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Former President Donald Trump will be fined thousands of dollars beginning Tuesday for failing to comply with a subpoena from the New York attorney general, ...

Trump's attorney, Alina Habba, said that they had searched and found no documents to provide investigators other than the 10 previously turned over by the Trump Organization. Not only did Mr. Trump fail to submit an affidavit himself, which this Court believes would have been the best practice, as he is the most obvious person to affirm where any responsive documents in his possession, custody, and control would be located, but the attorney affirmation submitted on behalf of Mr. Trump contained only conclusory statements, rather than details of a diligent search," the judge wrote. The order is signed and dated April 26.

Former President Donald J. Trump was ordered to turn over materials sought by Letitia James, the New York attorney general, and will be fined $10000 per day ...

Ms. Habba repeated in court that the Trump Organization had searched the locations in question. The lawyer, Andrew Amer, mentioned a number of relevant files known to his office, including those kept in storage closets and file cabinets at Trump Tower. Mr. Trump’s lawyers had said the requests were “grossly overbroad” and did not “adequately” describe the requested materials. He was elevated to serve as an acting State Supreme Court Justice in 2013 and elected to the State Supreme Court bench in 2015. Justice Engoron, a Democrat, was first elected to the New York City Civil Court in 2003. The ruling on Monday is a blow for Mr. Trump as he continues to battle the attorney general’s investigation. After Ms. James subpoenaed Mr. Trump in December, lawyers for the former president argued that they conducted a thorough search for the records being sought by her investigators and found no new documents to provide. (In the fall of 2020, Ms. James questioned another of Mr. Trump’s children, Eric Trump.) Ms. Habba said after the hearing ended that she intended to file such a statement. “This does not even come close to meeting the standard on a motion for contempt.” Mr. Bragg, also a Democrat, inherited the inquiry from his predecessor after taking office on Jan. 1. That action is likely to be a lawsuit.

On Monday, during a trip to the US-Mexico border, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was asked why he had lied about the idea of asking then-President ...

Burns and Martin reported that McCarthy had talked to Republicans about telling Trump he should resign. He says he misunderstood the question to be whether he had ever asked Trump to resign. He said the Times report was totally wrong.

What do we tell our kids? We used to tell them it was wrong to tell a lie. But we can't tell them that anymore. Not after House Minority Leader Kevin ...

We invite you to join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter. We used to tell them it was wrong to tell a lie. We might as well tell them the truth. That was especially true of presidents of the United States, who would never, ever tell a lie! It’s not only wrong to tell a lie; it’s a sin. And he slunk out of office on another big lie that he continues to repeat to this day: that he, not Joe Biden, actually won the election.

Alina Habba, an attorney for Donald Trump, says they will file an appeal of New York State Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron's decision that Trump is in ...

That appraisal was submitted to the Internal Revenue Service to obtain a tax benefit from a conservation easement donation on the Seven Springs property.” Examples might be placing a high value on property that was going to be used in a conservation easement and a tax deduction sought while having given the same property a low value for purposes of determining real estate taxes. In a second ruling, Engoron ordered real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield to comply with subpoenas from James’ office related to the investigation.

When the history of the Donald Trump era is written, a special place in the whole saga should be reserved for David Perdue. The former senator has debased ...

It could mean GOP voters aren’t swayed by the argument that they should elect a governor for the express purpose of subverting future elections. And Perdue is wagering that GOP voters’ angst over losing in 2020 will make them ripe marks. Let’s state this plainly: This is central to Perdue’s case for why GOP primary voters should pick him as governor. Trump endorsed Perdue for the explicit purpose of ousting Kemp as payback for that heresy. News reports regularly say Republicans are running on Trump’s “big lie.” But that suggests they are merely re-litigating his loss out of twisted loyalty to him. A new poll from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows Perdue trailing Kemp by an astonishing 53-to-27 percent among likely voters in next month’s GOP primary.

Former President Donald Trump had fought a subpoena issued by New York Attorney General Letitia James as part of her probe of the Trump Organization.

