Month: April 2024

With the near completion of what may have been the most challenging and significant jury selection in American legal history, my former trial lawyer colleagues and I have been discussing the ways the upcoming Trump hush money trial will likely unfold. Notwithstanding the group’s collective high-level prosecutorial and white-collar defense trial experience—together spanning well over…
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Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk spoke out against the effort to ban TikTok in the U.S., saying it would be in conflict with the First Amendment and it is “not what America stands for.”  Musk added that while the ban would likely benefit social media platform X — which he purchased in October 2022 —…
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Americans are split on whether former President Trump will be convicted in his New York hush money case, according to a poll released Friday. The Economist/YouGov poll found that 24 percent of Americans think the former president is going to be convicted of a crime in the case, 36 percent said they don’t think the…
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Trump Hush-Money TrialAdvertisementThe former president faces dozens of felony charges stemming from hush-money payments to a porn star. He would undoubtedly appeal any conviction, and the presiding judge has leeway on sentencing.By Ben Protess, Kate Christobek and Jonah E. BromwichThe 34 charges Donald J. Trump is facing in a Manhattan courtroom are for falsifying business records…
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AdvertisementSupported byNews AnalysisPresident Biden’s push to transform the race into a binary choice between him and Donald Trump has been aided by blanket coverage of Mr. Trump’s courtroom appearances.By Lisa Lerer, Nicholas Nehamas and Michael GoldAmerican voters absorbed their first view of an extraordinary split-screen campaign this week, with President Biden sprinting across one of the…
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Trump trial update: Trump rebuked by judge for speaking during jury selection — and 7 jurors are seated  Yahoo! Voicessource

Live updates: Donald Trump’s hush money trial  CNN Internationalsource

Potential juror who wrote social media posts criticizing Trump in 2016 has been dismissed for cause  CNNsource

The former president argued in all-caps that “if they take away my presidential immunity, they take away Crooked Joe Biden’s presidential immunity.”

CNN fact-checks Trump’s false claim pushed on Fox News  CNNsource

Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick posted several times online Thursday targeting a New York Times reporter ahead of the publication of an article detailing his upbringing. His posts on the social platform X were directed at the Times’s national political reporter, Katie Glueck, who is “writing a story filled w/ frivolous lies about my…
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Stephen A. Smith criticized the hush money trial against former President Trump in Thursday comments, saying he wants to see him “lose the right way.”As primarily Democratic voter, the sports commentator said he is “utterly disgusted” with Trump’s criminal trial, which kicked off Monday with jury selection. Smith said he sees it as Democrats attempting…
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Twelve jurors were selected this week in former President Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial following a rigorous round of questioning, after two others were excused Thursday and dozens more prospective jurors were dismissed, including some over social media posts.A group of prospective jurors were asked whether they believe they can be fair and…
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Featured ShowsMSNBC TVMoreFollow msnbcMore BrandsMore ShowsMSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains how Donald Trump’s lies on social media and in public statements will make it difficult for his lawyers to argue against a gag order.April 19, 2024 © 2024 NBC UNIVERSAL source

Trump Media alerts Nasdaq to potential market manipulation from ‘naked’ short selling of DJT stock  CNBCsource

The former chair of the now-disbanded Jan. 6 committee introduced a bill Friday that would strip Secret Service protection of any former executive convicted of a felony — an effort to avoid the complications of incarcerating former President Trump should he be ordered to serve jail time. Dubbed the ‘‘Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources…
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Recorded earlier The New York Police Department will provide updates to the public after a person self-immolated outside the Manhattan courthouse where former President Trump’s first criminal trial is ongoing, police confirmed to The Hill. The incident, which occurred in a park outside the courthouse where protests of the trial have taken place this week,…
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Trump spent the day listening to strangers insult him. And he couldn’t say a single thing back.  POLITICOsource

Takeaways from the day a jury was selected to decide Donald Trump’s fate in the hush money trial  CNNsource

The 37-year-old man was rushed to a hospital in critical condition following the incident outside New York’s Manhattan Supreme Court.

Prosecutors: Trump violated gag order in hush money trial seven more times  Axiossource

Jury of 12 Is Seated in Trump Criminal Trial  The New York Timessource

‘Totally Uncommon’: Lawyers on the jury make Trump’s trial even more strange – POLITICO  POLITICOsource

Welcome to The Campaign Moment, your guide to the biggest developments in a 2024 election that could be decided in a courtroom.(Did a friend forward this to you? If so, sign up here. You can also hear Aaron’s Campaign Moment podcast weekly on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.)A former president of…
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Trump Documents CaseAdvertisementSupported byJudge Aileen M. Cannon denied requests by Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira to have the charges against them dropped.By Alan FeuerThe federal judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s classified documents case on Thursday denied initial attempts by Mr. Trump’s two co-defendants to have the charges against them dismissed.The ruling by…
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