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National security law experts were struck by the breadth of evidence in the indictment which includes documents, photos, text messages, audio and witness statements. They said this made a strong case for prosecutors’ allegation that Trump illegally took the documents and then tried to cover it up. Trump's greatest peril could lie in the conspiracy to obstruct justice charges, which carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Legal experts said Trump's alleged years-long effort to conceal documents was likely a major factor in Special Counsel Jack Smith's decision to indict him. Legal experts disagree over whether Trump could pardon himself if he wins.

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National security law experts were struck by the breadth of evidence in the indictment which includes documents, photos, text messages, audio and witness statements. They said this made a strong case for prosecutors’ allegation that Trump illegally took the documents and then tried to cover it up. Trump's greatest peril could lie in the conspiracy to obstruct justice charges, which carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Cato's Neily said that based on his reading of the indictment, prosecutors likely have many witnesses who have given them similar accounts of Trump's efforts. Legal experts disagree over whether Trump could pardon himself if he wins.

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During his arraignment, Mr. Trump is expected to be advised of his rights, and a judge will assess whether he has legal representation. The case against Mr. Trump is the second criminal prosecution against the former president this year. Mr. Trump was already arraigned in April in a New York courthouse on state charges that he falsified business records. In the case that has brought him to Miami, Mr. Trump has been charged with 37 counts of unauthorized retention of national security information. After the court appearance, Mr. Trump is expected to fly to Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., to give remarks defending himself in the evening.

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Todd Blanche, Trump’s attorney, resisted the idea of barring all contact with the case’s witnesses, in a back-and-forth with the judge that played out over several rounds. “Many of the people, including the men and women to protect him, may be witnesses in this case,” Blanche said. If the Trump team found the list “inappropriate,” “excessive,” “unwieldly,” or otherwise problematic, they could file a motion with the court, Goodman said. Trump looked through the bond package, a packet of paper, and then gave it Blanche to look through. However, his bond package was discussed and approved, and handed to the table for him to sign.

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☆ Trump arrives in Miami for arraignment on first-ever federal charges against an ex-president
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Christina Wilkie | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

In that case, Trump would go to the courthouse to surrender, but his arraignment and plea may be delayed, according to NBC. The two lead attorneys who had been representing Trump in the case resigned Friday, just one day after Trump announced he had been indicted. A source with direct knowledge later told NBC that Blanche traveled with Trump to Florida. The charges mark the first time a former U.S. president has been charged with a federal crime. Trump traveled to Florida from his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey.

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☆ Two Trump Lawyers Quit a Day After His Indictment
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Maggie Haberman | Alan Feuer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Two of former President Donald J. Trump’s lawyers who had represented him in the classified documents investigation resigned from his legal team the day after he was indicted, according to a statement they released on Friday. Mr. Trump announced the departure of Mr. Trusty and Mr. Rowley in a post on Friday on his social media platform, Truth Social. He said he would be represented by a new lawyer, Todd Blanche. “I want to thank Jim Trusty and John Rowley for their work, but they were up against a very dishonest, corrupt, evil, and ‘sick’ group of people, the likes of which has not been seen before,” the former president wrote. “We will be announcing additional lawyers in the coming days.”

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☆ 2 of Donald Trump's lawyers just quit
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Paul Squire | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Two of Donald Trump's lawyers have stepped down. They'll no longer represent him in the Mar-a-Lago documents case and the Jan. 6 investigation, per CBS. Trump announced he's being indicted on federal charges over his handling of classified documents. Trump confirmed the two lawyers had departed on his Truth Social page on Friday morning, thanking them for their work. The Justice Department has been investigating Trump over classified documents that were found at his Mar-a-Lago property during an FBI search last summer.

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The indictment gives the clearest picture yet of the files that Mr. Trump took with him when he left the White House. Mr. Trump is expected to appear in Federal District Court in Miami on Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Trump continued to rail against the indictment on Friday, calling it the “greatest witch hunt of all time,” in a Truth Social post. Two lawyers, James Trusty and John Rowley, have left Mr. Trump’s legal team, and will no longer represent him in the documents case. “I will be represented by Todd Blanche, Esq., and a firm to be named later,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social.

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Two lawyers who represented Donald Trump in the months before the former president was indicted on federal charges over his handling of classified documents quit working for him Friday morning. Trusty had made multiple appearances on television news shows Thursday evening and Friday morning to discuss the indictment of Trump in his capacity as his lawyer. Follow our live coverage of Donald Trump's indictment in the classified documents case. Trump first announced the two lawyers were leaving his cases in a post on his Truth Social platform. "We will be announcing additional lawyers in the coming days," wrote Trump, who is due to appear Tuesday in Miami court on the indictment charging him with several crimes.

