Members phkrause Posted April 10, 2023 Author Members Posted April 10, 2023 Trump’s indictment and the return of his biggest concern: ‘the women’ In August 2015, at Trump Tower in New York, Donald Trump met with Michael Cohen, then his lawyer and fixer, and David Pecker, then chief executive of American Media, owner of the National Enquirer. According to the indictment of the former president unsealed in New York this week, Pecker agreed to help with Trump’s campaign for the Republican nomination, “looking out for negative stories” about Trump and then alerting Cohen. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/09/trump-indictment-women-stormy-daniels-karen-mcdougal? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
Members phkrause Posted April 12, 2023 Author Members Posted April 12, 2023 Manhattan DA Bragg sues GOP House Judiciary chairman to prevent interference in Trump case Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is suing House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, over what the lawsuit filed Tuesday describes as a “transparent campaign to intimidate and attack” his office’s case against former President Donald Trump. https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/11/politics/alvin-bragg-sues-jim-jordan/index.html? Manhattan DA sues Jim Jordan over Trump indictment inquiry NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg sued Rep. Jim Jordan on Tuesday, an extraordinary move as he seeks to halt a House Judiciary Committee inquiry that the prosecutor contends is a “transparent campaign to intimidate and attack” him over his indictment of former President Donald Trump. https://apnews.com/article/trump-bragg-jordan-lawsuit-investigation-263fffac40bb3a83c6322b1790ab221f? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
Members phkrause Posted April 12, 2023 Author Members Posted April 12, 2023 Trump’s response to criminal charges revives election lies NEW YORK (AP) — Legally, the most important words former President Donald Trump said after he was charged with 34 felonies by the Manhattan District Attorney last week were “not guilty.” But, politically, the most significant may be “election interference.” https://apnews.com/article/trump-2024-election-indictment-election-interference-d97cb9d12f8bdda292deb19ccf14ecc2? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
Members phkrause Posted April 14, 2023 Author Members Posted April 14, 2023 Trump sues his former fixer Michael Cohen for over $500 million The lawsuit, alleging a breach of attorney-client privilege, comes as the former president faces 34 felony charges related to payments Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/12/trump-sues-ex-lawyer-michael-cohen-00091735? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
Members phkrause Posted April 15, 2023 Author Members Posted April 15, 2023 Sorry Doubters, But Bragg Was Right to Indict Trump No, the case isn’t too weak. No, it’s not too politically explosive. And no, Bragg should not have waited for other indictments to come first. https://www.thebulwark.com/sorry-doubters-but-bragg-was-right-to-indict-trump/? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
Members phkrause Posted April 17, 2023 Author Members Posted April 17, 2023 Trump’s House GOP allies take fight to Manhattan DA’s turf NEW YORK (AP) — Republicans upset with Donald Trump’s indictment are escalating their war on the prosecutor who charged him, trying to embarrass Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on his home turf partly by falsely portraying New York City as a place overrun by crime. https://apnews.com/article/trump-bragg-house-judiciary-hearing-indictment-8447027e482d30c94550daeb13b6dc12 Protests as House panel holds NYC hearing on Bragg https://apnews.com/video/politics-donald-trump-indictments-us-republican-party-jim-jordan-5a5462966cb64972acb44e7d2c1f59ea Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
Members phkrause Posted April 28, 2023 Author Members Posted April 28, 2023 Fact check: Eric Trump spreads false claims about Alvin Bragg after Donald Trump's arrest The claim: Alvin Bragg shut down New York City, called up 38,000 officers, closed FDR Drive and spent $200 million in city funds Our rating: False The post misrepresents both what happened and Bragg’s role in city operations. Bragg did not order New York City to be shut down, and that didn't happen. The New York Police Department did close a part of FDR Drive, but this was not on Bragg’s order. Bragg does not oversee the NYPD and has no authority to call up officers. There's no proof the $200 million figure is correct. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/04/07/fact-check-eric-trump-spreads-false-claims-alvin-bragg/11608149002/ Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
Members phkrause Posted May 14, 2023 Author Members Posted May 14, 2023 Former Trump prosecutor mostly mum before Congress on details of hush-money investigation WASHINGTON (AP) — An ex-prosecutor who once oversaw Manhattan’s investigation of former President Donald Trump declined to substantively answer questions at a closed-door deposition Friday of the House Judiciary Committee, according to a Republican lawmaker in the meeting. The prosecutor and his boss said he was merely abiding by grand jury rules. https://apnews.com/article/trump-bragg-jordan-pomerantz-house-investigation-50ffeb205c50dab473153d8de1db3e7f? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
