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New York court orders Trump to pay $83.3 million for defaming Carroll

Trump wasn't in the courtroom for the verdict. A few minutes after it was announced, he continued to fight back on social media

Trump walks out of court during closing arguments of his defamation trial

Former President Donald Trump abruptly walked out on closing arguments at his defamation trial Friday as a lawyer for writer E Jean Carroll urged a jury to award her client at least USD 12 million damages, saying Trump had shattered her reputation and her world by unleashing a flood of hate toward her through his public statements branding her a liar. Just minutes after attorney Roberta Kaplan began her closing argument in Manhattan federal court, Trump suddenly rose from his seat at the defense table and walked toward the exit, pausing to scan the packed courtroom as members of the Secret Service leaped up to follow him out. The unexpected departure prompted Judge Lewis A Kaplan to speak up, briefly interrupting the closing argument to say: The record will reflect that Mr Trump just rose and walked out of the courtroom. The walkout came only minutes after the judge, without the jury present, threatened to send Trump attorney Alina Habba to jail for continuing to talk when he told h

Republican committee plans to declare Trump as 'presumptive 2024 nominee'

The Republican National Committee is expected to consider a resolution next week to declare Donald Trump the party's presumptive 2024 nominee", even though only two states have voted and the former president has nowhere near the requisite number of delegates to clinch the mantle. If approved, the measure would further solidify Trump's control of the party and its operation at a time when former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley is still competing against Trump for the GOP nomination. The measure, according to a draft obtained on Thursday by The Associated Press, declares President Trump as our presumptive 2024 nominee for the office of President of the United States and from this moment forward moves into full general election mode welcoming supporters of all candidates as valued members of Team Trump 2024. RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel already has signalled her approval. On Tuesday, after Haley finished second to Trump in New Hampshire, McDaniel said that while she felt the former .

Donald Trump testifies in court against E Jean Carroll defamation trial

Donald Trump began testifying on Thursday in a New York defamation trial to determine how much he might owe the advice columnist E. Jean Carroll for disparaging her as a liar after she publicly accused him of a decades-old rape in 2019. I just wanted to defend myself, he said in testimony that lasted less than three minutes. Carroll, who is seeking over USD 10 million in damages, was in the courtroom as Trump was sworn in as a witness in Manhattan federal court. Carroll claims Trump ruined her reputation after she accused him for the first time publicly in a memoir of sexually abusing her in spring 1996 in the dressing room of a Manhattan luxury department store. Trump, 77, has vehemently denied the accusations for the last five years and continues to assail Carroll, 80, on the campaign trail as he pursued the presidency as the Republican frontrunner. US District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan in Manhattan has instructed jurors that they must accept the findings of another New York jury th

Trump WH official convicted of defying Jan 6 subpoena to be sentenced

A Trump White House official convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol is set to be sentenced on Thursday. Prosecutors are asking a judge to sentence Peter Navarro to six months behind bars and impose a USD 200,000 fine. He was the second Trump aide to face contempt of Congress charges. Navarro was found guilty of defying a subpoena for documents and a deposition from the House on January 6 committee. Navarro served as a White House trade adviser under then-President Donald Trump and later promoted the Republican's baseless claims of mass voter fraud in the 2020 election he lost. Navarro has vowed to appeal the verdict, saying he couldn't cooperate with the committee because Trump had invoked executive privilege. A judge barred him from making that argument at trial, however, finding that he didn't show Trump had actually invoked it. Justice Department prosecutors say Navarro tri

Trump could testify as trial set to resume in his legal fight with Carroll

Former President Donald Trump could return to a New York courtroom Thursday to defend himself against a lawsuit seeking more than $10 million for things he said about advice columnist E. Jean Carroll after she accused him of sexual assault. Trump's first visit to court on Monday ended abruptly because a juror was ill. The trial has been suspended since then. Carroll's lawyers are expected to finish presenting their case in the morning. If everything goes as planned, Trump could be on the witness stand before a lunch break. Trump is fresh off big victories in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday and the Iowa caucus last week. Carroll, 80, testified at a trial last year in the same courtroom that she was attacked by Trump in the dressing room of a midtown luxury department store in spring 1996. A jury last year agreed that it happened and awarded Carroll $5 million in damages for sexual abuse and defamation. Trump denies ever knowing Carroll and says she made up her claims to sell a

