Trump's CORRUPT Pardons Trigger MOBSTER ANTICS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx8Do9fTkkc

 

Church employee in Texas allegedly posed as ICE agent to extort woman

A church employee is under arrest in Houston, Texas, after being accused of posing as an ICE agent to extort money from a woman he had booked to give him a massage. 

Donald Doolittle, 58, a safety director at the Gateway Community church in Webster, south-east of Houston, has been charged with impersonating a public servant...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/24/texas-church-ice-extortion-case 

 

‘Drug trafficking, extortion, kidnapping’: the lawless rush for rare earth minerals in Venezuela

Guerrilla groups have seized control of mining areas, exploiting Indigenous people and fuelling environmental ruin on the border with Colombia…

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/nov/07/drug-trafficking-extortion-kidnapping-the-lawless-rush-for-rare-earth-minerals-in-venezuela

Trump administration demands $1bn from UCLA to restore federal funding

"In another mob boss fascist move, Trump is now trying to extort UCLA for $1B, force it to adopt his racist, transphobic, xenophobic policies & accept a monitor to control the university. Hard no. UCLA is a California public university subject to California law & built on California values. The answer is no."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/08/trump-ucla-settlement?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

J. D. Vance’s Bargain With the Devil - The Atlantic

"This isn't bribery. This is extortion…" 

"It's hard for Americans to wrap their minds around the idea that this country is not an example to others—a positive example—that its institutions are not somehow robust, that everything won't be all right. But what we are watching here is an attack on all of those foundational premises of American life. This is a scene not out of American history; it is an orgy of extortion and corruption unlike anything I've ever seen before in this country, and only comparable to things seen in the countries of the world that Donald Trump once called "shitholes." Why are shithole country shitholes? Not because they're poor, but because the authorities are not responsive to the people. The authorities are perverted from their duty and use that perversion as an opportunity for self-enrichment and aggression to the detriment of their own societies…" 

"Great villains require more of a backstory, more interiority, more rise and fall. And—let me keep testing this—J. D. Vance has that backstory. You know, the greatest of all literary villains is John Milton's Lucifer, who starts as the brightest of the angels and then has the steepest fall. Maybe there's something kind of Luciferian about J. D. Vance. I mean, he's someone—we know this from his own words—that he knows the difference between right and wrong. He saw Donald Trump as wrong. He became one of the most eloquent critics of the wrongness of Donald Trump. And then when opportunity beckoned, he chose wrong. He chose wrong, fully knowing what he was doing, aware of its consequences. He took a long time. He brooded over the decision, and then he made the choice. It's epic. It's literary. It's Luciferian. And it's more interesting than the crocodile that simply bites children and drags them under the Nile and drowns them for fun…"

https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/05/the-david-frum-show-vances-bargain-with-the-devil/682954/ 

 

Trump Con BLOWN APART By Jon Stewart After Alarming Legal Escalation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daGgA9qeV5g

 

Trump’s illegal EXTORTION surges into national spotlight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFUnbS3TaY4

BREAKING: Trump caught in bombshell EXTORTION attempt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6DWhfcKR1k

US Army soldier arrested over data breach extortion of AT&T and Verizon

"Roen said that prior to her son's arrest he'd acknowledged being associated with Connor Riley Moucka, a.k.a. "Judische," a prolific cybercriminal from Canada who was arrested in late October for stealing data from and extorting dozens of companies that stored data at the cloud service Snowflake…"

https://9to5mac.com/2024/12/31/us-army-soldier-arrested-over-data-breach-extortion-of-att-and-verizon/

 

‘Chelsea’ Asked for Nude Photos. Then the Extortion Began. - The New York Times

Young men are being tricked into sending naked pictures to scammers pretending to be women — who then demand money. The consequences can be devastating...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/nyregion/social-media-scam-sextortion.html

The Far-Right Pushes a New Conspiracy Theory to Discredit Jack Smith – Mother Jones

A new conspiracy theory rising on the right is being deployed to help Donald Trump. 

