microphor Loc: Home is TN

Yeah, Joe's 50 yrs of lies is waring on you now, I get it. His lies are waring on everyone.

Big Kahuna

The demorat party is indeed the "party of darkness and dark deeds."

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

True!

Ricktloml

More like one of Satan's drooling/slobbering agents. The anti-Christ himself is beautiful/mesmerizing/supernatural. Gestapo Joe just doesn't have the qualifications...but he is a faithful servant of evil.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Good point!!

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

All total or are not in jail , or were not in jail before their pardons ?
I think his entire cabinet wound up in jail .

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

How many of the former and present President'(s) cabinet member's could pass a criminal Trump like investigation? Or Presidents for that matter? Looks to me like the rich and powerful no matter which party make the rules we live by. Unfortunately, they seem to get a pass.
https://www.cato.org/commentary/top-10-ways-obama-violated-constitution-during-presidency
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/what-is-obamagate-trump-william-barr-michael-flynn-fbi-20200517.html
https://www.heritage.org/political-process/commentary/obamas-scandal-free-administration-myth

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

Let me repeat the question: How many of President Trump's Cabinet were jailed? You made the claim surely you know.

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

I personally will never believe anyone getting any guidance from any so called God.
I’m sure it all works great in heaven , but that’s another different time.

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

Here’s the thing , I don’t care . If it’s that important to you , look it up .
I think the last I heard was there 258 indictments for his cabinet .
Higher than any other president in all time.
Past history , he was a crook then and he’s still a crook today .
That’s enough for me. I’m sure you would rather argue the nuances involved but he’s history .
And should never be allowed to run again for president.
He’s a t*****r of a failed c**p D’Etat.
And should be treated as such.
He’s been Putin’s b***h this whole time and probably still is.
Putin’s been helping destroy this country . The secret is out now.
Trump is complicit , knowingly or UnKnowingly .

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

OK, let lower the intelligence bar for you to name which Cabinet Members were jailed as you claimed..

President Donald J. Trump’s Cabinet included Vice President Mike Pence and the heads of the 15 executive departments – the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, State, T***sportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs, and the Attorney General. Additionally, the Cabinet includes the White House Chief of Staff and heads of the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Management and Budget, United States Trade Representative, Central Intelligence Agency, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, & a few others.

President Trump’s Cabinet:

Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue

Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen

Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Gina Haspel

Secretary of Commerce Wilbur L. Ross, Jr.

Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher C. Miller

Secretary of Education Elisabeth Prince DeVos

Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette

Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Andrew Wheeler

Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar

Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Benjamin S. Carson, Sr.

Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt

Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia

Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russ Vought

Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe

Administrator of the Small Business Administration Jovita Carranza

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

Secretary of T***sportation Elaine L. Chao

Secretary of the Treasury Steven T. Mnuchin

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie

Vice President Michael R. Pence

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows

WHO WENT TO JAIL?

You think maybe I'm being a bit obtuse? You're right, I'm intentionally rubbing it in because you were wrong & were too cowardly & full of p***e to admit it.

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

Did you somehow miss the part where I said I didn’t care.?
All of the Trumpworld Figures Who’ve Been Arrested, Indicted, or Jailed
BAD HOMBRES
Pilar Melendez
Senior National Reporter
Updated Oct. 31, 2020 8:20AM ET
Published Oct. 28, 2020 4:56AM ET

Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast / Photos Getty/AP/Reuters

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About a year before Donald Trump’s shocking p**********l victory, the real-estate mogul made a promise: If elected, he would surround himself “only with the best people.”

“I’m going to surround myself only with the best and most serious people,” Trump told The Washington Post in August 2015. “We want top of the line professionals.”

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Since then, it’s become clear Trump has a dubious understanding of “best.” At least 18 shady figures in the president’s orbit have either been arrested or gone to jail since he took office, on charges from fraud to battery to child pornography. While many of those charges stem from former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian e******n i**********e in 2016, several other politicians and donors have been convicted of crimes unrelated to the president.

