Last April, Donald Trump made his first of many appearances at a Lower Manhattan courthouse. He had just become the first president, current or former, to be indicted on criminal charges. The circumstances were undeniably historic, and as his motorcade made its way downtown from Trump Tower, the crowds started to gather. On one side … Read more
For a good part of this past spring, Donald Trump spent his days in a drab Manhattan courtroom, reliving some of the more sordid aspects of his 2016 campaign. The past and future president watched as leading personalities from that micro-era—Michael Cohen, Stormy Daniels, Hope Hicks–testified while he looked on wordlessly, flanked by a new … Read more
After four weeks of witness testimony and two days of jury deliberation in the first criminal trial of a former US president, Donald Trump was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records on Thursday. In convicting the presumptive Republican nominee for the November election, a Manhattan jury made the celebrity real estate developer … Read more
No one knows where the jury currently deciding Donald Trump’s fate in the hush money trial will land in regard to guilty versus not guilty, but one person who seems to be extremely concerned that the verdict will be guilty? Donald Trump. We know this because of his strange ramblings outside the courtroom on Wednesday, … Read more
That whole episode in the suite,” Manhattan prosecutor Joshua Steinglass reflected on Tuesday, “that was uncomfortable.” In his closing remarks in Donald Trump’s hush money trial, Steinglass was taking jurors back to the night in 2006, when, as the porn star Stormy Daniels testified this month, she slept with the former president in his hotel … Read more
Manhattan prosecutors won’t be penalized for a last-minute document dump that caused former President Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial to start later than scheduled, a judge ruled Thursday. Judge Juan Merchan rejected the defense’s request that prosecutors be sanctioned for a deluge of nearly 200,000 pages of evidence just weeks before the trial’s scheduled … Read more
When former president Donald Trump struck a two-debate deal with President Joe Biden on Wednesday, the Drudge Report posed a provocative question: “WILL HE BE IN PRISON” by the time the first debate takes place on June 27? Trump’s hush money cover-up trial will surely be over by then, but, according to CNN’s chief legal … Read more
Former “fixer” Michael Cohen testified against his ex-boss Donald Trump on Monday, telling a jury in Lower Manhattan that Trump was unconcerned about how news of his alleged affair with porn star Stormy Daniels would go over with Melania Trump—but that he was deeply concerned about how it would play out on the 2016 campaign … Read more
Donald Trump’s one-time fixer and the star prosecution witness at the former president’s criminal trial testified Monday how the then-Republican candidate directed him to pay a porn actress to bury revelations of an alleged tryst. Michael Cohen, who once took pride in being Trump’s attack dog, methodically delivered evidence against his former boss, glancing at … Read more
The last time Hope Hicks spoke to Donald Trump, she said in a Manhattan courtroom on Friday, was in 2022. That year, text messages from the former president’s longtime aide—and one of the most visible faces associated with his early grip on political power—emerged during a House investigation into his role in the Capitol riot … Read more
