• MSNBC

    Trump’s trial starts: After failed delay tactics, Trump becomes 1st ex-POTUS to face criminal trial

    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)

    • CNN

    Ex-Trump official predicts Melania’s behavior amid Trump criminal trial

    Former Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham explains how she believes Donald and Melania Trump feel after a New York appellate judge denied an attempt to delay his hush money trial.

  • Trump Tried Everything to Avoid a Criminal Trial. The Day Has Arrived.

    Trump Tried Everything to Avoid Criminal Trial. The Day Has Arrived (First column, 5th story, link) Related stories:Hope Hicks testimony could be 'devastating'Don tests limits of gag order

  • 'Almost certainly convicted': Ex-acting solicitor general can't see Trump being acquitted

    Assuming there are no more delays, Monday will mark a first in United States history.That day, jury selection in Donald Trump's first criminal trial is scheduled to begin in New York City — where Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will try to show jurors that Trump, in 2016, falsified business records in order to make hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. According to Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney and fixer and a key witness in the case, the payments were...

  • 'Best thing he could do': ex-prosecutor advises Trump to sleep through hush money trial

    Donald Trump's behavior Tuesday was a major trade down from an opening day in his New York hush money trial that saw the former president dozing off in court, a legal expert contends. Tristan Snell, a former New York assistant attorney general, made this point while discussing with MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace Judge Juan Merchan's stern reprimand about jury intimidation in Trump's criminal hush money trial. "You know, I think that the folks that have been joking online that maybe the best thing...

  • Trump will be first ex-president on criminal trial. Here's what to know about the hush money case

    NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump will make history as the first former president to stand trial on criminal charges when his hush money case opens Monday with jury selection. The case will force the presumptive Republican presidential nominee to juggle campaigning with sitting in a Manhattan courtroom for weeks to defend himself against charges involving a scheme to bury allegations of marital infidelity that arose during his first White House campaign in 2016. TRUMP REQUEST TO DELAY HUSH-MONEY...

  • Trump will be first ex-president on criminal trial. Here's what to know about the hush money case

    NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump will make history as the first former president to stand trial on criminal charges when his hush money case opens Monday with jury selection. The case will force the presumptive Republican presidential nominee to juggle campaigning with sitting in a Manhattan courtroom for weeks to defend himself against charges […]

  • See the best pictures of Donald Trump in court as his hush money criminal trial begins with jury selection

    All the best photos of Donald Trump in court from his hush money criminal trial in NYC.

    • MSNBC

    Rachel Maddow on Trump's criminal trial: He is dragging a ‘litany of criminality’ into elex

    MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber to discuss day one of Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York. Nicolle Wallace, Jen Psaki, Chris Hayes and Alex Wagner also join. (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)

  • Trump hit with surprise bad news at criminal trial

    President Donald Trump made history this week as the first former president to stand trial on criminal charges. But he’s not only facing 34 felony charges, he now has a new problem to contend with too. This week the prosecution asked Judge Juan Merchan to sanction Trump for posts they said violated a gag order barring Trump from publicly attacking witnesses. The judge said he would hear arguments on the subject on April 23rd. MSNBC's Brian Tyler Cohen takes a closer look at what this could mean...

  • Who are the first 7 jurors of Trump's historic criminal trial

    Who are the first seven jurors seated in former President Donald Trump's historic criminal trial?

    • CHCH

    Donald Trump's criminal trial is already garnering memes

    Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. Seven people have now been selected to serve as jurors in Donald Trump’s historic “hush money” criminal trial in New York. They include lawyers, a nurse, teacher, software engineer, a salesman, and an older Puerto Rican grandfather. The trial is only two days in and is already getting a lot of attention online.