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☆ Opinion: Trump is going to have to sell a lot of sneakers to pay his judgments
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-19 | by ( Dean Obeidallah | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Are you looking for a gold-colored pair of high-top sneakers that will show your devotion to former President Donald Trump? These latest Trump offerings may not seem destined to have more success than Trump’s failed business ventures, such as his Trump Vodka and Trump Steaks. In the fourth quarter of 2023, Trump’s presidential campaign raised a paltry $19 million — down significantly from the $25 million the campaign raised in the third quarter of 2023. (By contrast, President Joe Biden’s campaign raised $33 million in the fourth quarter of 2023.) (Incidentally, the website that sells “President Trump’s Official Sneaker” does not disclose where the shoes are manufactured.)

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☆ Fraud like nobody's watching: Trump was probed for 5 years, and still wouldn't clean up his act
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-18 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Donald Trump's fraud verdict targets three things he values dearly: his cash, his New York business address, and the Trump Organization steering wheel. Otherwise, as Engoron noted in his verdict, Trump, his company, and his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, "are likely to continue their fraudulent ways." In previous years, Trump has settled allegations of fraud involving the Trump Foundation, Trump University, and the 2017 Inaugural Committee, Amer pointed out in closings. The same day James concluded her initial investigation and filed her massive Trump fraud lawsuit, on September 21, 2022, Trump incorporated "Trump Organization II" in what her office worried was an attempt to shift and protect assets. Advertisement"In short," they added, Trump and Trump Organization leadership "have proven themselves incapable, time and again, of following the law."

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☆ Trump receives mixed reception as he launches $400 gold sneakers day after $355 million court ruling
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-18 | by ( Nathan Rennolds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Read previewFormer President Donald Trump made a surprise appearance at "Sneaker Con" in Philadelphia on Saturday. The shiny gold "Never Surrender High-Tops" features an American flag on the back and a capital "T" on the side. They are available on a website selling Trump cologne and other Trump-branded shoes. Trump getting booed at Sneaker Con while trying to sell Trump Shoes for $399.00. AdvertisementTrump claimed last year that he had more than $400 million in cash at his disposal.

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☆ Haley calls Trump’s NATO comments ‘bone-chilling’ and empowering to Putin
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-18 | by ( Aileen Graef | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley called former President Donald Trump’s recent NATO comments “bone-chilling” and empowering to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “NATO was busted until I came along,” Trump said at a rally in Conway, South Carolina, Haley’s home state. “He sided with a guy that kills his political opponents. Her comments came a day after Trump was fined $355 million in his New York civil fraud trial. The former president was also recently ordered in a defamation case to pay $83 million to E. Jean Carroll, and he faces four criminal indictments.

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☆ Trump launches sneaker line a day after judge’s order to pay nearly $355 million
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-17 | by ( Kate Sullivan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Former President Donald Trump on Saturday launched a sneaker line, a day after he and his companies were ordered by a judge to pay nearly $355 million in his New York civil fraud trial. The former president unveiled “Trump Sneakers” at Sneaker Con in Philadelphia. Trump Sneakers are not designed, manufactured, distributed or sold by Donald J. Trump, The Trump Organization or any of their respective affiliates or principals. On Thursday, a New York state judge confirmed that the former president’s criminal trial in a hush money case will begin March 25. A day later, Trump and his companies were ordered to pay nearly $355 million for fraudulently inflating the values of his properties.

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☆ For Donald Trump, the Recriminations Will Be Televised
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-17 | by ( James Poniewozik | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The civil-fraud case against Donald J. Trump’s businesses in New York, in which he was ordered to pay a penalty of $355 million, was not televised. In each case, Mr. Trump has sought out the cameras, or brought in his own, to offer a stream-of-consciousness heave of legal complaints and re-election arguments. To TV producers, because Mr. Trump is a former president, a candidate and high-profile defendant, his on-camera tirades are news. Mr. Trump’s appearances give them sound, fury and B-roll. At the same time, Mr. Trump gets the kind of unfiltered access to the airwaves that networks were, once upon a brief time, wary of giving a candidate notorious for fabrications and conspiracy theories.

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☆ Judge Engoron’s ruling: What will it mean for Donald Trump’s businesses?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-17 | by ( Jeanne Sahadi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

There is still a lot to parse from the ruling and its potential impact on Trump’s business empire, but here’s what we know so far. And Trump himself might have been permanently barred from the New York state real estate industry, something James had requested. The ruling extended the monitor’s role “for no less than three years.”That new governance structure is the reason Judge Engoron cited for not cancelling the Trumps’ business certificates. “The court’s decision to impose governing requirements [on Trump’s businesses] makes the injunction more likely to survive appeal,” Thomas said. First, at the Appellate Division and then at the New York State Court of Appeals.

