• NPR

    Trial for Donald Trump's hush money case will begin on April 15 : Trump's Trials

    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...

  • MSNBC's Symone Sanders Warns: If Trump Wins, Women Will Dress Like Handmaids

    Say what you might about Donald Trump, but one thing he is not is a Puritan. This is the man whose romantic escapades filled the pages of New York tabloids for decades. For gosh sakes, Trump's the former owner of the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants, where contestants paraded in swimsuits! So Symone Sanders-Townsend's attempt to scare voters by claiming that if Trump is elected, America will be turned into a dystopian world in which women are forced to wear long, loose dresses, and cover...

  • MSNBC's Symone Sanders Warns: If Trump Wins, Women Will Dress Like Handmaids

    Say what you might about Donald Trump, but one thing he is not is a Puritan. This is the man whose romantic escapades filled the pages of New York tabloids for decades. For gosh sakes, Trump's the former owner of the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants, where contestants paraded in swimsuits! So Symone Sanders-Townsend's attempt to scare voters by claiming that if Trump is elected, America will be turned into a dystopian world in which women are forced to wear long, loose dresses, and cover...

  • MSNBC Cuts Away from Trump Decrying Trial as 'Election Interference'

    Former President Trump was in a New York City courtroom to deal with the hush money case against him, on Monday, but when he stepped out of the courthouse to speak to the press, he threw MSNBC into a tailspin. The liberal network frantically cut off his audio and threw it back to 12:00 p.m. host Andrea Mitchell because he dared to say the case was “election interference.” Before Trump appeared outside the building, Mitchell was speaking with correspondent Vaughn Hillyard, who was outside the...

  • MSNBC Cuts Away from Trump Decrying Trial as 'Election Interference'

    Former President Trump was in a New York City courtroom to deal with the hush money case against him, on Monday, but when he stepped out of the courthouse to speak to the press, he threw MSNBC into a tailspin. The liberal network frantically cut off his audio and threw it back to 12:00 p.m. host Andrea Mitchell because he dared to say the case was “election interference.” Before Trump appeared outside the building, Mitchell was speaking with correspondent Vaughn Hillyard, who was outside the...

  • It's a date: Trump's first felony trial will be April 15.

    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...

  • Fani Willis vows nothing 'will derail' Trump's election interference trial

    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.

    • CNBC

    Trump hush money trial will start April 15, judge rules

    Jury selection in the criminal hush money trial of Donald Trump will begin April 15, a New York judge ruled in a court hearing.

  • Trump under fresh legal scrutiny as courts 'tighten the screws on him': MSNBC analyst

    Former President Donald Trump is hoping that the Truth Social merger will give him a large enough wealth infusion to get a handle on his multiple legal judgments, at least as long as he can get them appealed — and he claimed on Truth Social that he has already come up with the half a billion dollars he needs in any case.But the sheer amount of money he owes is only one of the problems for him, MSNBC reporter Adam Reiss told anchor Chris Hayes on Friday. Another is the eagle-eyed scrutiny and...

  • Michael Cohen Predicts What Will Happen in Donald Trump's New York Trial

    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...

  • Skulking and Winking, Donald Trump Is Told His Criminal Trial Will Start Next Month

    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...

    • People

    Donald Trump's Criminal Trial on Hush Money Allegations Will Begin April 15

    The trial comes following an investigation into an alleged hush money