Tag: Donald Trump

Trump golf club agrees to huge fine for overserving alcohol to customer who caused fatal crash

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One of president Donald Trump’s golf courses has agreed to pay a $400,000 fine for overserving alcohol to a customer who later caused a fatal car crash in 2015, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.

However, in a victory for Trump’s company, the state of New Jersey will allow the club in Colts Neck, N.J. — as well as two others owned by the former president in the state — to keep their liquor licenses. 

The club pleaded no contest to administrative charges filed by the state Division of Alcoholic Beverages in 2019, alleging that it served alcohol to customer Andrew Halder when he was already intoxicated. On Aug. 30, 2015, Holder flipped his car four miles from the club, killing his father, who was ejected from the vehicle. Halder later pleaded guilty to vehicle manslaughter and was sentenced to three years of probation. Continue reading.

Trump sues Big Tech CEOs

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Former President Donald Trump, who has complained about censorship by social media giants, filed class-action lawsuits Wednesday against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

Why it matters: It’s the latest escalation in Trump’s yearslong battle with Twitter and Facebook over free speech and censorship. Trump is completely banned from Twitter and is banned from Facebook for another two years. 

Details: Trump announced at an 11am press conference Wednesday that he is the lead class representative in a lawsuit being filed with the Southern District of Florida. Continue reading.

Mike Lindell made an insane election conspiracy diagram that has to be seen to be believed

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Former Trump national security adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn posted a photo of himself with Mike Lindell and others at an event on Tuesday only to prompt questions about what was behind him.

The men stood in front of a whiteboard that had a photo of Donald Trump’s head, floating in the middle. A series of lines, arrows, photos, names and a list of random thoughts swirled around it.

The arrows include things like: Andrew Whitney —-> Ben Carson —-> President Trump. Continue reading.

Trump’s bizarre theory of how he’ll be reinstated as president is ‘very, very hard’ to explain: NYT reporter

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New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman on Tuesday told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that former President Donald Trump is still obsessed with being “reinstated” as president, although she struggled in explaining how Trump thinks it’s going to happen.

Haberman started off by saying Trump was “laser-focused” on the widely criticized “audits” that his supporters are conducting in numerous swing states.

Once the results of these “audits” are released, Haberman claims, Trump believes that America will have no choice but to let him back into the White House. Continue reading.

Trump friend and golfing partner charged with misdemeanor indecent assault

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A friend and golfing partner of former president Donald Trump — who gained notoriety for using that friendship to lobby Trump’s administration — was charged with indecent assault last week in Pennsylvania on allegations he groped one of his dental patients, according to court documents.

Albert Hazzouri Jr., a 65-year-old dentist from Scranton, Pa., is best known for a 2017 note he wrote Trump, using stationery from Trump’s own Mar-a-Lago Club, to push a proposal for an oversight committee on dental spending.

The note, which addressed Trump as “Dear King,” came to symbolize the way that Trump blended business with government, giving his customers and friends an audience to lobby for their private causes. Continue reading.

Virginia ‘Bible study’ group was cover for violent militia plans, prosecutors say

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After storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, a Northern Virginia man began forming his own militia-like group in the D.C. suburbs and building up a supply of explosives under the guise of a Bible study group, according to federal prosecutors.

Fi Duong, 27, appeared in court Friday and was released to home confinement pending trial, over the objections of prosecutors who sought stricter terms. According to the court record, at the time of his arrest he had several guns, including an AK-47, and the material to make 50 molotov cocktails. Details of the case — one of the first if not the first in which the government publicly disclosed it had someone undercover to continue monitoring a Jan. 6 defendant — were made public Tuesday.

An attorney for Duong declined to comment. Continue reading.

‘JFK Jr. is still alive’: Trump fan says dead Kennedy will take over White House with Trump in 2021

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One of Donald Trump’s supporters explained recently that she believes the former president will take back the White House in 2021 and John F. Kennedy Jr. will be his vice president despite dying in a 1999 plane crash.

The woman made the comment to The Good Liars over the July 4 holiday weekend.

In video posted on social media, Davram Stiefler can be seen asking a woman about her “Trump-Kennedy 2021” T-shirt. Continue reading.

Judge slaps down QAnon shaman’s latest attempt to win a pretrial release

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Despite his attorney’s claim that he’s not a threat and should be released from jail before his trial, Jacob Chansley, also known as the Capitol-storming “QAnon Shaman,” has again been denied pre-trial release.

According to a court document shared by BuzzFeed’s Zoe Tillman, Chansley “has not proffered any new information that has a ‘material bearing’ on whether or not he poses a risk if released.

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Mike Lindell says ‘the morning of August 13’ is when Trump will officially be president again

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MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has set August 13 as the day that former President Donald Trump will officially be the leader of the United States.

For months, Lindell has promised that Trump would be back in office in August following a new inauguration. 

The MyPillow CEO revealed the date for Trump’s takeover in an interview over the weekend. Continue reading.

How Trump’s claims to being ‘the king of the tax code’ could come back to haunt him

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When former president Donald Trump weighed in on the criminal tax case against his business this weekend, some saw a tacit admission to the schemes the Trump Organization is accused of.

“They go after good, hard-working people for not paying taxes on a company car,” Trump said Saturday night at a rally in Sarasota, Fla. “You didn’t pay tax on the car or a company apartment. You used an apartment because you need an apartment because you have to travel too far where your house is. You didn’t pay tax. Or education for your grandchildren. I don’t even know. Do you have to? Does anybody know the answer to that stuff?”

It’s certainly valid to suggest Trump is granting that these violations might have indeed happened. Perhaps the better interpretation, though, is that Trump is mounting a defense: one of ignorance. (Okay, maybe this stuff happened, but we — or at least I — didn’t know it was illegal.) And knowledge of the tax law is vital to proving tax fraud. Continue reading.