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Ex-Trump aide Peter Navarro found guilty of contempt of Congress
A jury has found former Trump adviser Peter Navarro guilty of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena issued in February 2022 by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
The verdict comes 14 months after Trump adviser Steve Bannon was also convicted of defying a Jan. 6 committee subpoena. He was sentenced to four months in prison, pending an appeal.
Navarro, who under Donald Trump was director of the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, was convicted on one count over his refusal to appear for a deposition in front of the committee, and on a second count for refusing to produce documents.
MORE: Former Trump aide Peter Navarro 'acted as if he was above the law': Prosecutors
Following the verdict, Navarro told reporters that he knew what the verdict would be and that he plans to appeal.
"That's why this is going to the appeals court," Navarro said. "This is going to the Supreme Court. I said from the beginning, I am willing to go to prison to settle this issue."
"We think that the evidence established that, in fact, President Trump instructed Dr. Navarro to invoke executive privilege," Navarro attorney John Irving told reporters. "This case is not over by a long shot."
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I love that these people risk the freedom and spend their money over the orange one!
Official removed from office under 14th Amendment speaks out as Trump case looms
As a legal battle begins to brew over whether the 14th Amendment disqualifies Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential election because of Jan. 6 -- which would mark an unprecedented and controversial development -- ABC News recently spoke with the one politician who has been removed from office under that same argument.
Former Otero County, New Mexico, Commissioner Couy Griffin was disqualified almost exactly a year ago after Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) sued to eject him from his role under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
Section 3 states that someone isn't eligible for future office if, while they were previously in office, they took an oath to support the Constitution but then "engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or [gave] aid or comfort to the enemies thereof," unless they are granted amnesty by a two-thirds vote of Congress. It is not a criminal penalty.
Griffin's Section 3 case was a bench trial decided by a state judge and he has since twice appealed to the New Mexico Supreme Court, to no avail. Griffin was convicted of trespassing at the U.S. Capitol two years ago, though he said he did not enter the building with the mob. He was found not guilty of a disorderly conduct charge.
He served jail time in Washington, D.C., after being found guilty in 2022.
In an interview Wednesday, he insisted that efforts to use the 14th Amendment against politicians are always wrong.
"I don't care if you're talking about a conservative or a liberal -- you shouldn't be able to use a court to remove an elected official," he said from New Mexico. "That was their [CREW's] plan. They started with me. It's never been about Couy Griffin, it's been about Trump."
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Trump advisers plot aggressive new tax cuts for second White House term
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/11/trump-tax-cuts-2024/?
Supply-side economist Arthur Laffer, an outside economic adviser to Donald Trump, at the White House in 2019. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
As Donald Trump widens his lead over other Republican candidates in the GOP primary, the former president’s closest economic advisers are plotting an aggressive new set of tax cuts to push on the campaign trail and from the Oval Office if he wins a second term.
Trump and his advisers have discussed deeper cuts to both individual and corporate tax rates that would build on his controversial 2017 tax law, which they see as a major accomplishment worth expanding, according to interviews with a half-dozen people close to the former president, some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations. The cuts could be paid for, at least in theory, with a new 10 percent tariff on all imports to the United States that Trump has called for, which could raise hundreds of billions in revenue. The sharp new tax cuts would help offset higher consumer costs caused by the tariffs.
The discussions are preliminary and in their early days, particularly because it’s not at all clear that Republicans would control both houses of Congress, even if Trump wins next year. But they illustrate the stakes for economic policy in the 2024 presidential election.
Democrats, including President Biden, have criticized the Trump tax cuts as a giveaway for the wealthy. Democrats included a new 15 percent corporate minimum tax as part of the Inflation Reduction Act they passed with no Republican votes last year.
Trump’s advisers, though, have discussed proposals to make deeper cuts to the overall corporate tax rate, potentially to as low as 15 percent, or to use the revenue from the proposed tariffs to pay a dividend to U.S. households. Further cutting corporate taxes, which would primarily benefit large firms, would contrast with the GOP’s increasing antagonism against publicly traded companies that many Republicans accuse of siding with liberals on cultural issues.
