[
  {
    "id": "patriot-party-2021",
    "title": "The \"Patriot Party\" third party floated and dropped within days",
    "quote": "[paraphrase] Trump told advisers he wanted to start a new party — the Patriot Party — to punish Republicans who blamed him for January 6.",
    "date_promised": "2021-01-19",
    "venue": "Reported conversations with advisers in his final days in office; first reported by The Wall Street Journal",
    "deadline_text": null,
    "deadline_days": 6,
    "category": "elections",
    "era": "between-terms",
    "status": "never-delivered",
    "what_happened": "The idea lasted less than a week. On January 25, 2021 Trump's own campaign committee formally disavowed groups using the Patriot Party name, and adviser Jason Miller told CNN Trump was not considering a third party. Supporters filed their own FEC paperwork and built Telegram groups around a party that never existed. Trump stayed inside the Republican Party and took it over instead.",
    "repeat_count": 1,
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Donald Trump's political team disavows \"Patriot Party\" groups",
        "outlet": "Axios",
        "url": "https://www.axios.com/2021/01/25/trump-political-team-disavows-patriot-party-groups",
        "date": "2021-01-25"
      },
      {
        "title": "Trump Campaign Distances Itself From Rogue 'Patriot Party'",
        "outlet": "Forbes",
        "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2021/01/25/trump-campaign-distances-itself-from-rogue-patriot-party/",
        "date": "2021-01-25"
      },
      {
        "title": "Did Trump Start a New Political Party Called the 'Patriot Party'?",
        "outlet": "Snopes",
        "url": "https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/patriot-party-trump/",
        "date": "2021-01-26"
      },
      {
        "title": "Inside a 'Patriot Party' rally where Trump loyalists search for a movement",
        "outlet": "CNN",
        "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/23/politics/patriot-party-trump/index.html",
        "date": "2021-02-23"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "own-social-platform-two-three-months",
    "title": "\"His own platform\" promised in two or three months",
    "quote": "I do think that we're going to see President Trump returning to social media in probably about two or three months here, with his own platform. ... It's going to completely redefine the game.",
    "date_promised": "2021-03-21",
    "venue": "Jason Miller on Fox News' \"MediaBuzz,\" speaking for Trump",
    "deadline_text": "about two or three months",
    "deadline_days": 75,
    "category": "other",
    "era": "between-terms",
    "status": "late",
    "what_happened": "What actually appeared in early May 2021 was a blog, \"From the Desk of Donald J. Trump,\" which drew almost no traffic and was shut down on June 2, 2021 — 29 days after launch — with Miller teasing that it was a precursor to the real platform. That platform, Truth Social, did not arrive until February 2022, about eleven months after the two-to-three-month promise.",
    "repeat_count": 3,
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Trump returning to social media with 'his own platform' in 2-3 months: adviser",
        "outlet": "Fox News",
        "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-social-media-platform-return-adviser",
        "date": "2021-03-21"
      },
      {
        "title": "Trump to Launch 'His Own' Social Media Platform According to Spokesperson Jason Miller",
        "outlet": "The Daily Beast",
        "url": "https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-to-launch-his-own-social-media-platform-according-to-spokesperson-jason-miller/",
        "date": "2021-03-21"
      },
      {
        "title": "'Stay Tuned!': Trump Shuts Down Personal Blog, Teases Appearance On New Social Media Platform",
        "outlet": "The Daily Caller",
        "url": "https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/02/trump-blog-jason-miller-social-media/",
        "date": "2021-06-02"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "reinstated-by-august-2021",
    "title": "Trump told people he would be \"reinstated\" as president by August 2021",
    "quote": "Trump has been telling a number of people he's in contact with that he expects he will get reinstated by August.",
    "date_promised": "2021-06-01",
    "venue": "Reported by New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman, based on Trump's private conversations",
    "deadline_text": "by August",
    "deadline_days": 61,
    "category": "elections",
    "era": "between-terms",
