![]() ![]() 20.26 BST Murdoch could testify in Fox-Dominion trial as soon as Monday: reportįox News chairman Rupert Murdoch could as soon as Monday appear on the witness stand when the trial of Dominion Voting Systems’s defamation case against the conservative media network begins, Bloomberg News reports. “These outreaches have increased for the past nine months, and more government officials have visited the US than before,” said the diplomat. Separately to the DeSantis meetings, Hungarian government officials have started to contact other Republican figures, according to a former Hungarian diplomat. The indictment against the former president only confirmed that,” said Daniel Hegedus, a Central Europe fellow at the German Marshall Fund. They have been contemplating whether it was worth putting all their cards on Trump. “For the Orbán government, bilateral relations have a strong party-politics angle. She has been a key part of Orbán’s efforts to make Budapest a hub for discussions between rightwing and far-right forces from around the world, including the US right. Like DeSantis, she has ultra-conservative views regarding family policies, LGBTQ+ rights and abortion. The first female president of Hungary and a close ally of Orbán, Novak previously served as minister for family affairs. The Hungarian-born billionaire has called DeSantis his “favorite man” and donated $570,000 to his campaign in 2022, according to the campaign finance watchdog OpenSecrets. She also met DeSantis’s wife, Casey, and Republican mega-donor Thomas Péterffy, who has announced he would not be backing Trump’s 2024 presidential candidacy. Katalin Novák, the Hungarian president, met DeSantis last month. You may remember Cohen as being the vehicle for the former president’s hush money payment to adult film actor Stormy Daniels, which is at the center of the indictment filed by Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg against him. Trump is suing his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen for $500mn, alleging he unjustly enriched himself and breached attorney-client privilege. The new Secret Service director downplayed concerns about politicization of the agency raised by the January 6 investigation in a rare interview. Republican senator Tim Scott inched closer to an all-out presidential run by announcing an exploratory committee. Rupert Murdoch could be on the witness stand as soon as Monday, as Dominion Voting System’s defamation complaint against Fox News heads to trial. Here’s a look back at what else happened today:ĭonald Trump said he’ll “never drop out” of the 2024 presidential race, even if convicted of a crime. But if the statements of two Kentucky lawmakers following Monday’s mass shooting in Louisville are any indication, the partisan divide over gun rights remains as wide as ever. In Washington, two Democratic senators have called for attorney general Merrick Garland to investigate their expulsion, arguing it appears to have violated free speech and anti-discrimination laws. The episode, which began when the duo joined with a white colleague (who was not expelled) to demonstrate for stricter gun control on the House floor, appears far from over. Less than a week after Republicans booted them from the Tennessee state house of representatives, Black Democratic lawmakers Justin Jones and Justin Pearson have been reappointed back to their old seats, with the latter’s return confirmed this afternoon by local authorities in Memphis. Trump has always denied the affairs, or making payments to the women. He wrote a memoir, entitled Disloyal, later that year chronicling his time as Trump’s henchman, and has become a regular analyst on cable TV channels on the former president’s legal perils. ![]() It claims Cohen has, in recent months, “increased the frequency and hostility of the illicit acts” and “appears to have become emboldened and repeatedly continues to make wrongful and false statements” about Trump through various platforms.Ĭohen has become one of Trump’s sharpest critics since being released from a prison term in 2020 for crimes including tax evasion, lying to Congress and facilitating illegal payments to silence both Daniels and Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model. The lawsuit, the network said, details Cohen’s “myriad of public statements, including the publication of two books, a podcast series, and innumerable mainstream media appearances,” while ignoring “cease and desist” orders. ![]() “This is an action arising from multiple breaches of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment, conversion and breaches of contract by virtue of past service as employee and attorney,” the lawsuit states, per the Fox report.
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