Thread: Legal Charges Against Trump

Originally Posted by S Landreth

the Guardian

Is that some "woke, hate the working class but love refugees and dogs" publication ?

What happened to the Independent ?

Jan. 6 panel releases transcripts for 46 additional witness testimonies

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection released transcripts from interviews with 46 additional witnesses on Friday after releasing its first round of transcripts on Wednesday.

The witnesses from this round of transcripts released include former Attorney General William Barr, former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, former White House counsel Pat Cipollone, former Trump 2020 campaign manager Bill Stepien, former acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Trump ally and attorney Sidney Powell.

The witnesses also include Marc Short, who served as chief of staff to former Vice President Mike Pence, former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and Ivanka Trump.

Many of the most notable figures whose transcripts were released on Friday served in key positions in the Trump administration as the attack on the Capitol unfolded.

The first round of transcripts released featured many Trump allies who pleaded their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in response to at least some of the committee’s questions. They included Trump campaign attorney John Eastman, former national security adviser Michael Flynn and former acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division Jeffrey Clark.

The committee also on Thursday released transcripts for a few additional witnesses, including former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, former Homeland Security official Chris Krebs and former a White House aide and assistant to the White House chief of staff, Cassidy Hutchinson.

The Friday release came one day after the committee released its final report on the insurrection. The committee held its final public hearing to announce its conclusions on Monday.

In the report, the committee made four criminal referrals for former President Trump to the Justice Department over his role in the lead-up to and during the day’s events. The referrals are for inciting, assisting or aiding and comforting an insurrection; obstruction of an official proceeding; conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to make a false statement.

The committee also recommended that Eastman faced two charges — obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the United States.

The Justice Department is conducting its own investigation into Trump over his role in efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, including the insurrection, and the classified and sensitive documents found at his Mar-a-Lago estate that should have been returned to government record-keepers at the end of his presidency.

The committee is reportedly cooperating and sharing the evidence it has gathered with special counsel Jack Smith, who is overseeing the Justice Department investigations.

Dec 23, 2022

Washington—Today, the Select Committee made public additional transcripts of witness testimony that was gathered over the course of the Select Committee’s investigation into the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.

These records can now be found on the Select Committee’s website:

• Pasquale Anthony “Pat” Cipollone
• Kayleigh McEnany
• Elaine Chao
• William Barr
• Alex Cannon, 4/13/22; 8/18/22
• Mark Robinson
• Justin Clark
• William (Bill) Stepien
• Caroline Elizabeth Edwards
• Sidney Powell
• Richard Peter Donoghue
• Jeffrey A. Rosen
• Hope Hicks
• Paul Irving
• Greg Jacob
• Marc Short
• Ivanka Trump
• Julie Radford
• Chad Wolf
• Ken Klukowski Part 1
• Benjamin Williamson
• Michael Pompeo
• Keith Kellogg, Jr.
• Robert O’Brien
• Brandon Straka
• Janet West Buhler
• Carla Krzywicki
• James Rahm, III
• Thomas Paul Conover, Jr.
• Zac Martin
• Eric Barber
• Daniel J. Herendeen
• Lawrence Stackhouse
• John D. Wright
• Jean Lavin
• Greg Rubenacker
• Ryan Kelley
• Jeremy Bertino
• Lewis Easton Cantwell
• Frank J. Scavo III
• Francis Connor
• George Amos Tenney
• Samuel Armes
• Landon Bentley
• Nicholas DeCarlo
• Duston Thompson

• Judge Rejects Trump's Request to Intrude in NYAG Lawsuit

Federal Judge in Florida Refuses Donald Trump’s Request for ‘Unprecedented’ Intrusion in New York AG’s Fraud Case

A federal judge in Florida refused on Wednesday to grant former President Donald Trump’s request to intrude upon New York Attorney General Letitia James’s enforcement action in connection with her fraud case.

“The Trump Organization has already been found guilty by a New-York jury of several counts of tax fraud,” U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks noted in an eight-page ruling. “To now impede a civil Enforcement Action by the New York Attorney General would be unprecedented and contrary to the interests of the people of New York.”

In November, Trump filed a lawsuit in a state court in Florida seeking to block James from “requesting, demanding, possessing or disclosing” amendments to his trust in connection with her fraud case. His original lawsuit was later transferred to federal court.