Here are all the Trumpworld figures who have been arrested, indicted, or locked up:


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Paul Manafort

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Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, was sentenced in March to more than seven years in prison after being convicted of charges stemming from two separate cases brought by Special Counsel Mueller. Minutes after he was sentenced in federal court, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office indicted him on 16 additional charges, including residential mortgage fraud and falsifying business records. This month, a New York court upheld a trial judge’s ruling that the fraud charges should be tossed because they violate the state’s double-jeopardy law.

Manafort, who worked for Trump’s campaign for five months in 2016, was convicted in August 2018 on eight counts of financial-related crimes for using foreign accounts to hide the millions he earned from political consulting work for former Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych. About a month later, Manafort pleaded guilty to 10 other charges in federal court in Washington, D.C., and agreed to cooperate with the Mueller probe. A federal judge ultimately ruled Manafort violated his plea agreement with the government by repeatedly lying to Mueller’s investigators about his Russian contacts before and after the 2016 e******n.


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Rick Gates

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Rick Gates, a former Trump campaign official, was sentenced to three years of probation and 45 days in jail last December after famously flipping on the president during the Mueller investigation. As part of a plea deal, the longtime Manafort deputy admitted to several crimes, including conspiracy and lying to investigators. Gates gave the Mueller team key insights into the Trump campaign’s actions during the 2016 e******n and admitted to helping Manafort conceal millions in foreign bank accounts that the pair earned from work in Ukraine.

Gates, who was originally charged with lobbying violations and tax and bank fraud alongside his boss, also spilled on how Manafort had instructed him to periodically contact one individual—whose name is redacted in FBI documents—to gain information about when hacked Democratic emails would be published.

The one-time Republican operative also testified in Manafort and Roger Stone’s trials. Under cross-examination in Manafort’s Virginia tax and bank fraud trial, Gates stared at his former mentor and explained his decision. “Mr. Manafort had the same path. I’m here,” he said, as his voice shook. “I am trying to change. I am taking responsibility.”


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Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn

Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn flipped on the Trump campaign in December 2017 after pleading guilty to making false statements about his conversations with Russia’s ambassador to the United States weeks before the inauguration.

While he served as Trump’s national security adviser, the former three-star Army general denied asking then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak to “refrain from escalating in response to [American] sanctions” the Obama administration had imposed on Moscow for meddling in the 2016 p**********l e******n. Flynn also denied having asked Kislyak to delay a United Nations Security Council v**e on Israeli settlements. Both lies were made during an interview with FBI agents on Jan. 24, 2017, the feds said.

Though Flynn agreed to cooperate with Mueller in 2017, the Trumpkin reversed his posture two years later—claiming he was coerced into a guilty plea by prosecutors and federal agents. Earlier this year, Attorney General William Barr appointed a U.S. attorney to review the case and even moved in May to dismiss the charges altogether. Refusing to give in to outside pressure, a federal judge presiding over the case appointed an outside adviser to argue against dismissal, and the case is still alive.

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Michael Cohen

Michael Cohen, the president’s former fixer, was sentenced in 2018 to three years in prison after pleading guilty to lying to Congress about hush-money payments and plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.

While refusing to sign a cooperation agreement, the president’s former personal lawyer agreed to help with ongoing investigations. In the case brought by Manhattan federal prosecutors, Cohen admitted to breaking campaign finance law by doling out hush money to adult-film star Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, who claim they had affairs with Trump. In the case brought by Mueller, Cohen admitted to lying to Congress about the extent of the plans for a Trump Tower in Moscow in 2016 and responses from the Kremlin about the foreign project.

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In May, a judge allowed Cohen to serve the remainder of his time behind bars in home confinement due to concerns about the c****av***s p******c. But on July 9, he was sent back to prison after questioning an agreement that barred him from publishing a tell-all book, his legal team said. Cohen sued Attorney General William Barr and the Bureau of Prisons director and was released from prison after a federal judge ruled he was “retaliated” against. He has since launched a podcast, “Mea Culpa,” as part of his “mission to right the wrongs he perpetuated on behalf of his boss.”


