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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

  • How Merrick Garland Appeased Trump

    Michael from the 5-4 podcast discusses why the most criminal president in American history isn't in jail.

  • ‘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...

  • '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...

  • 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....

  • 'Speaks volumes': Legal experts directly accuse SCOTUS of favoring Trump over rule of law

    Donald Trump's legal team is seeking to delay the appeals process in regards to his claim of presidential immunity related to criminal charges that he interfered in the 2020 election — and two legal experts blasted the Supreme Court Tuesday for letting him do it.Andrew Weissmann and Ryan Goodman, two NYU School of Law professors, wrote in the Atlantic that Trump has no legal ground whatsoever to delay a ruling in his plea for presidential immunity. According to them, he's seeking to slow down...

  • 'Not quite accurate': Legal expert corrects Eric Trump on fraud bond claims

    Eric Trump is spreading false information about his father's bond in the fraud case in which the former president was ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars.Trump, who earlier in the day told Fox News that top insurance executives laughed when he asked for more than $400 million in bond money for his father, later took to social media to make a similar complaint about the size of the bond."A half a billion dollar bond is simply not commercially available," Donald Trump's son said on...

  • Legal expert points out 'most troubling' part of Judge Cannon's latest Trump decision

    The judge overseeing Donald Trump's documents case recently issued an order that isn't sitting right for some professional legal experts.Raw Story recently reported that Judge Aileen Cannon said she will hear former President Trump's argument that he was entitled to keep any presidential documents he wanted, sending what some experts called an ominous signal in the former president's case. Trump's legal team has argued in court filings that the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case should be...

  • Judge Cannon accused of trying to 'fix the fight' for Trump by ex-Merrick Garland adviser

    During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," a former senior adviser to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland wasn't shy about accusing U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon of running interference for Donald Trump who is facing felony obstruction of justice charges related to stolen documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago.Former prosecutor Anthony Coley agreed with MSNBC co-host Michael Steele that Cannon has no intention of letting the Trump charges see the...