Donald Trump has spent the past several years lashing out at his former lawyer. Michael Cohen went to prison after pleading guilty to crimes surrounding the hush money scheme that Trump now faces in court. The first two days of the trial, former AMI chief David Pecker revealed details about the so-called "catch and kill" operations that he and Trump cooked up as early as the fall of 2015 to help aid him in the run for president. Pecker's details confirmed that the actions taken were about the...
A co-defendant of Donald Trump in Georgia wasn't indicted for a similar scheme in Arizona, and the best explanation is that he's cooperating with prosecutors, a legal analyst said Wednesday evening.Andrew Weissmann, the former top prosecutor on former special counsel Robert Mueller's team, appeared on MSNBC's The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell, where he was asked about Trump attorney and co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro.Specifically, the host noted that Chesebro "traveled to Arizona to cooperate...
CNN anchor and former prosecutor Laura Coates walks through an argument checklist to demonstrate what prosecutors need to prove in order to convict trump in the New York hush money criminal trial. Prosecutors have accused Trump of a criminal conspiracy in order to prevent damaging information from becoming public during the 2016 election.
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Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig was flabbergasted by the sheer number of times former President Donald Trump appears to have violated Judge Juan Merchan's gag order in his Manhattan criminal trial — and emphasized on a CNN panel on Thursday that in all his years of trying cases, he had never seen anything like it.Trump, who is charged with felony business fraud for trying to conceal alleged hush payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels to effectively defraud the 2016 presidential...
Jurors serving in former President Donald Trump's first criminal trial are at risk of being "outed" and put in harm's way, according to former federal prosecutor Ankush Khardori.Trump's trial began with the start of jury selection on Monday in New York City, where the former president has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony charges of falsifying business records tied to hush money paid to former adult-film actress Stormy Daniels during Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. Seven jurors had been...
Donald Trump is being forced to be in court every day as his first criminal trial unfolds, and that is a "huge disadvantage" for his defense, according to a former prosecutor Sunday. David Henderson, a legal analyst described by CNBC as "a seasoned trial lawyer, civil rights attorney, and communications consultant," appeared on MSNBC's Ayman to talk about Trump's upcoming criminal trial. Specifically, the host asked asked if the former president will be able to use the mandatory court...
Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner said on Saturday that potential jurors' politics will not be disqualifying in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial.On Monday, jury selection will begin in the Manhattan criminal case against Trump, who is the presumed GOP presidential nominee. Following an investigation by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office, Trump was indicted in March 2023 on charges of falsifying business records relating to hush money payments made to adult...
Longtime Donald Trump strategist Boris Epshteyn's presence at the former president's criminal trial in Manhattan is a bizarre development, former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance told MSNBC's Ari Melber on "The Beat" Friday — and it's worth keeping an eye on.This comes after Epshteyn, who also spent a while performing right-wing content to send to Sinclair Broadcast Group news affiliates, was implicated in the plot to declare fake electors in battleground states to overturn the results of the 2020...
For a quarter of a century Rhona Graff ran point at Trump Tower and was his trusted gatekeeper. So when she took the stand under subpoena on Friday in former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial — it was significant. Tristan Snell, who was a former assistant attorney general for the state of New York and helped bring a $25 million dollar settlement from Trump University, believes Graff is a game-changer because she is such a longstanding player in Trump world. "Trump exec...
Donald Trump is already sharing "fake allegations about jurors" in his criminal hush money case, a former federal prosecutor said on Wednesday.Trump made history this week when he became the first former president to face criminal trial after jury selection began in the case accusing the ex-president of falsifying business records to hide an affair from the public ahead of the election. Before the fog has even settled on the jury selection, the former president is now coming directly for those...
Donald Trump's attorneys can only do so much to keep their client off the witness stand, but in the end the former president will do what he wants, his former attorney said Monday. Jim Trusty, the attorney who bailed on Trump's classified documents, appeared on CNN to discuss the prospects of whether his ex-client should take the stand in his ongoing criminal hush money trial. "In terms of testifying on the witness stand — I'd say 'Look, let's make this about Michael Cohen and nothing...