• Pro-Trump news network settles election fraud defamation claim with Smartmatic

    According to an announcement from an attorney for One American News Network (OANN), the right-wing news outlet has settled a defamation suit brought by the voting tech giant Smartmatic over false claims about rigged voting machines in the 2020 election. OANN attorney Chip Babcock told CNN that the suit, "Has been resolved pursuant to a confidential agreement." Also releasing a statement was Smartmatic’s lead attorney Erik Connolly, who said the company, "Has resolved its litigation against OANN...

  • 'He has a tape recording': Fox News host defends Michael Cohen's claims against Trump

    Fox News host Eric Shawn argued that Michael Cohen's claim that Donald Trump made hush money payments to influence the 2016 election was more believable because he had a tape recording of the former president. During an interview on Sunday, former federal prosecutor Katie Cherkasky asserted that prosecutors in the case had an uphill battle because their star witnesses were former attorney Michael Cohen and adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Trump is accused of falsifying business records...

  • 'Nancy Kerrigan situation': Fox News claims Biden will sabotage Trump to avoid debate

    President Joe Biden's announcement Friday that he's willing to debate Donald Trump spurred Fox News host Emily Compagno to claim he'd orchestrate a “Nancy Kerrigan situation” to stop the debate from going forward, video shows. Compagno made the comparison during a segment on the Fox News show "Outnumbered," drawing comparisons to the notorious attack on the Olympic figure skater orchestrated by competitor Tonya Harding's ex-husband and bodyguard. “It will probably be a Nancy Kerrigan...

  • Trump's civil fraud bond stands

    Judge Engoron closed the loopholes and removed opportunities that Donald Trump's folks built to disappear the collateral and approved the $175 million bond. The $175 million bond that Trump and his friend, Don Hankey, posted to stave off collections in his civil fraud judgment is good enough for Judge Engoron. — Read the rest

  • Fox News Airs Republicans for Accountability Anti-Trump Ad

    FOX Airs Brutal Ad Of '88 Felonies' (First column, 7th story, link) Related stories:DIRTY PECKER HAD TRUMP'S BACKCatch-and-kill scheme confirmed under oathNATIONAL ENQUIRER made up story about Ted Cruz's father, Oswald!The Don faces potential punishment for violating gagPoll Numbers Plummet With IndependentsMarjorie Taylor Greene warns he will be murdered in jail

  • Trump avoids challenge to $175M bond in civil fraud case

    Attorneys for Donald Trump at a Monday hearing successfully defended the $175 million bond the former president secured in his New York state civil fraud case.

  • Trump loses access to $175M in civil fraud bond cash

    Lawyers for Donald Trump and the New York Attorney General's Office struck a deal Monday that will now keep the GOP frontrunner from having any access to the cash collateral for his $175 million civil-fraud bond.The agreement reached in civil court in Manhattan essentially moves the all-cash collateral to a Trump-proof lockbox. Only the bond underwriter, Knight Specialty Insurance Company, has the key.Previously, Trump and Knight shared control of the cash, a sticking point for the AG's...

  • Trump Opening Statements: ‘Election Fraud,’ Fake News, And An Appeal To Exhaustion

    NEW YORK — Opening statements in the first-ever criminal trial of a former President kicked off Monday morning with prosecutors accusing Trump of "election fraud" as the defense asked jurors to take a

  • Website that pushed Trump's false voter fraud claims announces it has filed for bankruptcy

    In a message posted to the conspiracy theory-laden site that he founded, Jim Hoft announced that The Gateway Pundit has declared bankruptcy. “TGP Communications, the parent company of The Gateway Pundit, recently made the decision to seek protection under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the Southern District of Florida as a result of the progressive liberal lawfare attacks against our media outlet," Jim Hoft wrote in the post. In December of 2021 Georgia election workers Ruby...

    • Axios

    New York judge sets new conditions on Trump's civil fraud bond

    The $175 million bond former President Trump posted to appeal the $364

  • N.Y. judge upholds Trump $175 million civil fraud bond

    New York Judge Arthur Engoron ruled Monday that the $175 million bond posted by former President Donald Trump for his civil fraud case can stand.

  • Judge urged by prosecutors to reject Trump's civil fraud bond as lacking 'trustworthiness'

    New York Attorney General Letitia James is urging state Judge Arthur Engoron to reject the $175 million bond former President Donald Trump is posting in his civil fraud case.According to MSNBC legal analyst Adam Klasfeld, James' filing says that Trump's bond fails to meet "requirements of trustworthiness and competence" and should therefore be held "without effect."Trump was found liable for over $450 million in the case earlier this year, after James demonstrated the former president and his...