Shortly after the lawsuit’s original filing, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron ordered a court-appointed monitor to watch over the Trump Organization pending a trial slated for next year. James’s lawsuit against Trump, his adult children and his businesses alleges a years-long pattern of tax fraud. She also wants to bar the former president and the family members named in her suit from ever serving as an officer or director in any New York corporation.

In his lawsuit, Trump claimed James targeted him for a “relentless, pernicious, public, and unapologetic crusade” that preceded the Democratic AG’s election.

“James’ war of intimidation and harassment on President Trump, his family, his business interests, and his associates is longstanding and continuing,” Trump’s Nov. 2 lawsuit said. “James campaigned for Attorney General on the promise of launching investigations of President Trump before even the pretext of a predicate existed. Since her election, she made good on those campaign promises and established within her office a policy of intimidating and harassing President Trump whenever possible.”

Multiple courts have denied Trump’s claims of political motivations, including Engoron, a New York appellate court, and a federal court in New York.

According to James, the actual pattern is Trump shopping around in various courts in an attempt to “end-run” other judges’ rulings and her own prosecutorial discretion.

“This action is Mr. Trump’s second improper attempt to collaterally attack and end-run around rulings that have been issued by the presiding judge in the New York proceedings, Justice Arthur Engoron,” her assistant AG recently wrote.

Judge Middlebrooks rejected Trump’s motion for a preliminary injunction late on Wednesday, finding the former president’s lawsuit would likely fail.

“Defendant raises four reasons — all of which are likely correct — why Plaintiff has no substantial likelihood of success on the merits,” wrote Middlebrooks, a Bill Clinton appointee. “First, it is not at all clear that a federal court sitting in West Palm Beach, Florida, has personal jurisdiction over the Attorney General of New York. Second, this action is barred by New York’s interstate sovereign immunity.”

Middlebrooks also denied the request on the grounds of issue and claim preclusion, meaning the matter was already decided in a binding decision of another court.

The attorney general also argued that Trump’s bid failed under the Supreme Court’s Rooker-Feldman precedent. Under that doctrine, James noted, a “state-court loser” cannot seek to collaterally attack the court’s final, appealable orders. Middlebrooks agreed.

In November, Middlebrooks wrote a blistering ruling sanctioning Trump’s lawyers for filing a massive, “frivolous” and “shotgun” lawsuit accusing Hillary Clinton and dozens of other supposed political antagonists of a vast conspiracy to tar him with Russia collusion allegations. The judge found it amounted to little more than a political statement masquerading as a legal action.

“The rule of law is undermined by the toxic combination of political fundraising with legal fees paid by political action committees, reckless and factually untrue statements by lawyers at rallies and in the media, and efforts to advance a political narrative through lawsuits without factual basis or any cognizable legal theory,” Middlebrooks wrote in his Nov. 10 ruling. “Lawyers are enabling this behavior and I am pessimistic that Rule 11 alone can effectively stem this abuse. Aspects may be beyond the purview of the judiciary, requiring attention of the Bar and disciplinary authorities. Additional sanctions may be appropriate.”

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Dec 27, 2022 - RELEASE OF SELECT COMMITTEE MATERIALS

Washington—Today, the Select Committee made public additional transcripts of witness testimony that was gathered over the course of the Select Committee’s investigation into the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.

These records can now be found on the Select Committee’s website:

• Ali Alexander
• Judson P. Deere
• Jamie Fleet
• Cassidy Hutchinson, May 17, 2022; June 20, 2022
• Bernard Kerik
• Amy Kremer
• Kylie Kremer
• John McEntee
• Max Miller
• Steven Mnuchin
• Nick Quested
• Brad Raffensperger
• Eugene Scalia
• Michael Shirkey
• William Walker, Part 1; Part 2
• Caroline Wren

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Trump tax returns to be released by House panel on Friday

The House Ways and Means Committee will release former President Donald Trump’s tax returns Friday morning, a source familiar confirmed to CNN.

The returns will be placed into the congressional record on Friday morning during a House pro forma session. That pro forma session will occur around 9 a.m. ET on Friday. There will also be a formal announcement Friday from the committee.

The highly anticipated release comes after the panel last week asserted that the IRS failed to properly audit the former president’s taxes while he was in office.

