Tag Archives: Trump corruption

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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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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Haley: Nominating Trump Is “Suicide For Our Country”

Axios reports: Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley slammed former President Trump in a Wall Street Journal interview published Tuesday, warning that if he clinches the nomination, the GOP could lose in November. “This may be his survival mode to pay his legal fees and get out of some sort of legal peril, but this is like suicide for our country,” …

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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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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 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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Trump Campaign Spox Claims He Will End Early Voting

“She’s acting more like a Democrat than a Republican. Her campaign is now funded by big Democrat donors, the very same who are funding some of the political persecution and witch hunts that we see being waged against President Trump right now. “And so Nikki Haley is delusional. Voters are not listening to her, and we won’t either. And again, …

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RNC Member Seeks To Block Paying Trump’s Legal Bills

The Associated Press reports: At least one member of the Republican National Committee is working to slow Donald Trump’s attempted takeover of the organization by pushing to keep the committee neutral until Trump is officially the presidential nominee and avoid picking up his legal bills. Two draft resolutions are being circulated by Henry Barbour, a national committeeman from Mississippi, for …

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Trump Tells Black Conservatives: People Say Blacks Like Me So Much Because Of All My Criminal Charges [Video]

“I got indicted a second time and then a third time and a fourth time! And a lot of people said that that’s why the Black people like me, because they have been hurt so badly and discriminated against. And they actually viewed me as– I’m being discriminated against. It’s been pretty amazing. “These lights are so bright in my …

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Judge Sets March 1 Hearing On Disqualifying Willis

Axios reports: A Fulton County judge will hear arguments on March 1 over efforts to disqualify District Attorney Fani Willis from Georgia’s 2020 election interference case against former President Trump. A ruling by Judge Scott McAfee to remove Willis from the case or adjust charges, as Trump and other co-defendants have sought, would have massive implications for the case — …

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NY Judge Starts Clock On Trump’s $454 Million Fine

Reuters reports: Donald Trump was formally ordered by a New York judge to pay $454.2 million after being found liable for manipulating his net worth, in a civil fraud case brought by New York state’s attorney general. The payment includes the $354.9 million penalty that Justice Arthur Engoron of the state court in Manhattan ordered on Feb. 16, plus interest, …

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Trump Claims IVF Treatments Will Always Be Protected

Posted this afternoon to Trump’s Truth Social account: Under my leadership, the Republican Party will always support the creation of strong, thriving, healthy American families. We want to make it easier for mothers and fathers to have babies, not harder! That includes supporting the availability of fertility treatments like IVF in every State in America. Like the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of …

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Trump Seeks Dismissal Of Stolen Documents Charges

Politico reports: Donald Trump is asking a federal judge in Florida to throw out his criminal case for hoarding classified secrets at his Mar-a-Lago estate, offering a grab bag of arguments that the charges are legally faulty, that prosecutors have targeted him for political reasons. The motions include a contention that he’s immune from prosecution because he made the decision …

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Trump Tries To Change Six NYC Addresses To Florida

Newsweek reports: New York Attorney General Letitia James is asking a judge to block Donald Trump from changing his business address from New York to Florida, arguing that his executives “carry out the business activities” of the Trump Organization at Manhattan’s Trump Tower. In a Thursday letter, James urged Judge Arthur Engoron to “reject Defendants’ attempt to change the business …

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