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Letitia James demands proof that company that posted Trump's bond is 'financially sound'

New York Attorney General Letitia James submitted a filing on Thursday asking for proof that the company covering Donald Trump's $175 million bond in his fraud case is actually "financially sound."

James told the New York City civil court — where Trump was found liable for damages upwards of $464 million — that she had serious concerns about Knight Speciality Insurance Company's agreement with the former president.

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'Especially pathetic': Op-ed explains why MAGA risk arrest and poverty on Trump's behalf

Former President Donald Trump's loud support for Jan. 6 rioters represents a dark attempt to "convince followers to risk their own skins in the future" on the former president's behalf, a new opinion piece posits. It then asks the question: why do they let him?

Salon columnist Amanda Marcotte noted Thursday that while Trump floats promises of pardons, he does not offer material support to the more than 1,300 people who have been charged with crimes related to the U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021.

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'Pernicious': Legal experts explain how Trump is testing the limits of his gag order

A newly strengthened gag order prevents former President Donald Trump from disparaging court staff, jurors, witnesses, and now family of the judge and prosecutor.

But Trump may have found a loophole around it and former prosecutor Lisa Rubin is disgusted.

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Trump reposts controversial ally's attacks on hush money judge's wife despite gag order

Donald Trump on Wednesday reposted a blog entry by MAGA diehard Laura Loomer exposing alleged ties of Judge Juan Merchan's wife to New York Attorney General Letitia James.

The story published on Wednesday by Loomer, "More of Judge Merchan’s Anti-Trump Bias Exposed as New York AG Letitia James Employed Merchan’s Wife and The Democrat Attorney’s General Association Paid Loren Merchan’s Authentic Campaigns Company" on her "Loomered" vertical was reposted without caption or commentary by former President Donald Trump's Truth Social account.

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'I will kill you': Trump supporter arrested as Letitia James and judge get death threats

A New York man has been charged with making terroristic threats to Attorney General Letitia James and Justice Arthur Engoron over money Donald Trump has been ordered to pay as the result of a fraud case.

The Buffalo News reported that 26-year-old Tyler Vogel was facing two counts of making a terroristic threat and two counts of second-degree aggravated harassment. He was charged by the Erie County District Attorney's Office on March 25.

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'Whacked out nut job': Trump launches new attack hours after gag order extended

Hours after a judge ordered Donald Trump to stop attacking the family members of prosecutors, jurors and witnesses in his hush money trial, the ex-president unleashed a no-holds-barred attack on a favorite target.

“He is a whacked out nut job,” Trump wrote on Truth Social about Judge Arthur Engoron, who oversaw the fraud trial that he’s appealing in New York.

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Ex-judge: Trump knows jail is 'a real possibility' after gag order tightens

A retired federal judge warns that Donald Trump may want to heed the expanded gag order or wind up laying his head in a New York lockup.

"The first thing you can do is to give a warning," said Shira Scheindlin, a former federal judge told CNN's Kaitlin Collins Monday night. "I think that's been covered."

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'Thoughts and prayers' extended to creditor behind Trump's $175M civil fraud bond

Former President Donald Trump paid his $175 million bond in the New York civil fraud case on Monday — preventing him from having sell off assets at least until his appeal works its way through the system.

But the person who bankrolled the bond is an interesting figure — and one who already has a number of financial ties to the former president, MSNBC legal expert Lisa Rubin noted on X.

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Hush money judge tightens Trump's gag order in new ruling

The New York judge presiding over Donald Trump’s hush money trial Monday night barred the former president from publicly attacking the justice's family members, court records show.

Justice Juan Merchan amended his gag order, issued last week, to include his own daughter at the behest of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the records show.

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Hush money judge risks 'taking Trump's bait' with gag order ruling: legal expert

Two weeks before the expected start of Donald Trump's hush money case, the former president faces a gag order battle that could be the trial judge's bait, a legal expert said Monday.

Former federal prosecutor Norm Eisen believes New York Judge Juan Merchan could very likely acquiesce to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's request to tighten the terms of the gag order against the former president, but warned of concerns.

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'Enormous risk': former prosecutor begs judges to punish Trump after hog-tied Biden video

A former federal prosecutor Saturday called on the judges overseeing his criminal court cases to take action against former President Donald Trump after he attacked Justice Juan Merchan's daughter online and shared images of a hog-tied President Joe Biden.

Joyce Vance, formerly the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, took to X Saturday morning to share her concerns about Trump’s social media attacks which she argued could cause irreparable harm to the upcoming trial in New York City.

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Judge will 'suck it up': Latest Trump attacks expected to be shrugged off to avoid delay

The New York judge overseeing Donald Trump's hush money case might will overlook the former president's attacks on his daughter to avoid delaying the trial, an expert said Friday.

Judge Juan Merchan imposed a gag order on the former president Tuesday that limits what he can say publicly about certain individuals involved in his case — the spirit of which Trump tested by attacking the judge's daughter by name in a social media post.

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Don Jr. begs for $5 handouts as he whines about fate of his Trump Tower 'boyhood home'

To some, it looks like a corporate Fifth Avenue monolith with a golden elevator at the heart of a historic $464 million fraud case.

But for Donald Trump Jr., Trump Tower will always be his “boyhood home.”

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