The committee released a report that detailed six years’ worth of the former president’s tax returns, including his claims of massive annual losses that significantly reduced his tax burden.

Chairman Richard Neal and fellow Democrats have said that the records they obtained showed that the presidential audit program failed to work as intended. Neal, a Massachusetts Democrat, charged that the complete required audit of Trump’s taxes “did not occur,” as his returns were only subjected to the mandatory audit once, in 2019, after Democrats inquired.

The committee also released a supplemental report from the Joint Committee on Taxation that included details on Trump’s tax returns from 2015 to 2020, ahead of the planned release of the returns themselves.

The release of Trump’s tax returns marks the conclusion of a nearly four-year legal battle House Democrats waged against the former president after they took control of the House in 2019.

The audit program was important to Democrats because it was the justification they used to obtain the returns in the first place – but the Democratic pursuit was also tied in part to long-held suspicions about Trump’s taxes after he bucked the norm and refused to release his returns as a candidate and while in office.

^comics from the silly school girl, again

Tomorrow

What to look for in Trump’s tax returns

Democrats released six years of former President Trump’s tax return information last week as part of reports into the presidential audit program, revealing that the former president wasn’t receiving regular audits from the IRS and that he was reporting big business losses every year.

On Friday, Trump’s actual tax returns from 2015 to 2020 are set to be released, after Democrats said they needed additional time to redact the documents and remove personal information.

Tax experts aren’t expecting huge revelations from the raw returns, which were summarized in reports from both the Democratic-controlled Ways and Means Committee and the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT). But the more detailed documents could provide additional information on key areas of interest regarding Trump’s businesses and his professional associations.

Were Trump’s losses refreshed in 2020?

The JCT report on Trump’s taxes revealed that Trump was reporting large losses every year, usually in the tens of millions of dollars, offsetting his gains and reducing what he owed in taxes — and sometimes wiping out his tax liability altogether, as in 2020.

The losses from 2015 to 2018 were actually just pieces of a larger $105 million loss, which was itself part of a $700 million loss that was broken up and reported over different years.

These broken-up losses are common accounting strategies for people in the real estate development world, who are allowed to report regular depreciation expenses as losses.

In 2019, Trump reported positive income and paid taxes, but then reported he was again in the red in 2020, leading some experts to think that Trump’s losses in that year go beyond strategic accounting and represent genuinely ailing businesses.

“Trump’s 2020 losses were not from net operating losses carried over. Rather, I think Trump’s 2020 losses were real, largely resulting from business losses he suffered at the start of the COVID pandemic. And that is why he paid zero taxes in 2020,” Steve Rosenthal of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center wrote in an email to The Hill.

“Yes, Trump generated a lot of losses in 2009, including a $700 million loss from his ‘abandonment’ of a partnership interest, some of which he carried over to future years. And Trump, apparently, continued to carryover these losses through 2018. But, by 2019, Trump had used all his carryover losses — and Trump reported positive income,” he wrote.

More information on Trump’s 2020 tax return could be a window into whether he got out of paying taxes that year due to common accounting practices or failing businesses.

Information on foreign entities and bank accounts

Trump’s foreign entanglements were one of the dominant narratives of his presidency, particularly the FBI investigation into his relationship with Russia.

Any foreign bank accounts cited in Trump’s tax returns or payments made to foreign entities are sure to receive scrutiny and could provide further insight into Trump’s relationships abroad.

“I’m going to be looking for things like foreign ownership, foreign accounts, foreign ownership of Trump businesses, payments to foreigners,” Rosenthal said. “There’s bound to be some items that may yet pop out to external reviewers that [the JCT] missed.”

“Those of us who are interested in his relationship with Russia will be looking for any kind of confirmation of what Don [Trump] Jr. said in 2008 that Trump interests had received much of their money from Russian sources,” former CIA officer and journalist Frank Snepp said in an interview.

“Obviously we’re not going to see in the tax returns a line that says ‘Russian Assets,’ but a forensic analyst would be well advised to look for anything related to the emoluments clause,” he said.

Trump also oversaw some major changes of the status quo in the Middle East, including the Abraham Accords, whereby Israel normalized relations with several Arab nations.

