In court documents made public on Wednesday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicated that, if former President Trump chooses to take the stand in his ongoing "hush money" trial, Bragg would cross-examine him on
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — On the left and right, Supreme Court justices seem to agree on a basic truth about the American system of government: No one is above the law, not even the president. “The law applies equally to all persons, including a person who happens for a period of
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — On the left and right, Supreme Court justices seem to agree on a basic truth about the American system of government: No one is above the law, not even the president. But former President Donald Trump and his legal team are putting that truth to the test
No one is above the law. Supreme Court will decide if that includes Trump while he was president
WASHINGTON (AP) — On the left and right, Supreme Court justices seem to agree on a basic truth about the American system of government: No one is above the law, not even the president. “The law applies equally to all persons, including a person who happens for a period of time to occupy the Presidency,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in 2020. Continue reading at The Republic News.
WASHINGTON (AP) — On the left and right, Supreme Court justices seem to agree on a basic truth about the American system of government: No one is above the law, not even the president. “The law applies equally to all persons, including a person who happens for a period of time to occupy the Presidency,” […]
Sanctions may rain down on Donald Trump in the form of fines and jail threats for potentially breaching his hush money trial gag order by his rampant social media posts and quotes — but prosecutors may also put all of them into evidence that could be used as fodder to radically sway his jury. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's prosecution team on Tuesday asked the judge to dock the former president for at least 10 posts on his social media account and campaign website that appeared as...
Former President Donald Trump has been called a lot of names in the first six days of his New York hush-money trial. "We will call him 'President Trump' out of respect for the office that he held from 2017 to 2021," Trump lawyer Todd Blanche told the jury during his opening statement Monday. "And as everybody knows, it’s the office he’s running for right now. He’s the Republican nominee." Longtime tabloid publisher David Pecker, who testified that he conspired with Trump in 2015 and 2016 to...
Former President Donald Trump will be the next President of the United States if everyone does their part, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said Saturday.
The historic criminal trial of former President Donald Trump may see a historic prison sentence should the jury render a guilty verdict. That's the thinking by Tristan Snell, the former New York State assistant attorney general who took the real estate mogul to task before he became president and helped bring about the demise of Donald Trump’s Trump University. In an interview with Scott Dworkin in the Substack newsletter The Dworkin Report, Snell said he predicts some form of prison sentence is...
Former President Donald Trump could be digging himself a deeper hole by making no effort to appear remorseful about his actions in the Manhattan hush money trial, wrote former impeachment counsel Norm Eisen for The New York Times.Trump is charged with felony business fraud for his alleged concealment of hush payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, which Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg argues was a scheme to interfere with voters in the 2016 election. Trump denies these allegations,...
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...