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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, …

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 …

Donald Trump has been unable to secure the nearly $500 million he needs to delay the collection of a massive $355 million civil fraud judgment leveled against him and the Trump Organization in February. In a New York court filing submitted Monday, Trump’s attorneys wrote: “Despite scouring the market, we …

Donald Trump’s PACs spent a staggering $50 million on the former president’s legal defense in 2023, according to a report from The New York Times. According to two sources who spoke to the Times, the former president’s massive legal bills were paid out through funds from the Save America PAC …

After a miserable NFL parody cold open and a cheeky monologue featuring host Dakota Johnson (dressed to the nines in a black jumpsuit reminiscent of Phoebe Waller-Bridge in Fleabag), musical guest Justin Timberlake, and his pal Jimmy Fallon, Saturday Night Live Weekend Update co-anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che took …

Donald Trump stormed out of a Manhattan courtroom on Friday as lawyers for E. Jean Carroll delivered their closing arguments in the author’s second civil defamation case against the former president. As Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, addressed the jury, Trump stood up from his place at the defense table and …

E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial against Donald Trump resumed on Thursday, and this time it was the president himself who was in the hot seat. The former president took the witness stand in Manhattan civil court for a brief testimony largely devoid of the theatrics seen in his previous court …

Judge Lewis Kaplan threatened to kick Donald Trump out of court during E. Jean Carroll‘s second defamation trial against the former president. Throughout Carroll’s testimony on Wednesday, Trump maintained a stream of commentary and reactions from his place at the defense table. During a break in which the jury was …

Closing arguments in New York’s civil fraud trial against Donald Trump took place on Thursday, and despite having been officially barred from personally delivering his defense’s closing statements, the former president launched into an unauthorized rant before the court and Judge Arthur Engoron. Sources told Rolling Stone that Trump had …

During a break in the closing arguments of his New York civil fraud trial, Donald Trump claimed that Attorney General Letitia James was responsible for forcing the oil and gas conglomerate ExxonMobil to leave the state and move to Texas. There is one small problem with the former president’s accusation: …