• 'Goading the judge': Expert thinks Trump is trying to distract from David Pecker testimony

    A legal expert speculated that Donald Trump could be trying to distract voters from his trial by violating the gag order and picking a fight with the judge. Tuesday morning, Trump's lawyers defended him at a hearing called after prosecutors alleged multiple violations of a gag order placed on him in the hush money case. The order's aim to is stop intimidation of potential witnesses and jury members.But the judge didn't seem to buy their arguments.Trump's lawyer, Todd Blanche, claimed that his...

  • Trump hates his courtroom sketches — and thinks the artist is 'out to get him': report

    Former President Donald Trump is enraged about how he looks in the courtroom sketches at his Manhattan trial — and thinks that the sketch artist is trying to make him look bad on purpose.According to Rolling Stone's Ryan Bort, Asawin Suebsaeng, and Catherina Gioino, the former president "privately asked people close to him if they agree that the courtroom sketch-artist must be out to get him, two of the sources say. Trump has critiqued the sketches of him that have circulated in the media this...

    • MSNBC

    Trump trial starts: D.A. argues Trump guilty of lies & 2016 crime

    Donald Trump’s first criminal trial is underway in New York. MSNBC’s Ari Melber is joined by Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, Jen Psaki, Chris Hayes and Alex Wagner break down the latest from day one of Trump’s trial. (Bookmark The Beat’s YouTube playlist, updated daily: https://msnbc.com/ari. Connect with Ari on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AriMelber IG: https://www.instagram.com/arimelber Merch: msnbc.com/beat5)

  • Hostin Fears Trump Voter Will ‘Sneak’ onto Jury By Saying ‘I Hate Trump’

    On Tuesday’s edition of The View, ABC’s staunchly racist and anti-Semitic co-host, Sunny Hostin (the descendant of slave owners) proved once again why she’s a former federal prosecutor. Speaking about the upcoming hush-money trial against former President Trump, Hostin proclaimed that she feared the impartial jury would be infiltrated by a Trump supporter who would “lie” by telling the court the contradictory statement: “I hate Trump. But I can be impartial.” Hostin admitted she was “excited”...

  • Hostin Fears Trump Voter Will ‘Sneak’ onto Jury By Saying ‘I Hate Trump’

    On Tuesday’s edition of The View, ABC’s staunchly racist and anti-Semitic co-host, Sunny Hostin (the descendant of slave owners) proved once again why she’s a former federal prosecutor. Speaking about the upcoming hush-money trial against former President Trump, Hostin proclaimed that she feared the impartial jury would be infiltrated by a Trump supporter who would “lie” by telling the court the contradictory statement: “I hate Trump. But I can be impartial.” Hostin admitted she was “excited”...

  • WATCH: Totally Sane Sunny Hostin Fears Trump Fan Will 'Sneak' Onto Jury by Saying 'I Hate Trump, But'

    "The View" co-host Sunny Hostin couldn't be more transparent in three areas.

  • Why Is Donald Trump So Hated?

    There is no neutrality when it comes to Donald Trump. He is arguably the most polarizing figure in America, if not in the world, and at the mention of his name, temperatures rise. To his loyal supporters, he is a courageous hero of superhuman proportions. To his fervent detractors, he is the incarnation of evil itself in exaggerated form. Why, then, does Trump bring such extreme polarization? Why is he so hated? The first and most obvious reason is that Trump is reaping what he has sown. He has...

  • ‘Hush money’ is not a crime, and Bragg has no case against Trump

    From the perspective of Bragg and Democrats, to accurately describe what they’ve alleged would be to see it laughed out of any court that isn’t a kangaroo court.

    • WLNS

    Possible hate crime rattles MSU community

    Police are still trying to figure out exactly what happened, but officials say students may have been attacked because of their sexual orientation.

  • Repeal may be only solution for hate crime act

    The jibe coined by Inverness-born Spectator magazine editor Fraser Nelson after the introduction of the new Hate Crime Act, was this week quoted by Lord Hope, once Scotland’s most senior judge and a former deputy president of the UK Supreme Court. It could yet be the SNP’s epitaph. In less than a fortnight, Police Scotland has been deluged with thousands of complaints, hardly any of which will result in prosecution, never mind conviction. No-one knows how or if these complaints will be recorded,...

  • Proof that hate crime law isn't fit for purpose

    More than 1,000 hate crime complaints have been made to police every day on average since Scotland's controversial new law was introduced on April Fool's Day.

  • Armenian cemetery fire found to be arson, but not hate crime

    The fires that caused severe damage to the Fresno Ararat Armenian Cemetery Sunday afternoon were found to be arson, but not a hate crime, FOX26 News reports. According to the Fresno Fire Department, firefighters responded to the cemetery on Sunday for reports of several trees on fire in the clearly marked Armenian section of the cemetery, leading the …