The federal judge presiding over Donald Trump's classified document hoarding case expressed skepticism when two of former president's co-defendants in the case sought to have charges thrown out.U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Friday appeared unwilling to bend to defense attorneys' attempts to nix the charges lodged against Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira — who remain under Trump's employ — arguing the obstruction indictment was weak on evidence to their understanding of an ongoing...
Federal Judge Aileen Cannon has denied Donald Trump's classified document co-defendants' motions to dismiss. In her eight-page order, Cannon rejected efforts by Trump's aide Walt Nauta and former Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira to get the cases against them tossed, reported MSNBC host and legal analyst Katie Phang. She tweeted that Cannon shot down Nauta's request to be spared of a trial and instead "finds that the indictment puts him on enough notice so that he can adequately...
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Attorneys for Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira asked a judge Friday to dismiss their charges in former President Trump's classified documents case.
Donald Trump and his lawyers appeared in a New York appeals court this Wednesday to bring their third legal challenge to his upcoming criminal trial over a hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Trump’s attorneys invoked a provision of New York law known as Article 78, which allows litigants to seek relief from what they allege to be unlawful state or local government actions, NBC News reported. The documents were filed under seal, but according to MSNBC legal analyst Adam...
For the third time in three days, a New York appellate judge has denied an attempt by former President Donald Trump to delay his hush money trial. Trump on Wednesday asked a New York appeals court for emergency relief to stop the criminal trial scheduled to begin Monday from going ahead so he could appeal a lower court’s ruling on presidential immunity and have the judge recused from the case. It took Associate Justice Ellen Gesmer just minutes after hearing arguments to reject the interim...
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday denied motions by two of former President Donald Trump's co-defendants to dismiss charges in the classified documents case. Trump aide Walt Nauta's lawyers asked this month for five charges against him to be dismissed, while lawyers for Carlos De Oliveira, who was the property manager at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida estate, requested that all charges against him be tossed out. In her filing in Florida, Cannon said De Oliveira "does not meaningfully...
Donald Trump's former Homeland Security advisor Tom Bossert had some harsh words for his former boss.Trump earlier in the day lashed out against a statute he supported as president. Specifically, the former president Wednesday directed House Republicans to "kill" a legislative effort he mistook for another statute, according to a Fox News reporter."KILL FISA, IT WAS ILLEGALLY USED AGAINST ME, AND MANY OTHERS," Trump wrote on Truth Social Wednesday. "THEY SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN!!"ALSO READ: A...
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The former president lost yet another 11th hour attempt to stall the trial
Fox News' Maria Bartiromo wants Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) to fire Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for prosecuting former President Donald Trump in the hush money case due to start in just a few days.But that's an absurd demand, legal expert Lisa Rubin told MSNBC's Joy Reid on Wednesday evening."I can't imagine what the presidential act would be of writing your lawyer a reimbursement check because you paid off your porn star person you had an affair with, but I won't try to make my mind go...
The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s election interference case rejected the notion Wednesday that jailed defendants charged with some of the most violent crimes of the U.S. Capitol riot are “hostages” — a label Trump and his allies have frequently used to describe the prisoners. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said the Capitol riot […]