Trump Corruption

DENIED: Trump Loses Bid To Delay Paying Carroll Bond

CNBC reports: Donald Trump on Thursday lost a bid to delay paying an $83.3 million civil defamation judgment to writer E. Jean Carroll. The denial of Trump’s request by Manhattan federal court Judge Lewis Kaplan means the former president by Monday must either pay that amount to Carroll, or put up a bond or assets to cover the value of …

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Judge Shields Info On Trump’s NYC Jurors Due To The “Likelihood Of Bribery, Tampering, Or Physical Injuries”

Bloomberg News reports: New York state court judge Juan Merchan on Thursday ruled the names, homes and businesses addresses of the jurors in Donald Trump’s upcoming hush-money trial will not be released publicly to prevent tampering. Prosecutors have demonstrated that Trump “has an extensive history of publicly and repeatedly attacking trial jurors and grand jurors,” the judge wrote in his …

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US Spy Agencies Fear Briefing Trump Upon Nomination

Politico reports: U.S. intelligence officials are planning to brief Donald Trump on national security matters if he secures the GOP nomination this summer — despite concerns about his handling of classified information. The decision would be in keeping with a tradition that dates back to 1952, but it would mark the first time an administration has volunteered to share classified …

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Stormy Daniels: Trump Cornered Me The Night We Met

The Los Angeles Times reports: Stormy Daniels goes into new detail in a documentary about her alleged 2006 sexual encounter with former President Trump, saying she was cornered by him in his hotel room the night they met and that she blames herself for not stopping him. The adult filmmaker makes the revelation in “Stormy,” a nearly two-hour documentary premiering …

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Trump Hit With Huge Bill In Failed Steele Dossier Suit

The BBC reports: Donald Trump has been told to pay the six-figure legal costs of a company he sued over claims of “perverted” sex acts and bribes to Russian officials. Mrs Justice Steyn threw out the case against Orbis Business Intelligence, a consultancy founded by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele, last month. She found that Mr Trump’s compensation claim was …

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Subpoenas Issued In Arizona Fake Electors Probe

CNN reports: Prosecutors in Arizona have issued several grand jury subpoenas in recent weeks to people connected to efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election in that state, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. The subpoenas suggest the state-level probe is accelerating ahead of the 2024 presidential election, when Trump is …

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Habba Begs Judge For More Time To Pay Carroll Bond

MSNBC reports: In a new letter tonight, Alina Habba is asking Judge Lew Kaplan — who has yet to rule on Trump’s request to stay enforcement of the $83.3 million E. Jean Carroll judgment as his post-trial motions are resolved — for some mercy. Specifically, she notes that the existing stay expires Monday and asks that if Kaplan does not …

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SCOTUS To Hear Trump’s Immunity Case On April 25

CNN reports: The Supreme Court will hear arguments on April 25 in the blockbuster case over whether former President Donald Trump may claim immunity from prosecution in the federal election subversion case. The court previously said it would hear arguments in the case during the week of April 22. On Wednesday, it announced that it would hear the case during …

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NYT: Musk Met Privately With Trump At Mar-A-Lago

The New York Times reports: Donald Trump, who is urgently seeking a cash infusion to aid his presidential campaign, met on Sunday in Palm Beach, Fla., with Elon Musk, one of the world’s richest men, and a few wealthy Republican donors, according to three people briefed on the meeting who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private …

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Trump Demands New Trial In Carroll Defamation Case

Courthouse News reports: Former president Donald Trump on Tuesday asked a federal judge for a new trial in writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation suit against him, claiming the trial’s outcome was “infected” by the judge’s errors. Following a trial in the Southern District of New York, a nine-person jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million in damages. According to Trump, U.S. District …

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Carroll’s Lawyer Rips Trump’s Bid To Delay Paying Up

Law & Crime reports: In response to Donald Trump‘s continued promises to a judge in New York that he will pay the $83.3 million he owes to writer E. Jean Carroll for defaming her — without posting security — Carroll’s lawyer has offered a taut reply: Once again, Trump offers nothing to credit him but his “unsubstantiated say so.” Not …

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Mark Cuban Blasts “Snake Oil Salesman” Trump

“I don’t want a snake oil salesperson as President. I’m voting for Biden/Harris over Trump all day every day. It’s the snake oil salesperson vs the incumbent, traditional politician. One will tell you his snake oil will cure everything that ails you. The other will show you the details of his policies through charts, graphs and statements. “He [Biden] is …

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Trump: I’ll Give Cops Immunity To Rough Up Migrants

“Day one. We have no choice. And we’ll start with the bad ones. And you know who knows who they are: local police. Local police have to be given back their authority, and they have to be given back their respect and immunity. We’re going to give them immunity. “And they know them by their first name, the middle name, …

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Trump: Migrants Have Ended All Sports In New York

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump compared migrants Monday to the character Hannibal Lecter in the film “The Silence of the Lambs” as he ramped up anti-immigrant rhetoric that has become a mainstay of his campaign remarks. “They’re rough people, in many cases from jails, prisons, from mental institutions, insane asylums,” he said of migrants who enter the country …

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Trump Seeks To Block Gag Order In Hush Money Trial

The Hill reports: Former President Trump’s legal team has asked the New York judge presiding over his hush money case to block a limited gag order proposed by state prosecutors just weeks before the historic trial is set to get underway. Trump attorneys Susan Necheles and Todd Blanche wrote in a new court filing Monday that the former president’s status …

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Trump Again Seeks Delay In Paying Carroll Judgment

ABC News reports: Attorneys for Donald Trump have repeated their request for a delay of the $83 million judgment in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against the former president, arguing that the former columnist’s lawyers contradicted themselves in a recent court filing. Defense lawyers Alina Habba renewed Trump’s request that Judge Lewis Kaplan delay the judgment for 30 days after …

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New Raskin Bill Will Seek To Ban Trump From The Ballot

Axios reports: A leading House Democrat is preparing legislation in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling on Monday that Colorado could not disqualify former President Trump from its state ballot. The ruling determined that only Congress can enforce language in the 14th Amendment. “Congress will have to try and act,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the ranking member of the House …

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Former Trump Org CFO Gets Five Months For Perjury

CNN reports: Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg admitted on Monday to testifying falsely to the New York attorney general about his knowledge of the size of Donald Trump’s apartment triplex and how the value of that apartment was inflated on Trump’s financial statements for years based on the incorrect square footage. Weisselberg was charged with five counts of perjury, …

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REPORT: Trump’s White House Was “Awash In Speed”

Rolling Stone reports: As one of the former officials tells Rolling Stone, the White House at that time was “awash in speed.” Knowledgeable sources say that samples of the stimulant were passed around for those contributing lines to major Trump speeches, working late hours on foreign policy initiatives, responding to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, coping with the deluge of …

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Ex-Trump Org CFO To Plead Guilty To Perjury Today

ABC News reports: Allen Weisselberg, the ex-chief financial officer of former President Donald Trump’s family real estate company, will plead guilty Monday to perjury charges that resulted from his testimony during Trump’s civil fraud trial, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. This will be Weisselberg’s second criminal conviction after he pleaded guilty in 2022 to evading taxes on …

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