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AdvertisementThe first-ever criminal trial of a former American president is now nearing its end after several weeks of witness testimony. Related storiesIn some of those hallway appearances earlier in the trial, Trump has told reporters that he planned to testify. He told jurors that Cohen told him that Trump didn't know anything about the payments. "If you don't like my ruling, you don't give me side-eye, and you don't roll your eyes," Merchan told Costello before he cleared the room. Trump " wasn't thinking about Melania — this was all about the campaign," Cohen told jurors.

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Judge Juan Merchan hit Trump with his 10th gag order violation Monday, along with a warning of jail. Merely fining Trump $1,000 per violation has not been a sufficient deterrent, the judge said. Advertisement"The last thing I want to do is put you in jail," Merchan added. AdvertisementMerchan fined Trump an additional $1,000 for violating his gag order on Monday, bringing the total amount Trump has now been fined for breaching the order to $10,000. Last week, the former president was fined $9,000 for violating his gag order nine other times.

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☆ Too busy for hush money? Trump debuts longshot 'multi-tasking' defense during testimony by longtime assistant Rhona Graff
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-27 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The now-retired assistant, Rhona Graff, told jurors that Trump was prone to "multi-tasking" and sometimes would be on the phone at the same time he signed checks. The testimony was elicited during Graff's cross-examination by Trump attorney Susan Necheles. Related storiesThe nine checks are the only records bearing Trump's signature out of 34 checks, invoices, and business-ledger records he allegedly falsified. After Trump signed each check, it would be FedExed back to the Trump Organization's Trump Tower headquarters, scanned into the company records, and then cut and mailed to Cohen. — respectful boss to me," Graff told jurors of working alongside Trump in the Trump Organization headquarters on the 25th-floor of Trump Tower.

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☆ Trump hush-money judge expands gag order to ban attacks on judge's daughter
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-02 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewDonald Trump's New York hush-money judge on Monday expanded his gag order to bar statements about the judge's daughter. Merchan's gag order was made public just four hours later. AdvertisementA gag with loopholesIt barred Trump from making statements about witnesses, jurors, case prosecutors, and court staff. A day after the gag, on March 27, Trump amped up his Truth Social attacks on Merchan's daughter, this time mentioning her by name. Trump falsely claimed that the daughter had a profile picture on her X account depicting Trump behind bars.

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☆ Manhattan DA and Trump's hush-money defense intensify war over his attacks on judge's daughter
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The defense, meanwhile, accused the judge's daughter of having a financial stake in the case. AdvertisementDonald Trump's defense lawyers and his Manhattan hush-money prosecutors intensified their war over his gag order on Monday, with prosecutors calling the GOP frontrunner's ongoing attacks on the judge's daughter "reprehensible" and "dangerous." In seeking to expand the gag order, prosecutors are trying "to further restrict President Trump's constitutionally protected speech," the defense wrote. Merchan has yet to say if he will weigh revising or clarifying the gag order. The judge's daughter did not immediately return a request for comment.

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☆ Trump complains in latest hush-money delay bid that Manhattan already thinks he's guilty, and Michael Cohen keeps saying 'Donald von Shitsinpants'
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

This eleventh-hour effort to push back Trump's April 15 trial date is the latest of a half-dozen such requests since August. Bad polls, bad pressManhattan is not Trump country, the defense delay motion notes. AdvertisementPollsters surveyed a sample of 400 Manhattan residents, the delay motion says. Trump's motion implies that those sources were, or involved, Bragg, ignoring that the stories could have been sourced through multiple other individuals, including court staff, witnesses, and attorneys for witnesses. Advertisement"President Trump cannot get a fair trial in Manhattan County right now," the delay motion concludes, asking for unspecified adjournment "until prejudicial press coverage abates."

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☆ Trump hush-money judge warns against delay tactics and threatens lawyers with contempt in blistering order
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The trial judge, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, threatened Trump's lawyers with contempt if they again try to bend his strict rules limiting the filing of new pretrial motions. "This Court has the authority to implement measures as necessary to manage its docket and prevent "dilatory tactics" right up until the eve of trial," Merchan wrote. Later on Tuesday afternoon, Merchan made public a March 10 letter from Trump's legal team that appeared to illustrate his concerns. Blanche said that "pretrial publicity" made a fair trial impossible. "President Trump's constitutional right to a fair trial is at stake," Blanche wrote.

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☆ It's a date: Trump's first felony trial will be April 15
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( Laura Italiano | Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Trump was in court in Manhattan when he learned his hush-money trial date: April 15. AdvertisementA Manhattan judge has set an April 15 date for jury selection in Donald Trump's hush money case, the GOP presidential frontrunner's first of four criminal trials. Trump and his legal team must appear in court each day of the approximately six-week trial on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Now the trial date is finally set. Related storiesThe payment was recorded in Trump's business records as routine legal fees paid to his then-personal attorney Michael Cohen.

