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5:54 AM 1/12/2024 – Saved Web Pages Review: Highlights: Trump civil fraud trial is over; judge aims for decision by Jan. 31 … Jared Kushner Could Be Made Secretary of State in Second Trump Term [And he could inherit the Presidency in the case of Trump’s death! – M.N.]


Former U.S. President Donald Trump and his lawyers Christopher Kise and Alina Habba attend the closing arguments in the Trump Organization civil fraud trial at New York State Supreme Court on Jan. 11, 2024.Former President Donald Trump speaks today at the closing arguments in his civil fraud trial.Christine Cornell

Trump went on — without any interruption from Engoron or James’ team — and attacked James, accusing her of election interference.

“You have your own agenda,” Trump angrily said to Engoron. “You can’t listen for more than one minute!”

There may be a reason that James’ staff didn’t interrupt. The AG’s office may have struck gold because some of what Trump said was so damaging to him, especially his explanation of the triplex square footage “error.”

Highlights: Trump civil fraud trial is over; judge aims for decision by Jan. 31
The past year saw Donald Trump on trial twice, indicted four times and hit with a multimillion-dollar civil verdict while also fighting off other legal challenges and running for president; his 2024 court calendar could be even more chaotic.The former president faces up to five separate trials in the new year and verdicts in two civil cases that could…
 

Donald Trump defies judge, gives courtroom speech on tense final day of New York civil fraud trial
NEW YORK (AP) — Barred from giving a formal closing argument, Donald Trump still seized an opportunity to speak in court at the conclusion of his New York civil fraud trial Thursday, unleashing a barrage of attacks in a six-minute diatribe before being cut off by the judge.Trump spoke as the judge was trying to find out if the former president would…
 

Kushner says Schumer told family friends he was going to jail
Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and ex-adviser to former President Trump, said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y) told his mother’s friends he was going to jail for his involvement in the 2016 election and alleged ties with Russia. “My poor mom, I told her to stop, you know reading whatever, I said, ‘I promise you, we didn’t do anything wrong, it’s good,’” Kushner…
 

Jared Kushner Could Be Made Secretary of State in Second Trump Term, and No, That’s Not a Joke
One of the funniest—“funniest”—subplots to Donald Trump’s time in the White House was the contention that his son-in-law Jared Kushner could and would bring peace to the Middle East. “If [Jared] can’t produce peace in the Middle East, nobody can,” Trump declared on the eve of his inauguration, adding, “All my life, I’ve been hearing that’s the toughest…
 

Exclusive Interview: How Jared Kushner Won Trump The White House
Jared Kushner (Jamel Toppin for Forbes) It’s been one week since Donald Trump pulled off the biggest upset in modern political history, and his headquarters at Trump Tower in New York City is a 58-story, onyx-glassed lightning rod. Barricades, TV trucks and protesters frame a fortified Fifth Avenue. Armies of journalists and selfie-seeking…
 

Anthony Weiner: Trump ‘doing anything possible to create diversion’ | Dan Abrams Live
Former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner speaks to NewsNation host Dan Abrams about becoming a GOP talking point after former President Donald Trump called him out for emails found on his laptop, which the FBI looked at as part of an investigation into Hillary Clinton. Weiner said Trump will “do anything possible to create diversion.” #AnthonyWeiner #Trump…
 

Donald Trump: ‘Thank You, Anthony Weiner’
Oct. 31 — At a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Donald Trump jokingly thanked disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner for his role in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s reopening of its probe of Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server.
 

Hacking, Extortion, Election Interference: These Are the Tools Used by Israel’s Agents of Chaos and Manipulation
Revealed: The cyberweapons a key Israeli company offers its clients in order to corrupt democracies across the globe Omer BenjakobGur MegiddoFeb 15, 2023Feb 15, 2023 Omer BenjakobGur MegiddoFeb 15, 2023Feb 15, 2023“Thank you my love. It was a wonderful night. Waiting for you whenever you come back,” read the note attached to the sex toy hidden inside…
 

Israel Mentioned in Newly Released FBI Documents Regarding Stone and Trump’s 2016 Campaign – U.S. News – Haaretz.com
Haaretz | U.S. NewsThe documents — FBI affidavits submitted to obtain search warrants in the criminal investigation into Roger Stone — were released following a court case brought by The AP and other media organizations The Associated PressHaaretzApr 30, 2020Apr 30, 2020 The Associated PressHaaretzWeeks after Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel…
 

