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Trump says he doesn’t have any records related to NY attorney general’s subpoena
Former President Trump told a judge that he doesn’t have any documents that were subpoenaed by the New York attorney general as he fights an effort to initiate contempt proceedings in state court.

In a court filing submitted Tuesday, Trump’s attorney, Alina Habba, said that the records a state court judge ordered to be turned over to the attorney general’s office are all in the possession of the Trump Organization.

“After conducting a diligent search and review, Respondent’s counsel determined that Respondent was not in possession of any documents responsive to the Subpoena and that all potentially responsive documents were in the possession, custody or control of the Trump Organization,” Habba wrote.

In February, New York Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump, his two eldest children and his business to comply with the subpoenas from state Attorney General Letitia James (D) as part of her investigation into Trump’s business practices.

Trump is appealing the order that he sit for a deposition with James’s investigators.

Earlier this month, the attorney general’s office asked Engoron to hold Trump in contempt for failing to produce any relevant documents after his lawyer assured the court that he would comply.

James’s office is asking the judge to fine Trump $10,000 for each day that he has failed to comply.

In the filing, Habba accused the attorney general’s office of refusing to hold “good faith” discussions on Trump’s compliance efforts.

“Given the OAG’s recalcitrant behavior, it is fair to question the OAG’s motive in bringing the instant application, which appears to be little more than a contrived publicity stunt,” Habba wrote, using an acronym for the Office of the Attorney General.

The judge has set a Monday hearing on the contempt motions.

Hope the judge does not care to play Trump's game of where the pea is under the three shells.

Trump campaign must pay $1.3M in legal fees to ‘Apprentice’ star Omarosa Manigault Newman in White House book lawsuit
An arbitrator ordered Donald Trump’s presidential campaign to pay $1.3 million in legal fees to Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former “Apprentice” star whom the campaign unsuccessfully sued over a book about her tenure as a White House advisor, her lawyer said Wednesday.
The award comes nearly seven months after the arbitrator ruled in Manigault Newman’s favor that a confidentiality agreement she signed while working on Trump’s 2016 campaign was invalid under New York law.

The campaign in 2018 had filed a complaint with the American Arbitration Association in New York against her claiming that she violated that nondisclosure agreement with a scathing tell-all book titled “Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House.”
Manigault Newman’s lawyer John Phillips, in a statement, said the decision was the “largest known attorney fee award against a Political Campaign or President we can find and hopefully will send a message that weaponized litigation will not be tolerated and empower other lawyers to stand up and fight for the whistleblower and vocal critic against the oppressive machine.”

“However, the $1.3 Million pales in comparison to the $3 to $4 million the Trump Campaign paid its own lawyers in order to suppress speech,” Phillips said.
“That’s a lot of donations which went to lawyers in the name of politics. It’s truly shameful. We look forward to receiving a check and will donate a portion of the proceeds to groups who stand up to the suppression of speech.”
A spokesperson for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Manigault Newman first gained notoriety for her role as a villain-esque contestant on the first season of Trump’s former reality television show “The Apprentice.”
In her book, she detailed her brief stint as a White House advisor before she was fired by Trump’s then-White House chief of staff John Kelly in December 2017.
In 2018, she revealed she had secretly recorded high-ranking Trump administration officials, including Kelly. In her book, she accused Trump of using racist language, alleging that tapes exist of him using racial slurs.
The Trump White House at the time said her book was “riddled with lies.”

Judge to weigh whether Trump should be held in contempt
A judge on Monday morning will consider whether to hold former President Trump in contempt for violating a court order that he comply with a subpoena regarding a civil investigation into his business practices.

New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) is asking a state court judge to fine Trump $10,000 for each day that he has failed to turn over documents relevant to its subpoena.

10k a day? That man is worth bigly billions. 10mm a day!

cannabineer said:

10k a day? That man is worth bigly billions. 10mm a day!

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Every dollar is dear to him.

printer said:

Every dollar is dear to him.

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so make it sting a little!

Judge holds Trump in contempt for failing to comply with NY AG subpoena
New York Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump to pay $10,000 a day until he’s shown that he’s complied with the document demands.

New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) applauded the ruling on Monday. “Today, justice prevailed,” James said in a statement. “For years, Donald Trump has tried to evade the law and stop our lawful investigation into him and his company’s financial dealings. Today’s ruling makes clear: No one is above the law.”

Engoron had rejected Trump’s challenge to the subpoena for his records and testimony in February, ordering the former president to sit for a deposition and turn over any requested records in his control.

Trump appealed the part of the ruling requiring him to be deposed, but didn’t challenge the order to turn over documents.

Alina Habba, Trump’s attorney, said the former president will appeal Engoron’s contempt ruling.

“Mr. Trump’s purported ‘Response’ violates the Court’s order; it is not full compliance, or any degree of compliance, but simply more delay and obfuscation,” James’s office wrote in its contempt motion.
Trump’s attorney Alina Habba told the court that a search for any relevant documents in Trump’s possession found that they were all under the control of his company.

“After conducting a diligent search and review, Respondent’s counsel determined that Respondent was not in possession of any documents responsive to the Subpoena and that all potentially responsive documents were in the possession, custody or control of the Trump Organization,” Habba wrote in a court filing last week.

Maybe he'll try to file bankruptcy like Jones.

Polly Wog said:

Maybe he'll try to file bankruptcy like Jones.

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again....

