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« Reply #5936 on: September 21, 2022, 03:11:51 AM »
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‘There will be violence’: John Dean predicts Trump will attempt ‘dictators’ play’ as the walls close in



Former Watergate figure John Dean warned there will be violence as Donald Trump finds himself in increasing legal peril.

Richard Nixon's former White House counsel, who was disbarred after his Watergate conviction, offered his analysis following Tuesday's hearing in a Brooklyn courtroom before Special Master Raymond Dearie.

"It seems Trump’s lawyers are trying to protect his lie that he declassified all the Mar A Largo documents," Dean wrote in a thread posted to Twitter. "GOP does not want him to declare until after 11/08 so he needs the lie. He feels (rightly) he won’t be indicted until after the midterms. After the midterms, he will declare!"

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« Reply #5937 on: September 21, 2022, 11:17:05 AM »
Biden's Approval Hits 11-Month High as Trump's Falls to One of His Lowest

President Joe Biden's approval rating is finally on an upswing, reaching an 11-month high just seven weeks before the midterm elections. At the same time, former President Donald Trump, who had held onto a favorable rating since leaving office, is seeing one of his lowest post-presidency marks.

An NBC poll released on Sunday found that 45 percent of registered voters approved of Biden's overall job—a figure up 3 points from last month and the highest since last October. The margin of error for the 1,000 registered voters who were surveyed is 3.1 percent. The NBC News survey was conducted on September 9 to September 13.

The economy had been recurrently ranked as the key voting issue for the majority of Americans in various polls this year, but Sunday's survey found that the top issue to be "threats to democracy," with 20 percent of voters picking it as their number one issue. Comparably, 18 percent of voters picked the cost of living, 16 percent chose jobs and the economy, and another 12 percent said immigration and border security.

While Biden's rating has gone up, Trump's has fallen to one of his lowest since he left the White House last year.

According to the poll, 54 percent of voters have a negative view of Trump and 34 percent of voters have a positive view. The rating is a slight tick down from last month when 36 percent of voters had a positive view of him. Sunday's approval is also the ex-president's lowest since last April, when 55 percent of voters had a negative view and 32 percent had a positive view.

Trump has been the subject of several investigations that have ramped up in recent months, including a federal probe investigating whether he mishandled presidential records after leaving office. The majority of voters, 56 percent, say they want the various probes to continue, while 41 percent say they should stop.

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« Reply #5938 on: September 21, 2022, 11:24:46 AM »
Trump to Face Sexual Battery Suit Under New ‘Survivors’ Law

Donald Trump has faced a defamation suit from journalist E. Jean Carroll over her allegations that Trump raped her. Now she’s escalating the suit.



E. Jean Carroll, the journalist who claims she was raped by Donald Trump decades ago in a New York department store, is planning to sue him for sexual battery under the state’s new “survivors” law later this year—and her attorneys now want to question Trump under oath.

In an August letter to a New York federal judge that was just made public Tuesday, Carroll’s lawyer notified the court that severe legal action was on the horizon.

The issue was brought up in court filings related to Carroll’s current lawsuit against the former president. She sued Trump while he was still at the White House, claiming she was defamed when Trump said the journalist’s revelations in her memoir were lies, adding a piggish line about how “she's not my type.”

Although the underlying accusations deal with sexual assault claims against the real estate billionaire, the nature of the legal dispute wasn't primed to go after Trump for the actual alleged assault.

That’s changed.

Roberta A. Kaplan, the journalist’s lawyer, explained in her letter to the judge that Carroll is now preparing to file a separate lawsuit under New York’s Adult Survivors Act “on the earliest possible date,” which is Nov. 24.

Kaplan also explained that Trump—as he has done in nearly every court case of late—is refusing to turn over court-mandated evidence.

Trump “remains unwilling to produce any documents in discovery,” not “a single document,” Kaplan wrote.

That's why, she said, Trump should be dragged into a room for a deposition that will question him under oath—an embarrassing exercise that could elicit damning information from the former president. And given that it's a civil case, any question Trump refuses to answer can be interpreted in the worst light possible—even as an admission.

Kaplan’s letter was written to another Kaplan: U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who is overseeing the defamation case and had previously instructed both parties to share information with each other. (There is no known relation between the two.)

In a pithy response on Aug. 11, Trump lawyer Alina Habba accused Carroll’s lawyer of misleading the judge in the way she “repeatedly mischaracterizes the discovery efforts that have been undertaken by the parties to date.”

