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The Dramatic Meeting Now Stalling Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Case

An off-hand remark—or a terribly misconstrued one—by a federal prosecutor at a private meeting with a defense attorney in Donald Trump’s...

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Trump Pays $9,000 Fine for Intimidating Jurors and Witnesses

Donald Trump on Thursday paid his $9,000 fine for repeatedly violating a judge’s order and brazenly launching a volley of intimidating attacks...

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Nervous Hope Hicks Takes the Stand—and Won’t Even Glance at Trump

Hope Hicks, Donald Trump’s first political PR guru and presumed holder of all his dirty secrets, testified at the former president’s New York...

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Stormy’s Defiant Ex-Lawyer Tries to Defend Slimy Hush-Money Deal

The B-list celebrity lawyer who scored two hush-money deals for a porn star and a former Playboy model came off as an even shadier character on...

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Judge Refuses to Green Light Angry Trump Posts

Donald Trump tried—and failed—to lure the judge overseeing his New York criminal trial into the position of greenlighting his angry screeds to...

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Trump Trial Shifts Focus To The Dirty World of Hush Money

Jurors on Tuesday got the sense that Donald Trump isn’t being prosecuted in New York for masterminding an airtight hush money deal—he’s actually...

01.05.2024 10

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Hush-Money Judge Slaps Trump With $9,000 Fine for Running His Mouth

The third week of Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York got off to an aggressive start on Tuesday morning, when the former president was swiftly...

30.04.2024 30

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Trump’s Big Complaint About His Criminal Trial: He’s Cold

Donald Trump is on trial for his freedom, staring down the potential of years in jail, and he’s got one big complaint about how it’s going thus...

22.04.2024 10

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Trump Fumes as Judge Orders Him to Sit Like a Dog

The first week of Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York City ended with a power move by the judge, who ordered the former president to take a...

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Trump Trial Finally Has a Jury—After a Week of Hiccups

Donald Trump’s criminal trial is full steam ahead, with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office set to start presenting its case Monday before 18...

19.04.2024 8

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Trump Trial Day 3 Starts With Outed Juror Quitting

The troubles plaguing Donald Trump’s first criminal trial in New York City and its anonymous jury are starting to mount, as a nurse slotted as...

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Courtroom Drama: Judge Accuses Trump of Trying to Intimidate Jurors on Day 2

It’s only the second day of Donald Trump’s New York trial, but the judge has already seen fit to sternly warn the former president to shut up in...

16.04.2024 8

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Trump Is Already Losing in Court—and the Judge Isn’t Playing

The jurors haven’t even been selected yet. The trial really hasn’t even started. But as Donald Trump’s first day in criminal court wrapped up on...

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Manhattan DA Asks Judge to Punish Trump for Contempt on Day One

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office wants the judge overseeing the first trial against a former American president to start it off with a...

15.04.2024 5

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Trump’s Criminal Trial Begins With Vitriol and 42 Questions

After seven years, three tell-all books, two trips to the Supreme Court, and one historic indictment, Donald Trump is finally—officially—the first...

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Trump Bond’s Cayman Connection ‘Stinks to High Heaven’

When the questionably leveraged company that rescued Donald Trump with a last-minute $175 million court bond insured itself with its own parent...

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Retired Generals Say Prospect of Trump Immunity Is Nation’s ‘Greatest Threat’

Donald Trump is two weeks away from asking the Supreme Court to grant him immunity from prosecution for trying to overturn the 2020 election, a move...

10.04.2024 20

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Trump’s $175 Million Bond Is Even Shadier Than It Looks

The little-known insurance company that rescued Donald Trump by providing a last-minute $175 million bank fraud bond isn’t just unlicensed in New...

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Jack Smith Laid a Trap for Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Judge. Cannon Didn’t Take It.

The MAGA-friendly judge overseeing Donald Trump’s trial for hoarding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago has handed prosecutors a minor victory on...

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New York AG Questions If $175 Million Bond Insurer Can Save Trump

The New York Attorney General on Thursday called into question whether the company that swooped to post a $175 million bond for former President...

04.04.2024 8

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Jack Smith Tracks Unhinged Origin of Judge Cannon’s Latest Trump Defense

In his latest counterattack, Special Counsel Jack Smith has revealed how deeply sourced his Donald Trump investigation has become, meticulously...

03.04.2024 9

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How Trump’s Trial Will Complicate His Campaign—But Not Kill It

Donald Trump’s upcoming criminal trial in New York City is set to derail his presidential campaign until June. But his legal problems could...

03.04.2024 10

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The Unhinged Arguments the Supreme Court Is Fielding on Trump Immunity

Retired American generals vehemently say that no, Donald Trump cannot deploy SEAL Team 6 to kill a political rival. Gun groups howl that the United...

30.03.2024 10

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Trump Tells Atlanta Judge Lies Help Get to the Truth

Donald Trump tried to convince a state judge to drop his Georgia election interference case on Thursday, summoning a tortured relationship between...

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Trump Gets Hit With Sweeping Gag Order in Hush Money Trial

The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s upcoming hush money trial in New York hit the former president with a gag order on Tuesday, just one day after...

26.03.2024 3

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Trump Gets a Massive Lifeline on Half-Billion-Dollar Bond

A state appellate court swooped in to save Donald Trump on Monday, just as the clock ran out on a half-billion-dollar bond he was due to post to hold...

