Trump gag order hearing kicks off hush money trial: Live updates

Former President Trump’s hush money trial on Tuesday will begin with a New York judge hearing arguments over whether the former president violated a gag order imposed on him in the case. Prosecutors with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office claim Trump has so far violated the order barring him from attacking witnesses, prosecutors, court staff … Read more

Ex-White House ethics lawyer: Judge will find Trump quote posts in violation of gag order 

Former White House ethics lawyer Jim Schultz said that he thinks the New York judge in former President Trump’s hush money case will still find his social media posts quoting others as violating the gag order in the case.  “He’s referencing the jurors, he’s, he’s pushing out something that someone else said, yes,” Schultz, who … Read more

Trump hush money case delay effort ‘dead loser from the get-go’: CNN legal analyst

Former White House ethics head Norm Eisen criticized a failed effort by former President Trump to delay his New York hush money case. “It was a dead loser from the get-go,” Eisen said Monday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” with host Wolf Blitzer, in a clip highlighted by Mediaite. That same day, an appeals court … Read more

44 percent say Trump conviction in hush-money case would not affect vote: Survey

Forty-four percent of respondents in a new survey say their vote would not be affected if former President Trump is convicted in the New York hush-money case. The Politico Magazine/Ipsos poll found that about half of Americans believe Trump is guilty in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hush-money case against him, where the former president is charged … Read more