A New York judge bristles at what he suggested were baseless Trump defense claims of ‘prosecutorial misconduct’ during the hearing Monday.
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Trump asked if U.S. was better off in his last year. In many ways, the answer is no.
Voters in 2020 did not blame Trump for the pandemic, but they did fault his response to it.
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Trump escalates solidarity with Jan. 6 rioters as his own trials close in
While Trump quickly secured the Republican nomination some Republicans are voicing concerns that his misrepresentations of the Jan. 6 attack and the people involved could weaken him with general election voters.
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Trump’s social media company approved to go public, potentially netting former president billions
The former president won’t be able to cash out the deal’s windfall immediately.
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Trump says he has nearly $500 million in cash but doesn’t want to use it to pay N.Y. judgment
To obtain a bond, Trump’s lawyers said he would likely have to put up 120% of the judgment, or more than $557 million.
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Prosecutors say Trump’s hush money trial should start April 15 without further delay
Trump’s criminal trial, the first of a former U.S. president, had been scheduled to begin on Monday. The hush money case is among four criminal indictments against Trump, the Republican Party’s presumptive 2024 presidential nominee.
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Trump’s lawyers keep fighting $454 million fraud appeal bond requirement
Trump’s lawyers want the court to hold off collection, without requiring him to post a bond or otherwise cover the nine-figure judgment, while he appeals the outcome of his recent civil business fraud trial.
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Shadowing Trump’s attacks on mental fitness – his own father’s dementia
Donald Trump’s father’s condition also drove a wedge into his family, which fell into years of lawsuits that alleged in part that Donald Trump sought to take advantage of his father’s dementia to wrest control of the family estate.
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Trump suggests he’d support a national ban on abortions at around 15 weeks
The Republican former president has taken credit for appointing Supreme Court justices who struck down a federally guaranteed right to abortion, and now suggests a federal ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
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Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, praises ‘very valuable’ potential of Gaza’s ‘waterfront property’
‘It’s a little bit of an unfortunate situation there, but I think from Israel’s perspective, I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up,’ said Kushner, a former White House adviser to President Donald Trump.