25.03.2024 5

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Hush Money Trial Judge Pokes Holes in Trump’s Delay Bid

The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s upcoming hush money case in Manhattan demanded to know why the former president waited until the last minute to...

25.03.2024 30

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DOJ Sat on Cohen Records For Years—Then Dumped Them on Trump

Donald Trump's upcoming Manhattan trial over his Stormy Daniels hush money coverup was unceremoniously delayed last week when federal prosecutors...

22.03.2024 40

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Attorney General Prepares to Seize Trump’s Massive New York Estate

Donald Trump, unable to front a half billion dollars to pay off his recent bank fraud judgment, now effectively has liens placed on his massive,...

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Judge Gives Trump Organization’s Babysitter ‘Enhanced’ Control

The Trump Organization will now be under even more control of a former federal judge who has been monitoring Donald Trump’s eponymous family...

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Judge Rips Into Michael Cohen for Bank Fraud Trial ‘Perjury’

A federal judge on Wednesday refused to cut short Michael Cohen’s post-prison monitoring for tax evasion, blasting the disbarred attorney for...

20.03.2024 8

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Trump Demands Supreme Court Gift Him ‘Absolute Immunity’

Donald Trump on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to grant him “absolute immunity” as a means to kill the federal criminal investigation into his...

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Trump Golf Club Settlement Hangs Alina Habba Out to Dry

Donald Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, paid $82,500 last week to settle a lawsuit alleging that it had silenced a sexually harassed...

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Mar-a-Lago Judge’s Stark Ruling: Jury Sees Secret Files or Trump Wins

The MAGA-friendly federal judge who keeps siding with Donald Trump in his Mar-a-Lago classified records case has forced prosecutors to make a stark...

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Trump Can’t Get $464 Million Appeal Bond, Lawyers Say

Donald Trump simultaneously claims he’s much wealthier than a court says but too broke to appeal the judgment that threatens to take away those very...

18.03.2024 8

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How Trump Got Michael Cohen’s Emails Over DA Objections

For weeks last year, the Manhattan district attorney scrambled to stop Donald Trump from engaging in what prosecutors saw as an invasive revenge...

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Donald Trump’s New York Trial Delayed Until April—or Beyond

A chaotic and last-minute document dump of over 119,000 pages of potential evidence has forced an unexpected delay in Donald Trump’s...

16.03.2024 8

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Trump’s Motion to Dismiss Mar-a-Lago Case Fails, But ‘Vague’ Defense Lives On

Donald Trump failed to convince a federal judge to dismiss the entire Mar-a-Lago case on the notion that the nation’s restrictions on classified...

15.03.2024 6

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Trove of New Docs Throws Wrench Into Trump’s New York Trial Timeline

Donald Trump’s upcoming Stormy Daniels trial could be delayed by a month, after federal investigators turned up 100,000 new documents relevant to...

14.03.2024 4

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E. Jean Carroll’s Lawyers Foil Trump’s Quiet Attempt to Stall $91 Million Payment

When Donald Trump posted the $91.6 million bond on Friday allowing him to appeal the E. Jean Carroll decision without paying her immediately, it set...

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Judge Rules Trump Has to Come Up With $91 Million for E. Jean Carroll Appeal

A federal judge on Thursday denied Donald Trump’s last-minute plea for extra time to front a massive sum of money to appeal his rape defamation...

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DOJ Torches Trump's Arguments for Impunity in Mar-a-Lago Docs Case

Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith argued in court papers on Thursday that the nation’s expansive presidential powers don’t permit...

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Steve Bannon’s Refusal to Pay His Bills Is Costing Him Big

For two years, Steve Bannon has refused to pay the half-million dollars he owes his former lawyer. Now, his refusal to settle his debts has exposed...

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Perjury Plea Opens Up Trump Lawyers to Big Problems

Now that former Trump Organization accountant Allen Weisselberg has pleaded guilty to perjury, the lawyers who defended Donald Trump at his bank fraud...

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Looks Like Trump Accountant Allen Weisselberg Is Headed Back to Jail

After spending nearly three months at New York City’s dreaded Rikers Island jail, longtime Donald Trump finance guru Allen Weisselberg looks like he...

04.03.2024 4

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Trump’s Appeal Could Be Short-Lived for a Simple Reason

Donald Trump is working hard to get an appeal of the $464 million judgment levied against him for committing bank fraud. But if he does fork over the...

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Judge Halts Trump’s Punishment But Not $464 Million Payout

The clock is still ticking on Donald Trump to cough up nearly half a billion dollars for engaging in bank fraud, after an appellate judge refused to...

29.02.2024 9

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Trump Wants a Break on $464 Million Judgment. The AG Says Trump Is Sneaking Assets to Florida.

28.02.2024 4

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Trump Officially Appeals $364 Million Bank Fraud Judgment

Donald Trump and his top lieutenants on Monday appealed every part of a New York judge’s $464 million bank fraud judgment—a sign that the real...

26.02.2024 5

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Right-Wing Org Uses Bonkers Alabama Ruling to Fight Abortion in Florida

Now that Alabama’s supreme court on Friday took the remarkable step of declaring that frozen embryos are “children,” a conservative group is...

20.02.2024 5

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