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Rep. James Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, held a press conference on Wednesday to detail the latest updates in his investigation of Hunter Biden’s business dealings. The evidence so far does not directly implicate President Biden, but does suggest his son may have profited off of his famous name.

Records of Hunter Biden’s activities also echo the foreign business dealings of the family members of another President. While in office, former President Trump remained connected to the Trump Organization, even as he passed control of the company to his two sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump. Though Trump’s team said the business would not enter any new overseas deals during his term, his family members continued to engage in business abroad. Meanwhile, Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, and her husband, Jared Kushner, continued to pursue financial interests in foreign countries.
Story by Matthew Chapman

Legal experts believe that former President Donald Trump's CNN town hall at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire gave fresh evidence to every one of the three ongoing criminal cases against him, reported Salon on Thursday.

The ongoing criminal cases against Trump — not including the bookkeeping fraud case over the Stormy Daniels hush payment, which has already been charged by Manhattan prosecutors — are the election interference probe in Georgia, the federal January 6 investigation, and the federal investigation of classified documents stashed at Mar-a-Lago — all of which came up during the town hall under the questioning of moderator and CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins.
Story by Khaleda Rahman

Former president Donald Trump's interest in a younger staffer raised alarm in the White House and he "openly" behaved inappropriately, a former Trump administration official has told Newsweek.

Olivia Troye, who was an adviser to former vice president Mike Pence and his lead staffer on the White House coronavirus task force, said Trump's behavior was common knowledge among senior staff.

Her remarks come after two other former Trump staffers accused him of sexual harassment while in the White House. They spoke out in television interviews after a jury on Tuesday found the former president liable for sexually abusing and defaming journalist E. Jean Carroll. Trump denied the allegations and, on Truth Social, called the verdict "A DISGRACE" and a "CONTINUATION OF THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME!" His attorney said he would appeal.
Story by Philip Bump

The last time a president was engaged in a real primary campaign was 1980, when President Jimmy Carter was challenged by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.). Thanks to the advantage of incumbency, Carter was renominated — only to lose the general election. In part because of that, subsequent presidents have had to survive only one primary, with their parties helping to clear the path to renomination to avoid spending the summer before the general election weakening their candidate with infighting.

That wasn’t enough to get Trump reelected in 2020. So here he is, trying again, a guy who held the job previously now trying to get it back.

On Wednesday night, that brought him to New Hampshire for a “town hall” event hosted by CNN. For a bit over an hour, Trump did what Trump does. But the atmosphere was not sober or thoughtful. It was raucous, energized, obviously allied with Trump. And why not? More than 365,000 New Hampshirites voted three years ago to give Trump a second term in office. Pick a group of 200 residents of the state who say they plan to vote in the Republican primary and you’re going to get nearly 200 people who have voted for Trump before.
The former president stuck to his claims that the 2020 election was "rigged" against him.
David Knowles·Senior Editor

At a Wednesday night town hall with Republican and undecided voters in New Hampshire, former President Donald Trump continued to peddle false claims that voter fraud cost him victory in the 2020 election, stood by his assertion that "stars" have historically been allowed to sexually abuse women and encouraged congressional Republicans to allow the U.S. to default on its debt.

CNN's decision to give Trump a platform at St. Anselm College for his 2024 presidential campaign has drawn scathing criticism, including from retired D.C. Metropolitan Police officer Michael Fanone, who was injured after Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, to try to block the peaceful transition of power following Trump's loss to Joe Biden.
Story by Martin Pengelly in New York

The former House January 6 committee member Liz Cheney released an attack ad against Donald Trump in New Hampshire on the eve of his appearance there in a controversial CNN town hall. Related: Trump to participate in CNN town hall, one day after sexual abuse verdict

“There has never been a greater dereliction of duty by any president,” Cheney warns in the ad, which focuses on Trump’s incitement of the deadly Capitol attack on 6 January 2021. “Donald Trump has proven he is unfit for office. Donald Trump is a risk America can never take again.” Trump incited the attack by his supporters in an attempt to block certification of Joe Biden’s election win. Nine deaths have been linked to it. Thousands of arrests have been made and hundreds of convictions secured – some for seditious conspiracy.
Story by Ed Mazza

Stephanie Grisham, who served as White House press secretary under Donald Trump, said she witnessed the then-president’s sexual harassment firsthand.

She told CNN that she had to try to protect one staffer in particular that Trump would request accompany him on trips.

“He one time had one of my other deputies bring her back so that they could look at her ass, is what he said to him,” she said. “I sat down and talked to her at one point, asked her if she was uncomfortable. I tried everything I could to ensure she was never alone with him.”
Story by Brad Reed

Former President Donald Trump has an unprecedented number of detractors who served in his own administration, ranging from former Attorney General Bill Barr to former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham.

Miles Taylor, another Trump critic who worked for the former President, wrote on Twitter Tuesday that one Trump cabinet official even went so far as to describe the former president as "evil."

"I’ll never forget an ex-Trump cabinet member telling me: 'He is truly the most evil person I have ever met,'" Taylor wrote. "We cannot make this mistake again."
Story by Gabriella Ferrigine

Attorneys for Georgia GOP Chairman David Shafer claimed that he should not face charges of the 2020 fake elector scheme because he was acting at the behest of lawyers working for former President Donald Trump.

Shafer's legal team, in a letter sent to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis last week, argued that their client was following "repeated and detailed advice of legal counsel" when he assembled a group of "contingent" Georgia electors and acted as one himself, thereby "eliminating any possibility of criminal intent or liability."

