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
Testimony to resume in Trump New York trial Banker testimony to resume in Trump “hush money” trial 02:45 The third week of former President Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial is resuming Tuesday with continued testimony from its third witness, bank executive Gary Farro. Farro testified last Friday that Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney, was … Read more
David Pecker appeared to be in a breezy mood this week. The former National Enquirer publisher was describing the inner workings of his trade—“checkbook journalism,” he called it on Monday—without needing much prompting from the district attorney who was questioning him. Pecker, a longtime friend and ally of Donald Trump’s, was the state’s first witness … Read more
