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Trump wants an investigation of Democrats’ fundraising. His own campaign has issues​

By BRIAN SLODYSKO and STEVE PEOPLES
Updated 10:08 AM CDT, May 27, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump directed his attorney general last month to investigate online fundraising, he cited concerns that foreigners and fraudsters were using elaborate “schemes“ and “dummy accounts” to funnel illegal contributions to politicians and causes.

Instead of calling for an expansive probe, however, the president identified just one potential target: ActBlue, the Democrats’ online fundraising juggernaut, which has acknowledged receiving over 200 potentially illicit contributions last year from foreign internet addresses.

Trump’s announcement contained a glaring omission — his political committees also received scores of potentially problematic contributions.

An Associated Press review of donations to Trump over the past five years found 1,600 contributions from donors who live abroad, have close ties to foreign interests or failed to disclose basic information, often making it difficult, if not impossible, to identify them and verify the legality of their donations Among those was $5,000 linked to a derelict building, and $5,000 from a Chinese businessman who listed a La Quinta Inn as his address. Another sizable donation — $1 million — was made by the wife of an African oil and mining magnate.

It’s against the law for U.S. candidates and political committees to accept contributions from foreign nationals. Laws also place strict limits on donation amounts and prohibit the laundering of contributions to get around legal caps. For the most part, such donations have been policed by campaigns and the Federal Election Commission, with only the most egregious examples being targeted by federal law enforcement. ...

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Chaos erupts on first day of US-backed aid distribution in Gaza after weeks of hunger | CNN

Chaos broke out at an aid distribution site in Gaza run by a controversial US-backed group on Tuesday as thousands of desperate Palestinians rushed to receive food supplies, with Israeli troops firing warning shots into the air and the US contractors overseeing the site briefly withdrawing.
www.cnn.com

Trump administration moves to cut $100 million in federal contracts for Harvard

The government already has canceled more than $2.6 billion in federal research grants for the Ivy League school.
apnews.com

Trump considers new sanctions on Russia as he grows more furious with Putin | CNN Politics

When President Donald Trump spoke last week by telephone with Vladimir Putin, the Russian leader committed to drafting and sending what he described as a “memorandum of peace” in the coming days laying out Russian requirements for a ceasefire with Ukraine, according to a US official and White...
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Trump's campaign against law firms dealt another setback as judge blocks executive order

President Donald Trump’s campaign against the legal profession has hit another setback as a federal judge struck down yet another executive order that sought to sanction one of the country’s most prestigious law firms.
apnews.com

Elon Musk says he's "disappointed" by Trump's "big, beautiful bill" and what it means for DOGE

"I think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful," Elon Musk told CBS News, "but I don't know if it can be both."
www.cbsnews.com

Ground Game: Trump’s online fundraising, 2028 podcast primary gets underway, the promise of anti-drone systems

This newsletter was originally sent out via email to our Ground Game subscribers on May 27. You can subscribe at any time at apnews.com/newsletters.
apnews.com

Federal judge strikes down Trump executive order targeting law firm WilmerHale, calling it "unconstitutional"

President Trump has targeted several large law firms with executive orders.
www.cbsnews.com

Trump ramps up heat on Harvard: Here are 5 reasons from the university's own investigation

The Trump administration has cut all ties with Harvard University over its failure to adequately address antisemitism and discrimination. Here is a look back at the findings of Harvard's own report.
www.foxnews.com

Takeaways: Trump's campaign has received scores of donations from problematic donors

When President Donald Trump directed his attorney general last month to investigate online fundraising, he cited concerns that foreigners and fraudsters were using elaborate “schemes“ and “dummy accounts” to funnel illegal contributions to politicians and causes.
apnews.com

DOGE can access sensitive Treasury payment systems, judge rules | CNN Politics

The Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency can now access sensitive Treasury Department systems that control trillions of dollars of payments and contain private information for millions of Americans, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
www.cnn.com

NPR sues Trump administration over executive order to cut federal funding to public media

National Public Radio and three local stations are suing President Donald Trump, arguing that an executive order aimed at cutting federal funding for the organization is illegal.
apnews.com

Who are the GOP senators balking at Trump's tax bill?