“Everybody who is interested in whether or not he received any money from Saudi Arabia will be looking for indications of that kind of foreign input,” Snepp said.

The profitability breakdown of Trump’s companies

In addition to Trump’s individual tax returns, Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee also obtained the returns for eight of Trump’s businesses. While that’s only a small subset of Trump’s nearly 500 commercial entities, seeing which companies were most responsible for Trump’s losses will provide a clearer picture of his tax avoidance and general business practices.

The eight business returns fall into three categories, encompassing trademark LLCs, golf club businesses and two high-level holding companies.

“Those two upper-tier entities sit at the top of Trump’s LLC empire. The numbers all roll into those, and I’d like to see some aggregate numbers there,” Rosenthal said.

According to the JCT report, an IRS agent assigned to Trump’s 2018 business returns noted numerous suspicious losses claimed by Trump on his tax returns.

“With respect to 2018, the agent noted several ‘Large unusual questionable items’ (‘LUQs’) including a $12.1 million loss from the Trump Corporation … [and] $55.2 million loss for DJT Holdings,” The JCT report said.

The report also mentioned a “history of difficult negotiations between Mr. Trump’s counsel and IRS personnel.”

Unlike his real estate businesses, Trump’s trademark LLCs are expected to be profitable enterprises, bolstered by the publicity he gained during his reality television career on NBC’s “The Apprentice.”

I'll say it again, I think it's highly uncool to make someone's tax returns public.

Originally Posted by Topper

I'll say it again, I think it's highly uncool to make someone's tax returns public.

Uncool and illegal. I agree it is important a Presidential candidate make his taxes public so change the law to require they do.

Originally Posted by Topper

I'll say it again, I think it's highly uncool to make someone's tax returns public.

I'd strongly disagree.

Can't be bad to have a candidate for high office vetted in the fraud department.


Trump couldn't be elected, or nominated even, with shoplifting on his CV, could he ?

But tax fraud seems to be OK.


Doesn't matter much when the rich commit crimes........or are "smarter" as Trump would call it.

Originally Posted by helge

Can't be bad to have a candidate for high office vetted in the fraud department.

Wot Norton said

Originally Posted by Norton

I agree it is important a Presidential candidate make his taxes public so change the law to require they do.

Originally Posted by Topper

I'll say it again, I think it's highly uncool to make someone's tax returns public.

Not when most of his predecessors have done so without question, and he has lied about being under audit.

They shouldn't have had to do it. It is the result of a criminal investigation.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

It is the result of a criminal investigation.

It's not. It's the result of trump not following the norms in releasing his taxes AND the IRS not doing their job.

Dec 30, 2022 – Ways and Means Committee Votes to Release Investigation of the IRS’s Mandatory Audit Program Under the Prior Administration

The Ways and Means Committee voted to publicly release the Committee’s investigation of the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) Mandatory Audit Program under the prior administration. The Committee’s investigation found the mandatory program was dormant, at best, with only one audit opened while the former President was in office, and none have been completed.

“Ways and Means is entrusted with great responsibilities. Today, the weight of our job is heavy. Congress serves as a check on the Executive Branch, and our Committee is entrusted with oversight of our revenue system. We all come to Ways and Means with the goal of creating a fairer tax code. Because at the root of it all, it is our federal tax system that funds the democracy we all cherish and love.

“Our voluntary collection relies on the public confidence that our tax laws are applied evenly and justly, regardless of position or power. For four years, the Committee has been reviewing how the IRS enforces the federal tax laws against, and ensures compliance by, a president.

“A president is no ordinary taxpayer. They hold power and influence unlike any other American. And with great power comes even greater responsibility.

• Trump's federal tax returns are released: Here's what we know

The House Ways and Means Committee on Friday released redacted versions of six years worth of former President Donald Trump's federal tax returns, ending Trump's years-long effort to keep his returns from the public.

The Democratic-led committee voted last week to make Trump's tax returns public, then released two reports, one from its members and another from the Joint Committee on Taxation, noting that the IRS did not audit Trump the first two years he was in office. The move to publicize the returns comes days before Republicans take control of Congress in January.

The publicized returns offer a more detailed account of the former president's financial portrait in the years he was running for and in office.

The report from the Joint Committee on Taxation, or JCT, said Trump paid no federal income tax in 2020, the final year of his presidency. The former president paid a net of only $750 in income taxes in 2017. He paid $1.1 million in net federal income taxes combined in 2018 and 2019.

Full individual returns and documentation:

• 2015 (31 MB)
• 2016 (24 MB)
• 2017 (74 MB)
• 2018 (11 MB)
• 2019 (25 MB)
• 2020 (25 MB)

Business entities:

• DJT Holdings LLC - 2015-2020
• DJT Holdings Managing Member LLC - 2015-2020
• DTTM Operations LLC
• LFB Acquisition Member Corp.
• LFB Acquisition LLC
• DTTM Operations Managing Member Corp. LLC

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

It is the result of a criminal investigation.

Originally Posted by Topper

It's not. It's the result of trump not following the norms in releasing his taxes AND the IRS not doing their job.

Correct.

The school girl has early stages of Alzheimer's.

April 3, 2019 - Richard Neal, chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, is requesting six years of Trump's personal tax returns and the returns for some of his businesses for the years 2013-2018. Neal argues that Congress, and his committee in particular, need to conduct oversight of the IRS, including its policy of auditing the tax returns of sitting presidents.

Dec 30, 2022 - RELEASE OF SELECT COMMITTEE MATERIALS

Today, the Select Committee made public additional transcripts of witness testimony that was gathered over the course of the Select Committee’s investigation into the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.

These records can now be found on the Select Committee’s website:

• Patrick Byrne
• Ken Cuccinelli
• Steven Engel
• Mark Finchem
• Rudy Giuliani
• Donnell Harvin
• Eric Herschmann
• Cassidy Hutchinson, February 23, 2022; March 7, 2022
• Jared Kushner
• Nicholas Luna
• Derek Lyons
• Douglas Macgregor
• Jason Miller
• Cleta Mitchell
• Mick Mulvaney
• Timothy Murtaugh
• Anthony Ornato
• BJ Pak
• Matthew Pottinger
• Kelly SoRelle, Part 1, Part 2
• Virginia Thomas

Jan 2, 2023 - RELEASE OF SELECT COMMITTEE MATERIALS

Washington—Today, the Select Committee made public additional transcripts of witness testimony that was gathered over the course of the Select Committee’s investigation into the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.

These records can now be found on the Select Committee’s website:

• Mark Meadows, November 11, 2021; December 8, 2021
• Daniel J. Scavino, Jr.
• Robert Peede
• Ross Worthington
• Peter K. Navarro
• Molly Michael
• Katrina Pierson
• Alexandra Preate
• Ronna McDaniel
• Jocelyn Benson
• Shealah D. Craighead, June 8, 2022; June 29, 2022
• Russell Bowers
• Kenneth Chesebro
• Kellyanne Conway
• All additional remaining public Select Committee transcripts and other information about witness testimony can be found here

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Inside the Jan. 6 committee’s massive new evidence trove

The Jan. 6 select committee has unloaded a vast database of its underlying evidence — emails between Trump attorneys, text messages among horrified White House aides and outside advisers, internal communications among security and intelligence officials — all coming to grips with then-President Donald Trump’s last-ditch effort to subvert the 2020 election and its disastrous consequences.

The panel posted thousands of pages of evidence late Sunday in a public database that provide the clearest glimpse yet at the well-coordinated effort by some Trump allies to help Trump seize a second term he didn’t win. Much of the evidence has never been seen before and, in some cases, adds extraordinary new elements to the case the select committee presented in public — from voluminous phone records to contemporaneous text messages and emails.

Yada, yada. What caught my attention…

“We all look like domestic terrorists now”

Trump aide Hope Hicks texted with Ivanka Trump’s chief of staff Julie Radford on the afternoon of Jan. 6, decrying Trump’s actions and lamenting that their careers were likely doomed.

“All of us that didn’t have jobs lined up will be perpetually unemployed. I’m so mad and upset,” Hicks wrote. “We all look like domestic terrorists now.”

“Oh yes I’ve been crying for an hour,” Radford replied.

“Not being dramatic but looks like we are all fucked,” Hicks continued. “Alyssa looks like a genius.”

Hicks’ message was an apparent reference to Alyssa Farah, a former Trump White House aide who departed the administration weeks before Jan. 6.

