CNN’s Kara Scannell describes former President Donald Trump’s demeanor during opening statements and the first day of testimony in his criminal trial.
Justices appeared unlikely to grant request for absolute immunity from criminal prosecution to former presidentKey takeaways from Trump immunity caseSign up for our free Trump on Trial newsletterThe US supreme court on Thursday expressed interest in returning Donald Trump’s criminal case over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election back to a lower court to decide whether certain parts of the indictment were “official acts” that were protected by presidential immunity.During oral arguments, the...
CNN’s Brynn Gingras describes former President Donald Trump’s demeanor in court during former publisher of the National Enquirer David Pecker’s testimony as part of his criminal hush money trial.
CNN’s Dana Bash reacts to Joshua Steinglass’ cross-examination of David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, about whether he suppressed stories to help a presidential candidate during the 2016 elections.
CNN host Jake Tapper said Monday on his show "The Lead" that former President Donald Trump’s immunity argument was "crazy" because it would allow him to "do anything." | Clips
Former President Donald Trump addressed the media before entering a Manhattan courtroom, where opening statements in his hush money trial are set to begin. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins fact checks Trump’s statements.
Courtrooms don’t lend themselves to keeping people awake. They are notoriously quiet places where people are required to remain seated almost all of the time. The air is often stagnant and the ever-so-distracting handheld devices that are our lifelines to (and barrier from) the world around us are strictly forbidden. That’s the kind of environment in which Donald Trump, a defendant in a criminal courtroom in Manhattan (who also happens to be the 45th President of the United States) appeared to...
Attorney Alina Habba said Tuesday former President Trump was likely seen dozing during the first day of his hush money trial because court proceedings are so boring it's "painful."Habba made two television appearances during which she defended Trump's right to snooze — much mocked on social media — the first of which was with Fox News' Martha MacCallum."If anything he's probably brutally bored," Habba said. "It's painful. They make him sit there through jury selection, the first day was...
Legal analyst Lisa Rubin Tuesday said testimony presented in former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial made her "laugh out loud."Rubin shared this moment of levity with MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace during a panel discussion of former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker's testimony on efforts to cast Trump as an "eligible bachelor.""One of the things that made me laugh out loud today is when he described Donald Trump as 'one of the world's most eligible bachelors' without any...
Judge Juan Merchan had a heated exchange with Donald Trump’s lawyer Todd Blanche in a hearing about whether Trump’s social posts violated a gag order. CNN Chief Legal Affairs Correspondent Paula Reid reports.
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, inside Manhattan’s Criminal Courthouse on Monday, declared that Donald Trump appeared “old and tired and mad” as she delivered observations about the ex-president on trial for 34 counts of falsification of business records in the alleged pursuit of election interference to protect his 2016 presidential run. Trump “seems considerably older, and he seems annoyed. Resigned, maybe, angry. He seems like a man who’s miserable to be here,” the journalist told MSNBC viewers...
Alina Habba, an attorney and spokesperson for former President Trump, said in a Tuesday interview that it was “unlikely” that Trump fell asleep in the courtroom during the first two days of jury selection for his hush money case in Manhattan, despite reports indicating otherwise. “If anything, he's probably brutally bored,” Habba told Fox News’s