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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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☆ Five takeaways from the New Hampshire primary
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Eric Bradner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

But she’ll be battling history: In modern presidential campaign history, no non-incumbent has won the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary without going on to win his party’s nomination. Here are five takeaways from the New Hampshire primaries:Trump wants Haley out — nowIn what were expected to be celebratory remarks Tuesday night in New Hampshire, Trump instead sounded annoyed that Haley had not yet dropped out of the Republican primary race. There are dozens of states left to go,” Haley told supporters in her election night speech Tuesday in New Hampshire. Haley waves to the audience as she speaks at a New Hampshire primary night rally, in Concord, New Hampshire, on Tuesday. (Trump skipped all five Republican primary debates, and has shown no indication he’d consider participating in one.)

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“America does not do coronations,” Haley said at a VFW hall in Franklin, joined by her daughter and son-in-law. On paper, Trump had seemed more vulnerable in New Hampshire than in any other early voting state on the primary calendar. And Haley had been on the rise, prompting Trump’s campaign and its allies to spend millions trying to blunt her momentum. DeSantis immediately endorsed Trump upon dropping out, saying it was clear to him Republican voters preferred the former president. He is a juggernaut,” Haley campaign manager Betsy Ankney said at a weekend event hosted by Bloomberg.

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When Nikki Haley was a South Carolina legislator, she backed budgets boosted by federal aid. Now, Haley is running against Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination saying he is an agent of chaos. The daughter of Indian immigrants, she defeated a 30-year legislative veteran in the Republican primary. As governor, Haley had disputes with fellow Republicans that often seemed personal. But she reminds Republican primary voters that the deals were always for non-union shops.

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☆ Trump Is Warned He May Be Ejected From Carroll Trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Jan. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +5 min

"Mr. Trump, I hope I don't have to consider excluding you from the trial," the judge told him. Following Kaplan's warning, Trump posted that Kaplan was a "seething and hostile" judge with "a major case of Trump Derangement Syndrome." Trump said he did not know Carroll and that she branded him a rapist to boost sales of her then-new memoir. "I am here because Donald Trump assaulted me, and when I wrote about it, he said it never happened," Carroll said. Trump did not attend Carroll's first trial, and in his Truth Social post said he would have won had he attended.

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☆ Trump loses appeal of fraud trial gag order at top New York court
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak to the press after attending the civil fraud trial against the Trump Organization in New York State Supreme Court, in New York City on Jan. 11, 2024. The top court in New York State on Tuesday rejected an appeal by former President Donald Trump of a gag order imposed on him in his civil business fraud trial. The New York Court of Appeals dismissed Trump's challenge to the order "upon the ground that no substantial constitutional question is directly involved." The court also dismissed Trump's motion to stay the gag order "as academic," likely because the trial is over. The gag order barred Trump from making public statements about the staff of Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump's, Arthur Engoron Organizations: U.S, Trump Organization, Court, New, Trump, Manhattan Locations: New York, New York City, New York State

☆ Opinion: Trump bests DeSantis and Haley. How their backers see his Iowa win
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Opinion Cnn Contributors | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

That explains why Trump got about half of all the Republican votes in Iowa, leaving DeSantis far behind. That should tell you a lot about Iowa voters, but enough of them also voted for DeSantis and Haley. When I spoke to the Haley campaign early Monday morning, before the Iowa caucuses had begun, they said they were shifting toward Trump, seemingly writing DeSantis off as their closest threat. DeSantis himself said last week that his finish in Iowa could “upend” Trump’s lead in the GOP primary. Join us on Twitter and FacebookAnd as one DeSantis campaign committee member said, “a close second would be a successful outcome,” and “third place is not good.”Needless to say, DeSantis did not win.

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Joe Tacopina, Attorney for former President Donald Trump, leaves Federal Court after the civil trial against former President Donald Trump at Manhattan on May 09, 2023 in New York City. A trial in that case ended with a Manhattan federal court jury finding Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll and defaming her. On Monday, Tacopina filed a notice with the appeals court seeking the withdrawal of his law firm from the case. Also Monday, Tacopina filed a notice withdrawing from the Manhattan Supreme Court case where he was defending Trump on criminal charges of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment to the porn star Stormy Daniels. Trump, who denies having sex with Daniels, reimbursed Cohen for the payment and other related costs, which were recorded by the Trump Organization as legal expenses.

