Trump Corruption

CNN reports: Ivanka Trump on Friday withdrew her appeal of a judge’s order requiring her to testify at her father’s civil fraud trial next week after an appellate court refused to pause her testimony. She is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday. On Thursday night, an appeals court denied Ivanka Trump’s request to postpone her testimony until her lawyers …

CBS News reports: A three-judge appeals court panel paused the federal gag order that partially limited former president Donald Trump’s speech ahead of his 2020 election interference trial in Washington, D.C., according to a court ruling Friday. The ruling administratively and temporarily stays Judge Tanya Chutkan’s decision to bar Trump from publicly targeting court staff, potential witnesses, and members of …

“Mark Meadows, the former White House Chief of Staff under President Donald J. Trump, promised and represented that ‘all statements contained in the Work are true and based on reasonable research for accuracy’ and that he ‘has not made any misrepresentations to the Publisher about the Work.’ Meadows breached those warranties causing ASP to suffer significant monetary and reputational damage …

The Guardian reports: The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s $250m fraud trial moved to gag Trump’s lawyers from talking about “confidential communications” between him and his staff on Friday. Judge Arthur Engoron has already fined Trump $15,000 for attacking his clerk on social media and threatened to jail the former president if the attacks continue. “Failure to abide by this directive …

CNN reports: Eric Trump’s two days in court have ended after roughly an hour on the stand Friday. Speaking to the media outside of the courtroom, he touted the success of his family’s company and decried the trial as a “witch hunt” for “political purposes.” Next up on the stand is his father, Donald Trump, who on Monday will testify …

Courthouse News reports: As part of former President Donald Trump’s defense against a lawsuit seeking to block him from the Colorado GOP primary ballot, his legal team on Thursday called two January 6 protesters to testify about gathering in Washington that day to hear a speech from Trump at the Ellipse, a park in D.C. near the White House. After …

Mediaite reports: Ex-Trump aide Katrina Pierson testified that that it was “hysterical” to see former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) lectern stolen during the January 6 Capitol riot at a court hearing on Trump’s ballot eligibility in Colorado. Pierson served as spokeswoman for Trump’s campaign in 2016 and as a senior advisor in 2020. Pierson was confronted over a text she …

Politico reports: A California judge made a “preliminary finding” Thursday that attorney John Eastman breached professional ethics when he aided Donald Trump’s bid to overturn the 2020 election, a significant milestone in the lengthy proceedings over whether Eastman should lose his license to practice law. Eastman said Thursday that the extensive disbarment proceedings — which delved deeply into his allegations …

The Messenger reports: The former president’s daughter Ivanka Trump lost her bid Thursday to pause her upcoming testimony on Wednesday, shortly after her father is anticipated to take the stand in his $250 million civil fraud case. The two-page order of New York’s Appellate Division, First Department rejected her motion for a stay pending appeal. Though it does not resolve …

The New York Times reports: Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump filed an emergency request to a federal appeals court on Thursday seeking to lift the gag order imposed on him in the criminal case in which he stands accused of trying to overturn the 2020 election. The lawyers asked the appeals court to keep the pause of the …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump on Thursday referred to those jailed over their actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol as “hostages” during a rally with supporters in Texas. Trump walked on stage at a Houston rally to Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” as he typically does. But when it concluded, a song in which …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump told fans to oppose “tyrants that support” the MAGA movement in a video gaffe that still hasn’t been deleted 24 hours after President Joe Biden’s campaign highlighted it. Biden’s campaign has been highlighting a raft of Trump gaffes recently — mixing up Biden and former President Barack Obama, misidentifying countries, not knowing what town …

ABC News reports: Former President Donald Trump’s legal battles continue to mount as oral arguments begin on Thursday in Minnesota, where the state’s Supreme Court will decide whether or not the case to prevent him from appearing on the state’s ballot. If the justices decide the case against Trump should move forward, they could appoint a special master to oversee …

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: Good news for the Country! Congressman Ken Buck of Colorado, a weak and ineffective Super RINO if there ever was one, announced today that he won’t be running again, which is a great thing for the Republican Party. He knew long ago he could never win against MAGA, so now he is, …

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump Jr took the stand in the ongoing fraud trial against his father and the family business on Wednesday and tried to distance himself from the financial statements at the center of the case. When asked to slow down, the fast-talking Trump Jr said: “I apologize, your honor. I moved to Florida but I kept the …

The Washington Post reports: The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s indictment for allegedly mishandling national security secrets suggested at a hearing Wednesday that she might push back the planned trial timeline, as courts wrestle with the growing complexity of juggling four separate criminal cases and an ongoing civil trial against the former president. Judge Aileen M. Cannon listened to prosecutors argue …

The Messenger reports: Ivanka Trump’s attorney notified a judge on Wednesday that she plans to appeal an order enforcing a subpoena compelling her testimony in her father’s civil fraud case. Former President Donald Trump and his sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. have been on trial for the better part of four weeks over claims that they fraudulently inflated …

The Hill reports: The Trump Organization’s skewed statements of financial condition may have cost banks more than $168 million in interest, according to an expert witness hired by the New York attorney general’s office. Michiel McCarty, chairman and CEO at the investment bank M.M. Dillon & Co., testified Wednesday to his “lost interest calculations” for banks that handed out loans …

The Associated Press reports: When Donald Trump became president in 2017, he handed day-to-day management of his real estate empire to his eldest sons, Donald Jr. and Eric. Now, as the Trumps fight to keep the family business intact, the brothers are set to testify in the New York civil fraud case that threatens their Trump Organization’s future. Donald Trump …

Posted this morning on Trump’s Truth Social account: This Rigged Trial, brought by the Racist New York State A.G. Letitia James before Trump and developer Hating Judge, Arthur Engoron, which should have never been brought in that the so-called STAR WITNESS, SleazeBag Lawyer (for many people) Michael Cohen, admitted last week on the stand that he LIED, and also that …