Former President Donald Trump is facing brutal backlash after complaining that his criminal trial is keeping him away from former first lady Melania Trump on her birthday.Trump appeared in court on Friday to attend the eighth day of his hush-money trial in New York City, where he has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. The 77-year-old former president said Melania, who turned 54 on Friday, remained at home in Florida.While speaking to reporters, Trump lamented...
Former President Donald Trump's Manhattan criminal trial suddenly erupted in shouting on Thursday.Matthew Russell Lee of the Inner City Press reported on X, formerly Twitter, that at one point during the trial on Thursday, Trump's lawyer brought up text messages between Dylan Howard, the former editor-in-chief of the National Inquirer and an unknown relative.According to Russell Lee, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said to both the defense and the prosecution that some details of the...
Former President Donald Trump, who is also the presumptive Presidential nominee for the GOP, will speak in Freeland May 1.
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Judge Juan Merchan was "surprised" that former President Donald Trump's lawyers didn't do more to halt adult film actress Stormy Daniels' damning testimony in the criminal trial.Daniels, who claimed to have received a $130,000 hush money payment from former Trump fixer Michael Cohen, revealed intimate details about her sexual encounter with Trump that upset the defense.Trump is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection to the payment made to Daniels. He has pleaded not...
When Ronald Reagan sought the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in 1980, it was an open question as to whether the former governor’s family life would be perceived disqualifying. Voters had never before elected a divorced president, and there was great uncertainty about whether the electorate was prepared to put aside this apparent taboo. When Bill Clinton sought the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination 1992, the then-governor publicly conceded that he’d “caused pain” in his...
Former President Donald Trump's hush money trial continues in New York.
Donald Trump is scheduled to give the keynote address at the Minnesota Republican Party's annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner on May 17, the same day he requested off court to attend his son Barron Trump's graduation ceremony.On April 30 Judge Merchan, who is presiding over the former president's Stormy Daniels hush money case, announced the court wouldn't sit on May 17, allowing Trump to attend the event. But the former president is also due to speak at the Minnesota GOP event on the same day,...
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Former President Donald Trump's hush money trial continues in New York.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump wanted Hope Hicks to stop the daily newspapers from being delivered to his residence at Trump Tower in 2016 in the aftermath of the Karen McDougal story because he was concerned about how his wife, Melania Trump, would view it, Hicks testified in the former president's hush money trial in New York City.The prosecution called the former Trump adviser to the stand on Friday, rousing the courtroom as they announced she'd be the next witness. Hicks was...
We also believe that the Posse Comitatus Act does not conflict with or restrict (the inherent presidential powers to secure the border) and the PCA has, in fact, never barred the use of the military to secure the U.S. border