Prosecutors want to hold Trump accountable for his social media posts violating a gag order. The judge has already indicated those posts may be used against Trump in court.
Photo by Jabin Botsford-Pool/Getty ImagesThe Manhattan District Attorney’s Office wants the judge overseeing the first trial against a former American president to start it off with a lunging attack, asking the court to personally sanction Donald Trump for his verbal onslaught against witnesses in the case.Shortly after noon, assistant district attorney Christopher Conroy formally asked the judge to fine Trump “$1,000 for each post that violates the court order,” “direct the defendant to take...
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, Donald Trump's prosecutor in hush money case, bio shows he has already won tax-fraud Trump Organization convictions
Bragg is now the first prosecutor to begin a criminal trial against a
Instead of leading with courage to defend New Yorkers by enacting the necessary changes to make life safer, freer and more affordable, our elected officials are trying to imprison and bankrupt Donald Trump.
A few weeks after being elected Manhattan’s top prosecutor, Alvin Bragg sat in a Harlem café bullishly explaining how he planned to balance his reformist priorities for the borough with the infamously knotty task of confronting former President Donald Trump in court. “I’ve done a lot of cases that are considered no-win,” Bragg told CNN at the time, in December 2021. “I think going into most of those cases people were like, ‘Ooh, you’re gonna get a lot of heat however it comes out.’ That’s the...
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, on the eve of Donald Trump's New York hush money trial, touted the drop in the city's violent crime rate in an interview with ABC News.
Prosecutors and Mr Trump's team will weed through hundreds of people in Manhattan as part of the hush money trial.
Republican Senator Ted Cruz is being pressured to turn on former President Donald Trump after former National Enquirer published David Pecker testified that he helped Trump's 2016 campaign by manufacturing fake stories about Cruz.Pecker made the remarks at Trump's hush-money criminal trial in New York City on Monday and Tuesday, testifying that he helped the then-future president win the White House by agreeing to publish negative and false stories about Cruz and his other political rivals...
Michael Avenatti, the lawyer who started the ball rolling on what looks like Stormy Daniels' shakedown of Donald Trump, has sent up a flare from prison via X to say he now wants to "help" the former president and has been in touch with his defense team. Avenatti wants to be sprung from prison to testify for Trump in the Hush Trump bookkeeping case.
Jury selection was completed Friday in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial, with six alternates now picked in addition to the 12-person regular jury. Selection got off to a slow start Monday, picked up on Tuesday with the seating of seven jurors, shrunk to five on Thursday morning but then ended the day with the full regular jury and one alternate. The completion of the jury on Friday clears the way for opening statements on Monday. After those statements, prosecutors in Manhattan District...
“A lot of times in criminal law, you play for the fumble,” says William J. Brennan, who represented the Trump Organization in the fraud case before the same New York judge as the hush money case. “If you get one juror is a holdout that hung jury can really be a game changer ..but I think it’s tougher when the defendant is this particular defendant and it’s just the island of Manhattan that provides the potential jury pool.”