Month: April 2024

Trump sitting back in his chair as he listens to attorneys and judge  CNNsource

What Trump’s war on the ‘Deep State’ could mean: ‘An army of suck-ups’  CNNsource

Trump’s lawyer rips Michael Cohen, as expected – Live Updates – POLITICO  POLITICOsource

One of the unusual aspects of the jury selection process for Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan is that he was forced to endure the uncommon experience of being with people who don’t like him. Jurors who were under consideration for service on the trial were shown their past social media posts and comments disparaging…
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Trump hush money trial live: Defence cross-examines David Pecker  BBC.comsource

Abaca Press/Sipa USA via APOnce again, there’s not much love lost between Bill Barr and the man he accused of betraying the Oval Office, Donald Trump. When the former attorney general confirmed this week that he would support the Republican presidential ticket in November, his former boss took the opportunity to mock Barr as “slow-moving” and…
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Trump immunity case at the Supreme Court: Highlights  The Associated Presssource

Trump lawyer seeks to downplay National Enquirer’s efforts to help Trump in 2016  POLITICOsource

Kristi Noem Killing a Dog Will Appeal to Donald Trump: Mary Trump  Newsweeksource

Former President Trump went after Utah Sen. Mitt Romney (R) and endorsed his possible replacement in a post on Truth Social Saturday. “Trent Staggs is 100% MAGA, and is running to fill The Mitt Romney, a Total Loser, Seat as the next Senator from the Great State of Utah!” Trump said in his Saturday post. …
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Filed under:It’s unclear if the Court will explicitly hold that Trump could commit crimes with impunity, or if they’ll just delay his trial so long that it doesn’t matter.Thursday’s argument in Trump v. United States was a disaster for Special Counsel Jack Smith, and for anyone who believes that the president of the United States…
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Donald Trump Prosecutors Started Trial With ‘Unexpected Bang’—Legal Analyst  Newsweeksource

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.FILE – Former President Donald Trump speaks with construction workers at the construction site of the new JPMorgan Chase headquarters in midtown Manhattan, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)The stock price chart for the Trump Media and Technology Group on the NASDAQ website…
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Donald Trump spoke to reporters with more energy than he had in past days after spending the day in the Manhattan courtroom where his hush money trial is being heldNEW YORK — Defense lawyers in Donald Trump’s hush money trial dug Friday into assertions of the former publisher of the National Enquirer and his efforts…
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Trump Hush-Money TrialAdvertisementA tabloid publisher’s testimony dominated a week that began with opening statements setting the stage for the first prosecution of a president.By Kate Christobek and Jesse McKinleyThe second week of Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial was dominated by four days of testimony by David Pecker, the former publisher of The National Enquirer, who…
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Notifications can be managed in browser preferences.Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inFormer president’s historic election interference trial is underway in New York CityFind your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profileDonald Trump returned to court…
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Takeaways from Day 8 of the Donald Trump hush money trial  CNN Pecker Is Defiant at Trump Trial as Lawyers Try to Shake His Confidence  The New York Times Trump NY trial day 8: AMI CEO David Pecker’s testimony concludes, Trump requests lift of gag order  Fox News source

Former National Enquirer publisher faces more grilling from Trump defence team as first full week of testimony wraps up.The fourth day of testimony in former United States President Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial has concluded, with former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker facing several hours of cross-examination by Trump’s legal team.Pecker answered more…
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Does the president have immunity from criminal prosecution? Or, to put the question more finely, does Donald Trump? It should be an easy question for the textualist. Nothing in the Constitution grants him immunity. The framers knew how to put an immunity clause in the Constitution. Many of the states did; the framers chose not…
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Following David Pecker’s testimony, Rhona Graff was called to the witness stand, to comment on Trump and the adult film actorThe former tabloid publisher David Pecker’s testimony in Donald Trump’s criminal trial on Friday presented a granular look into a hush-money scheme which prosecutors allege was meant to sway the 2016 election in the real…
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Watch CBS News By Graham Kates, Katrina Kaufman Updated on: April 26, 2024 / 8:55 PM EDT / CBS News Prosecutors in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York called two new witnesses to the stand on Friday, rounding out the first week of testimony in the historic proceedings.Rhona Graff served as Trump’s…
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Ex-president rails against ban on attacking key people connected to the trial; longtime Trump assistant asked whether boss distracted while signing checks. This blog is now closed.In a post written, unusually, in the third person on Donald Trump’s Truth Social account, the former president has once again demanded Judge Juan Merchan lift a gag order…
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While their client was in a criminal courtroom in New York on Thursday, attorneys for Donald Trump were in Washington, arguing to the Supreme Court that the former president had broad immunity from criminal prosecution for actions he undertook while in office.Trump’s legal team had tried to apply the same principle to derail that New…
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Supreme Court appears skeptical of blanket immunity for a former president  NPRsource

Pressing the climate fight on an essential new front, the Biden administration set new standards Thursday to end the age of unbridled carbon pollution from the nation’s power plants. The rules will cut, at last, carbon emissions from the single largest industrial source, driving down climate risk and driving up clean energy investment. That caps a climate…
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