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Trump legal team rejects calls for testimony limits in defamation case – Reuters.com

Trump legal team rejects calls for testimony limits in defamation case  Reuters.comsource

End of upcoming E. Jean Carroll trial can be delayed so Trump can testify, judge rules – CBS News

Watch CBS News By Katrina Kaufman, Graham Kates January 15, 2024 / 10:55 AM EST / CBS News Former President Donald Trump may be given an additional opportunity to testify in the second E. Jean Carroll defamation trial days after his defense lawyers rest their case, the judge in the case said Sunday.Trump’s lawyer Alina…
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Iowa Caucus Live Results and Analysis: Trump, Haley and DeSantis Face-Off – The Wall Street Journal

LIVE COVERAGELast Updated:  Jan. 16, 2024 at 1:01 AM ESTDonald Trump won the Iowa caucuses Monday night with Ron DeSantis muscling out a second-place finish over Nikki Haley. The former president scored the largest margin of victory in a competitive GOP Iowa caucus. The Results: With most of the votes counted, the AP said Trump…
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Trump wins 2024 Iowa Republican caucus – NPR

Trump wins 2024 Iowa Republican caucus  NPRsource

Trump wins in Iowa as Republican contest kicks off 2024 presidential race – The Guardian US

AP called race for Trump rapidly, while the battle for second place took much longer, with Ron DeSantis edging out Nikki HaleyDonald Trump won the US’s first election contest of 2024, easily fending off a winnowed field of Republicans who failed to gain as much traction as the cult of personality surrounding the former president.The…
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This Again? In Frozen Iowa, the Press Corps Ponders a Slog of a Campaign. – The New York Times

AdvertisementSupported byMedia MemoSnowstorms, a thinning field of candidates and Donald Trump’s polling lead contributed to a smaller media turnout for the nation’s first caucus.By Michael M. GrynbaumMichael Grynbaum, who reports on media and politics, has covered the Iowa caucuses from Des Moines since 2016.Follow for live updates on the Iowa caucuses.Maybe it was the apocalyptically…
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Donald Trump and writer E Jean Carroll head to court for another trial – BBC.com

A Manhattan jury will hear arguments this week on how much former US president Donald Trump should pay a writer who accused him of rape. This is the second time he will face former Elle magazine columnist E Jean Carroll in court.A jury already found he sexually assaulted and defamed the writer, awarding her $5m…
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Trump cannot deliver closing arguments at NY fraud trial, judge says – Reuters.com

Trump cannot deliver closing arguments at NY fraud trial, judge says  Reuters.comsource

Vivek Ramaswamy dropping out to endorse Donald Trump, campaign says – Des Moines Register

Vivek Ramaswamy is dropping out of the presidential race, his campaign spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin confirmed Monday night.“There’s no path for me to be the next president, absent things we don’t want to see happen in this country,” he said in a speech announcing that he was suspending his campaign after coming in 4th place in…
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Majority of Iowa caucusgoers say Trump conviction wouldn’t affect their support – NBC News

ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeBy Mark MurrayMore than 6-in-10 likely Republican caucusgoers — 61% — say that it doesn’t matter to their support if former President Donald Trump is convicted of a crime before the general election, according to the latest numbers from the new NBC News/Des Moines…
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Trump wins Iowa caucuses in big first step toward a rematch with Biden in 2024 – NBC News

ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeDES MOINES, Iowa — Donald Trump has won the Iowa caucuses, NBC News projects, cementing his firm status as the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination.Trump, who is aiming to be the first former president since Grover Cleveland in the 1890s to return to…
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Trump insults GOP rivals ahead of Iowa caucus night – The Hill

Former President Trump took aim at his Republican rivals on Monday, just hours before Iowans were set to kick off the first presidential election contest of the 2024 cycle.In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump attacked the other GOP candidates for lacking the “America-first” set of values that are associated with his “Make…
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Trump legal news brief: Stormy Daniels says she is 'set to testify' at hush money trial – Yahoo News

