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Trump's $900K expert was rejected from earlier case for contradictory evidence: report

An expert paid nearly $900,000 to testify in Donald Trump's fraud trial once had his evidence tossed by a New York judge who found it “flatly” contradictory, according to reports and court records.

Evidence from Eli Bartov — an NYU professor paid $877,500 to testify in defense of Trump’s accounting methods — was rejected by the judge in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ case against ExxonMobil in 2019, ABC News reports.

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New Mar-a-Lago evidence looks like 'separate count of conspiracy to influence': analyst

Former federal prosecutor and legal analyst Harry Litman said there might be a new charge of conspiracy in the Mar-a-Lago documents case.

It was revealed Monday that, after the FBI raid on the country club, Trump cozied up to a ex-staffer who had quit his job in the days after.

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Jury hears evidence Rudy Giuliani again defamed election workers in last 24 hours

Rudy Giuliani may have damaged his legal case after jurors heard that he continued disseminating falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election during his defamation trial.

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell warned earlier on Tuesday that Giuliani may have again defamed election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss with comments he made after the first day of trial. Howell has already found Giuliani liable for claiming the election workers rigged the 2020 presidential election for then-President Donald Trump.

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Mike Johnson aide says ‘open and transparent’ too ‘wordy’ for impeachment rules

Republicans on a key committee on Tuesday declined to include an "open and transparent" provision in a proposed resolution to begin the impeachment of President Joe Biden.

During a Rules Committee hearing, Ranking Member Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) backed an amendment to use the phrase "open and transparent" because it had been removed from the resolution used to impeach former President Donald Trump in 2019.

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Trump sells off pieces of the suit he wore in his Georgia mugshot photo

Donald Trump is once again raising money off his indictment on Georgia racketeering charges.

The twice-impeached, four-times indicted former president raised more than $7 million within days of his surrender to authorities in Atlanta selling merchandise bearing his glowering mugshot — and on Tuesday he announced a new fundraising vehicle related to the booking photo.

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White supremacist who dined with Trump calls for ‘death penalty’ for non-Christians

Last year Donald Trump dined with two anti-Semites, Kanye West and Nick Fuentes, at his Mar-a-Lago resort and residence, drawing massive outrage while revealing to many Americans for the first time who Fuentes is: a white supremacist, Christian nationalist, anti-LGBTQ, authoritarian extremist who supports Trump's "America First" doctrine.

In his livestream show on Sunday titled, "The Great Replacement is about White GENOCIDE," Fuentes called for the "death penalty" for non-Christians, according to Right Wing Watch (video below). "Antisemitic white nationalist Christian fascist Nick Fuentes says that when his America First movement takes power, all non-Christians will be executed," RWW reported.

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Trump whines that gag order forced him not to testify in fraud trial

Donald Trump admitted Tuesday he dodged testifying in own fraud trial because of a gag order banning him from commenting on court staff in his $250 million fraud trial.

Trump took to Truth Social Monday to decry both Justice Arthur Engoron — who has said he has received credible death threats during court proceedings — and Attorney General Letitia James.

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'Falsehood after falsehood': Fact-checker finds Trump lied every 12 seconds in Fox segment

Donald Trump made a false statement every 12 seconds during a five-minute video clip from his town hall appearance hosted by Fox News broadcaster Sean Hannity, according to a new analysis.

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CFRB) brought one of those claims — Trump's assertion that U.S. oil and natural gas resources could solve Social Security's coming fiscal imbalance — to the attention of Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler, who analyzed the entire video and found the former president dispensed "falsehood after falsehood in rapid succession."

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'Trump ordered you to be here!' Dem shreds GOP for MAGA fealty at impeachment hearing

Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) scolded his Republican colleagues on Tuesday for moving forward with what Democrats described as a "sham" impeachment hearing.

At a House Rules Committee hearing on the possible impeachment of President Joe Biden, McGovern said former President Donald Trump was behind the crusade.

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Trump exploits legal 'weakness' that can be 'manipulated by maliciously inclined': expert

Former President Donald Trump is deliberately trying to drag out his Washington, D.C. trial over election interference as much as possible — and it's all an effort to exploit a critical weak point in the American legal system, argued former Homeland Security official Paul Rosenzweig for The Atlantic.

Trump's latest stall tactic concerns his claim he has "presidential immunity" from being prosecuted for actions taken in office — a claim most experts have dismissed because Trump's alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election were in his capacity as a candidate and not a president.

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New House Freedom Caucus leader is no fan of Trump: 'Only person that can lose to Biden'

The hard-right Freedom Caucus has elected a new chairman who has endorsed one of Donald Trump's primary challengers.

Rep. Bob Good (R-VA), the freshly minted chair of the caucus that has long been aligned with the former president, previously endorsed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who had been a member of the group when he was a House member, reported NBC News.

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Jack Smith lines up 3 witnesses to link Jan. 6 rioters to Trump’s phone data: report

Many defenders of former President Donald Trump have been claiming that the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol Building isn't something that he encouraged or condoned in any way. And far-right conspiracy theorists have falsely blamed everyone from FBI agents to leftist antifa supporters for the attack — with no evidence to support those claims.

But special counsel Jack Smith's office, according to The Guardian's Hugo Lowell, has "indicated" that it is planning to feature three witnesses at Trump's election interference trial "who could potentially show how January 6 rioters moved on the Capitol in response to the former president's tweets."

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Yes, Trump can win the 2024 election. Here are four reasons why

By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - He has been impeached twice, tried to thwart the peaceful transfer of power after losing the 2020 presidential election, faces scores of charges in multiple criminal cases, and his critics warn he is plotting to rule as an autocrat. Yet, Donald Trump could still return to the White House. Trump leads his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination by nearly 50 percentage points in national opinion polls, a remarkable comeback for a one-term president who three years ago appeared vanquished and humiliated. Here are four reasons why Trump could win ...