On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump needed to be woken up by his lawyer, Todd Blanche, after he fell asleep during his New York hush money trial for the fourth time since the trial proceedings started.
“Trump is struggling to stay awake,” Susanne Craig, a reporter for The New York Times, wrote regarding Trump’s behavior during the trial. “His eyes were closed for a short period. He was jolted awake when Todd Blanche, his lawyer, nudged him while sliding a note in front of him.”
MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin reported that the former president’s lawyers are using tricks to keep him awake.
“I guess they have tried a number of different devices,” Rubin said. “Yeah, sleeping for a lot of it. I would say they’ve tried a number of different devices to keep Trump awake. Partially in response, or what appears to be in response to collective press corps observations.
“Trump is struggling to stay awake,” Susanne Craig, a reporter for The New York Times, wrote regarding Trump’s behavior during the trial. “His eyes were closed for a short period. He was jolted awake when Todd Blanche, his lawyer, nudged him while sliding a note in front of him.”
MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin reported that the former president’s lawyers are using tricks to keep him awake.
“I guess they have tried a number of different devices,” Rubin said. “Yeah, sleeping for a lot of it. I would say they’ve tried a number of different devices to keep Trump awake. Partially in response, or what appears to be in response to collective press corps observations.
- 5/1/2024
- by Alessio Atria
- Uinterview
A New York judge has ordered Donald Trump to reimburse The New York Times and three journalists $392,638.69 in legal fees related to a frivolous lawsuit the former president leveled against the newspaper.
On Friday, New York Supreme Court Justice Robert R. Reed ruled that pursuant to a May decision dismissing the former president’s lawsuit against the Times, “$392,638.69 is a reasonable value for the legal services rendered,” and ordered Trump to pay up.
In September of 2021, Trump sued the Times, journalists Susanne Craig, David Barstow, and Russell Buettner, as well...
On Friday, New York Supreme Court Justice Robert R. Reed ruled that pursuant to a May decision dismissing the former president’s lawsuit against the Times, “$392,638.69 is a reasonable value for the legal services rendered,” and ordered Trump to pay up.
In September of 2021, Trump sued the Times, journalists Susanne Craig, David Barstow, and Russell Buettner, as well...
- 1/12/2024
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
Former President Donald Trump was ordered to pay nearly $400,000 in legal fees and other costs to The New York Times and three reporters he had sued after they published a piece on his tax schemes.
New York Supreme Court judge Robert R. Reed ordered the former president to pay $392,638.69 to the Times and the reporters, Susanne Craig, David Barstow and Russell Buettner.
Last year, Reed dismissed Trump’s lawsuit against them, finding that the state’s anti-slapp law applied. That law is designed to limit plaintiffs from filing litigation as a way to limit a defendant from exercising the right to free speech and public participation.
Trump filed suit against the Times and the reporters in 2021, claiming they caused his niece Mary Trump to take tax and financial documents held by her lawyer and violate a 2001 settlement agreement. Among other things, Trump claimed tortious interference with contract and unjust enrichment.
New York Supreme Court judge Robert R. Reed ordered the former president to pay $392,638.69 to the Times and the reporters, Susanne Craig, David Barstow and Russell Buettner.
Last year, Reed dismissed Trump’s lawsuit against them, finding that the state’s anti-slapp law applied. That law is designed to limit plaintiffs from filing litigation as a way to limit a defendant from exercising the right to free speech and public participation.
Trump filed suit against the Times and the reporters in 2021, claiming they caused his niece Mary Trump to take tax and financial documents held by her lawyer and violate a 2001 settlement agreement. Among other things, Trump claimed tortious interference with contract and unjust enrichment.
- 1/12/2024
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
A judge has dismissed Donald Trump’s lawsuit against The New York Times and three journalists who published a 2018 piece on his tax schemes.
The New York Supreme Court judge, Robert R. Reed, also ordered the former president to pay the Times’ legal expenses, finding that the state’s anti-slapp law applied. That law is designed to limit plaintiffs from filing litigation as a way to limit a defendant from exercising the right to free speech and public participation.
Trump filed suit against the Times and the reporters, Susanne Craig, David Barstow and Russell Buettner, in 2021, claiming they caused his niece Mary Trump to take tax and financial documents held by her lawyer and violate a 2001 settlement agreement. Among other things, Trump claimed tortious interference with contract and unjust enrichment.
In Reed’s opinion — read it here — he rejected Trump’s claims against the media defendants, writing that “courts have...