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Ken Kurson

Ken Kurson, a close friend of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and the president’s former speechwriter, was arrested in October on cyberstalking charges in New York.

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Federal prosecutors allege Kurson, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur who was once the editor-in-chief of the New York Observer, stalked and harassed at least three people including a former friend he blamed for ruining his marriage.

Authorities allege Kurson repeatedly visited his victims at work, made false complaints to their employers, and engaged in “malicious cyber activity” that came to light in 2018 while he was being vetted by the FBI for an unpaid advisory role in the Trump administration. Kurson was also once a close confidant of Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.


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Roger Stone

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Roger Stone, a longtime Trump confidant convicted of lying to Congress about his connection to WikiLeaks and intimidating another witness to do the same, received a p**********l pardon in July just before he was set to report to jail. Last year, Stone was convicted and sentenced to 40 months in prison on several charges—the last to be filed before Mueller’s probe ended.

The longtime Republican operative, who worked on Nixon’s 1972 campaign and served as a lobbyist for Trump’s casino business, was one of the first people to join the president’s campaign after he formally announced in June 2015. Although he left just two months later, several former officials of Trump’s inner circle testified Stone was still involved behind the scenes. During the trial, prosecutors argued Stone was viewed as the campaign’s “access point” to WikiLeaks and founder Julian Assange, and the connection was crucial to gleaning information about the anti-secrecy group’s plans to publish hacked Democratic National Committee emails.

In a statement announcing Stone's clemency on July 10, the White House described Stone as “a victim of the Russia H**x that the Left and its allies in the media perpetuated for years in an attempt to undermine the Trump Presidency.”


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George Papadopoulos

George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign aide, was sentenced in 2018 to 14 days in jail and fined nearly $10,000 for lying to the FBI during interviews about his contacts with Russians during the e******n.

The first Trumpkin to be sentenced as part of Mueller’s probe, Papadopoulos served 12 days of his sentence after pleading guilty. During a January 2017 meeting, according to HuffPost, Papadopoulos told federal investigators that he learned that the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton before joining the real-estate mogul’s campaign—which he reportedly called a “very strange coincidence.” The lie hindered federal prosecutors from arresting a suspected Russian operative who later fled the country.

In his sentencing memo, Mueller’s team wrote that Papadopoulos’ offense was “serious and caused damage to the government’s investigation.” After his arrest, Trump advisers tried to downplay his role in the campaign, insisting he was just a “coffee boy.” Later, Trump called Papadopoulos a “low-level volunteer.”

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Corey Lewandowski

Corey Lewandowski, who served as Trump’s campaign manager during the 2016 e******n, was charged in March 2016 with misdemeanor simple battery after allegedly grabbing the arm of a former Breitbart reporter at a Florida campaign event. Surveillance video of the incident showed Lewandowski grabbing Michelle Fields’ arm with his right hand as she held up her phone to ask Trump a question while leaving a press conference. The action, authorities said, caused Fields “to turn and step back,” clearing a “path for Lewandowski to walk past Fields, allowing him to ‘catch up’ and get closer to Trump, who was walking during this entire incident.” Ultimately, the charges against Lewandowski were dropped, with Palm Beach County prosecutors writing in a court filing that “the evidence cannot prove all legally required elements of the crime alleged and is insufficient to support a criminal prosecution.”

Lewandowski has also been accused of unwanted touching by singer Joy Villa—a Trump supporter best known for wearing a MAGA dress to the 2017 Grammy Awards—and calling a female co-worker a “fucking b***h.” While Lewandowski was fired from the Trump campaign in June 2016, he is currently a Trump campaign adviser.

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Steve Bannon

Steve Bannon, former chief strategist to President Donald Trump, was arrested in August for allegedly using profits from the v***l “We Build the Wall” fundraising campaign to enrich himself. New York prosecutors allege Bannon and three others stole upwards of $25 million worth of donations from hundreds of thousands of donors. Instead of using the money to support Trump’s border wall dreams, prosecutors allege the men used the money on luxury cars, home renovations, cosmetic surgery, and a 2019 Jupiter Marine boat named Warfighter.

