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    Ex-Trump White House lawyer says Trump’s post violated judge’s gag order

    Former Trump White House attorney Jim Schultz says that Trump's post about

  • 'This is unseen': Ex-prosecutor stunned by Trump's disrespect for judge

    Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig was flabbergasted by the sheer number of times former President Donald Trump appears to have violated Judge Juan Merchan's gag order in his Manhattan criminal trial — and emphasized on a CNN panel on Thursday that in all his years of trying cases, he had never seen anything like it.Trump, who is charged with felony business fraud for trying to conceal alleged hush payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels to effectively defraud the 2016 presidential...

  • Plaintiff Trying to Reverse Noncompete Ban Is Trump’s Tax Adviser

    G. Brint Ryan has advised Trump on tax policy. His company is dedicated to ‘liberating our clients from the burden of being overtaxed.’

  • 'Goading the judge': Expert thinks Trump is trying to distract from David Pecker testimony

    A legal expert speculated that Donald Trump could be trying to distract voters from his trial by violating the gag order and picking a fight with the judge. Tuesday morning, Trump's lawyers defended him at a hearing called after prosecutors alleged multiple violations of a gag order placed on him in the hush money case. The order's aim to is stop intimidation of potential witnesses and jury members.But the judge didn't seem to buy their arguments.Trump's lawyer, Todd Blanche, claimed that his...

  • Judge Cannon says 'no' to Trump's co-defendants who want out of documents case

    Federal Judge Aileen Cannon has denied Donald Trump's classified document co-defendants' motions to dismiss. In her eight-page order, Cannon rejected efforts by Trump's aide Walt Nauta and former Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira to get the cases against them tossed, reported MSNBC host and legal analyst Katie Phang. She tweeted that Cannon shot down Nauta's request to be spared of a trial and instead "finds that the indictment puts him on enough notice so that he can adequately...

  • Ex-judge puts Trump on notice that he is 'dancing on the line' with recent jury comments

    How many strikes will New York Judge Juan Merchan permit until he turns the screws on defendant Donald Trump's suspected violation of a gag order? Ret. Judge Jill Konviser, who served on the benches in both Manhattan and Brooklyn courts, suggested former President Donald Trump has been treated with kid gloves compared to others accused of crimes. "I think he's given an amazing amount of leeway and in that sense, you know we hear Trump talking about him being treated differently," she said...

  • Alina Habba Claims Judges Try to Make Donald Trump's Attorneys Look Bad

    Alina Habba, lawyer for ex-President Donald Trump, denounced the U.S. justice system, specifically calling out judges presiding over the various cases against her boss."I have never been treated the way I'm treated when I walk into court and I say I represent President Trump," Habba, currently Trump's legal spokesperson for his criminal hush-money trial in New York City, told Newsweek in a phone interview on Tuesday night.Habba earlier on Tuesday during an interview with Newsmax host Carl Higbie...

  • Update: Man accused of squatting in Queens home faces judge as couple fights to evict him

    The former caregiver accused of squatting in a couple's $2 million Douglaston, Queens home faced a judge Thursday morning in Queens Housing Court.

  • 'The judge is likely to agree': Ex-prosecutor blows up Trump's defense of attack on jurors

    Donald Trump will likely blame his latest jury attacks on the fact that he was merely quoting someone else, but that's not going to hold up before the judge in the former president's criminal case alleging hush money and a transactional cover-up, a legal expert said Wednesday. Trump earlier in the day posted a purported quote from a Fox News host, Jesse Watters, suggesting the jurors are lying to the judge in order to be placed on the case. Those comments had one former judge saying Trump...

  • 'Best thing he could do': ex-prosecutor advises Trump to sleep through hush money trial

    Donald Trump's behavior Tuesday was a major trade down from an opening day in his New York hush money trial that saw the former president dozing off in court, a legal expert contends. Tristan Snell, a former New York assistant attorney general, made this point while discussing with MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace Judge Juan Merchan's stern reprimand about jury intimidation in Trump's criminal hush money trial. "You know, I think that the folks that have been joking online that maybe the best thing...

  • Ex-judge puts Trump on notice that he violated gag order by attacking Michael Cohen

    Donald Trump recently violated his criminal gag order when he attacked Michael Cohen on social media, according to a former prosecutor and judge.Carol Lam, a former U.S. attorney who also served as a judge in California, on Sunday appeared on MSNBC, where she was asked about the witnesses in Trump's upcoming hush money trial.One of those witnesses is Michael Cohen, Trump's former attorney and "fixer" who is now testifying against the former president.ALSO READ: Revealed: What government...

  • 'Daunting': Ex-judge explains 'perilous' tactic Juan Merchan may use to manage Trump jury

    It took four days to seat 12 jurors and six alternates to serve on the historic first criminal trial of a former U.S. president. But if New York Judge Juan Merchan decides it necessary to sequester them to protect them and also limit the exposure to the rabid interest on the hush money case — it could be a very involved process. "The logistics of sequestering a jury are really daunting and the expense is high and jurors don't like it, necessarily," retired federal judge John Jones III said...