Roger Sollenberger

When billionaire financier Don Hankey underwrote Donald Trump 's $175 million bond this week, it wasn't the first time that Trump had taken money out of his pocket—nine months into Trump's first term in office, his Justice Department sued Hankey's financial company for unlawful lending practices.

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Ted Cruz is once again pushing the bounds of campaign finance laws, this time with his super PAC pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars for his podcast appearances.

Dave McCormick gave more than $14 million to his own 2022 campaign, but he still spent tens of thousands of donor dollars he wasn’t allowed to touch.

A government watchdog group is filing a complaint about a $50 million loan that Trump claimed for years on government disclosure forms that may have never existed.

After a bruising few months of humiliating reports, Donald Trump 's re-election team has finally produced a round of positive fundraising

Donald Trump 's legal payroll is easily the largest and most diverse of any political figure in modern U.S. history.

Trump is using a GOP compliance firm as a go-between to pay lawyers, allowing him to hide who he’s actually paying. Experts have real questions whether he can do that.

Hours after a Daily Beast report on how Trump's PACs are paying millions in legal fees without disclosing where the money is actually going, Trump is facing a new complaint.

According to a detailed letter to the network from Hunter Biden's lawyers, Fox has engaged in a years-long conspiracy to defame him in the name of profit.