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Trump witness trips up over his own testimony at N.Y. fraud trial: report

An expert witness bemoaned Monday as a “waste of time” was quickly tripped up by a state attorney prosecuting Donald Trump’s $250 million civil fraud trial, according to reports.

Andrew Amer told underwriting expert David Miller his testimony about insurers’ reliance on media coverage contradicted a previous report of his own, according to ABC News.

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N.Y. attorney ridicules 'waste of time' expert witness in Trump fraud trial

A New York State attorney ridiculed one of former President Donald Trump’s expert witnesses Monday as nothing more than a “waste of time,” ABC News reports.

Andrew Amer’s reported dismissal of insurance underwriting expert David Miller ties in with Attorney General Letitia James’ narrative that Trump’s defense is populated by golf buddies who can’t dispute the facts of the case.

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Judge Engoron warned by legal expert over 'pushing the envelope' in fraud trial

In a column for MSNBC, former U.S. House Judiciary Committee counsel Michael Conway implored Judge Arthur Engoron to be careful with the language he uses as he oversees the $250 million financial fraud civil suit filed against Donald Trump and his Trump Organization.

Using the trial of the so-called “Chicago 7" as a jumping-off point, the attorney reminded Engoron that the defendants in that notorious case went out of their way to antagonize Judge Julius Hoffman which seems to be Donald Trump's strategy in a case where Engoron has already found evidence of fraud.

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Trump's new threat leads ex-RNC head to urge courts jail him immediately

Reacting to Donald Trump reposting a threat from one of his followers calling for the citizen's arrest of Judge Arthur Engoron and New York Attorney General Letitia James on his Truth Social account, former RNC chair Michael Steele told an MSNBC host the time has come to arrest and jail the former president.

Speaking with host Ayman Mohyeldin about yet another attack by the former president on the judge and AG, Steele bluntly stated, "Put his ass in jail," to send the former president a message.

In total, Steele exclaimed, "It's enormously dangerous. I just — I'm shocked that we have allowed this to get this far. I'm just going to use my best analysis that I can give you at this point on this situation with Trump, and the attacks on the judges: put his ass in jail. That's how you end it. That's how it stops."

"Now, yeah, people will be mad, they will be upset. But there is no other person on this planet, certainly not in this country, who would be given the kind of grace that Donald Trump has been given to run his mouth the way he has," he continued. "Attacking the clerks, attacking the judges, attacking the prosecutors, personally, threatening them."

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"We've shown the evidence when he does that how his base responds," he elaborated. "And so the system is getting pulverized from within by Trump, and is being pressed to the umpteenth corner that it can go in trying to appease him, and allow him to be free while he is still behaving this way."

"So, if he wants to continue in this vein, then use the system the way the system would be used against all of us on the show right now," he suggested. "Because you know damn well, any one of us, if we said half of what he said, we would not be on air tonight. We would be in a jail cell. We would be shut down."

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Trump continues attacks on 'co-judge' law clerk by sharing article with her face and name

Donald Trump on Saturday continued his attacks on the law clerk who sits beside the judge in the ex-president's civil fraud case, sharing an article that would likely be violative of a gag order that is currently stayed pending appeal.

After the gag order was temporarily lifted by the appeals court, Trump within hours insulted the law clerk, calling her biased and "out of control." Some experts have cautioned Trump away from continuing the attacks despite the stayed gag order, while others have suggested Trump is trying to "provoke the judge" in the hopes of getting a mistrial.

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Trump snaps at Judge Engoron and AG Letitia James for making him 'look bad'

Donald Trump took to his struggling Truth Social platform on Saturday morning to once again snarl at Judge Arthur Engoron and New York Attorney General Letitia James, saying that they are conspiring to make him "look bad" by claiming his properties aren't as valuable as he claims.

In what has become an almost daily tirade, the former president cast aspersions on Engoron's legal acumen while also calling James a racist.

With Engoron's gag order in the $250 million financial fraud trial on pause, Trump took advantage by writing, "Judge Arthur Engoron, the most overturned and stayed Judge in the State, and the Racist New York State Attorney General, the most corrupt & incompetent A.G. in the Country (Violent Crime Is Raging!), have FRAUDULENTLY Undervalued my properties, by many times, in order to make me look bad, and make the Judge’s original ridiculous finding of Fraud pass the 'smell test,' which it does not."