Prosecutors allege Bannon personally skimmed over $1 million to put toward personal expenses and secretly pay “We Build the Wall” founder Brian Kolf*ge, who had promised not to take a dime from the fundraiser. Bannon, who came to prominence as the leader of Breitbart before joining the Trump campaign, pleaded not guilty to both counts in New York federal court. He was released after posting a $5 million bond. Since his arrest, Trump has distanced himself from Bannon, calling the fundraiser “inappropriate” and insisting he hasn’t dealt with Bannon in “a very long time.”

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Brad Parscale

Brad Parscale, Trump’s former 2020 campaign manager, was arrested in September after his wife called police to report that he planned to harm himself. According to the police report, Parscale’s wife also said he pulled out a loaded firearm in front of her and physically assaulted her during a prior dispute. After a three-hour standoff with Fort Lauderdale police, Parscale was detained and taken to Broward Health Medical Center for psychiatric evaluation under the state’s Baker Act. Authorities seized 10 firearms from his house.

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

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Brad Parscale

Brad Parscale, Trump’s former 2020 campaign manager, was arrested in September after his wife called police to report that he planned to harm himself. According to the police report, Parscale’s wife also said he pulled out a loaded firearm in front of her and physically assaulted her during a prior dispute. After a three-hour standoff with Fort Lauderdale police, Parscale was detained and taken to Broward Health Medical Center for psychiatric evaluation under the state’s Baker Act. Authorities seized 10 firearms from his house.

Following the exchange, which was recorded on body-camera footage, Parscale announced that he would resign from his position as a senior adviser, citing “overwhelming stress.”

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The former campaign manager is also under investigation over his use of millions of dollars of campaign funds.


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Elliott Broidy

Elliott Broidy, a former high-dollar Trump fundraiser, pleaded guilty this month to conspiring to influence the president’s administration on behalf of Chinese and Malaysian interests. Federal prosecutors state that as part of his plea agreement, Broidy admitted he accepted millions to lobby Trump, the U.S. attorney general, and other administration officials to drop or reduce its criminal probe into Jho Low. Low is accused of orchestrating a multibillion-dollar fraud against a Malaysian government investment fund. Despite the millions in bribes, the former top fundraising official for the Republican National Committee was unsuccessful in his lobbying efforts. Broidy resigned from his post at the RNC in 2018 after it was revealed he had enlisted Michael Cohen to pay hush money to a mistress.

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Broidy, who allegedly conspired in the scheme with a Hawaii businesswoman, also agreed to forfeit $6.6 million to the federal government and to cooperate with prosecutors on several potential investigations related to his fellow conspirators.


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George Nader

George Nader, a Lebanese American businessman who served as a key witness in Mueller’s investigation, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in June after pleading guilty to child porn and child sex-trafficking charges. Authorities say Nader admitted to arranging for a 14-year-old boy from the Czech Republic to come to his Washington, D.C., home for sex in 2000, and to possessing child porn. As part of his punishment, he agreed to pay the victim $150,000 in restitution and a fine of $25,000. He is also facing charges in Washington, D.C., for allegedly aiding illegal foreign contributions to both Hillary Clinton’s campaign in 2016 and Donald Trump’s inaugural fund.

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While serving as an adviser to the United Arab Emirates, Nader met with Trump officials and associates early on in the administration and allegedly attended a meeting at Trump Tower with Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, and the UAE crown prince. According to the Mueller report, Nader also allegedly used his connections with the Kremlin to serve as an intermediary between Russians and Trump’s associates.


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Imaad Zuberi

Imaaz Zuberi, a Los Angeles financier who donated $900,000 to President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee, pleaded guilty last October to falsifying records to hide his work as a foreign agent while he lobbied prominent U.S. government officials. Zuberi, whose real name is Shah Zuberi, is also expected to plead guilty in New York to obstructing a federal investigation into donations to Trump’s inaugural committee.

