Fifty-two percent of registered voters in swing states said they did not trust Harris to assume the duties of the president. Harris spent the first part of 2024 reassuring voters she was ready to be president if Biden was unable to perform his duties. The advanced ages of both Trump and Biden sparks more voter interest in who will be the vice president
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.
Former President Trump mocked judges who have been a part of his various legal battles on Saturday, asking which of them is the worst or the most corrupt. It continues an assault on the judges who have been appointed to sit over his various trials, and comes just before his hush-money trial is set to
It’s a day former President Trump hoped would never come. After a relentless pursuit for delay, Trump will make history Monday morning by taking his seat at the defense table in a Manhattan courtroom, where the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president will begin. For four days a week — for six or []
Among all the legal charges facing former President Donald Trump, the criminal case out of New York City that begins Monday “is the most bogus,” Read More
Former President Donald Trump already understands the legal threat posed by the criminal hush money trial set to begin in Manhattan next week, said former January 6 investigator Temidayo Aganga-Williams on CNN Friday evening.The trial centers on the allegation that the former president effectively interfered in the 2016 election by using a secret hush payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels to conceal their former affair from voters. Trump's lawyers are reportedly resigned to the fact that...
Former President Donald Trump's trial antics are already starting to hurt him, former federal prosecutor Harry Litman explained to MSNBC's Joy Reid on Friday — and make life hell for his attorneys.The problem is, he explained, Trump's repeated penchant for attacking witnesses and violating gag orders has led to prosecutors keeping a witness who will testify at trial secret, and the judge allowing that would effectively be a "serious sanction" against Trump's behavior that will make preparing his...
President Joe Biden made this claim while delivering remarks in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in April 2024.
Former President Donald Trump might have to be removed from the courtroom in Manhattan if he exhibits his typical behavior — and former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance has some thoughts on how that might work.This comes after Judge Juan Merchan gave Trump a standard defendant warning that outbursts at trial might lead to his detention — and after his own attorneys pleading with him to stay calm and not blow up."Judge Merchan tells Trump that if he disrupts the trial they will proceed without him...
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 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...
Donald Trump has two attractive ways to lose the presidential immunity arguments his attorneys will bring to the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, a new legal analysis contends. Trump's lawyers are expected to argue Trump is immune from prosecution in special counsel Jack Smith's federal election interference case because his actions leading up to the U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021, were official acts, court records show.While legals experts doubt the court will rule in his favor, the 6-3...