    "status": "never-delivered",
    "what_happened": "There is no constitutional mechanism for reinstating a president. August 2021 came and went with Joe Biden in office. The claim was tied to the Arizona \"audit\" and similar state reviews Trump was promoting, none of which changed a single certified result; the Cyber Ninjas review released in September 2021 actually found Biden with slightly more votes. The belief circulated widely among supporters and produced nothing.",
    "repeat_count": 1,
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Maggie Haberman: Trump Telling People He Expects To Be 'Reinstated' As President By August",
        "outlet": "Forbes",
        "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2021/06/01/maggie-haberman-trump-telling-people-he-expects-to-be-reinstated-by-august/",
        "date": "2021-06-01"
      },
      {
        "title": "National Review senior writer: 'Maggie Haberman is right' that Trump expects to be 'reinstated'",
        "outlet": "Poynter",
        "url": "https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2021/national-review-senior-writer-maggie-haberman-is-right-that-trump-expects-to-be-reinstated/",
        "date": "2021-06-02"
      },
      {
        "title": "Trump Is Reportedly Making Claims About Being 'Reinstated'",
        "outlet": "Newser",
        "url": "https://www.newser.com/story/306834/nyt-trump-telling-people-hell-be-reinstated.html",
        "date": "2021-06-01"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "truth-social-launch-timeline",
    "title": "Truth Social's promised launch dates came and went",
    "quote": "[paraphrase] Beta launch for invited guests in November 2021, with a full nationwide rollout in the first quarter of 2022.",
    "date_promised": "2021-10-20",
    "venue": "Trump Media & Technology Group announcement of Truth Social",
    "deadline_text": "beta in November 2021; full rollout in the first quarter of 2022",
    "deadline_days": 162,
    "category": "other",
    "era": "between-terms",
    "status": "late",
    "what_happened": "The November 2021 iOS beta missed its schedule. The app reached the App Store on February 21, 2022 but immediately put tens of thousands of users on a waitlist amid glitches; CEO Devin Nunes conceded it would not be \"fully functional\" until the end of March. A web version followed in May 2022 with geographic restrictions, and Google Play approval did not come until October 12, 2022 — nearly a year after the promised beta.",
    "repeat_count": 3,
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Truth Social",
        "outlet": "Wikipedia",
        "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Social",
        "date": "2024-01-01"
      },
      {
        "title": "Trump announces Truth Social network will be rolled out nationwide in first quarter of 2022",
        "outlet": "Fox News",
        "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-announces-truth-social-network-will-be-rolled-out-nationwide-in-first-quarter-of-2022",
        "date": "2021-12-01"
      },
      {
        "title": "Truth Social launches in App Store but still puts users on waitlist",
        "outlet": "Axios",
        "url": "https://www.axios.com/2022/02/21/truth-social-app-store-donald-trump",
        "date": "2022-02-21"
      },
      {
        "title": "Glitchy Start For Trump's 'Truth Social' App As Thousands End Up On Waitlist",
        "outlet": "Forbes",
        "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2022/02/21/donald-trumps-twitter-alternative-truth-social-launches-on-apple-app-store/",
        "date": "2022-02-21"
      },
      {
        "title": "Trump's Truth Social gets off to a rocky start",
        "outlet": "The Hill",
        "url": "https://thehill.com/policy/technology/597413-trumps-truth-social-gets-off-to-a-rocky-start/",
        "date": "2022-02-22"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "jan-6-legal-fees",
    "title": "Promises to pay January 6 defendants' legal bills",
    "quote": "[paraphrase] Trump said he was looking at paying the legal fees of January 6 defendants and told a Bedminster fundraiser he would contribute to their legal fund.",
    "date_promised": "2021-11",
    "venue": "Interviews and a September 2022 / 2023 fundraiser for January 6 defendants at Trump National Golf Club, Bedminster",
    "deadline_text": null,
    "deadline_days": null,
    "category": "justice",
    "era": "between-terms",
    "status": "never-delivered",