Willis and a team of prosecutors are embroiled in an ongoing investigation into efforts to flip the results of the 2020 election in Georgia. Willis opened the investigation in early 2021 after the revelation of a phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. In the call, Trump suggested that the election official could "find" the 11,780 votes needed to overturn the state election. CNN reported that she plans to announce possible charges against the former president and his supporters sometime this summer.
Story by Sarah K. Burris

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday responded the $5 million judgment issued against him for his civil liability in the case by E. Jean Carroll. According to his all-caps Truth Social post, he still doesn't know who she is.

"I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHO THIS WOMAN IS. THIS VERDICT IS A DISGRACE - A CONTINUATION OF THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME!" Trump said.
David Jackson | USA TODAY

A federal jury found former President Donald Trump liable Tuesday in a civil case for a 1996 sexual abuse and battery of E. Jean Carroll and said he should pay her $5 million in damages, a verdict that could further complicate the former president's election bid in 2024. The jury, which deliberated fewer than three hours, also found Trump liable for defamation.

Carroll, a professional writer, sued Trump for defamation, saying he lied about a 1996 sexual assault in a New York City department store and disparaged her character in doing so. Trump, who has denied Carroll's claims, said on his Truth Social website that the trial involved a "False Accusation" and he would "not speak until after the trial."
Jurors will begin deliberating E. Jean Carroll's civil case against the former president on Tuesday
Ryan Bort

Donald Trump wants you to know that in the civil rape lawsuit jurors will begin deliberating on Tuesday, he is the real victim.

“Waiting for a jury decision on a False Accusation where I, despite being a current political candidate and leading all others in both parties, am not allowed to speak or defend myself, even as hard nosed reporters scream questions about this case at me,” the former president wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday. “In the meantime, the other side has a book falsely accusing me of Rape, & is working with the press. I will therefore not speak until after the trial, but will appeal the Unconstitutional silencing of me, as a candidate, no matter the outcome!”

This is a lie. Trump has had every opportunity to defend himself in the trial. His legal team informed Judge Lewis Kaplan last week, however, that they would not be presenting any defense. A day later, Trump whined about the case to reporters overseas, teasing that he would “probably” attend the trial and that he was returning to the United States early in order to “confront” Carroll, whom he called a “disgrace.”
MSNBC

The civil rape trial against Donald Trump from E. Jean Carroll is going to the jury. Trump denies all allegations against him. MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber reports on the closing arguments from both Carroll’s lawyer and Trump’s lawyer.
Story by Matthew Chapman

David Shafer, the chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, now claims that his plot to stand as a fake elector should not be criminally charged because he was acting on the advice of former President Donald Trump's legal team, reported CNN on Monday.

"Specifically, Shafer’s attorneys say their client was relying on 'repeated and detailed advice of legal counsel' when he organized a group of 'contingent' electors from Georgia and served as one himself, thus 'eliminating any possibility of criminal intent or liability,' according to a copy of the May 5 letter," reported Zachary Cohen and Sara Murray. "The letter, which was first reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, comes as Willis and her team of prosecutors investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia are planning to make an announcement on possible charges against Trump or his allies later this summer."

This comes after reporting last week that eight of the 16 fake electors have accepted immunity deals from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
Travis Gettys

Trump Media accepted two loans from a pair of Russia-linked entities as the fledgling tech company struggled to stay afloat, and a reporter revealed why investigators started probing the transactions as possible money laundering.

Federal prosecutors in New York have expanded a criminal inquiry of Donald Trump's business venture last year and began probing the loans totaling $8 million Paxum Bank and ES Family Trust, both of which appear to be controlled by the relative of a Vladimir Putin ally, and The Guardian's Hugo Lowell explained his reporting on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

"There was an existing criminal investigation into Trump Media, the parent company of Truth Social, that started last year," Lowell said. "Then towards the end of last year, what happened was they got a tip and they started looking at basically two $8 million payment that came through at a time they were cash poor, because it happened late because of the SEC investigation they went and got bridge financing from first a bank, then in February 2022 they got a second loan of $6 million from two different companies. As it turned out, they're pretty much one and the same company, and if you trace the beneficiaries back you get to the nephew of a Putin ally who was the first deputy justice minister in Russia and previously served in Putin's executive office."
Story by Fred Kaplan

Exactly five years ago, Donald Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, in one of the dumbest moves of his presidency—the dumbest when it comes to foreign policy. This is not a partisan statement. It’s also true that President Joe Biden’s failure to reverse Trump’s misstep ranks as the most puzzling—and may prove to be most catastrophic—decision in his term of office so far.

But Trump’s move on May 8, 2018 set the stage for whatever disasters may come of it. By the time he pulled the plug, Iran was well on its way to dismantling its nuclear program. International inspectors, who were granted full access to suspect sites, said in all of their routine reports that Iran was in full compliance with the deal’s terms. Now the inspectors are gone, and Iran is closer to building an atom bomb than it ever has been.

Why did Trump abrogate the deal? First, he didn’t much like arms-control agreements of any sort. Second, he particularly distrusted Iran, a view bolstered by his friendship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (ignoring the fact that most Israeli military and intelligence officers supported the deal). Finally, and perhaps most significant: to Trump’s mind, nothing Obama ever did could be touted as a success, so the Iran deal—a resounding success by all objective measures—had to be pummeled as (in Trump’s oft-repeated words) “the worst deal ever.”
Story by Marissa Matozzo

In a letter submitted in court last week, the New York attorney general’s office claimed that Donald Trump, his three eldest children (Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric) and the Trump Organization failed to turn over emails and other important documents in a fraud lawsuit. The office also noted that there was “an unexplained drop-off in emails for Ivanka Trump.”
Story by By ED WHITE, Associated Press

DETROIT (AP) — Nine lawyers who were found to have abused the court system by filing a lawsuit that challenged Michigan's 2020 election results in favor of President Joe Biden committed misconduct and should be disciplined, a watchdog agency said.