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He then added, "This Judicial and Prosecutorial corruption and misconduct took place BEFORE THE TRIAL EVEN STARTED, & WITHOUT ANY KNOWLEDGE OF THE CASE. Judge Engoron just did what the highly partisan A.G. told him to do. He is her complete and total puppet!"

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Trump 'acted a fool' in Manhattan courtroom and now his 'bloviating' will cost him: expert

Judge Arthur Engoron's decision to let Donald Trump argue, "bloviate" and shatter the normal restrictions on testimony in his Manhattan courtroom was a shrewd move according to one legal analyst who predicted the transcripts will kill any chance of a successful appeal by the former president's lawyers.

Speaking with MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart, legal analyst Catherine Christian agreed with the host that Trump "acted the fool" during his testimony in the $250 million financial fraud civil suit filed against him and his Trump Organization.

"This acrimonious back and forth between Judge Engoron and Trump, is this going to be a factor on appeal?" Capehart asked his guest.

"It will be a factor on appeal," the legal analyst quickly replied. "But what Judge Engoron did, I thought very well, when Donald Trump acted a fool at the beginning, the judge was getting upset and engaging with him, and then suddenly stopped and let him — let Donald Trump just go on and bloviate and say irrelevant things."

"Why? Because there was not a jury there," she continued. "There was no jury that you had to protect from hearing prejudicial irrelevant testimony. In a jury trial, the judge would have to constantly have the jury removed from the room, and warn the defendant. In this case, I think the judge decided, 'Do you know what? There is no jury here. I'm the decider, I'll let the defendant go on and on, to a limit. and so he can't say on appeal I was cut down, I wasn't allowed to say what I wanted to say,' because the appellate court will look and see what actually the defendant said, and most of it was irrelevant."

"It was just a puffing up his brand, as his kids did, when they were called as witnesses on their own case," she added. "So the judge, very wisely, just let him go: there is no jury here, I don't have to worry about the jury, let him go."

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Trump's attacks on law clerk meant to 'provoke the judge' into anger: ex-prosecutor

Former President Donald Trump's persistent attacks on New York Judge Arthur Engoron's law clerk in the civil fraud trial are not random, argued former federal prosecutor Shan Wu during an MSNBC segment on the gag order against the former president that was temporarily suspended.

Rather, Wu told anchor and former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, it's a ploy to try to make Engoron lose his temper and throw the trial.

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Trump's mistrial motion smacked down by New York judge: 'Utterly without merit'

New York Judge Arthur Engoron has denied former President Donald Trump's motion for a mistrial in the civil fraud case against him and his two adult sons.

In a filing released on Friday, Engoron declared the motion "utterly without merit" and refused to even schedule a hearing to discuss it, dismissing it out of hand.

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Attack ad raging against 'insane' prosecution is first to test Trump's 2024 message

A new digital ad is testing out an attack line for Donald Trump's presidential campaign targeting the courts and law enforcement officials involved in his criminal trials.

The 60-second ad from the Article III Project accuses “activist” judges and prosecutors of abusing their power and weaponizing the criminal justice system against Trump, who has been indicted in four jurisdictions on 91 charges and found liable for fraud and sexual abuse in two separate cases, reported NBC News.

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Trump takes 'victory lap' on gag order stay — but it’s not a 'win': legal analyst

Ex-President Donald Trump believed he prevailed against a "wicked attack" Thursday when a New York appellate court paused two gag orders imposed by Judge Arthur Engoron, who is presiding over his ongoing civil fraud trial.

Legal analyst Lisa Rubin, who's been inside of the courtroom throughout the trial, reports via X (formerly Twitter), "NEW: Over on Truth Social, Trump's taking a victory lap after securing an interim stay of the gag orders in the NY case. A stay, and especially an interim stay pending a hearing/appeal, is a pause that goes back to the state of affairs before the order being appealed."

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'Out of control': Trump attacks Judge Engoron's law clerk hours after gag order lifted

Donald Trump is testing his new powers after a gag order was stayed in his civil fraud case.

An appeals court paused the order, which kept the former president from attacking the law clerk for the judge in the case, Arthur Engoron. Trump didn't take long to test that boundary.

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Trump shares article parading sexy photos of his lawyer

Donald Trump took a moment to celebrate his lawyer Thursday when he shared a Barstool Sports “article” that heaps praise on attorney Alina Habba — with a parade of photos of her in sexy poses.

The article was short on legal analysis — there aren’t any original sources, and supporting evidence consists mostly of pictures of Habba enjoying what appears to be a very fancy personal life.

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