• Religious Right Raises Money for Trump Lawyer John Eastman’s Legal Defense Against ‘Pure Evil’

    John Eastman, a right-wing attorney who is in serious legal trouble for his intensive efforts to help former President Donald Trump stay in power after losing the 2020 election, continues to raise funds for his legal defense fund from Trump’s religious-right supporters. Eastman was the featured speaker at an online event hosted Monday night by […]

  • Judge in Trump's civil fraud trial imposes monitor to oversee Trump Organization's finances

    The judge in former President Trump's civil fraud trial has imposed a monitor to oversee the Trump Organization's finances.

  • Stormy Daniels says she feared for her life before Trump hush-money payment: See photos of Trump in court as criminal trial looms

    Stormy Daniels says she took Trump's hush-money 'so he could not have me killed': Photos, details and more updates as criminal trial looms.

  • Trump's once again surrounding himself with criminals and cranks

    For months now, Donald Trump's inner circle has been trying to sell us on the notion that they're running a much tighter campaign this time around. And the media has run with it: "Trump's 2024 campaign has been notable for its rigor: Top advisers have largely steered clear of the most controversial far-righters who surrounded Trump in the past," says Axios in their latest story about the campaign, published Wednesday. Except you can consider all of the Trump campaign's self-praise rescinded....

    • MSNBC

    Shockwave: Trump criminal verdict coming before election

    The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s “hush money” case rejected his bid to delay the trial, ruling after a hearing Monday that proceedings will get underway on April 15. MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports. (Check out The Beat's playlist: https://msnbc.com/ari Connect with Ari Melber: https://www.instagram.com/arimelber)

  • A conviction in any of Trump's four criminal cases could screw him

    Ever since Donald Trump amassed 91 criminal counts (now 88) in four separate indictments, many legal and political analysts have dismissed the New York hush-money case, with its 34 counts, as the least consequential of Trump's potentially illegal conquests.  Exit polls may have found that more than a quarter of voters in the Republican presidential primaries say Trump would be unfit for office if convicted of a crime, but what's a little "catch and kill" election interference when the guy shook...

    • MSNBC

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    Donald Trump faces an over $400 million judgment for his civil fraud trial Monday while he’s in court with Stormy Daniels in his criminal hush money case. Former Senior Trump White House Official Omarosa Manigault Newman joins Alex Witt to discuss what can be expected on Trump’s busy day.

    • CNN

    Judge recommends disbarment of ex-Trump election lawyer

    An attorney discipline judge in California has recommended that ex-Trump election lawyer John Eastman be disbarred, according to an opinion released on Wednesday.

  • Donald Trump's Lawyers Get Ominous Warning From Attorney

    Former lawyers for Donald Trump received an ominous warning on Wednesday from business and compliance attorney Seth Berenzweig."This is going to be an important message sent by the state disciplinary bars who really have the authority to basically execute what is tantamount to a death penalty from the professional world for attorneys," Berenzweig said on CNN about ex-lawyers for the former president, Jeffrey Clark and John Eastman, and their possible disbarment.A disbarment hearing for Clark...

  • Trump Lawyers Raise Alarms for Judge: 'Really Disconcerting'

    Donald Trump's lawyers' lack of a case to cite in order to back up their argument in the former president's hush money hearing on Monday raised alarms for Judge Juan Merchan.Merchan, who is presiding over the case, pressed Trump's lawyer, Todd Blanche, to cite a case to back up his prosecutorial misconduct claims. He noted that Blanche has accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of misconduct, and himself, as being "complicit" in it. When pressured to provide a case, Blanche admitted...

  • Trump Looking to Delay Hush Money Criminal Trial

    Former U.S. president Donald Trump is in a New York courtroom Monday,

  • John Eastman, Trump's former lawyer, should be disbarred, judge rules

    John Eastman, the former Orange County law school dean who helped forge Donald Trump’s legal strategy for retaining power after the 2020 election, should be disbarred, a State Bar Court judge ruled Wednesday. "It is true that an attorney has a duty to engage in zealous advocacy on behalf of a client," wrote the judge, Yvette Roland. "However, Eastman's inaccurate assertions were lies that cannot be justified as zealous advocacy." Roland's recommendation to yank the 63-year-old Eastman’s license...