The judge overseeing Donald Trump‘s criminal trial on Friday urged prosecutors to tell the former U.S. president’s estranged former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen to stop making public statements about the case before his expected testimony next week. Todd Blanche, Trump’s defense lawyer in the case stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, … Read more
The criminal trial of Donald Trump on Friday will feature the continued cross-examination of the prosecution’s first witness, David Pecker, as defence lawyers try to discredit the idea that there had been a plot to protect Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.On Thursday, Pecker, the former publisher of The National Enquirer, described his own involvement in the … Read more
New York prosecutors said on the first day of Donald Trump‘s criminal hush money trial that the former president broke the law and corrupted the 2016 election by trying to cover up sexual encounters with a porn star and a Playboy model, while his defense lawyer said he committed no crime. Jurors in the historic … Read more
Former US president Donald Trump is no longer one of the richest 500 in the world. His name is now missing from the list of Bloomberg Billionaires Index which daily ranks the world’s 500 richest people. Trump’s name got removed from the list after the stock price of his social media company, Truth Social, plummeted … Read more
A New York appeals court judge Tuesday rejected former President Donald Trump‘s latest bid to delay his hush money criminal trial while he fights a gag order, clearing the way for jury selection to begin next week. Justice Cynthia Kern’s ruling is yet another loss for Trump, who has tried repeatedly to get the trial … Read more
Former President Donald Trump says he believes abortion should be left to the states in a video released on Monday outlining his position after months of mixed messages and speculation. “Many people have asked me what my position is on abortion and abortion rights,” Trump said in the video posted on his Truth Social site. … Read more
A voter fills out his ballot at a polling booth in Manhattan, New York on April 2, 2024. Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York and Wisconsin held their presidential primaries on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: Seth Wenig U.S. President Joe Biden and his Republican rival and predecessor Donald Trump have won their presidential primaries in four … Read more
Former U.S. President Donald Trump faces a Monday deadline to post a bond covering a $454 million civil judgment against him in a New York state case, after a judge found he had overstated the value of his assets. His lawyers have told the court it is impossible for him to raise that much money. … Read more
The big news this week, President Joe Biden said at a weekend Washington roast, was that two candidates had clinched their party’s nomination for president. But one was too old, too mentally unfit for the job, he said. “The other’s me,” Biden quipped. The digs against Republican Donald Trump kept coming from the president at … Read more
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump salutes at a campaign rally on March 16, 2024, in Vandalia, Ohio. | Photo Credit: AP Donald Trump told a rally in Ohio on Saturday that November’s presidential election will be the “most important date” in U.S. history, painting his campaign for the White House as a turning … Read more