Former Trump attorney Tim Parlatore explains what he thinks could happen if prosecutors in Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial bring up Trump’s other legal problems. He also shares whether he thinks the former president should testify.
Criminal defense attorney Stacey Schneider says that former President Donald Trump was “rattled” following a Sandoval hearing in the New York hush money trial where he heard a recounting of his criminal history.
April 22 (UPI) — The first day of Donald Trump‘s historic hush-money trial concluded Monday afternoon with opening statements from both sides and testimony from its first witness, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker. Following last week’s completion of jury selection, opening statements began in the morning with prosecutors painting the former president as the ringleader of […] The post Prosecutors, defense deliver opening statements in Trump’s hush-money trial first appeared on...
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One of Donald Trump's big defenses in the hush money criminal case is the claim that he wanted to pay women off to keep it from his wife, Melania. One legal expert said that the claim won't stand up in court because Trump was trying to wriggle out of the hush money. Speaking on an MSNBC panel, former top Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weissmann explained that the stories about Trump will be told "in gruesome detail." That piqued the interest of host Nicolle Wallace: "Like what?"ALSO READ:...
Former President Donald Trump claims his gag order forcing him to stay mum on various individuals surrounding his historic criminal hush money trial is unprecedented.In a Truth Social post, Trump moaned about the gag order that Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan imposed and then strengthened barring him from criticizing witnesses, jurors, court staff, and the families of the prosecutor and judge. "The Gag Order imposed on me, a political candidate running for the highest office in the...
CNN’s Laura Coates discusses the possibility of an unfair “sleeper” juror making their way into the Trump jury selection and attempt a mistrial later on.
MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin Monday revealed one major reason that Donald Trump's lawyers are fighting so hard to keep certain tweets he sent as president out of his criminal hush money trial.Rubin stood outside the Manhattan court where Trump stands accused of covering up money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels through his then-attorney Michael Cohen. She discussed one of many legal battles the former president will face in the weeks ahead. "Trump himself has tweeted that he repaid...
Donald Trump's current defense to allegations in the criminal business records falsification case he's facing undermines his original arguments, a legal expert said on Sunday.Trump is set to begin his trial in the case, in which the former president has been charged with more than 30 felonies in connection with purported "hush money" payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels and then allegedly covered up. Trump's first argument was that the $130,000 paid to his former attorney and fixer,...
With her husband on trial over hush-money payments – and desperate for cash – the ex-first lady isn’t worried about opticsIf your husband was a legally adjudicated sexual predator who cheated on you with an adult film star shortly after you gave birth to his son, and then allegedly paid her hush money to cover it up in an attempt to illegally influence the 2016 election, and then went on trial for those hush-money payments, while also facing a litany of other criminal charges, what do you think...
Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker tells Dana Bash that President Biden is handling Trump’s legal issues “perfectly”: “He is talking about Trump. He’s just talking about all of the other things about Donald Trump.”
In a singular moment for American history, the hush money trial of former President Donald Trump begins Monday with jury selection.