Michael Cohen, the lead prosecution witness in Donald Trump's upcoming criminal hush money trial, was publicly chastised Wednesday over accusations of perjury in a motion that could prove "pure gold" for the former president's legal team, according to a new analysis of recent court filings. New York federal Judge Jesse Furman Wednesday denied Cohen's request for an early end to his "supervised release" following his prison term on tax evasion charges, and cited his recent testimony in Trump's...
A New York judge on Monday denied Donald Trump's bid to keep his former lawyer Michael Cohen and adult film star Stormy Daniels from testifying in the former president's criminal trial related to a 2016 hush money payment. State Judge Juan Merchan gave Cohen and Daniels the green light to take the stand but placed some restrictions on Daniels' testimony, specifically that she can’t testify about a lie detector test she took in 2018 indicating she’d been truthful about her comments about Trump....
Trump attacked Judge Merchan a day after attending court. Trump, 77, called him 'distinguished looking', called Weisselberg, 76, 'elderly'. He also branded the judge a 'Trump Hater' while pointing to daughter's firm
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Less than 24 hours after getting hit with a partial gag order in the New York criminal case involving his alleged falsification of business records, former President Donald Trump repeatedly lashed out at one person who's not covered by the ruling — the judge. On his social media platform, Trump called Judge Juan Merchan “biased and conflicted” while also taking aim at the judge’s daughter for a social media post that a court spokesperson said was wrongly attributed to her. In a ruling Tuesday,...
Amid mounting legal woes, former US president's lawyers ask judge to postpone or reject case, accuse Manhattan DA of withholding documents crucial to their argument
A Georgia judge has set a Thursday hearing to consider dismissing a conspiracy case against Donald Trump on First Amendment grounds. On Monday, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ordered the hearing for March 28. McAfee is expected to consider motions from Donald Trump and other defendants in an election interference case. Trump's motion asked the court to dismiss the case based on his First Amendment right to free speech. McAfee has dismissed two similar motions by...
A New York judge issued an order Tuesday barring former President Donald Trump from making public statements about possible witnesses in his hush-money case.
A New York judge issued a gag order Tuesday barring Donald Trump from making public statements about witnesses, prosecutors, court staff and jurors in his upcoming hush-money criminal trial. Judge Juan M. Merchan cited the former president’s prior comments about him and others in the case, as well as a looming April 15 trial date, […]
A New York judge issued a gag order barring Trump from making public statements about witnesses, prosecutors, court staff and jurors in his upcoming hush-money criminal trial.
Trump pled not guilty last year to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with a hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels.
The first criminal trial of a former U.S. president in the nation’s history will kick off April 15 in Manhattan with jury selection in Donald Trump’s Stormy Daniels hush money case, a judge ruled M