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☆ Trump loses 'Electric Avenue' lawsuit as judge finds he has zero defense for tweeting the song
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

In Trump's case, Electric Avenue was used for a commercial purpose, not for an allowable non-profit, research, or educational purpose, the judge wrote. The second factor looks at whether the copyrighted work was "creative" or "factual." The third factor weighs how much of the copyrighted work was taken for an unauthorized use. AdvertisementThe final factor asks "whether, if the challenged use becomes widespread, it will adversely affect the potential market for the copyrighted work," the judge wrote. "In this case, there is no public benefit as a result of the defendants' use of 'Electric Avenue'" the judge wrote.

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☆ Trump lawyers are set to argue in court this week that the hit '80s song 'Electric Avenue' wasn't properly copyrighted
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-02 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Trump's lawyers are expected to argue that, for decades, Grant somehow neglected to copyright the sound recording, or "master," for "Electric Avenue." Trump's lawyers acknowledge that Grant copyrighted the sheet music 40 years ago. Trump's side may argue that even Grant has tacitly acknowledged that the sound-recording copyright for "Electric Avenue" was never properly nailed down. Two weeks ago, on August 15, Grant applied to the US Copyright Office "for a sound-recording copyright registration of Electric Avenue," a court filing says. AdvertisementAnd Grant has been deposed by Trump's lawyers, who asked the artist to "explain" the song.

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☆ Opinion | Liz Cheney: The Supreme Court Should Rule Swiftly on Trump’s Immunity Claim
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-22 | by ( Liz Cheney | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Donald Trump’s arguments that he is immune from prosecution for his efforts to steal the 2020 presidential election. Special counsel Jack Smith’s election-related indictment of Mr. Trump relies on many of the same firsthand witnesses. Although the special counsel reached a number of the same conclusions as the select committee, the indictment is predicated on a separate and independent investigation. The indictment and public reporting suggest that the special counsel was able to obtain key evidence our committee did not have. Public reporting also suggests that members of Mr. Trump’s Office of White House Counsel and other White House aides testified in full, without any limitations based on executive privilege, as did Vice President Mike Pence and his counsel.

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☆ Trump Media payday: What Truth Social executives got paid in stock and compensation
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-08 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

Those thresholds for the share price are well below where Trump Media stock was trading on Monday, when it closed at $37.17, down more than 8%. The filing disclosed that Trump Media awarded company stock to Nunes, chief financial officer Phillip Juhan, and chief operating officer Andrew Northwall. The three top executives, like Trump himself, are currently barred from selling any of their common stock in Trump Media for the next six months. CNBC asked a spokeswoman for Trump Media why promissory notes were used to grant stock to the executives. Legal battlesBesides Trump, the biggest shareholders in Trump Media are two corporate entities.

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☆ Factbox-Who Are Trump's Top Presidential Campaign Aides?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Feb. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +6 min

One of her first experiences, according to her LinkedIn profile, was working as deputy director of scheduling for Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign. Wiles was hired to help Trump's campaign win Florida in the 2016 election, securing a major upset against Democrat Hillary Clinton. He is a close confidant of the former president and a digital expert, recording videos of Trump's campaign appearances for use on social media. A longtime political strategist, Miller initially worked for Texas Senator Ted Cruz in the 2016 presidential campaign, which pitted him against Trump. Jack started out in the 2016 presidential campaign working for Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon who went on to become Housing and Urban Development Secretary in the Trump administration.

Persons: Donald Trump, SUSIE WILES, Chris LaCivita, Wiles, Ronald Reagan's, Reagan, Democrat Hillary Clinton, CHRIS LACIVITA LaCivita, LaCivita, Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, Paul, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, John Kerry, DAN SCAVINO Dan Scavino, Scavino, Trump, Dan, JASON MILLER Jason Miller, Miller, Ted Cruz, Cruz, STEVEN CHEUNG Steven Cheung, Jason Miller, Cheung, BRIAN JACK Brian Jack, Jack, Ben Carson, Carson, Alexandra Ulmer, Nathan Layne, Steve Holland, Ross Colvin, Pravin Char Organizations: Reuters, Republican Party's, Florida, Democrat, Jacksonville Jaguars, U.S . Marine, Republican, Republican National Committee, Trump, Make, PAC, Swift, Veterans, Trump's, CNN, Ultimate, ex, White House, Urban Development Locations: Florida, Wisconsin, Vietnam, Trump, Texas, California

☆ If You Can't Beat 'em, Impeach 'em
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Susan Milligan | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +7 min

Republicans want President Joe Biden out of office. And they've taken the clashes to an unprecedented new level: If you can't beat 'em, impeach 'em. "Secretary Mayorkas has brazenly refused to enforce the laws passed by Congress that knowingly made our country less safe. But Justice did not prosecute three other Republicans – White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark and former Trump Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino – whom the panel referred for legal action. "They're struggling to come up with the votes to impeach President Biden.