    "what_happened": "FEC records showed that through the first half of 2021 Trump's committees had paid none of the January 6 defendants' legal costs, despite sitting on roughly $100 million; HuffPost calculated he could have funded every defendant's defense at about $156,000 each and had spent zero. His alleged co-conspirators in other cases also reported never being paid. After returning to office he pardoned or commuted January 6 sentences in January 2025 and talked about federal \"reimbursement\" instead of personal payment; defendants are now pursuing Federal Tort Claims Act payouts.",
    "repeat_count": 4,
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Trump Could Pay $156,000 For Every Jan. 6 Rioter's Defense, But So Far Has Spent Zero",
        "outlet": "HuffPost",
        "url": "https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-legal-funds_n_619eb5cde4b0451e5503421f",
        "date": "2021-11-24"
      },
      {
        "title": "Trump alleged co-conspirators never got paid by Trump team",
        "outlet": "CNBC",
        "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/15/trump-alleged-co-conspirators-never-got-paid-by-trump-team.html",
        "date": "2023-08-15"
      },
      {
        "title": "Trump spoke at a fundraiser for Jan. 6 defendants",
        "outlet": "NBC News",
        "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna90806",
        "date": "2023-06-17"
      },
      {
        "title": "'They should be reimbursed': Jan. 6 defendants still eyeing payouts, despite scrapped $1.8B fund",
        "outlet": "ABC News",
        "url": "https://abcnews.com/Politics/reimbursed-jan-6-defendants-eyeing-payouts-despite-scrapped/story?id=133565302",
        "date": "2025-11-01"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "jan-6-anniversary-press-conference-cancelled",
    "title": "The January 6 anniversary press conference he announced and then cancelled",
    "quote": "[paraphrase] Trump announced a news conference at Mar-a-Lago for January 6, 2022 to address the anniversary and his election claims, then called it off two days beforehand.",
    "date_promised": "2021-12-21",
    "venue": "Announcement via his Save America PAC for an event at Mar-a-Lago",
    "deadline_text": "January 6, 2022",
    "deadline_days": 16,
    "category": "elections",
    "era": "between-terms",
    "status": "never-delivered",
    "what_happened": "On January 4, 2022 Trump cancelled the event, blaming \"total bias\" from the media and the House January 6 committee, and said he would make the same points at a January 15 rally in Arizona. CNN reported that advisers, including lawyers worried about his legal exposure, had pushed him to call it off. It would have been only his second press conference since leaving office.",
    "repeat_count": 1,
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Trump cancels press conference on January 6 anniversary at urging of advisers",
        "outlet": "CNN",
        "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/05/politics/trump-cancels-press-conference-january-6/index.html",
        "date": "2022-01-05"
      },
      {
        "title": "Trump cancels Jan. 6 news conference at Mar-a-Lago, blames news media and House committee",
        "outlet": "The Washington Post",
        "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-cancels-jan-6-news-conference-at-mar-a-lago-blames-news-media-and-house-committee-investigating-attack-on-capitol/2022/01/04/7dac1d9e-6db4-11ec-aaa8-35d1865a6977_story.html",
        "date": "2022-01-04"
      },
      {
        "title": "Trump cancels Jan. 6 press conference at Mar-a-Lago",
        "outlet": "Spectrum News",
        "url": "https://spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisville/politics/2022/01/05/trump-cancels-jan--6-speech-at-mar-a-lago",
        "date": "2022-01-05"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "clinton-rico-lawsuit-sanctioned",
    "title": "The racketeering suit against Hillary Clinton that drew a $938,000 sanction",
    "quote": "[paraphrase] Trump promised to sue Hillary Clinton, the DNC and dozens of others for conspiring to fabricate the Russia collusion story — and filed a 193-page RICO complaint.",
    "date_promised": "2022-03-24",
    "venue": "Complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida",
    "deadline_text": null,
    "deadline_days": null,
    "category": "justice",
    "era": "between-terms",
    "status": "broken",
    "what_happened": "Judge Donald Middlebrooks dismissed the amended complaint as a \"shotgun pleading\" whose claims were \"foreclosed by existing law,\" writing that \"this case should never have been brought\" and \"no reasonable lawyer would have filed it.\" In January 2023 he sanctioned Trump and attorney Alina Habba nearly $1 million — $937,989 — for a \"continuing pattern\" of misusing the courts. The 11th Circuit upheld both the dismissal and the penalty, calling the arguments \"frivolous.\"",
