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Highlights of Trump's hours on witness stand at his NY civil fraud trial

Donald Trump went off. Again and again. Making the witness stand at his civil fraud trial his podium, the former president laid into the judge who'll decide the case and the New York attorney general who's suing him. During 3 hours of testimony on Monday, the Republican denied Attorney General Letitia James' allegations that he duped banks by exaggerating his wealth on financial statements used to make deals and secure loans. There was no victim. There was no anything," he said. He bragged about his riches, saying he has a lot of cash" and described one of the grown sons he put in charge of his company as a hard working boy." He said of his priorities while president: "My threshold was China, Russia and keeping our country safe." Trump's often verbose responses replete with anecdotes about development projects, the intricacies of property valuations and complaints that he was a victim of a political witch hunt led a frustrated Judge Arthur Engoron to warn: This is not a political

Trump lashes out at judge, NY attorney general as he testifies in trial

A defiant Donald Trump sparred with a New York judge and slammed the state attorney general suing him Monday, using the witness stand at his civil fraud trial to defend his riches and lash out at a case that imperils his real estate empire. The former president's barbed testimony spurred the judge to admonish, This is not a political rally. Trump's long-awaited testimony about property valuations and financial statements was punctuated by personal jabs at state Judge Arthur Engoron, who he said was biased against him, and New York Attorney General Letitia James, whom he derided as a political hack. He proudly boasted of his real estate business I'm worth billions of dollars more than the financial statements" and disputed claims that he had deceived banks and insurers. This is the opposite of fraud, he declared. Referring to James, a Democrat whose office brought the lawsuit, he said, The fraud is her. The testy exchanges and frequent rebukes from the judge underscored Trump's .

Trump defiant at New York fraud trial, judge threatens to cut off testimony

One witness, his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, testified that Trump directed him to doctor financial statements to boost his net worth

Trump's biz, political ambitions to converge as he testifies in civil case

When Donald Trump takes the stand on Monday in a Manhattan courtroom to testify in his civil fraud trial, it will be an undeniable spectacle: A former president and the leading Republican presidential candidate defending himself against allegations that he dramatically inflated his net worth. The charges cut to the very heart of the brand Trump spent decades carefully crafting and put him at risk of losing control of much of his business empire. But the appearance may also mark the beginning of what will likely be a defining feature of the 2024 election if Trump becomes his party's nominee: a major candidate, on trial, using the witness stand as a campaign platform as he eyes a return to the White House while facing multiple criminal indictments. It's going to be a stunning moment. This is dramatic enough if he was simply an ex-president facing these charges. But the fact that he is the overwhelming favorite to run the GOP, it makes this a staggering Monday, said presidential ...

Trump leads in 5 critical states, voters blast Biden over economy: Survey

Times/Siena poll: A majority of voters say Biden's policies have personally hurt them

Nearly 97000 Indians detained trying to enter US illegally in last one year

These intruders primarily hail from Gujarat and Punjab in India and aspire to settle in America

Trump asks appeals court to lift gag order imposed on him in election case

Former President Donald Trump asked a federal appeals court on Thursday to lift a gag order restricting his speech about potential witnesses, prosecutors and court staff in the case that accuses him of scheming to overturn his 2020 election loss. Trump's attorneys urged the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit to block the gag order ruling from US District Judge Tanya Chutkan while the former president pursues his appeals. "The Gag Order violates the First Amendment rights of President Trump and over 100 million Americans who listen to him," Trump's attorneys wrote in court papers. Chutkan, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, reimposed the gag order on Sunday after denying Trump's request to let him speak freely while he challenges the restrictions in higher courts. The order bars Trump from making public statements targeting special counsel Jack Smith and his team, court employees and possible witnesses. It does not prohibit Trump from airing general complaints, even

Trump Jr. testifies he never worked on key documents in his father's trial

Donald Trump Jr. testified on Wednesday that he never worked on his father's financial statements, the documents now at the heart of the civil fraud trial that threatens former President Donald Trump's real estate empire. The ex-president's eldest son is an executive vice president of the family's Trump Organisation and has been a trustee of a trust set up to hold its assets when his father was in the White House. At least one of the annual financial statements bore language saying the trustees are responsible for the document. But Donald Trump Jr. said he didn't recall ever working on any of the financial statements and had no specific knowledge of them. The lawsuit centers on whether the former president and his business misled banks and insurers by inflating his net worth on the financial statements. He and other defendants, including sons Donald Jr. and Eric, deny wrongdoing. Trump Jr. said he signed off on statements as a trustee, but had left the work to outside accountants a

Trial to determine if Trump can be barred reaches far back in history

The effort to ban former President Donald Trump from the ballot under the Constitution's insurrection clause turned to distant history on Wednesday, when a law professor testified about how the post-Civil War provision was indeed intended to apply to presidential candidates. Gerard Magliocca, of Indiana University, said there was scant scholarship on Section Three of the 14th Amendment when he began researching it in late 2020, but said he uncovered evidence in 150-year-old court rulings, congressional testimony and presidential executive orders that it applied to presidents and to those who simply encouraged an insurrection rather than physically participated in one. Magliocca didn't mention Trump by name, but the plaintiffs in the case have argued that Colorado must ban him from the ballot because his role in the January 6, 2021, assault on the US Capitol, which was intended to halt Congress' certification of Joe Biden's win and keep Trump in power, falls under the provision. The .