It claims that Jack Smith, the special counsel who is prosecuting Trump for his attempt to overturn the 2020 election and for his alleged swiping of classified documents, was part of a multimillion dollar extortion scheme when he was the chief prosecutor investigating and prosecuting war crimes in Kosovo. In the past two weeks, this unsubstantiated narrative has started popping up on fringe right-wing sites and social media posts. Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser and QAnonish MAGA champion, has promoted this tale. These allegations appear to be in the early phase of the right-wing transmission belt that propels false stories and conspiracy theories from less prominent platforms to more established conservative media and toward the mainstream—often facilitated by Republican members of Congress…

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/12/the-far-right-pushes-a-new-conspiracy-theory-to-discredit-jack-smith/

Democrats respond to GOP calls for debt ceiling negotiations: No

What makes the debt ceiling qualitatively different is that this isn't a policy dispute. What Republicans are doing is manufacturing a hostage crisis, effectively telling Democrats that the GOP is prepared to harm Americans on purpose unless their demands are met. For all intents and purposes, it is a Republican extortion scheme… 

"I don't know why President Biden says he's not going to negotiate," House Freedom Caucus Chairman Scott Perry recently told ABC News. As it happens, there's no great mystery here. 

Not to put too fine a point on this, but it's not just that the president won't engage in talks with Republican hostage takers, it's that he can't: To negotiate with those threatening Americans is to encourage others to threaten Americans…

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/democrats-respond-gop-calls-debt-ceiling-negotiations-no-rcna65944

Why is the US about to give away $52bn to corporations like Intel?

"It's pure extortion."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/26/us-chips-act-intel-robert-reich

New phone recording shows Giuliani extorting Ukraine for campaign help.

"I got information from a reliable investigator, international investigator, that there was a certain amount of activity in Ukraine during the 2016 election … to produce dirt on then-candidate Trump and Paul Manafort," Giuliani explained to Yermak on the call. "Another one was involved with (George) Soros … Soros apparently is behind a lot of this."

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/06/phone-recording-giuliani-extorting-ukraine-biden-campaign-favor.html

White supremacist Christopher Cantwell arrested - CNN

White supremacist Christopher Cantwell has been arrested and charged with sending an extortionate and threatening interstate message, according to the FBI office in Boston. Cantwell was one of the organizers of the hate-filled marches through Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017. ....
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/23/us/white-supremacist-christopher-cantwell-arrested-soh/index.html

Republicans throw tantrum over criticism of Trump ... during impeachment hearing

Monday’s impeachment hearing opened with Barry Berke, the counsel for the Judiciary Committee Democrats, laying out the case for impeachment of Donald Trump over his efforts to extort Ukraine into election interference. At the end of Berke’s testimony, which was—it cannot be emphasized enough—a description of Donald Trump’s impeachable offenses, Republicans staged a giant hissy fit over Berke having criticized Trump.
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/12/9/1904463/-Republicans-throw-tantrum-over-criticism-of-Trump-during-impeachment-hearing

Rudy Giuliani Won't Say Why He's in Ukraine and Refuses to Confirm His Location

President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani has refused to explain why he has traveled to Ukraine this week, even as House investigators pore over his boss's alleged efforts to extort the government in Kiev to interfere in the 2020 elections.
https://www.newsweek.com/rudy-giuliani-wont-say-why-ukraine-cant-confirm-location-impeachment-donald-trump-viktor-shokin-1475676

The GOP’s Ukraine report incriminates Trump.

He gave his personal lawyer the power to extort a foreign government.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/12/gop-impeachment-ukraine-report-incriminates-trump.html

Nunes’s ‘carousel of allegations’ all contain impeachable acts - The Washington Post

A common Republican criticism in the ongoing impeachment proceedings is that Democrats have repeatedly changed their position concerning what offense President Trump may have committed in his dealings with Ukraine. In his opening statement on Thursday, Rep. Devin Nunes (Calif.), the House Intelligence Committee’s ranking Republican, said: “The offense itself changes depending on the day, ranging from quid pro quo, to extortion, to bribery, to obstruction of justice, then back to quid pro quo.” He accused Democrats of riding on a “carousel of allegations.” ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/11/21/nuness-carousel-allegations-all-contain-impeachable-acts/

Democrats sharpen their message on impeachment | TheHill

In a last-minute move, Democrats are shifting their impeachment rhetoric and talking points just days before the first public hearings into President Trump’s handling of foreign policy in Ukraine. The televised hearings mark a crucial phase in an investigation conducted thus far behind closed doors, as Democrats seek to swing public opinion — and by extension, that of Republicans — behind the central inference of their impeachment inquiry: that Trump broke the law and should be removed from office.....
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/469988-democrats-sharpen-their-message-on-impeachment