Members phkrause Posted May 20, 2023 Author Members Posted May 20, 2023 Trump’s New Ploy to Knock the Manhattan DA’s Case Down to Misdemeanors When the Manhattan District Attorney finally indicted former President Donald Trump in March, Alvin Bragg made the curious decision to not detail Trump’s crimes in the official indictment—something critics seized on almost immediately to say this was an overblown case. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-ploy-to-knock-the-manhattan-das-case-down-to-misdemeanors? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
Members phkrause Posted May 25, 2023 Author Members Posted May 25, 2023 Trump makes video appearance in New York criminal case, trial date set for March primary season NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump threw up his hands in frustration Tuesday as a judge scheduled his criminal trial for March 25, putting the former president and current candidate in a Manhattan courtroom in the heat of next year’s presidential primary season. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-criminal-case-manhattan-cc2dbf565678eeaf8246a96b0fd1f461? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
Members phkrause Posted May 28, 2023 Author Members Posted May 28, 2023 Prosecutors in Trump's criminal case say they have recording of Trump and a witness Prosecutors in former President Donald Trump's Manhattan criminal case have released to his attorneys a recording of Trump and a witness, whose identity was not disclosed, according to a document the office made public Friday. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-criminal-case-prosecutors-recording-of-trump-and-a-witness/? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
Members phkrause Posted June 2, 2023 Author Members Posted June 2, 2023 Donald Trump’s legal team and Manhattan prosecutors spar over where he will stand trial NEW YORK (AP) — Ten months before Donald Trump is scheduled to stand trial in his historic New York City criminal case, Manhattan prosecutors are turning the former president’s words against him in a tug of war over precisely where he will be tried. https://apnews.com/article/trump-criminal-case-federal-court-8588ea69a00205e668d71cd3da015ae0 Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
Members phkrause Posted August 1, 2023 Author Members Posted August 1, 2023 Stormy Daniels May Have the Last Word on Donald Trump The New York case, often downplayed as the weakest of four potential indictments against the ex-president, could be his biggest legal threat. https://theintercept.com/2023/07/30/trump-indictments-stormy-daniels-pardon/? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
Members phkrause Posted August 2, 2023 Author Members Posted August 2, 2023 Trump’s Rape Trial Testimony Is Already Coming Back to Haunt Him The Manhattan DA wants to use Trump’s deposition in the E. Jean Carroll rape lawsuit to show how desperate he was to keep sexual allegations against him secret. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-e-jean-carrol-rape-trial-testimony-is-already-coming-back-to-haunt-him-in-manhattan-da-case? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
Members phkrause Posted August 16, 2023 Author Members Posted August 16, 2023 Trump’s Bid to Sink the Manhattan DA’s Case Has Already Made It Stronger Trump tried to drag the Manhattan DA into federal court and failed. Now a judge’s order in that case can be used to persuade a state court that Trump’s charges should stick. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-bid-to-sink-the-manhattan-da-alvin-braggs-case-has-already-made-it-stronger? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
Members phkrause Posted August 17, 2023 Author Members Posted August 17, 2023 Trump's bid to remove judge in hush-money case is rejected Judge Juan Merchan declined to recuse himself from overseeing the case. https://abcnews.go.com/US/trumps-bid-remove-judge-hush-money-case-rejected/story? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
Members phkrause Posted February 15, 2024 Author Members Posted February 15, 2024 A judge is expected to rule on whether Donald Trump will go on trial in New York Donald Trump is expected to be back in a New York court Thursday for a hearing that could decide whether the former president’s first criminal trial begins in just 39 days. Read more. Key points: This would be Trump’s first visit to court in the New York criminal case since a historic indictment that made him the only ex-president ever charged with a crime. It would also be the first of Trump’s four criminal cases to go to trial, if things go as Judge Juan Manuel Merchan has planned. Thursday’s proceeding is part of a busy, overlapping stretch of legal activity for the Republican presidential front-runner, who has increasingly made his legal entanglements part of his political campaign. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ Special counsel asks Supreme Court to let Trump’s 2020 election case proceed to trial without delay Will Fani Willis be removed from the Georgia election case against Donald Trump? Judge to hear arguments Putin says Russia prefers Biden to Trump because he’s ‘more experienced and predictable’ Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
