Nick Akerman
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New York lawyer, former Watergate prosecutor and Assistant US Attorney in the SDNY, complex litigation for Fortune 100
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Read my recent post on substack about why Joe Biden felt compelled to pardon his son after Trump's election. bit.ly/3ZDZKvF
MY LATEST CHAT WITH MICHAEL COHEN ON ALL THINGS TRUMP -- everything from the National Guard shooting in DC to Trump's efforts to divert public attention away from the Epstein files to Steve Witkoff's advice to Putin on how to handle Trump. bit.ly/44IAjuY
MY LATEST CHAT WITH MICHAEL COHEN ON ALL THINGS TRUMP
We discuss the shooting of the two National Guard members in the District of Columbia and Trump’s potential overreaction, then break down the legality of Trump’s so-called “drug boat” attacks in Venez...
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December 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
MY LATEST CHAT WITH MICHAEL COHEN ON ALL THINGS TRUMP -- everything from the National Guard shooting in DC to Trump's efforts to divert public attention away from the Epstein files to Steve Witkoff's advice to Putin on how to handle Trump. bit.ly/44IAjuY
Trump Gins Up Retribution On Truth-Sayers Calling Out Illegal Military Orders. The Trump administration is ignoring the law and is instead pursuing bogus criminal violations against those who call out the duty of military personnel to adhere to the law. bit.ly/48ms0HA
Trump Gins Up Retribution On Truth-Sayers Calling Out Illegal Military Orders
Recently, six Democratic members of congress, who formerly served either in the military or intelligence community, released a video aimed at members of the military and intelligence services remindin...
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December 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Trump Gins Up Retribution On Truth-Sayers Calling Out Illegal Military Orders. The Trump administration is ignoring the law and is instead pursuing bogus criminal violations against those who call out the duty of military personnel to adhere to the law. bit.ly/48ms0HA
What Is Trump's Plan B To Coverup His Name In The Epstein Files? Will Trump emulate former President Nixon’s 18 minute gap in an incriminating Oval Office tape and direct AG Pam Bondi to “deep six” the Epstein files that incriminate him? bit.ly/3LJqqGV
November 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
What Is Trump's Plan B To Coverup His Name In The Epstein Files? Will Trump emulate former President Nixon’s 18 minute gap in an incriminating Oval Office tape and direct AG Pam Bondi to “deep six” the Epstein files that incriminate him? bit.ly/3LJqqGV
The New York Times Can Question Trump under Oath about the Epstein Emails. Will the Times Turn the Tables on Trump in His $15 Billion Lawsuit for Defamation? Read my opinion piece published today in the NY Daily News. bit.ly/3K1uKkf
November 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The New York Times Can Question Trump under Oath about the Epstein Emails. Will the Times Turn the Tables on Trump in His $15 Billion Lawsuit for Defamation? Read my opinion piece published today in the NY Daily News. bit.ly/3K1uKkf
Lindsey Halligan: Nominated for the Giuliani Hall of Shame. Will Another Trump Attorney Bite the Disbarment Dust? bit.ly/4qRILSl
November 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Lindsey Halligan: Nominated for the Giuliani Hall of Shame. Will Another Trump Attorney Bite the Disbarment Dust? bit.ly/4qRILSl
TRUMP TO NEW YORK CITY: VOTE FOR CUOMO OR ELSE. This morning I published an opinion piece on the MSNBC website, entitled, “How Zohran Mamdani should confront Trump’s relentless intimidation campaign.” bit.ly/47DZyjU
October 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
TRUMP TO NEW YORK CITY: VOTE FOR CUOMO OR ELSE. This morning I published an opinion piece on the MSNBC website, entitled, “How Zohran Mamdani should confront Trump’s relentless intimidation campaign.” bit.ly/47DZyjU
Former National Security Director John Bolton's indictment does not tell the whole story. While it properly alleges criminal activity, it does not explain why Bolton, a perceived Trump enemy, was indicted after a real Attorney General declined to indict. bit.ly/46UxloS
October 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Former National Security Director John Bolton's indictment does not tell the whole story. While it properly alleges criminal activity, it does not explain why Bolton, a perceived Trump enemy, was indicted after a real Attorney General declined to indict. bit.ly/46UxloS
