POLITICO reporters take you inside the courtroom that could decide the 2024 election.
Friday, during an appearance on FNC's "Hannity," Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, criticized the political motivations behind the Trump trials underway in New York State. | Clips
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Most voters say Democrats are using the legal system in biased ways to politically damage Donald Trump, per a Harvard-Harris poll.
Donald Trump is thrown off by the criminal trial he's facing in more ways than one, but it all boils down to control, according to a report citing those close to the matter.Trump is being forced most days to attend his trial, which features allegations that he committed bookkeeping fraud in connection with covering up a hush-money payment aimed at affecting the 2016 election. Trump has repeatedly claimed in public that the courtroom is kept uncomfortably cold.But in private, there are even more...
The Biden campaign has been putting out some amazing ads in the last month to remind voters of just how awful Donald Trump was in the White House and would be again. He was terrible on COVID, one ad points out. He’s dreadful on abortion, another reminds us. And then there’s this new digital ad on what is surely Trump’s greatest offense to American tradition: He thinks football is “boring as hell” and “nobody cares about” it. NEW AD: Trump says football is “boring as hell” and “nobody...
First thing Thursday morning, a woman identified only as Juror No. 2 told Judge Juan Merchan that, upon reflection, she feared she could no longer be an impartial participant in Donald Trump’s historic hush money jury. Her change of heart came after Fox News host Jesse Watters devoted a significant amount of airtime to discussing biographical details about her and why they might make her a problem for Trump. Her identity was as good as public, the juror told Merchan. (He eventually excused her.)...
It was the first day of Donald Trump’s hush-money trial, and while we don’t have much to say about the allegedly sleepy, flatulent-laden proceedings, Jon Stewart sure did. Appearing on tonight’s Daily Show, Stewart took out his red pen and gave the media a big, fat “F” for its first day of coverage. It turns out that simply saying you’ve learned many lessons over the last eight years doesn’t make it accurate. Stewart set the segment up by reminding his viewers that this was a historic test of...
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments stemming from Special Counsel Jack Smith's prosecution of former President Donald Trump on felony charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Jack Smith sent his advocate, Michael Drebeen, a veteran of over 100 Supreme Court appearances and Robert Mueller's unethical investigation of President Trump, into a proverbial Cuisinart of hostile questions. If the questions and statements of the justices are to be taken at face value,...
Donald Trump took a swipe Wednesday at the judge overseeing his New York hush money trial, accusing him of thinking he is "above the Supreme Court." Speaking to Fox News, Trump slammed Judge Juan Merchan, accusing of "prohibiting" the former president from attending arguments Thursday on presidential immunity and calling it "the most important case in many years" before the high court. Trump had requested be he allowed to attend arguments at the Supreme Court about Trump's immunity on Thursday,...
A majority of voters say a conviction in any of former President Donald Trump's various legal cases would have "no effect" on their vote.
The week’s running drama, as Trump’s first criminal trial got underway, marked a new phase of the 2024 campaign.