    "repeat_count": 2,
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Trump attempts to reverse losses in hush money case and RICO lawsuit against Hillary Clinton",
        "outlet": "CNN",
        "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/28/politics/trump-hush-money-rico/index.html",
        "date": "2023-07-28"
      },
      {
        "title": "'Arguments were indeed frivolous': Appeals court savages and dashes Trump's RICO lawsuit against Hillary Clinton",
        "outlet": "Law & Crime",
        "url": "https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/arguments-were-indeed-frivolous-appeals-court-savages-and-dashes-trumps-rico-lawsuit-against-hillary-clinton-upholds-full-dismissal-and-nearly-1-million-penalty/",
        "date": "2024-01-01"
      },
      {
        "title": "DONALD TRUMP v. HILLARY CLINTON (2023)",
        "outlet": "FindLaw",
        "url": "https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-dis-crt-sd-flo/2181258.html",
        "date": "2023-01-19"
      },
      {
        "title": "Personal and business legal affairs of Donald Trump",
        "outlet": "Wikipedia",
        "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_and_business_legal_affairs_of_Donald_Trump",
        "date": "2025-01-01"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cnn-defamation-lawsuit-dismissed",
    "title": "The $475 million CNN lawsuit thrown out by his own appointee",
    "quote": "[paraphrase] Trump promised to sue CNN for defamation over its use of \"the Big Lie,\" and filed for $475 million in punitive damages.",
    "date_promised": "2022-10-03",
    "venue": "Complaint filed in U.S. District Court, Fort Lauderdale, Florida",
    "deadline_text": null,
    "deadline_days": null,
    "category": "justice",
    "era": "between-terms",
    "status": "broken",
    "what_happened": "On July 28-29, 2023 U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal — a Trump appointee — dismissed the suit, ruling that every CNN statement Trump cited was protected opinion. Singhal wrote that \"no reasonable viewer could (or should)\" read \"the Big Lie\" as accusing Trump of advocating genocide. Trump recovered nothing.",
    "repeat_count": 2,
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "A federal judge has dismissed Trump's defamation case against CNN over 'the Big Lie'",
        "outlet": "NPR",
        "url": "https://www.npr.org/2023/07/30/1190983801/a-federal-judge-has-dismissed-trumps-defamation-case-against-cnn-over-the-big-li",
        "date": "2023-07-30"
      },
      {
        "title": "Trump's defamation lawsuit against CNN over 'the Big Lie' dismissed in Florida",
        "outlet": "NBC News",
        "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trumps-defamation-lawsuit-cnn-big-lie-dismissed-florida-rcna97172",
        "date": "2023-07-29"
      },
      {
        "title": "Trump Loses $475 Million Suit Against CNN—Latest Defeat In Multiple Media Faceoffs",
        "outlet": "Forbes",
        "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2023/07/29/trump-loses-475-million-suit-against-cnn-latest-defeat-in-multiple-media-faceoffs/",
        "date": "2023-07-29"
      },
      {
        "title": "Judge says CNN's use of 'Big Lie' regarding Trump isn't defamation",
        "outlet": "CNN",
        "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/29/politics/trump-cnn-big-lie-defamation-lawsuit/index.html",
        "date": "2023-07-29"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "jan-6-committee-testimony-subpoena",
    "title": "Promised to testify to the January 6 committee, then sued to avoid it",
    "quote": "[paraphrase] Trump said he would like to testify — even \"live\" — to the January 6 committee, then fought the subpoena in court until the committee expired.",
    "date_promised": "2022-10-14",
    "venue": "Truth Social posts responding to the committee's October 13, 2022 subpoena vote",
    "deadline_text": "testimony under oath by November 14, 2022",
    "deadline_days": 31,
    "category": "justice",
    "era": "between-terms",
    "status": "never-delivered",
    "what_happened": "The committee voted unanimously on October 13, 2022 to subpoena Trump for documents and sworn testimony by November 14. Instead of appearing, Trump sued the committee on November 11-12, 2022, calling the subpoena overly broad and a First Amendment violation. He never testified. The committee withdrew the subpoena and dissolved at the end of the 117th Congress, releasing its final report in December 2022.",
