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The ruling comes in a lawsuit by Democrats that originally sought $2.4 million in damages from all 10 Republicans who submitted a document to Congress falsely declaring Trump as the 2020 election winner in Wisconsin. But Dane County Circuit Judge Frank Remington said they can be questioned, although he put limitations on the Evers interview. The fake elector plan hatched in seven battleground states was central to the federal indictment filed against Trump earlier in August that alleged he tried to overturn results of the 2020 election. Trump's attorney Chesebro, who is a defendant in the Wisconsin lawsuit, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of conspiracy to commit filing false documents after being charged with participating in efforts to overturn Trump’s loss in Georgia. Trump has continued to spread falsehoods about the 2020 election.

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The defense’s questions were effectively pre-cleared by the judge, as Trump was not allowed to re-litigate the verdict from last year. Trump attorney Alina Habba first asked her client whether he stood by his testimony in a previous deposition denying Carroll’s allegations. Habba then asked, “Did you deny the allegation because Ms. Carroll made an accusation.”“That’s exactly right, yes I did.” Trump replied. Habba asked Martin whether she felt that Carroll enjoyed the attention that came with her lawsuits against Trump. In the first trial, Martin said she was having issues with Carroll at the time she sent the messages and later felt bad about it.

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☆ Trump joins effort to get Fulton County DA dismissed from 2020 election case over affair allegations
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Holmes Lybrand | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Donald Trump’s attorneys are joining calls for the dismissal of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in the 2020 election subversion case against the former president and his co-defendants in Georgia, pointing to alleged misconduct between Willis and her lead prosecutor. The filing also points to public comments Willis recently made defending her choice to select the lead prosecutor, Nathan Wade, arguing that she violated Georgia rules for prosecutors. In comments Willis made at Atlanta’s Big Bethel A.M.E. Church earlier this month, the DA defended her team of prosecutors in the case, calling into question why only one of the three prosecutors was being attacked. The district attorney’s office declined to comment on the latest filing. Trump’s attorneys claim that Willis made a “calculated effort to foment racial bias” against the defendants with her comments, which run the risk of prejudicing the public and prospective jurors.

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The testy clashes have come to be expected as Trump's lawyers carry into the courtroom the bombastic, and often antagonistic, style that defines his campaign trail demeanor. There's no doubt that the lawyers, with some exceptions, have struggled to score major points with judges and in fact have often provoked their ire. Both cases have been defined by contentious exchanges between judges and Trump and his lawyers. In November, for instance, they pushed unsuccessfully for a mistrial in the fraud case, accusing Judge Arthur Engoron of “tangible and overwhelming” bias. Chutkan has repeatedly admonished Trump’s lawyers for political arguments, once telling attorney John Lauro during debate over whether restrictions could be placed on Trump's speech that though she knew he had a “message” to convey, she didn't want campaign rhetoric in court.

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☆ Rudy Giuliani creditors come together for the embattled former mayor's first bankruptcy hearing
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-20 | by ( Jake Offenhartz | Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A group of people who say Rudy Giuliani owes them money gathered for his first bankruptcy hearing. Some of Giuliani's creditors have expressed concern he is taking advantage of the bankruptcy process. During Friday's hearing, Giuliani's attorney tried to convince the bankruptcy judge, Sean Lane, to temporarily lift a stay to allow him to appeal the judgment. AdvertisementSome of Giuliani's creditors have expressed concerns that he is taking advantage of the bankruptcy process to avoid paying his debts. Advertisement"It's an interesting group in its own right: you have a ShopRite worker, election workers, an alleged sex worker," he added.

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Carroll attorney Shawn Crowley complained about Trump’s audible commentary just before the first break in the trial, after the jury had been excused. Trump, I hope I don’t have to consider excluding you from the trial.”Trump threw up in his hands in protest. “Now look, Ms. Habba,” Kaplan said as Habba began to read from the transcript. One major difference between this trial – a civil trial in federal court – and the Trump Org. civil fraud trial in New York state court is that Trump does not have easy access to a camera at the federal courthouse where the civil defamation trial is taking place.

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Carroll is due to testify Wednesday in the second federal civil trial over her claims against Trump, who denies them all. Because the first jury found that Trump sexually abused Carroll in the 1990s and then defamed her in 2022, the new trial concerns only how much more — if anything — he'll be ordered to pay her for some other remarks. Political Cartoons View All 253 ImagesBut Carroll, an advice columnist and magazine writer, has said that Trump harmed her deeply. Trump asserts that nothing ever happened between him and Carroll, indeed that he has never even met her. The Associated Press typically does not name people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly, as Carroll has done.

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That jury’s finding stemmed from statements Trump made in 2022, while the current case is dealing with statements Trump made while he was president in 2019. “Donald Trump sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll. “Now she wants President Trump to pay for the risks she took for the way she did this,” Habba said of Carroll. “She wants President Trump to pay for the mean tweets.”Jurors are familiar with TrumpThe jury selection process provided a window into the jury panel that will decide Trump’s defamation case. None of those prospective jurors were ultimately selected to the trial jury.

