Prosecutors also offered to reveal the name of their first witness to the defense off Sunday if they didn't tell Trump and stop the identity being 'tweeted'.
Donald Trump — now a former president on trial — has sought to turn his legal peril into a boost for his presidential campaign, animating his supporters and attempting to sow doubt about the motives of his opponents. But facing 34 counts of felony charges, Trump argued on the historic first day of his New York hush money trial that he is the victim of a criminal justice system weaponized against him. He called it “an assault” on the nation. And as the presumptive Republican nominee for...
The New York City court where former President Donald Trump stands accused of falsifying business records to cover up payments to an adult film star has published the transcripts from the first day of his trial. It can read here. The 120-page document details the dialogue of Trump's first day in the Manhattan criminal courtroom where he and his attorneys face off against District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his legal team. "Good morning, your Honor, counsel, members of the jury," begins Matthew...
The first seven jurors were chosen Tuesday in a New York trial to decide whether former President Donald Trump criminally concealed hush money payments to a porn star around the 2016 election.
In flurry of late activity on Thursday, full jury of 12 selected in Trump’s historic criminal trial
Seven men and five women chosen to decide Trump's guilt or innocence. Six alternate jurors still have to be picked when the court returns on Friday.
More than half a first batch of potential jurors in Donald Trump's criminal trial were excused after admitting they didn't think they could be impartial in the first trial of a former president.
Jabin Botsford-Pool/GettyThe process of selecting the New Yorkers who will determine whether Donald Trump committed a criminal cover-up picked up the pace on Tuesday, as seven jurors were selected by the end of the trial’s second day.New York State Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan said he now aims to have attorneys deliver opening statements this coming Monday and finally get this show on the road.But all that depends on whether lawyers can get through the slog of screening dozens of other...
So, here we are. The first day of the first criminal trial of a former US president. Can it get more extraordinary than that? “He keeps setting new Guinness Records in terms of unprecedented history,” Mother Jones’ own David Corn explained in a new video outside a Manhattan courtroom where Donald Trump’s trial kicked off this […]
From an encounter with an adult film star in 2006, to a $130000 payment in
The judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial on Tuesday warned that Trump's lawyer was "losing all credibility" in his arguments that the former president should not be punished for violating a gag order in the case. Justice Juan Merchan said he would not immediately rule on prosecutors' request
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.)...