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☆ Going once, going twice: How Trump's cash and properties would be garnished and auctioned to pay his NY fraud debt
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

AG Letitia James plans to go after Trump's cash and property if he doesn't pay his civil fraud debt. Is the ball in Letitia James' court? "The burden is on Letitia James to find Trump's assets" and decide what she wants garnished or auctioned, he said. D'Orazio predicts James would first target the cash that Trump and the Trump Organization keep in New York-registered bank accounts. He would then remit $95 million to the Attorney General's Office, and that would go toward paying Trump's judgment.

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☆ The Supreme Court rules Trump is eligible to run for office again
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewThe Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday that Donald Trump is eligible to run for president again, quashing legal challenges that loomed over the GOP frontrunner's candidacy for office. Instead, the court effectively foreclosed almost any challenge to a federal office holder under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, the insurrection clause. "Today, the majority goes beyond the necessities of this case to limit how Section 3 can bar an oathbreaking insurrectionist from becoming President," the justices wrote. The Supreme Court had never before issued a ruling on the post-Civil War era provision known as the "insurrectionist clause." The Supreme Court is set to hear separate arguments in April over whether Trump can be criminally prosecuted for election interference charges, including those stemming from his role during the January 6 attack on the Capitol.

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☆ Think your interest costs are high? Donald Trump now owes $1M more in interest on his NY fraud trial judgment.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-02 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Under last month's fraud trial judgment, Trump's debt to NY rises by $111,984 in interest per day. Under the final fraud trial judgment, the GOP frontrunner's debt to New York state rises daily by $111,984 in interest. That means every 9 days, Trump owes the state another $1 million in interest. On that same day, the total Trump owes New York will tick up by another $1 million, to $456 million. Former Trump Organization CEO Allen Weisselberg owes $1 million; interest is adding $272 to his total every day.

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☆ In Trump's NY hush-money case, key decisions at his court appearance on Thursday will shape his first felony trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-11 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Donald Trump returns to court Thursday in his New York hush-money case. The hush-money case is on track to be tried first out of the former president and GOP frontrunner's four felony indictments. AdvertisementCourt officers kept careful watch at Donald Trump's hush-money arraignment in New York. Merchan pushed back on any premature trial-date tinkering in a letter he sent the hush-money defense team in early September. Reuters/Jane RosenbergSquabbling over evidenceThere's been plenty of squabbling over evidence in the past six months, the hush-money case file shows.

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☆ Donald Trump makes final effort to convince Supreme Court he didn't engage in an insurrection ahead of oral arguments in Colorado ballot case
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Donald Trump filed a final brief to the Supreme Court ahead of arguments in his Colorado ballot case. Attorneys for Trump this week made a last push to convince the top court to keep him on the ballot. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in the case beginning on Thursday after agreeing to take up Trump's appeal. Advertisement"There was no 'insurrection,' President Trump did not 'incite' anything, and President Trump did not 'engage in' anything that constitutes 'insurrection,'" lawyers for the former president argued Monday. The Colorado Supreme Court, however, overturned that judge's ruling and proceeded to ban him from the ballot.

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As frigid temperatures scour the Midwest, the Republican presidential nominating process will officially start Monday with Iowa's caucuses. Rarely has so much ridden on a second-place finish in the first nominating state. On the flip side, Trump’s voters are very motivated to support him. His aggressive, social media-driven approach initially attracted some curiosity from Republican voters but seemed to turn many off after he attacked rivals during the debates. ___For the latest updates on the Iowa caucuses, follow the AP’s live coverage.

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The appellate court last week rejected the defense’s last-minute effort to delay the trial just days before it began. On Thursday, Trump’s lawyers dropped a lawsuit they filed against Engoron as part of that challenge. Political Cartoons View All 1202 ImagesThe appellate court has yet to rule on the latest appeal. Trump's lawyers argued that Engoron had “no rationale or legal authority” to impose what they described as “the corporate death penalty." “Perhaps most alarming is (the court's) incomprehension of the sweeping and significant consequences of its own ruling,” Trump's lawyers said in their appeal Friday, describing Engoron’s ruling as an “overbroad directive that sows confusion and chaos in its implementation.”

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☆ Trump lawyers seek halt to civil fraud trial, arguing dissolving his companies would 'sow confusion and chaos'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Trump's lawyers are trying to halt his $250M civil fraud trial. Judge Engoron's ruling would "sow confusion and chaos," Trump's lawyers argue. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe appellate court last week rejected the defense's last-minute effort to delay the trial just days before it began. But, only if the trial proceeds as scheduled, Senior Assistant Solicitor General Dennis Fan wrote in a letter to the appellate court. Trump's lawyers argued that Engoron had "no rationale or legal authority" to impose what they described as "the corporate death penalty."

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☆ Trump gets first GOP endorsements since his indictment in classified documents case
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Trump, the clear frontrunner in the race for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, was also endorsed by North Carolina Lt. Gov. As if to drive home that point, the same crowd that cheered Robinson also loudly booed another GOP presidential candidate, former New Jersey Gov. Reschenthaler, the House Republican chief deputy whip, is the second member of the chamber's GOP leadership to endorse Trump after House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York. Ron DeSantis, Trump's nearest Republican primary competitor, has so far amassed five congressional endorsements. Polls of the GOP primary field showed Trump widening his lead after his first indictment.

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