We’re only one week into the first criminal trial of Donald Trump, yet he and his MAGA allies are already intervening to identify and drive off the jury anyone they think could pose a risk to the former president. At Fox News, host Jesse Watters has launched attacks on the jurors, saying at one point that any juror who says they can be unbiased in the case is a liar, and citing Trump’s legal team as having uncovered potential jurors who were “undercover activists.” Trump himself quickly...
Monday was the first time. Nearby businesses bemoaned a drop in sales as roadblocks stopped customers from accessing their stalls, while others said they had seen it all before. It comes after previous scenes of chaos outside the downtown Manhattan courthouse when a protester died after setting himself on fire on Friday
UPDATE: Jury selection has ended for the day in Donald Trump's hush money
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Pearl Jam front man Eddie Vedder explained the meaning behind the band's politically-themed song off their album "Dark Matter."The song titled "Wreckage" is purportedly about Donald Trump, Vedder told the Times, calling the former president and candidate "desperate to win" and only looking to avoid imprisonment."There is a guy in the United States who is still saying he didn’t lose an election," he told the British outlet. "And people are reverberating and amplifying that message as if it is...
President Joe Biden traveled to Florida to take on Donald Trump on his home turf - ridiculing comments the Republican made about abortion and the Bibles the ex-president is hawking.
Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified about relationship with Trump and Cohen for hours.
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Seven jurors have been selected so far, including the foreman. Among them are lawyers, a teacher and a nurse.
Donald Trump made his name and fortune in New York, but supporters of the former president are thin on the ground in the city that never sleeps ahead of his historic trial that opens Monday."He has to face justice, right?" said Valmir Do Carmo, 30, a babysitter, as he walked his dogs on Court Street in the city's Brooklyn borough."He hasn't a lot of supporters in New York City though, but I'm confident, New York City is very upfront, and I'm pretty sure justice is going to be made."Trump has...