“Indeed, the letter contains numerous misstatements which are seemingly intended to make it appear as if [Trump] is not complying with his discovery obligations,” Habba wrote. “This is simply not the case.”

However, Habba’s letter revealed that—once again—Trump is hiding behind the presidential seal and waiving around expired credentials to keep evidence out of the public’s hands. Habba defended Trump’s use of “executive privilege” to prevent Carroll from obtaining some documents related to the way he verbally attacked her character while he was at the White House.

Carroll’s next lawsuit could have a dramatically different—and more serious—result than the current defamation case.

In the current legal fight, Trump managed to employ the Department of Justice to defend him, leaving taxpayers on the hook for what was clearly a personal battle. However, any lawsuit under New York’s rape survivor law would target him directly while he’s no longer in office.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-to-face-sexual-battery-suit-under-new-survivors-law-e-jean-carroll

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« Reply #5939 on: September 21, 2022, 05:09:18 PM »
NY AG Letitia James files massive fraud lawsuit against Trump, his business, and his 3 eldest children

- New York Attorney General Letitia James' office sued Trump, his children, and his business.

- "Trump falsely inflated his net worth by billions of dollars to further enrich himself and cheat the system," James' office said.

- James is seeking to permanently bar the Trumps from conducting business in New York and pursuing $250 million in penalties.




New York's attorney general filed a sweeping civil suit Wednesday against former President Donald Trump, his business, and his three eldest children.

"Trump falsely inflated his net worth by billions of dollars to further enrich himself and cheat the system," NY AG Letitia James' office said.

James is seeking to permanently bar the Trumps from conducting business in New York and pursuing $250 million in penalties.

The suit is the culmination of an aggressive, three-year probe by James, who in 2018 campaigned in part on the promise to investigate — and sue —Trump and his New York-incorporated real estate and golf resort empire.

In April, state Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron held Trump in contempt of court and imposed a daily fine eventually totaling $110,000. Trump, the judge found, had failed to fully comply with court orders that he turn over his personal business documents.

Engoron also sided with James in requiring Trump and his two eldest children to comply with her subpoena for their testimony. Trump pleaded the Fifth some 400 times when he was deposed by James and lawyers for her office last month.

Many of the lawsuit's fraud allegations center on 10 years of Trump's statements of financial condition. These are annual listings of the value of Trump's individual sky scrapers, hotels, golf resorts, branding deals and the like; Trump used these allegedly inflated valuations to impress banks and other interests.

The truth of these statements — which were signed either by Trump, or, after 2017, by Eric Trump — has been publicly questioned since the former president's fixer-turned-critic Michael Cohen turned over the statements for 2011 through 2013 as part of his testimony before Congress in 2019.

James has alleged that Cohen's testimony about the statements was the impetus for her probe. Even Trump's now-former accounting firm, Mazars USA, which had prepared the statements for decades, said in February the documents "should no longer be relied upon."

Mazars walked away from the statements after James' office found that they repeatedly "misstated objective facts."

Those facts included the size of his Trump Tower penthouse, which Trump allegedly claimed was three times the actual square footage.

Trump also allegedly overstated his liquidity — the amount of cash on hand — and artificially inflated some of his valuations by an undisclosed flat percentage for "brand" value, despite expressly saying in the statements that this brand value had not been factored in.   

Trump, for his part, has insisted that he has not committed financial wrongdoing and has repeatedly accused the attorney general's office of conducting a politically motivated "witch hunt."

https://www.businessinsider.com/ny-ag-letitia-james-civil-lawsuit-trump-family-business-2022-4

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Watch live: New York Attorney General to reportedly announce law enforcement action related to Trump

New York Attorney General Letitia James is making what her office has described as a "major announcement" on Wednesday. According to Daily Beast reporter Jose Pagliery, James "is about to announce law enforcement action related to former President Donald Trump."

The announcement is scheduled to begin at 11:30 a.m. ET.

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« Reply #5941 on: September 21, 2022, 09:55:31 PM »
Alvin Bragg @ManhattanDA

Statement from Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg:



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Re: Trump supporters and conspiracy theory - Part 2
« Reply #5942 on: September 21, 2022, 10:51:29 PM »
Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney

NEWS: The NY AG is suing Trump and two of his kids, alleging a massive campaign of fraudulent business practices by the Trump Org.

She's also urging federal prosceutors and the IRS to pursue criminal probes.

