I thought he had "all the best words". It's laughable that Trump's lawyers are trying to get his answers removed from a deposition because his words "would be 'predjudicial' to his defense"
Trump loses bid to stay New York contempt of court order and avoid $10K daily fine https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/03/tru...-of-court-order-and-avoid-10k-daily-fine.html Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday lost an effort at a New York appeals court to stay a contempt of court order, and as a result, still owes a fine of $10,000 per day. Trump was found in contempt for failing to comply with a subpoena from Attorney General Letitia James seeking records she wants for her civil probe of the Trump Organization. James is investigating allegations that the company improperly manipulated the stated valuations of real estate assets to obtain more favorable financial terms on loans, insurance and taxes. Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday lost an effort at a New York appeals court to stay a contempt order, and as a result still owes a fine of $10,000 per day. Trump on April 25 was found in contempt by Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron for failing to comply with a subpoena from New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is seeking records for her civil investigation of his company, the Trump Organization. James is investigating allegations that the Trump Organization improperly manipulated the stated valuations of real estate assets to obtain more favorable financial terms on loans, insurance and taxes. Engoron imposed the $10,000 daily fine until he was satisfied that Trump had complied with the subpoena. The judge on Friday kept that fine and contempt order in place, saying that new affidavits by Trump and his lawyers, who claimed they could not find the documents being sought, were not sufficient proof of his compliance with the subpoena. Trump’s lawyer on Monday asked the Appellate Division of the First Judicial Department to stay Engoron’s contempt order as he appeals the judge’s finding. The lawyer, Alina Habba, argued in a filing that the contempt order was “unconscionable and indefensible.” That division rejected the stay request the next day, according to a written decision. “Interim application denied,” the division said the decision, which did not offer an explanation for the denial. Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the decision Tuesday, which left her client owing $80,000 in contempt penalties to date. Earlier Tuesday, the District of Columbia’s attorney general announced that the Trump Organization and Trump’s presidential inaugural committee had agreed to pay that city $750,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging those entities and the Trump hotel there illegally misused funds from the nonprofit committee to enrich the Trump family. The Trump defendants did not admit wrongdoing as part of that settlement. On Monday, a grand jury was seated in Atlanta as part of a criminal probe there into whether Trump violated the law by trying to get Georgia officials to overturn the 2020 presidential election in that state, which he lost to President Joe Biden.
So Trump had court setbacks in New York this past week -- plus the prosecutor in Georgia closing in. Georgia prosecutor has the goods on Trump to prove election 'criminal intent': former US Attorney https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-georgia-2657408597/
NY AG Letitia James is cooking up a lawsuit that could bring down Trump's business empire https://www.businessinsider.com/ny-...ion-grilling-donald-trump-organization-2022-5
Former Trump aide Navarro says he has received a grand jury subpoena related to Jan. 6 He claims they have asked for records of “any communications” with the former president. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/30/peter-navarro-grand-jury-trump-00035904
Nice of her to get New Yonkers to pay for this obsessive legal hunt This worries businesses who now feel that if they are susceptible to a legal attacks based on political beliefs. She also did the same to the NRA until they moved Is this quote any way to administer law.....He is guilty and now we look for facts... "Oh, we're definitely gonna sue him," she vowed in an Instagram post shared November 7, 2018, the day after New Yorkers decisively elected her to be New York's top law-enforcement officer. "We're going to be a real pain in the ass," she promised, dressed in her trademark power-red and grinning broadly on that warm, windy day. "He's going to know my name personally."
Trump May Be Charged for Trying to Overthrow Election by End of the Month https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...throw-election-by-end-of-the-month/ar-AAYjF6W Former President Donald Trump could face his first charges for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election as early as this month. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis told the Associated Press that she expects to come to a decision on whether her office will charge the former president by June 30 for allegedly attempting to overthrow the results in Georgia. "I certainly think that in the first half of the year that decision will be made," Willis said in January. Willis has been investigating Trump's efforts to intervene in Georgia's 2020 election for more than 16 months. Trump lost the state by a narrow margin of 0.23 points. The district attorney has ramped up her investigation in recent months, interviewing more than four dozen people in the state and reportedly subpoenaing a number of state officials, including Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who recently won the GOP nomination for re-election despite Trump's efforts to replace him for failing to help him "find 11,780 votes." Earlier this year, Willis was granted approval for a special grand jury and has requested backup security from the FBI amid her investigation, citing the January 6 Capitol riot. But she has held off on having witnesses testify before the jury. "I don't want anyone to say 'oh, she's doing this because she wants to influence the outcome of this upcoming election,'" Willis, a Democrat, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about waiting until after the state's primaries. "The people will decide the outcome of this upcoming election. It will have nothing to do with this district attorney's office." She also previously told Atlanta's WSB-TV2 in February,"Anyone who violates the law will be prosecuted, no matter what their social status is. No matter what their economics are, no matter what their race or gender is. We are not going to treat anyone differently." Legal experts are anticipating that Willis' probe will likely lead to criminal charges for Trump, and suggest that those charges could be the first of many across the country. "It wouldn't surprise me for Georgia to become the first jurisdiction to indict a former president on felony charges. I doubt it'll be the last. And I think the charges will stick," Laurence Tribe, professor emeritus of constitutional law at Harvard University, tweeted last month. Trump, on the other hand, has continued to criticize the investigation, declaring it a "witch hunt" and slamming Willis on social media platform Truth Social for going "after me instead of the people that Rigged and Stole" the 2020 election.
Ex-Watergate Prosecutor Says Georgia Probe Is The One That Could 'Send Trump To Jail' Nick Akerman said Trump has "zero defense" against a criminal probe into 2020 election meddling in Georgia. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ex-w...rump-georgia-probe_n_62afb663e4b06594c1d84f4d