Trump legal news brief: Stormy Daniels says she is ‘set to testify’ at hush money trial  Yahoo Newssource

How Donald Trump convinced Republicans his problems were their problems — again – Semafor

Sign up for Semafor Principals: What the White House is reading. Read it now.In this article:Donald Trump campaigned in Iowa over the weekend, but the real closing message — the one that has him up by historic margins in polling — was delivered over a thousand miles away.“This is a political witch hunt that should be…
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The US primaries may be over as quickly as they began if polls are right about Trump – ABC News

If Donald Trump polls as well as predicted in the Iowa caucus, the primaries for the US election may be over as quickly as they beganThe sun never sets on election season in America, but today the debates, TV ads and rallies make way briefly for some actual voting.And this year, the primary season —…
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Iowa caucus 2024: Donald Trump, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis campaign ahead of Republican vote – live updates – BBC.com

Iowa caucus 2024: Donald Trump, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis campaign ahead of Republican vote – live updates  BBC.comsource

Fani Willis defends prosecutor hired for Trump's Georgia election case – Business Insider

Jump to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Sunday defended the qualifications of a special prosecutor she hired for her case against Donald Trump and others over efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia after a defense lawyer accused Willis of professional impropriety.In her first public remarks since the accusation was made in…
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‘An instrument of chaos’: Trump leads polls as Iowa Republicans weigh future of US democracy – The Guardian US

The false belief the 2020 election was stolen is part of some Trump voter’s ideology, while others are turned off by his legal woesAs Iowa Republicans gather on Monday to choose their presidential candidate, a host of big questions surround the potential return of Donald Trump and the future of democracy in the US.Ongoing court…
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Trump, Haley and DeSantis supporters talk Iowa caucuses, issues – ABC News

Iowa is the first contest of the 2024 election.After months of hearing from presidential candidates, Iowans will face frigid temperatures Monday evening as they register their preferences in the first-in-the-nation Republican 2024 caucuses.In a state of a little more than 3 million people, the caucuses — which can take hours to participate in — usually…
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Video: Donald Trump volunteer network trying to make history in Iowa – CNN

Video: Donald Trump volunteer network trying to make history in Iowa  CNNsource

Trump Used Her To Destroy DeSantis. Now, He’s In ‘Wreck-Nikki-Haley Mode’ – Rolling Stone

Just one year ago, Donald Trump and his team were openly welcoming Nikki Haley into the GOP presidential primary, even as the former president was privately trashing her for being a “two-faced” phony who didn’t know when to stop turning against — then back to — him. For much of 2023, Trump, his senior staff,…
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Trump, DeSantis, Haley all leading Biden in new poll – The Hill

The three top GOP presidential candidates are all leading President Biden in a hypothetical general election match-up, according to a new poll.The CBS News/YouGov poll found that former President Trump, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis each edge out Biden in a head-to-head match-up. While Trump remains the clear favorite in the GOP…
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What Stealth Protesters Reveal About Trump's Iowa Competitors – TIME

At a campaign event for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the woman I was interviewing was lying to me. I had approached her near the front of the crowd, where she posed for a photo holding a cherry red DeSantis sign. For someone so proudly signaling her support, she seemed a bit unsure when I asked if…
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Lawyer for E. Jean Carroll suggests Trump misrepresented need to adjourn trial – The Hill

The attorney for writer E. Jean Carroll suggested that the lawyer for former President Trump misrepresented the former president’s need to delay the trial in connection to $10 million in defamation damages that the writer is seeking. Roberta Kaplan, the lawyer for Carroll, submitted a letter to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Saturday regarding the…
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Could anti-Trump warnings backfire? – Financial Times

To read this article for freeRegister nowOnce registered, you can: Then $75 per month. Complete digital access to quality FT journalism. Cancel anytime during your trial.Then $29 per 3 months. Today's FT for easy reading on any device, with a brand new app. Please note this does not include access to ft.com or the FT…
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