Month: February 2024

AdvertisementSupported byNew research finds that former President Donald J. Trump’s tariffs did not bring back U.S. jobs, but voters appeared to reward him for the levies anyway.By Ana SwansonAna Swanson has covered trade policy under the Trump and Biden administrations.The sweeping tariffs that former President Donald J. Trump imposed on China and other American trading…
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South Carolina goes to the polls Saturday, offering the first official primary test for President Biden. The president has invested heavily in the state and comes off a win in New Hampshire’s unsanctioned primary last month as a write-in candidate. Democratic strategists said the attention Biden has given to the state should pay off in…
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Hear why attorney says Trump threw papers during deposition  CNNsource

Left: Former President Donald Trump, center, sits at the defense table at New York Supreme Court, Dec. 7, 2023, in New York City. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, Pool, File)./Right: Special counsel Jack Smith speaks about an indictment of former President Donald Trump, Aug. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File).Special counsel Jack Smith revealed new details…
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WASHINGTON POST VIA AP / JAN. 12Special prosecutor Nathan Wade speaks during a motions hearing for former President Donald Trump’s election interference case last month in Atlanta.ASSOCIATED PRESS / AUG. 14Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis speaks in the Fulton County Government Center in Atlanta in August. ATLANTA >> Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis…
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ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeAttorney Roberta Kaplan, who most recently represented E. Jean Carroll against Donald Trump, recounted in a podcast interview released Friday that the former president got angry during a deposition after he learned that his lawyers agreed to provide her lunch and in a separate…
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Watch CBS News By Aimee Picchi Edited By Anne Marie Lee February 2, 2024 / 2:26 PM EST / CBS News A tax provision that is part of President Donald Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act could be in line for a last-minute overhaul, potentially delivering bigger tax refunds this year to millions of…
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Get local news delivered to your inbox!Trump’s political committees spent over $50 million on legal bills in 2023. His leadership PAC, Save America, spent nearly $26 million on legal fees alone in the second half of 2023. Save America had $100 million in its war chest in 2020 but ended 2023 with just $5.1 million.…
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Trump says he would not reappoint Fed Chair Jerome Powell  CNNsource

Trump’s 2020 federal election trial postponed on appeal  Axiossource

Donald Trump is once again being accused of throwing things in a fit of rage, but this time it’s by attorney Roberta Kaplan.The attorney — well known for representing writer E. Jean Carroll against Trump — claimed that during a deposition at Mar-a-Lago on a separate case involving a company called ACN, Trump got so…
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Former national security adviser John Bolton said President Biden has “pretty well nailed” it by reportedly calling former President Trump, his likely chief reelection rival, a “f‑‑‑ing a‑‑‑‑‑‑,” per a report in Politico. During his appearance on CNN Friday morning, Bolton was asked by anchor John Berman how closely Biden’s choice of words in private about…
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The trial had been scheduled to get underway on March 4.The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's federal election interference trial has postponed the March 4 trial date until a new trial schedule can be set.U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan says she will set a new schedule for the case after an appeals court resolves…
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Legal Judge Tanya Chutkan’s decision was widely expected amid Trump’s effort to have courts declare him immune from the charges. Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump motions after speaking at a campaign event Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024, in Las Vegas. | John Locher/AP By Kyle Cheney 02/02/2024 04:04 PM EST Link CopiedDonald Trump’s March…
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Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis responds to misconduct claims  NPRsource

Fani T. Willis, the Atlanta-area district attorney prosecuting Donald Trump for alleged election interference, has acknowledged having a “personal relationship” with the outside lawyer she appointed to lead the case — potentially imperiling it.Here’s what’s going on and what could happen.One of Trump’s co-defendants, Mike Roman, accused Willis of having a relationship with the case’s…
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Former President Donald Trump is reminding Americans that he doesn’t much care for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, the central banker he appointed in 2017. It’s actually quite a bit worse than that. This time, Trump accused Powell of being “political” and working to help President Joe Biden with his reelection. “I think he’s going to do…
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Help keep Salon independentTrump lawyer Alina Habba on Monday claimed that the judge who oversaw the former president’s defamation trial has a conflict of interest and argued that it may warrant overturning writer E. Jean Carroll’s $83.3 million jury award.Habba in a letter to the federal court in Manhattan cited a Jan. 27 New York…
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Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, Saturday, March 4, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md.Alex Brandon/APFormer President Donald Trump’s lawyers in Illinois hope to put on hold a lawsuit that aims to knock him off the state’s primary ballot based on the claim that he is…
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Legal The Fulton County district attorney disputed claims that her relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade posed a conflict of interest. Efforts by Donald Trump and his co-defendants to disqualify Fani Willis from the case due to the relationship were a "public relations strategy" meant to hamstring the probe, Willis said. | John Bazemore/AP By…
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Help keep Salon independentPresident Joe Biden has railed against former President Donald Trump in private, calling the GOP frontrunner a “sick f**k” to longtime friends and close aides, according to Politico.The president appeared to nearly slip during a speech on the anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack last month.“At his rally, he jokes about an…
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Trump blasts Powell as ‘political’ as Fed weighs rate cuts  The Hillsource

SEARCHAndrea Hastings said her team learned of the alleged affair between Fani Willis and Nathan Wade “immediately before Christmas” and filed their request after the New Year.Senior National ReporterThe divorce lawyer representing Georgia special prosecutor Nathan Wade’s estranged wife denied allegations on Wednesday that she coordinated her request to subpoena Fani Willis with a Donald…
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Fulton county district attorney is behind racketeering charges against ex-president over attempts to overturn 2020 electionThe case brought against Donald Trump in Georgia is a powerful, sprawling indictment that charges the former US president and his top allies with violating the state’s racketeering statute over their efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.In…
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