All eyes will be on GOP Sens. Josh Hawley, Susan Collins, Rick Scott, Ron Johnson and others who are pushing for changes to the House-passed bill.
www.usatoday.com

Russia, China, North Korea condemn Trump's $175 billion Golden Dome missile shield

U.S. adversaries condemn Trump's Golden Dome plan, citing risks of space arms race and global instability, while the U.S. defends it as homeland protection.
www.foxnews.com
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Trump bristles over "nasty question" about "TACO" trade. Here's why.

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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A new acronym is popping up on Wall Street to explain investors' reaction to President Trump's on-again, off-again tariffs: TACO.

Coined by Financial Times journalist Robert Armstrong in a May 2 column, the tongue-in-cheek term stands for "Trump Always Chickens Out." That phrase is meant to describe a pattern of stocks plunging when the Trump administration announces stiff new tariffs, then surging when Mr. Trump eases up on them days or weeks later.

Since Armstrong's column, Mr. Trump has pulled back on import duties on two other major U.S...
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Pentagon ends "What did you do last week?" email requirement for civilians

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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The Pentagon is no longer requiring civilian employees to send emails listing out five things they accomplished each week, winding down an initiative driven partly by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.

The five-bullet-point email requirement ended on Wednesday, according to the Defense Department, and employees were instructed to send a final email identifying one specific thing the Pentagon could cut to root out waste.

"This initiative provided leaders and supervisors with additional insights into their employees' contributions...
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217 days and counting: Trump's rules slow the release of migrant children to their families

  • News source: Cedar Attanasio and Amanda Seitz | The Associated
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Dressed in a pink pullover, the 17-year-old girl rested her head in her hands, weighing her bleak options from the empty room of a shelter in Poughkeepsie, New York.

During a video call into an immigration courtroom in Manhattan, she listened as a lawyer explained to a judge how new regulations imposed by President Donald Trump's administration — for DNA testing, income verification and more — have hobbled efforts to reunite her with her parents in the U.S. for more than 70 days.

As the administration’s aggressive efforts to curtail migration have...
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Trump pardons former GOP congressman Michael Grimm

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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President Trump has signed off on a full pardon for former Rep. Michael Grimm of New York, according to a White House official.

Grimm, a Republican, was convicted in November 2014 of tax fraud and related charges stemming from his ownership of a Manhattan restaurant before joining Congress. Prosecutors said he underreported wages and revenue to the government, and that he filed false tax documents. Grimm was sentenced to eight months in prison.

Grimm, who joined Congress in 2011, resigned from Congress in January 2015.

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Tanks, trucks, howitzers from Texas are headed to DC for Trump's military parade

  • News source: Adam Tuss, News4 Anchor & Transportation
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We're just a few weeks away from what's expected to be a massive military parade in D.C. President Donald Trump is planning the parade for June 14 to coincide with the 250th birthday of the U.S. Army. It's also his birthday.

New details are taking shape as the date gets closer.

The parade is expected to take place along Constitution Avenue between 15th and 23rd streets, with more than 100 military vehicles expected to be part of it.

For the first time, we're starting to get a look at some of those military vehicles. Huge tanks are being loaded...
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Trump says he will meet with Putin, Zelenskyy 'if necessary' amid negotiations to end war

  • News source: FOX News
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President Donald Trump said he would meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksyy in the coming weeks "if necessary."

The president’s comments come just after he condemned Russia’s recent large-scale strike against Ukraine.

Russian forces launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Ukrainian cities overnight Sunday. The attack, which has been called the largest aerial attack of the war so far, targeted the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.

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Planned Parenthood using 'loophole' to get minors gender transitions without parents' OK: watchdog

  • News source: FOX News
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FIRST ON FOX: The conservative watchdog group American Principles Project is sounding an alarm over what the group is describing as a "massive loophole" being utilized by Planned Parenthood to give transgender hormone therapy to minors.

