• CNN

    How Trump’s trial could impact the campaign

    Dan Pfeiffer speaks with CNN’s Jake Tapper

  • Trump's Complaining More Than Campaigning in Court: Ex-Aide

    Former President Donald Trump seems unable to prevent his campaign from struggling as he instead focuses on "playing the victim" in the throes of his hush-money criminal trial in New York, according to former Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin.Trump's trial on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, which began in Manhattan this week with jury selection, is expected to continue into June. The former president and presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee has pleaded not guilty to all...

  • Donald Trump Campaigning in Blue New Jersey

    Former President Donald Trump is campaigning in blue New Jersey amid his criminal trial in New York, making a play for these blue areas, exactly as he said he would do.

  • Trump’s Brilliant Prosecution Juxtaposition Campaign

    Say what you want about Donald Trump, but the man is a brilliant communicator. His builder-from-Queens bluntness sometimes manifests as obnoxiousness, but it also has produced some of the most effective messaging of our time. Has there ever been a more concise slogan than “Make America Great Again”? Into those four simple words are packed a vastness of disaffection that is otherwise indescribable even if one uses the entire dictionary.

  • On his big legal day, Trump pivots to the campaign. Sort of.

    His whirlwind day included a New York press conference, attending his criminal trial and a case before the Supreme Court.

  • Trump's complaints about being unable to campaign fall apart as trial resumes

    Donald Trump frequently complains that his New York hush money trial is keeping him off the campaign trail, but he used this week's day off to hit the links instead of meet voters.Justice Juan Merchan ordered the former president to attend each day of his trial, but the judge does not hold court on Wednesdays. Trump spent the day golfing at his Bedminster, New Jersey, club instead of visiting battleground states or making his case for the 2024 election, sources told CNN.Trump has complained...

    • MSNBC

    With Turning Point USA at the wheel, Trump's campaign is in for a bumpy ride

    We're in the thick of election season, and the MAGA movement appears to be letting young influencers drive the Trump campaign. And as with many novice drivers, this is shaping up to be a pretty bumpy ride. I’ve written a lot about the rising power of younger conservative activists, particularly affiliates of Turning Point USA, within the Republican Party. But lately, they have been flexing their influence over Team Trump’s public relations efforts, as well as some of its policy priorities. And...

  • Trump goes from court to campaign at a bodega in his heavily Democratic hometown

    Trump will be confined to the courtroom on most days, dramatically limiting his movements and his ability to campaign, fundraise and make calls.

  • Trump goes from court to campaign at a bodega in his heavily Democratic hometown

    Trump will be confined to the courtroom on most days, dramatically limiting his movements and his ability to campaign, fundraise and make calls.

  • Trump goes from court to campaign at a bodega in his heavily Democratic hometown

    NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump plans to visit New York’s Harlem neighborhood Tuesday after spending his second day in a lower Manhattan courtroom as a criminal defendant. Trump was expected to stop by Sanaa Convenient Store, a tiny bodega that sells chips, sodas and other snacks. Trump aides said the former president and current

  • Trump goes from court to campaign at a bodega in his heavily Democratic hometown

    NEW YORK (AP) — Fresh from a Manhattan courtroom, Donald Trump visited a New York bodega where a man was stabbed to death, a stark pivot for the former president as he juggles being a criminal defendant and the Republican challenger intent on blaming President Joe Biden for crime. Trump stopped by Sanaa Convenient Store, […]

  • The Trump hush money trial is a circus full of questionable characters

    The first criminal trial of former President Donald Trump began Monday in New York City, marking the beginning of the politically motivated effort to convict Trump of a crime before Election Day. The case centers on a reimbursement payment Trump made to his former attorney Michael Cohen in 2016 after Cohen made a hush money […]