Trump's sons Don Jr, Eric set to testify at fraud trial threatening empire

When Donald Trump became president in 2017, he handed day-to-day management of his real estate empire to his eldest sons, Donald Jr. and Eric. Now, as the Trumps fight to keep the family business intact, the brothers are set to testify in the New York civil fraud case that threatens their Trump Organisation's future. Donald Trump Jr. is expected to testify on Wednesday and Eric Trump on Thursday, kicking off a blockbuster stretch as the trial in New York Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit enters its second month. James, a Democrat, alleges that Donald Trump, his company and top executives, including Eric and Donald Trump Jr., conspired to exaggerate his wealth by billions of dollars on financial statements that were given to banks, insurers and others to secure loans and make deals. Donald Trump the former president, family patriarch and 2024 Republican front-runner is slated to testify on Monday, followed by his eldest daughter, ex-Trump Organisation executive and White Hou

Trump leads Indian-American Nikki Haley in her home state: CNN poll

Former US president Donald Trump leads Indian-American politician Nikki Haley by more than 30 percentage points in her home state of South Carolina as they vie for the Republican Party's nomination for the 2024 presidential election, according to the latest opinion poll by CNN. The 77-year-old former president, currently the front-runner among the Republican Party candidates, has the support of 53 per cent of its responders in South Carolina as opposed to 22 per cent who support Haley, who is the former governor of South Carolina. Vivek Ramaswamy, the The 38-year-old Indian-American, is trailing far behind with about one percentage point in the CNN polls of South Carolina, which is one of the early primary states. The US presidential elections are scheduled to be held on November 5, 2024. Trump's base of support in South Carolina is far more solid than his rivals' pool of core supporters. An 82 per cent majority of his current backers say that they will definitely support him. Jus

Federal judge reimposes limited gag order in Trump's 2020 election case

The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump's 2020 election interference case in Washington on Sunday reimposed a narrow gag order barring him from making public comments targeting prosecutors, court staff and potential witnesses. The reinstatement of the gag order was revealed in a brief notation on the online case docket Sunday night, but the order itself was not immediately available, making it impossible to see the judge's rationale or the precise contours of the restrictions. US District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is presiding over the federal case charging Trump with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election, had temporarily lifted the gag order as she considered the former president's request to keep it on hold while he challenges the restrictions on his speech in higher courts. But Chutkan agreed to reinstate the order after prosecutors cited Trump's recent social media comments about his former chief of staff they said represented an attempt to influence and ...

Donald Trump promises to revive Muslim ban, gets slammed by White House

Former US President Donald Trump has vowed to revive a controversial travel ban on people from some Muslim-majority countries if he is elected to a second White House term. While speaking at the annual summit of the Republican Jewish Coalition on Saturday, Trump, 77, said: "You remember the travel ban?" "On day one, I will restore our travel ban. We had a travel ban because we didn't want people coming into our country who really love the idea of blowing our country up." He said the travel ban imposed during his administration was an amazing success. "We didn't have one incident in four years because we kept bad people the hell out of our country. We kept them out. We didn't have one, not one instance," Trump, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, said. In 2017, at the start of Trump's presidency, he imposed sweeping restrictions on the entry of travellers from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen and, initially, Iraq and Sudan. The White House immediately sl

Haley accuses Trump of pursuing 'chaos, vendettas' at Republican event

Nikki Haley criticized Donald Trump on Saturday for praising foreign strongmen and warned that his style of chaos, vendettas and drama would be dangerous, making her sharpest critiques of the former president as the two GOP presidential candidates and their rivals addressed an influential group of Jewish Republicans. Eight years ago, it was good to have a leader who broke things, Haley said of Trump. But right now, we need to have a leader who also knows how to put things back together. Haley, a former United Nations ambassador, leaned into her foreign policy experience as she argued for longstanding Republican ideas on foreign policy at the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual meeting in Las Vegas. Another GOP foreign policy traditionalist and periodic Trump critic, former Vice President Mike Pence, used his appearance to end his candidacy, the latest sign of the former president's dominance in the primary. The Republican presidential candidates on Saturday uniformly supported ...

