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January 6 panel subpoenas Kimberly Guilfoyle, fiancee of Donald Trump Jr

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House select committee issues subpoena after Guilfoyle abruptly cut short interview with panel last week

The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack has subpoenaed Kimberly Guilfoyle, the fiancée of Donald Trump’s eldest son. House investigators issued the subpoena Thursday, after she had abruptly ended a voluntary interview with the panel last week.

The committee is investigating the events surrounding the insurrection at the Capitol last year, when a mob of Trump supporters violently attacked the building in a failed attempt to halt the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.

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Trump appeals ruling requiring him to testify in New York investigation

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Lawyers argue ordering Trump and two children to testify is a violation because answers could be used in a parallel investigation

Donald Trump has appealed a judge’s decision requiring he answer questions under oath in New York state’s civil investigation into his business practices – a widely expected move that’s likely to prolong the fight over his testimony by months.

Lawyers for the former president and his two eldest children filed papers on Monday with the appellate division of the state’s trial court, seeking to overturn Manhattan judge Arthur Engoron’s 17 February ruling.

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Trump and two eldest children must testify in New York case, judge rules

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Ruling forces ex-president, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr to comply with subpoenas as Letitia James investigates Trump Organization

Donald Trump and two of his children have been ordered by a New York judge to appear for a deposition within the next three weeks, as part of the billowing investigation over alleged fraud in the valuation of assets belonging to his family business.

The ruling by Judge Arthur Engoron to force Trump and his two eldest children – Donald Jr and Ivanka – to comply with subpoenas amounts to a sharp escalation of the legal perils that are rapidly tightening around the former president.

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New York attorney general subpoenas Donald Trump Jr and Ivanka Trump – report

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Letitia James reportedly issues subpoenas to pair as part of fraud investigation into former president’s business empire

The attorney general of New York state has subpoenaed Donald Trump Jr and Ivanka Trump as part of its fraud inquiry into Trump’s businesses, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing a court document.

The document was filed by lawyers for Trump in response to Letitia James’s decision to subpoena the former president himself.

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Secret Service extension for Trump’s adult children cost $140,000 in a month

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  • Trump extended post-presidency protections by six months
  • Secret Service detailing four siblings and two of their spouses

Donald Trump’s adult children reportedly cost taxpayers $140,000 in Secret Service security in the month after the clan’s patriarch left the White House in January.

Related: The sleazy, sordid Matt Gaetz scandal: are the walls now closing in on him?

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Trump is being pelted in the stocks now – but don’t bet against him wriggling free

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The chances of seeing the outgoing president in an orange jumpsuit are low – even as the potential charges mount up fast

Lock him up! Echoing Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign chant against Hillary Clinton, many Americans appear keen on jailing their president after his criminally reckless incitement of last week’s mob-driven, amateur-hour insurrection in Washington.

His harshest critics would despatch him forthwith to a federal penitentiary or mental institution. Yet despite fears that an unstable Trump poses a security threat in his final 10 days in office, he is unlikely to be forced out. It’s just not that easy, politically or legally.

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‘I just want 11,780 votes’: Trump pressed Georgia to overturn Biden victory

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In an hour-long phone call on Saturday, Donald Trump pressed Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger to overturn Joe Biden’s victory there in the election the president refuses to concede.

Related: Healthcare to the electoral college: seven ways 2020 left America exposed | Robert Reich

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Donald Trump Jr says he will pass time in Covid isolation by cleaning his guns

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President’s eldest son, who tested positive for coronavirus, made remark in Instagram video

Donald Trump Jr, the president’s son who has tested positive for the coronavirus, has said he will pass the time in isolation battling with the virus by cleaning his collection of guns.

Trump Jr is now the fourth member of the Trump family to have become infected with Covid. The president, the first lady and their son, Barron, have recovered from the virus, as has Trump Jr’s girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle.

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‘This will make lib heads explode’: Donald Trump Jr posts 2024 picture

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Donald Trump Jr posed in front of a “Don Jr 2024” sign in Nevada on Saturday, posted the picture online and waited for “the lib heads to explode”.

Related: 'Owning the libs': how Donald Trump Jr became the unlikely political heir apparent

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Cohen’s book spotlights Trump’s Obama obsession and resurfaces ‘you’re fired’ video

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Michael Cohen alleges Trump had ‘hatred and contempt’ for Barack Obama and 2012 video shows Trump mocking his rival

The impression of Donald Trump’s obsession with his predecessor Barack Obama was fueled by a video from 2012 resurfacing this weekend from a parody in which the now-Republican president mocks his Democratic rival.

Journalists dug up the clip after Michael Cohen, Trump’s disgraced former fixer, shared a photo of it taken from the film to promote his latest book.