Despite 2 losses, Haley tries to claim victory thus far in president race

Despite losing both Iowa and New Hampshire to Donald Trump,Nikki Haley is nevertheless trying to frame those losses as a victory and vowing to head off a coronation of Trump as the 2024 Republican nominee. The path through the next states to vote, however, may not be any easier. We were thrilled, Haley said during a rally before hundreds of sign-waving fans on Wednesday night in North Charleston, South Carolina, casting her second-place New Hampshire finish as a win given how little support her campaign had in its early days. We got out there, and we did our thing and we said what we had to say, and then Donald Trump got out there and just threw a temper tantrum," Haley added, referencing Trump's primary night remarks in which the former president repeatedly insulted her in a speech far angrier than his remarks after his Iowa victory. Haley did perform better in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary than she had in the Iowa caucuses a week earlier, where she finished third, well behind .

Maine's top court declines to hear appeal of Donald Trump ballot decision

Maine's top court Wednesday evening declined to weigh in on whether former President Donald Trump can stay on the state's ballot, keeping intact a judge's decision that the U.S. Supreme Court must first rule on a similar case in Colorado. Democrat Shenna Bellows concluded that Trump didn't meet ballot qualifications under the insurrection clause in the U.S. Constitution but a judge put that decision on hold pending the Supreme Court's decision on the similar case in Colorado. In a unanimous decision, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court decided to maintain the status quo, rejecting Bellows' interlocutory appeal of the judge's decision requiring her to await the U.S. Supreme Court decision before withdrawing, modifying or upholding her decision to keep Trump off the primary ballot on Super Tuesday. Bellows' decision in December that Trump was ineligible made her the first election official to ban the Republican front-runner from the ballot under the 14th Amendment. In Colorado, the state

Trump preparing to cry foul if he loses election in expected Biden rematch

After he won the New Hampshire Republican primary Tuesday night, former President Donald Trump complained about his main GOP rival, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, about immigration, inflation, and his likely opponent in November, President Joe Biden. One thing he didn't complain about: Voter fraud in the election he had just won. That continues a pattern for Trump as he steamrolls through the GOP presidential primary and toward an increasingly likely November rematch with Biden. While Trump generally refrains from claiming voter fraud in elections he wins, he spends plenty of time laying the groundwork to cry fraud should he lose an upcoming vote. He's already been doing that with an eye toward November's general election. They used COVID to cheat. And they did a lot of other things, too. We're not going to let that happen, Trump said of Democrats in his Tuesday night speech to supporters in New Hampshire. You can never forget history, because if you forget, you never,

Donald Trump races toward 2024 Biden rematch after New Hampshire win

The back-to-back wins put Trump on track to deliver a knockout blow to Haley next month in her home state of South Carolina and turn his attention to all-but-certain rematch with President Joe Biden

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Trump wins New Hampshire GOP primary despite strong showing by Nikki Haley

Donald Trump won the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, tightening his grip on the Republican presidential nomination and bolstering the likelihood of a rematch later this year against President Joe Biden. The result was a setback for former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, who invested significant time and financial resources into winning the state. She was the last major challenger in the race after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis ended his presidential bid over the weekend, allowing her to campaign as the sole alternative to Trump. Haley intensified her criticism of the former president, questioning his mental acuity and pitching herself as a unifying candidate who would usher in generational change. The appeals failed to resonate with enough voters. Trump can now boast of being the first Republican presidential candidate to win open races in Iowa and New Hampshire since both states began leading the election calendar in 1976, a striking sign of how rapidly Republicans have rallied around

Prez Joe Biden wins New Hampshire primary via unusual write-in effort

Biden shunned the primary as a result, but his allies organized hundreds of volunteers - and got help from a super PAC - to spread the word that New Hampshire Democrats could still write in his name

