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NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump dropped a lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James on Friday just a day after a federal judge slapped him and a lawyer with a nearly $1 million fine for filing bogus cases against political enemies.

In a blistering filing Thursday, U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks described Trump as "a prolific and sophisticated litigant" with a "pattern of abuse of the courts."

In scathing ruling, US district court judge writes, ‘misuse of the courts by Mr Trump and his lawyers undermines the rule of law’

Trump and his team misused the court system to "dishonestly advance a political narrative," the federal judge said.

During his five-and-a-half-hour deposition, Donald Trump said he hasn’t read E Jean Carroll’s book, “What Do We Need Men For?”

NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump mistook a 1980s photograph of New York author E. Jean Carroll, who claims he raped her more than two decades ago, for an image of his ex-wife Marla Maples during a deposition, according to a partially unsealed transcript in Carroll’s defamation suit.

The judge sent an email to Trump's attorneys warning them of possible sanctions if they keep up their delay tactics

Former President Donald Trump said a New York law temporarily allowing people to sue over alleged sexual abuse that may have occurred decades earlier was violating the constitutional rights of “countless people,” including himself.

NEW YORK — The writer who sued Donald Trump for defamation over his claim that she falsely said he raped her in a Manhattan department store was pressed on her accusation by his lawyer during a long-awaited deposition.