Former President Donald Trump’s hush-money trial will begin in earnest Monday after successfully assembling a jury of Manhattanites who will convict or acquit the GOP presidential nominee in the heat of the campaign.
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The massive single-day haul supports Donald Trump's belief that his legal challenges might come back and haunt Democrats.
Donald Trump had a rough night, pity-posting about how life hasn't been fair for the corrupt billionaire. "Four years ago I was a very successful and popular President of the United States," cried the one-term, four-times indicted former president, whose presidency saw 400,000 Americans die from Covid and who lost both the electoral and popular vote to President Joe Biden. — Read the rest
The 77-year-old returned to Manhattan's court on Tuesday for the second day of jury selection, having selected no members of the panel so far.
This week, with a jury seated and sworn, trial will begin in a Manhattan courtroom in the false records case brought by District Attorney Alvin Bragg against former President Donald Trump. The trial will begin with opening statements, an important part of the trial. But do not expect to hear on Monday any arguments about the strength of the case or the weight of the evidence. Hollywood routinely mangles courtroom scenes. But that was mostly not true for the 1992 comedy “My Cousin Vinny.” Vinny...
Former President Donald Trump's Manhattan criminal trial suddenly erupted in shouting on Thursday.Matthew Russell Lee of the Inner City Press reported on X, formerly Twitter, that at one point during the trial on Thursday, Trump's lawyer brought up text messages between Dylan Howard, the former editor-in-chief of the National Inquirer and an unknown relative.According to Russell Lee, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said to both the defense and the prosecution that some details of the...
Former President Trump’s first criminal trial began in earnest Monday, with opening statements from prosecutors and the defense team, as well as the calling of the first witness. Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. The alleged offenses center on a $130,000 payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in
The second day of former President Donald Trump's criminal trial in Manhattan has officially wrapped, and Tuesday proved to have some better moments for Trump than the first.Trump on Monday became the first current or former president to stand trial on criminal charges. He faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the payment of hush money to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, accused of concealing information from voters ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Trump has pleaded...
Witness testimony will continue Thursday in Donald Trump's hush money criminal trial. Follow here for the latest live news updates from court, analysis and more.
Former tabloid executive David Pecker is testifying for a second day in
David Pecker, the former chairman of the National Enquirer's parent company, is expected to be called as the first witness when evidence begins in Donald Trump's hush-money trial on Monday.Pecker was allegedly present at a meeting with Trump in 2015 about how the National Enquirer could help him get elected in the 2016 presidential election.That allegedly led to the Enquirer being used as a front by Trump while he was trying to silence women with whom he had allegedly had affairs.According to...