Trump teases speaker run as he tries to toss hush money case – live

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Ms Trump has received backlash for her claims, with one X user calling her “entitled”, while another said: “I agree politics sucks but her song sucked worse.”

Martha McHardy has the full story:

Judge Arthur Engoron has called on Team Trump and the New York Attorney General’s office to offer up some suggestions for independent receivers to oversee the dissolution of Trumpworld companies by 26 October, according to court documents. This is an extension from the initial 10-day deadline set on 26 September.

His orders also call on Team Trump to turn over a list of all of those companies and inform the monitor already overseeing Trump Organization transactions about any third parties who are involved.

Here’s Alex Woodward’s earlier reporting on the judge’s pre-trial ruling.

Day four of Donald Trump’s fraud trial is underway in New York with Mazars accountant Donald Bender still on the stand.

The cross-examination of the witness by the former president’s lawyer is repetitive and a weary Judge Arthur Engoron has given him ninety minutes to wrap things up.

In a new court filing, Donald Trump has petitioned to delay his trial date in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case until “at least mid-November 2024”.

The introduction to the filing reads:

President Donald J. Trump respectfully submits this memorandum in support of (1) his pending motion for a revised schedule for motions to compel and CIPA § 4 litigation, and (2) an adjournment of the trial date until at least mid-November 2024, in light of additional, ongoing discovery failures by the Special Counsel’s Office.

At 8.44am, the former president (perhaps after a nice breakfast and before heading out to the golf course?) took aim at his one-time UN Ambassador and now rival for the 2024 Republican Party presidential nomination — former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley.

Ms Haley recently overtook Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to come in second place to Mr Trump in a poll in New Hampshire.

Fox has totally given up on Ron DeSanctimonious, and is on their next “journey” pushing Nikki “Birdbrain” Haley, who stated loudly and often that “President TRUMP was a GREAT President, and I would NEVER run against him.” Well, so much for that! Fox & Friends just put on a hand picked Haley acolyte who absolutely gushed Birdbrain. It was really something to behold, so obvious and lame. Oh well, we took out Ron, a far less talented person than people originally believed, Crooked Joe is down to “us” by 11 Points, and now we have to focus on one of the most overrated people I know, Nikki. This reminds me of 2016 all over again, when Globalist Murdoch pushed Jeb, and all others, as they fell like flies. After beating Hillary, he then called me and said, “Hi, what a great win. So proud of you.” Such sincerity! But don’t worry? When Fox ratings drop still further, you can bet on the fact that they’ll be back – they really have no choice. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Gustaf Kilander has the full story:

At 6.44am, Mr Trump then turned his attention to his New York fraud trial:

I’m in a rat’s nest of NEW YORK DEMOCRAT CORRUPTION, a reason so many companies are leaving New York, our Racist Attorney General filled a lawsuit whose facts and VALUATIONS are wrong, like $18,000,000 for Mar-a-Lago, when it is worth, perhaps, 100 times that amount, and numerous other properties, likewise, that this case is a political SHAM that should never have been brought. I DON’T EVEN GET A JURY – Therefore, a Radical Left Judge, who came up through Democrat Club System, will decide. It is not possible that he can be fair. Every decision he makes has been a horror show. It is why I do the set asides with the media – To explain the case, and what is going on. Our CORRUPT, RACIST, & INCOMPETENT A.G., Letitia “Peekaboo” James, considered the WORST ATTORNEY GENERAL IN THE UNITED STATES, refused to bring this case under the respected “Commercial Division,” where judges understand Valuations and Real Estate. This Trump Hating Judge doesn’t. The Appellant Division must intercede, NOW!

Yes, he is now claiming Mar-a-Lago is worth up to $1.8bn.

Here’s why there is no jury (which he most likely knows and understands).

His “set asides with the media” are really acting as campaign fodder and appear as shadow testimony from a parallel legal universe “to explain the case” to his supporters (or give his version of events).