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The website says it has no connection to Trump's campaign, though Trump campaign officials promoted the appearance in online posts. Trump's appearance was met with clashing boos from his detractors and chants of “USA!” from supporters who arrived at the sneaker event decked out in Trump gear. The attendees skewed younger and more diverse than Trump's usual rally crowds and some black attendees were seen leaving as Trump spoke. Trump's campaign is hoping he will be able to win over more young and minority voters, particularly young Black men, in a likely rematch against President Joe Biden in November. The new sneaker website says it is run by CIC Ventures LLC, a company that Trump reported owning in his 2023 financial disclosure.

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☆ Nikki Haley says Trump wants to 'control' the RNC and use it as a 'piggy bank' for his legal battles
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-17 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

"We see him trying to get control of the RNC, so he can continue not to have to pay his own legal fees,” she told CNN. Trump's fundraising committees spent roughly $50 million in 2023 on legal fees, FEC filings show. I don't want the RNC to become his piggy bank for his personal court cases," Haley said. “Now we see him trying to get control of the RNC so he can continue not to have to pay his own legal fees,” Haley continued. "All of that is so that he has an arm to pay his legal fees.

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☆ Trump’s crushing fraud trial defeat is a microcosm of a life defined by breaking all the rules
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-17 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Practically, Engoron’s decision will impose severe financial and personal strain on Trump as he’s emerging as the almost certain Republican presidential nominee. “He’s already said he’s going to spend most of this year in a courtroom, not on a campaign trail. Flouted rules, new realities and a busted legal strategyTrump’s belief that the rules are for others defines his business and political life. Yet this refusal to ever admit defeat also appears to be leading Trump into dangerous legal territory. His flawed philosophy that in business and life, it’s all about closing one more deal, means that even crushing defeats like the 2020 election and his fraud trial cannot change him.

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Trump, meanwhile, has been working to appeal to the blue-collar and union voters who were critical to his victory in 2016. But Trump was again most focused on his grievances, opening with a 15-minute screed about the criminal and civil cases against him. With interest payments, Trump’s legal debts might now exceed a half-billion dollars — an amount it is unclear whether or not Trump can afford to pay. Trump lost the county to Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Biden in 2020, both times by eight percentage points. The remaining 39 will be distributed by precinct delegates at a Michigan GOP state convention on March 2.

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☆ Opinion | How Trump Turns His Courtroom Losses Into Wins
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Andrea Bernstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The ruling comes just weeks after a jury, in a defamation case brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll, ordered Mr. Trump to pay $83.3 million — also for lying. That’s on top of two previous jury findings: Mr. Trump’s company was found guilty of 17 felonies, including fraud, and an earlier Carroll civil jury ordered him to pay $5 million for sexual assault and another act of defamation. Mr. Trump is appealing all the verdicts. But even more so is the continuity between how, in the past months, Mr. Trump has practiced exactly what he’s on trial for right in front of us, in the courtrooms, in a way that once again has benefited his brand. Shortly after Engoron’s ruling hit the docket, one of Mr. Trump’s lawyers, Alina Habba, said he would appeal.

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The decision also bans Trump from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation, bans his two adult sons from serving for two years and fines his two adult sons $4 million. The blistering decision from Judge Arthur Engoron effectively eviscerates the business empire Trump built over decades – an empire that fed his ego, cemented his brand and ultimately propelled the real estate mogul to the world’s most powerful political position. “In order to borrow more and at lower rates, defendants submitted blatantly false financial data to the accountants, resulting in fraudulent financial statements," Engoron wrote. Here, despite the false financial statements, it is undisputed that defendants have made all required payments on time; the next group of lenders to receive bogus statements might not be so lucky. New York means business in combating business fraud.”Engoron anticipated finalizing his decision on damages by the end of January, but two new issues emerged that ultimately delayed the decision.

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CHICAGO (AP) — The cause of death for a 5-year-old Venezuelan boy who died in December after becoming ill at a temporary shelter for migrants in Chicago was sepsis and a bacterial infection that causes strep throat, an autopsy released Friday shows. Jean Carlos Martinez died Dec. 17 as a result of sepsis due to streptococcus pyogenes group A infection, which can cause strep throat and other life-threatening illnesses, the autopsy released by the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office showed. Contributing factors in his death were listed as COVID-19, adenovirus and rhinovirus, the autopsy showed. The boy was a resident at a warehouse retrofitted as a shelter in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood when he suffered a medical emergency, the city has said. Earlier this month, hundreds of asylum-seekers still awaited placement at airports and police stations in Chicago, some of them still camped on sidewalks outside precinct buildings.

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CNN —Judge Arthur Engoron hit Donald Trump with his biggest punishment to date on Friday, in a ruling that fined the former president $355 million for fraudulently inflating the values of his properties. Combined with the $83 million judgment issued against Trump for defaming E. Jean Carroll, that means Trump has been fined roughly $438 million over the past four weeks. Engoron found that the defendants’ fraud saved them about $168 million in interest, fining Trump and his companies that amount. “Overall, Donald Trump rarely responded to the questions asked, and he frequently interjected long, irrelevant speeches on issues far beyond the scope of the trial,” Engoron wrote. properties that offered a much lower valuation than reported on Donald Trump’s financial statements.

