Ivanka Trump's lengthy testimony outstripped her husband Jared Kushner's six-hour session with the House committee investigating the Capitol riot.According to CNBC, Trump testified via video link before the January 6 panel via video call in a session that ended at around 6 p.m. on Tuesday. The lengthy testimony outstripped the six-hour session that her husband, Jared Kushner, participated in on Thursday, which a lawmaker on the committee called "very helpful. 
Lindell said he flew Peters out to his Sioux Falls cyber symposium in August on his private jet. Peters isn't allowed to accept gifts over $65.Lindell revealed to 9News journalist Marshall Zelinger on Tuesday that he had given Peters a lift on his private jet in August when he flew her out to his cyber-symposium in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. 
2022 is shaping up to be a legal nightmare for Trumpworld. Here's a timeline of upcoming court cases and legal obstacles.
- Donald Trump and his allies are facing a flurry of legal challenges this year.
- Investigations into his company's finances are ongoing, along with others related to January 6.
- Here are the dates to watch out for this year.
Former President Donald Trump has had a number of surprising legal victories ever since he left the White House — though his greatest potential battles are still looming.
Judge acquits man of misdemeanors in Capitol riot trial
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday acquitted a New Mexico man of misdemeanor charges that he illegally entered the U.S. Capitol and engaged in disorderly conduct after he walked into the building during last year’s riot. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden issued the verdict from the bench after hearing testimony without a jury in the case against Matthew Martin. McFadden, who was nominated by former President Donald Trump, acquitted Martin of all four counts for which he was charged. Martin did not dispute that he joined hundreds of other people in entering the Capitol building during the riot.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday acquitted a New Mexico man of misdemeanor charges that he illegally entered the U.S. Capitol and engaged in disorderly conduct after he walked into the building during last year’s riot. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden issued the verdict from the bench after hearing testimony without a jury in the case against Matthew Martin. McFadden, who was nominated by former President Donald Trump, acquitted Martin of all four counts for which he was charged. Martin did not dispute that he joined hundreds of other people in entering the Capitol building during the riot. In November, Summer Zervos, who had accused Trump of sexual assault following her appearance on "The Apprentice," dropped her lawsuit against him before he was forced to sit for a deposition. At around the same time, a New York state judge dismissed a lawsuit from Michael Cohen seeking to have the Trump Organization reimburse his legal fees for work he did on Trump's behalf.
But greater dangers loom. The Trump Organization is the subject of a sprawling investigation from the Manhattan district attorney's office and the New York attorney general's office into alleged financial misconduct.
In Atlanta, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is weighing charges over his conduct in the 2020 election. Those investigations are proceeding as the Justice Department comes up on the five-year deadline to prosecute Trump over acts of possible obstruction that former Special Counsel Robert Mueller III scrutinized as part of his investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election.
House holds Trump aides Peter Navarro, Dan Scavino in contempt for defying Jan. 6 subpoenas
The Justice Department is prosecuting former Trump strategist Steve Bannon and considering charging former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. But members of the House committee investigating the attack, which is authorized to complete its work this year, have voiced impatience with the department’s pace. Attorney General Merrick Garland declined to comment Wednesday on the Jan. 6 investigation. But he said in Meadows' case, federal prosecutors in D.C. would "follow the facts and the law wherever they lead. We don't comment any further on investigations. Meanwhile, the Biden administration is sending a steady stream of Trump's White House records to the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. And Trump — along with many of his allies — face federal investigations and lawsuits stemming from the January 6 insurrection. Expect the judges in those cases to set court dates later this year.
While Trump mulls whether to run for president again in 2024, 2022 is shaping up to be a year of legal headaches for the former president and his associates. Here's a timeline of the threats Trumpworld faces.
More than a dozen lawsuits have been filed against the House Jan. 6 committee, which is probing the Capitol riot, to block phone record subpoenas.No one knows for sure, not least because the question hasn’t been tested in court – until now. The question is at the heart of a dozen federal lawsuits against the House Jan. 6 committee investigating the attack on the Capitol. 
Matthew Martin, a federal defense contractor with security clearance, was found not guilty by a federal judge appointed by Trump. Martin is the first January 6 defendant to be fully acquitted at trial. A US District Court judge acquitted a defense contractor accused of illegally entering the Capitol on January 6, 2021.US District Judge Trevor N. 
"I would have gone there in a minute," Trump told the Washington Post in a new interview published Thursday. Before his supporters violently breached the Capitol while Congress members met to certify Joe Biden's 2020 presidential election win, Trump delivered remarks to his supporters at the Ellipse near the White House that day. At the end of his speech, he told his supporters: "We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I love Pennsylvania Avenue. And we're going to the Capitol, and we're going to try and give. ... 
"You're not a child, right?" a federal prosecutor asked, undercutting the defense strategy of blaming Donald Trump for the January 6 Capitol attack.On Wednesday, the accused Capitol rioter Dustin Thompson took the witness stand in his own defense and testified before jurors that he was "following presidential orders" on January 6. He also said he'd been swept up in the spirit of the pro-Trump crowd after nearly a year of isolation and unemployment caused by COVID-19. 
