Former President Donald Trump's former assistant Rhona Graff took the stand Friday in his criminal fraud trial to testify about her role as "keeper of the keys," according to experts watching the trial. Trump biographer Tim O'Brien discussed Graff's testimony on MSNBC Friday, saying the information she had to give involved many documents for the company. "There is a massive paper trail around Graff," O'Brien said. ALSO READ: A criminologist explains why Trump’s Manhattan trial is the biggest...
Former President Donald Trump will make his foray back onto the campaign trail Wednesday for the first time since his New York criminal hush money trial began in earnest last month. Trump will spend his one allotted weekday out of the courtroom hosting rallies in Wisconsin and Michigan, two critical battleground states he won in 2016 but lost in 2020. As the general election rematch between Trump and President Joe Biden heats up, both states are considered pivotal on the path to White House....
NEW YORK (AP) — In opening statements in Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial, prosecutors said Monday
Magazine publisher David Pecker is slated to be the first witness in former President Trump’s criminal hush money trial, The New York Times reported Sunday, setting the stage as the first criminal trial of a former president gets underway Monday. The case against Trump centers on payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels, with
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....
Donald Trump trial LIVE: Former president returns to hush money trial as Supreme Court considers whether he is immune from prosecution - When Trump appeared in court, he told reporters about the poor economic numbers, specifically referring to GDP, gas prices and the U.S. dollar. "This is Bidenomics, it's catching up with himit's destroyed our country at the border, destroyed our country with other countries, they don't respect the United States anymore," he said. “This is very bad news,” he...
Erica Orden, Politico reporter, talks about the media diets of the jurors on the Trump "hush money" trial. Plus, she recaps the testimony of David Pecker, the former publisher for the National Enquirer, who talked about that publication's "catch and kill" strategy, which suppressed negative stories about people like Donald Trump.
After a weeklong jury selection process, 12 jurors and six alternates have been seated in Donald Trump's New York hush money trial. The difficulty of selecting a group of impartial jurors in the criminal trial of a former president was on full display. Media reporting on the jurors’ personal details — including one plainly critical segment from Fox News' Jesse Watters — sparked criticism from Judge Juan Merchan, who ordered journalists not to report on many specifics about their backgrounds. ...
The BBC's Nada Tawfik on what the court heard from close Donald Trump allies, including his former assistant.
The jury for Trump's criminal case has been decided after a lengthy screening process for potential bias either for or against Trump.
A full jury has been selected for former President Donald Trump's trial for allegedly covering up a sex scandal. New York Justice Juan Merchan seated the 12-member jury Thursday afternoon after having to dismiss two of the jurors earlier in the day. The judge immediately brought in another group of people to be considered as potential alternate jurors. Six alternate jurors are still required.ALSO READ: A criminologist explains why keeping Trump from the White House is all that matters ...
Former President Donald Trump's hush money trial continues in New York.