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ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia district attorney who charged former President Donald Trump over his efforts to overturn the state's 2020 election said Tuesday that she expects his trial will be underway through Election Day next year and could possibly stretch past the inauguration in 2025. Trump and the remaining defendants — including former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows — have all pleaded not guilty. And I don’t expect that we will conclude until the winter or the very early part of 2025,” Willis told the newspaper at the The Washington Post’s Global Women's Summit. Political Cartoons View All 1247 Images“I don’t, when making decisions about cases to bring, consider any election cycle or an election season. “The only salient and telling fact is that President Trump left the White House on January 20, 2021 and returned to Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.”

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☆ Fulton County prosecutors ask for emergency seal of evidence after video leak in election subversion case
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Nick Valencia | Jason Morris | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Portions of proffer videos – the legal term for videotaped conversations some of Trump’s co-defendants had with prosecutors – were leaked to several news outlets on Monday. The Fulton County district attorney’s office did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment about the emergency protective order or leaked videos. The videos provide some new details about efforts by those close to Trump to reverse the election in his favor. In the months since the motion, the district attorney’s office did not follow up to ask for an official ruling. “Instead, defendants must come to the District Attorney’s Office to view confidential video recordings of proffers.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump’s, –, Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro, bondsman Scott Hall, Fani Willis, Harrison Floyd’s, ” Todd Harding, Harding, Ellis, Dan Scavino, Trump, ’, ’ ” Ellis, Powell, Chesebro, “, ” Powell Organizations: Atlanta CNN, ABC News, The Washington Post, Trump, Fulton, White, Office Locations: Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Trump, Arizona, Fulton

New details unearthed in snippets of recorded interviews with four of Donald Trump’s co-defendants who pleaded guilty in the Georgia election interference case spell trouble for the former president and others indicted in the sprawling racketeering scheme. The confidential taped proffers with Fulton County prosecutors were leaked on Monday to ABC News and The Washington Post. “Whether you're talking about racketeering or you're talking about a drug conspiracy, the same principles always apply,” Copeland says. A lot of times the state looks bottom up – the smaller fish will talk about the bigger fish. “In this particular case, it really is an interesting assortment of folks who have come forward, especially from the attorneys' part,” she adds.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro, Scott Hall, Fani Willis, ”, Amy Lee Copeland, Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Powell, Chesebro, Joe Biden, Ellis, Dan Scavino, we’re, ’ ” Ellis, “ Ms, that’s, ” Copeland, Ellis ’, ’, Willis, We've, it's, Bob Chealy, “, codefendants, ” Willis Organizations: ABC News, The Washington Post, Trump, White Locations: Georgia, Fulton, Savannah, Arizona, Powell , Georgia, Coffee County

☆ Jenna Ellis' testimony about 'the boss' not wanting to leave office could be 'game over' for Trump, legal analyst says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Hannah Getahun | Katherine Tangalakis Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis said an advisor told her the president would not leave his post. AdvertisementAdvertisementA recent testimony from former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis could prove fatal to Donald Trump's defense, a legal analyst told CNN . Per Ellis, during the December 19 Christmas party, she had told Scavino that their cause was "essentially over." And he said 'Well, the boss', meaning President Trump — and everyone understood 'the boss,' that's what we all called him — he said, 'The boss is not going to leave under any circumstances. AdvertisementAdvertisementRepresentatives for Powell, Scavino, Trump, and Ellis did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider.

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Another source identified Trump Organization employee Yuscil Taveras as the unnamed computer specialist whose fees prosecutors said were paid by Trump's political group. Trump's legal spokesperson Alina Habba, who is also general counsel at Save America, did not respond to detailed questions on the payments. In July, after Save America reported its legal expenses to the Federal Election Commission, Cheung said Save America was helping people who had worked for Trump avoid "financial ruin." Asked how legal spending would affect his campaign, Trump told a SiriusXM podcast earlier this month: "Fortunately, I have a lot more money." Save America and the Trump campaign have not responded to requests for comment on the legal fee estimates.

