President Donald Trump surprised members of his administration with his social media outburst Saturday night demanding that Attorney General Pam Bondi quickly move ahead with efforts to prosecute his political enemies. In a Truth Social post directed to “Pam,” Trump complained that his Department of Justice has not yet prosecuted …
Read More »Donald Trump's Most Authoritarian Week Yet
It was clear Donald Trump and his allies would ramp up their crackdown against any and all opposition in the wake of the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk — and this week, the president’s second administration unleashed its most authoritarian blitz yet. The Trump administration got late-night host Jimmy …
Read More »Andrew Cuomo's Expensive Taxpayer-Funded Revenge Campaign
The day Andrew Cuomo kicked off his campaign for mayor of New York City, his lawyer Rita Glavin was asked about Cuomo’s efforts to obtain the gynecological records of one of the women who came forward to share stories of the former New York governor’s sexual harassment before he resigned …
Read More »Team Trump Plots to Send DOJ After New York AG for … Election Interference
This week, Donald Trump publicly declared that New York Attorney General Letitia James should be “looked at” by the authorities, as the former president raged over her office’s sprawling civil fraud case against his family’s business empire. Behind the scenes, various lawyers in the MAGA upper crust — including several …
Read More »Trump Pauses Fraud Bond Meltdown to Sleep for a Few Hours
Donald Trump has been ranting incessantly over his inability to pay his $464 million bond following a New York judge ruling he must pay the state hundreds of millions for fraud. The deadline to pay the bond is Monday, and after the former president fails to do so, state Attorney …
Read More »What Happens If Trump Can't Pay His Fraud Bond?
Throughout his career, Donald Trump has made his vast wealth a central component of his public image. He could use a little more of it this week. The former president is currently struggling to pay off a mountain of legal expenses tied to the seemingly endless parade of court cases …
Read More »Trump Suddenly Claims He Has Cash for Bond Despite Lawyers Saying Otherwise
Donald Trump has been telling the New York courts that he doesn’t have the liquidity to pay a $464 million appeal bond he must post following a massive civil fraud penalty leveled against him by the state last month. On Friday, the former president appeared to show his hand, claiming …
Read More »Trump Is Now Fundraising Off His Inability to Pay Fraud Bond
Once upon a time, long before he set his sights on the White House, Donald Trump leveraged his massive real estate empire into a braggadocious reality TV show called The Apprentice. The show’s bombastic theme song sang “money, money, money, money,” at viewers over shots of Trump’s New York properties, …
Read More »Trump Throws Tantrum After Failing to Post Bond in NY Fraud Case
If there’s one thing Donald Trump hates more than losing an election, it’s people thinking he isn’t as rich as he claims he is. On Monday, lawyers for the former president indicated he had been unable to secure the $464 million bond needed to appeal a massive New York civil …
Read More »Trump's Lawyers Say He Might Have to Sell Properties to Cover Fraud Fine
In response to the $454 million penalty levied against Donald Trump in his New York civil fraud case, the former president offered to pay a $100 million bond — less than a quarter of what he owes. In a court filing Wednesday, attorneys for Trump called the $454 million an …
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