Trump News for Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Former President Donald Trump was heard in a July 2021 meeting discussing "highly confidential" information he admitted he could no longer declassify.

Prospects are dimming for former President Donald Trump in his effort to move a hush-money payments case from state court over to a federal venue.

The judge, Alvin K. Hellerstein, said he was not inclined to move the Manhattan district attorney’s case against the former president to federal court.

New Jan. 6 probe details reveal "evidence of wire fraud," law professor says.

The suit says Ms Carroll should pay Mr Trump unspecified compensatory and punitive damages and retract her statements.

"It's almost like he wants to be convicted," legal expert says.

The House speaker angered Donald J. Trump’s allies by saying he did not know whether the former president was the strongest candidate to beat President Biden.

"These payments were personal payments from personal accounts to a personal lawyer handling personal affairs." Hellerstein said it was clear Cohen was hired "to take care of private matters." Blanche also argued that the former president is charged with reimbursing Cohen for a payment made to influence the presidential election, and that federal law preempts state law for federal elections.

The Ohio electric-truck maker Trump touted files for bankruptcy.

The inquiry into Donald Trump’s handling of classified material revolved largely around his Florida club and residence, but investigators were also quietly focused on his New Jersey property.

Rudy Giuliani, an ex-lawyer of former U.S. President Donald Trump, has been interviewed as part of a probe by Special Counsel Jack Smith into interference in the 2020 presidential election, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing unnamed sources.

The court’s rejection of the independent state legislature theory is incredibly relevant to the former president’s legal trouble.

U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith has asked a federal judge to delay until Dec. 11 the start of a trial set for Aug. 14 to allow both sides more time to prepare. Walt Nauta, a Trump aide accused of helping the former president hide the documents from investigators, failed to enter a plea in Miami for a second time on Tuesday.

A Reuters examination reveals that a fifth of congressmen, living presidents, Supreme Court justices, and governors are direct descendants of slaveholders.

Special counsel Jack Smith's investigators will interview him on Wednesday, Raffensperger's office said.

A New York appeals court dismissed Ivanka Trump on Tuesday from a wide-ranging fraud lawsuit brought against her father and his company last year by the state's attorney general.

The news Tuesday is that the US Supreme Court squarely rejected the fringe legal theory by which far-right activists and supporters of former President Donald Trump hoped to be able to ignore election outcomes.

An audio recording of former President Trump discussing a secret government document at his New Jersey club dealt the latest blow to his evolving and growing defenses against charges over his retention of classified information.  The recording appeared to undercut a claim Trump made a week earlier, in which he suggested he may not have…

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York appeals court dismissed Ivanka Trump on Tuesday from a wide-ranging fraud lawsuit brought against her father and his company last year by the state's attorney general.

McCarthy has already raised some eyebrows by failing to openly endorse Trump, who has cemented a wide lead over Gov. Ron DeSantis and the rest of the crowded field.