Attorneys delivered opening statements Monday in Trump’s trial in New York.Day 5 of Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial was also the first day of legal arguments before jurors.Proceedings lasted little more than three hours on Monday, but both parties delivered opening statements, lifting the veil on arguments they plan to present over the coming…
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AdvertisementVotes for dropout candidates are a regular feature of contested primaries.By Alex Lemonides and Christine Zhang Even after Nikki Haley dropped out of the Republican presidential primary, effectively handing the party’s nomination to former President Donald J. Trump, nearly 20 percent of G.O.P. primary voters have cast ballots for someone other than Mr. Trump. The…
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Prosecutors say Trump’s social post calling Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels ‘sleaze bags’ is part of his trial strategy POLITICOsource
SEARCHThe former publisher of the National Enquirer appeared less enthused about his second courtroom appearance at Trump’s hush money trial on Tuesday.Special CorrespondentAs Donald Trump’s hush money trial resumed on Tuesday, David Pecker arrived without the improbable smile he had when he first took the witness stand the day before.On Monday, the 72-year-old accountant-turned-supermarket sleaze…
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Appeals court greenlights release of secret Trump battles to block aides from testifying POLITICOsource
Former president Donald Trump is, if nothing else — and at the risk of the understatement of the 2024 election — a man prone to hyperbole. His tendency to inflate numbers to bolster his image has now cost him dearly both in criminal and civil court.But with a presidential campaign to run and now a…
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Trump didn’t violate the gag, his lawyer says. He merely engaged in political speech. POLITICOsource
Pennsylvania Presidential Primary Election 2024: Live Results NBC Newssource
President Biden and former President Trump are tied in the latest national polling average of a hypothetical three-way general election race that includes independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ). Biden and Trump are tied at 41.3 percent support, with Kennedy following at 7.7 percent, according to DDHQ’s average…
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Donald Trump will get $1.3 billion in Trump Media bonus shares if the stock doesn’t crash today Yahoo Financesource
With the former president on trial for allegedly falsifying business documents, his long and sordid history with the tabloid press may work against him.
Trump fumes while Biden hits the trail POLITICOsource
Trump’s lawyer during gag order arguments gets blasted by judge MSNBCsource
Voters in swing states are overwhelmingly supportive of taxing billionaires to support Social Security benefits, a new survey found. Seventy-seven percent of voters across seven key swing states approve the idea of raising taxes for billionaires to extend the life of Social Security, according to the Bloomberg News/Morning Consult survey published Wednesday. Fifty-seven percent of…
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ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timePresident Joe Biden on Tuesday scorched Florida’s impending six-week abortion ban and said Donald Trump was responsible, casting the former president as a danger to women’s freedoms.“This extreme Florida law is going to impact 4 million women in the state,” Biden said during a…
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Trump attorney says Cohen’s “financial livelihood depends on President Trump’s destruction” CNNsource
Prosecutors say Trump violated the limited gag order in his hush money case.Lawyers for the Manhattan district attorney, in a hearing Tuesday morning, will attempt to convince the judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal hush money case to hold the former president in contempt for repeatedly violating the limited gag order in the case.Prosecutors have argued…
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Michael Cohen, former President Trump’s fixer turned foe, said Wednesday he will cease any commentary about Trump until after he testifies in the former president’s New York criminal trial. “Despite not being the gagged defendant, out of respect for Judge Merchan and the prosecutors, I will cease posting anything about Donald on my X (formerly…
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Former National Enquirer publisher testifies about how he helped Trump NBC Newssource
“Help the Campaign”: Former National Enquirer Publisher’s Testimony Seems Pretty Bad for Donald Trump Vanity Fairsource
Ex-Trump attorney: Former president’s testimony would ‘significantly increase’ conviction chances The Hillsource
Merchan and Blanche debate whether reposts can violate gag order POLITICOsource
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said it was “pretty stupid” for President Biden not to reach out and ask Christie to support his 2024 reelection campaign, after Christie suspended his own bid for the White House earlier this year. In a 90-minute conversation hosted at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics on…
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President Biden and former President Trump are deadlocked in a new national survey. The Quinnipiac University poll found the two presidents directly tied among registered voters, 46 percent to 46 percent. It also found that even when other candidates for the presidency like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West and Jill Stein were included as…
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Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.President Joe Biden traveled to Florida Tuesday to condemn the state’s upcoming 6-week abortion ban and blame rival Donald Trump for that law as well as other restrictions across the country that have imperiled access to care for pregnant women.People listen as President Joe Biden speaks about reproductive…
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