The state Attorney Grievance Commission filed a complaint this week against Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and seven other lawyers who were allied with then-President Donald Trump. The complaint now goes to the Michigan Attorney Discipline Board for further consideration.
Story by Amy Gardner, Holly Bailey

At least eight of the 16 Georgia Republicans who convened in December 2020 to declare Donald Trump the winner of the presidential contest despite his loss in the state have accepted immunity deals from Atlanta-area prosecutors investigating alleged election interference, according to a lawyer for the electors.

Prosecutors with the office of Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) told the eight that they will not be charged with crimes if they testify truthfully in her sprawling investigation into efforts by Trump, his campaign and his allies to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in Georgia, according to a brief filed Friday in Fulton County Superior Court by defense attorney Kimberly Bourroughs Debrow.
By Clare Hymes, Graham Kates

Attorneys for the writer E. Jean Carroll released about 48 minutes of deposition video shown at the trial in which former President Donald Trump was pressed about Carroll's claim that he raped her in the 1990s.

The video was released after media organizations, including CBS News, asked the judge in the case to make it public.

During the October deposition, Carroll's attorney Roberta Kaplan showed Trump a late-1980s photo of him with his then-wife Ivana, Carroll and her then-husband John Johnson. Referring to Carroll, Trump said, "It's Marla," referring to his second wife, Marla Maples.

"That's Marla, yeah. That's my wife," he said, before being corrected, and told it was Carroll. The writer sued Trump for defamation and battery after he said she "made up" allegations that he raped her in a New York City department store in the mid-1990s. Trump has adamantly denied the allegations and claimed Carroll "is not my type."
Story by Adam Woodard

The United States Department of Justice is ramping up its investigation into how former President Donald Trump has handled classified documents since his time in office ended. But what does that have to do with golf?

According to a New York Times report, amid the larger investigation the DOJ has subpoenaed the Trump Organization for records regarding LIV Golf and President Trump’s ties to the upstart circuit financially backed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.

In LIV Golf’s inaugural season last year, Trump National Bedminster and Trump National Doral both hosted events. The pair of properties will do so again in 2023, as will his resort in Potomac Falls, Virginia, outside of Washington, D.C.
Story by Steve Benen

It was nearly four years ago when The New York Times published one of the most devastating reports I’ve ever seen. In the first real breakthrough on understanding Donald Trump’s controversial finances, the newspaper exposed evidence of “dubious tax schemes” and “outright fraud” that the Republican exploited to receive hundreds of millions of dollars from his father.

The findings painted a picture in which the then-president, far from the self-made man he pretends to be, relied heavily on legally dubious family handouts. As regular readers may recall, it was the first of three brutal reports on Trump’s financial history, leaving little doubt that he’d spent much of his adult life meandering between failures and fraudulent endeavors.

Eventually, he responded to the reporting by filing a $100 million lawsuit against the newspaper and its source — his niece, Mary Trump — who helped expose him as a fraud. She responded to the litigation at the time by saying, “I think he is a f------- loser.”
Story by Sky Palma

Donald Trump launched a new campaign ad this week purporting to show that the United States is doing worse under President Biden than it did during his time in the White House, but as Forbes points out, the two most prominent photos in the ad are from Trump’s own presidency.

One of the photos showing a burning cop car was taken in Chicago on May 30, 2020. Another image shows migrants wading through knee-deep water with the caption, “Central American migrants cross the Suchiate River from Mexico to Guatemala, near Tecun Uman, Guatemala, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020" -- meaning that the people weren't traveling north to the U.S.

Both photos were taken during Trump's watch.

"The U.S. presidential election is still a year and a half away, but both Joe Biden and Donald Trump are already running ads," writes Forbes' Matt Novak. "The GOP is even running ads made completely with artificial intelligence. And if Trump’s current tactics are any indication, he’s going to keep lying as we get closer to election day."
Story by Caitlin Dickson

NEW YORK CITY — During Wednesday’s testimony in the civil trial of former President Donald Trump, author and journalist Natasha Stoynoff became the third woman to testify under oath that Trump sexually assaulted her years earlier.

Called as a witness by lawyers representing writer E. Jean Carroll, who is suing Trump, Stoynoff took the witness stand at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse in Manhattan. She told the jury about an incident in 2005 during which, she said, Trump forcefully kissed her while she was interviewing him at his Mar-a-Lago estate for an article for People magazine.
Story by Kevin Harrish

This week, former United States President Donald Trump is visiting the golf courses he owns in Scotland. And while the appearance is jarring enough given that it comes amid his ongoing civil trial for rape as well as federal fraud charges, it’s also a reminder of just how much money he made from his international business while he was president. According to an analysis of his tax returns by CREW, Donald Trump made up to $160 million from international business dealings while he was serving as president of the United States.

“Throughout his time in office, President Trump, his family and his Republican allies repeatedly assured the public that his refusal to divest from his businesses wouldn’t lead to any conflicts of interest. Americans were promised that Trump would donate his salary, which he did, until maybe he didn’t—all while siphoning millions from taxpayers that more than offset his presidential pay. When it came to foreign conflicts of interest, Trump and his company pledged to pause foreign business. They did not,” Rebecca Jacobs and Robert Maguire wrote for CREW.
Carroll alleges that Trump defamed her when he denied her rape claim.
By Aaron Katersky

A businesswoman testified Tuesday in E. Jean Carroll's civil defamation and battery case against former President Donald Trump that Trump had groped her during a flight to New York in 1979, in what Carroll's attorneys said showed a pattern of behavior on Trump's part.

