ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeA key witness in Donald Trump‘s criminal trial testified Thursday about his role in hush money payments to a porn actress and a Playboy model the former president allegedly had affairs with — and Trump’s plan to make sure other negative stories about him…
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Donald Trump again is trying to bend the Supreme Court and justice system to his will CNNsource
Watch CBS News By Katrina Kaufman, Jared Eggleston, Graham Kates Updated on: April 25, 2024 / 2:08 PM EDT / CBS News David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, testified Thursday about his efforts to bury negative stories that might have hurt former President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, including a $150,000 payment…
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A complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission alleges Donald Trump’s 2024 White House campaign and its related political committees engaged in a scheme to conceal who is being paid for much of the former president’s legal work in a possible violation of federal law.The complaint filed Wednesday by the Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit…
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A federal judge rejected former President Trump’s latest attempt for a new trial, upholding the verdict and $83.3 million award in his defamation case against writer E. Jean Carroll. In a written opinion, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan said Trump’s arguments are “without merit.” “Mr. Trump’s malicious and unceasing attacks on Ms. Carroll were disseminated…
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Republicans in four states are facing charges after submitting documents to Congress falsely claiming that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election in their states. Investigations are ongoing and more charges could be filed.Every four years, presidential electors in every state meet on the same day in December to submit electoral ballots to federal authorities…
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Along with 11 fake electors, seven allies of the ex-president, including Mark Meadows and John Eastman, also chargedAn Arizona grand jury has charged 18 people involved in the scheme to create a slate of false electors for Donald Trump, including 11 people who served as those fake electors and seven Trump allies who aided the…
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Jacques Billeaud, Associated Press Jacques Billeaud, Associated Press Jonathan J. Cooper, Associated Press Jonathan J. Cooper, Associated Press Josh Kelety, Associated Press Josh Kelety, Associated Press Leave your feedbackPHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona grand jury has indicted former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, lawyer Rudy Giuliani and 16 others for their efforts…
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A neo-Nazi drove his car into a group of anti-racist demonstrators during the 2017 hate rally, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
Justices on the Supreme Court voiced skepticism Thursday to assertions from former President Trump’s attorneys that presidential immunity could extend to an attempted coup or the assassination of a political rival, even as they seemed ready to offer some protections from criminal prosecution. Such a ruling could create a new cycle of legal battles that in turn could…
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ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeA state grand jury in Arizona on Wednesday indicted Trump aides including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows and Boris Epshteyn, as well as so-called “fake electors” who backed then-President Donald Trump in 2020, after a sprawling investigation into the alleged efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s…
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Trump’s weakness in 2024: Suburban voters, protest votes Axiossource
President Biden’s reelection campaign trolled former President Trump for golfing on his day off from court Wednesday. “We found out where Trump was. He was golfing. Not campaigning. Golfing,” Biden campaign spokesperson Ammar Moussa said in a statement, citing a CNN report that he was at his New Jersey golf club Bedminster. “But, when your entire campaign…
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Poll: Trump remains vulnerable on abortion with independents, some Republicans POLITICOsource
Based on analysis, Trump appears to be an unindicted co-conspirator.Several former and current key aides to former President Donald Trump appear to be among those charged by the Arizona State Attorney General over their alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. They include Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows and former Trump attorney John Eastman — as…
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Trump downplays deadly Charlottesville rally as a ‘peanut’ compared to Israel-Gaza protests CNNsource
Arizona indicts Trump fake electors from 2020 election Axiossource
On Wednesday, the day after the Senate passed the House bill providing $60 billion in aid to Ukraine in its existential battle against Putin’s invasion, CNN reported on the inside story. Over the previous six months, the White House had orchestrated “public pressure and private overtures … to build [congressional] support, including the not-insignificant task…
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ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeWASHINGTON — Tackling an unprecedented and politically fraught issue, the Supreme Court on Thursday morning is considering former President Donald Trump’s assertion of total immunity from criminal charges over his attempt to overturn the 2020 election results.The court has taken on the novel legal…
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Trump is unindicted co-conspirator in 2020 Michigan fake electors probe, investigator testifies CNNsource
Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson on Wednesday said criticism from former President Trump after she testified before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 rioting at the U.S. Capitol have has a “tremendous” impact on her life. “I mean, in short, it’s been tremendous,” Hutchinson said Wednesday in an interview with CNN when…
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The Biden campaign is going after Republicans who voted for former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley after the former presidential candidate received more than 150,000 votes in Tuesday’s GOP primary in Pennsylvania. Haley, who dropped out of the race two months ago, took more than 16 percent of the total votes. Former President Trump still easily won the primary,…
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MenuSOUTHFIELD, Mich. (WXYZ) — Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to return to Michigan next week for a campaign stop.His campaign announced that he will be at Avflight Saginaw near Freeland on May 1. It’s his third stop in Michigan this election year; he visited in February and earlier this month.The visit was announced as…
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Trump meets with foreign leaders looking to boost their relationships with GOP leader ahead of election CNNsource
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson seemed to reject arguments from former President Trump’s attorneys Thursday that the justices must distinguish between personal and official acts to determine whether a president could be prosecuted, warning that the claims threaten turning the Oval Office into a “seat of criminality.” The court heard oral arguments Thursday for…
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