Donald Trump received both a lifeline from the courts Monday and a trial date for the first criminal trial of a former president in US history, a pair of rulings that hit home the legal whiplash constantly surrounding him. The twin rulings Monday, which came roughly within an hour of each other, hit the intersection of challenges to Trump’s image and his famed business empire as he seeks a second term in the White House. Trump’s historic criminal trial in the New York hush money case against him...
The establishment media have air-balled yet another big story with regard to former President Donald Trump as the merger between a SPAC and the company behind Trump’s Truth Social social media platform was approved Friday despite nonstop predictions the past couple years that this would not happen.
Nathan Wade, the embattled Georgia special prosecutor tasked with leading the case against Donald Trump and his allies, has stepped down in the wake of a scathing ruling from the Fulton County judge overseeing the case. CNN’s Nick Valencia and Norm Eisen give the details.
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — It’s not only about Donald Trump’s courtroom dramas. As the ex-president tries to ride a narrative of personal political persecution through his criminal trial quagmire back to the White House, other substantial political forces are gathering that could be equally critical to November’s election. Political drama from Washington
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — It’s not only about Donald Trump’s courtroom dramas. As the ex-president tries to ride a narrative of personal political persecution through his criminal trial quagmire back to the White House, other substantial political forces are gathering that could be equally critical to November’s election. Political drama from Washington
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — It’s not only about Donald Trump’s courtroom dramas. As the ex-president tries to ride a narrative of personal political persecution through his criminal trial quagmire back to the White House, other substantial political forces are gathering that could be equally critical to November’s election. Political drama from Washington
Jeet Heer Deplatforming the former president hasn’t worked, so America needs to rediscover his depravity.
Former President Donald Trump's decision to sue ABC News for defamation on Monday over host George Stephanopoulos' comments regarding E. Jean Carroll could backfire, according to lawyer George Conway.Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, was ordered in January to pay $83.3 million to Carroll, a former Elle columnist, for damaging her reputation after she accused him of sexually assaulting her in the 1990s. A separate jury last year awarded Carroll $5 million from Trump for sexual...
The United States government is likely to end the designation of marijuana as a dangerous narcotic sometime this year, potentially marking one of the biggest federal decisions on the classification of the drug in decades. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration determined that marijuana is less harmful than, say, opioids and other substances, prompting the Biden More
Tired of losing so many other legal cases, Donald Trump has filed his most
Former Justice department official Jeffrey Clark Wednesday asserted that his client was Donald Trump when he tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election from within. At a disciplinary hearing before the D.C. Bar, Committeewoman Patricia Matthews noted that Clark had repeatedly cited attorney-client privilege in refusing to answer questions. "Mr. Clark, you asserted a number of times attorney-client privilege," Matthews said. "For whom were you the attorney?" "For President Trump,...
Steve Bannon celebrated Donald Trump's plethora of legal battles on Monday, claiming that media coverage of the "lawfare" against the former president is among the reasons Trump is "back in such a fury."Bannon, ex-White House adviser to Trump, spoke about the former president's civil fraud verdict on his War Room podcast Monday a few hours after a federal appeals court in New York lowered Trump's bond amount in the case. In addition to massive financial penalties, Trump is facing 88 felony...