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Trump committed fraud: Judge rules Trump Org. loan documents "clearly contain fraudulent valuations"
Ajudge ruled Tuesday that Donald Trump committed fraud for years as he built up the real estate empire that bolstered his fame and vaulted him into the White House.
New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron found that Trump and his company deceived insurers, bankers and others by heavily inflating his assets and his net worth in paperwork he used to make deals and secure financing. Engoron also found that Trump, his company and its key executives had repeatedly lied about his wealth on his annual financial statements in order to take advantage of favorable loan terms and lower insurance premiums. Those actions violated the law, the judge said, dismissing Trump's argument that a disclaimer on the statements absolved him of any wrongdoing.
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Liberal Fox host brings up Trump's cognitive decline, co-hosts PARALYZED
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Democrat calls Trump's bluff on Mar-a-Lago valuation by urging Florida officials to hike his taxes
Democrat calls Trump's bluff on Mar-a-Lago valuation by urging Florida officials to hike his taxes
Trump claimed Mar-a-Lago is worth "50 to 100 times" more than officials say
A House Democrat asked Palm Beach County, Florida, to tax Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort property at a rate in accordance with the valuation the former president claims it has amid his ongoing New York civil fraud trial. Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., made the request of Palm Beach County appraiser Dorothy Jacks in a letter exclusively provided to NBC News, noting New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron's decision last week holding Trump liable for committing fraud for years by inflating and undervaluing his assets to banks and insurers.
Trump has since railed against the ruling, claiming that his Florida beach club is worth "50 to 100 times" what New York prosecutors in the lawsuit have said, or "closer to $1.5 billion" in value. "Between 2011 and 2021, you value the Mar-a-Lago property between $18 million and $28 million," Moskowitz wrote in the letter to the Palm Beach County appraiser. "Mar-a-Lago was listed as worth $490 million in financial documents given to banks," he added. "If the property value of Mar-a-Lago is so much higher than it was appraised, will you be amending the property value in line with the Trump family's belief that the property is worth well over a billion dollars?"
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Sidney Powell pleads guilty in Georgia election interference case
Sidney Powell, one of 18 co-defendants in former President Donald Trump's election interference case in Georgia, has taken a plea deal in which she has agreed to testify in the case.
She is pleading guilty to six misdemeanor charges, according to the agreement read in court Thursday. She will get 12 months of probation for each count, as well as a $6,000 fine.
As part of the agreement, Powell must "testify truthfully about any co-defendants" involved in the case and "provide all documents to the district attorney's office" relevant to their case against the other co-defendants, according to Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee.
MORE: Kenneth Chesebro rejected plea offer ahead of Georgia election interference trial: Sources
Steve Sadow, Trump's lead counsel in the Georgia case, responded to Powell's plea deal by telling ABC News in a statement, "Assuming truthful testimony in the Fulton County case, it will be favorable to my overall defense strategy."
Powell's plea comes a day before she was scheduled to go on trial along with co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro.
Chesebro, according to sources, last month rejected a similar plea deal with the state, ABC News was first to report yesterday.
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Donald Trump fined $10,000 for second gag order violation in civil fraud case
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump was fined $10,000 on Wednesday after the New York judge overseeing his civil fraud trial said the former U.S. president violated a gag order for a second time.
Justice Arthur Engoron on Oct. 3 barred Trump from disparaging court staff after Trump shared on social media a photo of the judge's top clerk posing with U.S. Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, and falsely called her Schumer's "girlfriend."
During a trial break on Wednesday in the civil lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James concerning Trump's business practices, Trump told reporters, "This judge is a very partisan judge, with a person who's very partisan sitting alongside of him, perhaps even much more partisan than he is."
Engoron, surmising that Trump was referring to his clerk, called the comments a "blatant" violation of the gag order. The judge imposed the fine after Trump briefly took the witness stand to take questions.
