Trump Lies

Truth Social Co-Founders Sue For Stake In Company

The Washington Post reports: The co-founders of former president Donald Trump’s media company filed a lawsuit Wednesday, claiming that Trump and other leaders had schemed to deprive them of a stake in the company that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The case could complicate a long-delayed bid by Trump Media & Technology Group, owner of the social …

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Reuters: Trump Judges Deluged With Violent Threats

Reuters reports: U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth has been threatened by angry criminals. Drug cartels. Even al Qaeda. But nothing, Lamberth says, prepared him for the wave of harassment after he began hearing cases against supporters of former President Donald Trump who attacked the U.S. Capitol. Right-wing websites painted Lamberth, appointed to the bench by Republican President Ronald Reagan, as …

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Hungary’s Orban To Meet With Trump At Mar-A-Lago

Bloomberg News reports: Donald Trump plans to host Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida next week, a move that’s likely to fuel anxiety among US allies about the prospect of the former president returning to power. The Hungarian Embassy in Washington and the US State Department didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment on Wednesday …

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Supreme Court To Consider Trump’s Immunity Claim

The Washington Post reports: The Supreme Court will review Donald Trump’s unprecedented claim that he is shielded from prosecution for actions taken while in office, further delaying the former president’s federal trial in the nation’s capital on charges of conspiring to overturn his 2020 election loss to remain in power. The justices set argument for the week of April 22 …

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Appeals Court: Trump Must Come Up With Full Amount

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump must come up with the full bond amount to cover the $454 million verdict in the civil fraud trial, an appeals court judge ruled Wednesday. Associate Justice Anil Singh, however, lifted a ban on Trump’s ability to obtain loans from a New York bank, which could allow him to access the equity in his …

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Judge In Trump’s Fraud Case Gets Sent White Powder

NBC News reports: Judge Arthur Engoron, who handed down a $355 million ruling against former President Donald Trump in his civil fraud trial, was sent an envelope containing white powder on Wednesday, causing an emergency response at his New York City courthouse, a source with direct knowledge of the incident confirmed to NBC News. The judge and his staff were …

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Trump Admits He’d Have To Sell Assets To Pay Bond

The New York Times reports: Donald J. Trump offered a New York appeals court on Wednesday a bond of only $100 million to pause the more than $450 million judgment he faces in his civil fraud case, saying that he might need to sell some of his properties unless he gets relief. It was a stunning acknowledgment that Mr. Trump, …

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Meadows Loses Appeal To Move Trial To Federal Court

USA Today reports: A federal appeals court refused Wednesday to reconsider former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’ request to move his Georgia racketeering charges to federal court, where he has argued the charges should be dismissed. Meadows, one of former President Donald Trump’s 14 remaining co-defendants in the case, had argued that he should be shielded from state …

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ABC: Trump To Offer $100M Bond In $465M Judgment

ABC News reports: Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are seeking to pause the enforcement of the penalties in his civil fraud trial, telling the court that he intends to post a bond of only $100 million — well short of the $464 million judgment ordered by Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron. Engoron’s judgment ordered Trump to pay a …

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Carville To Lara Trump: “Steal Every Dollar You Can”

“These people want to be stolen from. That’s the long and short of it. The people that give Trump money or the RNC money are begging to be stolen from. And Trump is going to accommodate them. They’re very blunt and very upfront about what they doing. “I know a lot of Republicans, friends of mine from my days in …

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Trump Pays New York Times $400,000 In Failed Lawsuit

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump has paid almost $400,000 to The New York Times to cover the newspaper’s legal costs in his failed lawsuit against the publication and its reporters over the disclosure of his tax records in a 2018 article. A judge last month ordered the former president to pay up after his case was dismissed in May …

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Trump Seeks To Block Stormy, Cohen From Testifying

The Hill reports: Former President Trump’s lawyers in his hush-money case on Monday demanded a New York judge block key witnesses from testifying in Trump’s first criminal trial set to begin next month. Trump attorney Todd Blanche moved to block testimony from Michael Cohen, Trump’s ex-fixer, and two women he paid to stay quiet about affairs they alleged with Trump: …

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Prosecutor Seeks Gag Order In Trump/Stormy Case

ABC News reports: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Monday asked a judge to impose a gag order on former President Donald Trump, who is charged in New York with falsifying business records related to hush money he paid to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Trump is already under a limited gag order in his federal election interference case in …

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Chesebro Lied About Running Secret Twitter Account

CNN reports: Kenneth Chesebro, the right-wing attorney who helped devise the Trump campaign’s fake electors plot in 2020, concealed a secret Twitter account from Michigan prosecutors, hiding dozens of damning posts that undercut his statements to investigators about his role in the election subversion scheme. Chesebro denied using Twitter, now known as the platform X, or having any “alternate IDs” …

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Trump Files Notice Of Appeal Of $454M Judgement

The Associated Press reports: Donald Trump has appealed his $454 million New York civil fraud judgment, challenging a judge’s finding that Trump lied about his wealth as he grew the real estate empire that launched him to stardom and the presidency. The former president’s lawyers filed a notice of appeal Monday asking the state’s mid-level appeals court to overturn Judge …

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Trump Faces Ticking Clock On Massive Civil Judgments

The Washington Post reports: Trump now owes New York at least $454 million — the $355 million penalty plus interest, which is now accruing at a rate of $114,000 per day. Separately, he faces an $83.3 million judgment in a federal defamation case brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll. Most of Trump’s wealth is tied up in real estate, …

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Trump Renews Attacks On “Disloyal” Prince Harry

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump has reopened his attacks on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, saying Harry will be “on his own” if Trump wins a second term. Speaking at CPAC on Saturday, Trump said of Harry: “I wouldn’t protect him. He betrayed the queen. That’s unforgivable. He would be on his own if it was down to me.” …

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Trump To Pit Judges Against Each Other To Avoid Trial

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers see a major opportunity this week to use his criminal document mishandling case in Florida to create an impasse on his calendar for the two federal judges overseeing his major criminal cases. A primary aim for Trump’s legal team is to put the judge in DC overseeing the 2020 federal election obstruction case, Tanya Chutkan, in a position where …

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Politico: Intel Agencies Fear Possible Return Of Trump

Politico reports: Former top officials from Donald Trump’s administration are warning he is likely to use a second term to overhaul the nation’s spy agencies in a way that could lead to an unprecedented level of politicization of intelligence. Trump, who already tried to revamp intelligence agencies during his first term, is likely to re-up those plans — and push …

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Trump Loses Bid To Stay $83 Million Carroll Judgment

ABC News reports: Judge Lewis Kaplan has declined to grant a stay of Donald Trump’s $83.3 million judgment in his defamation case and requested a written response from columnist E. Jean Carroll’s lawyers. “The Court declines to grant any stay, much less an unsecured stay, without first having afforded plaintiff a meaningful opportunity to be heard,” Kaplan wrote in an …

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