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Trump assails judge in NY fraud lawsuit

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Against him and his company Donald Trump is lashing out at the judge handling the New York attorney general’s fraud lawsuit, calling him “vicious, biased, and mean” just days before the case’s first court hearing in a social media post. Until after the midterm elections on Nov. 8 as a politician he shouldn’t be forced to deal with legal action, the former president, who has been on the losing side of Judge Arthur Engoron’s rulings in the past, coupled Friday’s criticism with complaints. In the Trump Organization’s criminal tax fraud trial following the completion of jury selection on Friday in a separate case, opening statements are set for Monday. For president in 2024 Trump, who has been laying groundwork for a possible comeback run, on the eve of an election that could put Republicans back on his Truth Social platform about having to deal with simultaneous court action in control of one or both houses of Congress grumbled in a post. Trump wrote “In breaking with a long standing and ...

He briefed Trump on foreign contacts, Barrack says

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Against charges of illegal lobbying at his trial on Tuesday Former President Donald Trump’s longtime friend Tom Barrack continued to defend himself, with United Arab Emirates officials as he tried to help Trump better understand Middle East issues telling jurors that he briefed then-candidate Trump on his interactions.  By illegally lobbying the Trump campaign and subsequent administration on behalf of the UAE Barrack, a billionaire California real estate investor, testified for the second day in his own defense as a foreign agent against charges that he acted. Barrack about a meeting he had with a UAE official in the spring of 2016 Barrack’s defense attorney questioned, on the UAE’s behalf where prosecutors have alleged he agreed to become a foreign agent. Including Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort, Emails later showed Barrack telling Trump officials about the meeting. “With Sheikh Tahnoun bin Mohammed Al Nahyan if the purpose of your meeting was to agree with him”, to secretly inf...

NY attorney general sues Donald Trump, family and company

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Former President Donald Trump and his company New York’s attorney general is suing, by accusing business fraud involving some of their most prized assets, including properties in Manhattan, Chicago and Washington, D.C.  The former president’s eldest children as well as two long time executives for the Trump Organization, former CFO Allen Weisselberg and Jeffrey McConney, by Attorney General Letitia James the lawsuit, which follows a three-year civil investigation, also names Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump. “To unjustly enrich himself his net worth by billions of dollars Donald Trump falsely inflated, and thereby cheating all of us, cheated the system”, at the news conference James said. On annual financial statements that were given to potential business partners, banks or tax officials she said her office has investigated what were the company’s fraudulent or misleading valuations for its properties.  The attorney general’s office has said the goal of the frau...

This November Election integrity on the ballot

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  Democracy is on the ballot this November, Democrats and Republicans are peddling a similar campaign message.  Polls show that elections are a top concern. Through measures like vote-by-mail and automatic registration Democrats have long pushed for expanding voting access. While Republicans often oppose those efforts, Former President Donald Trump’s continuing false claims of a stolen election made election integrity a top campaign issue. Trump questioned such election integrity, at a rally this weekend. “We need a win so big that the radical left cannot rig it or steal it from the midterms we are just two months away”, he said. At the forefront of the midterms election integrity is in Arizona. For governor Kari Lake, the Republican nominee has based much of her campaign on questioning the 2020 election results. Lake said that “The reason we have sky-high inflation and can’t afford gasoline or groceries is because we had a rigged stolen election”. She wouldn’t have certified ...