Trump news today: Trump arrives back in New York to face Letitia James’ $250m business fraud lawsuit

The probe is part of the federal investigation into Mr Trump’s handling of classified documents following his presidency.

Investigators have questioned several witnesses about the map, according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke to The New York Times. The nature of the map’s contents are unknown.

My colleague Graig Graziosi reports:

Ahead of jury selection in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6bn defamation case against Fox News, the Delaware Supreme Court Judge on the case is planning to appoint a “special master” to help determine whether the news company withheld key information and evidence.

Judge Eric Davis said he was considering the appointment on Wednesday, CNN reports, days before the trial is due to start.

Dominion accuses Fox News of knowingly spreading false information about its voting machines in the wake of the 2020 presidential election in support of Donald Trump‘s false claims that the election had been “stolen” from him.

The Senate’s lone Black Republican member is entering the 2024 race.

Sen Tim Scott on Wednesday announced the launch of an exploratory political campaign for the Republican nomination; in doing so, he also previewed what is likely to be the defining weakness of his campaign. His announcement interview carried no mention of Donald Trump and reflected little of the actual realities of today’s modern-day GOP.

Former president Donald Trump was expected to visit the offices of New York‘s attorney general Thursday for his second deposition in a legal battle over his company’s business practices.

The Republican was scheduled to meet with lawyers for attorney general Letitia James, who sued Mr Trump last year. Her lawsuit claims Mr Trump and his family misled banks and business associates by giving them false information about his net worth and the value of assets such as hotels and golf courses.

The lawsuit is unrelated to the felony criminal charges filed against Mr Trump by the Manhattan district attorney, which led last week to his historic arraignment, the first for a former president.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has now received a second envelope addressed to him which contained a mysterious white powder, according to NBC News, as he continues his prosecution of Donald Trump over the Stormy Daniels matter.

Mr Bragg has been the target of heightened vitriol from Republicans, especially former President Donald Trump, as he continues his efforts to prosecute Mr Trump for falsifying business records.

Former US president Donald Trump has arrived in Manhattan for a deposition before New York’s attorney general Letitia James, he said on Thursday in a post on his social media platform Truth Social.

The embattled 45th president returned to the city just a week after he was arraigned in a Manhattan court on a 34-count indictment in a separate criminal case from district attorney Alvin Bragg’s office.

He pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Ms James has brought a $250m business fraud lawsuit against him and the Trump Organization over alleged wrongdoing, including misleading banks and others that inflated the value of golf courses and hotels that bear his name.

The lawsuit alleges a breach of his attorney-client relationship and unjust enrichment, among other claims. It was filed in US District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Wednesday.

The former president appears to finally be making an effort to seek revenge against his ex-”fixer”, who would go on to tell Congress that his former employer was a racist and a con man after leaving his position.

Melania Trump has fired back at “assumptions” being made in the media after her absence from her husband’s arrest and post-arraignment speech hit headlines across the globe.

The former first lady released a statement through her office on Tuesday morning hitting out at the use of “unnamed sources” in reports about her “personal, professional, and political” viewpoints and urging readers to “exercise caution and good judgment”.

Former president Donald Trump vowed to stay in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination and the 2024 general election despite his mounting legal troubles, even if it means he’ll be locked up in a jail cell by the time his name appears on a ballot.

Mr Trump made the defiant pronouncement during a fawning Tuesday evening interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, the twice-impeached ex-president’s first sit-down with a media outlet since he was arraigned on 34 felony charges of falsifying business records in his former home state of New York.