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Trump tells Joe Biden ‘You’re fired’ as he wins South Carolina Republican primary
Donald Trump is appealing his $454m New York civil fraud judgement, challenging the judge’s finding that he lied about his wealth as he grew the real estate empire that launched him to stardom.
The former president’s lawyers filed a notice of appeal on Monday asking the state’s mid-level appeals court to overturn Judge Arthur Engoron’s verdict of 16 February in New York attorney general Letitia James’s lawsuit.
Mr Trump’s attorneys wrote in court papers that they are asking the court to decide whether Judge Engoron “committed errors of law and/or fact” and whether he abused his discretion and/or his jurisdiction.
Mr Trump has otherwise been deriding his rival for the Republican presidential nomination, Nikki Haley, after the Charles Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity Action donor network announced it would no longer be supporting her campaign after she lost the South Carolina primary.
A gleeful Mr Trump wrote on Truth Social that Mr Koch and his partners “got played for suckers right from the beginning”.
The GOP front-runner delivered a rambling victory speech after his fourth straight primary win over the weekend as he turned his sights on Joe Biden, telling the president: “You’re fired!”
The Donald continues to baselessly claim that Joe Biden is orchestrating his legal comeuppance, this time alleging that the Justice Department is deliberately scheduling court hearings to interfere with his campaign, even though many of the investigations into his conduct began long before he even announced his candidacy on 15 November 2022.
He’s also continuing to attack Nikki Haley, demanding that she face up to the reality that she is simply a “bad candidate” – even though almost 40 per cent of South Carolina Republicans voted for her.
Here’s the very latest on this from Alex Woodward.
The former president was found liable for fraudulently inflating his net worth and assets over a decade
Donald Trump is appealing his $454m New York civil fraud judgement, challenging a judge’s finding that he lied about his wealth as he grew the real estate empire that launched him to stardom.
The former president’s lawyers filed a notice of appeal this morning asking the state’s mid-level appeals court to overturn Judge Arthur Engoron’s verdict of 16 February in New York attorney general Letitia James’s lawsuit.
Trump’s attorney’s wrote in court papers that they are asking the appeals court to decide whether Judge Engoron “committed errors of law and/or fact” and whether he abused his discretion and/or his jurisdiction.
You can read the notice of appeal filing in its entirety here.
The reason for the appeal application begins on page 13, with the president’s lawyers arguing that they wish to determine “whether Supreme Court committed errors of law and/or fact, abused its discretion, and/or acted in excess of its jurisdiction by, inter alia, finding all Defendants liable under the second, third, fourth, fifth, and seventh causes of action, finding Defendants Allen Weisselberg and Jeffrey McConney liable under the sixth cause of action, entering disgorgement in favor of Plainiff in the principal sum of $363,894,816.00 plus pre-judgment interest, and entering far-reaching, punitive injunctive relief including, inter alia, enjoining the individual Defendants from serving as officers or directors of a New York corporation or other legal entity, enjoining Defendant President Donald J. Trump and the entity Defendants from applying for loans from any financial institution chartered by or registered with the New York Department of Financial Services, installing an Independent Director of Compliance at the Trump Organization, and extending and enhancing the monitorship of Hon. Barbara Jones for a period of at least three years.”
As this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference drew to a close on Saturday, a straw poll of attendees revealed who they would like to see join Trump on the Republican Party presidential ticket.
Here’s Oliver O’Connell on the results, which may surprise you.
There was a tie for first place as to who should join former president on party’s ticket should he officially win nomination
Here’s Trump in bitchy gossip mode, claiming the estranged British Royal “betrayed the Queen” and that he would not welcome him in the United States as warmly as the Biden administration has if he were back in the White House.
Maryam Zakir-Hussain reports.
Former US president accuses the Duke of Sussex of ‘betraying the Queen’
At one stage in his speech, Trump appeared to confuse his own wife, admittedly now rarely seen in public, with Mercedes Schlapp, wife of CPAC’s chairman Matt Schlapp.
He’s definitely not in cognitive decline though, right guys?
Former president Donald Trump called Melania ‘Mercedes’ as he praised his wife during a speech in Washington DC. The crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) gave the former First Lady a standing ovation as Mr Trump described how “people love her”. “Oh look at that Mercedes, that’s pretty good” he said as the audience stood and applauded. The GOP presidential hopeful was making the keynote speech on 24 February on the same day as voters head to the polls in the South Carolina primary.
Here’s our man repeating a new favourite, notoriety-courting parallel once more, hoping to add a little underworld grit to his otherwise tawdry but glitzy brand.
Donald Trump once again compared himself to infamous mob boss Al Capone during his speech at CPAC on Saturday 24 February. The former president went on to win the South Carolina primary, as he continues to solidify his prospects as the 2024 Republican candidate. “Remember this, I’ve been indicted more times than Alphonse Capone, Scarface,” Mr Trump said. “If he had dinner with you and he didn’t like the smile on your face – thought you were mocking him by smiling – you would be dead before you went home and said hello to your wife.”
This was a particularly telling passage from Trump’s speech on Saturday:
“I’ve watched over the years as politicians get indicted and they start by going to a microphone about two minutes after that.
“‘Ladies and gentlemen, I will be resigning from office today. I will be home go home with my family, my friends, and I will fight for my name.’
“Well, that’s the last you ever hear from that poor guy.
“And with me we have a big voice we have — you can see by this crowd.”
Here’s more from Katie Hawkinson on a characteristically defiant brag that drew a thunderous applause.
The former president faces 91 felony counts across several states as he brags about not stepping down from politics
Before all that, Trump gave his customary headline address at to CPAC on Saturday, in which he delivered a taste of his likely attack lines against Joe Biden
Here’s Eric Garcia’s review.
Former president regularly went on meandering tangents and mocked his successor for his age ahead of his expected victory in South Carolina, as Eric Garcia reports
Ronna McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC), has announced that she will step down from the position on 8 March, three days after Donald Trump takes on challenger Nikki Haley on Super Tuesday.
“The RNC has historically undergone change once we have a nominee and it has always been my intention to honour that tradition,” Ms McDaniel said in a statement.
“I remain committed to winning back the White House and electing Republicans up and down the ballot in November.
She continued: “It has been the honour and privilege of my life to serve the Republican National Committee for seven years as chairwoman to elect Republicans and grow our Party.”
She indicated she would formally tender her resignation at the party’s upcoming spring training meeting in Houston, Texas, in order to “allow our nominee to select a chair of their choosing”.
Here’s more.
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has already endorsed North Carolina Republican Party chairman Michael Whatley as his choice to succeed her
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