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CNN reports: US District Judge Tanya Chutkan has put into writing her limited gag order that bars Donald Trump from making public statements about witnesses who might testify against him in the federal election subversion case as well as prosecutors and court staff. Trump’s public statements pose “grave threats to the integrity of these proceedings,” especially those that could be …

“I didn’t know you had flies in Iowa. I hate flies! Now I’ll get in trouble for saying that. Cruelty to animals. No it’s true. You know, I said the other day I was at a place and it was a beautiful place, but they had like, flies. And I said, get flypaper! They said, ‘Sir, they’re not allowed to …

“They’re getting beaten very badly by me in the polls. They think the only way they can catch me is to stop me from speaking. They want to take away my voice and a judge gave a gag order today. “Did you hear that? On speech, which I believe is totally unconstitutional what she did. A judge gave a gag …

Bloomberg News reports: In announcing the partial gag order, US District Judge Tanya Chutkan said that Trump’s free speech rights under the First Amendment had to “yield” to the administration of justice and the protection of witnesses, and did not permit him to launch a “smear campaign.” Chutkan said that if the government believed Trump had violated her order, she …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: A Leaking, Crooked and Deranged Prosecutor, Jack Smith, who has a terrible record of failure, is asking a highly partisan Obama appointed Judge, Tanya Chutkan, who should recuse herself based on the horrible things she has said, to silence me, through the use of a powerful GAG ORDER, making it impossible for me to …

The Washington Post reports: Donald Trump’s legal battles crossed the Atlantic on Monday with the start of a hearing against a former MI6 officer’s intelligence consultancy, which Trump says caused him “personal and reputational damage and distress.” The 45th president is bringing a claim against Christopher Steele, a former British spy, and his consultancy, Orbis Business Intelligence, for alleged data …

The Associated Press reports: Donald Trump’s top corporate deputies considered adding a “presidential premium” to his Trump Tower penthouse, Mar-a-Lago resort and other assets during his White House years, a gambit that would’ve padded his net worth by nearly $145 million, an executive at the former president’s company testified Friday. State lawyers contend that merely going through the exercise underscores …

The Messenger reports: Former President Donald Trump appeared again to mix up Barack Obama and Joe Biden just weeks after he inexplicably told an audience that he was leading Obama in the polls “by a lot.” During an interview on Fox Radio Thursday, Trump insisted to host Brian Kilmeade that Iran was behind the deadly Hamas rocket attack and incursion …

Protect Democracy reports: On October 11, 2023, a judge issued a sweeping victory for former Trump campaign staffer Jessica Denson, signing off on a class-action settlement that will permanently free all 2016 Trump Campaign workers from the Campaign’s illegal NDA. Denson first sued to invalidate the NDA in 2018 as a pro se litigant, won an initial decision in March …

Law & Crime reports: Attorneys for Donald Trump this week argued that the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause does not and cannot apply to a president, or someone running for president, of the United States. “Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment does not prohibit someone from running for office—it prohibits someone from holding office, and even then, only if Congress chooses …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump claimed that had the 2020 presidential election not been “rigged” against him, Israel would not have been attacked by Hamas over the weekend. The election was not rigged. Speaking in West Palm Beach, Florida on Wednesday night, Trump addressed the attack and said that if he were still president, it would not have happened. …

The Hill reports: Attorneys for former President Trump are seeking a judge’s permission to subpoena the former chair of the House Committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, repeating a disputed claim that the panel failed to turn over all the evidence it collected. The filing from Trump — which also seeks to subpoena six other …

The Messenger reports: Special Counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday cited security concerns and Donald Trump’s recent social media activity as reasons to get prospective Washington, D.C., jurors to fill out a written questionnaire ahead of the jury selection process for the former president’s upcoming March 2024 trial. The 11-page motion filed Tuesday from Smith’s office centers around their 2020 election …

Forbes responds to Trump’s latest tirade: Removed from The Forbes 400, Trump responds as he always has—by lying about his net worth and saying he should be higher on the list. We take extraordinary care in valuing his fortune, and our ownership—which does not include China’s wealth fund—plays no role in that effort. Twice a year, we publish a detailed …

The Messenger reports: There is “no reason” to grant former President Donald Trump’s request to delay his trial in the Mar-a-Lago documents case until after the 2024 election, Special Counsel Jack Smith argued in a court filing Monday. “The defendants provide no credible justification to postpone a trial that is still seven months away,” prosecutors in Smith’s office wrote in …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: China owned (China Investment Corp, the Country’s Sovereign wealth Fund!), and very badly failing, Forbes “Magazine,” which lost most of its relevance long ago, and which knows less about me than Stormy Daniels (who doesn’t know me at all!) or Rosie O’Donnell, took me off their Fake Forbes 400 list, just by a “whisker,” …

Raw Story reports: Trump, who has been criticized for increasingly violent rhetoric as his legal cases have put more pressure on him, began discussing photos of Biden on the beach. “I have a much better body than him,” the former president said at the rally. He then added that he’s “not sure” he would want to “expose it with the …

Fox News reports: Former President Donald Trump told Fox News Digital that he would accept a short-term role as speaker of the House of Representatives to serve as a “unifier” for the Republican Party until lawmakers reach a decision on who should take on the post. Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was removed as speaker of the House on Tuesday after …

ABC News reports: Months after leaving the White House, former President Donald Trump allegedly discussed potentially sensitive information about U.S. nuclear submarines with a member of his Mar-a-Lago Club — an Australian billionaire who then allegedly shared the information with scores of others, including more than a dozen foreign officials, several of his own employees, and a handful of journalists, …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump on Wednesday asked a judge to dismiss the whole of the government’s election interference case against him, arguing all his actions leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol are protected by presidential immunity. “As the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and hundreds of years of history and tradition all make clear, the …