Disclosure Archives - Crooked Donald

Russian Justice: now we know why Trump REALLY fired Prett Bharara

July 19, 2017 Peter Lindstrom

When it comes to Trump Jr scandal involving his Russian meetings to dig Hillary dirt, most media outlets have kept their focus on basic-non policy matters like “what did the President know and when did he know it?” or “just how many Russians attended Trump Jr’s meeting?” (FYI, CrookedDonald.com already knows the answer to that one: there were a helluva lot more Russians who showed up Jr’s meeting than there were Americans who attended Papa Trump’s inauguration.) But this focus on the small details of these meeting may be overlooking…

Trump: more campaign cash, more private prisons

July 4, 2017July 6, 2017 Peter Lindstrom

Graph of incarcerated Americans 1920-2006

Willie Sutton was a 1950’s bank robber who famously declared it was worth risking prison (where he spent more than half of his life) to rob banks because “that’s where all the money is.” Today, Sutton would be surprised to learn that private prisons are now “where all the money is”—provided you own a prison company and were smart enough to give Donald Trump a fat donation. If making a fortune by owning a prison seems improbable to you, consider this: imagine every single resident of the City of Houston,…

Crooked Donald caught pocketing more charity money

June 14, 2017June 18, 2017 Peter Lindstrom

Today, June 14th is Donald Trump’s birthday (a fact he had been announcing at ainublic events this week) and we thought we’d remind you there is no need to send Crooked Donald any presents as he has already paid himself millions through his charities. In case you missed it, Trump charities are back in the news again and not in a good way—actually, there hasn’t been any good news about Trump family charities in the last two years. This latest scandal involves an investigation by Forbes involving Trump self-dealing and…

Trump hires lots of cheap visa labor

May 31, 2017June 18, 2017 Peter Lindstrom

CrookedDonald.com has earlier reported how Trump aided his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in a scheme to sell Green Cards to Chinese investors at $500,000 a pop. But there is an even more sordid story in Trump’s immigration history: for two decades, Crooked Donald’s company has gamed our jumbled immigration laws to hire foreign workers to save his companies a very few bucks they could have used that money to offer blue and pink collar jobs to American citizens. Despite his tough talk on immigration, Trump’s immigration proposal will punch a big…

Trump Family Caught Selling American Citizenships

May 8, 2017June 18, 2017 Peter Lindstrom

The details are very simple: Jared Kushner’s sister, seeking to finance a New Jersey luxury apartment project that Jared himself once managed until the joined the White House staff, needed more cash for the project. So as Jared Kushner and Crooked Donald have both done in the past, they used immigration to boost their bottom lines. Thus, the Kushner family promised rich Chinese tycoons American citizenship for money. I’m not kidding, they promised potential investors that if they forked over at least $500,000 to the Kushner/Trump bankroll, they could become…

The President of the United States (A fully owned subsidiary of Trump, Inc.)

April 4, 2017June 18, 2017 Peter Lindstrom

Thanks to the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigators at ProPublica, we have proof Crooked Donald has already violated his bogus “trust” that enables him to keep his tiny hands in his businesses as he runs America (into the ground, mostly.) This is still a developing story, but here is what we know so far: when Crooked Donald announced his “trust plan” in January, critics insisted it was worthless in preventing conflicts of interest because chock full of loopholes. Under this scheme, Trump ostensibly resigned from his companies, claiming that he would have no…

“I’m the President and you’re not”—the Time Interview meltdown

March 28, 2017June 18, 2017 Peter Lindstrom

While no one ever expected Donald J. Trump to wrest the title of “Honest” from Abraham Lincoln, thanks to Time, we now have alarming proof that he doesn’t just lie, Crooked Donald is utterly disconnected from reality. By now you should know about Time’s now-notorious interview, a conversation that so appalled the editors of the Wall Street Journal, they not only called out 45’s falsehoods, they declared the tea-totaling Trump was clinging to a cherished lie “like a drunk to an empty gin bottle.” Yet as damning as the Time…

IRS employees could leak Trump’s returns—but will they?

March 16, 2017June 18, 2017 Peter Lindstrom

We have now officially reached the half-way point of Crooked Donald’s first 100 days and with his continued refusal to fulfill his oft-repeated campaign promise to release his returns once he was in the White House, the Internet has been ablaze with demands that IRS officials send Crooked Donald’s returns either to Congress or the media. A bit of background: in 1973, when then-President “Tricky Dick” Nixon famously said “I am not a crook,” he wasn’t referring to Watergate but to the revelation his tax returns had proved what he…