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ATLANTA (AP) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Sunday defended the qualifications of a special prosecutor she hired for her case against Donald Trump and others over efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia after a defense lawyer accused Willis of professional impropriety. At the church, Willis did not address the allegations of an improper relationship. They are paid the same hourly rate and no one has questioned the qualifications of the two white lawyers, she said. Merchant's filing offered no proof of the alleged relationship or trips that she said that Willis and Wade had taken together. Pete Skandalakis, a former district attorney who is executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council, said district attorneys do not have to seek permission before hiring a special prosecutor.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump can wait a week to testify at a New York defamation trial where he could face millions of dollars in damages after a jury concluded that he sexually abused a columnist in the 1990s, a federal judge said Sunday. The judge also noted that he has learned that Trump, even while seeking to postpone the trial, had scheduled an evening campaign appearance on Wednesday in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He said Trump's lawyers notified the judge on Friday that Trump planned to attend the trial. This month's trial, long delayed by appeals, stems from defamatory comments the judge said Trump made about Carroll in 2019 and last May, a day after the jury announced its verdict. Habba said Trump also can testify about the circumstances of his comments and how they related to comments in Carroll’s "continuous parade of interviews and publicity."

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☆ DA Fani Willis defends prosecutor she hired for Trump's Georgia election case amid allegations of an 'improper' relationship
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Lloyd Lee | Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Fulton County DA Fani Willis was accused of having an "improper" relationship with a prosecutor. Willis appointed the prosecutor, Nathan Wade, to oversee the RICO case against Trump. The motion seeks to dismiss the indictment and disqualify Willis and Wade and their offices from further prosecuting the case. Willis said she hired three special prosecutors for the election case: a white man, a white woman, and a Black man. If Willis financially benefited from her relationship with Wade, that may be an ethics violation," he said.

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☆ 'Visit anytime!' NY attorney general and Trump fraud-trial judge get open invite to tour all '$1B' of Mar-a-Lago
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-06 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Tuesday, a Palm Beach real estate broker testified on Trump's behalf that Mar-a-Lago is worth $1 billion. "If you have a dreamer, and a great American, I don't think that's a bad thing," the broker testified of his Palm Beach neighbor. "You have dozens and dozens of hand-carved cherubs" on the living room doors, Moens testified at one point. Former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. The property is currently worth closer to $1.5 billion, Moens testified in the July deposition.

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☆ Liz Cheney says Ginni Thomas was 'deceived' by 'untrue election fraud nonsense'
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Liz Cheney is clearly alarmed at the direction Virginia "Ginni" Thomas took after the election. Ginni Thomas' texts to Mark Meadows were uncovered during the House January 6 investigation. AdvertisementFormer Congresswoman Liz Cheney is disappointed in how Virginia Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, has continued to spout disproven claims about the 2020 presidential election. "I was disappointed that Ginni Thomas had been deceived by the demonstrably untrue election-fraud nonsense," Cheney wrote in "Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning" which was published on Tuesday. Cheney wrote that she had known Virginia "Ginni" Thomas for decades.

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☆ Moby Don: Trump's fraud-trial 'victim,' Deutsche Bank, praised him as a lucrative 'whale' in fawning in-house documents
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Reps from Deutsche Bank, which NY says was defrauded, described actually prospering thanks to Trump. Advertisement"We are whale hunting," former Deutsche Bank executive Rosemary Vrablic told her fellow bankers of Trump in an email from 2011, soon after son-in-law Jared Kushner offered to make an introduction. She contends that Deutsche Bank was defrauded out of more than $100 million in interest income. As a sophisticated international lender, the bank did its own risk analysis, apart from Trump's net-worth statements, the defense has argued. But the state has countered that any fact-checking, any profit-making, and any other non-victim-like behavior on the part of Deutsche Bank is besides the point.

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☆ Donald Trump is set to be the last defense witness called in his civil fraud trial next month
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Lauren Del Valle | Kara Scannell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

New York CNN —Attorneys for Donald Trump told the court Monday that they plan to call the former president to the stand on December 11 as their last witness in the New York civil fraud trial. His son Eric Trump, also a defendant, is slated to testify on December 6, according to Trump attorney Chris Kise. This will be the former president and Eric Trump’s second trip to the witness stand as they were called by the New York attorney general’s office earlier this month. Trump Organization executive Patrick Birney is currently testifying for the defense. His testimony follows Trump Organization hotels Chief Operating Officer Mark Hawthorn, who had been on the stand for most of Monday.