A MUST READ: THROUGH THE GATES OF HELL Josh Colangelo-Bryan, a friend and a former colleague, has authored this book on his first hand experience representing detainees at Guantanamo Bay after 9/11. A must read. bit.ly/3IYmCAA
October 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
A MUST READ: THROUGH THE GATES OF HELL Josh Colangelo-Bryan, a friend and a former colleague, has authored this book on his first hand experience representing detainees at Guantanamo Bay after 9/11. A must read. bit.ly/3IYmCAA
COMEY AND JAMES WILL KICK TRUMP’S VINDICTIVE BUTT. The time has come for the fight to be taken directly to President Trump and his toadies in the Department of Justice. Read my opinion piece published today in TheHill. bit.ly/3J6EIAo
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October 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
COMEY AND JAMES WILL KICK TRUMP’S VINDICTIVE BUTT. The time has come for the fight to be taken directly to President Trump and his toadies in the Department of Justice. Read my opinion piece published today in TheHill. bit.ly/3J6EIAo
The Nobel Committee emphasized the importance of democratic values and delivered a stinging rebuke to the authoritarian President who actively campaigned for the award. bit.ly/4mXYmwc
October 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The Nobel Committee emphasized the importance of democratic values and delivered a stinging rebuke to the authoritarian President who actively campaigned for the award. bit.ly/4mXYmwc
Predicted Outcome of Comey Indictment: U.S. Attorney Halligan Disbarred. Read the details of this legal debacle in my opinion piece published today in the New York Daily News, entitled, Jim Comey Indictment Is a Weak Effort that Will Fail.”https://bit.ly/4q0kfO9
October 8, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Predicted Outcome of Comey Indictment: U.S. Attorney Halligan Disbarred. Read the details of this legal debacle in my opinion piece published today in the New York Daily News, entitled, Jim Comey Indictment Is a Weak Effort that Will Fail.”https://bit.ly/4q0kfO9
Trump's Prosecution of Former FBI Director Comey Is Bogus.
I discussed with Joe Mathieu and Kate Davidson on Bloomberg’s Balance of Power why this prosecution is heading to the dust bin of Trump’s failed retribution. bit.ly/4gWWsdZ
I discussed with Joe Mathieu and Kate Davidson on Bloomberg’s Balance of Power why this prosecution is heading to the dust bin of Trump’s failed retribution. bit.ly/4gWWsdZ
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September 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Trump's Prosecution of Former FBI Director Comey Is Bogus.
I discussed with Joe Mathieu and Kate Davidson on Bloomberg’s Balance of Power why this prosecution is heading to the dust bin of Trump’s failed retribution. bit.ly/4gWWsdZ
I discussed with Joe Mathieu and Kate Davidson on Bloomberg’s Balance of Power why this prosecution is heading to the dust bin of Trump’s failed retribution. bit.ly/4gWWsdZ
WAS TRUMP'S MESSAGE TO “PAM” ORDERING RETRIBUTION SUPPOSED TO BE PRIVATE? Private or Not, Trump Has Absolute Immunity for Ordering Bogus Prosecutions. bit.ly/4pA0jSl
September 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
WAS TRUMP'S MESSAGE TO “PAM” ORDERING RETRIBUTION SUPPOSED TO BE PRIVATE? Private or Not, Trump Has Absolute Immunity for Ordering Bogus Prosecutions. bit.ly/4pA0jSl
Harvard Should Never Settle with an Extortionist.
Trump took a page out of Nixon's playbook for his attack on Harvard. Only Nixon faced consequences. bit.ly/4n4IvwU
Trump took a page out of Nixon's playbook for his attack on Harvard. Only Nixon faced consequences. bit.ly/4n4IvwU
Opinion | I prosecuted Nixon. Trump's basis for his attack on Harvard was eerily familiar.
The court premised its conclusion of an “ideologically motivated assault” against Harvard, in part, on Trump’s own admissions.
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September 14, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Harvard Should Never Settle with an Extortionist.
Trump took a page out of Nixon's playbook for his attack on Harvard. Only Nixon faced consequences. bit.ly/4n4IvwU
Trump took a page out of Nixon's playbook for his attack on Harvard. Only Nixon faced consequences. bit.ly/4n4IvwU
Trump's Effort to Take Over the Federal Reserve Board Is Foiled. Yesterday, Washington D.C. Federal District Court Judge Jia M. Cobb granted Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook a preliminary injunction in her lawsuit against Donald Trump. bit.ly/3VbytxG
Trump's Effort to Take Over the Federal Reserve Board Is Foiled
Yesterday, Washington D.C.
