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☆ Trump thought an old picture of E. Jean Carroll was his ex-wife Marla Maples, despite saying the columnist suing him for sexual assault and defamation was 'not his type'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | Taiyler Simone Mitchell | Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Trump mistook a woman who is suing him for sexual assault for his ex-wife during a deposition. When confronted with the photo during the deposition, Trump said, "That's Marla, yeah." "That's Marla, yeah. When Trump made the mix-up, his lawyer, Alina Habba, appeared to correct him and point out that the woman was Carroll. Trump in his deposition repeatedly doubled down on his stance that he would never have found Carroll attractive.

Former President Donald Trump unleashed a slew of insults against writer E. Jean Carroll when he was deposed in her civil suit accusing him of rape, newly unsealed court filings show. During the lengthy deposition, Trump was asked about a post he wrote on Truth Social shortly before his testimony claiming that Carroll's story was "a hoax." Roberta Kaplan, Carroll's lawyer, then asked him about writing in the post that Carroll said Trump had "swooned her" inside the store. Didn’t she say that?” Trump continued, before indicating he was referring to Carroll's 2019 interview on CNN with Anderson Cooper. When Cooper said that most people think of rape as a violent assault, she responded, “Most people think of rape as sexy.

☆ Trump called E. Jean Carroll's lawyer a 'political operative' and 'a disgrace' during a contentious deposition, and threatened to sue her
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-13 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Portions of Trump's deposition in E. Jean Carroll's defamation suit were unsealed Friday. In it, he attacks Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, threatening to sue her personally. At another point in the deposition Trump referred to Kaplan as being friends with "Cuomo." Carroll's deposition currently has a trial date set for April 10, but it's unclear if it will make it that far. Carroll initially wasn't able to sue Trump for the alleged assault, because the statute of limitations had expired.

☆ 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.

☆ Trump's lawyers keep getting slammed for filing conspiratorial lawsuits. Here are the 16 sanctioned so far.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Lawyers representing Trump keep getting sanctioned by courts. Sixteen different lawyers have been sanctioned over failed lawsuits brought on the former president's behalf. Many of Trump's lawyers, even if they are not sanctioned, end up needing lawyers of their own to ward off the worst consequences. Still, as many 16 lawyers have been personally sanctioned because of their work for Trump, and Insider has compiled a list. The least successful, however, was a sprawling lawsuit Trump filed against Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee, and several other figures linked to Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.

☆ Trials, pardons, prison time: How Trump's legal woes could play out and what it means for 2024
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-26 | by ( Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

The warrant also indicated that the Justice Department was investigating whether Trump violated three federal laws, including the Espionage Act, related to the handling of national security information. Here are some possibilities:The investigations conclude with no charges filedIn the US's 250-year history, no ex-commander in chief has ever faced criminal charges. In all, the former president, if convicted, would be facing up to 33 years of incarceration, according to legal experts. That begs the question: If Trump is charged, convicted, and winds up in prison, can he still run for president in 2024? He made headlines during his presidency for wondering why he couldn't have "my guys" at the "Trump Justice Department" do his bidding.

House Democrats are scrutinizing why the Internal Revenue Service failed to fully audit Donald Trump's tax returns when he was in the White House, despite an agency policy mandating such a review. Some insight into the lapse came in a report Tuesday from the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), a bipartisan congressional panel that examined Trump's tax returns from 2015-20. The JCT report was issued Tuesday, after the House Ways and Means Committee voted to make Trump's 2015-20 tax returns public. Trump was the first president not to make his tax returns public since the 1970s. Neal is pressing for legislation that would require the IRS to publish and audit presidential tax returns.

☆ 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.

☆ E. Jean Carroll said in deposition she held back Trump rape allegation to not be seen as 'spoiled goods'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Excerpts from E. Jean Carroll's deposition in her rape lawsuit against Trump were filed in court. She explains she held back her allegation because rape victims were seen as "spoiled goods." Carroll says Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman's changing room in the 1990s. Trump denied Carroll's allegation and called her a liar, prompting Carroll to file a defamation lawsuit against him. In her deposition, Carroll said it took time to understand the impact the alleged attack had on her life.

☆ E. Jean Carroll, writer who accused Trump of 1990s rape, files new lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

NEW YORK — A writer who accused former President Donald Trump of rape filed an upgraded lawsuit against him Thursday in New York, minutes after a new state law took effect allowing victims of sexual violence to sue over attacks that occurred decades ago. Previously, Carroll had been barred by state law from suing over the alleged rape because too many years had passed since the incident. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who presides over the defamation lawsuit Carroll filed three years ago, may decide to include the new claims in a trial likely to occur in the spring. Trump and Carroll also have already been deposed. Attorney Michael Madaio, a lawyer for Trump, said at the hearing that the new allegations are significantly different than the original defamation lawsuit and would require “an entirely new set” of evidence gathering.