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☆ News Outlets Declared Trump the Winner as Iowans Still Caucused
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Michael M. Grynbaum | More About Michael M. Grynbaum | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A mere half-hour of Monday’s Iowa caucuses had elapsed when CNN projected former President Donald J. Trump as the night’s winner. The Associated Press declared Mr. Trump the victor one minute later, and soon every major network had followed suit. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who accused the news media of biasing caucusgoers who had yet to cast their votes. “Are you kidding me?” Representative Chip Roy of Texas told reporters at a DeSantis event in West Des Moines. VoteCast,” its proprietary voter survey system that the outlet said “showed Trump with an insurmountable lead.”

Persons: Donald J, Trump, —, Ron DeSantis, biasing caucusgoers, Chip Roy, ” Organizations: CNN, Associated Press, Gov, New York, Trump Locations: Iowa, Florida, Texas, West Des Moines

Launched in 2018, AP VoteCast is a comprehensive survey of both voters and nonvoters that aims to tell the story behind the election results. For example, in the 2020 presidential election, AP VoteCast results showed that white men favored Donald Trump, while women with college degrees favored Joe Biden. Prior to the launch of AP VoteCast in 2018, the AP worked with other major news organizations to conduct Election Day exit polls. AP VoteCast results from the Iowa GOP caucuses will be available Monday night on the AP's caucus results homepage. A detailed description of the methodology used in AP VoteCast is also available.

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Initial results from eight counties showed Trump with far more than half of the total votes counted as of 8:31 pm. In 2020, when Trump sought re-election, AP declared the former president the caucus winner at 8:25 p.m. In 2016, AP was not able to name Texas Sen. Ted Cruz the winner over Trump until 10:26 p.m. AP VoteCast found Trump had with sizable leads among both men and women, as well as every age group and geographic regions throughout the state. Polls showed that was a relatively weak group of backers for Trump in Iowa in 2016.

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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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☆ DeSantis is fighting for his political life along Iowa’s icy campaign trail
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

But on the eve of the caucuses, DeSantis is on the brink in a state where he’s banked his entire campaign. Big donors soon discovered that the Florida governor could be a flat and uninspiring candidate. It was a cringeworthy moment that could become a pitiful emblem of busted hopes if the Florida governor doesn’t mount a comeback on Monday. “If the number that we have is anywhere close to reality, he’s going to have a very, very good night,” Vander Plaats said. An Iowa defeat for DeSantis would be especially bitter, because after months on the trail, he’s a far more polished candidate.

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☆ Trump attacks Ramaswamy for first time, calls his campaign ‘deceitful’
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Alayna Treene | Kristen Holmes | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Donald Trump lashed out at GOP rival Vivek Ramaswamy for the first time on Saturday, arguing on social media he is “not MAGA” as the former president and his campaign have grown increasingly frustrated with what they claim are Ramaswamy’s disingenuous campaign tactics, Trump campaign advisers told CNN. Unfortunately, now all he does is disguise his support in the form of deceitful campaign tricks,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Saturday. Vote for ‘TRUMP, don’t waste your vote! Ramaswamy had previously stayed away from bashing Trump, instead often praising him on the campaign trail. Trump’s campaign is hoping to win Iowa by record margins to set the tone for the primary season and stunt any momentum from his rivals.

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☆ Supreme Court steps into a minefield
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-07 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

“First in war — first in peace — and first in the hearts of his countrymen,” Lee wrote of Washington. Joe Biden is 81, the oldest president ever and one who is struggling with John Adams-level unpopularity. On Friday afternoon the US Supreme Court announced it would hear arguments on the case February 8. Trump responded by accusing Biden of “pathetic fearmongering.”It’s been three years since Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6. The name came from a letter Gordon sent to a friend explaining “how she, as a 350-pound woman, would like to be addressed.”“Just say fat,” Gordon reads from her essay in the film.

