Donald Trump ordered to pay greater than $350m in huge fraud trial ruling
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Donald Trump — ranked last in a poll of America’s finest presidents — stopped by “Sneaker Con” in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, over the weekend to launch a brand new vary of Trump-branded golden high-top trainers as he closes in on the Republican nomination.
The former US president was met with loud boos in addition to cheers on the Philadelphia Convention Center as he unveiled the footwear with a “T” emblem and American flag element, that are being offered as “Never Surrender High-Tops” for $399 on a brand new web site that additionally sells “Victory47” cologne and fragrance for $99 a bottle.
Mr Trump’s latest frantic money seize got here after New York Justice Arthur Engoron delivered a damning verdict in his civil fraud trial on Friday, which noticed the GOP’s presidential front-runner, his firm and his associates ordered to pay almost $355m in fines — with curiosity taking the whole to $463.9m — and handed a three-year ban on doing business within the state after being discovered responsible of inflating the worth of belongings to safe beneficial financial institution loans.
Mr Trump has vowed to enchantment.
The episode adopted his being ordered to pay one other $83.3m to E Jean Carroll in defamation damages final month.
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ICYMI: Trump ranks as worst president in US historical past
Now, he’s making historical past in one other means.
According to a brand new ballot, Mr Trump has now been labelled because the worst president that the United States has ever seen.
You would possibly say… Be Worst.
Amelia Neath has the main points:
Oliver O’Connell20 February 2024 03:30
Voices: Who’d pay $99 to scent like Donald Trump?
I believed essentially the most outlandish celebrity-scented product I’d see in my lifetime was Gwyneth Paltrow advertising and marketing a candle known as This Smells Like My Vagina on her web site Goop for $75. But, in a race to the, um, backside, nobody’s going to outdo the nuclear ranges of poisonous chutzpah wielded by Donald Trump.
Oliver O’Connell20 February 2024 01:30
Countdown on for CPAC and South Carolina
On Saturday, former president Donald Trump will attend the Conservative Political Action Conference simply exterior of Washington, DC proper earlier than he hops over to the South Carolina major, the place he’ll almost definitely declare victory.
His tackle to the conservative trustworthy at CPAC — largely comprising snake oil salesmen, College Republican chapters searching for a enjoyable weekend in DC, and essentially the most dieheard conservative activists on the market — will function a kind of homecoming.
Trump first addressed the convention in 2011. Doing so started his tease of working for the 2012 Republican nomination, throughout which he promoted the racist conspiracy theories that Barack Obama was not born within the United States and that he someway didn’t need to have graduated from Columbia University or Harvard. Trump finally elected to not run that 12 months, however his CPAC look marked a turning level. The actuality tv host from New York who spent a lot of his grownup life as a Democrat would turn out to be the usual bearer of the Republican Party simply 5 years later, in 2016.
Oliver O’Connell20 February 2024 00:30
Parkland survivor trolls Trump’s new sneaker enterprise
Parkland taking pictures survivor David Hogg has purchased an internet site tackle referencing former president Donald Trump’s new sneaker model and turned it into an anti-gun violence web site with the flexibility to name lawmakers to advocate for laws.
Mr Hogg, who’s now the president of Leaders We Deserve, an organisation devoted to electing young candidates to Congress, made the announcement on X, previously Twitter, on Friday.
Michelle Del Rey has the story:
Parkland survivor trolls Trump’s new sneaker enterprise
Parkland taking pictures survivor David Hogg has purchased an internet site tackle referencing former president Donald Trump’s new sneaker model and turned it into an anti-gun violence web site with the flexibility to name lawmakers to advocate for laws.
Mr Hogg, who’s now the president of Leaders We Deserve, an organisation devoted to electing young candidates to Congress, made the announcement on X, previously Twitter, on Friday.
Michelle Del Rey has the story:
Oliver O’Connell19 February 2024 23:30
Watch: Trump waves to supporters exterior golf membership
Oliver O’Connell19 February 2024 23:00
John Oliver gives Clarence Thomas $1m a 12 months to go away Supreme Court
On a recent episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the present host declared, “This is not a joke”, as he waved a contract on the display screen and requested the choose to “get the f*** off the Supreme Court.”
He added that on high of the million a 12 months, he would throw in a motor coach price $2.4m in return for the choose leaving the United States’ highest court docket – making reference with this supply to earlier motor coach protection, which revealed Mr Thomas borrowed over 1 / 4 of 1,000,000 {dollars} from a rich good friend to purchase a luxurious motor coach years prior.
Amelia Neath has the story:
Oliver O’Connell19 February 2024 22:30
Cheney says it looks as if Trump ‘needs Putin’s assist with one thing’…
Donald Trump’s Republican nemesis Liz Cheney factors out that the previous president nonetheless hasn’t condemned the killing of Alexei Navalny nor blamed Vladimir Putin.
She provides that he can’t danger angering the Russian president and it could be as a result of he wants assist with one thing…
Oliver O’Connell19 February 2024 22:15
Who ought to Trump decide as his working mate?
Joe Sommerlad takes a take a look at the choices:
Oliver O’Connell19 February 2024 22:00