Members phkrause Posted February 16, 2024 Author Members Posted February 16, 2024 Trump’s New York hush-money case will start March 25. It’s the first of his criminal trials NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s hush-money trial will go ahead as scheduled with jury selection starting March 25, a New York judge ruled Thursday, turning aside demands for delay from the former president’s defense lawyers, who argued it would interfere with his campaign to retake the White House. https://apnews.com/article/trump-hush-money-new-york-criminal-case-fbdff18df40920b75873b3a40317f5ee? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
Members phkrause Posted March 14, 2024 Author Members Posted March 14, 2024 Prosecutors support 30-day delay in Trump's New York criminal trial The Manhattan District Attorney's office said Thursday that it does not oppose a 30-day delay in former President Trump's New York criminal trial, because of the production of thousands of new records. https://www.axios.com/2024/03/14/trump-new-york-criminal-trial-delay-alvin-bragg? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
Members phkrause Posted March 26, 2024 Author Members Posted March 26, 2024 Donald Trump Trial Could Be Over By May Former President Donald Trump's trial into hush money payments he allegedly made during his 2016 presidential campaign could be over as soon as May, legal experts told Newsweek. https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-trial-date-hush-money-1883240 Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
Members phkrause Posted March 26, 2024 Author Members Posted March 26, 2024 Judge issues gag order barring Donald Trump from commenting on witnesses, others in hush money case NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge Tuesday issued a gag order barring Donald Trump from commenting publicly about witnesses, prosecutors, court staff and jurors in his upcoming hush-money criminal trial, citing the former president’s history of “threatening, inflammatory, denigrating” remarks about people involved in his legal cases. https://apnews.com/article/trump-gag-order-hush-money-new-york-68317dee722581bfbde51c305788b614? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
Members phkrause Posted March 28, 2024 Author Members Posted March 28, 2024 Donald Trump assails judge and his daughter after gag order in New York hush-money criminal case NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump lashed out Wednesday at the New York judge who put him under a gag order ahead of his April 15 hush-money criminal trial, making a fallacious claim about his daughter and urging him to step aside from the case. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-judge-merchan-hush-money-gag-order-truth-social-daughter-578a0c6334b206d81dc2ebf6a410a502? ps:Is this all he knows how to do? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
Members phkrause Posted April 4, 2024 Author Members Posted April 4, 2024 Judge rejects Donald Trump’s request to delay hush-money trial until Supreme Court rules on immunity NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump’s bid to delay his April 15 hush money criminal trial until the Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity claims he raised in another of his criminal cases — spurning another of the former president’s ploys to put off the historic trial. Several more are pending. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-hush-money-criminal-trial-immunity-0703a3406016cf971fb07c0a211fd38e? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
Members phkrause Posted April 6, 2024 Author Members Posted April 6, 2024 Donald Trump is demanding a new judge just days before the start of his hush-money criminal trial NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is demanding a new judge just days before his hush-money criminal trial is set to begin, rehashing longstanding grievances with the current judge in a long-shot, eleventh-hour bid to disrupt and delay the case. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-stormy-daniels-hush-money-subpoena-documentary-nbc-47f19d4a5134c49b6ea33cc2be0b55fd? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
Members phkrause Posted April 10, 2024 Author Members Posted April 10, 2024 Appeals court rejects Donald Trump’s latest attempt to delay April 15 hush money criminal trial NEW YORK (AP) — A New York appeals court judge Tuesday rejected Donald Trump’s latest attempt to delay his hush money criminal trial, taking just 12 minutes to swat aside an argument that it should be postponed while the former president fights a gag order. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-gag-order-hush-money-juan-merchan-0a10c7ee0236f760ce50c05cafb163ef? Judge rejects latest Trump attempt to delay New York criminal trial A New York appeals court on Tuesday rejected another request by former President Trump to delay his hush money criminal trial. https://www.axios.com/2024/04/09/trump-new-york-criminal-trial-delay-2024? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
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