Former President Donald Trump's biggest risk in the Manhattan hush money trial could be what he himself says if he takes the witness stand, former Trump administration White House lawyer Jim Schultz argued on CNN Monday.This came as the trial's first day opened with the jury selection process, with Trump sitting at the defense table and some experts remarking that he appeared diminished."Does today matter?" asked anchor Phil Mattingly. "Does what they see from these potential jurors matter in...
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Former President Donald Trump's key defense in his hush money trial, now underway in Manhattan, is likely to present a major problem as the case unfolds, a legal analyst revealed Monday. Former prosecutor Maya Wiley appeared on MSNBC to explain the pitfall Trump may stumble into as he tries to discredit Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's star witness, Michael Cohen. While Cohen is expected to testify that he orchestrated payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016...
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Shouting erupted during court proceedings for Donald Trump's New York hush money criminal trial Tuesday, according to a journalist who was present in the courtroom. The heightened tensions began when Trump's lawyer Matthew Russell mentioned text messages between former National Enquirer editor-in-chief Dylan Howard and an unknown relative, Inner City Press reporter Matthew Russell Lee said in a post to X, pointing out that Judge Juan Merchan told the prosecution and defense some of the contents...
Former President Donald Trump has been called a lot of names in the first six days of his New York hush-money trial. "We will call him 'President Trump' out of respect for the office that he held from 2017 to 2021," Trump lawyer Todd Blanche told the jury during his opening statement Monday. "And as everybody knows, it’s the office he’s running for right now. He’s the Republican nominee." Longtime tabloid publisher David Pecker, who testified that he conspired with Trump in 2015 and 2016 to...
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
Lawyers in Donald Trump's historic criminal trial on Thursday selected 12 jurors who will assess his guilt or innocence over the coming weeks in a case stemming from a hush-money payment to a porn star. Lawyers for the defense and the prosecution still must select alternate jurors for the trial,
Donald Trump’s hush money trial ended its second day of jury selection on Tuesday. Seven jurors have been selected so far. Opening arguments for this historic first criminal trial of a former president could start as soon as Monday legal experts tell Joy Reid.
The rudiments of courtroom proceedings in former President Donald Trump's criminal trial spurred a MAGA meltdown Monday. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump both took to social media to condemn New York City Judge Juan Merchan for reminding his father that New York law mandates he appear in court every day of the trial."Pure evil," Trump Jr. declared, sharing a tweet from the notorious pizzagate conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec. Posobiec felt the judge should have immediately allowed Trump to skip...
Among all the legal charges facing former President Donald Trump, the criminal case out of New York City that begins Monday “is the most bogus,” Read More