Donald Trump may have successfully delayed his federal election subversion case to avoid a pre-election trial, but the judge in that case has a "silver lining" option that would still allow Special Counsel Jack Smith to present evidence to the American public, according to a former federal prosecutor.MSNBC legal analyst Joyce Vance posted about Trump's Supreme Court hearing on his claim for presidential immunity on her Substack on Thursday. Toward the end of that write-up, Vance provides an...
The judge presiding over former President Trump’s classified documents case unsealed a slew of documents Monday evening pertaining to the FBI’s investigation into the former president and the FBI’s raid on his Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon ordered the release of the new documents, which provided a detailed look into the personnel involved in the raid on Mar-a-Lago and a play-by-play timeline of the raid. One of the documents is an FBI file that suggests the...
Former President Donald Trump in November 2021 was warned by someone in his inner circle that he would be indicted unless he returned sought-after materials to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), according to newly unsealed court documents in Trump's federal classified documents case.Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for the 2024 presidential election, faces 40 federal charges over his handling of sensitive materials recovered from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm...
The Supreme Court foreshadowed a long slog for Trump’s D.C. case, while his Florida charges have similarly stalled.
Federal Judge Aileen Cannon has denied Donald Trump's classified document co-defendants' motions to dismiss. In her eight-page order, Cannon rejected efforts by Trump's aide Walt Nauta and former Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira to get the cases against them tossed, reported MSNBC host and legal analyst Katie Phang. She tweeted that Cannon shot down Nauta's request to be spared of a trial and instead "finds that the indictment puts him on enough notice so that he can adequately...
Justice Thomas Raises Scrutiny On Special Counsel Jack Smith's Appointment In Trump Hearing Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has asked former President Donald Trump’s lawyers about whether they challenged special counsel Jack Smith’s authority to bring charges against the president. On April 25, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case about President Trump being immune from prosecution for official acts...
During Thursday's oral arguments concerning former President Donald Trump's claim of total criminal immunity, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) indicated warmth toward Trump's position. One columnist recently wrote that if Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith hopes to try the former president before the election, he may have to put some elements of his indictment on the chopping block.In a Saturday column for Bloomberg, Harvard University...
The new indictments in Arizona against several of former President Donald Trump's allies is not just bad news for them, but a significant opportunity for special counsel Jack Smith in his prosecution of former President Donald Trump for the 2020 election plot, former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said on MSNBC Wednesday.The newly dropped indictment names a number of Republican officials and Trump strategists in an alleged criminal scheme to stop the electoral count in Arizona, including...
Former President Donald Trump's staff at the White House were enraged with the cavalier way he handled classified information, according to a new report from ABC News."While much of [Special Counsel Jack] Smith's sprawling classified documents investigation has focused on how Trump handled classified materials after leaving the White House, a wide array of former aides and advisers — including personal valets, press assistants, senior national security officials, and even Trump's briefers from...
Former First Lady Melania Trump headlined a fundraiser on Saturday evening, her first solo event of the 2024 campaign.
Melania Trump reportedly launched an ‘unprecedented’ GOP campaign to court homosexuals at an event for the Log Cabin Republicans, which promotes homosexual ‘marriage’ and adoption and says identifying as ‘LGTBQ’ should be ‘celebrated.’
Kari Lake has attached herself to Donald Trump like a stubborn barnacle on an old rusty ship. She even camped out at Mar-a-Lago this year to fundraise for her Arizona Senate campaign. But, according to The Washington Post, as much as Lake is sucking up to Trump, the ex-president is doing his darndest to pry her off. — Read the rest