In a wide-ranging report chronicling how Planned Parenthood is propping up the trans agenda, the American Principles Project accused the group and its affiliates across the country of manipulating the definition of contraception in order to provide transgender hormone therapy to minors without parental consent...
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US judge blasts Trump lawyers for 11th-hour tactics in MS-13 deportation case

  • News source: FOX News
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A federal judge in Maryland scolded Trump administration lawyers on Tuesday for waiting until the eleventh hour to seek an extension in the case of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Salvadorian migrant and alleged MS-13 member deported to El Salvador in what officials have acknowledged was an administrative error.

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Trump nominates former defense attorney Emil Bove for federal appeals court vacancy

  • News source: FOX News
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President Donald Trump announced he is nominating Justice Department official and his former defense attorney Emil Bove to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, a controversial nomination that would come as he continues to attack so-called "activist" judges for blocking his agenda.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump praised Bove as "SMART, TOUGH, and respected by everyone."

"He will end the Weaponization of Justice, restore the Rule of Law, and do anything else that is necessary to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN," Trump added.

There...
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Illegal immigrant arrested after allegedly threatening to assassinate Trump in handwritten letter

  • News source: FOX News
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EXCLUSIVE: Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested an illegal immigrant Mexican national in Wisconsin last Thursday after he allegedly mailed a handwritten note to an ICE officer threatening to assassinate President Donald Trump.

Ramon Morales-Reyes, 54, entered the U.S. illegally on a minimum of nine separate occasions between 1999 and 2005. His criminal record includes arrests for felony hit-and-run, criminal damage to property and disorderly conduct with a "domestic abuse modifier," according to the Department of Homeland Security. He said...
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Giant of African literature Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o dies aged 87

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The Kenyan author sent shockwaves through African literature by refusing to write in English.
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ICE unlawfully detained Harvard researcher charged with smuggling frog embryos, judge says

  • News source: Kathy McCormack | The Associated Press
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A federal judge in Vermont on Wednesday released a Russian-born scientist and Harvard University researcher from immigration custody as she deals with a criminal charge of smuggling frog embryos into the United States.

Colleagues and academics also testified on Kseniia Petrova's behalf, saying she is doing valuable research to advance cures for cancer.

“It is excellent science,” Michael West, a scientist and entrepreneur in the biotech industry, testified on Petrova's research papers. He said he does not know Petrova, but has become acquainted with...
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Judge takes step toward possible release of detained Russian Harvard scientist accused of smuggling

  • News source: FOX News
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A federal judge in Vermont ruled in favor of a Russian Harvard scientist who was detained by ICE and accused of smuggling goods into the U.S. on Wednesday.

Kseniia Petrova, 31, was first detained by ICE before being transferred to criminal custody earlier this month. Wednesday's ruling ensures that if she is granted bail and released at her criminal hearing next week, ICE cannot detain her once again.

President Donald Trump's administration is seeking to deport Petrova back to Russia following her detention at Boston's Logan Airport in February...
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Senate Republican campaign committee 'grills' Chuck Schumer on National Hamburger Day

  • News source: FOX News
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The National Republican Senatorial Committee is revisiting a much-maligned year-old photo from Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer.

The NRSC, which is the campaign arm of the Senate GOP, marked National Hamburger Day on Wednesday with a new video titled, "We Grill Right," which spotlights Schumer's viral social media post from last year's Father's Day.

In the photo that appeared in the 2024 post, Schumer appeared to place a slice of cheese on an uncooked burger patty.

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Blagojevich roasts Dems: Calls Schiff the ‘Elvis’ of liars, says party preferred 'coma' patient to Harris

  • News source: FOX News
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Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich lambasted his Democratic Party as an unethical organization that collectively bolstered a "coma" patient over other contenders in order to advance their own political ends, and that they feature a "Hall of Fame for Liars" headlined by Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.

Asked by Fox News’ Jesse Watters about his response to characterizations that Democrats preferred to cover-up former President Joe Biden’s infirmities rather than move on from him or accept President Donald Trump, Blagojevich said, "I’d say that guy hates...
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