The order left open the possibility that Trump could satisfy the subpoena by detailing in a sworn statement that he had conducted a thorough search for the records, which his lawyer has claimed he was unable to find. "Once again, Cushman & Wakefield affirms that we stand behind our appraisals and appraisers." A New York judge said that Donald Trump would have to start paying a fine of $10,000 per day on Tuesday after finding him in contempt of court for failing to comply with a state Attorney General's Office subpoena for business-related documents. The judge said Trump would have to pay $10,000 per day until he satisfies the judge that he has complied with the subpoena. - Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron said the former president had "willfully disobeyed" his order to comply with a subpoena for business-related documents issued by the office of New York State Attorney General Letitia James. - A judge said that Donald Trump would have to start paying a $10,000 per day contempt-of-court fine immediately.

A judge has found former President Donald Trump in contempt of court. Trump was ordered to pay $10000 a day for failure to respond to a subpoena during a ...

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Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen threw his former boss under the bus on Monday, appearing to contradict claims that the former president does not possess ...

"I feel like there's an 800-pound gorilla in the room, and that is, why don't we have an affidavit from him?" Weisselberg, who had served as the CFO of the Trump Organization, was indicted on a tax evasion scheme last year and subsequently left his leadership role at the company. James's office wanted three mobile devices Trump used and documents in filing cabinets near his office, according to court documents. Part of what Engoron appeared to want from Trump was confirmation that his team conducted a thorough search. But on deadline day, his lawyer raised a fresh set of objections and failed to comply. "Thank God for this judge who is now finally holding Donald Trump accountable for something," he said in a reaction video posted to Meidas Touch's YouTube page.

He apparently thinks that baseless claim will be of comfort to the grieving families and friends of “all those people [who] are dead.”

Obviously, this is a completely ridiculous thing to say, made more ridiculous by the fact that there is zero evidence the election was rigged. “Sure, who wouldn’t? What’s happening is horrible,” Trump said, calling the situation “such a stupid war.” But, of course, he couldn’t help himself. Of course, this isn’t the first time Trump has claimed that if he was in office, Putin wouldn’t have attacked Ukraine, an assessment his former advisers have said is bullshit, noting the 45th president’s slavish devotion to the Russian leader, that he “barely knew where Ukraine was,” and the fact that, more than likely, Russia didn’t not invade Ukraine while Trump was in office because it was scared of him but because it wasn’t ready, and was probably content to let him destroy NATO on his own.

For once, former president Donald Trump was actually pressed on his claims. He had nothing.

There was a lot of other evidence across the board debunking each and every claim that Trump elevated. “I tried to walk the President through this earlier but he won’t have any of it,” Miller wrote. Morgan did appear to have tried to crack the defensive wall Trump has built around his ego. It’s all very nebulous, and promoted by a guy who claimed with zero evidence after the 2016 election that millions of illegal votes had been cast against Trump — a claim Trump celebrated, naturally. I don’t mean a little bit.” After an aside drawing a tired and inaccurate comparison to Hillary Clinton’s complaints about the 2016 election, Trump added: “I have proof — and we have massive proof.” True the Vote didn’t produce this data or the video back in January 2021, when the Capitol attack happened, and the group didn’t have it in November 2020, when Trump first started saying the election had been stolen. This is the case across the board, as even a True the Vote representative admitted. “The press hates to write about it, but that election was rigged and it was stolen,” Trump replied. The short version of the story is that a group called True the Vote bought cellphone geolocation data and used that to try to identify people who made repeated stops at ballot drop boxes before the election. The last time this happened, in a phone interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep, Trump hung up. Trump is also wrong about Morgan having broached the subject. It has been incessant in the nearly 540 days since the election occurred.

The Biden administration on Tuesday announced new energy efficiency regulations that will phase out old-fashioned incandescent lightbulbs.

The new standards will save consumers $3 billion each year in utility costs, the department said. Former President Donald Trump in 2019 rolled back requirements for more energy-efficient lightbulbs, arguing that the standards were not economically justified. Incandescent bulbs, which are the widely recognized glass orbs with glowing wire centers, have been increasingly replaced with more energy-efficient alternatives in recent years.

In a lawsuit's never-before-seen testimony, Donald Trump admitted to personally overseeing the compensation of an executive whose corporate perks have been ...

