Trump claims he wasn’t referring to clerk when he violated fraud trial gag order
On a dramatic day in court docket in decrease Manhattan, Donald Trump appeared on the witness stand for the primary time in his multitude of civil and felony trials.
The former president was known as to testify after remarks he made outdoors the courtroom in a break from his civil fraud trial in New York appeared to interrupt a gag order imposed by New York Judge Arthur Engoron.
All events are forbidden from talking or posting about members of the court docket employees, after Mr Trump posted false claims and a photopraph of the court docket’s chief clerk earlier this month. On Wednesday, he appeared to hit out at her once more: “This judge is a very partisan judge with a person who is very partisan sitting alongside him, perhaps more partisan than he is.”
The former president claimed he had been talking about witness Michael Cohen, his former lawyer, now a witness within the case towards him. The decide discovered Mr Trump’s testimony “not credible” and fined him $10,000.
Later, when a transfer for a directed verdict by his authorized group was denied by the decide, a clearly pissed off Mr Trump stood and left the courtroom mumbling: “Unbelievable. Unbelievable.”
ICYMI: A 3rd legal professional near Trumpworld’s makes an attempt to overturn election outcomes pleaded responsible
Jenna Ellis is the fourth of 19 defendants to plead responsible within the sprawling election interference case introduced by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
Other former Trumpworld attorneys Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro took plea offers final week, simply days earlier than their trial was as a result of begin in Atlanta.
The newly minted cooperating witnesses in Georgia’s sweeping felony case focusing on Trump and a dozen others might pose a big authorized risk to the previous president as he enters a number of felony and civil proceedings whereas he campaigns for the 2024 Republican nomination.
Alex Woodward27 October 2023 09:00
How Speaker Mike Johnson pushed to overturn the 2020 election
Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson was instrumental in a Republican-led marketing campaign to maintain Donald Trump within the White House after shedding the 2020 election.
The Independent’s Gustaf Kilander explains how the person who’s now main the House GOP and is second in line for the presidency pushed the identical debunked conspiracy theories which can be on the centre of a number of felony investigations, lawsuits and a riot within the halls of Congress.
Alex Woodward27 October 2023 07:00
ICYMI: Michael Cohen responds to Trump’s Truth Social assaults
On Wednesday, Donald Trump launched a collection of assaults towards the decide overseeing his fraud trial, the legal professional normal suing him, the witness testifying towards him, and a reporter who wrote about Trump’s final two days in court docket.
He claimed Michael Cohen was “chocking [sic] like a dog” on the witness stand and “broke down” in court docket.
Michael Cohen speaks to reporters after leaving New York Supreme Court on 25 October.
(REUTERS)
What truly occurred in court docket: Cohen testified that he was “tasked by Mr Trump to increase the total assets based upon a number that he arbitrarily elected” for his statements of economic situation, the paperwork on the centre of the case.
Cohen and convicted former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg have been instructed to “reverse engineer the various different asset classes – increase those assets – in order to achieve the number that Mr Trump had tasked us with,” Cohen mentioned.
Asked by counsel for the legal professional normal’s workplace what that quantity was, Cohen replied: “Whatever number Mr Trump told us to.”
Under cross examination from Trump’s attorneys, Cohen agreed that Trump by no means requested him to “inflate” these figures, however that Trump’s instructions have been implicit relatively than express.
“Donald Trump speaks like a mob boss,” Cohen testified. “He tells you what he wants without specifically telling you … That’s what I was referring to.”
Trump additionally was known as to the witness stand to testify – about his out-of-court insults – and he was fined $10,000 for violating a gag order within the case.
“When did I break down?” Cohen wrote on X, previously Twitter. “Is he referring to me laughing at him and his minion of moron lawyers? In fact, Judge Engoron stated ‘I do not find you (Trump) credible’. Meaning…Donald, you’re a f***** liar and perjurer as you were under oath!”
Alex Woodward27 October 2023 06:00
Michael Cohen claims Trump was a ‘defeated man’
Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen known as the previous president a “defeated man” after providing two days’ value of testimony in a New York state fraud trial.
“I saw somebody that knows that it’s the end of the Trump Organization,” he instructed reporters outdoors the court docket on Wednesday. “Already found guilty of fraud, the license will ultimately be taken, and now this entire case is merely about how much.”
Alex Woodward27 October 2023 04:00
VOICE: The House GOP civil battle that delivered Trump is over. The radicals gained
The Independent’s Eric Garcia writes that newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson is a “zealot of the highest order, someone who worked for the hard-right Alliance Defending Freedom; an ardent opponent of abortion who wants to restrict the rights of LGBT+ people and who served as Donald Trump’s Howitzer in Congress to overturn the 2020 election results.”
But his fervor for theocratic insurance policies didn’t impede his means to unite almost each faction of the very divided House Republican convention. Indeed, most of the Republicans who had beforehand raised severe objections to creeping fanaticism within the occasion dismissed these issues as technicalities.