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☆ Donald Trump, the Presidential Records Act and ‘Clinton's sock drawer’ defense
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Alison Frankel | Thomson Reuters | Alison Frankel Has Covered High-Stakes Commercial Litigation As A Columnist For Reuters Since A Dartmouth College Graduate | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

“The [Presidential Records Act] does not confer any mandatory or even discretional authority on the archivist,” wrote U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in that 2012 ruling. “These are not presidential records,” he added. The Presidential Records Act, Trump’s brief said, gave Trump the sole authority to decide how to categorize his records. Fitton told me he explained his Presidential Records Act theory to the Washington, D.C., grand jury in the Trump document case last winter. Fitton, for instance, accused the Justice Department of flipping its position on presidential discretion under the Presidential Record Act to go after Trump.

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☆ Bitter, virtual Trump promises a Manhattan judge he won't harass or attack hush-money witnesses
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-23 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

He also shook his head in apparent disgust when told he'll be in contempt if he uses DA evidence to harass witnesses. Trump shook his head "no" in apparent disgust when the judge told his lawyer, Todd Blanche, that he risks sanctions and a finding of contempt if he violates the order. "He is free to do anything that does not violate the specific terms of this protective order," the judge told Blanche. The protective order bars Trump from using the prosecution's most sensitive evidence for anything other than his own defense. "I have less than zero confidence," Cohen told Insider of Trump's ability to abide by the protective order and restrain himself from using sensitive evidence to attack witnesses.

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Donald J. Trump is seeking to move his criminal case from New York State Supreme Court to federal court, one of his lawyers said on Thursday. One month after appearing in a Manhattan courtroom, where state prosecutors accused him of committing 34 felonies by falsifying documents to cover up a potential sex scandal, Mr. Trump will seek the legal change of scenery in a court filing later on Thursday. The effort to move the case to federal court, which is likely a long shot, will not have any immediate effect on the state case. The federal judge who considers the request could reject it on its face. But even if the judge finds the request worthy of consideration and orders a hearing in federal court, the state case will continue unhindered for now.

☆ Where's Trump? Not in either Manhattan courtrooms where his hush-money and rape cases awaited him Thursday
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Laura Italiano | Michelle Mark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Trump golfed in Ireland rather than attend two significant Manhattan court cases docketed Thursday. He continued to skip the E. Jean Carroll rape-defamation case now wrapping in federal court. "I will probably attend," he told reporters of the Carroll trial. When Irish reporters asked Trump why he wasn't attending his Manhattan civil trial, he responded, "Because we have a longstanding agreement to come here." When one reporter asked whether he was showing "disrespect" to the court, Trump walked away.

☆ Trump attorneys will seek to move criminal hush money case to federal court
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Summer Concepcion | Chloe Atkins | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Former President Donald Trump is seeking to move his criminal case from New York state court to federal court, his attorneys said during a hearing on Thursday. Trump's lawyers will seek the venue change sometime later Thursday, attorney Todd Blanche said towards the end of the hearing. During the hearing, attorneys for the Manhattan district attorney's office and Trump reiterated previous arguments regarding the proposed protective order. Trump's attorneys slammed the proposed protective order as "extremely restrictive" and argued that it infringes on their client's right to free speech. NBC News and other outlets oppose the prosecutor's proposed protective order to limit the public use of evidence ahead of trial, which includes potentially requiring the sealing or redaction of certain items.

May 1 (Reuters) - Donald Trump should be able to talk about the evidence in the criminal case against him over a hush payment to a porn star, especially with others free to do so, his lawyers said in a court filing on Monday. The Manhattan district attorney wants to bar Trump from disclosing the material on news or social media platforms without court approval. Prosecutors last week asked for a court order restricting Trump's use of the evidence because of his attacks on people involved in proceedings against him. They said they wanted to reduce the risk of harassment to witnesses and other participants in the case. "Trump cannot be the only interested party in this case whose speech about the evidence in the case is restricted by the court," the lawyers, Susan Necheles and Todd Blanche, wrote.

A 30-year veteran of the DA's office told Insider that Bragg will lay the specifics out in a so-called "bill of particulars" down the road. "When you have an indictment, anything you put in the indictment, you must prove it," Florence, who ran against Bragg for DA in 2021, told Insider in an interview. Bragg laid out 4 alleged underlying crimes in post-arraignment presserThough Bragg didn't include the specifics of Trump's alleged underlying crimes in the charging documents, he laid them out in his post-arraignment news conference. Bragg elaborated on that alleged underlying falsehood in a statement of facts included as an addendum to the indictment. "The prosecution is boxed in at this stage of the game," Ty Cobb, who served as White House special counsel during the Trump administration, told Insider.