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Stop Talking About Biden's Mental Acuity. Start Talking About Trump's Signs of Dementia | Opinion
On Saturday, during a campaign speech in Durham, New Hampshire, Donald Trump invoked Vladimir Putin (of all people) as proof that he's being persecuted: "Putin says that Biden's—and this is a quote—politically motivated persecution of his political rival is very good for Russia, because it shows the rottenness of the American political system, which cannot pretend to teach others about democracy."
Some commentators see this and other Trump assertions about being persecuted as calculated efforts to fuel his base. But what if Trump really thinks he's being persecuted? What if he has a persecution complex? What if he believes his paranoid fantasies?
Trump is not facing nearly the same scrutiny for his age as is Joe Biden, yet Trump should be—especially as to increasing signs of dementia.
Biden is sane. He's getting major bills passed. He's negotiating with world leaders.
But Trump, who has a family history of dementia, is increasingly incoherent and unhinged.
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Trump recorded pressuring Wayne County canvassers not to certify 2020 vote
Then-President Donald Trump personally pressured two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers not to sign the certification of the 2020 presidential election, according to recordings reviewed by The Detroit News and revealed publicly for the first time.
On a Nov. 17, 2020, phone call, which also involved Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, Trump told Monica Palmer and William Hartmann, the two GOP Wayne County canvassers, they'd look "terrible" if they signed the documents after they first voted in opposition and then later in the same meeting voted to approve certification of the county’s election results, according to the recordings.
"We've got to fight for our country," said Trump on the recordings, made by a person who was present for the call with Palmer and Hartmann. "We can't let these people take our country away from us."
Trump recorded pressuring Wayne County canvassers not to certify 2020 vote
Trump pressured two canvassers not to sign the certification of the 2020 presidential election, according to recordings reviewed by The Detroit News.
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Supreme Court Refuses to Put Trump Immunity Clash on Fast Track
The US Supreme Court refused to decide immediately whether former President Donald Trump is immune from prosecution for seeking to overturn his 2020 election loss, in a blow to prosecutors’ efforts to start trial on March 4.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James is calling for a $370 million fine against former President Donald Trump and his companies and a lifetime ban on him and two of his former company executives from the real estate industry in the state.
Attorneys from James' office requested the punishment in post-trial motions filed Friday in the Trump fraud case. They said that Trump owes $168 million of interest allegedly saved through fraud; $152 million from the sale of the Old Post Office building in Washington, D.C., the site of one of Trump's hotels; $60 million through the transfer of the Ferry Point Golf Course contract; and $2.5 million from severance agreements for former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Howard Weisselberg and ex-Trump Organization controller Jeff McConney.
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Attorneys from James' office requested the punishment in post-trial motions filed Friday in the Trump fraud case. They said that Trump owes $168 million of interest allegedly saved through fraud; $152 million from the sale of the Old Post Office building in Washington, D.C., the site of one of Trump's hotels; $60 million through the transfer of the Ferry Point Golf Course contract; and $2.5 million from severance agreements for former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Howard Weisselberg and ex-Trump Organization controller Jeff McConney.
N.Y. AG calls for $370M fine against Trump and lifetime ban from real estate industry
Attorneys from James’ office requested the punishment in post-trial motions filed Friday in the Trump fraud case.
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Trump Calls On Supporters To Stop 'Bags Of Crap' Who Enter Polling Places
Former President Donald Trump on Friday urged his supporters to stop “bags of crap” arriving at polling places to vote in the presidential election later this year.
During a rally in Mason City, Iowa, Trump echoed his false claims that the 2020 election had been stolen from him, and said that “we’re not going to let it happen again.”
He added: “You should all stay in those voting booths. You should stay there and watch it. If you see bags of crap coming into the voting areas, you’ve got to stop it. You can’t let it happen, because these guys are crooked as hell. They know how to cheat.”
Trump, the current front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination, went on to declare that he and his backers wouldn’t allow Democrats to “rig” the 2024 election.
“We will fight for America like no one has ever fought before,” Trump said at the rally, held in advance of this month’s Iowa caucuses. “2024 is our final battle.”