Jessica Leeds is one of two women who the court has ruled are allowed to testify about prior alleged assaults by Trump, who is accused by Carroll of defaming the former Elle magazine columnist in a 2022 Truth Social post by calling her allegations "a Hoax and a lie" and saying "This woman is not my type!" when he denied her claim that Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in the 1990s.

She added a charge of battery under a recently adopted New York law that allows adult survivors of sexual abuse to sue their alleged attacker regardless of the statute of limitations. Trump has denied all allegations that he raped Carroll or defamed her.
Story by Sarah K. Burris

The Scotsman is going after Donald Trump for pretending that Scotland is his homeland. It's been a few weeks since President Joe Biden got a warm reception from Ireland, where he met with leaders, celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Peace Agreement, and traced his family roots while serving as a U.S. president. In a campaign-style rally, Biden gave a speech in his ancestral hometown in west Ireland. He was heralded for coming out to a rousing song by the beloved American Celtic punk band "Dropkick Murphys."

Trump seems to be trying to copy the trip with his own trip to his ancestral homeland for his mother, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, who was officially given immigration papers in 1930. Unlike Biden, however, Trump isn't getting the same warm embrace. "It's great to be home!" Trump claimed. It's an ironic claim, The Scotsman noted it's "a bit rich coming from a US president infamous for separating children from their migrant parents."
Story by Andrew Herrig

12 Curious Facts About Donald Trump We Never Knew That Explain A Lot
Donald Trump is a controversial figure who has been in the public eye for many years. As a businessman, reality television star, and politician, he has attracted a lot of attention and scrutiny. Here are several mind-blowing facts about Donald Trump you probably haven’t heard. 1. Trump Was a Millionaire By Age 8 According to ...
Story by Joshua Wilburn

Awhistleblower who was fired from his position as executive VP at Donald Trump's Truth Social turned over 150,000 documents regarding the social media platform to federal investigators, RadarOnline.com has learned. 38-year-old Will Wilkerson oversaw the development of the conservative Twitter alternative — now he's reportedly working at a Starbucks in North Carolina for $16 an hour.

Wilkerson's cushy job with Trump, along with stock options to potentially make him a millionaire, all went down the drain after he decided to distance himself from Truth Social and warn investors in the company that they might be at risk of losing their investments. Despite the potential financial gain he had while working for Trump, Wilkerson said he was more focused on doing what he believes is "right."
Story by Tom Boggioni

Reacting to a New York Times report that investigators working for special counsel Jack Smith are focusing on evidence of wire fraud related to Donald Trump's 2020 presidential election loss, former prosecutor Glenn Kirschner suggested a conspiracy indictment might be forthcoming that encompasses those charges. Speaking with MSNBC's "The Saturday Show" host Jonathan Capehart, the former prosecutor claimed such charges were hinted at by a California judge last year.

According to the Times, "Led by the special counsel Jack Smith, prosecutors are trying to determine whether Mr. Trump and his aides violated federal wire fraud statutes as they raised as much as $250 million through a political action committee by saying they needed the money to fight to reverse election fraud even though they had been told repeatedly that there was no evidence to back up those fraud claims."
Story by Matthew Chapman

Former President Donald Trump met with convicted January 6 Capitol rioter, Micki Larson-Olson in New Hampshire Thursday, praising her and giving her a hug before signing her backpack, reported The Washington Post. "Listen, you just hang in there. You guys are gonna be okay," Trump told Larson-Olson, a Texas woman who was sentenced to 180 days in jail for resisting police orders last year.

According to NBC News' Vaughn Hillyard on Friday, Larson-Olson is unrepentant for her actions. And in an interview with Hillyard last year, she called for the execution of anyone who certified the 2020 election. "[Members of Congress] were domestic terrorist inside our Capitol, and I'm going to prove it in my trial," said Larson-Olson. "Our Congress that's been stealing elections for a very long time. Our country's been under admiralty law since 1871."

The admiralty law remark is a reference to a bizarre conspiracy theory pushed by the so-called "sovereign citizen" movement, which holds that the United States was secretly replaced with a private corporation in the 19th century and that individual people can legally declare themselves their own government and be immune from laws.
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Letter sent to Congress revealed more than Trump intended
In the wake of Donald Trump's history-making indictment on criminal charges of business fraud, US officials are honing in on the former president over the ongoing classified documents scandal, which centers on Trump's Mar-a-Lago home. The latest news to emerge about the case certainly makes for interesting reading. Trump's legal team has sent a letter to Congress in defense of the former president, however, its contents have disclosed some interesting revelations regarding the top-secret documents stowed away at the Florida estate. Click or scroll on to find out more...

Documents swept into boxes as Trump left the White House
In what appears to be a political move that backfired, Donald Trump's lawyers have revealed in a letter to the House and Senate intelligence committees that foreign leader briefings were among the classified papers taken from the White House to Mar-a-Lago at the end of Trump's presidential term. As reported by CNN, the discovery was made in a 10-page letter that called for the Justice Department to "stand down" their investigation. Trump's legal team tried to characterize the former president's retention of government documents as accidental, claiming White House staff likely swept paperwork from offices into boxes at random during the chaotic departure of the Trump administration. But in the process, Trump lawyers inadvertently exposed something altogether more surprising in their letter.
Story by Gideon Rubin

President Joe Biden’s announcement that he is seeking reelection drew an almost immediate reaction from Donald Trump, who released a video Tuesday morning riddled with factual errors, according to an analysis in The Washington Post.