Trump has all but locked up GOP nomination, says Biden-Harris campaign

Former US president Donald Trump has all but locked up the GOP nomination, the Biden-Harris campaign said ON Tuesday after the results of the New Hampshire primary declared him as the winner. Tonight's results confirm Donald Trump has all but locked up the GOP nomination, and the election denying, anti-freedom MAGA movement has completed its takeover of the Republican Party, Biden-Harris 2024 Campaign Manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said in a statement. Rodriguez said Trump is offering Americans the same extreme agenda that has cost Republicans election after election: promising to undermine American democracy, reward the wealthy on the backs of the middle class, and ban abortion nationwide. Joe Biden sees things differently. He's fighting to grow our economy for the middle-class, strengthen our democracy, and protect the rights of every single American. While we work toward November 2024, one thing is increasingly clear today: Donald Trump is headed straight into a general election

Federal appeals court declines review of Trump gag order in Jan 6 case

Trump has tried to challenge the gag order placed on him by Judge Tanya Chutkan late last year through appeals

Biden, Harris to rally on abortion rights as New Hampshire voting starts

This is the first election since the US Supreme Court overturned the federal constitutional right to abortion

Trump seeks control of GOP primary in New Hampshire against Nikki Haley

Donald Trump is aiming for a commanding victory on Tuesday in New Hampshire, securing a sweep of the first two Republican primary races that would make a November rematch with President Joe Biden look more likely than ever. The biggest question is whether Trump's last major rival, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, will be able to eat into his margin or pull off an upset outright. Haley has dedicated significant time and financial resources to New Hampshire, hoping to appeal to its famously independent-minded electorate. In the first results released early on Tuesday, all six registered voters of tiny Dixville Notch cast their ballots for Haley over Trump. The resort town is the only one in New Hampshire this year that opted to vote at midnight. Trump won New Hampshire's Republican primary big during his first run for president in 2016, but some of his allies lost key races during the midterms two years ago. Haley also has to contend with an opponent who has a deep bond with the GOP

Ron DeSantis withdraws from White House race, endorses Trump for 2024

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Sunday announced to withdraw from the GOP's presidential primary race and endorse former US president Donald Trump as the party's nominee. Indian American and the former governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley, 51, is the only Republican left in the race against Trump, 77, who is seeking to enter the White House for the second term. A White House occupant from January 2017 to January 2021, Trump lost to incumbent Joe Biden in 2020 elections. Trump, who is so far the most popular Republican presidential candidate with a majority of the party members supporting him, as per all major polls, won the Iowa Caucus last week and is leading in the New Hampshire primaries which is scheduled for January 23. With the withdrawal by DeSantis, who once was seen as a formidable challenge to Trump, it's now a race of two in the GOP between Trump and Haley. Political pundits now say that the former president is set to be the GOP's nominee and the November 20204 ...

Trump too old, mentally unstable to be US President: Nikki Haley's big claim

Nikki Haley, an Indian-American presidential candidate, has intensified her criticism of fellow Republican Donald Trump. Watch the video to know more

South Carolina representative Nancy Mace backs Trump over Nikki Haley

Donald Trump has picked up another endorsement from Nikki Haley's home state of South Carolina, with Rep. Nancy Mace backing the former president in this year's GOP presidential primary. Mace had stayed out of the 2024 Republican primary as two fellow South Carolinians Haley and Sen. Tim Scott entered the race last year. On Monday, a day ahead of the New Hampshire primary, Mace told The Associated Press that she was backing Trump over Haley, who lives in her congressional district and supported her in 2022 against a Trump-backed challenger. I don't see eye to eye perfectly with any candidate. And until now I've stayed out of it, Mace said. But the time has come to unite behind our nominee. The South Carolina Republican's backing comes as Trump angles to bolster his dominance thus far in Republican balloting, following his record-setting win last week in the Iowa caucuses. Over the weekend, Trump was joined by a slew of South Carolina leaders as he campaigned in New Hampshire, see