Citation From the February 16‚ 2024‚ edition of Fox News' The Story with Martha MacCallum MARTHA MACCALLUM (FOX NEWS ANCHOR): So $354‚ really $355‚ $355 million here in the judgment from Arthur Engoron against the former president‚ Donald Trump. Ari‚ what is your reaction to all this? ARI FLEISCHER (FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR): Martha‚ I just have a hard time seeing any of the court cases‚ including this one‚ as anything other than a continuation of the resistance that began when Donald Trump was...

A New York judge ordered that former President Donald Trump pay $355 million — and temporarily banned him from doing business in the state where he made his name — after finding Friday that he inflated his net worth by billions to dupe banks and insurers over the course of a decade. Trump‚ 77‚ will be barred from serving as an officer or director of any company in New York for three years‚ under the ruling from Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron. If it withstands an inevitable...

A New York judge on Friday ordered former President Trump to pay nearly $355 million in penalties in a civil fraud case that has dealt a stark blow to his family’s business empire.  Judge Arthur Engoron’s 92-page decision came just weeks after closing arguments in the case following a months-long trial last year during which Trump frequently lambasted the judge and the prosecutor who brought the case.  New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) sued Trump in 2022‚ alleging he...

A New York judge on Friday handed Donald J. Trump a crushing defeat in his civil fraud case‚ finding the former president liable for conspiring to manipulate his net worth and ordering him to pay a penalty of $355 million that could wipe out his entire stockpile of cash. The decision by Justice Arthur F. Engoron caps a chaotic‚ yearslong case in which New York’s attorney general put Mr. Trump’s fantastical claims of wealth on trial. With no jury‚ the power was in Justice Engoron’s hands...

He didn’t have to go. In August 2020‚ Russian dissident Alexei Navalny had been poisoned‚ probably at the direction of Russian president Vladimir Putin‚ who saw in Navalny one of the vanishingly few legitimate threats to his reign. Navalny went to Germany to recuperate. While there‚ he managed to confirm that the poisoning had been carried out by Russian security services by calling one of his would-be executioners and pretending to be a fellow Kremlin goon. Mother Russia wanted one of her...

Alexei Navalny returned to Russia in January 2021. Right before he boarded the plane‚ he posted a film titled “Putin’s Palace: The Story of the World’s Largest Bribe” on YouTube. The video‚ nearly two hours long‚ was an extraordinary feat of investigative reporting. Using secret plans‚ drone footage‚ 3-D visualizations‚ and the testimony of construction workers‚ Navalny’s video told the story of a hideous $1.3 billion Black Sea villa containing every luxury that a dictator could imagine: a...

Alexei Navalny was one of the bravest men of our time. He stood up to one of the most evil men of our time: Vladimir Putin. Navalny has now died‚ a political prisoner‚ at 47. He was widely known as “the leader of the opposition” — the Russian political opposition to Putin. Life expectancy is not terribly long in that job. The previous leader‚ Boris Nemtsov‚ was gunned down within sight of the Kremlin in 2015. Navalny and his allies have been particularly good at exposing Putin’s corruption....

Former President Donald J. Trump has told advisers and allies that he likes the idea of a 16-week national abortion ban with three exceptions‚ in cases of rape or incest‚ or to save the life of the mother‚ according to two people with direct knowledge of Mr. Trump’s deliberations. Mr. Trump has studiously avoided taking a clear position on restrictions to abortion since Roe v. Wade was overturned in the middle of 2022‚ galvanizing Democrats ahead of the midterm elections that year. He has...