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☆ Former Trump Org. controller breaks down in tears on witness stand in fraud trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Lauren Del Valle | Kara Scannell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Trump attorney Alina Habba motioned to a court officer to bring him a box of tissues. At one point while reviewing his own handwritten notes, McConney acknowledged his memory was “incorrect” about a specific disclosure on Trump’s statement. Amer showed the court handwritten notations from McConney on 2021 financial statement drafts. Among the 2021 notes, the former controller wrote that Eric Trump needed to review the footnotes for the section on club facilities. On another page McConney wrote that Eric and his brother Donald Trump Jr, both defendants in the case, should review the statements.

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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.

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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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☆ Trump drops appeal to move Manhattan hush money trial to federal court
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Kara Scannell | Devan Cole | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —Former President Donald Trump is abandoning his effort to move the so-called hush money trial from New York state court to federal court. In a brief filing submitted to a New York-based appeals court, Trump said he was no longer appealing a lower-court ruling that rejected his bid to get the case transferred to federal court. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal the reimbursement of hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels. In July, US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein denied Trump’s request to move the New York case to federal court, ruling that the payments to Daniels and alleged subsequent falsification of business records were not related to Trump’s presidential duties. Hush money paid to an adult film star is not related to a President’s official acts,” the judge wrote.

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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.

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New York CNN —Donald Trump Jr. returned to the witness stand Monday to give his family’s side of the story in the New York attorney general’s civil fraud trial against Donald Trump. portfolioTrump lawyer Cliff Robert spent most of the day asking Trump Jr. to walk through nearly the entire portfolio of the Trump Org. Faherty also asked Trump Jr. about Trump International Hotel Waikiki ditching the Trump name and rebranding. “Welcome back, I feel like I’m at a reunion here, the Trump trial reunion,” Engoron said as she was sworn in. In addition to Trump Jr., Trump attorneys have said they are likely to call back Eric Trump and the former president, both of whom also previously testified.

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☆ Not a big ticket: Public stays away in droves as Donald Trump Jr. kicks off defense case at NY fraud trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Donald Trump, Jr. testified again in the NY fraud trial Monday – this time as a defense witness. Just four members of the public queued up to watch Donald Trump's namesake son testify as the first defense witness. AdvertisementAdvertisementDonald Trump, Jr. was in court Monday as his father's cheerleader-in-chief. When the judge told him, "Welcome back," Donald Trump, Jr. answered with a joke. "It was spectacular for quite some time," Donald Trump, Jr., said of Wollman Rink in Central Park, which the Trump Organization operated for the city from 1986 to 2021.

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☆ Live updates: Ivanka Trump testifies in New York civil fraud trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Dan Berman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Will Lanzoni/CNNThe New York attorney general’s office walked Ivanka Trump through her role securing financing for the Doral Golf Resort & Spa in Florida. AG attorney Louis Solomon showed email communications Ivanka Trump had in shopping around potential financing terms from several lenders to fund Trump Org. for the Doral property. Ivanka Trump said she did not recall. The Doral property is one of several Trump Organization properties that were secured with loans from Deutsche Bank.

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☆ Trump's free speech defense may fall short in election subversion trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Andrew Goudsward | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Trump’s defense lawyers, in a flurry of legal motions, have argued that the case by Special Counsel Jack Smith "attempts to criminalize core political speech and political advocacy." At trial, legal experts say Trump will likely not be allowed to argue to a jury that his conduct was protected by his First Amendment right to free speech because such legal questions are resolved by the judge. Those claims complement his political case as an anti-establishment crusader whose movement is opposed by powerful foes seeking to silence him. Criminal defendants can use the defense to argue they sought legal opinions and did not intend to break the law. Three former Trump lawyers have already pleaded guilty in Georgia, including Kenneth Chesebro, who drafted memos crafting the fake elector scheme.

Persons: Donald Trump, Octavio Jones, Jack Smith, Trump, Democrat Joe Biden, Trump . Trump, Jonathan Turley, Mike Pence, “ He’s, ”, Ty Cobb, “, Arthur Engoron, Mr Kise, Engoron, Christopher Kise, Tanya Chutkan, Kristy Parker, ” Trump, William Barr, Kenneth Chesebro, Andrew Goudsward, Scott Malone, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: U.S, Republican, Florida Freedom Summit, Gaylord, Convention, REUTERS, Rights, Democrat, Trump ., George Washington University, Trump, Protect Democracy, Capitol, Prosecutors, Thomson Locations: Florida, Kissimmee , Florida, U.S, Washington, New York, Georgia

The high-stakes civil case strikes at the heart of Trump’s brand – his real estate empire. New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing Trump for $250 million and seeking to bar him from doing business in the state. Trump’s attacks in a vacuum weren’t particularly remarkable – he’s used the same barbs throughout the course of the trial, which he’s attended repeatedly as a spectator. Trump’s rhetoric prompts an angry response from the judgeEngoron tried at the outset of Trump’s testimony to stop the former president from making speeches and instead answer the questions, but it did little to change Trump’s approach. “There’s a disclaimer clause where you don’t have to get sued by the attorney general of New York,” Trump said.

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