• Trump just made it easier for Letitia James to go after his cash: legal expert

    Donald Trump's recent cash flex could backfire bigly.As the looming Monday deadline nears to pony up on a $464 million bond set in his civil fraud disgorgement trial loss, Trump went out on a bold limb to post a Truth Social all-caps screed declaring he was cash rich. "THROUGH HARD WORK, TALENT, AND LUCK, I CURRENTLY HAVE ALMOST FIVE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS IN CASH, A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF WHICH I INTENDED TO USE IN MY CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT," former President Donald Trump writes in the post....

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    “Trump lost almost everything”: Legal expert says judge's evidence ruling a “disaster for Trump”

    Judge made "clear he won't tolerate efforts by Trump's lawyers to abuse the

    • Snopes

    US Gas Prices Dropped in 2020 Because of COVID-19, Not Trump

    "The drop in March 2020 had everything to do with a massive drop in demand — nothing else," Patrick De Haan from GasBuddy.com told Snopes.

  • ‘Travesty of justice’: Legal experts stunned over unexplained ruling helping Trump

    Just hours before Donald Trump's deadline to post a $454 million bond or start to see the wheels of justice move to seize his assets, a five-judge New York appeals court panel sliced the bond amount by more than half, and handed him an extra ten days to come up with the cash.Trump is now required to post a $175 million bond, CNN reports, calling the ruling, "a major lifeline for the former president."Legal experts are stunned.Harvard University Professor Emeritus Laurence Tribe, a professor of...

  • 'Stunningly embarrassing': Legal expert baffled by Trump's $464M bond problems

    Former President Donald Trump's civil fraud trial bond troubles are exposing him to more scrutiny, and ridicule too, a legal expert said Thursday. Former prosecutor and Pace University law professor Bennett Gershman told Salon Thursday he was baffled by Trump's recent announcement that he could not find an insurer to back the $464 million payment due Monday in his New York civil fraud case. "I find it strange that Trump is essentially claiming that he either does not have sufficient assets to...

    • MSNBC

    ‘Never seen this before’: Trump money expert on his scramble to make $464M bond

    New York Times investigative reporter Susanne Craig joins Chris Hayes to break down Trump’s narrowing options to secure his $464 million fine in the NY fraud case—and what happens if the ex-president can’t pay.

  • 'Worked so far': Legal experts flatten Trump's SCOTUS immunity argument

    In his Tuesday filing to the U.S. Supreme Court, Donald Trump continues to argue that without absolute immunity from criminal prosecution every president would be subject to bribery — if not fully hindered from making any decisions.And legal analysts continue to call the theory bunk. Taking to the internet after the filing from Trump's lawyers, former Justice Department senior prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said that in nearly 250 years, lack of immunity hasn't yet been a problem for a U.S....

  • 'Some prosecutor should be looking into' Trump's latest legal defense scam: expert

    Former President Donald Trump's sprawling network of ostensibly independent political groups raising money for him, much of it in service of paying legal expenses, seems to walk right up to the line of breaking the law, former prosecutor Kristy Greenberg told MSNBC's Alex Wagner — and may in fact cross it."Kristy, how is this legal?" asked Wagner. "How can he keep saying this one thing and doing another?""Well, I think the big question here will be looking behind all of this as to who is...

  • Legal expert on new Trump gag order: He's 'incapable of shutting his mouth!'

    Elie Mystal, the justice correspondent for The Nation, joined CNN’s Laura Coates on Tuesday to discuss the gag order that a judge recently imposed on Donald Trump in advance of his hush-money criminal trial. The order is meant to stop Trump from attacking witnesses, prosecutors, and jurors in his upcoming criminal trial. Coates asked whether Trump might “abide” by this new gag order, but Mystal reminded everyone that Trump “is incapable of shutting his mouth,” pointing out that Trump received...

  • 'Disturbing': Expert slams Judge Cannon's decision to consider 'ludicrous' legal theory

    Judge Aileen Cannon is seriously entertaining a "ludicrous" legal theory put forward by former President Donald Trump in the jury questionnaire procedure, former House January 6 litigator Eric Columbus told Law & Crime's Brandi Buchman.Specifically, Cannon, a right-wing judge appointed by Trump himself, appears to be open to Trump's demand for the jury to be told about his interpretation of the Presidential Records Act as potentially exonerating for his decision to conceal hundreds of highly...

  • Lawmakers, Experts Decry Ongoing COVID-19 Shot Mandates at 48 Colleges

    On Tuesday, reports surfaced that 48 colleges across the country continue to require prospective students to receive the COVID-19 shot for admission, almost a year after the Read More

  • 'Completely wacko': Expert slams Trump for suing ABC News over rape claim

    Donald Trump is facing criticism for suing ABC News and George Stephanopoulos for defamation after the host said the ex-president had been found liable for “rape.”“In an interview on ‘This Week,’ Stephanopoulos pressed Republican Rep. Nancy Mace, a rape survivor, over her continued support of Trump after a jury found he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in 1996, awarding her $88 million for battery and defamation,” CNN reports. “Stephanopoulos asserted multiple times in the interview with...