Federal prosecutors, led by special counsel Jack Smith, have put in a filing with Judge Aileen Cannon, warning her to not allow herself to be manipulated by Donald Trump and his lawyers. Trump's legal team is trying to push the trial back even further, and Cannon signaled a little bit of willingness to do so this week. But Trump's legal team is making dubious claims that don't hold up, and prosecutors don't want Cannon to buy into their garbage.
Also, it was revealed in the New York fraud trial this week that Donald Trump actually tried to use an article from Forbes as a proof of income and worth while attempting to obtain a bank loan. These articles are rough estimates and are not meant to be used as actual financial documents, and Trump's chances of saving his company appear to be dying with each passing day of the trial, especially with new information like this emerging.
And Donald Trump's adult sons took the stand in the fraud trial this week, and it didn't end up well for the defendants. Junior claimed that he really wasn't paying attention to anything that was going on, and that he relied on his CPAs to come up with numbers. Eric also said that he didn't know what was happening, so both children are claiming stupidity. But the big thing that DID NOT happen was that neither explicitly said the numbers were accurate, and that is very important.
Finally, Ivanka Trump successfully managed to get her testimony at the fraud trial pushed back to next week due to a "schedule conflict," and now she's trying to get it dismissed altogether by filing an emergency motion. She's already lost on these grounds, and it is likely that her new motion will end differently. But she is clearly desperate to avoid taking the stand, and that tells us a lot about what she knows and possibly even what she was involved in.
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