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For all the detailed evidence laid out in the 38-count indictment accusing former President Donald J. Trump of holding onto hundreds of classified documents and then obstructing the government's efforts to retrieve them, one mystery remains: Why did he take them and fight so hard to keep them?Mr. Trump's motive for having thousands of presidential records including more than 300 classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, his combination residence and members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla., was not addressed directly in the 49-page indictment filed on Thursday in Miami.

CNN has a hilarious story about how Trump's head of maintenance, whom NYT identified as Carlos Deoliveira, drained the pool at Mar-a-Lago in October and in the process flooded the room where surveillance footage is kept.An employee at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence drained the resort's swimming pool last October and ended up flooding a room where computer servers containing surveillance video logs were kept, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
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Prosecutors have heard testimony that the IT equipment in the room was not damaged in the flood, according to one source.

Federal prosecutors with the special counsel's office issued a subpoena to the Trump Organization for information regarding business deals in foreign countries, according to two sources familiar with the investigation.One of the sources suggested investigators appear to be focused on former President Donald Trump's business dealings in countries that could have possibly been interested in the types of classified materials recovered from Trump after he left office.

Former President Donald Trump arrives at the Trump Turnberry Golf Courses, in Turnberry on the west coast of Scotland on May 2, 2023.Andy Buchanan / AFP via Getty Images Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a nonprofit government watchdog group, reported this week that former President Donald Trump, while serving in office, made $82.5 million from his properties in Ireland and Scotland - personal business earnings that "came with extraordinary conflicts of interest," the organization wrote.

Though the fine amounts to pocket change for the company, the reputational hit from the 17 felonies could be ruinous.Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks at a press conference after the sentencing hearing of the Trump Organization at the New York Supreme Court on January 13, 2023, in New York City.

Donald Trump's primary defense attorney is expected to testify Friday to a federal grand jury, answering questions in the documents probe that the former president unsuccessfully fought to hold back.The attorney's appearance before the grand jury this week has the potential to make or break the special counsel's investigation into the handling of classified records at Mar-a-Lago and possible obstruction of justice when the federal government tried to get the documents back.

Given the news that Alina Habba appeared before the grand jury investigating Trump's stolen documents, I wanted to go back to the declaration she submitted in the NY State investigation pertaining to diligent searches for documents in that investigation back in May 2022.Politico reported on it before the public release about details of the stolen classified documents, and as such was taken as a claim that Habba conducted a search of the locations where documents were known to have been stored.

Back in 2014, Donald Trump wrote an op-ed for this newspaper titled " Why I love Chicago and My Sign."Trump was fighting back against Chicagoans who objected to five massive letters affixed to Trump's International Hotel and Tower, viewing them as an affront to the city's architectural glory.

Image Donald Trump continues to face several state and federal probes stemming from conduct in his business and political lives.Credit...Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times Donald Trump's family real estate business was convicted yesterday of tax fraud and other financial crimes, a remarkable rebuke of the former president's company and what prosecutors described as its culture of fraud and deception.

Donald J. Trump will appear virtually in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday afternoon to hear directly about certain restrictions on his actions in relation to the criminal case against him.The appearance will be Mr. Trump's first in court since April, when 34 felony charges were unveiled against him by the Manhattan district attorney's office.

WASHINGTON The Manhattan district attorney's looming decision about whether to seek an indictment of former President Donald J. Trump for a hush money payment to a porn actress has ignited debate over the strength of the case and how prosecutors should decide when it is appropriate to pursue charges and when not to do so.

Robert Costello says he sought to undermine Michael Cohen, but he may have opened Trump up to more charges.Attorney Robert Costello is seen leaving the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg in New York City, New York, on March 20, 2023.Diane Desobeau / AFP via Getty Images Trump ally Robert Costello said Monday that he attacked the credibility of former Trump fixer Michael Cohen while appearing before a Manhattan grand jury investigating the 2016 hush-money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

Michael D. Cohen, a crucial witness in the Manhattan district attorney's criminal investigation into former President Donald J. Trump, is meeting with prosecutors on Monday ahead of his expected appearance before the grand jury hearing evidence in the potential case.Mr. Cohen, Mr. Trump's former fixer, was seen entering the building in Lower Manhattan where the prosecutors work and the grand jury meets.

The conviction of Donald J. Trump's family business on Tuesday represented a devastating blow to the former president, exposing what prosecutors called a culture of fraud and deception at his company and providing his political rivals with ammunition as he embarks on a third presidential campaign.The Trump Organization itself, however, faces a much milder threat.

As prosecutors built a criminal case against Donald J. Trump for his role in a hush money payment to a porn star, they interviewed several key witnesses: Mr. Trump's onetime fixer, the former publisher of the National Enquirer and the actress herself.There is one central player who did not cooperate with the Manhattan district attorney's office: Mr. Trump's longtime financial gatekeeper.

Donald J. Trump's family real estate business was convicted on Tuesday of tax fraud and other financial crimes, a remarkable rebuke of the former president's company and what prosecutors described as its culture of fraud and deception.The conviction on all 17 counts, after more than a day of jury deliberations in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, resulted from a long-running scheme in which the Trump Organization doled out off-the-books luxury perks to some executives: They received fancy apartments, leased Mercedes-Benzes, even private school tuition for relatives, none of which they paid taxes on.

The jury has reached a verdict in the trial of Donald J. Trump's family business.The verdict, which was reached about 3:40 on Tuesday afternoon, will be read aloud in the Manhattan courtroom shortly.Jurors have decided whether the Trump Organization was guilty of a scheme in which its top executives were compensated in lavish off-the-books perks that allowed them to evade taxes.

Donald J. Trump's family real estate business was convicted on Tuesday of tax fraud and other financial crimes, a remarkable rebuke of the former president's company and what prosecutors described as its culture of fraud and deception.The conviction on all 17 counts, after more than a day of jury deliberations in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, resulted from a long-running scheme in which the Trump Organization doled out off-the-books luxury perks to some executives: They received fancy apartments, leased Mercedes-Benzes, even private school tuition for relatives, none of which they paid taxes on.

The 12 jurors who will decide whether Donald J. Trump's company is guilty of felonies related to a tax fraud that its executives engaged in began deliberating shortly before noon Monday and will continue Tuesday.They have returned to the courtroom only once, to hear the judge repeat his specific instructions on one of the 17 counts the Trump Organization faces.

New York City prosecutors probing former President Donald Trump's alleged role in a hush money scheme and cover-up are focused on the evidence and the law, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said this weekend.Speaking on MSNBC's PoliticsNation, Bragg did not go into detail about what he called the active investigation but instead praised the professionalism of his prosecuting team.

A New York appeals court upheld sanctions against former President Donald Trump totaling $110,000 for failing to respond to a New York state attorney general subpoena for documents.Trump appealed an order from New York state Judge Arthur Engoron, who last year ordered Trump be sanctioned $10,000 per day for failing to comply with a December 2021 subpoena as part of the state's investigation into the Trump Organization's finances.

Donald J. Trump's family business lost a criminal contempt trial that was held in secret last fall, according to a newly unsealed court document and several people with knowledge of the matter, with a judge ruling against the company almost exactly a year before it was convicted of a tax fraud scheme last week.

Trish BendixReporting on culture Trish BendixReporting on culture Comedy Central This week, the hosts were thrilled that the Trump Organization was found guilty of tax fraud, skewered former President Trump for his comments about the Constitution and celebrated Raphael Warnock's win in Georgia.And after seven seasons behind the Daily Show desk, Trevor Noah said goodbye.