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Trump Gag Order Reinstated in New York Fraud Case
30Nov By adminNo Comments
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Trump Gag Order Reinstated in New York Fraud Case

Nov. 30, 2023 12:42 pm ETA New York appeals court Thursday reimposed a gag order forbidding Donald Trump from making public comments about the law clerk advising the judge in the former president’s civil fraud trial.State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron in October first commanded Trump to stop speaking publicly about the judge’s staff after the former president posted a disparaging social-media post about his clerk, Allison Greenfield, a Democrat who has sat directly next to Engoron throughout Trump’s trial.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Trump’s Gag Order Comes Under Appeals Court’s Scrutiny
20Nov By adminNo Comments
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Trump’s Gag Order Comes Under Appeals Court’s Scrutiny

Nov. 20, 2023 12:31 pm ETWASHINGTON—A federal appeals-court panel sharply questioned prosecutors and Donald Trump’s defense lawyers alike on Monday as it weighs whether to affirm restrictions on what the former president can say about his election-interference case.The hearing before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was the latest clash between Trump’s lawyers and special counsel Jack Smith’s team over a gag order issued last month by Trump’s trial judge, Tanya Chutkan.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Trump Builds Out Defense Against New York Fraud Allegations
20Nov By adminNo Comments
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Trump Builds Out Defense Against New York Fraud Allegations

Donald Trump and his lawyers are mounting a multifront defense against the civil fraud case threatening his personal fortune as he seeks to reclaim the White House.Trump’s trial team is heading into its second week calling its own witnesses to rebut the New York attorney general’s claim that the former president deceived banks to secure low-cost loans on major real-estate projects. The roster so far has included an accounting expert whose testimony last week disputed a number of the allegations regarding Trump’s financial disclosures.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Trump, Prosecutors Clash Over Televising Election-Interference Trial
14Nov By adminNo Comments
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Trump, Prosecutors Clash Over Televising Election-Interference Trial

WASHINGTON—Former President Donald Trump has breathed new life into a push by media companies to televise his federal trial on election-subversion charges, but the odds of cameras being in the courtroom remain slim.On Friday, Trump’s lawyers urged U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to allow broadcasting of the trial, scheduled to begin in March, saying that the “prosecution wishes to continue this travesty in darkness” and that “President Trump calls for sunlight.”Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Trump Testimony Sparks Testy Exchanges in New York Civil-Fraud Trial
6Nov By adminNo Comments
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Trump Testimony Sparks Testy Exchanges in New York Civil-Fraud Trial

Updated Nov. 6, 2023 12:14 pm ETA defiant Donald Trump offered a rambling defense of his business empire in sworn testimony Monday, as the judge presiding over his civil-fraud trial repeatedly rebuked him for veering off on tangents while on the witness stand.Trump, wearing a navy suit, blue tie and an American flag pin, took the stand under oath in a Manhattan courtroom to face questioning from the New York attorney general’s office, which alleges he and his business engaged in a lengthy scheme to inflate his worth for financial gain.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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An Angry Trump Has Watched His Civil-Fraud Trial. Now He Will Star In It.
5Nov By adminNo Comments
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An Angry Trump Has Watched His Civil-Fraud Trial. Now He Will Star In It.

Donald Trump is expected to take the witness stand Monday in a Manhattan civil-fraud trial that has featured increasingly charged exchanges between the former president’s lawyers and a judge who could cripple his business empite.Away from cameras and under oath, the 2024 Republican presidential front-runner is expected to face questioning about how his company calculated his net worth and the worth of his assets as it sought hundreds of millions of dollars in loans. Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James alleges Trump for years inflated his worth by billions of dollars to secure unfair financial advantages.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Judge Set to Hear Trump’s Request to Postpone Classified-Documents Trial
1Nov By adminNo Comments
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Judge Set to Hear Trump’s Request to Postpone Classified-Documents Trial

Former President Donald Trump has faced setback after setback in the criminal and civil trials he is facing. His luck could turn in his favor Wednesday.A federal judge in Florida is scheduled to consider Trump’s request to push back the trial in the criminal case accusing the former president of improperly hanging on to classified documents after he left office. She has signaled she is open to the request, as she put the current pretrial schedule on hold pending the Wednesday hearing. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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In Trump Federal Cases, It’s a Tale of Two Judges 
21Oct By adminNo Comments
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In Trump Federal Cases, It’s a Tale of Two Judges 

Updated Oct. 20, 2023 8:18 pm ETJustice might be blind, but the two separate federal prosecutions of former President Donald Trump are showing how differently judges mete it out, coloring the pace and tenor of the high-profile cases months before they come to trial.In a courthouse blocks from the U.S. Capitol, the judge presiding over Trump’s trial on charges of conspiring to reverse the 2020 presidential election agreed this week with prosecutors arguing that the former president’s attacks on the special counsel team and potential witnesses threatened the integrity of the case and should be restricted. When Trump’s lawyer said existing limits on Trump’s contact with witnesses sufficed, the judge, Tanya Chutkan, laughed.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87...
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Former Trump Organization finance chief Allen Weisselberg took the witness stand and said under questioning that the company's financial statements inflated the value and size of some assets, including Donald Trump's penthouse in Trump Tower.
11Oct By adminNo Comments
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Former Trump Organization finance chief Allen Weisselberg took the witness stand and said under questioning that the company's financial statements inflated the value and size of some assets, including Donald Trump's penthouse in Trump Tower.

Former Trump Organization finance chief Allen Weisselberg took the witness stand and said under questioning that the company’s financial statements inflated the value and size of some assets, including Donald Trump’s penthouse in Trump Tower.
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For Trump, the New York Fraud Trial Is Personal
8Oct By adminNo Comments
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For Trump, the New York Fraud Trial Is Personal

Listen to article(2 minutes)Donald Trump faces four criminal indictments, 91 charges and, if convicted, sentences that could exceed his life expectancy. But there is one case that has hit him most personally, friends and associates say: The civil-fraud trial under way in Manhattan.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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