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The prosecution of Donald Trump starting in New York this week is on firm
Former President Donald Trump's comments about his longtime ally and former National Enquirer head David Pecker are the most compelling case for witness intimidation, legal expert Lisa Rubin told MSNBC's Joy Reid on Friday's edition of "The ReidOut."Pecker, who helped Trump in a "catch and kill" scheme to bury stories about his alleged affair with Playboy model Karen McDougal, has been the prosecution's first witness in the criminal hush money trial against Trump in Manhattan. The former...
The Georgia Republican Party has spent more than $1.7 million in legal fees for those wrapped up in Donald Trump's 2020 election scandal. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution revealed on Monday that the hefty spending began in 2022 and covers the fees for many of the co-conspirators in the Fulton County racketeering case. It has become the party's top expenditure during an election year.The numbers reached $1.5 million by March, with another $237,000 added during that month. It's a far cry from the...
Late-night talk show hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert tackled Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial, which kicked off on Monday. Kimmel joked that the “trial is expected to last six weeks or until the courtroom sketch artist runs out of orange—whichever comes first.” “The official name of the trial is 'The People of the State of New York vs. Donald Trump.' The People of the State of New York. That's us!” Colbert enthused, before quieting the applauding audience. “I know you're excited,...
An exhausted Trump doesn’t want to be there and is trying desperately to avoid it. He can’t, and the next two months will be torture for the man who could soon become president once again. Alex Woodward reports from Manhattan criminal court
Donald Trump's usual "bluster" will backfire once he's in his first criminal trial starting Monday, according to the Associate Dean for Research and Intellectual Life at Albany Law School and the author of Lawyer Nation: The Past, Present, and Future of the American Legal Profession.Ray Brescia, an expert on legal ethics and civil procedure, wrote for The Daily Beast that "Trump is actually on a legal losing streak" in the case. "And despite his outrageous public posturing and boastful claims in...
Former President Donald Trump’s New York trial on charges related to paying hush money to an adult film star begins on April 15, 2024. The Conversation U.S. asked Tim Bakken, a former New York prosecutor and now a legal scholar teaching at West Point, and Karrin Vasby Anderson, a political communication expert at Colorado State University, to set the scene from each of their perspectives. It will be a “monumental drama” inside and outside the courtroom, said Bakken. Anderson adds, “It’s not just...
So who’s going to be first GOP candidate who understands and articulates to his or her supporters what the
A couple of hours before the start of his first criminal trial, Donald Trump posed a question by way of his social media platform. “Why didn’t they bring this totally discredited lawsuit 7 years ago???” the former president asked. “Election Interference!” For now, let’s not dwell on the Republican’s obvious errors of fact and judgment, including the fact that the criminal case has only been “totally discredited” in his active imagination. Let’s also brush past the fact that the defendant took a...
Former president Donald Trump is scheduled to appear at a Manhattan courthouse on Monday as the trial over payments sent from the Trump Organization to porn star Stormy Daniels gets underway. The case will center on Trump’s culpability for the alleged falsification of Trump Organization business records, but legal experts are voicing skepticism over the […]
Lisa Rubin MSNBC Legal Correspondent who was in the courtroom, and Andrew Weissmann, former top prosecutor at the Justice Department joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to what happened on the first day of the trial in Donald Trump’s alleged hush money payments and what to expect as jury selection continues in this trial.