The New York Supreme Court judge, Robert R. Reed, also ordered the former president to pay the Times’ legal expenses, finding that the state’s anti-slapp law applied. That law is designed to limit plaintiffs from filing litigation as a way to limit a defendant from exercising the right to free speech and public participation.
Trump filed suit against the Times and the reporters, Susanne Craig, David Barstow and Russell Buettner, in 2021, claiming they caused his niece Mary Trump to take tax and financial documents held by her lawyer and violate a 2001 settlement agreement. Among other things, Trump claimed tortious interference with contract and unjust enrichment.
In Reed’s opinion — read it here — he rejected Trump’s claims against the media defendants, writing that “courts have...
- 5/3/2023
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Mary Trump’s attorney says that Donald Trump’s lawsuit against his niece and The New York Times is “doomed to failure” and another effort to stifle freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
“This is the latest in a long line of frivolous lawsuits by Donald Trump that target truthful speech and important journalism on issues of public concern,” said Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., who is representing Mary Trump. “It is doomed to failure like the rest of his baseless efforts to chill freedom of speech and of the press.”
On Monday, Trump sued over the Times‘ 2018 exposé on the Trump family taxes. In his lawsuit, filed in New York Supreme Court (read it here), Trump claims that his niece, the Times and its reporters “engaged in an insidious plot to obtain confidential and highly-sensitive records which they exploited for their own benefit and utilized as a means...
“This is the latest in a long line of frivolous lawsuits by Donald Trump that target truthful speech and important journalism on issues of public concern,” said Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., who is representing Mary Trump. “It is doomed to failure like the rest of his baseless efforts to chill freedom of speech and of the press.”
On Monday, Trump sued over the Times‘ 2018 exposé on the Trump family taxes. In his lawsuit, filed in New York Supreme Court (read it here), Trump claims that his niece, the Times and its reporters “engaged in an insidious plot to obtain confidential and highly-sensitive records which they exploited for their own benefit and utilized as a means...
- 9/22/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Donald Trump paid only $750 in federal income tax in 2016 and then in 2017, one of a number of revelations that The New York Times reported on Sunday as they obtained more than two decades of tax information.
The report also showed that Trump paid no taxes in 10 of the previous 15 years, as he reported massive losses from his businesses.
Those losses are the source of a battle with the IRS, which is questioning a $72.9 million tax refund, according to the Times.
Potentially more devastating to Trump’s reputation as a billionaire and business wizard was a revelation that Trump businesses were losing tens of millions, according to information reported to the IRS, while $300 million in loans will come due in the next four years.
The Times said that more reports would be coming. The publication had previously examined the tax dealings of the Trump family in 2018 and, in the weeks before the 2016 election,...
The report also showed that Trump paid no taxes in 10 of the previous 15 years, as he reported massive losses from his businesses.
Those losses are the source of a battle with the IRS, which is questioning a $72.9 million tax refund, according to the Times.
Potentially more devastating to Trump’s reputation as a billionaire and business wizard was a revelation that Trump businesses were losing tens of millions, according to information reported to the IRS, while $300 million in loans will come due in the next four years.
The Times said that more reports would be coming. The publication had previously examined the tax dealings of the Trump family in 2018 and, in the weeks before the 2016 election,...
- 9/27/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Jimmy Kimmel mocked “Fox & Friends” Wednesday night by saying that the show’s attempt to run cover for Donald Trump after the New York Times reported on his business losses during the 1980s and 1990s was vomit inducing.
“The president’s Fox friends did what they could to put a smiley face on the fact that their artist of the deal lost more than a billion dollars in 10 years. I’ll warn you in advance, you’re about to see someone spin so hard it could very well make you throw up,” the ABC late-night host said.
“Jimmy Kimmel Live” then pivoted to a clip of “Fox & Friends” from Wednesday morning, where the hosts were attempting to put a positive spin on the story.
Also Read: Jimmy Kimmel to Re-Create 'All in the Family,' 'The Jeffersons' Episodes Live
“It is an interesting look though at how...
“The president’s Fox friends did what they could to put a smiley face on the fact that their artist of the deal lost more than a billion dollars in 10 years. I’ll warn you in advance, you’re about to see someone spin so hard it could very well make you throw up,” the ABC late-night host said.
“Jimmy Kimmel Live” then pivoted to a clip of “Fox & Friends” from Wednesday morning, where the hosts were attempting to put a positive spin on the story.
Also Read: Jimmy Kimmel to Re-Create 'All in the Family,' 'The Jeffersons' Episodes Live
“It is an interesting look though at how...
- 5/9/2019
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
Showtime has made available the documentary short film The Family Business: Trump and Taxes for free online and across multiple platforms.