He repeated the denial in an Oct. 12 post on his Truth Social account, calling Carroll's claim a "hoax" and "lie," prompting the new defamation claim. That would likely not affect her second lawsuit because Trump is a private citizen, having left the White House in January 2021. To support her battery claim, she said Trump caused her lasting psychological harm, and left her unable to sustain a romantic relationship. She also told the judge a longer delay made sense because Trump had not hired a lawyer for the second lawsuit. Judge Kaplan said he may decide early next week how to schedule both lawsuits.

☆ E. Jean Carroll files a new lawsuit on Thanksgiving accusing Trump of rape
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

E. Jean Carroll has filed a second lawsuit against former President Donald Trump. Carroll alleges Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s. The second complaint stems from Carroll's allegation that Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s. Now Carroll is filing a second lawsuit against Trump for additional comments calling Carroll's story a "Hoax and a lie" in October, and for battery. In the new lawsuit, Carroll's lawyers say the alleged rape caused her "significant pain and suffering, lasting psychological and pecuniary harms, loss of dignity and self-esteem, and invasion of her privacy."

☆ Donald Trump will testify in New York court to defend his business empire
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Donald Trump will testify in person in 2023 to defend his company against New York's $250 million lawsuit. He's the lead defendant in the state attorney general's suit, which seeks to bar him from doing business in the state. The revelation came on Tuesday as lawyers for Trump and the attorney general's office clashed heatedly in court over setting a trial schedule. "Donald Trump and entities would like to have a jury trial," Habba told the judge. "I don't know why I, my staff, not to mention the attorney general's staff need to go through this all against.

☆ Judge tells Trump to hurry up and figure out who's representing him in new E. Jean Carroll lawsuit, saying he's 'known this was coming for months'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The judge presiding over Trump's E. Jean Carroll lawsuit had stern words for the former president. Judge Lewis Kaplan seemed displeased Trump hadn't decided who's representing him in the new lawsuit. E. Jean Carroll in a New York courtroom for her defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump on March 4, 2020. The second lawsuit will contain a complaint of battery and a second complaint of defamation, for comments Trump made about Carroll in October of this year. On the call on Tuesday, Roberta Kaplan said that Trump's lawyers have known their intention to file the second lawsuit since August.

Trump, a Republican, has accused James, a Democrat, of suing him because she dislikes him and his politics. The Trump Organization is now on trial in another Manhattan courtroom on criminal tax fraud charges. Trump also faces a criminal investigation in Georgia into whether he interfered with the 2020 election results in that state. "Who stands to gain from this highly-politicized farse [sic], aside from the politically-compromised Attorney General of the State of New York?" Both testified as prosecution witnesses in the Manhattan criminal trial in which prosecutors accused the company of engaging in tax fraud spanning 15 years.

☆ Trump faced a jury pool 'notorious' for huge damages before settling a lawsuit brought by protesters, experts say
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Donald Trump's lawyers settled a lawsuit brought by protesters at the 11th hour. He faced a likely hostile jury pool notorious for awarding high damages compared to juries in Manhattan or Long Island. Other still images appear to show a protester grabbing a security team member, suggesting Trump's lawyers may have argued he was acting in self-defense. Former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Minden-Tahoe Airport on October 08, 2022 in Minden, Nevada. Cohen also said Trump's lawyers failed to disclose he had knowledge of the day's events, even though they were supposed to.

☆ E. Jean Carroll is suing Trump again. Here's a rundown of all the pending litigation between the two.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-19 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

E. Jean Carroll, who alleges Trump raped her, sued him for defamation more than three years ago. Insider breaks down where the pending litigation between Carroll and Trump stands. That's the day that Carroll plans to file a new lawsuit against Trump, accusing him of battery and defamation, her lawyer explained in a November 17 court filing. With multiple hearings in different courts coming up, Insider breaks down all of the pending litigation between Carroll and Trump, who recently announced he's running for president again in 2024. Five months later, Carroll sued Trump for defamation, alleging he attacked her reputation by claiming she made the story up.