New York judge to look at Donald Trump's comments, reconsider $10,000 fine

A New York judge said Thursday he would take a fuller look at Donald Trump's out-of-court comments and reconsider a USD 10,000 fine he imposed on the former president a day earlier at his civil fraud trial. The development came after Trump's lawyers urged Judge Arthur Engoron to rethink the penalty. The judge fined Trump on Wednesday after finding that his comments to TV cameras outside the courtroom violated a gag order that bars participants in the trial from commenting publicly on the judge's staff. Outside court Wednesday, the Republican presidential front-runner complained that Engoron, a Democrat, is a very partisan judge with a person who's very partisan sitting alongside of him, perhaps even much more partisan than he is. The comment came weeks after Engoron imposed the gag order in the wake of a Trump social media post that disparaged the judge's principal law clerk. She sits next to Engoron, and Trump's lawyers had groused a bit earlier about the clerk's facial expressions

Federal prosecutors urge judge to reinstate Trump gag order, cites comments

Federal prosecutors are urging a judge to reinstate a gag order on Donald Trump, citing recent social media posts about the former president's chief of staff that they said represented an attempt to influence and intimidate a foreseeable witness in the case. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is presiding over the federal case charging Trump with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election, last week temporarily paused her order barring Trump from making inflammatory comments about prosecutors, court staff and potential witnesses. The ruling came as Trump's lawyers challenge the limited gag order in higher courts. In a motion filed Wednesday night, special counsel Jack Smith's team encouraged Chutkan to put the restrictions back in place. Prosecutors cited in part statements in social media and at a news conference over the last day by Trump about his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, who was reported by ABC News on Tuesday to have testified before a grand jury after

Trump fined $10,000 over comment made outside court in civil fraud trial

The judge in Donald Trump's civil fraud trial fined the former president USD 10,000 on Wednesday, saying Trump violated a limited gag order barring personal attacks on court staffers. The fine came after Trump was called to the witness stand to explain his comment outside the courtroom about a person who's very partisan sitting alongside the judge in the case, Judge Arthur Engoron. Weeks ago, Engoron ordered all participants in the trial not to comment publicly about his staff. The narrow gag order imposed on Oct. 3 came after Trump made a social media post maligning the judge's principal law clerk, who sits beside Engoron in court. The judge ordered Trump to take down that post and Trump did. But it lingered on his campaign website for weeks, prompting a $5,000 fine for Trump on Friday. Trump and his lawyers said his comment Wednesday was about witness Michael Cohen, not the clerk. Three of Trump's attorneys objected to the fine, insisting that the comment was referring to Cohen,

Was told to boost Trump's asset values arbitrarily: Michael Cohen in court

Donald Trump's fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen faced off with him at the former president's civil fraud trial on Tuesday, testifying that he worked to boost asset values to "whatever number Trump told us to. Five years after turning on a boss that he once pledged to take a bullet for, Cohen is a key witness in New York Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit alleging that Trump and his company duped banks, insurers and others by giving them financial statements that inflated his wealth. I was tasked by Mr. Trump to increase the total assets, based upon a number that he arbitrarily elected, Cohen testified, saying that he and former Trump Organisation finance chief Allen Weisselberg laboured to reverse-engineer the various different asset classes, increase those assets, in order to achieve a number that Mr. Trump had tasked us. Asked what that number was, Cohen replied: Whatever number Trump told us to. Trump, who denies James' allegations, dismissed Cohen's account outside court as

Trump returns to civil fraud trial, with Michael Cohen set to testify

Michael Cohen once proclaimed he'd take a bullet for Donald Trump. Now, after breaking with the former president amid his own legal troubles, the fixer-turned-foe is poised to testify against his old boss on Tuesday as a key witness at the civil fraud trial that threatens to upend Trump's real estate empire and wealthy image. Trump voluntarily came to court for the highly anticipated testimony, detouring from his usual campaign haunts to the Manhattan courtroom for a sixth day this month. Cohen scrapped their expected showdown last week, citing a health issue. Cohen has said it will be his first time seeing Trump in five years. This is not about Donald Trump vs. Michael Cohen or Michael Cohen vs. Donald Trump," Cohen said as he arrived at the courthouse to await his turn to testify. "This is about accountability, plain and simple. Trump, heading into court, noted that Cohen served prison time after pleading guilty to tax evasion, lying to Congress and campaign finance violations. H

Donald Trump compares himself to Nelson Mandela, rails against Joe Biden

Former President Donald Trump compared himself to anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela on Monday as he cast himself as the victim of federal and state prosecutors he alleges are targeting him and his businesses for political reasons. Returning to New Hampshire to register for its presidential primary, Trump held a rally where he railed against President Joe Biden's response to the Hamas attack on Israel and vowed to build an Iron Dome-style missile defense shield over the U.S. But he focused much of his dark and at times profane speech on the criminal and civil cases against him, at one point suggesting he would go to prison like the former South African president who spent 27 years in prison for opposing South Africa's apartheid system and was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. I don't mind being Nelson Mandela because I'm doing it for a reason, Trump told am amped-up crowd of supporters at a sports complex in Derry, New Hampshire. We've got to save our country from these fascists, the