The film follows a team of New York Times investigative reporters through their diligent and intense efforts in uncovering the information that led to their exclusive report on Trump family finances. The film is now available for online sampling on YouTube, Facebook and Sho.com. It also is rolling out across multiple television and streaming providers’ devices, websites, applications and authenticated online services and their free On Demand channels.
The film was directed by Jenny Carchman and produced by Oscar nominees Liz Garbus and Justin Wilkes (The Fourth Estate) who were embedded for more than a year inside The New York Times. It follows Times investigative reporters David Barstow, Russell Buettner and Susanne Craig as they expose the untold story of how Donald Trump became rich. Mr. Trump has...
The film follows a team of New York Times investigative reporters through their diligent and intense efforts in uncovering the information that led to their exclusive report on Trump family finances. The film is now available for online sampling on YouTube, Facebook and Sho.com. It also is rolling out across multiple television and streaming providers’ devices, websites, applications and authenticated online services and their free On Demand channels.
The film was directed by Jenny Carchman and produced by Oscar nominees Liz Garbus and Justin Wilkes (The Fourth Estate) who were embedded for more than a year inside The New York Times. It follows Times investigative reporters David Barstow, Russell Buettner and Susanne Craig as they expose the untold story of how Donald Trump became rich. Mr. Trump has...
- 11/2/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
When New York Times reporters David Barstow, Susanne Craig, and Russ Buettner published their exhaustive, gazillion-word expose on the Trump family tax practices last week, there was only one word for it.
“Tax bombshell,” blared Yahoo!
By my count, this was roughly the 4,790th “bombshell” of the Trump presidency, but one of the few to deserve the title. The Times story is an extraordinary piece of investigative reporting and a monument to the kind of work we all should be doing.
The parts I found most interesting were less about...
“Tax bombshell,” blared Yahoo!
By my count, this was roughly the 4,790th “bombshell” of the Trump presidency, but one of the few to deserve the title. The Times story is an extraordinary piece of investigative reporting and a monument to the kind of work we all should be doing.
The parts I found most interesting were less about...
- 10/10/2018
- by Matt Taibbi
- Rollingstone.com
How long are our attention spans? It’s a question worth asking as the manifold dramas and traumas of the Trump presidency tend to overshadow one another.
“The Family Business,” a Showtime documentary short broadcast Sunday night, prompts this question more than perhaps any other. It focuses on the New York Times report, published on Oct. 2, into Donald Trump’s family finances and the degree of fraudulence that padded both his claims that his father had given him a fairly small loan, paid back with interest, and his dealings with the Internal Revenue Service. Cameras recorded the moving and strangely mundane scene before it went live, with reporters stuck in a midtown Manhattan conference room, as tense as actors waiting for opening night of a play.
According to “The Family Business,” the investigation was prompted by reporters’ curiosity after the provocative and incomplete Rachel Maddow segment that aired last March...
“The Family Business,” a Showtime documentary short broadcast Sunday night, prompts this question more than perhaps any other. It focuses on the New York Times report, published on Oct. 2, into Donald Trump’s family finances and the degree of fraudulence that padded both his claims that his father had given him a fairly small loan, paid back with interest, and his dealings with the Internal Revenue Service. Cameras recorded the moving and strangely mundane scene before it went live, with reporters stuck in a midtown Manhattan conference room, as tense as actors waiting for opening night of a play.
According to “The Family Business,” the investigation was prompted by reporters’ curiosity after the provocative and incomplete Rachel Maddow segment that aired last March...
- 10/8/2018
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
When the New York Times editors hit publish on yesterday’s exhaustive report detailing how Fred Trump fraudulently funneled millions to his son — President Donald J. Trump — Showtime’s cameras were rolling. A holdover from Liz Garbus’ “The Fourth Estate” — a four part series documenting the New York Times covering President Trump’s first year in office that aired this spring — director Jenny Carchman helmed a crew that continued to follow the reporters working on this particular story about Trump’s tax avoidance, which took nearly two years to report.
The Times story by Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig and David Barstow calls into question President Trump’s image as a self-made billionaire, revealing that he received the equivalent today of $413 million from his father. Worse yet for the President, the Times reported that the money transfers were “dubious tax schemes” that sometimes involved “outright fraud.”
The film about the process,...
The Times story by Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig and David Barstow calls into question President Trump’s image as a self-made billionaire, revealing that he received the equivalent today of $413 million from his father. Worse yet for the President, the Times reported that the money transfers were “dubious tax schemes” that sometimes involved “outright fraud.”
The film about the process,...
- 10/3/2018
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.