Trump News for Wednesday, October 11, 2023
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Legal experts: New Jack Smith filing blows a big hole in Trump's election interference defense
Salon
Smith's latest move may force Trump to waive attorney-client privilege.
Oct 11, 2023, 11:40 PM
Donald Trump attacks President Biden on foreign policy as Israel-Hamas war rages
BreakingNews.ie
The Biden campaign said Mr Trump has been pushing dangerous misinformation about the crisis in Israel.
Oct 11, 2023, 11:00 PM
Trump says Israel's Netanyahu was not prepared for Hamas attack
BreakingNews.ie
Former US president Donald Trump on Wednesday criticised Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Oct 11, 2023, 11:00 PM
Trump’s financial statements were key to getting loans, ex-bank official tells fraud trial
New York Daily News
Donald Trump obtained hundreds of millions of dollars in loans using financial statements that a court has since deemed fraudulent, a retired bank official testified Wednesday at the former president’s New York civil fraud trial.
Oct 11, 2023, 10:21 PM
Fani Willis accuses Jim Jordan of ‘abusing’ his authority on Trump’s Georgia trial
The Hill
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) penned another fiery letter to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), again rebuffing his request for information about her prosecution of former President Trump and others involved in trying to block President Biden’s electoral victory in Georgia. “A charitable explanation of your correspondence is that you are ignorant…
Oct 11, 2023, 9:33 PM
Judge Engoron explains why Trump doesn’t get a jury in New York fraud trial
Yahoo News
Judge Arthur Engoron says why Donald Trump won’t get a jury trial. And a lawyer for Alex Jones says he will take the Fifth if forced to testify in Georgia.
Oct 11, 2023, 9:30 PM
Fulton County DA rebuffs Jim Jordan's request for information on her investigation of Trump
Cable News Network
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis declined to provide House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan with any additional information about her investigation of former President Donald Trump and his allies as well as any interactions with the Justice Department, according to a new letter obtained by CNN.
Oct 11, 2023, 9:25 PM
Kushner says Schumer told family friends he was going to jail
The Hill
Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and ex-adviser to former President Trump, said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y) told his mother’s friends he was going to jail for his involvement in the 2016 election and alleged ties with Russia. “My poor mom, I told her to stop, you know reading whatever, I said, ‘I promise you, we didn’t…
Oct 11, 2023, 9:08 PM
The Trump 'haircut': yes, Deutsche Bank really used this term in reducing what Trump said he was worth
Yahoo News
In planning for a possible default, Trump's favorite lender chopped down what Trump said he was worth by up to 75%, fraud-trial testimony revealed.
Oct 11, 2023, 9:07 PM
Banker says Trump’s financial statements were key to loan approvals, but there were 'sanity checks'
Quartz India
A retired bank official has testified that Donald Trump obtained hundreds of millions of dollars in loans using financial statements that a court has since deemed fraudulent
Oct 11, 2023, 8:27 PM
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The Kennedy who shames the name could hand the election to Trump
The Globe and Mail
RFK Jr. has dropped his failing bid for the Democratic nomination and is running as an independent
Oct 11, 2023, 8:05 PM
Georgia defendants, prosecutors spar over validity of RICO charge in 2020 election case
The Hill
Fulton County prosecutors and attorneys for two defendants in the sweeping Georgia election interference case involving former President Trump on Wednesday sparred over the validity of a racketeering charge that all 19 alleged co-conspirators face. Defense attorneys for Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell — two Trump-aligned lawyers — argued before a Georgia judge Wednesday that…
Oct 11, 2023, 7:58 PM
Ex-Trump exec draws blank on dozens of questions at fraud trial
WLTX.com
Trump, who has denied any wrongdoing and repeatedly attacked the case as politically motivated, was not in attendance for Weisselberg's testimony.
Oct 11, 2023, 7:55 PM
Judge in Trump's New York fraud trial explains why there's no jury
CBS News
Even if Trump had asked for a jury, the answer would have been "no," the judge said Wednesday.
Oct 11, 2023, 7:51 PM
Donald Trump will speak in Florida next to Matt Gaetz, who set House speaker's ouster in motion
WDIV ClickOnDetroit
Former President Donald Trump is set to speak to some of his supporters near Mar-a-Lago Wednesday as he continues to dominate the Republican primary race for the White House despite four criminal cases against him.
Oct 11, 2023, 7:23 PM
Trump tops Biden in battleground Pennsylvania after losing there in 2020: Poll
Washington Examiner
Former President Donald Trump has shot ahead of President Joe Biden in the battleground state of Pennsylvania by almost 10 percentage points in a hypothetical 2024 presidential election.
Oct 11, 2023, 7:19 PM
Look Who’s Building a Border Wall Now
Livemint
Biden is starting to sound like Trump, but that will only play to the former president’s strength.
Oct 11, 2023, 6:30 PM
Biden says 'US has Israel's back' but Trump calls out Netanyahu for intel failure
THE WEEK
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday reiterated his country's support for Israel, stating that the Saturday attack by Hamas militants on Israel was the 'deadliest' since the Holocaust. Biden also warned Iran against getting involved in the conflict with Hamas.
Oct 11, 2023, 6:30 PM
Trump wants to subpoena 'missing' Jan. 6 committee records in election interference case
NBC News
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump wants to subpoena the successor to the Jan. 6 committee and several other entities in connection with the federal election interference criminal case, contending that there are "certain missing records" that could be relevant to his defense.
Oct 11, 2023, 5:51 PM
New Jack Smith filing suggests DOJ identified Trump’s "motive" in classified docs case: analysis
Salon
New filing in Mar-a-Lago case suggests prosecutors know “what Trump intended” to do with the documents.
Oct 11, 2023, 5:15 PM
DeSantis says he would not dine with Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, indicates support for clean aid bill for Israel
Cable News Network
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday said that he would not dine with White nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes as former President Donald Trump did last year, but avoided directly criticizing his GOP rival for doing so.
Oct 11, 2023, 5:14 PM
Colin Allred, Dems' next great Texas hope, long pushed racial division
New York Post
When Trump was president in 2018 and trying to build the wall he had promised, Rep. Colin Allred was one of the most vociferous Democrats opposing him in the Lone Star State.
Oct 11, 2023, 5:04 PM
Kari Lake enters the U.S. Senate race with Donald Trump’s endorsement
Payson Roundup
Kari Lake, who still hasn’t conceded her loss in the 2022 race for Arizona governor, formally launched her campaign for U.S. Senate Tuesday.
Oct 11, 2023, 5:00 PM
Trump demands ‘full apology’ from Forbes after dropping off wealthiest Americans list
The Hill
Former President Trump demanded a “full apology” from Forbes magazine Tuesday after dropping off the list of wealthiest Americans for the second time in three years earlier this month. “I hereby demand a full apology from the failing Forbes Magazine,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social, saying the publication had written many false…
Oct 11, 2023, 3:51 PM