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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 last-ditch effort to delay his hush money trial failed for an ironic reason pointed out by a legal expert on Wednesday: Trump delayed. CNN analyst Norm Eisen appeared on "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer" to discuss Judge Juan Merchan's ruling against Trump's plea to push the trial date back until after the Supreme Court ruled on a presidential immunity claim made in his election interference case."Trump and his lawyers are running out of delay options," Eisen...
In a campaign stop in Green Bay, Wisconsin on April 2, 2024, former President Donald Trump slammed President Joe Biden’s declaration promoting
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...
Is Donald Trump a real-life Wizard of Oz?Guardian contributor Lloyd Green's "For all his bombast, Trump is plummeting – financially, legally and politically" explores the notion that the 45th president's spectacular veneer being humbled left and right parallels with the pretender anti-villain character Oz from L. Frank Baum's fantasy series where he submits "there is less there than meets the eye."And with all the troubles facing former President Donald Trump, the attempt to fend off chinks in...
Donald Trump filed a motion for Judge Juan Merchan to recuse himself from the trial last year, but it was only after the judge requested a ruling about the matter from an ethics board. MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin pointed to the timeline of the motion, explaining that on May 4, 2023, the New York State Judicial Ethics Advisory Board reviewed Merchan for possible conflicts and determined there were none. "We see nothing in the inquiry to suggest that the outcome of the case could have any...
Former President Donald Trump has hyped up Truth Social as "amazing" and "very solid." “All of the competitors to TRUTH SOCIAL, especially those in the Radical Left Democrats Party who are failing at every level, like to use their vaunted ‘disinformation machine’ to try and convince people, and it is not easy to do, that TRUTH is not such a big deal and doesn’t ‘get the word out’ as well as various others, which they know to be false,” Trump thundered in a post on the site. "I THINK TRUTH IS...
A legal analyst is clearing things up when it comes to a recent filing in Donald Trump's civil fraud case.Earlier in the day, Raw Story reported that documents related to Donald Trump's $175 million bond in that case were "returned for correction" after his lawyers reportedly forgot to attach a financial statement.But legal eagle Lisa Rubin had something else in mind.ALSO READ: A criminologist explains why Judge Cannon must step away from Trump trial immediately"Today, I learned that the court...
MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin Monday revealed one major reason that Donald Trump's lawyers are fighting so hard to keep certain tweets he sent as president out of his criminal hush money trial.Rubin stood outside the Manhattan court where Trump stands accused of covering up money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels through his then-attorney Michael Cohen. She discussed one of many legal battles the former president will face in the weeks ahead. "Trump himself has tweeted that he repaid...
Donald Trump's legal team was expecting around just 40 percent of jurors to be dismissed from his New York hush money criminal case over the question of whether they can be impartial, but more than half of the 96 jurors were dismissed en masse due to their admitted inability to be unbiased.While at least 50 of the potential jurors were let go over their inability to be impartial, others bowed out over potential conflicts.Also read: Trump 'glares' at NYT's Maggie Haberman in courtroom after she...