A draft of the lawsuit was included in a Thursday filing by her lawyer Roberta Kaplan in Manhattan federal court, where Carroll is also suing Trump for defamation over an earlier statement about the incident. The proposed lawsuit seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages, and a retraction of Trump's statement. Carroll's earlier lawsuit stemmed from Trump's June 2019 statement denying that he raped her, and saying she concocted their alleged encounter to sell her forthcoming book. Trump's lawyers have proposed a May 8 trial that does not address the second lawsuit, court papers show. The case is Carroll v. Trump, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No.

[1/3] Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks outside a polling station during midterm election in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. November 8, 2022. REUTERS/Ricardo ArduengoNEW YORK, Nov 14 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit by Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen accusing Trump, former Attorney General William Barr and others of abruptly returning him to prison in retaliation for writing a tell-all memoir. Authorities returned Cohen to prison amid a dispute over whether he could speak with the media about his forthcoming book while under home confinement. His book "Disloyal: A Memoir" topped the New York Times' hardcover nonfiction bestseller list in September 2020. Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Leslie AdlerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Michael Cohen blasts ruling tossing his lawsuit alleging Trump weaponized the Justice Department to lock him up as he weighs appeal
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A judge dismissed Michael Cohen's lawsuit against Donald Trump and the DOJ for locking him up. Cohen, once a fixer and personal lawyer for Trump, as well as an executive at the Trump Organization, has turned into a fiery Trump critic. "President Donald J. Trump will continue to fight for the truth and against innumerable falsehoods being perpetrated by his enemies." Cohen followed up the book in question, "Disloyal," in October with the book "Revenge: How Donald Trump Weaponized the US Department of Justice Against His Critics." Michael Cohen, former personal attorney for U.S. President Donald Trump, exits the Loews Regency hotel and walks toward a taxi cab, July 27, 2018 in New York City.

☆ 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.

☆ Donald Trump and his siblings can't be sued by niece Mary Trump over inheritance money, judge rules
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A judge tossed Mary Trump's lawsuit against her uncle Donald Trump and two of his siblings. Roberta Kaplan, an attorney representing Mary Trump, said she would appeal the case. President Donald J. Trump will continue to fight for the truth and against innumerable falsehoods being perpetrated by his enemies." Donald Trump has separately filed a lawsuit against Mary Trump and the New York Times, over the publication of his tax returns obtained through his niece, which remains pending. A representative for the former president didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on the litigation relating to Mary Trump.

☆ Trump Lawyers Sanctioned for Filing ‘Frivolous’ Lawsuit Against Hillary Clinton
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Jan Wolfe | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Alina Habba, with Peter Ticktin, led a group of lawyers for former President Donald Trump in a case dismissed in September. A federal judge in Florida has imposed monetary sanctions on a team of former President Donald Trump’s lawyers, castigating them for filing a “frivolous” lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and other Democrats earlier this year. In a scathing 19-page decision, U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks said a group of lawyers for Mr. Trump, led by Alina Habba and Peter Ticktin, showed a “cavalier attitude towards facts” throughout the brief history of the case.

☆ Judge fined a group of Trump lawyers $50k each for filing meritless and mistake-strewn lawsuit against Hillary Clinton
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A group of Trump lawyers was fined over a failed case alleging a vast pro-Clinton conspiracy. The judge called it a "deliberate use of the judicial system to pursue a political agenda." On Friday, Judge Donald Middlebrooks slammed the failed case, describing it as "a deliberate use of the judicial system to pursue a political agenda." In particular, Trump's lawyers accused Dolan of being the source of the dossier's infamous claims of an encounter between Trump and prostitutes in a Moscow hotel. But the case failed to establish this, and made several basic errors in the process, Middlebrook said.

☆ Judge sanctions Trump lawyers over 'frivolous' collusion lawsuit against Clinton, DNC
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

A federal judge sanctioned attorneys for former President Donald Trump on Thursday as penalty for advancing a "frivolous" lawsuit against a raft of Trump's political enemies, including Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee. "Additional sanctions may be appropriate," the judge noted, after suggesting the lawyers' behavior may require the "attention of the Bar and disciplinary authorities." The sanctions — which require Trump's lawyers to pay $50,000 and compensate a defense attorney's legal fees — came two months after Middlebrooks had tossed out the suit, describing it as a "two-hundred-page political manifesto." "Thirty-one individuals and organizations were summoned to court, forced to hire lawyers to defend against frivolous claims. The judge included an excerpt of Habba's from that Sept. 10 interview, when she slammed Middlebrooks as a "Clinton judge" who "basically ignored every factual basis" for the lawsuit.

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