Month: January 2024

Help keep Salon independentFormer President Donald Trump's appeal of the $83.3 million verdict in the defamation case brought by E. Jean Carroll is unlikely to succeed, legal experts say."Let me ruin the suspense for everyone. Trump doesn't have an appeal," Nashville lawyer Brian Manookian argued Friday. "I know the talking heads on TV who have never tried…
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E. Jean Carroll ‘Flabbergasted’ at Donald Trump’s Lack of Power at Trial  Newsweeksource

Help keep Salon independentA court-appointed monitor overseeing Donald Trump’s businesses on Friday alerted the judge overseeing his New York fraud case that the former president’s financial disclosures are “incomplete” or “inconsistent.”"I have identified certain deficiencies in the financial information that I have reviewed, including disclosures that are either incomplete, present results inconsistently, and/or contain errors,"…
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The former president claimed his polls against Biden are “so good that investors are projecting that I will win, and that will drive the market up.”

The former president claimed his polls against Biden are “so good that investors are projecting that I will win, and that will drive the market up.”

The former president claimed his polls against Biden are “so good that investors are projecting that I will win, and that will drive the market up.”

Donald Trump Faces Cash Problem  Newsweeksource

“If it will cause him pain for me to give money to certain things, that’s my intent,” Carroll said during her first interview following last week’s $83.3 million verdict.

Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inRapper’s days of trolling the former US president are behind him Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profileSnoop Dogg has explained why he has “nothing but love and…
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Trump, House Republicans plot to kill border deal  Axiossource

A New York jury has decided Donald Trump should pay $83.3m (£65m) for defaming columnist E Jean Carroll in 2019 while he was US president.The penalty in the civil trial is made up of $18.3m for compensatory damages and $65m in punitive damages.Mr Trump was found in a previous civil case to have defamed Ms…
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Note: This story contains graphic descriptions of sexual abuse that may be offensive to some readers or painful to survivors of sexual assault.When E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump went to trial last spring over her sexual assault allegations, a nine-person civil jury found that Trump sexually abused her but that she failed to prove…
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The historians argue that the 14th Amendment provision barring insurrectionists from holding office applies to the front-runner for the GOP nomination.

SEARCHFrom “Find Me the Votes,” a new book about Trump’s bid to rig the 2020 Georgia election, here’s the story of the aide who taped the president demanding voter fraud.It’s been a little more than three years since Donald Trump was caught on tape demanding that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger “find” him 11,780…
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Former President Trump on Monday railed against the Senate bipartisan border deal, saying that the legislation is unnecessary and will only make the border worse. Trump has been blasting the border deal for days as negotiators on both sides of the aisle hammer out the final details of the legislation. A handful of Republican senators…
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AdvertisementSupported byGuest EssayBy Mary ZieglerMs. Ziegler is a law professor and a 2023-24 Guggenheim Fellow. She is the author of “Roe: The History of a National Obsession.”For many Americans who support abortion rights, the election in November will most likely come down to a choice between voting for President Biden and staying home. They won’t…
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Trump seizes on US troops killed and border crisis to sell general election message  CNNsource

A U.S. district judge compared the leaks to the Jan. 6 insurrection.

A U.S. district judge compared the leaks to the Jan. 6 insurrection.

AdvertisementSupported byOn “Meet the Press,” Nikki Haley said she trusted a jury’s judgment in Donald Trump’s sex-assault defamation case, while she tries to peel away the former president’s supporters.By Jonathan Weisman and Jazmine UlloaNikki Haley, searching for a message to dent Donald J. Trump’s appeal with Republican voters, took him to task on Sunday for…
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Former President Trump dug into United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain on Sunday for his endorsement of President Biden, arguing the union leader does not “understand” the future of the automobile industry.Trump, in a Truth Social post Sunday, said he watched Fain’s interview with CBS News’s “Face the Nation” earlier in the day, in…
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Nikki Haley vowed to stay in the Republican presidential primary race at least through Super Tuesday while chiding a tabled plan by the Republican National Committee that called for the party to coalesce around Donald Trump.Haley said she expects to perform better in her home state of South Carolina than in the Iowa Republican caucus and last…
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An attorney for E. Jean Carroll said the lesson from the recent trial with former President Trump was that “lies are gonna catch up to you someday.”“I believe very strongly after today, that the lesson is that actually, no one’s above the law,” Shawn Crowley said in an interview on MSNBC Friday. “And that your…
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Think $83.3 million is a lot of money? Well, hold onto your hat, buster, because this week, New York Judge Arthur Engoron is supposed to announce the penalty he’s slapping on Donald J. Trump in the Trump Organization fraud case.The case, brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James in 2022, accuses Trump of lying…
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GOP Negotiator Defends Border Proposal Amid Trump Pressure  Bloombergsource