    "repeat_count": 2,
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Trump sues the Jan. 6 House committee to avoid a subpoena",
        "outlet": "NPR",
        "url": "https://www.npr.org/2022/11/12/1136282088/trump-lawsuit-jan-6-committee-subpoena",
        "date": "2022-11-12"
      },
      {
        "title": "Jan. 6 panel issues subpoena to Donald Trump, demanding he testify",
        "outlet": "PBS NewsHour",
        "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/jan-6-panel-issues-subpoena-to-donald-trump-demanding-he-testify",
        "date": "2022-10-21"
      },
      {
        "title": "Donald Trump files lawsuit to avoid Jan. 6 committee subpoena",
        "outlet": "PBS NewsHour",
        "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/donald-trump-files-lawsuit-to-avoid-jan-6-committee-subpoena",
        "date": "2022-11-12"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "pulitzer-board-lawsuit",
    "title": "The Pulitzer Prize board lawsuit still unresolved after three years",
    "quote": "[paraphrase] Trump promised to force the Pulitzer board to strip the 2018 prizes from The New York Times and The Washington Post for their Russia coverage, and sued in Florida state court.",
    "date_promised": "2022-12-13",
    "venue": "Complaint filed in Okeechobee County, Florida",
    "deadline_text": null,
    "deadline_days": null,
    "category": "justice",
    "era": "between-terms",
    "status": "still-waiting",
    "what_happened": "Trump demanded the board revoke the 2018 National Reporting prize; the board has never done so. A Florida appeals court declined to dismiss the case in February 2025, and discovery did not begin until December 11, 2025 — three years after filing. No prize has been revoked and no judgment has been entered.",
    "repeat_count": 3,
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Personal and business legal affairs of Donald Trump",
        "outlet": "Wikipedia",
        "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_and_business_legal_affairs_of_Donald_Trump",
        "date": "2025-01-01"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "major-announcement-nft-cards-2022",
    "title": "'MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT TOMORROW' — which turned out to be NFT trading cards",
    "quote": "AMERICA NEEDS A SUPERHERO!... I will be making a MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT TOMORROW.",
    "date_promised": "2022-12-14",
    "venue": "Truth Social video post",
    "deadline_text": "TOMORROW",
    "deadline_days": 1,
    "category": "other",
    "era": "between-terms",
    "status": "partial",
    "what_happened": "He met the one-day deadline, but the 'major announcement' on December 15, 2022 — three weeks after launching his 2024 campaign — was a $99 line of 45,000 digital trading cards depicting him as an astronaut, cowboy and superhero, with fine print noting they had 'no inherent monetary value.' The run sold out in roughly twelve hours for about $4.45 million and secondary-market volume collapsed by January 2023.",
    "repeat_count": 1,
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Trump Announces NFT Trading Card Collection",
        "outlet": "Rolling Stone",
        "url": "https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-announces-nft-trading-card-collection-1234648014/amp",
        "date": "2022-12-15"
      },
      {
        "title": "Donald Trump Announces $99 Digital Trading Card NFTs",
        "outlet": "CoinDesk",
        "url": "https://www.coindesk.com/web3/2022/12/15/trump-announces-99-digital-trading-card-nfts",
        "date": "2022-12-15"
      },
      {
        "title": "Trump's 'MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT' was a line of $99 NFT trading cards",
        "outlet": "The Week",
        "url": "https://theweek.com/donald-trump/1019361/trumps-major-announcement-was-a-line-of-99-nft-trading-cards-with-no-inherent",
        "date": "2022-12-15"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "irrefutable-georgia-report-monday-2023",
    "title": "An 'Irrefutable REPORT' on Georgia election fraud, promised for Monday",
    "quote": "A Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable REPORT on the Presidential Election Fraud which took place in Georgia... will be presented at a major News Conference on Monday.",
    "date_promised": "2023-08-17",
    "venue": "Truth Social, two days after his Fulton County indictment; the conference was to be held at Bedminster, New Jersey",
    "deadline_text": "Monday (August 21, 2023)",
