Courtrooms don’t lend themselves to keeping people awake. They are notoriously quiet places where people are required to remain seated almost all of the time. The air is often stagnant and the ever-so-distracting handheld devices that are our lifelines to (and barrier from) the world around us are strictly forbidden. That’s the kind of environment in which Donald Trump, a defendant in a criminal courtroom in Manhattan (who also happens to be the 45th President of the United States) appeared to...
I have badly underestimated Donald Trump. Thursday was the day that his justices — it turns out that they are indeed his justices on the Supreme Court, just as he claimed — got it through my thick head: Trump is not just competent but masterful. He is not just capable, he is supreme. Because Trump is clumsy at his alleged crimes, surrounding himself with flagrant thugs, telling obvious lies, leaving prolific trails of damning evidence, offering ridiculous defenses for indefensible conduct, I had...
Former U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss said she hopes for a second term for Donald Trump. Truss appeared on Fox Business’s Varney and Co. on Friday, where she was asked if she was a “backer of Trump.” She was in office after Trump’s second term and about a year into President Joe Biden’s term. “Yes. […]
Justices appeared unlikely to grant request for absolute immunity from criminal prosecution to former presidentKey takeaways from Trump immunity caseSign up for our free Trump on Trial newsletterThe US supreme court on Thursday expressed interest in returning Donald Trump’s criminal case over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election back to a lower court to decide whether certain parts of the indictment were “official acts” that were protected by presidential immunity.During oral arguments, the...
‘I felt that Donald Trump was my mentor. He helped me throughout my career,’ testified David Pecker on latest day of hush money trial
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Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. We return to the courts in New York, where Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial heard from an attorney who represented adult film star Stormy Daniels. But, the day began with Judge Merchan’s decision on whether Trump violated the gag order. The short answer? Yes, he did. And now, he’s been held in contempt.
There's more on the line on Thursday at the Supreme Court than in any other
Let’s just call it like it is. Former President Donald Trump doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of being found not guilty in his current New York Court case. Now I know the case has just barely started. But you can take that to the bank, and I’ll tell you why. Whether you like Trump or not, he just has too many cards wrongly stacked against him. First and foremost, Trump has a judge who seems to be dead set against him. Judge Juan Merchan is the prosecutor's dream.
Several Supreme Court justices yesterday seemed disturbingly open to far too wide a scope of supposed presidential immunity from criminal prosecution. Almost nothing in the actual text of the Constitution provides for such immunity. At oral argument in Trump v. United States, Justice Clarence Thomas asked the right question of Trump’s attorney, John Sauer: “Could […]
On Thursday, the United States Supreme Court heard arguments on whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in the alleged election interference case, which was put on hold in February.Thursday morning, Trump told reporters, "A president has to have immunity," the Associated Press reported."If you don't have immunity, you just have a ceremonial president," he added.The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case and consider "whether and if so to what extent does a former President enjoy...
The problem with Doug Ford's comments, and similar ones often made in that so-called court of public opinion, is they fly in the face of the known facts