Month: April 2024

Jury selection under way in historic Trump criminal trial  Reuterssource

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg alleges former president violated gag order with Truth Social posts about witnesses in hush-money caseAbout an hour after day one of Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan closed, the former president published the first of what would be a series of posts on Truth Social about his disdain for the trial,…
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Haberman says Trump ‘tried to make eye contact’ with prospective jurors  CNNsource

Trump arrives at Manhattan courthouse for start of historic criminal trial  Axiossource

Monday’s day in court indicated that jury selection could take weeks – and that Trump could yet be held in contemptDonald Trump struggled through the opening day of his New York criminal trial on Monday as the jury selection process formally got under way in Manhattan in the first criminal trial of a current or…
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Ritchson wondered why some Christians see Trump as their “poster child” in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.

Jury selection resumes in Trump’s hush money criminal trial  Reuterssource

Kara McGee was seated about 30 feet from the former president all day Monday.

President Biden took aim at former President Trump as his likely November opponent sat in a courthouse in New York City Tuesday, bashing the former president’s economic record and proposals for a potential second term. Biden delivered remarks in his one-time hometown of Scranton, Pa., where he argued that Trump’s economic vision would overwhelmingly favor…
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Trump Hush-Money TrialAdvertisementSupported byBest of Late NightAfter the ex-president seemed to fall asleep in court, Jimmy Kimmel said it was “nice to see even Donald Trump is exhausted by Donald Trump.” By Trish BendixWelcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get…
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Trump Media shares fall more than 10%, company says Truth Social to launch TV streaming  CNBCsource

Trump has said Bragg is “lazy on violent crime,” but shootings in NYC are down.Alvin Bragg had a problem.It was August 2022, and the Manhattan district attorney had just found out two people had been shot — including a bystander who had been shot in the head — during an attempted robbery in the borough's…
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With his legal team attacking the judge as biased and the prosecution calling for him to be fined for violating a gag order, Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial on charges he falsified business records to hide a hush money payment to a porn star before the 2016 election began Monday.Judge Juan Merchan continued his trend…
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ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeAdam ReissTrump left the courtroom with his lawyers as both sides discuss which jurors they’re going to request be stricken. Kyla GuilfoilGary GrumbachOne potential juror said during questioning that she “didn’t sleep last night, thinking about… can I really do this,” when asked about…
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Hundreds of prospective jurors showed up Monday for the historic trial.Former President Donald Trump appeared in Manhattan criminal court Monday, marking the first day of the first-ever criminal trial against a former U.S. president.Trump last April pleaded not guilty to a 34-count indictment charging him with falsifying business records in connection with alleged hush money…
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Donald Trump’s Collateral in $175m Bond Revealed  Newsweeksource

When Candidate Trump Becomes Defendant Trump  Vanity Fairsource

Trump hush money trial: No jurors selected on Day 1  The Associated Presssource

Voting systems provider Smartmatic has settled a lawsuit it brought after the 2020 election against conservative media outlet One America News Network (OANN). Erik Connolly, Smartmatic’s lead attorney, confirmed the company had settled with the outlet in a statement to The Hill, saying “Smartmatic has resolved its litigation against OANN through a confidential settlement.” No…
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Who is Alvin Bragg, prosecutor leading Trump’s hush money trial  Axiossource

Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister gives Republican hopeful her backing. LONDON — Donald Trump can now officially add Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister to his list of backers.In her most direct endorsement of the U.S. Republican presidential hopeful yet, Liz Truss told LBC “it has to be” Trump in the White House after the forthcoming election. And…
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The scope of a federal obstruction law used against scores of Jan. 6 rioters — and former President Trump — drew scrutiny from the Supreme Court on Tuesday, a signal that the justices may be wary of the Justice Department’s far-reaching prosecution of the Capitol attack. Joseph Fischer, a former police officer accused of storming…
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Allies of former President Trump have seized on the judge overseeing the New York hush money case delaying a decision on letting the former president go to his son Barron’s high school graduation in May. “Judge Merchan is truly heartless in not letting a father attend his son’s graduation,” another of Trump’s sons, Eric, said…
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Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.The first criminal trial facing former President Donald Trump is also the one in which Americans are least convinced he committed a crime, a new AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll finds.FILE – Former President Donald Trump sits in Manhattan…
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