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Last October, Zuberi pleaded guilty to three counts in Los Angeles for making nearly $1 million in illegal campaign contributions, engaging in various lobbying efforts, and evading taxes. Los Angeles prosecutors accused Zuberi of taking millions of dollars meant for campaign contributions and lobbyist campaigns for his personal use. In January, Zuberi agreed to plead guilty to obstruction after New York prosecutors alleged the financier took steps to block the investigation into Trump’s inaugural committee, including back-dating checks and deleting emails showing a $5.8 million t***sfer from a foreign national around the time of his political donation.


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Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman

Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, two Soviet-born businessmen with ties to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, were arrested last October for allegedly violating campaign-finance laws through a six-figure donation they facilitated to Trump’s official super PAC. The case was the first criminal prosecution related to an apparent Trumpworld pressure campaign to coerce Ukrainian officials into digging up dirt on Trump’s political opponents for the 2020 re-e******n campaign. The scheme, which included tracking down damaging information on former Vice President Joe Biden, was at the center of the failed impeachment inquiry.

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The pair pleaded not guilty to a four-count indictment that accused them of making illegal straw donations, including a $325,000 contribution to the group America First Action, which was first reported by The Daily Beast. That donation came from an entirely different, undisclosed company owned by Parnas. It is illegal to donate to federal political candidates in the name of another person or entity. In September, Parnas and David Correia, another former Giuliani associate, were charged with conspiring to defraud investors via an insurance company, lying to the Federal E******ns Commission, and falsifying records.


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Rep. Chris Collins

Former New York Rep. Chris Collins was sentenced to 26 months in prison in January after slipping his son an illegal tip about a biotechnology company’s failed drug trial and later lying to authorities about it. Collins, who was the first member of Congress to endorse Trump in 2016 and remained a staunch supporter, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and one count of lying to the FBI.

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Authorities say that while at a congressional picnic at the White House a year prior, Collins was notified as a board member of Innate Immunotherapeutics that their multiple sclerosis drug had failed a critical trial. Collins then called his son, Cameron, and told him about the trial, prompting him to sell off over 1.3 million shares in Innate and tell his fiancée’s father about the development. The younger Collins and his future father-in-law also pleaded guilty in the case.


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Former Rep. Duncan H****r

Former California Rep. Duncan H****r was sentenced to 11 months in prison and three years of parole in March after admitting he stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds to enrich himself. Prosecutors said H****r, who endorsed Trump for president in 2016, and his wife spent approximately $250,000 in campaign funds on personal expenses—including vacations and credit-card payments—and falsifying Federal E******n Commission reports to cover their tracks. The former Republican congressman used some of the funds to pay for “intimate” encounters with several women, including an aide to a member of the GOP leadership team. H****r, who pleaded guilty in December to one count of corruption, was also ordered to undergo a drug and alcohol treatment program.

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Sam Patten

Sam Patten, a Republican lobbyist and operative who previously worked alongside Trump campaign data firm Cambridge Analytica, was sentenced to probation last April after admitting to trying to buy Trump inaugural tickets for a Ukrainian oligarch. Under the plea deal, which grew out of Mueller’s investigation and helped Patten avoid jail time, the operative was prepared to testify against Manafort, whom he knew from his years working in Ukraine.

Patten admitted he sought four inauguration tickets on behalf of an unnamed foreign individual—for $50,000—and used another American to serve as a “straw purchase.” The t***saction was made despite federal laws prohibiting foreign nationals from donating to U.S. political groups and U.S. citizens from knowingly making political contributions in another’s name. The charges, described as violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act for Patten’s undisclosed work on behalf of a Ukrainian political party, were not brought directly by Mueller’s team.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

If you think any of us are shocked you’re not a believer think again. You should look for guidance. If you read a book on c*****e c****e with hundreds of predictions or prophesies about the effects of c*****e c****e and the book was never wrong; wouldn’t you use that book as guidance?

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

I didn't read a word of your diatribe, just scrolled to the bottom where I can tell you that you made a statement you couldn't support and instead of admitting you were wrong, no big deal on such a small minor issue, you proved you're so full of p***e, you blow it off and change the subject. That's a measure of your stinking character.