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☆ Trump seeks to appeal reinstated gag orders in New York civil fraud case -filing
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Companies Need To Integrate Climate Reporting Across Functions To Comply With California S New Law | Henry Engler | October | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

REUTERS/Carlos Barria Acquire Licensing RightsNEW YORK, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump is seeking permission to appeal a decision reinstating gag orders in his New York civil fraud case to the state's highest court, a court filing showed on Monday. A mid-level state appeals court last week reinstated the gag orders, which barred Trump and his lawyers from making public statements about court staff. Justice Arthur Engoron imposed the gag order on Trump on Oct. 3 after Trump accused Engoron's top clerk of political bias in a post on his Truth Social platform. The post left the court "inundated" with hundreds of threats from Trump supporters, Engoron said in a court filing. In Monday's filing, Trump lawyer Clifford Robert asked the mid-level appeals court, known as the Appellate Division, to allow Trump to appeal its reinstatement of the orders to the Albany-based Court of Appeals.

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NEW YORK (AP) — A New York appeals court Thursday reinstated a gag order that barred former President Donald Trump from commenting about court personnel after he disparaged a law clerk in his New York civil fraud trial. The decision from a four-judge panel came two weeks after an individual appellate judge had put the order on hold while the appeals process played out. The trial judge, Arthur Engoron, imposed the gag order Oct. 3 after Trump posted a derogatory comment about the judge’s law clerk to social media. Political Cartoons View All 1273 ImagesTrump’s lawyers filed a lawsuit against Engoron that challenged his gag order as an abuse of power. They sued the judge under a state law known as Article 78, which allows lawsuits over some judicial decisions.

Persons: Donald Trump, Arthur Engoron, Trump, Letitia James ’, James, Engoron, Allison Greenfield’s Organizations: Trump, Republican Locations: York, New York, New

The former president and current front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination will be on hand Saturday as the University of South Carolina Gamecocks host the Tigers of Clemson University, Haley's alma mater, in the annual Palmetto Bowl. Haley was governor of South Carolina until Trump tapped her to be his United Nations ambassador in 2016. “In 2016, South Carolina gave us 44 out of 46 counties – that’s not so bad,” Trump said at a state GOP dinner in August. Trump’s South Carolina and Super Tuesday romps in 2016 gave him a delegate lead he would never relinquish. “Then I go head-to-head with Trump in my home state of South Carolina.

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☆ Haley and DeSantis still can’t solve their Trump problem as time runs short in GOP race
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —A weekend of ferocious political exchanges laid out the tumultuous reality of the 2024 White House campaign less than a year from Election Day. The fight for the GOP nomination is about far more than a horse race between candidates. Time is quickly ebbing for one of his distant Republican rivals to recast the race less than two months before voting begins. No lawyer, White House staffer, campaign adviser, political party or institution has ever been able to curb Trump’s impulses. “We are turning up the heat and brightening the spotlight on exactly what it would look like if he’s allowed back in the White House,” a Biden campaign official told CNN’s Arlette Saenz of Trump.

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A panel of Washington, D.C. federal appeals court judges was highly skeptical of arguments Monday by a lawyer for Donald Trump that the former president is being unconstitutionally silenced by a gag order in his criminal election interference case. Sauer replied that "the showing would have to be extraordinarily compelling" in order to justify restricting Trump's speech. Trump was slapped with the gag order last month by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who said his statements targeting people involved in the case posed "sufficiently grave threats to the integrity of these proceedings." Chutkan's gag order barred Trump from making public statements targeting his prosecutors and "reasonably foreseeable" witnesses regarding the substance of their testimony. Trump has pleaded not guilty to the four-count indictment charging him with crimes including conspiracy to defraud the United States.

Persons: Jack Smith, Donald Trump, Trump, Dean Sauer, Joe Biden, Sauer, Tanya Chutkan, Patricia Millet, Cornelia Pillard, Barack Obama, Bradley Garcia Organizations: U.S, Trump, College, Biden Locations: Washington ,, Palm Beach , Florida, United States

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court is hearing arguments Monday on whether to reinstate a gag order against Donald Trump in the federal case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The prosecutors say those restrictions are necessary to prevent Trump from undermining confidence in the court system and intimidating people who may be called to testify against him. The gag order is one of multiple contentious issues being argued ahead of the landmark March 2024 trial. Political Cartoons View All 1256 ImagesThe judge lifted it days after entering it, giving Trump's lawyers time to prove why his words should not be restricted. Should the judges rule against Trump, he'll have the option of asking the entire court to take up the matter.

