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CNN’s Michael Smerconish asks, can Trump field a fair and impartial jury in Manhattan, where he won only 12.3% of the vote in 2020?
The adult film star. The betraying bagman. The brash billionaire. The plot reads like a "Sopranos" episode, a shadowy narrative of a nation’s sins and troubling divisions, its characters converging in a New York courtroom where, for the first time in history, a former president will stand before a jury in a criminal trial. Donald Trump is giving the country another unruly moment to mark. There have been so many over the years — the Jan. 6 insurrection, the failed pandemic response — that they...
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Donald Trump offered a tough message to Israel over its war against Hamas, urging the country to: “Get it over with.”
CNN’s Laura Coates discusses the possibility of an unfair “sleeper” juror making their way into the Trump jury selection and attempt a mistrial later on.
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Donald Trump is due in court Monday (April 15) in New York to stand trial in the criminal hush money case involving adult film star Stormy Daniels. As a result, the hashtag #TrumpTrial is trending on X, formerly Twitter, with memes and jokes coming in by the dozens. Several outlets, such as The Hill and CNN are covering the trial of Donald Trump with up-to-the-minute updates from inside the Manhattan courtroom. Trump is standing trial for a criminal matter involving hush money paid to Stormy...
There will undoubtedly be significant coverage of the unprecedented criminal trial of a former United States president, set to begin Monday in New York Supreme Court (the state's trial court) in Manhattan.
Special counsel Jack Smith’s latest brief to the Supreme Court on Donald Trump’s immunity claim strives to ensure that the justices' decision puts the Jan. 6 trial back on track, ending the detour the former president has extracted from a weak argument. The bulk of the brief Smith filed Monday is a methodical rejection of Trump’s far-fetched claims to immunity from prosecution for attempting to overturn the 2020 election. Smith and his Supreme Court specialist, Michael Dreeben, closely follow...
UPDATE: Jury selection has ended for the day in Donald Trump's hush money
Former President Donald Trump shared an adoring video of his wife Melania Trump on social media on Sunday after the former first lady's appearance at a campaign fundraiser was mocked.Melania has managed to stay pretty much out of the spotlight while her husband, the presumed 2024 GOP presidential nominee, gears up for a likely rematch in November against President Joe Biden, the Democratic incumbent. However, when Melania was asked last month if she would join her husband on the campaign trail,...