For this episode of Trump's Trials, host Scott Detrow speaks with NPR's Andrea Bernstein. An appeals court has cut the bond former President Donald Trump has to post from $454 million to $175 million in his civil fraud trial. The news came the same day as the deadline before the New York Attorney General could start seizing Trump properties to pay off the massive judgement. And in a separate New York court, a judge sharply rebuked Trump's lawyers in his hush money criminal case and set a trial...
Crazy things are still happening during the YSL RICO trial that will determine the fate of Young Thug and many other of his associates under his imprint. On Tuesday, as defending attorneys called witness Adrian Bean to the stand for cross-examination, he admitted to not feeling the best as attorneys were asking questions. “Can I get water or something?” he said, “I’m so high right now y’all I’m about to go to sleep to sleep on y’all.” After he was given a bottle of water, Bean was asked by...
A Manhattan judge has set an April 15 date for jury selection in Donald Trump's hush money case, the GOP presidential frontrunner's first of four criminal trials.At a contentious pre-trial court hearing, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan shot down the Trump legal team's efforts to delay the trial further.Trump and his legal team must appear in court each day of the approximately six-week trial on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.The trial, which was originally set to...
Washington Examiner Magazine Managing Editor David Mark joins Investigations Editor Sarah Bedford to discuss the House impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and whether the Senate will hold an impeachment trial, as well as the latest on the Senate leadership races.
A former business partner of Hunter Biden accused two Democratic members of Congress of lying on behalf of the Biden family during Wednesday’s impeachment hearing over President Joe Biden’s involvement in his son’s foreign business dealings, prompting one of the lawmakers to interrupt his testimony.
Fulton County DA Fani Willis, responding to a subpoena by the House Judiciary Committee, vowed to bring former President Trump's election interference case to trial.
Jury selection in the criminal hush money trial of Donald Trump will begin April 15, a New York judge ruled in a court hearing.
Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen told MSNBC's Katie Phang on Saturday that the former president "will be held accountable" in the New York hush money case against him.Trump is facing up to 34 felony charges regarding the alleged falsification of business records and concealing hush-money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign. Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, was paid $130,000 in a deal arranged by Cohen to keep quiet about...
Earlier this month, that streak of extensions and deferments looked like it might continue. The judge presiding over the Manhattan proceedings, Juan Merchan, granted a 30-day adjournment on March 15 following federal prosecutors turning over new documents related to the case. On Monday, the day the trial had originally been scheduled to begin, Merchan instead found himself listening to arguments about whether it should take place at all. “The reality is every document is important,” Trump’s...
The trial comes following an investigation into an alleged hush money
Former President Donald Trump faces a brand new challenge in the current string of legal cases against him, said MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace on Monday: the truth. Wallace pointed to the civil property valuation fraud case brought by state Attorney General Letitia James and the upcoming criminal hush money case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The MSNBC anchor argued these cases shatter the very identity Trump has built for himself on the public stage. "This is the big lie...
The next few months for Peter Navarro will look very different than the life he's used to.The former Trump advisor is going from traversing the halls of the White House to a minimum-security federal Bureau of Prisons satellite camp in Miami.Navarro, who was sentenced to four months after being found guilty of ignoring congressional subpoenas during its January 6 Capitol riot investigation, reported to the prison on Tuesday. Navarro's team tried to keep him out of prison while he appealed the...