Trump news – latest: Ex-president avoids deposition by staying in Florida during
Former US president Donald Trump claims he can declassify top secret documents just ‘by thinking about it’
Donald Trump has avoided a deposition for a long-running class action fraud lawsuit by remaining in Florida as Hurricane Ian bore down.
Mr Trump’s deposition today had to be rescheduled as lawyers for the plaintiffs told a New York federal judge the former president would not move the meeting from his Florida residence to his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, because of the severity of the storm.
The new deadline for Mr Trump to be deposed is now 31 October.
In another court filing by Mr Trump’s legal team, it was revealed that he hoarded some 200,000 pages of federal documents upon leaving office, spread between the 11,000 documents already mentioned following the search of Mar-a-Lago.
The filing was to argue that an early October deadline for scanning and reviewing the documents is unrealistic because they cannot be processed quickly enough.
Meanwhile, Mr Trump pleaded on social media for donations to his political campaign ahead of a fundraising deadline amid Hurricane Ian.
Trump prepared a transphobic response to 2016 debate question
During his preparations to debate Hillary Clinton ahead of the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump’s response to a mock debate question about whether transgender teens should be permitted to use the restroom of their choice at school was so bizarre that it left his aides shocked, a new book reports.
Andrew Feinberg has the story.
Trump plotted transphobic response during 2016 debate prep, book reveals
Mr Trump reportedly expressed concern over whether a hypothetical transgender student had had bottom surgery when he prepared to debate Hillary Clinton in 2016
Oliver O’Connell30 September 2022 07:30
Donald Trump avoids fraud lawsuit deposition by staying in Florida as Hurricane Ian strikes
Donald Trump has avoided a deposition for a fraud lawsuit by remaining in Florida as Hurricane Ian bore down.
The former president had been due to be deposed in a civil class action lawsuit first filed in 2018. It accuses Mr Trump, his children, and the Trump Organisation, of committing deception and fraud.
Read Andrew Buncombe’s report.
Trump avoids fraud deposition by staying in Florida as Hurricane Ian hits
‘I expressed some surprise – but they indicated they were flying down anyway’
Shweta Sharma30 September 2022 06:43
Marjorie Taylor Greene calls Biden a ‘mob boss’ for helping Ukraine defend itself
Right-wing Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia compared President Joe Biden to a mob boss for sending aid to Ukraine to combat Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of the country.
Ms Greene made the remarks on conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s show on Real America’s voice as Mr Biden has requested additional aid to Ukraine.
Her opposition to helping Ukraine has been consistent since the beginning of the Russian invasion. She is now framing it as a cover for money laundering.
Marjorie Taylor Greene calls Biden a ‘mob boss’ for helping Ukraine
The Georgia Republican complains, ‘all of this has been a scam.’
Trump news – latest: Ex-president avoids deposition by staying in Florida during