And yes, he continues to attack both Judge Arthur Engoron and New York Attorney General Letitia James as the gag order was limited to commenting on court staff.

And he really, really wants the case moves over to the Commercial Division of the New York State Courts System, as further evidenced by his next post:

The ridiculous A.G. case against me in New York, brought by the Racist and Incompetent Peekaboo James, is being studied and mocked all over the World. Companies are Fleeing! It, and the highly political, Trump Hating Judge, are DESTROYING the Image and Reputation of the New York State Legal System & Courts. I don’t even get a Jury! All of this while MURDERS & VIOLENT CRIME HIT UNIMAGINABLE RECORDS! This is sooo bad for New York. HELP! The respected Commercial Division, where it should have been sent in the first place, must take over this “sh.. show.”

Indeed, what a “sh.. show”.

Maybe Donald Trump wishes he was heading back to court today to deliver angry rants to camera in person? It’s so much more visceral than tapping away on a phone or computer. But the decision was made and the former president is reduced to angrily venting via his keyboard.

Here’s what’s on his mind.

Mr Trump was an early riser today, posting his first screed at 5.38am ET.

I am running for President, have a 62 Point lead over Republicans, and am up on Crooked Joe Biden, despite the Democrat Party’s massive Law-fare, Weaponization, and Election Interference efforts, by 4 to 11 Points, but will do whatever is necessary to help with the Speaker of the House selection process, short term, until the final selection of a GREAT REPUBLICAN SPEAKER is made – A Speaker who will help a new, but highly experienced President, ME, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

After catching up on some headlines, the former president demanded an apology from President Joe Biden over the waiving of federal laws to allow for border wall construction in South Texas.

So interesting to watch Crooked Joe Biden break every environmental law in the book to prove that I was right when I built 560 miles (they incorrectly state 450 in story!) of brand new, beautiful border wall. As I have stated often, over thousands of years, there are only two things that have consistently worked, wheels, and walls! Will Joe Biden appolgize to me and America for taking so long to get moving, and allowing our country to be flooded with 15 million illegals immigrants, from places unknown. I will await his apology!

The former president’s lawyers filed a new motion seeking a dismissal of the charges on the grounds that they claim he was only indicted to interfere with his 2024 presidential campaign.

In the court documents, his attorneys claim Manhattan District Attorney’s office waited five years after the investigation into hush money payments was initially launched to seat a grand jury in the case.

The grand jury was then seated and voted to indict Mr Trump just weeks after he announced that he was running for president again, they claim.

After returning to Florida having sat through two and a half days of his civil fraud trial in New York, former president Donald Trump apparently needed to let off some steam. He did this by launching a scathing attack on John Kelly, who recently corroborated a series of stories from Mr Trump’s time in office in which, among other things, he called slain US soldiers “losers” and the seriously injured “suckers”.

Here’s the vitriolic rant the former president bashed out on Truth Social last night:

John Kelly, by far the dumbest of my Military people, just picked up the theme of the Radical Left’s lying about Gold Star Families and Soldiers, in his hatred of me. He was incapable of doing a good job, it was too much for him, and I couldn’t stand the guy, so I fired him like a “dog.” He had no heart or respect for people, so I hit him hard—Made no difference to me. He’s already on record defending me all over the place. Nobody loves the Military like I do! Now he finally speaks back by making up fake stories, or confirming the made up stories of the Dems and Radical Left…

…He’s a Lowlife with a very small brain and a very big mouth. Interestingly, before firing him, his wife, who suffered a lot, told me he would never speak badly about “President Trump.” Wrong! Did he totally lie about another Lowlife, Congresswoman Frederica Wilson? Let them fight that one out themselves. Numerous people are angry and upset because they know they will never be in a new Trump Administration, but only for one reason, they’re not nearly good enough. Kelly would be among those at the top of the list!

Mike Bedigan filed this story on General Kelly’s comments: