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Tony Seruga is a highly regarded X (Twitter) political pundit. Seruga, who has over 78,000 followers, also claims to be an “Intel Ops CIA/NSA Contractor and Whistleblower” in his profile. https://twitter.com/TonySeruga/status/1773012872618295439? @TonySeruga "I spoke with Michael Avenatti who at one time had an office in the same building as one of my businesses in Newport Beach, CA (in November 2018, a few days after his arrest on suspicion of domestic violence, Avenatti's law firm was evicted from those same offices in Newport Beach after skipping $213,000 worth of rent payments.) Avenatti was working a long con against Tully’s Coffee and...

Former President Donald Trump's legal team has sought to block testimony from porn star Stormy Daniels and his former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, as part of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case against him.Bragg charged Trump in March of last year over a 2016 payment Cohen made to Daniels, alleging conspiracy and that he falsified records. Trump denies wrongdoing and contends the case is part of an ongoing political witch hunt against him. The trial is slated for March 25."Michael Cohen is a liar," Trump's legal team wrote, in reference to his testimony on New York Attorney General Letitia James's...

Michael Cohen, former President Trump’s ex-fixer and personal lawyer, said in newly unsealed court filings that he accidentally gave his lawyer fake legal citations concocted by the artificial intelligence program Google Bard. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman called three case citations into question earlier this month after they were used in a motion to end Cohen’s supervised release early. Cohen pleaded guilty to charges including tax evasion and campaign finance violations in 2018 and served some time in prison. Cohen wrote in a sworn declaration unsealed Friday that he has not kept up with “emerging trends (and related risks)” in...

Donald Trump has lashed out at the judge overseeing his civil fraud trial as three of his children are due to testify at the New York courtroom.In a post on Truth Social, the former president told Judge Arthur Engoron to "leave my children alone" ahead of Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump answering questions under oath as part of New York Attorney General Letitia James' $250 million fraud lawsuit.Eric and Donald Trump Jr., senior executives at the family real estate business, The Trump Organization, are accused in James' lawsuit of assisting the former president as he fraudulently inflated...

After the first day of Michael Cohen’s testimony, President Donald Trump told reporters that he would be returning to court on Wednesday. In 2019, allegations made by disgraced lawyer Cohen spurred the attorney general’s office to investigate President Trump. At the center of the case are the Statements of Financial Condition (SFC) for the Trump Organization from 2011 to 2021. On Tuesday, Cohen said that he personally altered together several of those statements with Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg under the direction of his former boss. Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer and one-time executive vice president of the Trump Organization,...

Cohen, during his testimony earlier today, tried to distance himself from "hush money" payments made to ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal — despite having previously admitted involvement in a guilty plea with federal prosecutors. "I never paid Karen McDougal," he said Tuesday, while testifying that he had “complicity” in making hush money payments to Trump’s more well-known alleged lover, former porn star Stormy Daniels. Trump's former personal attorney and "fixer" also claimed from the stand that he has never evaded taxes — despite pleading guilty to that charge as well at a 2018 hearing in Manhattan federal court. *** McDougal and...

Wednesday was day two of the testimony of Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney of former President Donald Trump in his business fraud trial in the New York State Supreme Court. Trump attorney Alina Habba pulled out all the stops when it came to “impeaching” the former president’s disgruntled ex-employee’s credibility before the court. Cohen, who has been vocal in his criticism of his former boss did not seem to be having an easy time dealing with defense attorney Alina Habba, who had already laid down the law with Cohen on Tuesday about how the trial was going to go....

Michael Cohen, the onetime personal lawyer and fixer for Donald Trump, has settled his lawsuit accusing the Trump Organization of failing to cover millions of dollars of legal bills he incurred over his work for the former U.S. president. Lawyers for both sides disclosed the settlement at a hearing in a New York state court in Manhattan on Friday, three days before a trial was scheduled to begin. Terms of the settlement were not made public. Cohen and a lawyer for the Trump Organization issued statements that the matter "has been resolved in a manner satisfactory to all parties." Once...

A federal judge in New York has rejected former President Donald Trump's request to move his hush-money criminal case into federal court. "Trump has failed to show that the conduct charged by the Indictment is for or relating to any act performed by or for the President under color of the official acts of a President," Judge Alvin Hellerstein wrote in his ruling Wednesday. Trump has pleaded not guilty to a 34-count indictment charging him with falsifying business records in connection with a hush money payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels days before the 2016 presidential election. He...