Alex Woodward27 October 2023 03:00
ICYMI: Trump’s fraud trial decide mentioned his testimony ‘rings hollow and untrue’
In a written order towards Donald Trump after discovering that he violated the court docket’s gag order within the civil fraud trial, Judge Arther Engoron wrote that the previous president’s testimony in his protection of the statements he made outdoors the courtroom “rings hollow and untrue”.
In statements steps outdoors the courtroom on Wednesday, Trump criticised the “very partisan judge” and “a person who’s very partisan sitting alongside of him,” what the decide decided was a remark aimed toward his chief clerk.
Trump claimed beneath oath that his feedback have been about Michael Cohen. The decide didn’t discover his testimony credible and fined him $10,000.
“The Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘alongside’ as ‘close to the side of; next to.’ Witnesses do not sit ‘alongside’ the judge, they sit in the witness box, separated from the judge by a low wooden barrier,” the decide wrote in a written model of his order posted publicly on Thursday.
“Further, Donald Trump’s past public statements demonstrate him referring to Michael Cohen directly by his name, or by a derogatory name, but in all circumstances, his in unambiguous in making it known he is referring to Michael Cohen,” he added.
New York Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron
(through REUTERS)
Alex Woodward27 October 2023 02:00
ICYMI: Prosecutors urge federal decide to reinstate gag order towards Trump in election interference case
Jack Smith’s workplace has requested the decide overseeing Trump’s election inteference case to reinstate a partial gag order towards him, citing his assaults on witnesses within the days since she halted her prior ruling to permit the ex-president to enchantment.
In a 32-page submitting submitted to the court docket late on Wednesday night, prosecutors argued that Trump had taken benefit of the reprieve Judge Tanya Chutkan granted him to assault at the very least one potential witness towards him, his ex-chief of employees Mark Meadows.
The Independent’s Andrew Feinberg has extra:
Alex Woodward27 October 2023 01:00
ICYMI: Trump loses remaining bid to cease Colorado case that would see him barred from poll
Donald Trump has misplaced his remaining bid to cease a Colorado lawsuit that would see him kicked off state ballots within the 2024 presidential election.
A decide within the state has dominated that the lawsuit that seeks to dam the one-term president from the poll subsequent 12 months can go forward subsequent week.
The Independent’s Graeme Massie has extra:
Alex Woodward27 October 2023 00:00
Court panel says its fingers are tied and Trump’s federal trials can’t be televised
A federal judicial panel has decided that its fingers are tied following requests from members of Congress and information organisations to televise Donald Trump’s upcoming federal trials.
The Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules decided that it has no means to alter present bands on broadcasting federal felony trials, as the previous president faces circumstances surrounding his alleged makes an attempt to overturn the 2020 election and his hoarding of delicate White House paperwork at Mar-a-Lago.
Even if the panel have been in a position to change the foundations, they may not go into impact for a number of years, Politico reported.
Trump’s felony trial in Georgia, nonetheless, will likely be carried reside by the courts and information shops.
Alex Woodward26 October 2023 22:15
Michael Cohen responds to Trump’s Truth Social assaults
On Wednesday, Donald Trump launched a collection of assaults towards the decide overseeing his fraud trial, the legal professional normal suing him, the witness testifying towards him, and a reporter who wrote about Trump’s final two days in court docket.
He claimed Michael Cohen was “chocking [sic] like a dog” on the witness stand and “broke down” in court docket.
Michael Cohen speaks to reporters after leaving New York Supreme Court on 25 October.
(REUTERS)
What truly occurred in court docket: Cohen testified that he was “tasked by Mr Trump to increase the total assets based upon a number that he arbitrarily elected” for his statements of economic situation, the paperwork on the centre of the case.
Cohen and convicted former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg have been instructed to “reverse engineer the various different asset classes – increase those assets – in order to achieve the number that Mr Trump had tasked us with,” Cohen mentioned.
Asked by counsel for the legal professional normal’s workplace what that quantity was, Cohen replied: “Whatever number Mr Trump told us to.”
Under cross examination from Trump’s attorneys, Cohen agreed that Trump by no means requested him to “inflate” these figures, however that Trump’s instructions have been implicit relatively than express.
“Donald Trump speaks like a mob boss,” Cohen testified. “He tells you what he wants without specifically telling you … That’s what I was referring to.”
Trump additionally was known as to the witness stand to testify – about his out-of-court insults – and he was fined $10,000 for violating a gag order within the case.
“When did I break down?” Cohen wrote on X, previously Twitter. “Is he referring to me laughing at him and his minion of moron lawyers? In fact, Judge Engoron stated ‘I do not find you (Trump) credible’. Meaning…Donald, you’re a f***** liar and perjurer as you were under oath!”
Alex Woodward26 October 2023 21:40
