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☆ Tucker Carlson told former Trump attorney Sidney Powell it was 'cruel and reckless' for her to keep telling people Trump had won without being able to prove it
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Azmi Haroun | Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

New emails and texts from Fox News staff revealed frustration with former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell. The messages were released in Dominion Voting Systems' defamation case against Fox News. In some of the texts, Tucker Carlson says Powell is "lying" and Laura Ingraham says she is "a bit nuts." "The whole thing seems insane to me, and Sidney Powell won't release the evidence," Carlson writes. "Sidney Powell is lying," Carlson wrote in another text to an unknown contact on November 17, 2020.

☆ Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen expects to testify 'very soon' to grand jury
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

"I look forward to speaking and to being presented before the grand jury," Cohen told NBC News and other reporters. A former top advisor to Trump, Kellyanne Conway, met with the DA's office on Wednesday, The New York Times reported. Michael Cohen , the former personal lawyer to Donald Trump , said Friday that he believes he will "very soon" be called to testify before a New York grand jury collecting evidence in a criminal probe of the former president. In Daniels' case, Cohen paid her $130,000, but in McDougal's case, the then-parent company of the supermarket tabloid The National Enquirer paid her $150,000. In addition to the Manhattan DA's probe, Trump faces three other criminal investigations.

☆ In battle with Attorney General Letitia James, Trump may force his nemesis Michael Cohen to testify in his defense
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

A new round of subpoenas has been served by both sides in New York's massive Trump fraud lawsuit. Attorney General Letitia James said in court papers she may try to redepose Donald and Eric Trump. It's over this and another approaching deadline that the two sides in James' lawsuit are now battling. Excerpt from court filing in New York attorney general's lawsuit against Donald Trump and the Trump Organization. Michael Cohen's subpoena from the Trump defendants in New York Attorney General Letitia James' fraud lawsuit.

☆ Schumer, Jeffries pressure Murdoch, Fox News over Trump's false election fraud claims
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Lillian Rizzo | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Trump has repeatedly spread false claims that the election was stolen from him. Earlier this week, Dominion filed court papers that revealed parts of the testimony from Murdoch and other top Fox Corp leadership. In his deposition, Murdoch acknowledged that some of Fox's top TV hosts endorsed false election fraud claims. When Murdoch was asked if he was "now aware that Fox endorsed at times this false notion of a stolen election," Murdoch responded, "Not Fox, no. Fox News has consistently denied that it knowingly made false claims about the election.

☆ A Murdoch advisor said the 'booze' had got to Giuliani following his 'unhinged' rants about the 2020 election
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

They described Giuliani's election fraud claims as "deranged," yet Fox News broadcast them anyway. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and Trump attorney, played a leading role in pushing false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. He is facing a separate lawsuit from Dominion over his promotion of election fraud claims about the company, and has had his New York legal license revoked. Despite the misgivings by Murdoch and his top lieutenants, Giuliani continued to appear on Fox News where he pushed the baseless election fraud claims. Fox News has disputed the Dominion lawsuit, saying that its right to discuss Trump's election fraud claims because it is protected under the First Amendment.

The documents were publicly released for the first time this week as part of Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox Corp and its cable TV networks. Dominion, Fox Corp and Fox News filed their motions for summary judgment this week, which unveiled evidence from months of discovery and depositions that had been private until this point. Fox News anchors, as well as top Fox Corp brass including Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch, were questioned in recent months. In court papers Thursday, Fox Corp said it had "no role in the creation and publication of the challenged statements – all of which aired on either Fox Business Network or Fox News Channel." But he's not going to destroy us," court papers show.

☆ Fox News hosts, Rupert Murdoch were skeptical of Trump election fraud claims
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Lillian Rizzo | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Rupert Murdoch and Fox News hosts expressed disbelief in former President Donald Trump's false election fraud claims, according to evidence released from Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox Corp and its cable-TV networks. In court papers filed Thursday, text messages and testimony from depositions show that Fox executives and TV personalities were skeptical about claims that the election between the victorious Joe Biden, a Democrat, and Trump, a Republican, was rigged. And damaging," Fox Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch said in an email on Nov. 19, days after the election, regarding claims Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani was making on Fox News. "Sydney Powell is lying," Tucker Carlson said in a text message to his producer. Our viewers are good people and they believe it," Carlson responded, according to court papers.