Donald Trump is an electoral disaster for the Republican Party. He cost the GOP control of the House of Representatives in 2018, lost the presidency in 2020, and contributed to the party’s underperformance in the 2022 midterms. So how to stop Trump from wreaking havoc in 2024? Apparently some desperate Republicans are simply hoping he dies before the election. I’m not exaggerating. Earlier this week, the Atlantic’s McKay Coppins recounted multiple conversations with Republican officials who see no way to stop Trump from destroying the party in yet another electoral cycle.

We’ve seen the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has had a lot of questionable things regarding its case against former President Donald Trump involving alleged hush money payments to Stormy Daniels.First, Democrat Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg didn’t pursue the matter when he came into office. He had prosecutors quit over it, but he didn’t want to pursue any action against Trump. The feds also didn’t think there was anything they should be pursuing. But then Bragg — for some reason, let’s guess why — flipped and indicted Trump a few months after he declared he was running for president in 2024.However,...

' EXCLUSIVE: Former President Trump is suing his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen for more than $500 million, alleging a breach of his attorney-client relationship, unjust enrichment, and more, Fox News Digital has learned.

On Saturday, we caught Michael Cohen, appearing on Katie Phang's MSNBC show, speaking of Marjorie 'Toilet' Greene.But that was mild compared to the truly vile, misogynistic tweet that Rick Wilson, of the disgraced Lincoln Project, recently made about the anatomy of the Republican congresswoman from Georgia. After traveling to Manhattan for the Trump arraignment, in an interview with Tucker Carlson, Taylor Greene said of NYC: "It was repulsive, it smells bad, and I just I think it’s a terrible place." In response, Wilson tweeted: "But enough about her lady business.Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

When a prosecutor takes the historically unprecedented step of indicting an American former president, especially one who is also a presidential candidate, then he better make damn sure he has a rock solid case. Unfortunately it appears that New York District Attorney has such an incredibly weak case that even very liberal New York magazine in its Intelligencer section has serious doubts about it, as you can see revealed by Ankush Khardori on Friday in an article with the downbeat title of "Michael Cohen Is Already Undermining the Trump Prosecution." To emphasize the point the subtitle states, "Immediately after the...

VIDEOIt was obvious that even CNN's Dana Bash wasn't buying into the BULLSHIT spouted by Michael Cohen's lawyer, Lanny Davis. Basically Davis is claiming that Cohen lied when he pleaded guilty to tax evasion but he somehow wasn't really lying.

Remember Michael Avenatti? Five years ago the media wouldn't let you forget him since from early 2018 until February 2019 the former lawyer for Stormy Daniels was a ubiquitous presence on the news to the extent of 254 television appearances during that time frame including 122 times on CNN and 108 times on MSNBC. You would not expect Avenatti to appear nowadays on television due to being sentenced to prison for 14 years with Terminal Island Federal Correctional Institution as his current abode. But none of that has dimmed his ego as a pundit and what he tweeted about Manhattan...

VIDEOOn Tuesday, Day One, you can see this smug liberal gloating and taking a victory lap over a Trump indictment she was sure to happen the next day. Unfortunately for her and DA Alvin Bragg, a sad reality check soon intervened and the next day she was acting really irked over folks complaining that her indictment prediction went hilariously off course.

A newly surfaced letter from 2018 shows Michael Cohen lying to federal election officials about his infamous, $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels — which later helped send him to prison.The letter, obtained by The Post on Wednesday, emerged as the disbarred lawyer appeared poised to become the star witness in an unprecedented criminal case against his ex-boss, former President Donald Trump.In it, Cohen told the Federal Election Commission that he “used his own personal funds to facilitate a payment of $130,000 to Ms. Stephanie Clifford,” aka Daniels, in 2016.“Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a...

Michael Cohen claimed he was not reimbursed by Donald Trump or his organization for hush money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels in a 2018 letter to federal authorities, contradicting his recent grand jury testimony,The bombshell document, exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com, could throw a wrench in the works of prosecutors pursuing criminal charges against Trump over the payments.Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and the star witness in the case over which Trump reportedly faces imminent arrest, claims that Trump got him to pay $130,000 to Daniels to keep her quiet about her alleged affair with the real estate mogul, just days...

14 min clip from Viva/Robert Barnes podcast. Barnes explains why DeSantis is running for president, donors convinced him Trump would be kneecapped by numerous indictments (most have failed) and thus DeSantis would win the primary. Secondly, DeSantis will not win the general because Trumpers will not vote. Outcome - destroy Trump, DeSantis and MAGA in one swoop. Barnes also explains the case against Trump and other insights. Worth the time.