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Donald Trump Opponent's Sudden Arrest Raises Questions: 'Retaliation
A long-shot Republican presidential candidate who has filed multiple lawsuits hoping to disqualify Donald Trump from running for the White House has claimed he is now facing political persecution after being charged with federal tax crimes.
John Anthony Castro, 40, has been charged in Texas with 33 counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation and presentation of a false and fraudulent return for alleged crimes which prosecutors described as "stunning in their brazenness."
Castro is accused of defrauding the government by using his virtual tax preparation business, Castro & Company LLC, to offer customers higher refunds than they were owed, or could receive elsewhere, as well as to split the additional refund with taxpayers. Castro is alleged to have achieved larger refunds by generating false deductions without the taxpayer's knowledge.
Castro told Newsweek that the indictments against him are political retaliation for his taking on Trump.
He has made headlines in recent months for filing at least 27 lawsuits across the country attempting to ban Trump from running for office over allegations his actions over the January 6 attack violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which states that a person who "engaged in insurrection or rebellion" after taking an oath of office to support the Constitution should be barred from running for office again.
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The killing part is his followers don't care. No matter what he does they will vote for him
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Donald Trump Fumes Over Release of Florida Documents
onald Trump's legal team has clashed with media groups seeking the disclosure of documents in his classified documents case in Florida.
Trump is facing dozens of felony charges accusing him of unlawfully retaining classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida after leaving the White House in 2021 and repeatedly obstructing government efforts to retrieve them. He is facing three other criminal prosecutions as he seeks to reclaim the White House in November, and has pleaded not guilty to the charges and denied any wrongdoing.
In his latest filing on Wednesday, Trump's lawyer, Christopher Kise, complained to Judge Aileen Cannon that the Press Coalition, made up of major media groups, has not properly communicated with him before seeking the release of documents in the case.
"Counsel for the Press Coalition claimed that the timing of the communications was reasonable and in conformity with the Local Rules because the matter was briefed and pending. This is simply wrong," Kise wrote.
Trump's team did not oppose the release of the documents but said they have to be consulted first and also said it is Prosecutor Jack Smith, and not Cannon, who is responsible for the document release.
Kise also wrote that Trump needs more time to consider the documents' release as he is running for president and also facing the E. Jean Carroll defamation case in New York.
"President Trump's consideration of whether he should object, consent, or take no position as to the Press Coalition's motion—or any other application—should not be rushed, particularly as he is both actively campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination and participating in a civil jury trial in the Southern District of New York," Kise wrote.
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That didn't last long. Ron DeSantis kills bid to have Florida pay Donald Trump's legal bills.
That didn't last long. Ron DeSantis kills bid to have Florida pay Donald Trump's legal bills.
A little more than a day after dropping out of the presidential race and endorsing Trump, DeSantis killed any effort by Florida lawmakers to have taxpayers pay the former president's legal bills.
EXETER, N.H. - The détente between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis might not last long.
A little more than a day after dropping out of the presidential race and endorsing Trump, DeSantis killed any effort by Florida lawmakers to have taxpayers foot the bill for the former president's legal costs.
On the social media site X (formerly Twitter), the Florida governor re-posted a POLITICO story on Monday headlined "Some Florida Republicans want taxpayers to pay Trump's legal bills."
DeSantis commented: "But not the Florida Republican who wields the veto pen…"
After that post, POLITICO reported that "a push by some Florida Republicans to use taxpayer money to help pay for former President Donald Trump’s multiple legal battles quickly fell apart after Gov. Ron DeSantis threatened to veto the legislation."
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Ex-Trump aide Peter Navarro gets 4 months for defying Jan. 6 committee subpoena
Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro was sentenced to four months in jail and ordered to pay a $9,500 fine Thursday for defying a congressional subpoena to cooperate with the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Navarro was convicted in September on one count of contempt of Congress over his refusal to appear for a deposition in front of the committee, and on a second count for refusing to produce documents.
At his sentencing hearing in federal court Thursday, Navarro told U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta that he had "an honest belief" that executive privilege had been invoked by former President Donald Trump when he received the subpoena -- an argument that prosecutors had disputed at trial.
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