Biden’s announcement, released in a video isn’t perfect from a fact-checking standpoint, The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler reports, noting that his assertion that “MAGA Republicans” want to cut social security doesn’t square with the current position GOP leaders hold. Trump’s reaction to Biden’s announcement, which he released in a video on his Truth Social website, features “one misleading attack after another,” Kessler writes.

Some of Trump’s false claims include his statement that “You could take the five worst presidents in American history, and put them together, and they would not have done the damage Joe Biden has done to our nation in just a few short years. Not even close,” is described by Kessler as “rhetorical overkill.”
Story by Zeleb.es

This is how much the former president made
Former President Donald Trump made roughly $160 million dollars from his business dealings outside the United States while in office according to a new corruption report.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is a nonprofit organization that investigates corruption in American politics and they just released a damning report on Trump’s international business dealings while president.
Story by Milla

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg got death threats soon after Donald Trump shared a disturbing post on his social media, Truth Social. Bragg received a letter with white powder and a note, “Alvin: I am going to kill you.” His office had received “offensive or threatening phone calls or emails.” But, Manhattan DA is not the only person who might be in danger.

Trump mocked peaceful protests and called for “destruction”
The former president warned of “potential death and destruction” if he was indicted in his Truth Social post. In it, he also accused “a degenerate psychopath that truly hates the USA!” Allegedly this part was about the DA. Bragg wrote to his staff, “We do not tolerate attempts to intimidate our office or threaten the rule of law in New York.”
Story by Hannah Rabinowitz

After months of legal battles, infighting between defense lawyers and dozens of rejected mistrial motions, the federal criminal trial against five Proud Boys accused of plotting to attack the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, moved to its final stage Monday.

One prosecutor and two defense attorneys gave their closing arguments to the Washington, DC, jury tasked with deciding whether Enrique Tarrio, Dominic Pezzola, Zachary Rehl, Joseph Biggs and Ethan Nordean are guilty of several federal crimes, including seditious conspiracy.

The Justice Department’s Conor Mulroe argued that the defendants stirred fellow members of the far-right Proud Boys toward violence in the lead up to January 6 and directed them that day to attack the iconic building.

Attorneys for Nordean and Rehl repeatedly said that the mountains of evidence only showed vulgar, stupid messages from their clients and violence from others in the crowd on January 6 – none of which amounted to the seditious conspiracy charge their clients face.
Story by Gideon Rubin

Donald Trump in 2012 allowed a non-binary beauty queen to compete in his Miss Universe competition, a move that comes in stark contrast to the rhetoric he now routinely uses and the current attitude of the Republican party.

Trump in 2012 overturned a decision by the Miss Universe organization disqualifying 23-year-old Jenna Talackova, a Canadian model who the group wanted to ban from the competition, saying she isn’t a “naturally born” female, Fox News reports.

Trump in an announcement that he was allowing Talackova to compete for Miss Canada said the decision brought his group in compliance with Canadian law. "We let her in," Trump said in an April 4, 2012 video.
Opinion by Robert Reich

The most obvious question in American politics today should be: why is the guy who committed treason just over two years ago allowed to run for president?

Answer: he shouldn’t be.
Remember? Donald Trump lost re-election but refused to concede and instead claimed without basis that the election was stolen from him, then pushed state officials to change their tallies, hatched a plot to name fake electors, tried to persuade the vice-president to refuse to certify electoral college votes, sought access to voting-machine data and software, got his allies in Congress to agree to question the electoral votes and thereby shift the decision to the House of Representatives, and summoned his supporters to Washington on the day electoral votes were to be counted and urged them to march on the US Capitol, where they rioted.

This, my friends, is treason.
But Trump is running for re-election, despite the explicit language of section three of the 14th amendment to the constitution, which prohibits anyone who has held public office and who has engaged in insurrection against the United States from ever again serving in public office.
Jury will hear writer E Jean Carroll’s civil claim that Trump assaulted her in 1990s – could this case finally bring a reckoning?
Chris McGreal in New York

Donald Trump won’t be there to see it, but the former US president’s deeply tarnished reputation may be about to take another serious hit as a New York jury decides whether he is a rapist. E Jean Carroll, a former advice columnist and author, will finally get her day in court this week, nearly three decades after she alleges that Trump pinned her against the wall of a New York department store and sexually assaulted her.

Carroll is suing Trump for damages under a recent New York state law opening a one-year window for adult victims of sexual assault to file civil cases after the statute of limitations has expired. Jury selection is scheduled to begin in a Manhattan court on Tuesday.
Story by Tom Boggioni

Reacting to a CNN report that Trump operatives were making plans to use breached voting data to not only undercut the 2020 presidential election results but also to give the GOP control of the Senate, one legal analyst stated the former president's legal woes have just grown exponentially worse. Speaking with host Fredricka Whitfield, former prosecutor Michael Zeldin claimed multiple laws at the state and federal level may have been broken.

As CNN reported on Friday, "The plot to breach voting systems in Coffee County, coordinated by members of Trump’s legal team including Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, is part of a broader criminal investigation into 2020 election interference led by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis," before adding, "Willis’ office is weighing a potential racketeering case against multiple defendants and is actively deciding who to bring charges against, sources tell CNN. Willis has subpoenaed a number of individuals involved in the Coffee County breach, including the two men who carried it out who were in touch with [Jim] Penrose and [Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug] Logan."
Story by Alice Cattley

How Frederick Trump changed the course of America
Donald Trump might seem as all-American as it’s possible to be, but just over 150 years ago the Trump clan lived modestly in the German state of Bavaria.

The family real estate empire was kickstarted by the former US president’s paternal grandfather Frederick, who emigrated to America aged 16. From running a brothel to succumbing to one of the world’s deadliest pandemics, read on to discover the incredible story of the man who bulit the foundations of the Trump business empire. All dollar values in US dollars.
Story by Gideon Rubin

A Georgia prosecutor investigating Donald Trump over allegations of election interference in 2020 has filed a motion that signals the case against those behind the fake electors and the former president himself is accelerating.

