MSNBC’s Ari Melber is joined by Joy Reid, Lawrence O’Donnell, Jen Psaki, and Chris Hayes to discuss day one of his criminal trial in New York. (Bookmark The Beat’s YouTube playlist, updated daily: https://msnbc.com/ari. Connect with Ari on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AriMelber IG: https://www.instagram.com/arimelber Merch: msnbc.com/beat5)
Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak have urged Benjamin Netanyahu not to escalate the crisis in the Middle East.
Defendant Donald Trump's trial demeanor has him being sketched or photographed looking cross, sleeping, slouching, and bored, and this is likely vexing his trial attorney Todd Blanche. Former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara made note of the four days of trial wearing down former President Donald Trump's pristine veneer, resulting in him scowling at the judge and craning his head to make eyes with some jurors. Already, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan...
Donald Trump lost it with his lawyers once the group returned from the lunch recess, according to a report.The lawyers were fighting over Trump's team's failure to produce documents under New York's reciprocal discovery laws. "Justice [Juan] Merchan tells Trump’s attorneys they have 24 hours to do so, or such evidence will be precluded from use," reported Law360's Stewart Bishop. "Trump counsel Todd Blanche complains, says that’s not enough time, what with jury selection and all."That is the...
It’s a day former President Trump hoped would never come. After a relentless pursuit for delay, Trump will make history Monday morning by taking his seat at the defense table in a Manhattan courtroom, where the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president will begin. For four days a week — for six or []
Three criminal trials, one civil trial, and 50 primaries all within 11 months. How will Donald Trump manage a presidential campaign and his many legal trials in one year? Ariana Baio breaks it down
Even before Thursday’s immunity hearing, the Supreme Court had already given Donald Trump a win of sorts. The court had decided to hear the appeal when it didn’t have to and then scheduled the hearing on the very last argument day of the term. So a question heading into the argument was whether there’d be any indication of the justices coalescing around a unanimous theory that might lend itself to a speedy ruling, such that a pre-election trial might be possible. But after the lengthy hearing,...
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments stemming from Special Counsel Jack Smith's prosecution of former President Donald Trump on felony charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Jack Smith sent his advocate, Michael Drebeen, a veteran of over 100 Supreme Court appearances and Robert Mueller's unethical investigation of President Trump, into a proverbial Cuisinart of hostile questions. If the questions and statements of the justices are to be taken at face value,...
April 23 (UPI) — The judge in Donald Trump‘s hush-money trial on Tuesday delayed a decision on whether the former president should be held in contempt for multiple alleged breaches of a gag order imposed on him in the case. Judge Juan Merchan said he will “reserve a decision” on Trump’s alleged gag order violation after he heard from the prosecution […] The post Judge reserves decision on Trump gag order violations in hush-money trial first appeared on Gephardt Daily.
Ex-president ‘orchestrated a criminal scheme’ to corrupt 2016 election, prosecution says in opening statementKey takeaways from opening statementsDonald Trump “orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election” in his efforts to cover up an alleged affair with the adult film star Stormy Daniels, the prosecution said on Monday in its opening statement in the former president’s criminal trial, with the defense countering that “there’s nothing wrong with trying to influence...
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