abrego Garcia and ascertain his welfare and treatment while in custody. The meeting was a significant step forward to what should be Abrego Garcia’s release, and it was widely reported in the U.S. press.

Among the media that posted stories about the meeting was the New York Times. Their headline accurately stated that “Senator Meets With Wrongly Deported Maryland Man in El Salvador.” And that honesty was taken as some sort of challenge by the Trump administration to pile on with more lies and callous disregard for human rights. The White House posted the following…

Thanks White House hack, for providing this additional proof that Trump is in Contempt of Court for non-compliance with a court order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador.

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2025-04-18T18:40:35.874Z

You really have to wonder just how severely disturbed one has to be to get on Trump’s White House staff. This attempt to mock what is a profoundly gross violation of international law and human rights is not only repulsive, it actually harms Trump’s already weak arguments for having deported Abrego Garcia, and for maintaining his incarceration. Trump’s White House is actually affirming that he is deliberately in Contempt of Court.

For starters, they crossed out the word “Wrongly,” which contradicts their own admission that Abrego Garcia’s deportation was the result of “an administrative error.”

Secondly, they also crossed out the words “Maryland Man,” and replaced them with “MS-13 Illegal Alien. However, there is no evidence whatsoever that Abrego Garcia is, or ever was, affiliated with MS-13 or any other gang. Furthermore, in the 15 years that he has lived in the U.S. he has never been arrested or charged with any crime.

Finally, they added the words “Who’s Never Coming Back” to end of the headline, referring to their insistence that Trump and his administration have no intention bringing Abrego Garcia back home, despite the ruling by a federal court ordering his return, which was upheld 9-0 by the Supreme Court. That’s gonna come in handy when hearings are held to determine whether Trump should be held in Contempt of Court.

For his part, Trump took time off from golfing to address this matter with a comment on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, saying that Van Hollen “looked like a fool,” who was “begging for attention.” And for that Trump called him a “grandstander.” All of which proves that Trump is still the master of projection and is staring into a mirror when composing his insults of others. Has there ever been a more foolish, attention grabbing, grandstander than Trump?

RELATED STORIES:

Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse
on Twitter and Facebook and Bluesky and Threads.

And check out my books on Amazon:

Fox Nation vs. Reality:
The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.

Thanks so much for your support.