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Monday was genuinely historic. For the first time since the nation was founded, a jury sat down to hear criminal charges against a man who once served as the nation’s highest executive. Despite months in which pundits had dismissed this case as the weakest of the criminal cases Donald Trump is facing, the prosecution got off to a powerful start, outlining for the jury Trump’s long history of scandal, cover-up, and playing fast and loose with legalities. Judge Juan Merchan kept things moving...
Documents from Trump's motion to compel in Florida remind of newly significant details of his White House's failure to preserve tweets covered by the Presidential Records Act.
Donald Trump has an unfortunate habit, which I like to call “preemptive delegitimization.” The way it works is relatively simple: When there’s even a possibility that the former president might be held accountable for alleged wrongdoing, the Republican goes to ridiculous lengths to undermine public confidence in the process, the officials, and the institutions. The motivations behind preemptive delegitimization are obvious: If efforts to hold him accountable are inherently corrupt and...
Ten years ago, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who served under Barack Obama and George W. Bush, wrote a memoir in which he offered a damning assessment of Joe Biden's foreign policy.
Sanctions may rain down on Donald Trump in the form of fines and jail threats for potentially breaching his hush money trial gag order by his rampant social media posts and quotes — but prosecutors may also put all of them into evidence that could be used as fodder to radically sway his jury. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's prosecution team on Tuesday asked the judge to dock the former president for at least 10 posts on his social media account and campaign website that appeared as...
A dozen jurors were chosen for Trump’s hush-money trial in April 2024.
Former President Donald Trump experienced a fresh form of humiliation during the second day of his criminal hush money trial, listening to a cavalcade of negative social media posts about him without reacting, according to new piece from Daily Beast writer David Mack. Mack revels in "the Joy of making Trump listen to mean tweets About himself" in his new op-ed."The vicious, thin-skinned ex-president was forced to endure readings of social media posts by prospective jurors that mercilessly mocked...
How many strikes will New York Judge Juan Merchan permit until he turns the screws on defendant Donald Trump's suspected violation of a gag order? Ret. Judge Jill Konviser, who served on the benches in both Manhattan and Brooklyn courts, suggested former President Donald Trump has been treated with kid gloves compared to others accused of crimes. "I think he's given an amazing amount of leeway and in that sense, you know we hear Trump talking about him being treated differently," she said...
His ‘Sleepy Joe’ nickname for his rival seems to have come full circle, with social media users now calling Mr Trump ‘Sleepy Don’
Former President Donald Trump might have to be removed from the courtroom in Manhattan if he exhibits his typical behavior — and former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance has some thoughts on how that might work.This comes after Judge Juan Merchan gave Trump a standard defendant warning that outbursts at trial might lead to his detention — and after his own attorneys pleading with him to stay calm and not blow up."Judge Merchan tells Trump that if he disrupts the trial they will proceed without him...
A Fox personality’s social media post on Monday is raising eyebrows, as one U.S. Congressman calls it “jury tampering” and a legal expert suggests it could be “conspiring to commit jury tampering.”Clay Travis is an attorney and the founder of the conservative “sports and American culture” website Outkick, which was purchased by the Fox Corporation in 2021.His Fox News bio calls him “the founder of the fastest-growing national multimedia platform,” and, “One of the most electrifying and outspoken...