On Monday, Donald Trump will make history again and become the first former president to go to trial on criminal charges. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has charged Trump with 34 felony counts of falsifying company records in an attempt to conceal a $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels. That payment, according to… Read More »
An appeals court judge is rejecting former President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to delay the start of the hush money trial on the grounds that presidential immunity protects him from prosecution. The decision marks the third time in three days that Trump has unsuccessfully lobbied an appeals court to delay the first-ever criminal trial of… Read More »
NEW YORK (AP) — Former president Donald Trump demands a new judge just days before his hush-money criminal trial is set to begin, repeating long-standing grievances with the current judge in a long-running, eleventh-hour effort to disrupt and delay the case. Trump’s lawyers — echoing his recent complaints on social media — urged Manhattan Judge… Read More »
NEW YORK (AP) — Into court Donald TrumpThe April 15 hush-money criminal trial declared his family off-limits Monday over the former president’s grudge, extending a gag order days after Trump attacked his daughter and made false claims about her on social media. Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan modified a week-old ban on Trump making public… Read More »
In her opening statement Tuesday, E. Jean Carroll’s attorney Shawn Crowley tells the jury about the former president Donald TrumpIn his second defamation lawsuit, he claimed he “unleashed his followers to come after her” by persistently denying her claim that he raped her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s. Judge Lewis Kaplan… Read More »
As jury selection gets underway Tuesday in New York in former President Donald Trump’s second civil defamation case, brought by columnist E. Jean Carroll, Judge Lewis Kaplan tells potential jurors “it has already been established that Mr. Trump sexually assaulted Ms. Carroll abused.” Here are the latest legal developments surrounding the former president, who hopes… Read More »