Sanctions may rain down on Donald Trump in the form of fines and jail threats for potentially breaching his hush money trial gag order by his rampant social media posts and quotes — but prosecutors may also put all of them into evidence that could be used as fodder to radically sway his jury. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's prosecution team on Tuesday asked the judge to dock the former president for at least 10 posts on his social media account and campaign website that appeared as...
How many strikes will New York Judge Juan Merchan permit until he turns the screws on defendant Donald Trump's suspected violation of a gag order? Ret. Judge Jill Konviser, who served on the benches in both Manhattan and Brooklyn courts, suggested former President Donald Trump has been treated with kid gloves compared to others accused of crimes. "I think he's given an amazing amount of leeway and in that sense, you know we hear Trump talking about him being treated differently," she said...
Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig was flabbergasted by the sheer number of times former President Donald Trump appears to have violated Judge Juan Merchan's gag order in his Manhattan criminal trial — and emphasized on a CNN panel on Thursday that in all his years of trying cases, he had never seen anything like it.Trump, who is charged with felony business fraud for trying to conceal alleged hush payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels to effectively defraud the 2016 presidential...
Above and beyond Donald Trump's legal woes bedeviling his 2024 presidential campaign, the former president's highly charged rhetoric combined with his whining about how he feels he is being persecuted is turning off the very voters he desperately needs in order to win.Already dogged by his boasting about how he "killed" Roe v. Wade, which has caused a major rift with so-called suburban moms, Trump's very style of campaigning in his third bid for the Oval Office is also turning off...
Judge Juan Merchan, the jurist overseeing Donald Trump's criminal case in New York over an alleged hush-money cover up scheme, is hanging something over the head of the former president's attorneys, a former prosecutor said on Saturday. Legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti appeared on MSNBC, where he was asked why Merchan hasn't ruled on whether Trump has violated an expanded gag order imposed upon him in the case. The order limits Trump's attacks on potential witnesses...
Donald Trump has so far not even been fined for his purported gag order violations in connection with his criminal hush money cover-up case, but the judge may be planning something worse than a monetary penalty, according to a law professor Thursday.Just Security's Adam Klasfeld reported on Thursday that, as proceedings were ending in the criminal trial in which the former president faces more than 30 felony charges, Judge Juan Merchan addressed the issue of Trump's alleged violations of the gag...
The historic criminal trial of former President Donald Trump may see a historic prison sentence should the jury render a guilty verdict. That's the thinking by Tristan Snell, the former New York State assistant attorney general who took the real estate mogul to task before he became president and helped bring about the demise of Donald Trump’s Trump University. In an interview with Scott Dworkin in the Substack newsletter The Dworkin Report, Snell said he predicts some form of prison sentence is...
Former senior Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weissmann related Donald Trump's intimidation of jurors to that of a mafia case. It might be enough for the judge to act.Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Thursday, Weissmann said that Judge Juan Merchan's "red line" likely protects the jurors. Last night, a Fox News host attacked one juror for saying she doesn't believe anyone is above the law. The host said that disqualifies her.It was a take that shocked Wallace because she believes that...
Former President Donald Trump could be digging himself a deeper hole by making no effort to appear remorseful about his actions in the Manhattan hush money trial, wrote former impeachment counsel Norm Eisen for The New York Times.Trump is charged with felony business fraud for his alleged concealment of hush payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, which Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg argues was a scheme to interfere with voters in the 2016 election. Trump denies these allegations,...
Donald Trump will likely blame his latest jury attacks on the fact that he was merely quoting someone else, but that's not going to hold up before the judge in the former president's criminal case alleging hush money and a transactional cover-up, a legal expert said Wednesday. Trump earlier in the day posted a purported quote from a Fox News host, Jesse Watters, suggesting the jurors are lying to the judge in order to be placed on the case. Those comments had one former judge saying Trump...
The Biden administration’s war against junk fees has taken to the skies. On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced that it has finalized new rules requiring upfront notification and disclosure of “surprise junk fees” when travelers purchase airline tickets. “The rule requires airlines and ticket agents to tell consumers upfront what fees they charge for a first or second checked bag, a carry-on bag, and for canceling or changing a reservation,” reads a press release...
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, April 24, 2024 (Gephardt Daily) — There was a moment at the end of the play “Bald Sisters” at Salt Lake Acting Company that I believe was the most profound I’ve experienced at a theater this year. Sophea (the younger of the title’s bald sisters, played by Audrey Pan in this […] The post Review: ‘Bald Sisters’ at Salt Lake Acting Company will break your heart, then put it back together first appeared on Gephardt Daily.