    "deadline_days": 4,
    "category": "elections",
    "era": "between-terms",
    "status": "never-delivered",
    "what_happened": "He cancelled on August 20, 2023, writing that his lawyers would prefer to put the evidence in 'formal Legal Filings' and that 'the News Conference is no longer necessary!' No such report was ever released, publicly or in any court filing. As late as a July 2026 primetime speech on election security, experts said the documents he cited still showed no evidence of the fraud he alleges.",
    "repeat_count": 2,
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Trump cancels press conference on 2020 election fraud claims, citing attorneys' advice",
        "outlet": "PBS NewsHour / AP",
        "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-cancels-press-conference-on-2020-election-fraud-claims-citing-attorneys-advice",
        "date": "2023-08-20"
      },
      {
        "title": "Trump promised evidence of election fraud. Experts say there was none",
        "outlet": "NPR",
        "url": "https://www.npr.org/2026/07/17/nx-s1-5897446/trump-promised-evidence-of-election-fraud-experts-say-there-was-none",
        "date": "2026-07-17"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "steele-dossier-uk-lawsuit",
    "title": "The London suit against the Steele dossier author, tossed with a costs bill",
    "quote": "[paraphrase] Trump said he would go after Christopher Steele over the dossier and filed a data-protection claim against Orbis Business Intelligence in the High Court in London.",
    "date_promised": "2023-10-16",
    "venue": "High Court of Justice, London",
    "deadline_text": null,
    "deadline_days": null,
    "category": "justice",
    "era": "between-terms",
    "status": "broken",
    "what_happened": "The High Court dismissed the claim on February 1, 2024, largely on limitation grounds, finding Trump had waited far too long to bring it. In March 2024 he was ordered to pay Orbis roughly £300,000 in legal costs. It was one of a run of Trump-as-plaintiff media suits — CNN, Clinton, Orbis — that ended in dismissal and cost orders against him.",
    "repeat_count": 1,
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Personal and business legal affairs of Donald Trump",
        "outlet": "Wikipedia",
        "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_and_business_legal_affairs_of_Donald_Trump",
        "date": "2025-01-01"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "testify-own-defense-civil-fraud-trial",
    "title": "Announced he would testify in his own defense at the NY fraud trial",
    "quote": "I will not be testifying on Monday. I have already testified to everything & have nothing more to say.",
    "date_promised": "2023-11",
    "venue": "Truth Social, after his lawyers had told the court he would take the stand on December 11, 2023",
    "deadline_text": "Monday, December 11, 2023",
    "deadline_days": null,
    "category": "justice",
    "era": "between-terms",
    "status": "never-delivered",
    "what_happened": "Trump's team had scheduled him to testify under friendly questioning to rebut New York AG Letitia James's claim that he fraudulently inflated property values. On December 10, 2023 he cancelled in an all-caps Truth Social post calling the case a \"witch hunt.\" He had testified once, under hostile questioning, on November 6, 2023. Judge Arthur Engoron ruled against him in February 2024 with a judgment exceeding $450 million with interest.",
    "repeat_count": 2,
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Trump will not testify in his civil fraud trial",
        "outlet": "NPR",
        "url": "https://www.npr.org/2023/12/11/1218495285/trump-will-not-testify-in-his-civil-fraud-trial",
        "date": "2023-12-11"
      },
      {
        "title": "What to know about Trump's decision to not testify again in New York civil fraud trial",
        "outlet": "CNN",
        "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/10/politics/trump-not-testifying-new-york-civil-fraud-trial/index.html",
        "date": "2023-12-10"
      },
      {
        "title": "Trump will no longer testify in his own defense in N.Y. civil fraud case",
        "outlet": "Axios",
        "url": "https://www.axios.com/2023/12/10/trump-testify-new-york-civil-fraud-trial",
        "date": "2023-12-10"
      },
      {
        "title": "Trump Cancels Planned Testimony In Fraud Trial",
        "outlet": "Forbes",
        "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/12/10/trump-cancels-testimony-planned-for-monday-in-fraud-trial/",
        "date": "2023-12-10"
      }
    ]
  }
]