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The New York Times reports: Donald J. Trump on Thursday unexpectedly delivered remarks in his own defense on the final day of his civil fraud trial in Manhattan, attacking the judge to his face, declaring himself “an innocent man” and calling the New York attorney general’s case against him “a fraud on me.” Mr. Trump’s remarks were chaotic and emotional …

The New York Times reports: Nassau County authorities on Thursday responded to a bomb threat at the house of the judge presiding over the civil fraud trial of Donald J. Trump. A spokesman for the Nassau County police department confirmed that there was an investigation at the house of the judge, Arthur F. Engoron, who in several hours is expected …

“In the debate with Hilary Clinton, I said, you know, she is willing to rip the baby out of the womb in the ninth month. And you know, I never heard this — it happened to me. It just came to me during that debate. I didn’t go up there thinking I was going to say that. And she even …

Fox News provides the transcript: BRET BAIER: You seemed to issue a warning that if in the courts and even the U.S. Supreme Court, if they didn’t treat you fairly, that maybe there would be bedlam in the country. Used that word bedlam in the country. And in the last two days, at the same time, in the last two …

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump indicated he has made up his mind about whom he would like to be his running mate should he win the Republican presidential nomination. “Well, I can’t tell you that, really,” Trump told Fox News during a town hall in Iowa on Wednesday when the moderators asked him who is in the running …

Politico Europe reports: One of Europe’s most senior politicians recounted how former U.S. President Donald Trump privately warned that America would not come to the EU’s aid if it was attacked militarily. “You need to understand that if Europe is under attack we will never come to help you and to support you,” Trump told European Commission President Ursula von …

Sean Hannity: “What about the issue of the immunity case? Going before three judge panel arguments were held earlier today. At times, based on reports I read, it’s almost seem to go off the rails asking, well, what if the president instructs SEAL Team Six to kill innocent people? Would the president be acting in his capacity as the president …

ABC News reports: Former President Trump intends to personally deliver part of the defense’s closing argument at the conclusion of his civil fraud trial in New York on Thursday, sources familiar with the former president’s strategy tell ABC News. The defendants in the case — Trump, his two eldest sons and two former Trump Organization executives — are represented by …

The Washington Post reports: Amalija Knavs, the mother of former first lady Melania Trump, has died, Trump said Tuesday in a social media post. Knavs was 78. The cause of death was not immediately announced, but former president Donald Trump told attendees at a New Year’s Eve party that Knavs was “very ill” and that his wife was absent from …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump shared a post from the Gateway Pundit this week claiming that Nikki Haley is disqualified from being president or vice president because her parents were “not U.S. citizens at the time of her birth.” “In @Nikki Haley’s situation, reports indicate that her parents were not U.S. citizens at the time of her birth in …

Mediaite reports: Following the hearing — at which his attorney argued that a president could order Seal Team Six to assassinate a political rival and not face prosecution unless he were impeached and convicted first — Trump and attorney John Lauro spoke to reporters for about ten minutes. Trump’s remarks were so shot-through with falsehoods that CNN and MSNBC dumped …

CNN Politics reports: Judge Florence Pan challenged Trump lawyer John Sauer over the importance of granting Trump immunity over “other public interests,” saying that the former president’s arguments are “not fully aligned with the institutional interests of the executive branch.” Judges are supposed to “conduct a balancing test,” Pan said, “where we balance the need for the asserted immunity versus …

ABC News reports: Appeals court Judge Karen Henderson appeared skeptical that Donald Trump was acting within his official duties when he tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, saying that Trump attorney John Sauer’s arguments appear “paradoxical.” “I think it is paradoxical to say that his constitutional duty to take care of the laws be faithfully executed allows him …

CNN reports: Trump lawyer John Sauer said Tuesday that a president who ordered the military to assassinate a political rival or sold pardons to criminals could only be criminally prosecuted if they are first impeached and convicted by Congress. Appeals court Judge Florence Pan, a nominee of President Joe Biden, posed the hypothetical questions to flesh out the bounds of …

Bloomberg News reports: “We have an economy that’s incredible, when there’s a crash, I hope it’s going to be during this next 12 months because I don’t want to be Herbert Hoover,” Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, told host Lou Dobbs in an interview broadcast Monday on an online platform run by Mike Lindell. Trump has a long record of …

The Independent reports: Donald Trump lost yet another attempt to avoid a trial stemming from a defamation lawsuit from E Jean Carroll, after a federal appeals court panel in New York refused to rehear his “immunity” defence one week before the trial is set to begin. A single-page order from the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: In the final week leading up to the FIRST VOTE of the 2024 election, there’s nothing I’d rather be doing than spending every one of those days on the campaign trail speaking directly with voters like YOU. But sadly, Crooked Joe and the Radical Democrats have turned our once Free Republic into a Third …

The Messenger reports: A spokesperson for former President Donald Trump slammed claims that he regularly had sex with a woman at Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan mansion as “simply false” on Monday. “These baseless accusations have been fully retracted because they are simply false and have no merit,” Steven Cheung, a spokesperson for Trump, said in a statement. In one undated email …

The Associated Press reports: A judge late Saturday said former President Donald Trump’s lawyers can’t present legal arguments to a jury assessing damages at a defamation trial on a jury’s conclusion last year that he didn’t rape a columnist in the mid-1990s. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan made the determination in an order in advance of a Jan. 16 …

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump is seeking to have the sweeping criminal conspiracy case against him in Georgia thrown out by arguing he is protected from prosecution under presidential immunity. Trump’s immunity claims in the Georgia case, filed on Monday as part of a motion to dismiss state-level criminal charges against the former president, are similar to those argued …