Trump accuses Biden of ‘border bloodbath’ as he fails to secure $464m bond in fraud case: Latest

Sarah Gibson, director of the new documentary Stormy, appeared on CNN’s OutFront with Erin Burnett yesterday to discuss Stormy Daniels and play a clip from her new film in which the porn star says Donald Trump compared her to his daughter Ivanka (!) just prior to their sexual encounter in 2006.

Here’s Gibson paying tribute to her subject, whom she says is “absolutely” ready to testify against Trump and committed to “the greater good”.

The infamous Access Hollywood video in which Donald Trump bragged about grabbing women sexually without asking permission will not be shown to jurors at the former president’s hush money criminal trial, Judge Merchan also ruled yesterday.

However, he said prosecutors could still question witnesses about the tape, which was made public in the final weeks of Trump’s 2016 White House campaign.

In further bad news for Trump yesterday, the judge overseeing his criminal trial stemming from hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels has rejected the former president’s attempts to block her testimony.

New York Judge Juan Merchan also rejected Trump’s attempts to block testimony from Michael Cohen, his former attorney who allegedly supported a scheme to bury compromising details of Trump’s extramarital affairs leading up to the 2016 presidential election.

Judge Merchan further rejected Trump’s attempts to block testimony from former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who allegedly had an affair with him before his presidency.

Here’s more from Alex Woodward on what happens if Trump can’t secure the bond he needs to appeal his New York civil fraud case.

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Unsurprisingly, the former president also spent his evening online fuming after his lawyers revealed on Monday that finding a lender to help him out with his humungous bond is proving a “practical impossibility”.

Meanwhile, this month-old clip of a not-entirely-convincing Alina Habba has not aged at all well.

Here’s more on the “billionaire” businessman’s money troubles from Alex Woodward.

Donald Trump has attempted to turn the tables on Joe Biden amid the furore surrounding his use of the phrase “bloodbath” by releasing a new campaign video compiling lurid news reports about “migrant crime” incidents to argue that the illegal immigration crisis at America’s southern border is the real “bloodbath”.

However, the president has beaten him to it, posting an earlier video of his own incorporating Trump’s latest controversial line in a montage of other awful things he has said.

The former president’s attorneys argued that finding a company to back a bond in excess of $454m plus millions of dollars in interest is a “practical impossibility,” and one that raises the possibility that New York Attorney General Letitia James can being seizing his assets unless the court intervenes.

Mr Trump faces “insurmountable difficulties” securing a bond, according to his attorneys. The former president has approached “about 30 surety companies through four separate brokers” to no avail – one week before Ms James can begin collecting.

Alex Woodward has the details:

A former FBI informant has been charged with lying about President Joe Biden and his son’s business dealings — but his reputation as a “liar” dates back to at least 2016, according to a report.

But long before these recent revelations, Mr Smirnov’s credibility was called into question.

Kelly Rissman has the details…

In a Fox News interview on Sunday, Media Buzz host Howard Kurtz asked Mr Trump, “Why do you use words like ‘vermin’ and ‘poisoning of the blood?’ The press, as you know, immediately reacts to that by saying, ‘Well, that’s the kind of language that Hitler and Mussolini use.’”

The 2024 frontrunner retorted, “That’s what they say. I didn’t know that, but that’s what they say.” However, he then said that he uses these terms “because our country is being poisoned.”