That’s according to legal analyst Norman Eisen, who writes in a column for MSNBC that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ recent motion to remove an attorney representing the fake electors “appear ominous for the defense lawyers involved — and signal accelerating accountability for fake elector ringleaders.”

Willis in a court filing Tuesday alleged that attorney Kimberly Bourroughs Debrow represents an elector who violated Georgia election law. Willis’ office reached that determination after interviewing some of the electors last week.

"The motion’s claims appear ominous for the defense lawyers involved — and signal accelerating accountability for fake elector ringleaders," Eisen writes in a column published under the headline “A new clue in the Fani Willis investigation.”
Story by Brandon Gage

Former President Donald Trump released a new video on Thursday in which he attempted to downplay an exclusive Daily Beast report that a massive tax deduction that he received on one of his vacant properties may have been obtained fraudulently.

Trump is currently facing a $250 million civil fraud lawsuit in New York, which is just one of the many legal predicaments that are shadowing his run for the presidency in 2024. But what The Daily Beast uncovered about his Seven Springs estate could further deepen his woes.

The Daily Beast's Jose Pagliery revealed:
According to Trump's latest financial disclosures, the tax deduction Trump got from reserving the property for conservation—which investigators say reduced his tax bill by more than $3.5 million—still far outweighs the paltry income it keeps bringing him every year. And the whole situation may play right into the hands of the New York attorney general who is going after Trump for inflating his company's portfolio and using the tax code to bail out failed investments.
Story by Travis Gettys

The latest financial disclosures filed by Donald Trump raise new questions about a large tax break he got on a Batman-like estate north of New York City. The former president reduced his tax bill on the land listed as Seven Springs LLC by more than $3.5 million in 2015, when he first entered politics, and new filings show the property earned him less than $2,500 in the form of a vaguely labeled "rebate," although he valued the land at $50 million, reported The Daily Beast.

“There has been an enormous amount of valuation abuse," said Nancy Assaf McLaughlin, a national expert on conservation easements, who was speaking generally because she did not know the details of Trump's property. "People will come up with a ‘before value’ that exceeds anything a willing buyer would pay, using ‘subdivision development analysis’ and coming up with a hypothetical subdivision of lots." “It has no relation to what somebody would actually pay you for that property on the open market," added McLaughlin, a law professor at the University of Utah. “Income tax deduction is inappropriately lucrative in those cases."
Story by Peter Suciu

It is easy to see why America First has a real appeal to many Americans. And it should. It suggests that we need to think about our roads, our schools, our future, and our place in the world in the 21st century. For too long, it may seem that we've put off caring about our interests while sending billions in aid to the "developing world."

It is also true that we continue to aid nations that sometimes aren't always that friendly to our interests. However, an America First policy also fails to accept that we are part of a global community, part of a global economy, and that we're a nation of immigrants who came to these lands in search of a better life.
Sarah K. Burris

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) was in New York on Monday, claiming that he sought to get to the bottom of violent crime in New York City. However, New York isn't the place with the highest violent crime in the U.S. — it's one of just two counties in America where the district attorney is conducting an investigation that could cost Donald Trump a lot in the end.

Speaking to MSNBC's Joy Reid, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen explained that when Jordan announced his so-called "weaponization in government" panel, he was hopeful he would see a reckoning for some of the unethical and possibly even illegal things that happened to him at the hands of Trump's Justice Department. Instead, Cohen said, it's been a joke.

"I think it's a waste of time. A waste of New York taxpayer dollars," Cohen said about the "field hearing" in NYC, paid for at tax-payer expense. "It's a political stunt designed in order for Jim Jordan to show his 'supreme leader' that he is still loyal, still in the camp, and he's going to do his bidding," Cohen continued.
Story by Jose Pagliery

The fake GOP electors in Georgia that former President Donald Trump recruited as part of his failed attempt to stay in power are starting to point fingers at each other, court documents revealed on Tuesday. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, the Atlanta-area prosecutor who’s investigating Trump’s effort to upend American democracy there, laid out the details in a legal memo to a state judge—one that hints at criminal indictments to come.

According to the memo, prosecutors in July last year dangled immunity deals for “alternate electors” who were willing to cooperate with the investigation—but their defense lawyer is now accused of never telling them about the potential deal. Following a special purpose grand jury recommendation in December that the DA seek indictments against some people involved in the fraudulent scheme, investigators have turned up the pressure.
Story by Paul Brandus

I presume Donald Trump is innocent of the 34 felony charges that have been leveled against him by New York authorities. I say this not because I like the former president — I don’t. I say it because in America, every person accused of a crime (or 34 of them) is entitled to the presumption of innocence. That’s how our system works. It isn’t up to Trump to prove his innocence. It’s up to prosecutors to prove his guilt. If they have the goods on him, then I say bring it, and let the chips fall where they may.

That Trump seems stunned by these charges isn’t surprising. The felonies he’s accused of — falsifying business records — are white-collar crimes, which in his mind are not real crimes. Or at least not crimes that are given much priority by the U.S. legal system. In the U.S. white-collar criminals not always but generally get away with everything from tax evasion, bribery, money laundering, dabbling with mobsters and more. Trump himself has been accused of each of these violations over the years, but never formally indicted on anything.

