Trump news today: Michael Cohen fights back after Trump sues him as ex-president returns to New York

Bombshell audio recordings have revealed Rudy Giuliani and different Trump officers admitting to Fox News that there was no proof of Dominion Voting Machines being rigging the 2020 election.

The questionnaire for the pool of potential jurors in E Jean Carroll’s rape trial in opposition to Donald Trump has been revealed.

Ms Carroll claims that Mr Trump raped her in a division retailer dressing room within the 1990s.

Mr Trump has repeatedly and emphatically denied the allegation.

A jury will likely be requested to determine whether or not the rape occurred and if Mr Trump defamed Ms Carroll together with his feedback.

Some of the jury questions have been printed by The Daily Beast.

They embody: “Are you on Truth Social?”

“What cable news network do you watch?”

“Have you ever used the hashtag #BelieveAllWomen when discussing sexual assault?”

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg has been despatched a second bundle containing “white powder” after his workplace introduced prices in opposition to Donald Trump.

Two senior legislation enforcement officers advised NBC News that an envelope addressed to Mr Bragg arrived at his workplace on Wednesday.

The envelope contained white powder, a letter utilizing an expletive to describe thr DA’s weight and a photograph of Mr Bragg and Mr Trump.

The powder was later decided to be nonhazardous.

This marks the second time a white powder was despatched to Mr Bragg’s workplace as he has confronted a number of threats for his prosecution of Mr Trump.

Jury choice is about to start in the present day in Dominion Voting Systems $1.6bn defamation case in opposition to Fox News.

Dominion Voting Systems has accused Fox News of pushing pro-Trump conspiracy theories of voter fraud together with claiming that its poll counting expertise rigged the 2020 presidential election in opposition to the one-term president.

The voting machine firm stated the community “recklessly disregarded the truth”.

Fox News has denied the allegations and claimed the lawsuit threatens the First Amendment proper.

Jury choice is about to start on Thursday within the case with opening statements scheduled for 17 April.

Things took a flip for the more severe for Fox News’s authorized group this week as Dominion Voting Systems’s $1.6bn lawsuit in opposition to the channel proceeds.

A choose reprimanded Fox’s legal professionals and stated that he was not assured that attorneys for the corporate have been being “straightforward” with the court docket.

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The lawsuit alleges a breach of his attorney-client relationship and unjust enrichment, amongst different claims. It was filed in US District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Wednesday.

The former president seems to lastly be making an effort to search revenge in opposition to his ex-”fixer”, who would go on to inform Congress that his former employer was a racist and a con man after leaving his place.

Ahead of jury choice in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6bn defamation case in opposition to Fox News, the Delaware Supreme Court Judge on the case is planning to appoint a “special master” to assist decide whether or not the news firm withheld key data and proof.

Judge Eric Davis stated he was contemplating the appointment on Wednesday, CNN reviews, days earlier than the trial is due to begin.

Dominion accuses Fox News of knowingly spreading false details about its voting machines within the wake of the 2020 presidential election in help of Donald Trump‘s false claims that the election had been “stolen” from him.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is preventing back at what he says is an express try by House Republicans to intervene in his workplace’s prosecution of Donald Trump.

On Tuesday, Mr Bragg sued the House Judiciary Committee chair, Jim Jordan, and accused him of endeavor “a transparent campaign to intimidate and attack District Attorney Bragg, making demands for confidential documents and testimony from the District Attorney himself as well as his current and former employees and officials” in federal court docket.

Republicans, predictably, howled in outrage on the DA’s response to their makes an attempt to assault the credibility of his workplace.

Donald Trump has now returned to New York for the primary time since his arrest and arraignment final week to face his newest authorized battle.

He is scheduled to sit for a deposition on Thursday earlier than Attorney General Letitia James who has introduced a $250m enterprise fraud lawsuit in opposition to him and the Trump Organization over alleged wrongdoing, together with deceptive banks and others that inflated the worth of golf programs and resorts that bear his title.

This comes one week after he was arraigned in a Manhattan court docket on a 34-count indictment within the hush cash case.

An lawyer for Donald Trump is searching for a one-month delay within the trial concerning a columnist’s claims that Mr Trump raped her in a division retailer dressing room within the 1990s, contending that his shopper’s proper to a good trial is determined by a “cooling off” interval following the previous president’s indictment and arraignment.

The trial was set for April 25. In a letter Tuesday to Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, lawyer Joseph Tacopina cited “the recent deluge of prejudicial media coverage” surrounding Trump’s arrest and court docket look in arguing for a delay. The former president was charged March 30 with 34 felony counts associated to allegations that he paid hush cash to an grownup movie star, Stormy Daniels.

The civil case earlier than Judge Kaplan was introduced in opposition to Mr Trump in November by E. Jean Carroll, a columnist who says the rich actual property developer raped her in early 1996 after an opportunity assembly on the Bergdorf Goodman division retailer.

Mr Trump has repeatedly and emphatically denied the allegation. A jury will likely be requested to determine whether or not the rape occurred and if Trump defamed Carroll together with his feedback.

A brief state legislation that took impact final yr permits grownup rape victims to sue their abusers, even when assaults occurred many years in the past.

Mr Tacopina’s letter searching for a delay within the trial for Carroll’s civil swimsuit adopted Kaplan’s order on Monday directing events within the case to notify him by April 20 whether or not they are going to be current all through the trial in Manhattan federal court docket. Carroll’s lawyer has stated she’s going to attend; Trump’s lawyer has not responded to requests for touch upon Kaplan’s order.