Details TK

The wide-ranging lawsuit alleges decades of deception and relies on a statute for repeat violations of law. The suit stems from a 3.5 year investigation that began with Michael Cohen's tesimony to Congress alleging Trump inflated value of assets to win favorable financial deals.

JAMES: “The complaint demonstrates that Donald Trump falsely inflated his net worth by billions of dollars to unjustly enrich himself and to cheat the system, thereby cheating all of us."

More, w @joshgerstein @erinmdurkin, who are live from NYC)

James' suit, if successful, would likely spell the end of Trump's business empire:

JAMES says her investigators "uncovered more than 200 examples of false and misleading asset valuations that were used on his statements."

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/21/trump-company-and-family-members-sued-by-ny-ag-over-alleged-fraud-scheme-00058011

For example Trump treated cash held by Vornado (in which he had a limited but not controlling partnership) as his own to inflate his financial statements, James alleges.  https://politico.com/news/2022/09/21/trump-company-and-family-members-sued-by-ny-ag-over-alleged-fraud-scheme-00058011




Among the many examples in the lawsuit, James says Trump inflated his networth as part of his failed effort to purchse the Buffalo Bills. https://politico.com/news/2022/09/21/trump-company-and-family-members-sued-by-ny-ag-over-alleged-fraud-scheme-00058011




MORE: The lawsuit characterizes Don Jr., Eric and Ivanka's participation in the "ongoing scheme" as a required element to make it all work. https://politico.com/news/2022/09/21/trump-company-and-family-members-sued-by-ny-ag-over-alleged-fraud-scheme-00058011




Tish James says Trump tax records seized by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago may have been concealed from her investigators. https://politico.com/news/2022/09/21/trump-company-and-family-members-sued-by-ny-ag-over-alleged-fraud-scheme-00058011



https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1572627836833349632

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« Reply #5943 on: September 22, 2022, 03:48:04 AM »
'They’re screwed': Legal experts erupt after NY AG hits Trump and his family with massive fraud lawsuit



The New York attorney general on Wednesday accused Donald Trump and his family members of lying to lenders and insurers about assets under the real estate holdings of the Trump Organization.

Letitia James said that with the help of his children and others at the Trump organization, the former president gave fraudulent statements of his net worth "to obtain and satisfy loans, get insurance benefits, and pay lower taxes."

"Claiming money you do not have does not amount to the Art of the Deal, it's the Art of the Steal," James said at one point.

"That's gonna hurt, Donny," snarked legal analyst Marcy Wheeler. "I really can't understand how this fella was such an easy mark for Vladimir Putin."

Harry Litman, a former U.S. attorney and deputy assistant attorney general, agreed, noting " Trumpland is no doubt spittin' mad!"

He also said that Trump has tried to settle with New York, but the attorney general rebuffed him. "She really holds all the cards at this point. Trumps can't go to trial. They will need to appeal to her sense of tempered justice."

"We have to assume that the odds of Trump's going to jail, as satisfying as it would be to many Americans, are far smaller than the odds of a criminal conviction. What that means is this potentially ruinous civil action—coupled with criminal referral to the feds—counts as a killer blow," he also said.

"The New York AG has a lot of leverage in this lawsuit because Trump (and his son Eric) took the Fifth hundreds of times," said former U.S. Attorney Renato Mariotti. "That was smart to do, but it means they’re screwed in this civil case. A jury would likely be instructed to presume their answers would have hurt Trump."

Main Street Law's Tristan Snell noted, "Just the very fact that Trump *could* be barred from taking on any new loans might have the result of him not being able to get any new loans."

Already Trump was dealing with banks that were uncomfortable lending to him, forcing him to seek out financial support from Deutsche Bank.

James' office requested that the former president pay at least $250 million in penalties, and that his family be banned from running businesses in the state.

She also urged that Trump along with his children Donald Trump Jr, Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump be barred from purchasing property in the state for five years.

"The NY AG case could trigger a credit crisis for Trump, forcing him to sell properties to get cash, rather than relying on more debt," said Snell.

"Someone is setting an all-time record for one man's involvement in civil suits, criminal investigations and other pending legal matters," added former ethics czar Richard Painter, who served for George W. Bush's administration.

There were many examples of inflated assets from New York to Florida, but there was a question about other assets that may not have been included.

"But did you include the $450 million of classified information in the basement?" joked former FBI official Pete Strzok, having the last laugh.

AFP