Note that I said white-collar criminals generally get away with their scams. Of course there have been high-profile cases that sent crooks like Ponzi-scammer Bernie Madoff, junk-bond fraudster Michael Milken and Enron felons Kenneth Lay and Jefrey Skilling to the slammer. But for every sleaze like these, undoubtedly many more get away with it. In fact, prosecution of white-collar crime in the U.S. has been sliding for years. Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) project reports that corporate- and white-collar prosecutions at the federal level hit an all-time low in 2022.
Story by Alex Henderson

Countless pundits, discussing the 2024 presidential election and former President Donald Trump’s legal problems, have argued that the United States finds itself in "uncharted territory." Never before in the U.S. history has a former president been indicted on 34 criminal counts, arrested and arraigned while running for president again and facing multiple criminal and civil investigations.

The 34-count prosecution from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr. is separate from the two federal criminal investigations that Trump is facing from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and special counsel Jack Smith and the state criminal investigation being conducted by Fulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis. Meanwhile, New York State Attorney General Letitia James has been conducting a civil probe of the Trump Organization's financial activities.

In an opinion column published by MSNBC's website on April 14, legal analyst Jordan Rubin zeros in on one aspect of Smith's investigation of Trump and the January 6, 2021 insurrection: wire fraud.
Story by Igor Derysh

Special counsel Jack Smith's team has sought a wide range of documents related to former President Donald Trump's fundraising after the 2020 election to determine whether he scammed supporters for donations, eight sources told The Washington Post.

Smith's team investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack sent subpoenas in recent weeks to Trump advisers, former campaign aides, Republican operatives and other consultants involved in the 2020 campaign, according to the report. Some of the people have also been interviewed before a grand jury in D.C. The probe is focused on Trump's fundraising after the election until he left office on Jan. 20, 2021, when he raised millions by pushing election lies.
Story by David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement

Dept. of Justice investigators for Special Counsel Jack Smith have been asking witnesses if Donald Trump showed off a map that contains sensitive national security information. One noted legal expert says it could mean DOJ might be considering charges against the ex-president under the Espionage Act.

“The nature of the map and the information it contained is not clear,” The New York Times reports. “One person briefed on the matter said investigators have asked about Mr. Trump showing the map while aboard a plane. Another said that, based on the questions they were asking, investigators appeared to believe that Mr. Trump showed the map to at least one adviser after leaving office.”

“A third person with knowledge of the investigation said the map might also have been shown to a journalist writing a book. The Washington Post has previously reported that investigators have asked about Mr. Trump showing classified material, including maps, to political donors.”
Story by Rebecca Shabad and Daniel Barnes

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump filed a lawsuit in federal court on Wednesday against his former lawyer Michael Cohen — who has emerged as a key witness in the criminal case against the former president — seeking more than $500 million in damages for alleged "breaches of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment, conversion, and breaches of contract." Cohen was the key witness to testify last month before a Manhattan grand jury, which then approved a 34-count indictment against Trump. The former president has denied any wrongdoing.

The complaint accuses Cohen of violating his attorney-client relationship with Trump by publicly disclosing information about the former president and “spreading falsehoods about [Trump], likely to be embarrassing or detrimental, and partook in other misconduct in violation of New York Rules of Professional Conduct.”

The former president has “suffered vast reputational harm as a direct result of Defendant’s breaches,” Trump’s lawyer Alejandro Brito wrote in the complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Story by David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement

Donald Trump says the greatest problem facing America is its own “sick radical people,” a claim critics, historians, and political experts are labeling clear fascism. The one-term ex-president, running his third consecutive campaign for the White House while currently under criminal felony indictment, sat down with far-right Fox News host Tucker Carlson Tuesday.

“I often say, they said to me the other day, one of your fellow journalists said, ‘Who is the biggest problem? Sir is it China? Could it be Russia? Could it be North Korea?'” Trump told Carlson. “I said the biggest problem is from within. It’s the sick radical people from within,” Trump declared, presumably referring to Democrats and anyone who opposes him.
Story by Tom Boggioni

Citing new polling that shows more and more American believe Donald Trump should be prosecuted for his crimes, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough warned the former president that his incessant complaints that he is the victim of a "witch hunt" are increasingly falling on deaf ears. On Monday, the "Morning Joe" host explained that, less than a week after Trump was slammed with a 34 felony count indictment in Manhattan, his support already cratered.

With co-host Mika Brzezinski prompting that new polling shows, "More Americans agree with the charges," Scarborough interjected, "So with all of these charges, just crazy talk this week -- these Truth Social tweets that he did." "Actually the number of Americans who believe he should be indicted went up 5 percent this week," he continued before admitting he was unimpressed with the Manhattan indictment.
Opinion by Ray Hartmann

Two recently published books – one on the Ku Klux Klan, the other on David Koresh – provide timely context for understanding the phenomenon of Donald Trump, writes journalist Bill Lueders at The Bulwark. The books are: “Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco” by Stephan Talty; and “A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over American and the Woman Who Stopped Them” by Timothy Egan.

Along with favorably reviewing the new titles, Lueders offers them up as context for understanding Trump. “Part of what makes these two books about terrible episodes in U.S. history relevant is the insight they offer on an important contemporary subject—namely, the persona and phenomenon of Donald Trump and other authoritarians who continue to find their way onto the world stage,” writes Lueders.
The right is the kings of cancel culture. The right is canceling 1st amendment rights, books, people rights, business rights, voter’s rights and each other

Story by Alice Cattley

Trump's blacklist
Donald Trump isn’t a fan of what he describes as the left’s “woke cancel culture". But in April 2021 – when Republicans in Georgia introduced a restrictive new voting law known as SB 202 – the former president did some canceling all of his own, encouraging Americans to boycott certain brands that spoke out against the state.

