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Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner thinks Ivanka Trump has dirt on her father and brothers.

Speaking to Ayman Mohyeldin about the trial, Kirschner and former Republican Tim Miller, the panel pointed to a recent rant on Truth Social, in which the former president went off on Attorney General Letitia James and Judge Arthur Engoron.

Former White House counsel John Dean, who served under Richard Nixon's presidency, had some advice for Donald Trump ahead of his first day on the stand in the New York court on Monday.

Speaking to CNN's Jim Acosta on Sunday, Dean, explained that the amount of trouble that Trump can make for himself is "infinite."

Donald Trump's well-documented history of going off script, digressions and boasting while under oath may lead to more legal woes if he can't control himself on Monday when he testifies in Judge Arthur Engoron's courtroom.

The former president is scheduled to take the stand this coming week to defend himself and his Trump Organization in the $250 million financial fraud lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James which could lead to the dissolution of his company.

Criminal defense attorney Randy Zelin blasted Eric Trump after he ranted to reporters outside a New York courtroom last week.

While attacking New York Attorney General Letitia James, Trump vowed to win the $250 million fraud case because his family hadn't "done a damn thing wrong."

Once regarded as a prestigious luxury brand, former President Donald Trump's namesake hotels and golf courses now appear to be floundering since his departure from the White House and criminal indictments.

Newsweek reported on Friday that bookings are available through 2025 at Trump's branded hotels in Las Vegas, Nevada; New York, New York; Chicago, Illinois and Waikiki, Hawaii. The publication is also reporting that Trump's golf resort in Doral, Florida — where the former president once suggested hosting the G7 summit of world leaders in 2019 — is now offering discounts on tee times of up to $45. Revenue at the Doral resort is down from $75 million in 2017, when Trump assumed the oath of office, to less than $45 million in 2020.

New York Judge Arthur Engoron has expanded the gag order against former President Donald Trump to also cover his attorneys, reported Forbes on Friday.

The move came after Engoron said the court has received "hundreds" of threats as Trump has attacked him, state prosecutors and the court clerk.

Speaking to reporters outside the New York City courthouse after he testified in his father's business fraud trial, Eric Trump lashed out at New York Attorney General Letitia James Friday, saying her civil suit targeting Donald Trump and his business empire is "absolutely insane," Politico reported.

"We have one of the greatest companies anywhere in the world. We employ thousands of New Yorkers. These people, they make their living relying on us! They feed their families, relying on us! We’ve never missed a note. We’ve never missed a payment. We’ve never defaulted on a loan. We’ve got some of the greatest properties in the world," Trump said.

After Eric Trump's disastrous testimony on Thursday in the $250 million financial fraud suit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James, one CNN legal analyst suggested Donald Trump throw in the towel and continually plead the Fifth Amendment when he takes the stand next week.

Speaking with CNN hosts Kate Bolduan and John Berman, former prosecutor Elie Honig said Eric Trump's testimony could not have gone more poorly after he was tripped up over his knowledge of Trump Organization financial statements.

As Honig pointed out, with the younger Trump about to be grilled again on Friday, Judge Arthur Engoron has good cause to not take anything he says seriously or as being an approximation of the truth.

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That prompted CNN's Bolduan to point out that Engoron has already ruled that the Trump Org and its executives are guilty of financial fraud and the trial proceedings, at this stage of the game, are being used to arrive at the financial penalty and whether the Trump family's business should be dismantled.

With that in mind, she asked Honig if Donald Trump should just take the Fifth since he has nothing left to lose in this trial, and that would keep him from increasing his legal exposure elsewhere.

After already claiming, "Yesterday went really poorly for Eric Trump," Honig turned to Donald Trump's upcoming testimony scheduled for Monday and how he should approach answering questions under oath.

"It's such an interesting and really difficult strategic decision Donald Trump and his lawyers will have," he told the hosts. "When he was deposed over a year ago he took the Fifth, he wouldn't answer anything other than his name and he took the Fifth as he is entitled to do."

"But the world has changed for Donald Trump," Honig elaborated. "Back then, there were all these swirling criminal investigations; none of the four indictments we have now had landed. The world was a bit more uncertain for him. A year and change later he's been indicted on four things, none relating to this particular fraud. If he takes the Fifth he protects himself against any of those cases roaring back to life."

"It's possible he takes the stand and says something that piques prosecutors' interest, they may think maybe we should open a criminal case on him for fraud," the ex-prosecutor suggested. "The risk of taking the Fifth is that the judge in this case, this civil case, can say I'm using that against you."
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A legal analyst who sat through two days of Donald Trump Jr's testimony in the $250 million financial fraud lawsuit argued on Friday that the president's eldest son needs a reality check if he walked away thinking he did well.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," legal analyst Lisa Rubin suggested Donald Trump's oldest son's testimony was "damning" to the Trump Organization's defense against the civil suit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Speaking with co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist, Rubin stated that Don Jr. appears to believe he did well but that Judge Arthur Engoron easily saw through his attempts to pass the blame onto others for committing financial fraud.

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Asked by Geist what she saw in the courtroom, she replied, "Willie, I'll say this again, every day in court on this matter is like a roller coaster and certainly yesterday was no exception."

"The examination of Donald Trump Jr. was one that seemed really calm and placid on the surface but was really damning if you think about what they got him to admit," she explained. "The fact that it was relatively pleasant in terms of the exchange with him and the attorney general's lawyer doesn't disguise the fact that Donald Trump Jr., who his father famously refers to as 'a kid' in order to infantilize him, was actually the co-trustee of what effectively was the Trump Organization for the entirety of the presidency."

"And in that capacity he not only signed financial statements over to banks and lenders, he certified that that information was true and accurate," she elaborated, "and he did that to Deutsche Bank repeatedly. He also did that to Mazars, his accountants."

"Donald Trump Jr. wants everybody to think he got a fast one over on people by saying, 'Oh, god, what did I do? I relied on accountants to do accounting,'" she explained. "The problem is, when you are a fiduciary, and when you're a trustee, you don't get to pass that buck. The buck stops with you. Donald Trump Jr., who has outsourced everything in his life, wasn't willing to concede that."

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