Month: May 2024

WATCH LIVE: Rachel Maddow and team break down Donald Trump’s guilty verdict in New York criminal trial Featured ShowsMSNBC TVMoreFollow msnbcMore BrandsMore ShowsBy Clarissa-Jan LimJenna Ellis, a former Trump lawyer who pleaded guilty to charges in the Georgia election interference case, has been barred from practicing law in Colorado for the next three years. A…
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Trump hush money trial jurors resume deliberations as verdict not reached yet  Hindustan Timessource

Ex-Trump attorney reacts to jury asking to hear some testimony again  CNNsource

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) at a Thursday press conference declined to say whether prosecutors will seek jail time for former President Trump after he was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal an affair. Asked about seeking jail time for Trump, Bragg said prosecutors would speak through their court…
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Democrats warn against meltdown over Biden-Trump race  The Hillsource

Exclusive | Trump Considering an Advisory Role for Musk If He Wins a Second Term  The Wall Street Journal What’s Behind Donald Trump’s Courtship of Elon Musk  The New York Times Trump talks accelerate Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s political power surge  Axios source

NewsNation Damita Menezes (NewsNation) — The potential biases of jurors in the trial regarding former President Donald Trump’s alleged hush money payment may be revealed through their media consumption, which might influence their verdict as they deliberate behind closed doors.Jury questionnaires revealed that while most jurors, including alternates, read The New York Times, only one…
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Right-wing radio host Dan Bongino promised liberals that the former president’s supporters would be “drinking your delicious tears in November.”

Former President Trump’s adviser Chris LaCivita said that former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R), who is running to become one of the state’s next senators, has just ended his campaign with remarks he shared in the lead-up to the decision in the former president’s hush money case. Minutes before Trump, the Republican presumptive nominee, was…
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Former President Trump in a new video is asking his supporters to join him in his “fight for America” after he was found guilty in his New York hush money trial. “This is the final battle. With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state. We will expel the warmongers from our government. We will drive…
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Donald Trump’s closest allies lost it after a jury convicted him on 34 counts of falsifying business records, echoing Trump’s rhetoric about a “rigged” trial.

ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeNnamdi EgwuonwuReporting from Atlanta“If I’d done it, I would be in jail,” was 44-year-old DeMon DeLoatch’s reaction to the historic Trump guilty verdict today.“So, if he’s done the crime, do the time,” DeLoatch, who is a Democrat, said when asked his reaction about the…
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Jurors review testimony as they weigh verdict in Trump hush money trial  Reuterssource

Trump trial jury to re-hear David Pecker testimony on second day of deliberations – Live Updates  CNBCsource

While the guilty verdict in former President Trump’s hush-money trial will make him the first major party nominee to be a convicted felon, he will likely still be able to vote in his home state of Florida in November.  Each state has its own laws for determining voter eligibility for those who have been convicted…
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A campaign official suggests a guilty verdict won’t change Biden’s approach.As New York City jurors deliberate over whether to convict former President Donald Trump on charges that he falsified business records to hide a payment to an adult film star from the American public before the 2016 election, it's still not clear how President Joe…
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Senate Republicans on Thursday widely panned the guilty verdict against former President Trump for falsifying business records, arguing that it was a “disgrace,” a “sham” and that the true verdict will come in November.  Republicans wasted no time laying into the decision after a jury found Trump guilty of all 34 counts. Sen. John Cornyn…
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Trump “has always mistakenly believed he would never face consequences for breaking the law for his own personal gain,” said a Biden spokesperson.

<!– A quick recap of the day and what to look forward to tomorrow {beacon} Evening Report   ©  Spencer Platt, Getty Images Jury finds Trump guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records A jury on Thursday found former President Trump guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records, making him the first-ever president…
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Trump knocks ‘naive’ Shannon Bream over Alina Habba interview  The Hillsource

Former President Trump’s swift guilty verdict on 34 counts related to concealing hush money payments makes him the first president to be convicted of a felony, but it does not mean he is going to jail any time soon. A New York jury found Trump guilty on every charge brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin…
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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Thursday blasted Donald Trump’s conviction in his New York hush money case, predicting that the former president will successfully appeal the “absurd” verdict. “Today is a shameful day in American history,” Johnson said in a statement released minutes after Trump’s guilty verdict was read in court. “The American people rightfully…
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AdvertisementSupported byDealBook NewsletterThe Republican is courting the mogul to bolster his re-election fight, but the Biden campaign sees a political opportunity to exploit. By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat LivniFor much of President Biden’s time in the White House, his relations with Elon Musk have been tense.…
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President Biden on Thursday said that the only way to keep former President Trump out of the White House is at the polls in November, after he was found guilty in his New York hush money case. “There’s only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: At the ballot box,” Biden…
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BREAKING: Donald Trump convicted on all 34 counts of falsifying business documents in New York Featured ShowsMSNBC TVMoreFollow msnbcMore BrandsMore ShowsThe jury in Donald Trump's hush money criminal trial in New York have to ask themselves a series of questions on their way to arriving at a verdict in the case, with the final step…
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