Month: April 2024

Speaking outside Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, Donald Trump left everyone confused when he attempted to explain the Battle of Gettysburg, praised (and invented a quote from) Confederate General Robert E. Lee, and generally had no idea what he was talking about. When his off-the-cuff remarks hit late-night television on Monday, the hosts couldn’t hide their…
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Watch CBS News By Aaron Navarro, Hunter Woodall Updated on: April 16, 2024 / 9:05 AM EDT / CBS News When Vice President Kamala Harris dropped by a campaign office in Madison, Wisconsin, in March, those who attended were handed some poster board and asked to write down why they’re supporting President Biden’s reelection.Democratic voter…
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The former first lady reportedly shares Donald Trump’s opinion that the case constitutes election interference.

The networks want their show, but to give the challenger equal status on a TV stage would be a dire normalization of his attempted coup.Listen to this article00:0007:34Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration.Sign up for The Decision, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage.A consortium of television networks yesterday released…
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Judge strikes another juror for cause  CNNsource

Former Attorney General Bill Barr said Wednesday he will vote for the “Republican ticket” in the November presidential election. “I think it’s my duty to pick the person I think would do the least harm to the country,” Barr said on Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom.” “And in my mind, that’s — I will vote the…
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Trump trial further splinters his relationship with his beloved New York  The Washington Postsource

Conservative attorney George Conway said Wednesday he does not think former President Trump has a “complete ability” to control his behavior inside a courtroom. On Tuesday – during the second day of jury selection in Trump’s hush money criminal trial – New York Judge Juan Merchan admonished Trump for “audibly uttering something” during the questioning…
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Former President Trump is railing against the amount of times his legal team can veto a potential juror choice for his hush money trial, which kicked off Monday. “I thought STRIKES were supposed to be ‘unlimited’ when we were picking our jury? I was then told we only had 10, not nearly enough when we…
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Dismissed juror describes the moment she saw Trump in court  CNNsource

A jury that will decide Trump’s fate begins to take shape as first criminal trial powers ahead  CNNsource

A majority of Americans say the charges against former President Trump in his New York hush money case are “serious,” according to a new poll. The Yahoo News/YouGov poll found 57 percent of Americans agree that “falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to a porn star” is a “serious crime,” a record high…
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Judge dismisses prospective juror over social media posts  POLITICOsource

National Guard soldiers are slated to testify Wednesday before the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight about the response to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. The hearing comes as the scope of a federal obstruction law used against scores of Jan. 6 rioters — and former President Trump — drew scrutiny from the Supreme Court…
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His fellow “Oprah Winfrey Show” alum traded medicine for the campaign trail, but “Dr. Phil” McGraw says there’s “not a chance” he’ll follow Mehmet Oz’s path and enter politics.  “I don’t know enough about it,” McGraw said, before conceding, “Some people might consider that a plus.” Oz attempted to parlay his broadcast success as TV’s…
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Former President Trump is on trial in New York in his criminal hush money case.7 jurors selected in Trump NYC fraud trialFormer President Donald Trump is on trial in New York City, where he is facing felony charges related to a 2016 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. It marks the first…
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Jury for Donald Trump’s Hush-Money Trial Takes Shape: An Oncology Nurse, a Software Engineer, a Teacher  The Wall Street Journalsource

Judge Juan Merchan on Tuesday warned former President Trump that he would not put up with any intimidation of jurors in his courtroom, accusing the presumptive GOP presidential nominee of making comments during the questioning of one juror.“I wont tolerate that. I will not have any jurors intimidated in this courtroom. I want to make…
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Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.Donald Trump has returned to a New York courtroom as jury selection in his historic hush money trial enters a second day.The first seven jurors for Donald Trump’s hush money trial have been chosen after lawyers grilled members of the jury…
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Day 2 of Trump New York hush money trial  CNN Internationalsource

William Brangham William Brangham Joshua Barajas Joshua Barajas Leave your feedbackFor more politics coverage and analysis, sign up for Here’s the Deal, our weekly politics newsletter, here.Donald Trump has sought every opportunity to slow the four criminal cases against him.But now, the former president can no longer delay or dismiss what’s been dubbed his “hush…
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Trump Hush-Money TrialAdvertisementLawyers chose seven jurors to help decide the case against the former president, who is accused of falsifying business records to cover up a sexual scandal involving a porn star.By Jesse McKinley and Kate ChristobekAfter the first day of jury selection in Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial saw the dismissal of dozens of…
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The guest host couldn’t get enough.

The prominent attorney gave a legal opinion from upside-down land.

Trump hush money criminal trial: Live updates, news and analysis  POLITICOsource