The dismissals reduced to five the number of jurors who have been seated for the first-ever criminal trial of a former president.
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...
A juror on former President Donald Trump’s hush money case in New York City was dismissed Thursday after prosecutors raised concerns that he may not Read More
According to former prosecutor and current MSNBC host Katie Phang, a confession by former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker under oath in Donald Trump's hush money trial made the case for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office to prosecute the former president.Opening her show on Saturday, Phang noted that a central part of the 34 felony count prosecution has hinged on whether the payments were being made and stories being buried, were in the best interest of the tabloid or...
Donald Trump has spent the past several years lashing out at his former lawyer. Michael Cohen went to prison after pleading guilty to crimes surrounding the hush money scheme that Trump now faces in court. The first two days of the trial, former AMI chief David Pecker revealed details about the so-called "catch and kill" operations that he and Trump cooked up as early as the fall of 2015 to help aid him in the run for president. Pecker's details confirmed that the actions taken were about the...
Former President Donald Trump has already forced his attorneys to defend him in the least effective way possible in the Manhattan hush money case, former federal prosecutor Harry Litman argued on MSNBC Monday.This comes as the trial is set to resume this week, after several days in which Trump did not appear to be faring well."It does seem that [Trump attorney] Todd Blanche was kind of hamstrung by trying to please Donald Trump," said anchor Joy Reid. "I mean, all of the sort of weirdness of...
Donald Trump is likely going to be convicted in the hush money cover-up case he's currently facing, but the real punishment is being forced to be a criminal defendant, a former prosecutor said Sunday. Legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti appeared on MSNBC's Alex Witt Reports, where he was asked about whether or not Trump will be held accountable for any potential wrongdoing. "Big picture, Renato, do you think some sense of accountability is near for Donald Trump,...
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...
Longtime Donald Trump strategist Boris Epshteyn's presence at the former president's criminal trial in Manhattan is a bizarre development, former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance told MSNBC's Ari Melber on "The Beat" Friday — and it's worth keeping an eye on.This comes after Epshteyn, who also spent a while performing right-wing content to send to Sinclair Broadcast Group news affiliates, was implicated in the plot to declare fake electors in battleground states to overturn the results of the 2020...
For a quarter of a century Rhona Graff ran point at Trump Tower and was his trusted gatekeeper. So when she took the stand under subpoena on Friday in former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial — it was significant. Tristan Snell, who was a former assistant attorney general for the state of New York and helped bring a $25 million dollar settlement from Trump University, believes Graff is a game-changer because she is such a longstanding player in Trump world. "Trump exec...
A co-defendant of Donald Trump in Georgia wasn't indicted for a similar scheme in Arizona, and the best explanation is that he's cooperating with prosecutors, a legal analyst said Wednesday evening.Andrew Weissmann, the former top prosecutor on former special counsel Robert Mueller's team, appeared on MSNBC's The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell, where he was asked about Trump attorney and co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro.Specifically, the host noted that Chesebro "traveled to Arizona to cooperate...
The prosecution team may need to be wary of Juror No. 2. Described as a married investment banker with a Master's degree is one thing. But the fact that he's read Trump’s bestselling book, "The Art of the Deal," and claims to track Trump's Truth Social posts — is another, according to one expert. Elliot Williams, a former deputy assistant attorney general at the DOJ, flagged this particular juror as a potential concern for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to prove his case to a jury...