Donald Trump’s first criminal trial is underway in New York. MSNBC’s Ari Melber is joined by Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, Jen Psaki, Chris Hayes and Alex Wagner break down the latest from day one of Trump’s trial. (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)
Former president Donald Trump addressed the media after being told he will
Donald Trump made a pit stop Tuesday at a New York City convenience store where a worker stabbed an ex-con to death in self-defense in 2022. The former president vowed to take on crime and “straighten New York out.”
In addition, as you know next Thursday, we're before the United States Supreme Court on a very big hearing on immunity and this is something that we have been waiting for for a long time. And, the judge of course is not going to allow us, he's a very conflicted judge, and he's not going to allow us to go to that.
WASHINGTON >> The Supreme Court today questioned whether federal prosecutors went too far in bringing obstruction charges against hundreds of participants in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. But it wasn’t clear how the justices would rule in a case that also could affect the prosecution of former President Donald Trump, who faces the same charge for his efforts to overturn his election loss in 2020.
Defendants in criminal trials are generally required to appear in court in person.
This past February, the increasingly legendary crime fiction author Don Winslow announced the publication of “City in Ruins,” the third and final book in his bestselling Danny Ryan series. He also announced that the novel would be his last, and that he was retiring from writing books, to concentrate full-time on political activism of the extremely anti-Donald Trump variety. This was not entirely unexpected, but it still felt like a surprise. For several years, Winslow and Shane Salerno—his best...
Supreme Court Faces 'High Stakes' Decisions On Trump-Related Cases Authored by Sam Dorman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Joe Biden issued a rare primetime threat to the Supreme Court during his State of the Union address on March 7, warning the justices that they could cause political backlash for their 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. “With all due respect, justices, women are not without electoral or political power,” President Biden said. (Illustration by...
New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan has yet to say that former President Donald Trump can attend his son Barron Trump's high school graduation, refusing to rule on the former president's request to not attend the trial that specific day for that event.
Donald Trump may have to miss out on his son Barron's high school graduation ceremony next month due to the timing of the former president's first historic criminal trial.Trump's hush-money trial kicked off with jury selection on Monday in a Manhattan courtroom.As the court prepared for the first day of voir dire, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said he received requests from Trump's attorneys for the former president to skip out on the trial on May 17 so that he could attend Barron...
Trump Prepares For Monday's 'Fake Biden Trial' With 'Highly Conflicted' Manhattan Judge Former President Trump will take his 2024 campaign to New York on Monday, where he'll be sitting in a Manhattan courtroom for what he decried as a "Fake Biden Trial" to face 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection with the Stormy Daniels 'hush money' embroglio. The trial comes after an unsuccessful bid to adjourn the case due to overwhelming pretrial publicity, which Judge Juan...
American Latino voters prefer former President Donald Trump's policies on migration over President Joe Biden's policies, according to an Ipsos poll released on April 9.