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A chronicle of Donald Trump's Crimes or Allegations

Contradicting Trump, Ruby Garcia's Sister Says He Never Contacted Family – The New York Times

AdvertisementThe former president held up the death of a young Michigan woman at a campaign rally as an example of what he calls “migrant crime,” and claimed to have spoken to her family.By Anjali HuynhReported from Grand Rapids, Mich.The sister of the young Michigan woman whose killing has become the latest flashpoint for Republicans on…
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Republicans eye an electoral vote in Nebraska that could be decisive in Trump-Biden contest – CBS News

Watch CBS News By Hunter Woodall Updated on: April 4, 2024 / 5:46 AM EDT / CBS News A lone electoral vote in Nebraska could have a decisive impact on the 2024 presidential election. And prominent Republicans have attempted to make it more likely that the vote could be added to the GOP column in…
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‘Her inexperience is really showing’: Ex-DA on judge’s ‘unusual’ move in Trump documents case – CNN

‘Her inexperience is really showing’: Ex-DA on judge’s ‘unusual’ move in Trump documents case  CNNsource

In Trump Documents Case, Special Counsel Asks Judge to Weigh In on Key Claim – The New York Times

Trump Documents CaseAdvertisementSupported byThe push for a quick decision on one of the former president’s most far-fetched claims is an unusual and risky move in a case Judge Aileen Cannon has allowed to become bogged down.By Alan FeuerIn an open display of frustration, federal prosecutors on Tuesday night told the judge overseeing former President Donald…
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Judge refuses to delay Trump's "hush money" trial while Supreme Court weighs presidential immunity – CBS News

Watch CBS News By Caitlin Yilek Updated on: April 3, 2024 / 6:55 PM EDT / CBS News Washington — The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s criminal case in New York rejected his last-minute bid to delay the start of the trial until after the U.S. Supreme Court rules on Trump’s presidential immunity claim. Trump…
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Exclusive: Trump Media saved in 2022 by Russian-American under criminal investigation – The Guardian US

Trump’s social media company went public relying partly on loans from trust managed by person of interest to prosecutorsDonald Trump’s social media company Trump Media managed to go public last week only after it had been kept afloat in 2022 by emergency loans provided in part by a Russian-American businessman under scrutiny in a federal…
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Judge in Trump hush money case rejects presidential immunity defense – NBC News

ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeThe judge presiding over Donald Trump‘s falsifying business records case shot down his bid to use presidential immunity as part of his defense, finding the former president waited too long to raise the issue.In his ruling Wednesday, Judge Juan Merchan also denied Trump’s motion…
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Bragg urges Merchan to reject Trump’s latest attempt to delay hush money trial – MSNBC

Featured ShowsMSNBC TVMoreFollow msnbcMore BrandsMore ShowsBy Jordan RubinAmong Donald Trump’s last-ditch efforts to delay his hush money trial is a complaint about pretrial publicity. But there’s no reason to think that his claim will derail the criminal case, which is set for jury selection starting April 15.As a general matter, courts can take such publicity…
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Election 2024: Trump Courts Rich and Elite as Rallies Fail to Boost Fundraising – Bloomberg

Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the worldAmericas+1 212 318 2000EMEA+44 20 7330 7500Asia Pacific+65 6212 1000Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial…
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Trump Media sues former "Apprentice" contestants and Truth Social co-founders to strip them of shares – CBS News

Watch CBS News By Aimee Picchi Edited By Anne Marie Lee April 3, 2024 / 2:35 PM EDT / CBS News Former President Donald Trump’s media business is suing two of its co-founders, who were also contestants on Trump’s reality show “The Apprentice,” alleging that they mismanaged the business and should be stripped of their…
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Primary protest votes hint at November challenges for Biden and Trump – PBS NewsHour

Laura Barrón-López Laura Barrón-López Ali Schmitz Ali Schmitz Shrai Popat Shrai Popat Leave your feedbackTuesday, voters in Wisconsin, New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island turned out for their states’ presidential primaries. White House correspondent Laura Barrón-López reports on what the results mean for the upcoming election and discusses the latest NewsHour/Marist poll on voter attitudes…
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2 Brothers in Trump Media Insider-Trading Scheme Plead Guilty – The New York Times

