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Donald Trump Fundraiser May Have Broken the Law​



A fundraising event hosted by a charitable organization and linked to Donald Trump may have broken the law if it explicitly benefited his campaign, as an IRS rule bars charities from endorsing candidates for elections.

Border911, a Trump-backed charitable organization led by Tom Homan, his former Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief, hosted a gala on April 4 that Trump attended. Other attendees included former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and Matt Whitaker, who served as chief of staff at the Department of Justice under Trump.

The nonprofit group campaigns against illegal immigration and seeks to persuade swing voters to vote for border security, without explicitly telling them to support Trump. According to the invitation, tickets for the event ranged from $1,200 to $100,000.

Concerns have been raised that the organization may be breaking the law with its links to Trump. The Border911 Foundation received its charitable tax exemption from the IRS in August 2023, which prohibits it from participating in partisan political campaigns.
 

50 jurors left right after the FIRST question. 42 left for other reasons.

For the trial about hush money.
 
skyvolt2000 said:
50 jurors left right after the FIRST question. 42 left for other reasons.

For the trial about hush money.
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Jury selection in Donald Trump’s hush money business fraud case began Thursday looking like the task of finding 12 jurors had run aground.

Two of the seven initial jurors who were seated Tuesday were excused. Judge Juan Merchan’s hopes to begin the trial on Monday with opening arguments appeared to be dwindling fast.

By the end of the day, the jury in the first criminal trial of a former president in US history had been seated. Only five alternates are left to be selected on Friday.
 
Tpop33 said:
So the media keeps saying hush money, but other sources are saying it's about campaign finance laws.
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B-I-N-G-O!

Why you should take Trump's hush money trial seriously

Based on my years of experience prosecuting complex fraud cases, the New York County District Attorney’s Office case against former President Donald Trump has all the hallmarks of a major fraud case, with tremendous jury appeal. For starters, the alleged cover-up of a presidential candidate’s hush money payments to a porn star to try to win an election is captivating and easily comprehensible — in stark contrast, for example, to the financial statements and property valuations from Trump’s civil fraud trial.

But hush money payments alone aren’t illegal. And falsifying business records is only a misdemeanor. Here, the charges go further; Trump is charged with falsifying business records to conceal an agreement with others to unlawfully influence the 2016 presidential election. Trump’s alleged criminal intent to influence the outcome of the election would make the hush money payments illegal campaign contributions and elevate the misdemeanor to a felony — 34 felonies, to be exact.

So how will the district attorney’s office seek to prove Trump’s criminal intent to unlawfully influence the 2016 presidential election?

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Opinion | Trump’s own words may be the most important evidence against him in hush money case

The deception practically leaps off the pages of the documents at the core of the Trump hush money trial.
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Lara Trump Alarms Critics With 'Frightening' Comment About RNC's Election Plans​


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Lara Trump Alarms Critics With 'Frightening' Comment About RNC's Election Plans

"Sounds like a perfect authoritarian election plan to me," fascism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat commented.
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Lara Trump said Tuesday that the Republican National Committee has “people who can physically handle the ballots” at election polling sites, alarming critics.

The RNC co-chair made the comment while speaking to Newsmax host Eric Bolling about the GOP’s plans for the 2024 election.

Peddling election fraud falsehoods made famous by her father-in-law, Donald Trump, Lara Trump discussed the RNC’s plans for a major so-called “election integrity” operation.

The RNC recently pledged to deploy 100,000 volunteers and attorneys to polling sites this year as observers to “protect the vote and ensure a big win.”

“We now have the ability at the RNC not just to have poll watchers, people standing in polling locations, but people who can physically handle the ballots,” Lara Trump said.

It’s not clear what she meant by this. The RNC did not immediately return a request for comment.

“Poll observers are NEVER permitted to touch ballots. She is suggesting the RNC will infiltrate election offices,” Marc E. Elias, a leading Democratic elections lawyer, commented on X, formerly Twitter, in reaction to a clip of Lara Trump’s remarks.
 
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Federal judge rejects Donald Trump's bid for new E. Jean Carroll defamation trial, upholds $83M judgment

A federal judge in New York on Thursday rejected former President Donald Trump's bid for a new trial in a defamation case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll. "Contrary to the defendant's arguments, Ms. Carroll's compensatory damages were not awarded solely for her emotional distress; they were...
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Federal judge rejects Donald Trump's bid for new E. Jean Carroll defamation trial, upholds $83M judgment​


A federal judge in New York on Thursday rejected former President Donald Trump's bid for a new trial in a defamation case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll. The ruling upheld the jury's $83.3 million damage award.

"Contrary to the defendant's arguments, Ms. Carroll's compensatory damages were not awarded solely for her emotional distress; they were not for garden variety harms; and they were not excessive," Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote.

"Mr. Trump's malicious and unceasing attacks on Ms. Carroll were disseminated to more than 100 million people," he added. "They included public threats and personal attacks, and they endangered Ms. Carroll's health and safety."

Robbie Kaplan, Carroll's attorney, celebrated the ruling.

"We are pleased with though not surprised by the Court's decision today denying Donald Trump's motions for a new trial and judgment as a matter of law," she said in a statement. "As the Court explained, it was entirely reasonable for the jury to award E. Jean Carroll $83 million in damages given Donald Trump's continued defamation of Ms. Carroll during the trial itself, as well as his conduct in the courtroom where his 'hatred and disdain [were] on full display.'"
 
Donald Trump and his allies are trying to appeal to Black voters with overpriced sneakers, fried chicken, past-their-prime rappers and, now, some plain old bigotry to boot.

In recent months, Trump-allied groups have begun running radio ads targeting voters in largely Black areas that push a raft of offensive claims as they seek to undermine support for President Joe Biden.

The ads were highlighted by sports journalist Jemele Hill over the weekend during her coverage of the NFL draft in Detroit.

"Don’t know if people have heard these ads Trump’s campaign is running on urban radio but they are WILD,” Hill wrote, “as in wildly filled with massive misinformation, sprinkled in with some bigotry.”

Hill didn't share an example, but a similar-sounding ad called “Our Communities” was launched by the pro-Trump organization MAGA Inc. in March and schedule for airtime in Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

The ad is chock-full of MAGA misinformation. In it, a narrator claims that Biden is “letting Mexican cartels pump drugs and fentanyl into our streets,” that he’s “busing rapists and murderers into our communities,” and that the “crooks in Congress are handing our tax dollars to illegals.”

It’s hard to choose where to start with the corrections.

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