• CNN

    Ex-Trump aide on how Melania could react to the hush money trial

    Stephanie Grisham, former Trump White House Press Secretary and former chief of staff to Melania Trump, joins CNN’s Erin Burnett to discuss how Melania could react to the latest details of her husband’s hush money trial.

    • CNN

    Ex-Trump White House lawyer says Trump’s post violated judge’s gag order

    Former Trump White House attorney Jim Schultz says that Trump's post about

  • 'Terrible strategy': Ex-prosecutor says Trump's about to destroy his hush money defense

    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...

  • E. Jean Carroll says how she feels about the jury in Trump's hush money criminal case

    E. Jean Carroll beat Donald Trump. Twice. And she is confident that the jury empaneled in his criminal hush money trial is going to meet the moment. "I think that it’s a New York jury, they’re the smartest in the world, with all political backgrounds," she told TIME while appearing at the 2024 TIME100 in the city. "They will make the right decision."ALSO READ: ‘Fraudulent’: Trump tormentor Lincoln Project loses big money in cybertheft schemeThe jurors are tasked with a historic verdict to...

  • Trump’s hush-money case might finally show him what accountability feels like

    A conviction would prove, once and for all, that Trump is not the normal politician that many in the media act like he isGet Margaret Sullivan’s latest columns delivered straight to your inboxDonald Trump, who once bragged that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any voters, has gotten away for years with unimaginable amounts of malfeasance.He grifted and insulted and lied his way into the White House, embarrassed the nation while president, refused to accept his defeat to Joe...

    • MSNBC

    Prosecutors say Trump has violated gag order seven more times in hush money case

    Prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney's office say that former President Trump has violated the gag order in the hush money trial seven more times with social media posts.

  • Stephen Colbert on Trump’s hush-money case: ‘The trial of what feels like a century’

    Late-night hosts discuss the second day in Donald Trump’s criminal trial, from naps to jury selection to the actual allegations of covering up hush moneyLate-show hosts talked jury selection, courtroom sketches and gag orders from the second day of Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York. Continue reading

  • 'Optics aren't great': Ex-Trump insider says campaign problem looms in hush money trial

    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...

  • Trump says criminal hush money case 'faller apart' in typo-ridden post after trial

    Legal experts spent the day pointing out how devastating witness testimony was Thursday against Trump in his first criminal trial, but at night the former president suggested the case "completely faller apart."Trump said he had a "BIG DAY IN COURT(S) TODAY," likely referencing the hush-money cover up trial as well as the Supreme Court oral arguments regarding his claim of complete immunity for presidents. The Supreme Court's conservative majority appeared to most experts as open to giving Trump...

  • 'Oops': Ex-prosecutor flags flaw in Trump's 'latest defense' in criminal hush money case

    Donald Trump's current defense to allegations in the criminal business records falsification case he's facing undermines his original arguments, a legal expert said on Sunday.Trump is set to begin his trial in the case, in which the former president has been charged with more than 30 felonies in connection with purported "hush money" payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels and then allegedly covered up. Trump's first argument was that the $130,000 paid to his former attorney and fixer,...

  • Final jurors seated for Trump’s hush money case, with opening statements set for Monday

    NEW YORK (AP) — The final jurors were seated Friday in Donald Trump’s hush money trial, and an appellate judge rejected the former president’s latest bid to halt the case as a hectic day in court set the stage for opening statements to begin Monday. The panel of New Yorkers who will decide the first []

    • WTOP

    Final jurors seated for Trump’s hush money case, with opening statements set for Monday

    A third panel of potential jurors will be questioned Friday in Donald Trump’s hush money case, drawing jury selection a step closer to completion in the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president.