Former President Trump will hold campaign events next week in Wisconsin and Michigan, marking the first time he will use a day off from his hush money trial in New York City to visit a battleground state. Trump will head to Waukesha next Wednesday, where his campaign said he will deliver remarks "to contrast the
Former President Donald Trump will make his foray back onto the campaign trail Wednesday for the first time since his New York criminal hush money trial began in earnest last month. Trump will spend his one allotted weekday out of the courtroom hosting rallies in Wisconsin and Michigan, two critical battleground states he won in 2016 but lost in 2020. As the general election rematch between Trump and President Joe Biden heats up, both states are considered pivotal on the path to White House....
Donny Deutsch believes former President Donald Trump's criminal trial is having a surprising effect, considering it involves accusations that he paid hush money to an adult film star. "Anybody who thinks this is making him empathetic or rallying his troops, no," Deutsch said during a Monday appearance on MSNBC. "He's sitting there neutered, powerless. For the first time in his life and he can't do and say what he wants." Deutsch argued that the nation is watching an important challenge to...
A potentially fatal campaign problem looms in former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial, his former press secretary argued Tuesday. Sarah Matthews raised concerns on CNN's "The Situation Room" about Trump's 2024 bid to reclaim the White House and the effect his trial will have on undecided women voters. "The optics of it aren't great," she said. "This was an affair he had with a porn star shortly after his wife gave birth to their child."Trump has pleaded not guilty to charges...
Legal expert Jonathan Turley is pointing out why Donald Trump's hush money trial may ultimately help him politically.On Monday, trial arguments began in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case against the former president. Trump is accused of falsifying business records related to payments made to Stormy Daniels. The trial is expected to take weeks, which means Trump's ability to campaign is severely hampered. President Joe Biden, meanwhile, is ramping up his campaigning.That...
David Pecker testifies about meeting with Trump and Michael Cohen in 2015 to discuss how he could help presidential campaignSkeptical judge and National Enquirer deal: key takeawaysJudge reprimands Trump lawyer but delays gag order rulingA former tabloid publisher testified on Tuesday in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial that he promised to be the “eyes and ears” of the 2016 presidential campaign, helped to suppress harmful stories and even arranged to purchase the silence of a doorman.David...
A New York appeals court judge on Friday rejected a last-minute bid by Donald Trump to halt his hush money criminal trial over defense complaints that jury selection was unfairly rushed.
Before Donald Trump's hush-money trial in New York got underway, pundits predicted that the proceedings could be a media bonanza for the former president. During this year’s Republican primaries, they noted, Trump’s popularity rose every time he was indicted. But so far, the trial, on charges that Trump covered up illicit payments to an adult filmmaker and actor to influence the 2016 election, hasn’t made him look like much of a hero. He’s appeared to fall asleep in the courtroom more than once....
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...
Erica Orden, Politico reporter, talks about the media diets of the jurors on the Trump "hush money" trial. Plus, she recaps the testimony of David Pecker, the former publisher for the National Enquirer, who talked about that publication's "catch and kill" strategy, which suppressed negative stories about people like Donald Trump.
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. ...
The BBC's Nada Tawfik on what the court heard from close Donald Trump allies, including his former assistant.