Donald is brain damaged and I do believe he is a moron with very low functional intelligence, he can speak and scheme, but that's about it. He would do very poorly on an intelligence test, he also has very short and shallow attention. He operates more like a bear that wants your lunch than a human being, he needs constant and immediate gratification. He experiences two main emotions, fear and hate, revenge drives him the most and being called stupid drives him crazy, because he knows it's true, he constantly tries and fails to act smart. It is harder for a stupid man to act smart, than for a smart man to act stupid, likewise it is difficult for a brute to act civilized and easy for a civilized man to act like a brute.
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Trump appeals NY judge’s contempt ruling
Former President Trump on Wednesday began his appeal of a New York state judge’s ruling holding him in contempt and fining him $10,000 for every day that he doesn’t comply with a state attorney general subpoena.

Trump’s attorney filed a notice of appeal with the New York Supreme Court just two days after Judge Arthur Engoron found the former president in contempt.

In a written order issued on Tuesday, Engoron said it was unacceptable that Trump had continued to challenge the subpoena’s request for documents weeks after the judge had rejected Trump’s legal challenge against it.



What a surprise.

Trump said he’d be in White House instead of Mar-a-Lago if it weren’t for McConnell: book
Former President Trump told New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns that he would still be in the White House if Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had bought into his false election claims.

”Had Mitch stuck with many members of the party who knew the election was rigged, I think we wouldn’t be at Mar-a-Lago,” Trump said in an interview at his resort in Florida, an excerpt of the reporters’ “This Will Not Pass” book that was obtained by Punchbowl News states.

“We would be at the White House having this conversation,” he added.

Trump and McConnell’s relationship nose-dived after the Jan. 6 riot amid Trump’s stolen election claims.

‘Ask me nicely’: Trump demanded loyalty from governors for help, says book
In the aftermath of devastating storms that knocked out power to tens of thousands of people in Connecticut in August 2020, Gov. Ned Lamont (D) called the White House seeking federal help. Hours later, then-President Trump called back.

“There’s something you want to ask me about FEMA?” Trump said, according to Lamont’s recollection. “Well, ask me nicely.”

The anecdote, reported by the New York Times journalists Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns in their forthcoming book, This Will Not Pass, is just one of a series of Trump’s interactions with governors that struck many state executives as blatant departures from the norms of cooperative governing.

The book, obtained by The Hill prior to its release on Tuesday, depicts Trump as a mafia don, demanding loyalty from supplicants and political opponents alike, by turns using the largest bully pulpit in the world to beat them into submission and cajoling them in private to offer support.

Atlantic article: Why it's a smart political calculation for Republicans to say, "Trump's a Loser"

What a fucked-up joke of a political system.

If you Yankees could step back and see what you and your country have become, through the eyes of an outsider, you would be so ashamed and embarrassed.
Dysfunction, hatred and lies in the name of power, with not a single thought of the actual citizens they were elected to represent.

And don't act like you are better because you are a Democrat. Y'all play the same games and dirty tricks as the other guys.

H G Griffin said:

What a fucked-up joke of a political system.

If you Yankees could step back and see what you and your country have become, through the eyes of an outsider, you would be so ashamed and embarrassed.
Dysfunction, hatred and lies in the name of power, with not a single thought of the actual citizens they were elected to represent.

And don't act like you are better because you are a Democrat. Y'all play the same games and dirty tricks as the other guys.

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The news does not bear this out. Over the last two years, almost all the legislators in headlines for fraud, pedophilia and general high crimes and misdemeanors have been R. Your premise falls flat, and your both sides argument is dishonest in favor of the treason party. Shame.

H G Griffin said:

What a fucked-up joke of a political system.

If you Yankees could step back and see what you and your country have become, through the eyes of an outsider, you would be so ashamed and embarrassed.
Dysfunction, hatred and lies in the name of power, with not a single thought of the actual citizens they were elected to represent.

And don't act like you are better because you are a Democrat. Y'all play the same games and dirty tricks as the other guys.

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Sure America is not at its best right now. But pretend that it dissapeared off the face of the Earth and imagine world without them.

Judge rejects Trump’s attempt to halt $10K-a-day contempt fines
Earlier this week, Judge Arthur Engoron ruled that Trump would be fined $10,000 each day after he was found in contempt of court for not complying with a subpoena from New York Attorney General Letitia James (D).

James is investigating whether Trump’s business falsified the value of assets illegally for financial gain. Engoron criticized Trump on Tuesday for making “boilerplate objections” to the subpoena and apparently not making a good faith or thorough effort to find requested materials.

The former president “has not yet purged his contempt,” Engoron said in his ruling on Friday, noting that statements from Trump’s counsel were “insufficient in that they failed to specify who searched for each respective request, at what time, where, and using what search protocols; it is not sufficient simply to attach a list of people who participated in the searches.”

Engoron said in his ruling that there was no “useful detail” included in Trump’s personal affidavit regarding where he kept documents, who might have access to them and where they could be stored.

“Moreover, counsel’s claim that her conversations with [Trump] about the locations of the subpoena are covered by attorney-client privilege is without merit,” the New York judge added.

He similarly rejected arguments from Trump that the former president’s failure to comply with James’s subpoena had not been shown to be “calculated to defeat, impair, impede, or prejudice” the New York attorney general’s investigation.

“As this Court has previously noted, each day that passes without compliance further prejudices OAG, as the statues of limitations continue to run and may result in OAG being unable to pursue certain causes of action that it otherwise would,” Engoron said in his ruling.

The ruling means that Trump will continue to be fined $10,000 each day until he satisfies his obligations related to James’s subpoena.

printer said:

Sure America is not at its best right now. But pretend that it dissapeared off the face of the Earth and imagine world without them.

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The important embedded bit is the both sides lie.