☆ Trump rape case: After 3 years, the former president finally agrees to submit DNA. Here's why it could be too late.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Ashley Collman | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Trump is now willing to submit a DNA sample for his civil rape case in NY, new court papers say. Trump's sudden willingness to submit a DNA sample — something requested by his accuser for three years — was confirmed in court papers Friday. Carroll's lawyers said they planned to respond to Trump's DNA offer later Friday. A photo from the lab report that Donald Trump rape accuser E. Jean Carroll submitted in January, 2020 as part of her defamation lawsuit against the former president. Letting Trump's DNA into the case would be an 11th-hour roll of the dice for both sides.

☆ Ex-Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Meets With Manhattan Prosecutors Investigating Former President
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Corinne Ramey | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Former Trump Attorney Michael Cohen, in a dark jacket, arrived for a meeting with Manhattan prosecutors Wednesday in New York. Michael Cohen , the former personal lawyer to Donald Trump, met Wednesday with prosecutors investigating hush money the former president allegedly steered to an adult-film actress, the latest sign that the Manhattan district attorney’s office has revived its once-dormant probe. Mr. Cohen is a central figure in the hush-money investigation, which began under former District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr . and then went quiet as prosecutors shifted their focus and investigated Mr. Trump on other issues—including business practices at his company. The office obtained a tax-fraud conviction of the Trump Organization in December. The company has said it would appeal.

☆ A cousin of a sanctioned Russian oligarch reportedly has 'deep' ties to Rep. George Santos and had business contracts with Michael Cohen
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Madeline Renbarger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

GOP Rep. George Santos has closer ties to Russian oligarchs than previously known, per The Washington Post. Santos reportedly received campaign donations from Andrew Intrater, a cousin of Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. Santos also claimed that Columbus Nova was his "client" while working for Harbor City Capitol to find new investors in 2020, the paper reported. Intrater is also a known associate of former-Trump attorney Michael Cohen as well, Insider previously reported. Representatives for Santos, Intrater and Columbus Nova did not immediately return Insider's request for comment.

Trump Corp. and Trump Payroll Corp. — both subsidiaries of the Trump Organization — were convicted last month on 17 counts, including conspiracy, criminal tax fraud and falsifying business records. “This case was all about Allen Weisselberg committing tax fraud on his personal tax returns. Every witness repeatedly testified that President Trump and the Trump family knew nothing about Allen Weisselberg’s actions,” Trump attorney Susan Necheles maintained after the verdict. The $1.6 million in penalties the district attorney sought is the maximum allowed under applicable statutes in the case. Trump has complained that the actions of the district attorney and the attorney general are part of the "witch hunt" against him.

☆ Manhattan judge wants Trump to stop calling NY attorney general's $250 million fraud case a witch hunt
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-07 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Letitia James' $250 million fraud lawsuit against Trump and his business remains on track for an Oct. 2, 2023 trial. In a nine-page decision, New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron kept Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit on track for an early October trial. Ivanka Trump claimed she couldn't be held legally liable in the attorney general's lawsuit, but that is not the case, Engoron also wrote. "Once again, Donald Trump's attempts to evade the law have been rejected," James said in a statement. "We look forward to receiving a full and proper review of our arguments on appeal," said Trump attorney Alina Habba.

The Republican National Committee plans to closely examine what role former President Donald Trump played in the party's underwhelming 2022 midterm results as part of its audit of the GOP's performance. And how do we learn from that to win elections going forward?" Henry Barbour, an RNC committeeman from Mississippi who was tasked in November with co-authoring the RNC’s post-election review, said in an interview Tuesday. Barbour said his examination seeks to "get into the weeds" on everything from Trump to turnout to ticket-splitting. Dhillon has since announced a challenge to McDaniel for party chair, but Barbour said she is still on the team overseeing the post-election audit.

