Month: May 2024

Former President Trump, after being found guilty by a New York jury on 34 counts of falsifying business records, will be sentenced just four days before the GOP’s 2024 national convention this summer. Judge Juan Merchan said Trump’s sentencing hearing will be on July 11, just before the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) convention is slated…
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<!– Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care <!–   The Big Story  Third bird flu case in farmworker confirmed  Federal health officials confirmed a third human infection of bird flu in a dairy farm worker in Michigan on Thursday. It’s the second case in Michigan and involves a…
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“This was a rigged, disgraceful trial,” the former president said, after being found guilty on all 34 felony counts.

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The former president had pleaded not guilty to all 34 felony charges.

Donald Trump is the first former U.S. president to become a convicted felon after a jury on Thursday found him guilty on all counts of falsifying business records to conceal alleged affairs during his 2016 campaign.  The 34-count conviction deals the most striking legal blow yet to a man who dodged criminal scrutiny for decades,…
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Calls, notes and witness testimony appear to fit with prosecutors’ case that Trump falsified records as part of plot to influence 2016 electionAs the jury began deliberations on Wednesday, Donald Trump appeared to have little room to extricate himself from the mass of evidence presented in the weeks-long case.A recording of Trump directing hush money…
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“Prove it, bitch,” is how Trump rep Steven Cheung responded to social media posts about shocking new claims against the former president.

Former President Trump is laying the groundwork to discredit a conviction or capitalize on an acquittal in his hush money trial in New York City ahead of a looming verdict. Trump has for months berated Judge Juan Merchan as conflicted and bashed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg as politically motivated, and he has relentlessly decried…
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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 inUnanimous verdict needed to secure conviction or acquittal, with deliberations back underway after re-hearing portions of testimonyFind your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my…
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Biden’s problems with younger voters are glaring, poll finds  NPRsource

BREAKING: Chad Daybell is found guilty of killing his ex-wife and the two youngest children of his current wife, Lori Vallow ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeWASHINGTON — False reports about the jury instructions in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial have been spreading across right-wing media, leading to…
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The Georgia Republican wants to go after people who might be on the notorious sex trafficker’s “client list” but ignores the former president’s links to him.

Donald Trump claims he doesn’t know what the charges against him are  MSNBCsource

Former President Trump has invoked various historical figures when railing against his legal opponents and perceived political rivals, including most recently arguing Mother Teresa could not defeat charges he faces in his New York hush money trial. Trump has often pointed to notable figures from history to also tout his popularity on the campaign trail,…
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What to know about the first day of jury deliberations in the Trump hush money trial  CNNsource

Former President Donald Trump and some of his supporters are complaining that the judge in his hush money criminal trial isn’t requiring a unanimous verdict from the jury – but that’s not quite right.Twelve jurors in Trump’s criminal case began deliberating yesterday. They are slated to re-hear at least a portion of the jury instructions…
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Trump trial live updates: Jury back in court for 2nd day of deliberations  Yahoo! Voicessource

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Donald Trump’s Attorney Shakes Him During Trial  Newsweeksource

The jury in Donald Trump’s criminal hush-money trial had a specific request before starting deliberations on Thursday — they asked to hear again what they described in a note as the judge’s “rain metaphor” instruction. It advises a jury that they can infer that it’s raining — by seeing someone’s wet umbrella, for example —…
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Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville says he doesn’t believe former President Trump will actually show up to debate President Biden next month. “I don’t think Trump will go to the debate. He doesn’t do anything that’s not in his perceived self-interest, and this is one of these things where he could hurt — Biden has…
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Trump Attorney on closing arguments  CNNsource

Republican strategist Karl Rove criticized Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Thursday over remarks she made that the Biden administration had planned an assassination of former President Trump. “That was so outlandish that the Russians picked it up, and she is a star on Russian TV because they wanna use that bit of misinformation to…
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Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday declined a request to meet with Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) about their push for Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from upcoming Supreme Court cases dealing with Jan. 6, 2021, and the effort to overturn the 2020 election.  The two Democratic…
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