☆ Trump might try these 3 defense strategies, but none are likely to get the Manhattan DA's case dismissed, experts say
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-08 | by ( Sonam Sheth | Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Trump is now expected to challenge the charges on several fronts, and his defense will start from a stronger place than you might assume. But if his lawyers are hoping to get the charges dismissed altogether, they'll likely be disappointed, experts say, and the case is almost certainly headed toward a blockbuster trial. Of the alleged state law violations, Brand said that "these are misdemeanors under New York law, and the only way you get to felonies is by coupling it with another crime." "To the extent that is based on federal law, I don't know that a state can do that," Brand said. But legal experts say that, whatever the flaws in the indictment itself might be, the case will almost certainly go to trial.

Prosecutor Chris Conroy said: "The defendant Donald J. Trump falsified New York business records in order to conceal an illegal conspiracy to undermine the integrity of the 2016 presidential election and other violations of election laws." SOCIAL MEDIA POSTSProsecutors during the arraignment said Trump made a series of social media posts, including one threatening "death and destruction" if he was charged. "They can't beat us at the ballot box so they try to beat us through the law," Trump said. The false records included invoices from Cohen, entries in a ledger for Trump maintained by the Trump Organization, and check stubs, according to the indictment. "Under New York state law, it is a felony to falsify business records with intent to defraud and intent to conceal another crime.

Trump's indictment was unsealed Tuesday, revealing he was charged with 34 counts. The indictment didn't clarify the underlying crimes Trump allegedly committed to justify felony charges. Trump was indicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection to a 2016 hush-money payment to the adult film star Stormy Daniels. "If I were the prosecution, I would ask for a gag order covering the parties and their attorneys," Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor, told Insider. Indeed, House Republicans vowed revenge on Trump's behalf and said Tuesday that they would go after Bragg and President Joe Biden in light of Trump's indictment.

☆ Donald Trump's arraignment: key takeaways include 2 warnings from the judge that he behave himself
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Takeaways from Tuesday's arraignment include two separate times the judge warned Trump to behave. The judge also nixed Trump's hope of just staying home on his next court date, December 4. Prosecutors had just handed the judge a thick packet of examples of what Assistant District Attorney Christopher Conroy called Trump's "threatening rhetoric." "May we ask that President Trump, his presence be waived just for that date?" The defense and prosecution are hoping to reach an agreement on the protective order, Trump attorney Susan Necheles said.

☆ Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina warns that we might be on the 'eve of destruction' the night before Trump's arraignment
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Donald Trump's lawyer Joe Tacopina said to Fox News that Monday was like the "eve of destruction." Tacopina's comments echo Trump's "death and destruction" Truth Social post from March. Tacopina's words on Fox News were similar to the ominous sentiment expressed in Trump's previous Truth Social posts. On March 23, Trump predicted that there would be "death & destruction" if he is indicted. Trump wrote on Truth Social on March 23.

☆ Lawyer says Trump didn't intend to threaten prosecutor with social media post: 'That is a picture of him showing off an American-made bat'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Charles R. Davis | Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Former President Donald Trump will not be prevented from discussing the New York case against him. Speaking to reporters, Joe Tacopina, an attorney for Trump, acknowledged that Judge Juan M. Merchan had discussed the former president's use of social media. On his own social network, Truth Social, Trump had posted a news story, for example, that showed him wielding a baseball bat next to a photo of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. "That is a picture of him showing off an American-made bat," he said. Todd Blanche, another Trump attorney, told reporters that Merchan had asked all parties to be respectful and not use language "that is inappropriate."

☆ Read the indictment against Donald Trump, details of payments to porn star, Playboy model
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

watch nowFormer President Donald Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with a scheme that directed hush money payments to two women before the 2016 presidential election. The 16-page indictment against Trump was unsealed Tuesday as he became the first former U.S. president ever to be arraigned on criminal charges. Follow CNBC.com's live coverage of former President Donald Trump's surrender and arraignment at the Manhattan criminal courthouse. Falsifying business records normally is a misdemeanor but can become a felony if done to cover up another crime. The checks first were issued by the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, while later ones came from Trump's bank account, prosecutors said.

☆ Trump wants to sit out his next court appearance. The judge presiding over his case says all defendants have to show up and he's no different.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Hannah Getahun | Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Donald Trump's lawyers asked if he could skip future court date appearances. His request was denied by the judge overseeing the case. Trump faces 34 felony counts after a probe into a 2016 "hush-money" payment to Stormy Daniels. New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan told the Trump lawyers that he expects that "all other defendants to appear in court, even high profile defendants" and would not be making an exception for the former president. Trump on Tuesday entered a plea of not guilty for each of the 34 charges against him.

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