☆ Trump lawyers argue that calling rape accuser E. Jean Carroll a liar doesn't defame her as a journalist
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Michelle Mark | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Former President Donald Trump has filed a motion to dismiss a second lawsuit from E. Jean Carroll. Trump's attorney argued he never defamed Carroll because he didn't disparage her professionally. Carroll previously sued Trump in 2019, alleging that the then-president defamed her by claiming she invented the rape allegations. Trump's court filing on Wednesday argued that Trump's October 12 statement didn't qualify as defamation because it doesn't disparage Carroll's "trade, business or profession." In response to Insider's request for comment, Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said Carroll's team looks forward to going to trial in April 2023.

☆ Congress is poised to ensure that no vice president could unilaterally decide an election 2 years after Trump pressured Pence to reverse his loss
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

After months of debate, lawmakers are poised to pass major changes to the Electoral Count Act. They wanted the vice president to either delay the January 6 joint session of Congress and/or unilaterally find that the certified results of states in disputes were not legitimate. I think Vice President Pence … did exactly the right thing and previous vice presidents have done the same. Trump himself has suggested that by clarifying the Electoral Count Act, senators are implicitly suggesting that Pence could have had this power. In order for pro-Trump lawmakers to throw the election to the vice president, they still needed to file objections to the results.

☆ U.S. Capitol riot panel meets, to ask prosecutors to charge Trump
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Patricia Zengerle | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

[1/3] A mob of supporters of then-U.S. President Donald Trump climb through a window they broke as they storm the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2021. While potentially damaging to Trump's reputation as he starts a bid for the White House in 2024, any recommendations would be non-binding and the Justice Department itself will decide whether to pursue prosecutions. NBC reported on Monday that the committee believed it had sufficient evidence for criminal referrals against Eastman citing unnamed sources. Some prominent Republicans have urged the party to move on from Trump's focus on 2020 as they select a nominee for 2024. A Reuters/Ipsos poll in October found that two in five Republicans believed Trump was at least partly responsible for the attack.

☆ Trump a target as U.S. Capitol riot probe votes on criminal referrals
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Patricia Zengerle | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

[1/3] A mob of supporters of then-U.S. President Donald Trump climb through a window they broke as they storm the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2021. The committee is scheduled to meet Monday to consider referrals and vote on its final report, which it expects to release in full on Wednesday. It subpoenaed Trump in October, asking him to testify and provide documents, but he filed suit to block the action. A Reuters/Ipsos poll in October found that two in five Republicans believed Trump was at least partly responsible for the attack. Four of the committee's members, including both Republicans, leave Congress early next year.

☆ U.S. House Jan. 6 Capitol riot probe to consider Trump criminal referral
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Patricia Zengerle | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

The committee is scheduled to meet Monday to consider referrals and vote on its final report, which it expects to release in full on Wednesday. With Republicans due to take control of the House of Representatives next month, the Jan. 6 committee is expected to be disbanded, even as Trump seeks the Republican nomination to run for the White House again in 2024. It subpoenaed Trump in October, asking him to testify and provide documents, but he filed suit to block the action. A Reuters/Ipsos poll in October found that two in five Republicans believed Trump was at least partly responsible for the attack. Four of the committee's members, including both Republicans, leave Congress early next year.

☆ Justice Department demanding Trump team attest all documents marked classified have been returned
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Sara Murray Gaborr | Sara Murray | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —The Justice Department is still demanding the Trump team designate a custodian of records to attest that all documents marked classified have been returned to the government, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN. The Trump team has not named anyone to serve as a custodian of records in part because anyone selected would almost certainly face legal jeopardy, according to the source. Trump’s attorneys have already outlined to the Justice Department which properties it has searched, how the searches were conducted and what was found. The Justice Department has also raised concerns that not enough detail has been provided about how searches were conducted at certain Trump properties, particularly Bedminster. CNN previously reported the Justice Department is asking the judge to hold Trump in contempt of court for failing to comply with a subpoena issued this summer ordering the former president to turn over records marked classified.