Trump Ally Roger Stone Claims Huma Abedin Collected Damaging Material on the Clintons
That laptop shared by disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin, vice chair of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, may have contained files damaging to the Clintons after all. That, at least, is the claim of Roger Stone, 64, the longtime political operative and Donald Trump supporter, who is himself now the subject of…
 

Anthony Weiner: Trump ‘doing anything possible to create diversion’ | Dan Abrams Live
Former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner speaks to NewsNation host Dan Abrams about becoming a GOP talking point after former President Donald Trump called him out for emails found on his laptop, which the FBI looked at as part of an investigation into Hillary Clinton. Weiner said Trump will “do anything possible to create diversion.” #AnthonyWeiner #Trump…
 

The untold story of how a lone FBI agent forced the agency to reopen its investigation into Hillary Clinton days before her election loss to Trump
Two days after the FBI received the Steele dossier, on September 21, the London tabloid Daily Mail ran a front-page “exclusive”: This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. In just three paragraphs, the British tabloid had laid out all the elements of a crime defined by New York Penal…
 
Hidden Legal Lessons from Anthony Weiner’s Laptop (Computer)
Amid the exhaustive punditry and analysis concerning FBI Director James Comey’s startling disclosure of a rejuvenated Hillary Clinton criminal investigation, some critical questions seem to have gotten lost in the shuffle.  Namely, what are the legalities involved when handling Anthony Weiner (or anyone else’s) laptop computer; and could Anthony Weiner’s…
 

Woman who exposed Weiner says she ‘capitalized’ on sexting scandal by doing porn
PORN AGAIN THE woman whose X-rated relationship with Anthony Weiner secured his downfall has revealed in a new interview how she “capitalized” on the sexting scandal by doing porn. Sydney Leather claims that people already thought she was a “w****” after her raunchy texts with convicted sex offender Weiner torpedoed his 2013 New York City Mayoral run. …
 

Pro-Trump former FBI official says he’s channeling agents’ rage
But according to a Daily Beast article published Thursday, Kallstrom first denied speaking at all to any active FBI agents and said his assessment of the mood of the bureau’s rank and file was based exclusively on conversations with retired agents. But later in that same interview, he said that he did interact with active agents who had reached…
 

Hillary Clinton blames James Comey for her loss. Why not blame Anthony Weiner?
Anthony Weiner sexted a 15-year-old and Donald Trump won the White House. One didn’t cause the other, but several long-running narratives exploded together in a way that ultimately and in hindsight sent Hillary Clinton’s campaign floundering and gave Donald Trump’s new hope in the waning days of the…
 

Teen girl Anthony Weiner sexted wanted to affect election, lawyer says
Disgraced former New York congressman Anthony Weiner is no predator and should be spared from prison at his sentencing for sexting with a 15-year-old North Carolina girl who dreamed about affecting the U.S. presidential election, his lawyers told a judge on Wednesday.The submission in Manhattan federal court referenced “Anthony’s operatic self-destruction,”…
 

Special prosecutor ends Trump-Russia investigation, saying FBI acted hastily
WASHINGTON (AP) — A special prosecutor found that the FBI rushed into its investigation of ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and relied too much on raw and unconfirmed intelligence as he concluded a four-year probe that fell far short of the…
 

Israeli intervention in US elections ‘vastly overwhelms’ anything Russia has done, claims Noam Chomsky
Veteran activist Noam Chomsky has accused Israel of “brazenly” interfering in US electoral politics in a way that vastly outweighs any efforts that may have been carried out by Russia.In comments in which he accused much of the media of concentrating on stories he considered marginal and ignoring issues such as the “existential threat” of climate change,…
 

Azerbaijan arrests French national for espionage
Azerbaijani authorities have arrested a French national suspected of being a spy, Azerbaijan’s envoy to France said Tuesday amid a diplomatic spat with Paris which has been selling weapons to Baku’s rival, Armenia. “Suspected of committing acts of espionage, Martin Ryan … was arrested on December 4,” Azerbaijan’s ambassador in Paris, Leyla Abdullayeva,…