Dictor even got Trump to admit that he alone had the power. The circumstances are similar to the “fringe benefits” case that prosecutors have launched against the Trump Organization and its former chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, who were indicted last summer for tax fraud. But the Monday morning session took a turn when Dictor repeatedly asked about Calamari, who once served as Trump’s personal bodyguard. “President Trump answered every single question that was asked of him at his deposition today. No, but generally it would be me,” Trump said. That’s why people can invoke their Fifth Amendment protections against self-incrimination at civil proceedings as well as criminal,” said Adam Kaufmann, a partner at the law firm of Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss who previously served as chief of the Manhattan DA’s investigative division. Even though it’s made out of court and is hearsay,” said John Moscow, a renowned former prosecutor who spent 33 years at the Manhattan DA’s office. In Calamari’s case, Manhattan DA investigators have been asking about the corporate perks since at least February 2021, according to one witness who was interviewed by prosecutors. In most states and in the federal judicial system, grand juries can consider evidence that’s deemed hearsay, otherwise defined as statements made out of court. Videos show how company security guards ripped their signs away and punched Galicia when he tried to get it back. According to a transcript of the Oct. 18, 2021 deposition, Trump repeatedly asserted that he—and only he—oversaw the way Matthew Calamari Sr. was paid for his work as the family company’s chief operating officer. In a lawsuit’s never-before-seen testimony, Donald Trump admitted to personally overseeing the compensation of an executive whose corporate perks have been under scrutiny by the Manhattan district attorney, potentially strengthening the case against the former president and his company for tax fraud.

Have you enjoyed your 473-day reprieve from @realdonaldtrump? Think back for a moment. Allow your mind to wander to January 8, 2021 … How did you feel?

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Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell speaks as the Senate reconvenes after protesters stormed the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (CNN) In the ...

And yet, as the days and weeks went by, it became increasingly clear that January 6 wasn't the end for Trump -- not by a long shot. It's striking that McConnell, one of the top political minds in the Republican Party, so badly misjudged how January 6 would play with his party's base. "Former President Trump's actions preceding the riot were a disgraceful dereliction of duty," McConnell said at one point. "There is no question that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of that day," he said at another. He urged them to march to the Capitol building. He had told the crowd

Elon Musk just threw a wrench in the next US presidential election – to the benefit of Donald Trump. With the man thought to be the world's richest buying ...

Already, progressives and liberal commentators and politicians are falling back on the same assumptions that handed Trump a win in 2016: that his outlandish tweets hurt him. He also ran for reelection in a different media landscape, one appropriately chastened by the debacles of 2016: While the Clinton-Trump race was characterized by breathless coverage of Clinton's private email server, in 2020, the country's major media outlets were more careful. Every time Trump tweeted, he had the attention of every political journalist in the country. If Trump is the Republican candidate in 2024, Twitter increases the probability that he loses But Musk is a self-styled free speech absolutist, who has criticized many of Twitter's efforts to reign in trolling and abuse on the platform. Instead of spurring widespread disgust, Trump's unapologetic bigotry sent the left reeling and created a culture of permissiveness on the right -- the filters of propriety and politeness came down, the façade of decency was roughed off.

Donald Trump is on the hook for daily $10000 fines starting on Tuesday after a judge held him in civil contempt for not complying with a court order to ...

The AG filed suit in 2020 alleging that the company and Eric Trump were stonewalling the investigation. James’ office opened up an investigation in 2019 after Congressional testimony from Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen that Trump had exaggerated company assets to get an advantage on loan applications and for tax and insurance purposes. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron on Monday found the former president in contempt for failing to meet the judge’s March 31 deadline to turn over documents to the AG’s office as she probes the Trump Organization’s business dealings.

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump will have to pay a fine of $10000 per day starting on Tuesday until he complies with ...

James is a Democrat. In a written ruling on Tuesday, Engoron wrote that James’ office had “satisfied its burden of demonstrating that Mr. Trump willfully disobeyed a lawful court order” and said Trump must pay $10,000 per day, beginning on Tuesday, until he complies. NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump will have to pay a fine of $10,000 per day starting on Tuesday until he complies with a subpoena from the state attorney general probing his business practices, a New York judge said.

Former President Donald Trump must pay a fine of $10000 per day starting on Tuesday until he complies with a subpoena to hand over material about his ...

The former president previously lost a bid to quash the subpoena, then failed to produce the documents by a court-ordered March 3 deadline, later extended to March 31 at his lawyers' request. James is a Democrat. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com