The indictments cap a year-long investigation by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) into how the 2020 pro-Trump elector strategy played out in Arizona, which Biden won by 10,457 votes.
An Arizona grand jury has indicted 18 allies of Donald Trump for their
Former Trump advisers Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows are among those charged, court documents show.
An Arizona grand jury has indicted Mark Meadows, who served as former President Trump's chief of staff, and former Trump lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, along with 16 others in an election interference case. The indictment released Wednesday names 11 Republicans who submitted a document to Congress falsely declaring that Trump had beaten Joe Biden in Arizona in the 2020 presidential election. The names of seven other defendants were not immediately released because they had not yet been served with...
Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows are reportedly among the 18 allies of former President Donald Trump who on Wednesday were indicted by an Arizona grand jury, accused in efforts to overturn the state's 2020 presidential election results, according to newly released court documents.The charges include fraud, forgery and conspiracy, according to a statement from Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes' office.The ContextArizona, where President Joe Biden defeated Trump by more than 10,000 votes, was...
NEW YORK — Opening statements in the first-ever criminal trial of a former President kicked off Monday morning with prosecutors accusing Trump of "election fraud" as the defense asked jurors to take a
Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel on Saturday, though they didn’t have much of an impact: Defense systems thwarted the attack, and no one was killed. Nevertheless, Donald Trump did what he always does: He blamed his own country, while claiming the violence wouldn’t have occurred if he were in the White House. The Hill reported: Oddly enough, during the event, Trump tried to say that the United States shows “great weakness,” but he ended up saying “great weaknicks.” In any...
Manhattan prosecutors finally revealed the specific crime that Donald Trump allegedly attempted to conceal by falsifying business records related to hush money payments to Stormy Daniels.Defense attorneys had objected to questions to former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker about his discussions with Steve Bannon, and prosecutor Joshua Steinglass revealed that those discussions were relevant to the “primary” underlying crime that kicks the charges Trump faces up from a misdemeanor to a...
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...
Former President Donald Trump has just gone through the first week of his criminal hush payment trial in Manhattan — and it's already hurting him politically, said commentator Molly Jong-Fast on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House" on Friday evening. The conventional wisdom for months has been that the Trump trials, and particularly the Manhattan trial, will not significantly impact him, with large numbers of voters simply not caring about it. But this ignores that a great many non-Trump...
With two jurors removed for potential bias and perjury — and one who dislikes his 'persona' — can Trump get a fair trial?
According to an announcement from an attorney for One American News Network (OANN), the right-wing news outlet has settled a defamation suit brought by the voting tech giant Smartmatic over false claims about rigged voting machines in the 2020 election. OANN attorney Chip Babcock told CNN that the suit, "Has been resolved pursuant to a confidential agreement." Also releasing a statement was Smartmatic’s lead attorney Erik Connolly, who said the company, "Has resolved its litigation against OANN...