This was nothing new. For years, Trump has been enthusiastically blacklisting everything from department store Macy's to his beloved Coca-Cola. But has he put his money where his mouth is? Read on to discover the products and brands he wants people to avoid and, if known, whether he's managed to avoid them himself.
Story by Dave Levinthal, Editor-in-Chief

For decades, former President Donald Trump has hated paying bills, be them business or political. He especially hated the kind he felt he didn't have to pay. Notably, these include police and public safety expense invoices — now collectively worth millions of dollars — that many municipal governments fruitlessly sent his presidential campaign after Trump swept into their towns to stage mass political rallies.

So when Trump wanted to conduct an "unprecedented" 2024 presidential campaign rally on March 25 in Waco, Texas, municipal officials there didn't dawdle in ensuring the former president's committee would cover tens of thousands of dollars in unanticipated city expenses, according to government documents obtained by Raw Story through a Texas Public Information Act request. Knowing full well they had legal leverage over Trump — Trump's requested rally venue was the city-owned Waco Regional Airport — the city manager and city attorney's office made the Trump campaign sign a binding 10-page contract eight days before his event.
Story by Patricia Hurtado

(Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina may have a conflict of interest because Stormy Daniels shared “confidences” with him about her sexual encounter with the former president, a lawyer for the adult-film star said.

Daniels is at the center of a hush-money case against Trump, who pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records at his company related to $130,000 he paid to buy her silence.

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg claims Trump wanted to bury damaging information to boost his electoral prospects in 2016 and directed his then-lawyer Michael Cohen to pay Daniels. Trump repaid Cohen in installments, which were recorded as legal expenses in his records.
Story by Connor Surmonte

Donald Trump called on the Republican-controlled Congress to defund the police shortly after his historic arrest in New York this week, RadarOnline.com has learned.

On Wednesday morning, just hours after the embattled ex-president was charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon, Trump took to his social media platform to lash out about his indictment and subsequent arraignment.

“Almost every legal and political analyst has said that the unfair and morally disgusting Indictment filed against me yesterday has NO MERIT, and is not even a case,” he wrote on Truth Social at 7:14 AM. “There was no crime and, anyway, the Statute of Limitations has been violated by many years,” he added.
Story by Matthew Chapman

Former President Donald Trump returned to Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday evening for a speech trashing the criminal case against him in New York. But at the beginning of the speech, during a rant about Democrats, Trump did something unusual — he admitted that he actually lost the 2020 presidential election, while alleging that Democrats kept information away from voters that would have changed the result.
Story by Dylan Wells, Shayna Jacobs, David Nakamura, Jacqueline Alemany

NEW YORK — In the city that made him famous, under extraordinary courtroom security, Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 34 felony counts related to payments to silence an adult film actress during his 2016 presidential campaign. He is the first former or sitting U.S. president to be criminally charged.

The charges — falsifying business records in the first degree — were announced at an arraignment hearing Tuesday afternoon. The indictment has not yet been released, so the precise details of the charges have not been made public, but that should happen later Tuesday.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was investigating reimbursement payments Trump made to his then-lawyer, Michael Cohen, who in 2016 paid $130,000 to actress Stephanie Clifford, known professionally as Stormy Daniels, to prevent her from disclosing an alleged sexual encounter years earlier with then-candidate Trump.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will charge Trump with falsification of business records, a source told Yahoo News.
Michael Isikoff·Chief Investigative Correspondent

Donald Trump will be placed under arrest on Tuesday and informed that he has been charged with 34 felony counts for falsification of business records, according to a source who has been briefed on the procedures for the arraignment of the former president.

A New York City police arrest report summarizing the charges against Trump will then be prepared and entered into the court system before he is led into a courtroom to be formally arraigned on the charges, none of which are misdemeanors.

But, the source said, Trump will not be put in handcuffs, placed in a jail cell or subjected to a mug shot — typical procedures even for white-collar defendants until a judge has weighed in on pretrial conditions. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office, which has been consulting with the Secret Service and New York City court officials, concluded there was no reason to subject the former president to handcuffs or a mug shot.
Story by Navdeep Yadav

Multiple U.S. Secret Service agents are reportedly set to testify as part of a federal inquiry into Former President Donald Trump‘s improper handling of classified documents. What Happened: Fox News’s Bret Baier on Monday said on Twitter that “multiple” Secret Service agents connected to Trump have been subpoenaed and are “expected to testify before the D.C. grand jury likely on Friday.” “The grand jury appearances are related to the Special Counsel Jack Smith probe into the handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago,” Baier tweeted.
Story by Travis Gettys

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough mocked Donald Trump for serving up damning evidence during an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity. The former president insisted during an interview Tuesday night that he had every right to stash classified documents at his home at Mar-a-Lago after leaving the White House. The "Morning Joe" host noted with astonishment Monday that Trump blundered through Hannity's efforts to run cover.
Story by Sarah K. Burris

The Washington Post reported Sunday afternoon that more evidence might have become available to prove obstructions of justice for the theft of the government documents taken back to Mar-a-Lago. Trump refused to turn the documents over for nearly a year when the Justice Department and FBI got involved. The FBI was then given an envelope with additional documents, but that still wasn't everything. Ultimately, the DOJ got a search warrant and went to Mar-a-Lago to get the documents.

According to the fresh evidence, there is more that has been discovered pointing to former President Donald Trump's obstructions of justice, those familiar told the Post. "The additional evidence comes as investigators have used emails and text messages from a former Trump aide to help understand key moments last year," the report explained, citing the sources. Special counsel Jack Smith is at work on the documents case as well as anything around the Jan. 6 attack.

CNN's Daniel Dale debunks claims that Donald Trump and his allies have been making about New York's crime rate, and their attempts to tie the former president's indictment to liberal billionaire George Soros.
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