Month: June 2024

Trump’s Defense Attorney Says He Was ‘Expecting’ Guilty Verdict as He Makes the Case for Lesser Sentence  PEOPLEsource

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis speaks after winning the Democratic primary on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, in Buckhead, Ga. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)ATLANTA (AP) — An appeals court could hear arguments in October on the appeal of a lower court ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis…
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The House Judiciary Committee chairman on Friday asked two New York state prosecutors to testify at a subcommittee hearing next month about the case where a jury found former president Donald Trump guilty of 34 felony charges of falsifying business records.In a pair of letters, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said the Select Subcommittee on the…
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Ex-Trump Attorney Rips Tim Scott’s ‘Ridiculous’ Biden Claim: ‘We Know That’s Not The Case’  Yahoo! Voicessource

ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeWASHINGTON — The addresses and phone numbers of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s family members were posted to a doxxing website after presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts in connection with a scheme to illegally influence the 2016…
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LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Former President Donald Trump is set to hold a rally in Las Vegas this upcoming weekend.Trump announced the rally on his website on Sunday. It will take place at Sunset Park, located on 2601 Sunset Rd, on Sunday, June 9 at noon.Doors for the event will open at 9 a.m.This…
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The polling comes days after Trump was convicted on 34 felonies.

Vulnerable Democrats are steering away from talking about former President Trump’s bombshell conviction last week on 34 felony charges as they fear political backlash in their purple states and districts. Those front-line Democrats — representing battleground districts and states where trust in the criminal justice system is low and Trump’s legal woes have only invigorated…
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Donald Trump stands convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. That’s a class E felony. New York State sentencing guidelines say the punishment for committing a class E felony “shall be fixed by the court, and shall not exceed four years.”  If the convicted felon is not (as Trump is not) “a second or persistent…
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Featured ShowsMSNBC TVMoreFollow msnbcMore BrandsMore ShowsBy Steve BenenLess than an hour after a jury convicted Donald Trump of 34 felonies, Sen. Tim Scott released a one-minute video of himself condemning the outcome. That wouldn’t be especially notable — the South Carolina Republican clearly wants to be his party’s vice presidential nominee, making such antics unavoidable…
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Donald Trump Rails Against Sentencing Date His Own Lawyer Agreed To  Newsweeksource

President Biden on Monday railed against President Trump after his conviction to donors at a fundraiser, arguing that “something snapped” after he lost the 2020 election. “Here is what is becoming clearer and clearer every day. The threat that Trump poses would be greater in a second term than it was in his first term.…
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ABC’s George Stephanopoulos interrupted an attorney for Donald Trump mid-interview on Sunday after he declared that New York prosecutors were “politically motivated” and claimed President Joe Biden was involved in the former president’s hush money case.After the “This Week” host noted the “lock her up” chants during Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, attorney Will Scharf suggested…
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‘Unless Jesus Christ was running’: In the heart of MAGA country, post-verdict Trump is still the answer  POLITICOsource

Attorneys in Donald Trump’s hush money trial have finished their closing arguments after a marathon day in courtNEW YORK — Donald Trump engaged in a conspiracy “to hoodwink voters” in 2016, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday during closing arguments in the former president’s hush money trial, while a defense lawyer branded the star witness as…
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‘Unless Jesus Christ was running’: In the heart of MAGA country, post-verdict Trump is still the answer.  POLITICOsource

Breaking News Reporter, HuffPostFormer President Donald Trump said his wife, Melania Trump, is doing “fine” after a jury found him guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in his criminal hush money trial in New York last week.In an interview with “Fox & Friends Weekend” that aired Sunday, the former president spoke about how…
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Playbook PM: Trump lawyers brand Cohen the ‘GLOAT’  POLITICOsource

WASHINGTON − Former President Donald Trump, who was convicted of 34 criminal counts last week in his New York hush money case, repeatedly declined to say whether he would try to use the Justice Department to target political opponents if he makes it back to the White House.“I’m not sure I can answer the question,”…
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Conservative commentator George Conway slammed CNN for its coverage of former President Trump’s hush money trial, criticizing the network for what he claimed was the permitting of right-wing “lies” to be told on the air. Conway, the former Trump ally-turned vocal critic, reflected on his tense conversation on CNN last week with Scott Jennings, a…
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In 1835 the noted French student of American democracy, Alexis DeTocqueville, observed that the U.S. was a dynamic nation, whose people tended to have strong opinions — not always justified. Headstrong qualities in the nation have led to bold innovation and extraordinary leaps forward, from the “impossible” Erie Canal in 1825, to landing a man on…
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ShareJenna Ellis (Fulton County Sheriff’s Office)DENVER – Jenna Ellis, a former attorney for former President Donald Trump, has agreed to a three-year suspension of her Colorado law license.  The suspension comes seven months after Ellis pleaded guilty to a single count of aiding and abetting false statements and writings in Georgia. Ellis admitted to making repeated…
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Bill Maher predicted an Election Day defeat for President Biden, despite reiterating his support for the president, telling tech journalist Kara Swisher that former President Trump is likely to rally enough support for a second term. “I would vote for [Biden’s] head in a jar of blue liquid over Donald Trump, but that doesn’t mean…
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Donald Trump Reveals How Melania Reacted To His Conviction In The Hush Money Trial  Yahoo! Voicessource