Month: April 2024

Read our ongoing coverage of Donald Trump’s first criminal trial here.Way back in April 2023, when a grand jury in Manhattan filed the first criminal indictment of a U.S. president in the country’s history, the 34 felony counts of falsifying business documents charged against Donald J. Trump landed with a thud. The grand jury deliberations had…
Read more

Trump hush money trial live updates: David Pecker testifies – The Washington Post  The Washington Postsource

Trump Hush-Money TrialAdvertisementSupported byDonald J. Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan is off to an ominous start for the former president, and it might not get any easier in the days ahead.By Jonah E. Bromwich, Ben Protess and Maggie HabermanThe judge questioned his defense lawyer’s credibility. The prosecution accused him of orchestrating a criminal conspiracy to influence…
Read more

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins pressed an attorney for former President Trump on a line of questioning by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan in the former president’s presidential immunity case at the Supreme Court Thursday. “What are the circumstances where ordering a military coup is an official act of the presidency?” Collins said, referring to a…
Read more

Trump Throws Absolute Fit In Late Night Rant For The Strangest Possible Reason  Yahoo! Voicessource

NEW YORK — David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, testified Thursday that his editor-in-chief believed porn star Stormy Daniels’ allegation of an affair with Donald Trump.In his testimony in Trump’s New York criminal hush money trial about an alleged scheme to “catch and kill” stories that could embarrass Trump ahead of the…
Read more

Senior Politics Reporter, HuffPostFormer President Donald Trump’s attorney on Thursday argued that a president could order the assassination of his political rival and stage a military coup without being prosecuted for it. Jack Sauer, Trump’s lawyer, made the “absolute immunity” argument in a Supreme Court hearing in the Department of Justice election interference case against…
Read more

Trump immunity case live updates: Former president’s lawyers and special counsel face off at Supreme Court  NBC Newssource

Watch CBS News By Melissa Quinn, Robert Legare Updated on: April 25, 2024 / 7:50 PM EDT / CBS News Washington — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Thursday appeared open to recognizing some level of immunity from federal prosecution for the official acts of former presidents as they weighed a blockbuster dispute that will…
Read more

Donald Trump Trial Suddenly Erupts in Shouting  Newsweeksource

Trump Hush-Money TrialAdvertisementThe judge in his criminal case is already considering whether to punish the former president for statements about jurors and witnesses in the case.By Matthew HaagProsecutors on Thursday accused former President Donald J. Trump of violating a gag order four additional times, saying that he continues to defy the judge’s directions not to…
Read more

Former White House attorney Ty Cobb said he is “almost certain” that former President Trump’s federal election case won’t be tried before the November election after the Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday. “So, I think it benefits Trump in the sense that it’s almost certain that this case will not get tried before the election,…
Read more

Trump hush money trial: Tabloid publisher testifies he helped candidacy  Reuters.comsource

Help keep Salon independentTrump attorney Todd Blanche did several thing he wasn’t supposed to on Monday – and he probably did it on purpose.On the first day of actual arguments in Donald Trump’s criminal trial, the former president’s defense counsel tried to plant some objectionable seeds in the minds of jurors. In his opening statement,…
Read more

The Senate Republican leader told ABC News he’ll keep fighting GOP isolationism.Former President Donald Trump has blown up his fair share of deals on Capitol Hill, but Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says Trump's decision to hold his tongue on a massive $95 billion foreign aid package — including critical aid for Ukraine — may…
Read more

Trump hush money trial live: David Pecker details learning of Stormy Daniels  BBC.comsource

Featured ShowsMSNBC TVMoreFollow msnbcMore BrandsMore ShowsBy Steve BenenBy mid-March, the race for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, to the extent that it ever existed, was over. Donald Trump had already won nearly every primary and caucus, and each of his intraparty rivals had ended their campaigns.It was against this backdrop that the former president —…
Read more

Playbook: Trump’s dizzying day at court – POLITICO  POLITICOsource

A majority of Americans believe former President Trump is being treated differently than most criminal defendants in his hush money case, according to a new CNN poll. Trump’s hush money trial began last Monday, marking the first criminal trial of a former American president. He has been charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records…
Read more

Supreme Court will decide if Trump has immunity in election case  The Associated Presssource

Protesters demonstrate outside Supreme Court ahead of Trump immunity case  NBC Newssource

David Pecker Testifies About McDougal and Daniels in Trump Hush-Money Trial: Live Updates  The New York Times Trump hush money trial live updates: David Pecker testifies – The Washington Post  The Washington Post Live updates: David Pecker testifies in Trump hush money trial  CNN source

President Biden is gaining on former President Trump in a series of polls, tying Trump in the race in a Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday and providing a sense of momentum to his campaign.A Wednesday update to the aggregate polling kept by The Hill and Decision Desk HQ also saw Biden move into a tie with…
Read more

Justices appeared unlikely to grant request for absolute immunity from criminal prosecution to former presidentThe US supreme court on Thursday expressed interest in returning Donald Trump’s criminal case over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election back to a lower court to decide whether certain parts of the indictment were “official acts” that were protected…
Read more

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said he doesn’t think presidents should be immune from criminal prosecution for their actions in office, as the Supreme Court heard arguments on the issue related to former President Trump. Asked in a Thursday interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press” with Kristen Welker if he believes a president…
Read more