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☆ Eddy Grant explained his song 'Electric Avenue' to Donald Trump's lawyers in a deposition. It did not go well.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-16 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

In 2020, singer Eddy Grant sued Donald Trump for using "Electric Avenue" in a campaign tweet. Trump's lawyers asked him to "explain" the song, a newly-public deposition transcript shows. Grant asked. Grant noted that "Electric Avenue," a common street name worldwide, is also the name of a street in the south London district. Like "heaven" and "hell," he explained, Electric Avenue is more of a concept than a location on a map.

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CNN —Former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro goes on trial Tuesday as the second ex-aide to former President Donald Trump to be prosecuted for criminal contempt of Congress. With the judge finding that Trump did not make a formal invocation of privilege, Navarro will be severely limited in the defenses he can put in front of the jury. It declined to prosecute former Trump White House officials Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino, who were also subpoenaed by the committee and referred by the House to the Justice Department for contempt. Navarro told reporters outside the courthouse last week that his legal bills, including appeals of the case, would exceed $1 million. This is the same suit I wore in 2017 going into the White House,” he said.

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☆ Fact Check-Photo shows police officers with Trump in June, not August
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Miscaptioned posts on social media say it shows Trump walking up to be taken into custody. It shows him walking up to the applauding officers with his arms raised to the side. Another photo from the same day shows Trump posing with the officers for a photo (here). Following the exchange with the officers, Trump continued on to the convention where he gave a speech (here), (here). The photo shows former U.S. President Donald J. Trump arriving in Columbus, Georgia, for the Georgia Republican Party Convention.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Fani Willis, Trump’s, Dan Scavino, Read Organizations: Georgia Republican Party Convention, Reuters Locations: Columbus, Atlanta, Fulton County , Georgia, Columbus , Georgia

☆ Live updates: Trump sent target letter in January 6 probe
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Shawna Mizelle | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The witnesses, several of whom appeared under subpoena, range from low-level aides to Trump’s own vice president. Both Pence and Trump asked for the subpoena to be thrown out, but trial and appellate judges rejected that request. Mark Meadows: Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff, appeared before the grand jury in June. As chief of staff, Meadows was in the middle of Trump’s efforts to overturn the election in the two months between Election Day and Joe Biden’s inauguration. Marc Short: Marc Short, former chief of staff to Pence, testified to the grand jury about the fake elector scheme and the role of Trump lawyers John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani.

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☆ Ron DeSantis praised Anthony Fauci for Covid response in spring 2020 for ‘really doing a good job’
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Andrew Kaczynski | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

And from Dr. Birx to Dr. Fauci to the vice president who’s worked very hard, the surgeon general, they’re really doing a good job. “Governor DeSantis would’ve fired Anthony Fauci.”In a news conference on Tuesday, DeSantis also acknowledged mistakes early in the pandemic. DeSantis, like Trump, later broke with Fauci over reopening Florida in July 2020, but he didn’t begin regularly harshly criticizing Fauci until spring 2021. Speaking at a news briefing on March 21, 2020, DeSantis made similar comments praising Fauci. “I would defer to people like Dr. Fauci,” DeSantis said on March 14, 2020.

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☆ Former Trump adviser Stephen Miller appears at D.C. federal court where Jan. 6 grand jury meets
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Rebecca Shabad | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Former Trump adviser Stephen Miller arrived Tuesday at the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., and was seen entering the area where the grand jury tied to special counsel Jack Smith's Jan. 6 investigation meets. The grand jury is investigating the role former President Donald Trump played in the Jan. 6 riot and efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. His appearance at the federal court comes after a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Meanwhile, Trump on Monday filed an appeal in federal court in an effort to block former Vice President Mike Pence from testifying before the federal grand jury. It's unclear when Pence would appear before the grand jury in Washington, a source familiar with the matter said last week.

☆ Trump's ex-chief of staff Mark Meadows and other top aides must provide more testimony for January 6 investigation, judge rules
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Mark Meadows and other Trump aides were ordered to offer more testimony to a grand jury investigating January 6. A federal judge dismissed Trump's claims of executive privilege in a sealed order last week. Some of them had appeared before the grand jury but declined to answer certain questions about their interactions with Trump, ABC reported. His legal team is expected to appeal Howell's order compelling his aides' testimony, according to ABC. Corcoran was previously ordered to provide more testimony for the investigation after a federal judge rejected his claims of attorney-client privilege.

