Criminal consequences came again for someone in Donald Trump’s orbit who isn’t Donald Trump. Allen Weisselberg was sentenced Wednesday to five months in jail after pleading guilty to committing perjury in the Trump civil fraud case. Incredibly, this will be the second Trump-related jail stint for the 76-year-old. The former Trump Organization chief financial officer served time last year for tax fraud stemming from his tenure at the company. Trump himself is on the precipice of criminal...
Three days ahead of the start of the first criminal trial of a former U.S. President, the judge presiding over the case denied a motion made by Donald Trump's legal team aiming to delay the proceedings. In Judge Juan Merchan's
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MSNBC’s Ari Melber is joined by Joy Reid, Lawrence O’Donnell, Jen Psaki, and Chris Hayes to discuss day one of his criminal trial in New York. (Bookmark The Beat’s YouTube playlist, updated daily: https://msnbc.com/ari. Connect with Ari on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AriMelber IG: https://www.instagram.com/arimelber Merch: msnbc.com/beat5)
Donald Trump is being forced to be in court every day as his first criminal trial unfolds, and that is a "huge disadvantage" for his defense, according to a former prosecutor Sunday. David Henderson, a legal analyst described by CNBC as "a seasoned trial lawyer, civil rights attorney, and communications consultant," appeared on MSNBC's Ayman to talk about Trump's upcoming criminal trial. Specifically, the host asked asked if the former president will be able to use the mandatory court...
The defense team for former President Trump is challenging the jury selection in his criminal hush money trial, saying there are concerning issues that need to be addressed. Trump's defense submitted a pre-trial letter to the court on Friday laying out two concerns relating to jury selection. The letter came the same day that Judge Juan Merchan dismissed a last-ditch effort by the Trump team to delay the trial, which begins Monday. The letter states that the defense opposes dismissing potential...
An exhausted Trump doesn’t want to be there and is trying desperately to avoid it. He can’t, and the next two months will be torture for the man who could soon become president once again. Alex Woodward reports from Manhattan criminal court
A couple of hours before the start of his first criminal trial, Donald Trump posed a question by way of his social media platform. “Why didn’t they bring this totally discredited lawsuit 7 years ago???” the former president asked. “Election Interference!” For now, let’s not dwell on the Republican’s obvious errors of fact and judgment, including the fact that the criminal case has only been “totally discredited” in his active imagination. Let’s also brush past the fact that the defendant took a...
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said he intends to use this information at the hush money trial ‘to impeach the credibility of’ the former president
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A trial for a Valley doctor accused of manslaughter continued into its fifth day. Ameer Hassan is accused of hitting San Juana Benavides Sanchez with his truck and killing her. The State accuses Hassan of being on his cell phone and being distracted during the fatal accident. The fifth day of []
Special counsel Jack Smith is to blame for the ongoing delay in former President Donald Trump's federal election interference case, according to Washington Post columnist Jack Willick.Willick laid into Smith for bringing a "flashier" charge he believes allowed Trump to cry presidential immunity and take that claim all the way to the Supreme Court."Smith — apparently fearful that the Supreme Court might recognize some presidential immunity for official acts — says that allegations of Trump’s...
The massive single-day haul supports Donald Trump's belief that his legal challenges might come back and haunt Democrats.