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struggle4progress

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Sat Jun 30, 2018, 09:54 PM Jun 2018

Cloud Of Legal Woes Will Hang Over Midterm Elections

Allegra Kirkland | June 29, 2018 6:00 am

... Acknowledging that “people are busy,” Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Saliann Scarpulla denied the request, saying she had cleared her calendar to handle the Trump Foundation case. Scarpulla set the next conference in the case for Oct. 11 ...

... There are also defamation suits from two women whom the President denied having sexual contact with: former “Apprentice” star Summer Zervos, who says Trump groped her without consent, and former adult film star Stormy Daniels, who claims they carried on a months-long affair. Trump’s longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen is under federal criminal investigation for his business dealings. Then there’s the biggie: special counsel Robert Mueller’s sprawling investigation into whether Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russia to win the White House ...

Major developments in the Mueller probe are expected over the next few months. Criminal trials for Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman Paul Manafort will begin in Virginia in July and in Washington, D.C. in September. Former campaign aide George Papadopoulos will be sentenced for lying to the FBI about his Russia contacts that same month ...

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/trump-legal-woes-defamation-mueller-trump-foundation-hang-over-midterms

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Cloud Of Legal Woes Will Hang Over Midterm Elections (Original Post) struggle4progress Jun 2018 OP
This lawsuit will be fun to watch Gothmog Jun 2018 #1
I mis-read that title as saying, the mid-term elections will have legal woes. :D C Moon Jul 2018 #2
The headline is badly written. murielm99 Jul 2018 #3
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