Manhattan prosecutors Monday read to the jury transcripts of former President Donald Trump's notorious "Access Hollywood" tape, prompting one legal expert to describe it as both "cringy" and "damning." The reading came after a debate between District Attorney Alvin Bragg's team and Trump's lawyers over whether the video could be aired in Trump's criminal hush money trial. Judge Juan Merchan ultimately ruled the transcript was permissible but not the video. Speaking to MSNBC on Monday...
Donald Trump's latest stab for complete immunity is totally "absurd" from a purely constitutional perspective, Laurence H. Tribe, one of America's leading constitutional scholars, said on Sunday.Tribe flagged the purportedly contradicting argument on immunity on social media, asking, "Did anyone notice what Trump's lawyer identified as the textual source of the novel immunity he claimed?""It was the Art II vesting of executive power in the president for 4-year time!" he added. "But that's the...
Former President Donald Trump claims his gag order forcing him to stay mum on various individuals surrounding his historic criminal hush money trial is unprecedented.In a Truth Social post, Trump moaned about the gag order that Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan imposed and then strengthened barring him from criticizing witnesses, jurors, court staff, and the families of the prosecutor and judge. "The Gag Order imposed on me, a political candidate running for the highest office in the...
Pearl Jam front man Eddie Vedder explained the meaning behind the band's politically-themed song off their album "Dark Matter."The song titled "Wreckage" is purportedly about Donald Trump, Vedder told the Times, calling the former president and candidate "desperate to win" and only looking to avoid imprisonment."There is a guy in the United States who is still saying he didn’t lose an election," he told the British outlet. "And people are reverberating and amplifying that message as if it is...
Stephen A. Smith apologized Monday for saying that blacks could relate to Trump because the former president has faced legal persecution.
President Joe Biden traveled to Florida to take on Donald Trump on his home turf - ridiculing comments the Republican made about abortion and the Bibles the ex-president is hawking.
It hadn’t fully occurred to me until opening statements yesterday that Donald Trump was going to stick with his claim that he never had sex with Stormy Daniels.
"Obviously, it'll be up to the Supreme Court to decide whether I was correct," he said.
On Thursday, the United States Supreme Court heard arguments on whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in the alleged election interference case, which was put on hold in February.Thursday morning, Trump told reporters, "A president has to have immunity," the Associated Press reported."If you don't have immunity, you just have a ceremonial president," he added.The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case and consider "whether and if so to what extent does a former President enjoy...
Daily showers aren’t necessary and may not have any health benefits, according to some experts. Proponents of less frequent showers claim that most people take them every day — or multiple times a day — only because this has become a societal norm. "Why are we washing? Mostly because we’re afraid somebody else will tell
As Donald Trump’s lawyer, D. John Sauer, tried to convince the U.S. Supreme Court that his client should have immunity from prosecution, there was a phrase the defense attorney turned to on several occasions. “A former president,” Sauer said, “has permanent criminal immunity for his official acts, unless he was first impeached and convicted” in Congress. What if a president were to sell nuclear secrets to a foreign adversary? He or she “would have to be impeached and convicted first,” the...
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