Persons: Donald Trump, Jack Smith's, Trump, Tanya Chutkan, Smith, Chutkan, Cornelia Pillard, Patricia Millett, Barack Obama, Brad Garcia, Joe Biden Organizations: WASHINGTON, —, Prosecutors, Trump, U.S, Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, he'll, House Locations: Washington

☆ Trump to test the limits of the First Amendment at high-stakes hearing over constitutionality of gag order
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Devan Cole | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The gag order from District Judge Tanya Chutkan restricts Trump’s ability to publicly target court personnel, potential witnesses, special counsel Jack Smith and his staff. The appeals court has temporarily frozen the gag order as Trump continues to contest it. “The Gag Order violates President Trump’s most fundamental First Amendment rights. The former president was recently under a gag order in the $250 million New York state civil fraud case. “The entire Gag Order rests on an unconstitutional ‘heckler’s veto’ theory, so it is overbroad in its entirety.”Trump’s arguments were not persuasive when he tried to have Chutkan pause the gag order while his appeal unfolded.

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☆ Analysis: Joe Biden is facing a near-historic deficit for an incumbent
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Harry Enten | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

All five give Trump an advantage of 2 to 4 points over Biden among registered or likely voters. Consider the New York Times/Siena College polls released earlier this month from the six closest states Biden won: Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Michigan. A massive 71% of registered voters in those states said Biden was too old to be an effective president. Back in 2020, half that percentage of registered voters (36%) said Biden was too old to be an effective president. The fact that so many voters feel Biden is too old makes sense given that he is the oldest president ever.

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The New York judge overseeing Donald Trump’s $250 million civil fraud case rejected a motion for a mistrial from the former president and his co-defendants on Friday, calling the arguments provided by their defense team to throw out the case “utterly without merit.”“In good conscience, I cannot sign a proposed order to show cause that is utterly without merit, and upon which subsequent briefing would therefore be futile,” Judge Arthur Engoron wrote. Earlier this week, Trump, his adult sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, the Trump Organization and its top executives argued that the case had been undermined by political bias – specifically, that Engoron and his law clerk had “tainted the proceedings” and that the evidence was “tangible and overwhelming.”Their 30-page motion for dismissal points to news stories from NPR, The New York Times and others that Engoron shared in his high school alumni newsletter, which they claimed are disparaging of Trump, and to political contributions to Democratic groups made by his law clerk, which they called “partisan activities.”They also included photos of Engoron and his clerk seated next to each other and accused them of “co-judging” the case. “Such arguments are nonsensical,” Engoron wrote. Editorial Cartoons on Donald Trump View All 692 ImagesEngoron imposed a partial gag order on Trump last month after the former president posted a photo of the judge’s law clerk – who also sits next to the judge – alongside Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and referred to her as “Schumer’s girlfriend.” The order barred Trump, his defense team and the prosecution team from making public statements about his staff. As it stands, Engoron has fined Trump twice – $5,000 and later $10,000 – for breaking the gag order.

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☆ An appeals court lifted Trump's gag order, clearing the way for him to insult the judge's staff again
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Laura Italiano | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

An appellate judge in New York temporarily lifted Trump's limited gag order in his NY fraud trial. The gag had barred Trump and his lawyers from spoken or written attacks on the judge's law staff. AdvertisementOn November 3, Engoron extended the gag order to include Trump's lawyers after Trump's lawyers made what the judge called "on the record, repeated, inappropriate remarks" about the same clerk. Trump and his lawyers are now free to make written and spoken criticisms of the judge's staff members pending the full appellate decision. Trump's lawyers must respond by November 27, after which a full panel of the New York Appellate Division's First Department will decide if the gag stays or goes permanently.

Persons: Trump, —, Donald Trump, Arthur Engoron, Alina Habba, overreach, Habba, Chuck Schumer, Engoron, Christopher Kise, David Friedman, Friedman, Lisa Evans Organizations: Service, Trump, New, Appellate, Department Locations: New York

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