Former president running for White House while battling myriad indictments and legal cases
Donald Trump is likely going to be convicted in the hush money cover-up case he's currently facing, but the real punishment is being forced to be a criminal defendant, a former prosecutor said Sunday. Legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti appeared on MSNBC's Alex Witt Reports, where he was asked about whether or not Trump will be held accountable for any potential wrongdoing. "Big picture, Renato, do you think some sense of accountability is near for Donald Trump,...
The ruling was a stinging rebuke for the Republican former president, who had insisted he was exercising
Former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Toobin Tuesday took a harsh view of the contempt order handed down by Manhattan criminal court judge Juan Merchan to former President Donald Trump. "I think it is historic and I think we need to pause and recognize what a big deal this," Toobin told a CNN panel Tuesday night. "This is a finding of criminal contempt that had to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt, and that's what the judge did."Trump has not been convicted in his criminal hush money case and...
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A full panel of 12 jurors and six alternates was selected Friday for the New York criminal hush money trial of Donald Trump.
NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors said Thursday that Donald Trump again violated a gag order in his hush money trial, as the criminal case resumed on the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court weighed whet
After a weeklong jury selection process, 12 jurors and six alternates have been seated in Donald Trump's New York hush money trial. The difficulty of selecting a group of impartial jurors in the criminal trial of a former president was on full display. Media reporting on the jurors’ personal details — including one plainly critical segment from Fox News' Jesse Watters — sparked criticism from Judge Juan Merchan, who ordered journalists not to report on many specifics about their backgrounds. ...
Donald Trump trial LIVE: Former president returns to hush money trial as Supreme Court considers whether he is immune from prosecution - When Trump appeared in court, he told reporters about the poor economic numbers, specifically referring to GDP, gas prices and the U.S. dollar. "This is Bidenomics, it's catching up with himit's destroyed our country at the border, destroyed our country with other countries, they don't respect the United States anymore," he said. “This is very bad news,” he...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The first week of testimony at Donald Trump’s hush money trial was the scene-setter for jurors: Manhattan prosecutors portrayed what they say was an illegal scheme to influence the 2016 presidential campaign by burying negative stories. Now prosecutors
By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The first week of testimony at Donald Trump’s hush money trial was the scene-setter for jurors: Manhattan prosecutors portrayed what they say was an illegal scheme to influence the 2016 presidential campaign by burying negative stories. Now prosecutors