☆ Judge declines to hold Trump and his legal team in contempt of court over classified documents: reports
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A judge declined to hold Trump and his legal team in contempt of court, according to reports. The Justice Department had urged Chief Judge Beryl Howell to hold Trump's team in contempt for failing to fully comply with a May subpoena directed to Trump's custodian of records. "If the Department of Justice can go after President Trump, they will surely come after any American who they disagree with," Cheung added. "President Trump is the only one who stands in the way of the un-American weaponization of law enforcement." Prosecutors had asked the court to hold Trump in contempt following the August search of his Mar-a-Lago resort.

REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File PhotoDec 7 (Reuters) - Donald Trump should be immune from civil lawsuits over last year's siege on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters, a lawyer for the former president told a federal appeals court on Wednesday. Democrats in Congress and police officers filed several lawsuits over the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack that said Trump conspired with others to disrupt certification of the 2020 election results. But he reiterated that civil lawsuits should be barred because they could make other presidents vulnerable to future litigation over their speech. Joseph Sellers, arguing in defense of the lawsuits, said Trump does not have immunity because his actions disrupted the work of another branch of government. Several members of Congress who are suing Trump attended Wednesday's arguments, including Democrats Eric Swalwell and Pramila Jayapal.

☆ Ronna McDaniel has an 'F' grade track record as RNC chair, says Mike Lindell, as he ramps up his campaign to replace her
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Mike Lindell is running for RNC chair and believes the incumbent gets an "F" grade for her performance. The MyPillow CEO and Trump ally said Ronna McDaniel's RNC had failed badly in past elections. Lindell said he would fire the RNC's lawyers and raise more money than ever before. In an interview with former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis on Wednesday, Lindell said that Republicans had a poor election record under McDaniel, giving her an "F" grade. 2018: F, 2020: F, 2022: F. and it shouldn't be," he saidLindell said of the 2022 result: "I would rank that the absolute worst one and it should have been the biggest red wave in history."

☆ GOP to conduct post-election audit after disappointing midterms
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

The party’s disappointing midterm results earlier in the month marked a breaking point of sorts for some committee members, who are now more open to change. Ten years have passed since the RNC last commissioned a post-election audit. Some RNC members were particularly concerned after she offered a rosy assessment of the GOP’s performance during a conference call the day after the midterms. Now, McDaniel is tasked with maintaining unity within her party as a growing number of GOP leaders push back against Trump’s influence. In recent days, some of them, including former Vice President Mike Pence, have condemned Trump’s recent private meeting with white supremacist and antisemite Nick Fuentes.

☆ Michael Flynn ordered to testify in Trump election interference probe
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, who’s overseeing the special grand jury, has said that the special grand jury’s investigation is a criminal proceeding. Cassidy Hutchinson, who served as an aide to Meadows, is expected to appear before the special grand jury Wednesday. Wood told The Associated Press that he testified before the special grand jury last week. The special grand jury operates in secret with witness testimony closed to the public. Special grand juries in Georgia are generally used to investigate complex cases with many witnesses.

☆ The notable legal clouds that continue to hang over Donald Trump
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Dan Berman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

CNN —All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, whose third White House bid has already become mired in controversy. The Justice Department investigation continues into whether documents from the Trump White House were illegally mishandled when they were brought to Mar-a-Lago in Florida after he left office. Any unauthorized retention or destruction of White House documents could violate a criminal law that prohibits the removal or destruction of official government records, legal experts told CNN. During the panel’s hearings this summer, fingers were pointed at GOP lawmakers and Trump allies who tried to help overturn the election and Trump White House officials who failed to stop the former president’s actions. Recently, DOJ moved to compel additional testimony from former White House counsel Pat Cipollone and deputy White House counsel Patrick Philbin.

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