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Donald Trump Jr calls Joe Biden ‘Loch Ness monster’ in Republican convention speech – video

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Donald Trump Jr has attacked Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on the opening night of the Republican National Convention, calling his father's rival 'the Loch Ness monster of the swamp' and 'Beijing Biden'. Trump Jr joined girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle in making the case for his father's reelection on the event's first of four nights

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Trump says ‘nobody likes me’ when asked about Fauci’s absence – live

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From me and Joan E Greve:

Mayor Jenny Durkan said that federal law enforcement sent to Seattle have left, less than a week after being deployed. In an interview with MSNBC, Durkan said that Trump was “doing a dress rehearsal for martial law” in her city.

.@DHSgov notified me that federal forces deployed to Seattle have demobilized & left. The President’s actions to target Democratic cities with federal forces is chilling and increased violence in Portland, Seattle & other cities - exactly what the President intended.

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Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr’s girlfriend, tests positive for Covid-19

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Ex-Fox News presenter is key fundraiser for Trump re-election campaign and latest of president’s circle to contract the disease

US records highest daily increase in coronavirus cases

The girlfriend of Donald Trump Jnr, the US president’s eldest son, has tested positive for the coronavirus, US media have reported.

Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is a former Fox News television personality and a senior fundraiser for Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, is just the latest person in Trump’s inner circle to contract the potentially deadly virus. The news also comes as the US is experiencing a huge spike in coronavirus cases and amid withering criticism of Trump’s response to the crisis.

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Trump niece’s bombshell book to detail family ‘trauma, neglect and abuse’

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Publisher says Mary L Trump, a trained psychologist, describes ‘a nightmare of traumas and destructive relationships’

New details have emerged about a book by Donald Trump’s niece, which its publisher says will “explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric”.

Related: Trump reportedly to take legal action to block John Bolton's tell-all book

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Trump sons provoke outrage with baseless attacks on Biden and lockdown

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  • Donald Trump Jr says pedophile allusion was ‘joking around’
  • Eric Trump claims coronavirus is a political hoax

Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump, the US president’s oldest sons, have attracted fierce criticism for attacking Joe Biden and Democrats in terms most observers considered beyond the pale even in America’s toxic political climate.

Related: ‘They don’t give him enough credit’: the voters who back Trump, even through the pandemic

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Donald Trump ‘lost $1bn in a month’ from coronavirus lockdown

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Stock market crash strips billionaire status from 267 of world’s richest people in the annual list

Donald Trump lost an estimated $1bn of his paper fortune in the past month as the coronavirus lockdown forced the closure of offices, shopping centres, hotels and golf courses he owns.

The US president’s fortune has fallen from an estimated $3.1bn (£2.5bn) on 1 March to $2.1bn on 18 March (at the height of stock market panic caused by the coronavirus pandemic) according to Forbes magazine’s annual billionaires list.

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Donald Trump Jr walks out of Triggered book launch – video

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Donald Trump Jr and his girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, were forced to cut short a launch event for his book, Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us, at the University of California, Los Angeles, because of loud booing from the audience.

The audience was angry that Trump Jr and Guilfoyle would not take questions.

Trump Jr tried to argue that taking questions risked creating soundbites that leftwing social media posters would distort

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Donald Trump Jr wants to trigger and expose liberals, and they’re letting him | Poppy Noor

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A war of words on The View showed the president’s opponents falling straight into his son’s trap

Last night, ABC’s The View invited Donald Trump Jr on as a guest – because having just one child of a famous politician on the show is not enough (the co-host Meghan McCain is the daughter of the late senator John McCain). They also invited Trump Jr’s girlfriend – because in today’s political landscape, even the most tenuous link to fame or power seems as good a credential as any for being worthy of a platform.

It wasn’t long before the chatshow descended into chaos. Soon, McCain and Trump Jr were in a very contentious battle over whose dad was bigger than whose – McCain pointing out that Trump said mean things about her dad; Trump Jr pointing out that his dad had Made America Great Again.

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Triggered review: Donald Jr proves himself the Trump kid with real political chops

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The son’s book is one-eyed, loose with the facts and a crude attack on the left. In short, it’s like his dad – and it might work

In Triggered, the president’s eldest child excoriates the left for its censoriousness, but ignores his father’s repeated demands for the same. In case Don Jr forgot, Trump père is no friend of free speech or a free press.

Related: Donald Trump Jr's Triggered: a litany of trolling and insults worthy of his father

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‘It’s totally appropriate’: Pompeo jokes about political pressure at Greek press conference – video

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The US secretary of state was being asked if Balkan countries would be subjected to political pressure if they were unwilling to help Donald Trump. ‘You are going to be under enormous political pressure,’ he said, joking that the Greek foreign minister pressurised him all the time

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