AdvertisementSupported byMichael and Gerald Shvartsman, who had originally pleaded not guilty to securities fraud charges, each pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud.By Matthew GoldsteinTwo brothers from Miami pleaded guilty on Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan for their role in a nearly $23 million insider-trading scheme surrounding the 2021 announcement that former President…
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Despite gag, Trump posts claim about hush-money judge's daughter – Business Insider

A newly expanded gag order in Donald Trump’s New York hush-money case has barred him since Monday from attacking family members of his judge — but that didn’t stop him from posting links that attacked the judge’s wife and daughter on Wednesday night.Trump posted links from the website of far-right activist Laura Loomer, who criticized…
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Federal judge condemns ‘normalization’ of January 6 while sentencing defiant rioter – CNN

Federal judge condemns ‘normalization’ of January 6 while sentencing defiant rioter  CNNsource

Trump loses late bid to delay New York hush money trial – CNBC

Trump loses late bid to delay New York hush money trial  CNBCsource

Two plead guilty to insider trading related to Trump Media merger – NBC News

ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeTwo men pleaded guilty on Wednesday to insider trading in securities in the company that ultimately took former U.S. President Donald Trump’s media business public.Michael Shvartsman, 53, head of Miami-based venture capital firm Rocket One Capital, and his brother Gerald Shvartsman, 46, each pleaded guilty to…
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What I Saw Working at The National Enquirer During Donald Trump's Rise – The New York Times

Inside the notorious “catch and kill” campaign that now stands at the heart of the former president’s legal trial.Credit…Photo illustration by Pablo DelcanSupported byBy Lachlan CartwrightLachlan Cartwright has been a journalist for 20 years. He is currently a special correspondent at The Hollywood Reporter covering media, entertainment and politics.On Tuesday, April 4, 2023, I was…
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Lawmakers skeptical of enacting Trump-backed bill in Nebraska that could give him edge over Biden – ABC News

The proposal would affect how Electoral College votes are won.Multiple key lawmakers in Nebraska are pouring cold water on the prospect of passing a long gestating bill newly endorsed by former President Donald Trump and Gov. Jim Pillen that would change the state's system of awarding Electoral College votes.The proposed change, to a winner-take-all model,…
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"I would have given them an F": Professor says Trump lawyers would fail his constitutional law class – Salon

Help keep Salon independentThis article was originally published on The Conversation.Former President Donald Trump claims that the president of the United States is absolutely immune from criminal prosecution.On March 19, 2024, Trump filed his brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in the case brought by special counsel Jack Smith for Trump’s alleged criminal attempts to…
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Manhattan DA blasts Trump for trying to delay hush money trial over publicity he's 'actively seeking' – NBC Connecticut

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg urged a judge to reject an eleventh-hour bid by Donald Trump to delay his upcoming criminal hush money trial due to biased media coverage.Bragg, who accuses Trump of falsifying business records in a scheme to conceal a payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, said in a court filing shared Wednesday that the former president himself is to blame for…
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I spent 24 hours on Trump's Truth Social so you don't have to. No wonder it's tanking – Los Angeles Times

You’ve likely heard of former President Donald Trump’s mouthpiece and social media platform, Truth Social. You may have seen headlines that its stock shocked Wall Street with its much-hyped initial public offering. Or that in the week since, it has been hemorrhaging value as investors get a real sense of the company’s worth. But how…
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Trump, RNC report raising $65.6 million in March – Axios

Trump, RNC report raising $65.6 million in March  Axiossource

N.Y. judge denies Trump's bid to delay hush money trial – Axios

N.Y. judge denies Trump’s bid to delay hush money trial  Axiossource

Special counsel slams idea that Trump could claim classified docs as personal records – ABC News

Accepting such an argument would be “pure fiction,” the special counsel argued.Special counsel Jack Smith, responding on Tuesday to the judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's classified documents case, urged her to reverse course on entertaining the idea that Trump had any personal ownership over the classified materials he has been charged with unlawfully possessing.In…
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