Former President Donald Trump speaks during a commit to caucus rally, Dec. 13, 2023, in Coralville, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
A verdict in former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud is expected today. The New York judge overseeing the case has already found Trump guilty of fraud and must now decide what penalties he and his company should pay.
New York attorney general Letitia James steps out of the courtroom doing a short break in the civil business fraud trial against former President Donald Trump at New York Supreme Court, Monday, Oct. 2, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
State Attorney General Letitia James is seeking $370 million and a ban on Trump from doing business in New York.
Meanwhile, the prosecutor in Donald Trump’s Georgia election case will be back on the stand today. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis strongly denied wrongdoing when she took the stand Thursday.
FILE – Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis poses for a portrait on April 19, 2023, in Atlanta. Just one month after Donald Trump’s January 2021 phone call to suggest Georgia’s secretary of state could overturn his election loss, Willis announced she was looking into possibly illegal “attempts to influence” the results. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)
She told lawyers for one of Trump’s co-defendants that her relationship with the deputy prosecutor should not disqualify her from the case and refuted allegations that she benefited financially from hiring the prosecutor.
Willis told the defense lawyer, “I am not on trial.” Adding that “these people are on trial for trying to steal an election.”
White House Correspondent Ebony McMorris is a native Washingtonian and University of South Carolina alumna. Her passion is mentoring young adults by teaching community empowerment and media education. She is an NAB member and board member of the Thurgood Marshall Center and was presented the President’s Lifetime Achievement Award for contributing more than 4,000 hours of community service under the Obama Administration.