Turning back to Trump, Hicks expressed outrage about his attack on Vice President Mike Pence in the midst of the violence. “Wtf is wrong with him?” she wrote.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/0...dence-00076004

• Estate of Capitol Police Officer Who Died After Jan. 6 Riot Sues Trump

The estate of the Capitol police officer who died after the Jan. 6 riot is suing Trump, alleging wrongful death

The partner and estate of a US Capitol police officer who died shortly after the January 6 riot is suing Donald Trump and two rioters in a civil lawsuit that was filed on Thursday.

Damages are being sought by the estate and longtime partner of Officer Brian Sicknick, who was injured in the line of duty at the Capitol building.

He died a day later due to "natural causes" after suffering two strokes, according to the District's chief medical examiner Francisco Diaz. In an interview with The Washington Post, Diaz said that the events from the day before "transpired played a role in his condition."

Two men, Julian Khater and George Tanios, were later charged and pled guilty to assaulting Capitol officers, including Sicknick, with a chemical irritant. The civil lawsuit names Khater and Tanios as defendants.

"In his factual proffer, Defendant Tanios admitted to accompanying Defendant Khater to the January 6th rally in D.C. and admitted to purchasing and carrying the bear spray Defendant Khater used on Officer Sicknick," the suit states.

The lawsuit also names Trump as a defendant, arguing that violence on January 6 was incited through the former president's rhetoric.

"If it were not for Donald Trump, the coup attempt on January 6th would never have occurred. This lawsuit is designed to further hold him accountable for that day and the events that led to the death of Officer Sicknick," Mark Zaid, an attorney for Sicknic's estate, said in a statement to Insider.

The suit seeks at least $10,000,000 in damages from each defendant. Any money received through the complaint will be donated to charity, Zaid said.


"Although civil lawsuits by their nature are for monetary remedies that does not mean that is the ultimate objective," Zaid told Insider. "Therefore, when accountability is achieved by Officer Sicknick's estate the recovery will be donated to charity."

Attorneys for Tanios and Khater did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for Trump did not respond to a request for comment.

GARZA v. TRUMP

The whole trump tax returns jamboree has just disappeared from the headlines.

Can't imagine why.

another one liner from TD's school girl, above

E. Jean Carroll Cites Prince Andrew in Trump Rape Lawsuit

E. Jean Carroll Deploys Prince Andrew Precedent to Advance Lawsuit Accusing Donald Trump of Raping Her

Hoping to fend off the former president’s motion to dismiss, writer E. Jean Carroll’s legal team cited a recent and high-profile precedent to advance her lawsuit accusing Donald Trump of rape: the Prince Andrew case that ended in a multi-million dollar settlement against the disgraced royal.

Just like the one against the prince, the lawsuit against the former president levels accusations of rape that would have been barred under the statute of limitations — had the New York legislature not taken action.

Carroll’s complaint, in particular, alleges that Trump raped her in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman in the mid-1990s.

In defending her claims, Carroll received help from a precedent established in a lawsuit filed by Jeffrey Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre, who claimed that Andrew sexually abused her.

Before the reported $16 million deal, Prince Andrew’s legal team tried to argue that New York’s Child Victims Act unconstitutionally suspended the statute of limitations on sexual abuse claims. Trump’s lawyer argued something similar as to the Empire State’s similar Adult Survivors Act (ASA).

But as Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan noted in a legal brief on Wednesday, the prince’s arguments failed before the same federal judge who is hearing the case against the former president.

“Conceding that the claim has recently been revived by New York’s Adult Survivors Act (ASA), Trump insists that the ASA violates the Due Process Clause of the New York State Constitution,” Carroll’s legal brief states. “He is mistaken: the ASA is a reasonable measure passed by the New York legislature to remedy an identifiable injustice. Trump’s assertion that the ASA is unconstitutional because adult victims of sexual assault have only themselves to blame for not coming forward sooner is offensive and wrong. Indeed, Trump does not even cite this Court’s on-point opinion in Giuffre v. Andrew, 579 F. Supp. 3d 429 (S.D.N.Y. 2022)—which the Court raised with his counsel at the status conference on December 21, 2022, and which fatally undercuts his attack on the ASA.”

https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...90045.26.0.pdf

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

The whole trump tax returns jamboree has just disappeared from the headlines.

maybe in your little world school girl