• NPR

    Trial for Donald Trump's hush money case will begin on April 15 : Trump's Trials

    For this episode of Trump's Trials, host Scott Detrow speaks with NPR's Andrea Bernstein. An appeals court has cut the bond former President Donald Trump has to post from $454 million to $175 million in his civil fraud trial. The news came the same day as the deadline before the New York Attorney General could start seizing Trump properties to pay off the massive judgement. And in a separate New York court, a judge sharply rebuked Trump's lawyers in his hush money criminal case and set a trial...

  • Judge smacks down Trump's 'presence-of-counsel' defense in hush money trial

    New York state Supreme Court Judge Juan M. Merchan ruled Monday that former President Donald Trump cannot use a "presence-of-counsel" defense at his upcoming hush money trial. Trump has asked the court for permission to claim he committed 34 felony counts during the "presence" of lawyers and believed the actions were legal. However, Trump did not intend to relinquish attorney-client privilege as required in a traditional advice-of-counsel defense. "This Court now rules that Defendant may...

  • 'Some prosecutor should be looking into' Trump's latest legal defense scam: expert

    Former President Donald Trump's sprawling network of ostensibly independent political groups raising money for him, much of it in service of paying legal expenses, seems to walk right up to the line of breaking the law, former prosecutor Kristy Greenberg told MSNBC's Alex Wagner — and may in fact cross it."Kristy, how is this legal?" asked Wagner. "How can he keep saying this one thing and doing another?""Well, I think the big question here will be looking behind all of this as to who is...

  • Judge Scolds Trump's Defense Team in the Hush Money Case as He Weighs When to Reschedule Trial

    NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge presiding over Donald Trump’s hush money case scolded the former president’s lawyers as he weighed when to reschedule the trial after a last-minute document dump caused a postponement of the original date. Judge Juan M. Merchan bristled at what he suggested were baseless defense claims of “prosecutorial […]

  • Trump's latest grift? A Trump-endorsed Bible

    On paper, coup-attempting fascist leader and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is about $4 billion richer now.   That’s thanks to some truly bizarre stock market shenanigans that assert his dorky little Twitter clone, Truth Social, to be worth $7 billion despite bringing in only $3.5 million in revenues while losing $45 million to do it. The man could retire in Moscow and be treated like the crooked king he always wanted to be for however many years of life he has left....

  • 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.

  • What the Press Still Doesn't Understand About Its Latest Trump Hysteria

    Following Trump's latest rally, we were all transported back to 2016, a time when the press would routinely take the now-former president's words out of context to paint a picture of a coming fascist state. Call it "bloodbath-gate," which sounds kind of hardcore, but the long and short of it is that Trump was talking about how the automotive industry and the economy as a whole would do if Joe Biden were to win in November.

    • 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.

  • Trump-backed Bibles are the latest entry on a cringeworthy list

    The list of Donald Trump’s money-making schemes is not short. Sure, the gold sneakers and the NFT trading cards stand out as some of the more recent and cringeworthy examples, but we don’t have to look back too far into the recent past to find a series of related grifts. Remember Trump University? And Trump Steaks? And the Trump board game? How about the former president selling off pieces of the suit he wore while taking his mug shot after one of his criminal indictments? It’s against this...

  • MAGA cultists bet big on Trump's latest grift

    On Tuesday, Donald Trump's latest grift went public—in the stock-market sense of the word. Trump Media & Technology Group, which at this point consists of the cobbled-together fake-Twitter social media site Truth Social and not much else, completed its merger with the gloriously sketchy special-purpose acquisition company Digital World Acquisition Corp, and will now be traded under the ominous ticker symbol "DJT." It's difficult to explain just how weird this all is. Digital World’s stock price...

    • CHCH

    Date set for Donald Trump's hush-money trial

    Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. The hashtag #DonPoorleone was trending Monday. It references former U.S. president Donald Trump, who’s due date to pay a nearly half-billion dollar bond is fast approaching. He has just 10 days to do so, and lucky for him the amount is now significantly less. Those legal woes are all over a civil case… but the […]