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September 11, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Trump's Effort to Take Over the Federal Reserve Board Is Foiled. Yesterday, Washington D.C. Federal District Court Judge Jia M. Cobb granted Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook a preliminary injunction in her lawsuit against Donald Trump. bit.ly/3VbytxG
Unrepentant Sex Trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell Directly Attacked Her Victims. Trump had directed his former criminal defense lawyer and current Deputy Attorney General to obtain an exculpatory statement from a totally incredible and untrustworthy witness. bit.ly/4mLcTfu
September 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Unrepentant Sex Trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell Directly Attacked Her Victims. Trump had directed his former criminal defense lawyer and current Deputy Attorney General to obtain an exculpatory statement from a totally incredible and untrustworthy witness. bit.ly/4mLcTfu
Michael Cohen and I Discuss All the Recent Trump Horrors, including Trump’s meeting with Putin, Trump’s plot to rig the mid-terms through aggressive gerrymandering, the CDC firings and resignations, and his attacks on the Federal Reserve Board. bit.ly/46petxR
Michael Cohen and I Discuss All the Recent Trump Horrors
In Michael Cohen’s most recent podcast on Mea Culpa, we discussed Trump’s recent unconstitutional and brazen efforts to amass power, including his plot to rig the mid-terms through aggressive gerryman...
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September 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Michael Cohen and I Discuss All the Recent Trump Horrors, including Trump’s meeting with Putin, Trump’s plot to rig the mid-terms through aggressive gerrymandering, the CDC firings and resignations, and his attacks on the Federal Reserve Board. bit.ly/46petxR
Trump Concocts a Bogus Mortgage Fraud Case to Take Over the Fed nickakerman.substack.com/p/trump-conc...
Trump Concocts a Bogus Mortgage Fraud Case to Take Over the Fed
Yesterday, I spoke with Joe Mathieu on the late edition of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power” about Trump’s firing of Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook.
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August 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Trump Concocts a Bogus Mortgage Fraud Case to Take Over the Fed nickakerman.substack.com/p/trump-conc...
Trump's Texas gerrymander scam will backfire. He underestimated the voters. www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/25/t...
Trump’s gerrymander scam will backfire
President Trump’s Texas gerrymandering scam may not reap the political gift he imagined. Trump totally ignored what the voters want. Instead, he ordered Texas Republicans to squeeze out five more R…
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August 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Trump's Texas gerrymander scam will backfire. He underestimated the voters. www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/25/t...
Trump’s Scam to Divert Public Attention Away from the Epstein Files Goes Up In Smoke. Judge Berman called the grand jury transcripts an apparent “‘diversion’ from the breadth and scope of the Epstein files in the Government’s possession.”https://bit.ly/3UH5FNd
August 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Trump’s Scam to Divert Public Attention Away from the Epstein Files Goes Up In Smoke. Judge Berman called the grand jury transcripts an apparent “‘diversion’ from the breadth and scope of the Epstein files in the Government’s possession.”https://bit.ly/3UH5FNd
Epstein Took the 5th When Asked Whether He and Trump Socialized with Underage Girls. If Epstein could truthfully answer "no," why take the 5th? bit.ly/4lBjuHT
Epstein Took the 5th When Asked about Trump and Underage Girls
Whenever the media describes the relationship between Trump and Epstein, they all play the same video of Trump and Epstein at a party at Mar-a-Logo with Trump dancing with NFL cheerleaders.
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August 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Epstein Took the 5th When Asked Whether He and Trump Socialized with Underage Girls. If Epstein could truthfully answer "no," why take the 5th? bit.ly/4lBjuHT
Trump Unquestionably Created the Putin Summit to Divert Attention from the Epstein Scandal. The Putin meeting was part of a larger strategy to leave the uproar over the Epstein files in the political dust. So far it has worked. bit.ly/3JAKYA5
August 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Trump Unquestionably Created the Putin Summit to Divert Attention from the Epstein Scandal. The Putin meeting was part of a larger strategy to leave the uproar over the Epstein files in the political dust. So far it has worked. bit.ly/3JAKYA5
Trump Argues His Tariffs Can Result in An Economic Calamity. Comparable to the 1929 Great Depression. bit.ly/3HzDrB0
August 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Trump Argues His Tariffs Can Result in An Economic Calamity. Comparable to the 1929 Great Depression. bit.ly/3HzDrB0
Judge Blasted Trump for Lying to the Public about the Epstein Grand Jury Transcripts. Trump Knew Those Transcripts Contained Not a Single New Fact Factbit.ly/4owuSYn
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August 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Judge Blasted Trump for Lying to the Public about the Epstein Grand Jury Transcripts. Trump Knew Those Transcripts Contained Not a Single New Fact Factbit.ly/4owuSYn
DC Appeals Court Teaches Trump Basic 7th Grade Constitutional Civics. Congress Has the Power to Tax and Spend. The President Must Enforce Congress’ Taxing and Spending Laws. bit.ly/45KgZhN
August 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
DC Appeals Court Teaches Trump Basic 7th Grade Constitutional Civics. Congress Has the Power to Tax and Spend. The President Must Enforce Congress’ Taxing and Spending Laws. bit.ly/45KgZhN