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Defense witness says Trump paid him nearly $900K for fraud trial testimony

Donald Trump paid an expert witness for his defense substantially more than had been previously indicated.

New York University accounting professor Eli Bartov testified Thursday that he did not believe the former president had committed fraud when filing financial disclosures with applications for bank loans. On cross-examination Friday, Bartov testified that he was paid $1,350 an hour for his testimony, and he worked a total of 650 hours on the case, reported The Messenger.

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Severe weekend storm set to slam much of U.S.: forecasts

A severe storm will slam the eastern U.S. with rain, thunder, wind, snow and possibly a tornado, weekend predictions show.

Rough weather will span across 1,200 miles, from the Gulf Coast to Canada, bringing with it the threat of power outages and tree damage, forecasts from CNN and the Weather Channel show.

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GOPer's rags-to-riches brag destroyed by admission in his own book

Top Republican Senate recruit Tim Sheehy, who is hoping to challenge Democratic Sen. Jon Tester in Montana, has characterized himself as a self-made entrepreneur who pulled himself up by his bootstraps. But according to The Daily Beast, his biography to voters leaves out some critical details that make that narrative fall apart.

Sheehy, who made waves this month by suggesting all health insurance should be abolished and poor patients should be made to barter with doctors to receive care, is the founder of Bridger Aerospace and, in one speech to voters, said, “When I saw a business opportunity, I took my entire life savings — I didn't get a government loan, didn’t get a government handout—I started a business in my barn and built it from scratch.”

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'Equal justice time': Mary Trump exposes alleged crimes of her extended family

Donald Trump's niece, Mary Trump, on Thursday exposed what she said are alleged crimes among her extended family.

Mary Trump, who earlier in the day accused Marjorie Taylor Greene of using a bribe to get the V.P. spot under Trump, was responding to the news that Hunter Biden had been hit with new criminal charges.

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'Marjorie Taylor Greene just bribed Donald': Mary Trump warns of signals from wannabe V.P.

Donald Trump is being bribed by Marjorie Taylor Greene and Vivek Ramaswamy right before our eyes, and the media is missing it, the former president's own niece, Mary Trump, said on Thursday.

Ramaswamy said at the Alabama GOP debate that the Jan. 6 insurrection attempt was an "inside job," implying that it could perhaps be a false flag operation. This ignores, of course, that Trump was still president at the time when the event occurred.

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'I don't have to sit here': Trump tells media he came to court so 'you get the true story'

Former President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he attended his $250 million fraud trial to deliver the "true story."

Following the questioning of the defense's final expert witness, Trump emerged from the courtroom to deliver a 5-minute rant to reporters and television cameras.

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'Pot. Kettle.' Marjorie Taylor Greene called out as hypocrite for latest Biden attack

Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene received some pushback on Thursday when she criticized President Joe Biden's decision not to participate in a primary debate.

Greene, who recently attacked her fellow Republicans over a funding deal that she said was a "huge win for Democrats," implied that Biden's refusal to debate meant that he wasn't cognitively qualified to do so.

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'Biggest loser': Columnist sees Marjorie Taylor Greene scrambling after key ally quits

In the wake of Rep. Kevin McCarthy announcing that he's leaving Congress, Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is writhing, a columnist wrote Thursday.

Taking to X just after her ally announced he was quitting, Greene called out her Republican colleagues, slamming those who "expel our own for the other."

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Trump financial docs likened to a pack of cigarettes by his own witness: legal analyst

Trump Organization financial records are much like a pack of cigarettes, Donald Trump’s expert witness reportedly testified Thursday.

Eli Bartov compared the company's statements of financial condition — at the heart of Letitia James’ $250 million fraud lawsuit against the former president — to the nation’s leading cause of preventable disease, disability and death, according to legal analyst Lisa Rubin.

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Jack Smith will ram Trump’s witness attacks ‘down his throat’ at trial: legal expert

Donald Trump’s personal social media attacks will come back to bite him when he faces off against special counsel Jack Smith in his federal election interference trial next year, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance predicts.

“Smith is going to ram Trump’s attacks on people involved in the cases against him, and especially witnesses, right back down his throat at trial,” Vance writes.

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Court rulings deal Trump a pair of losses — and 'both are likely to be upheld': experts

A pair of court rulings dealt Donald Trump devastating losses in two separate cases and could impact future presidents, as well.

The rulings answered important questions about executive branch accountability that the U.S. Supreme Court has never addressed because no other president has acted so brazenly, and legal experts explained their impact to Vice News.

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DOJ now has 'compelling' evidence that a defeated Trump pleaded for 'violence': expert

A redacted portion of a Jack Smith filing submitted to Judge Tanya Chutkan hints that the Department of Justice has "compelling" evidence that links Donald Trump to the 2020 election violence.

Citing the notice the special counsel had to file under the Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) that previews evidence the DOJ will bring to trial, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance noted the redacted portion that follows the disclosure of an "agent" of Trump, also described as an unnamed campaign official who was in contact with a campaign lawyer in Detroit encouraging "rioting and other obstruction at the TCF Center where the vote count was taking place."

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Pastor admits abusing kids — but tells cops he asked God to forgive him: report

A Missouri pastor has admitted to allegations against him following a sex crimes investigation, police said.

Virgil Marsh, who told police he was a current pastor in Independence, was charged with sexually assaulting multiple children between 2011 and 2018, reported KMBC-TV.

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