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Trump's $250M civil fraud trial will stretch into next year: report

Judge Arthur Engoron wants to issue a ruling in former President Donald Trump’s fraud case in January, just a few weeks after arguments in the lengthy civil court trial conclude, according to a new report.

Engoron announced Thursday that closing arguments have been set for Jan. 11 in New York City and that his ruling will come “a few weeks after,” according to ABC News.

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Georgia lawmaker who threatened civil war has 'foolproof' plan to 'set Trump free'

Georgia state Sen. Colton Moore (R) detailed what he called a "foolproof" plan to have charges against Donald Trump and others for an alleged conspiracy to overturn the state's 2020 presidential election dropped.

During an interview with right-wing podcaster Steve Bannon on Thursday, Moore explained how Republicans in Georgia could scuttle the charges against Trump and 19 others.

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Trump shares demand for charges against Capitol cops after Jan. 6 riot

Donald Trump shared a post on his Truth Social network Thursday calling for charges against U.S. Capitol police officers who used force against Jan. 6 rioters.

The former president amplified a post by the Hodge Twins, a pair of right-wing social media influencers, suggesting that videos newly released by House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) exonerated rioters who have been charged in the insurrection and justified charges for police officers who defended the Capitol from the attack.

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Fox News host made desperate plea for Liz Cheney to 'bury the hatchet' with Trump: book

Weeks after former President Donald Trump was linked to a deadly riot at the United States Capitol building in a desperate bid by his supporters to overturn the election result, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) showed no signs of letting the matter drop.

In fact, the New York Times reports that Cheney writes in her upcoming book that many of her Republican colleagues were disturbed by her unwillingness to let bygones be bygones as rioters sent them fleeing for their lives on January 6th, 2021.

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Trump expands attack on 'judge's wife and family' hours after gag order reinstated

Donald Trump targeted the family of fraud trial Judge Arthur Engoron on Thursday just hours after an appeals court reinstated a gag order against the former president.

Without an explanation, a New York appellate court put a gag order in place that prevents Trump from attacking court staff.

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'Game over': Expert says Trump attorney just landed a 'bullseye for prosecutors'

A Donald Trump attorney provided damning evidence against the former president in the Mar-a-Lago documents case — and a legal analyst said it will almost certainly lead to a conviction once the case finally goes to trial.

ABC News reported that Trump attorney Jennifer Little told a grand jury that she "very clearly" warned the ex-president that he must comply with a federal subpoena for the classified documents he took home from the White House, and she's "absolutely" certain that he understood that failure to do so would be a "crime" — testimony that stunned CNN legal analyst Elie Honig Thursday.

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Lindsey Graham: 'Ain't enough money in the world to get a loyal Trump person to change'

WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers have a mixture of emotions after the far-right Koch network decided to endorse Nikki Haley over Donald Trump.

The Kochs have never been keen supporters of Trump, preferring to cut spending and taxes while Trump jacked up spending. Americans for Prosperity, the Kochs' flagship organization, has long believed that the only way to stop another Democratic term in the White House is to eliminate Trump.

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Trump now has 'a clear path to dictatorship': analysis

Washington Post contributing editor Robert Kagan has written a new column warning of the possibility that former President Donald Trump could make himself a dictator.

Kagan spends the first part of his column lambasting conservatives for wishful thinking about Trump simply disappearing from the stage after his litany of alleged crimes and offenses.

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Trump gag order reinstated by appeals court: report

Judge Arthur Engoron’s limited gag order on Donald Trump has been upheld by a New York appellate court, according to a new report.

This ruling reinstates the gag order banning the former president and his lawyers from speaking out publicly against court staff in his $250 million civil fraud case in New York City, ABC News reports.

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'Truly loathsome' Trump has made too many enemies to return to power: analyst

Former President Donald Trump, despite his competitive performance in general election polls right now, doesn't have a serious path back to the Oval Office, argued columnist Brian Karem for Salon — in fact, he said, Trump is secretly "afraid" of rematching President Joe Biden.

One reason for that is that he has simply made too many enemies to get the level of support necessary, he said.

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Trump launches early morning tirade at Wall Street Journal: 'The Globalist "paper" sucks'

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday morning went on an angry tirade against the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal for being insufficiently supportive of his 2024 presidential bid.

On his Truth Social page, Trump accused the WSJ's editorial board of being "globalists" and fumed that they were giving more positive coverage to rivals such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley.

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Trump scolded by judge for 'fishing expedition' that was meant to 'tarnish' case: expert

Trump cast lines into the subpoena sea and reeled in a judge's rebuke.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan who is presiding over the 45th president's election interference trial set to begin March 4, ruled against his try to subpoena "missing" records from the House of Representatives' Jan. 6 committee and dubbed it a "fishing expedition."

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'Too stupid to know that was a lie': MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell shreds Trump's attack

Donald Trump's attack on MSNBC, in which the former president encourages the federal government to "come down hard" on the cable news network, has not gone unanswered.

Trump on Tuesday evening suggested MSNBC should be hit with government force for its "illegal political activity" in the course of reporting news related to the ex-president. Without citing which interview or report caught his attention, the former president took to social media to slam the news network and its CEO.

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