☆ Judge declines Trump's bid to stop ex-aides from testifying before grand jury in Jan. 6 probe
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

President Donald Trump is seen on a screen speaking to supporters during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, January 6, 2021. A federal judge ordered ex-President Donald Trump's former aides, including his ex-chief of staff Mark Meadows, to testify before a grand jury in Washington, D.C., investigating Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, NBC News reported Friday. In a sealed order, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ruled against Trump's bid to block his aides from speaking to the grand jury on the grounds of executive privilege, people familiar with the matter told NBC. Trump is expected to appeal the ruling, which was filed in secret because it involves grand jury matters, according to NBC. Trump is also facing a legal threat in Georgia, where a Fulton County grand jury is investigating efforts by him and his allies to interfere in the 2020 election in that state.

☆ What Trump allies have faced criminal charges?
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Here is a look at some of the Trump aides and allies who have faced criminal prosecution. Weisselberg pleaded guilty in 2022 and served as a star witness in the Trump Organization's criminal trial on tax fraud charges. Two other close Trump associates, Mark Meadows and Daniel Scavino, did not face similar criminal charges despite a House vote recommending them. Trump pardoned Broidy. Roughly 570 have pleaded guilty and 78 have been found guilty at trial.

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☆ Donald Trump asked Jared Kushner if he could trademark the phrase 'Rigged Election,' January 6 interview transcript shows
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-31 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Donald Trump requested that Jared Kushner try to trademark "Rigged Election!" The email was titled "POTUS requests," per the transcript, which Kushner said "most likely" conveyed a direct request from Trump. Two phrases were included in bold, including exclamation marks, which were "Rigged Election!" Kushner told the panel that he couldn't recall Trump's intended purpose of using the phrase "Rigged Election," adding that his role was "operational" and involved forwarding requests to the right people, the transcript shows. After losing to Biden in November 2020, Trump tweeted it was a "RIGGED ELECTION."

☆ Trump's top DHS official told the Jan. 6 committee he doesn't remember Trump repeatedly calling the 2020 election 'rigged.' Trump used the word 'rigged' in 3 tweets 24 hours after losing the election.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Trump official Ken Cuccinelli claims to not remember Donald Trump calling the 2020 election "rigged." "I am not prepared to validate that word," Cuccinelli told investigators, according to testimony released Friday. And "Rigged Election Hoax!" "Is it fair to say," an investigator asked, "that seeds of distrust were sown with respect to the 2020 election — after the November 2020 election?" In May 2020, for example, he asserted that the presidential contest would be "the greatest Rigged Election in history."

☆ Trump WH aide said it was ‘painfully obvious’ when Trump wrote his own tweets because of ‘the capitalization of letters’
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Azmi Haroun | Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The January 6 committee released a new trove of transcripts on Thursday. Among them was an interview with former White House communications aide Sarah Matthews. Matthews shed light on her process for figuring out which tweets Trump sent out himself. Ultimately, in the February 8, 2022 interview, she told the committee that it was "painfully obvious" when Trump decided to tweet on his own. "The phrasing of it, the capitalization of letters," she continued, adding that Scavino's drafted tweets were "more grammatically correct."

☆ Trump did not plead the Fifth when deposed in 'Electric Avenue' copyright suit, Eddy Grant's lawyers say
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Donald Trump didn't plead the Fifth when deposed for an "Electric Avenue" copyright lawsuit. Trump's ex-social media director Dan Scavino is meanwhile fighting being deposed, Grant's side says. The former president gave a court-ordered deposition earlier this year in Grant's $300,000 copyright infringement lawsuit, which is filed in federal court in Manhattan, a court filing revealed Monday. Some 40 seconds of "Electric Avenue" plays in the background of the animation, which depicts then-candidate Joe Biden puttering along on a slow-moving hand-car as the Trump campaign barrels past in a high-speed train. Online court records do not say what day Trump was deposed, or where.

☆ Far-right figures gained thousands of new Twitter followers in the 24 hours before Elon Musk's takeover, research company finds
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Far-right figures gained thousands of new Twitter followers in the 24 hours before Musk took over. Among these new followers, thousands were new to the platform, researchers told The New York Times. Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert gained almost 18,700 new followers in the 24 hours leading up to Musk's takeover, with nearly half from new accounts. Memetica CEO Ben Decker told Insider the findings were alarming because those who gained followers "are really well-known purveyors of disinformation, harassment, and hate." "The more followers and wider reach these accounts have, the more distribution these ideas have," Decker told The New York Times.

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