• MSNBC

    Trump’s trial starts: After failed delay tactics, Trump becomes 1st ex-POTUS to face criminal trial

    MSNBC’s Ari Melber is joined by Joy Reid, Lawrence O’Donnell, Jen Psaki, and Chris Hayes to discuss day one of his criminal trial in New York. (Bookmark The Beat’s YouTube playlist, updated daily: https://msnbc.com/ari. Connect with Ari on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AriMelber IG: https://www.instagram.com/arimelber Merch: msnbc.com/beat5)

    • CHCH

    Donald Trump continues to ignore gag order in historic criminal trial

    Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. Donald Trump has once again gone after his former personal attorney Michael Cohen despite a court order not to discuss witnesses in his criminal hush money trial. The gag-order was created to prevent Trump from discussing court figures, and the judge has already been considering if Trump broke the order within his social media posts […]

  • Live coverage: Trump's first criminal trial continues with testimony and gag order hearing

    On Monday, the first criminal trial of Donald Trump began with both prosecution and defense delivering their opening statements, followed by the first witness in the case, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, taking the stand.  Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo gave the opening statement for prosecution. "This case is about a criminal conspiracy,” said Colangelo. “Trump orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election. Then he covered up that criminal conspiracy...

  • Trump 'plays his New York criminal trial off his Florida docs case' by seeking new delay

    Donald Trump on Saturday asked Judge Cannon to delay certain deadlines in his classified documents case, citing the criminal hush money trial he is facing.Trump has received numerous delays in the classified documents case, in which the former president stands accused of stashing away documents from the White House at his Mar-a-Lago golf club. In this instance, he's using his upcoming criminal case in New York to seek a delay on disclosure deadlines to reveal information to Special Counsel Jack...

  • Column: Trump's hush-money criminal trial could be a cure for 'Trump amnesia'

    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....

    • MSNBC

    Rachel Maddow on Trump's criminal trial: He is dragging a ‘litany of criminality’ into elex

    MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber to discuss day one of Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York. Nicolle Wallace, Jen Psaki, Chris Hayes and Alex Wagner also join. (Bookmark The Beat’s YouTube playlist, updated daily: https://msnbc.com/ari. Connect with Ari on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AriMelber IG: https://www.instagram.com/arimelber Merch: msnbc.com/beat5)

  • Trump trial updates: Prosecutors say Trump engaged in criminal conspiracy and a cover-up. Defense lawyers call it 'democracy.'

    Criminal conspiracy and cover-up (First column, 4th story, link) Related stories:Silent and brooding, Trump endures courtroom ordealHas To Be 'Jolted Awake' AgainProsecutors make history with opening statementsTrial's First Witness Could Destroy Defense

  • Jury selection continues in Trump trial

    The Donald Trump hush money trial moves on to Day Two, as 12 jurors will be selected from hundreds of New Yorkers. However, the process could extend beyond this week as many jurors were already dismissed from the case.

  • Key witness to testify in Trump criminal trial

    The New York criminal trial of former president Donald Trump resumes Tuesday.

    • CHCH

    Day 1 in Trump's historic criminal trial

    Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. In New York City, opening statements began today in former U.S. president Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial. He’s accused of falsifying business records in order to keep an alleged affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels out of the public eye ahead of the 2016 election. We were joined live by CNN’s Gloria Pazmino, who […]

    • MSNBC

    Trump searches in vain for a rescue as his criminal trial unfolds

    At around 2 a.m. local time, Donald Trump published another item about his ongoing criminal trial to his social media platform, and while most of it was conspiratorial nonsense, there was one small detail in the former president’s message that stood out. The conservative Washington Times reported: For the record, there’s literally no evidence of President Joe Biden being “crooked” or having anything whatsoever to do with his predecessor’s prosecutions. But of greater interest is Trump’s apparent...

  • Opening statements set to start in Trump criminal trial

    With the final members of the jury selected opening statements are set to start Monday in what is expected to be a six-week trial for the Donald Trump hush money case.