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☆ Judge expected to issue ruling in Trump business fraud trial Friday
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Former President Donald Trump prepares to testify during his trial in New York State Supreme Court on November 06, 2023 in New York City. The ruling from Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron is expected to be announced Friday afternoon. A judge could deliver a hammer blow to Donald Trump and his company when he issues a decision in the New York civil trial accusing the former president of years of business fraud. But Trump and the other defendants were found liable for fraud by Engoron before the trial even began. In a bombshell pre-trial ruling, Engoron granted summary judgment on James' main cause of action — that the defendants committed fraud in violation of New York law.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump's legal debts might now exceed a half-billion dollars. The verdict in the civil fraud trial requires Trump to pay interest on some of the deal profits he has been ordered to give up. As part of Friday’s ruling, the judge also ordered both of Trump’s sons to pay $4 million apiece. Last month, he was ordered to pay nearly $400,000 in legal fees to The New York Times after suing the newspaper unsuccessfully. Under the judge's ruling Friday, Trump would still be liable to pay even if the Trump Organization declares bankruptcy.

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☆ Opinion: Don’t misread Trump’s loss in his civil trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Opinion David Orentlicher | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Even among all Americans, Trump seems to be doing better. Instead of leading many voters to distrust Trump, the legal cases are leading voters to distrust the legal system. It’s important for the public to feel that the Trump prosecutions are legitimate. For many Americans, all of these distortions validate their sense that the Trump prosecutions are partisan. As they erode public trust, public officials solidify Trump’s support.

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☆ 'Stop interrupting me': Judge loses patience with Trump lawyer who tries to move back 'hush-money' trial because ex-president is too busy
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

At a hearing, they repeatedly pushed to move the criminal trial, scheduled for March. So is the judge who will oversee his first criminal trial. Apart from the Manhattan case, Trump faces two other criminal trials over his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, in Georgia and Washington, DC. He also has a pending criminal case in Florida, over his taking government records with him when he left the office of the presidency. Donald Trump inside Manhattan Criminal Court for a hearing on his felony hush money case on Feb. 15, 2024.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump 's unprecedented tangle of overlapping trials was on full display Thursday with simultaneous court hearings in New York and Georgia. Tuesday's hearings previewed what a general election campaign will look like as Trump flies back and forth from courtrooms and campaign rallies and blurs the lines between the two. JUGGLING ACTThe New York trial will last about six weeks, according to Merchan. Asked how he planned to balance the campaign trail with the trial, Trump told reporters he'll campaign in the evening. Throughout his campaign, Trump has kept a far lighter campaign schedule than most of his Republican rivals.

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Among other things, he denied a motion from Trump to dismiss the case and set parameters for jury selection. "At this point, I can inform you that we're moving ahead with jury selection on March 25," he told the court. The Week in Cartoons Feb. 12-16 View All 17 Images“There was a tendency to disparage this case as being the least important – it’s just hush money. Trump denies any wrongdoing and has said that the payments to Cohen were simply reimbursements for legal expenses. “I was probably the only one who didn’t see it that way and felt like I was fighting an uphill battle.

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☆ Trump lawyers don't want prospective jurors in 'hush-money' case to be asked if 2020 election was stolen
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Todd Blanche, the lead attorney representing Trump in the case, said that jurors should not be asked whether they believe the 2020 election — which Trump lost to now-President Joe Biden — was "stolen." Ahead of the 2016 election, Trump sought to keep Daniels — an adult film actor whose real name is Stephanie Clifford — quiet about an affair she says she had with him. It will also be the first time a former president has ever sat for a criminal trial. Blanche asked Merchan to take a fresh look at the questions jurors should be asked. AdvertisementLast year, Trump went through a three-month civil trial in Manhattan for a case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James.

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The vast majority — nearly $40 million — went to law firms working on his personal legal problems. But significant portions of their donations went to law firms defending Trump in civil cases involving his real-estate empire and its top executives, including Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump. Only about $861,000 was spent on law firms working exclusively on political issues. Where there were gaps, we contacted law firms and individual lawyers who received money from the PACs. In 2021 and 2022 combined, Trump spent $16 million on legal fees through the Save America PAC.

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Children and grandchildren of former U.S. Sen. Jean Carnahan of Missouri recalled her wit, curiosity, kindness and hard work during a public memorial service on Saturday. Carnahan, 90, died Jan. 30 in hospice care in suburban St. Louis after a short illness. “In the last few days, as if preparing to be shot out of the cannon, Mom told us, ‘I’m ready to blast out,’” one of her sons, Russ Carnahan, said to hundreds gathered at The Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Another son, Tim Carnahan, told mourners that he has realized recently how much he wants to emulate his mother. “It means showing the world who you are by what you do and then doing it with passion.

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