The first of Donald Trump's four criminal trials, the hush money trial, will begin in New York on April 15, making it a historic moment as the first criminal trial of a former U.S. commander-in-chief. Trump, the defendant in the trial, is also the presumptive Republican presidential nominee for the upcoming election. Jury selection for the trial is expected to start soon with a dozen Manhattan residents set to become the first Americans to sit in judgment of a former president charged with a crime.
Donald Trump's first criminal trial, set to begin in New York, involves charges of falsifying business records related to a $130,000 hush money payment to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels in 2016 before the election. Legal experts are divided on the strength of the case, with some questioning the political motives behind the charges. The trial is seen as a significant moment in the ongoing legal battles faced by the former US president.
Former President Donald Trump is facing a hush-money trial in New York, with jury selection set to begin. A dozen Manhattan residents will be the first Americans to sit in judgment of a former president charged with a crime. Judge Juan Merchans presides over the case in Manhattan.
The first of Donald Trump's four criminal trials is scheduled to begin in New York on April 15, with 12 jurors and six alternates selected to determine his guilt. Legal experts aim to ensure impartiality in the jury selection process, seeking individuals who can set aside personal opinions and decide based on evidence. Trump, a former president and 2024 presidential candidate, is facing a history-making criminal trial related to hush money investigations. Key figures in the case include attorneys, a judge, and a New York criminal justice professor providing insights on the trial process.
Former President Donald Trump criticized the Manhattan district attorney and judge overseeing his hush money trial, claiming a corrupt legal system and election interference. He faces 34 felony counts related to a payment to Stormy Daniels, maintains innocence, and plans to testify in the case, which marks the first criminal trial for a former American president. Despite a limited gag order, Trump is permitted to target the judge and prosecutor. Jury selection commences soon despite attempts by his lawyers to delay the trial.
Former President Donald Trump will go to trial on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records linked to a payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about an alleged affair. Despite proclaiming his innocence, the trial will proceed at the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse in New York City starting this Monday. Witnesses like David Pecker, who was involved in a catch and kill arrangement with potentially damaging stories about Trump, are expected to testify during the trial.
Former President Donald Trump is facing 34 counts of falsifying business records in a Manhattan trial, accused of covering up hush money payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels to conceal a past sexual encounter. Polls show skepticism among Americans, especially Republicans, with many viewing the charges as politically motivated. Trump's supporters largely dismiss the seriousness of the Manhattan charges compared to other indictments. The trial is set to start soon, with concerns over Trump potentially taking the witness stand despite previous poor testimony in a civil fraud trial.
Former President Donald Trump's legal efforts to delay his hush-money trial in Manhattan have been rejected by three separate emergency delay bids this week, with jury selection set to begin as scheduled on Monday. Despite ongoing appellate challenges, experts predict that the trial is unlikely to be stopped or paused, and any decisions in Trump's favor would not interrupt the ongoing trial. Trump's lawyers are strategically laying the groundwork to challenge his conviction by raising constitutional issues in failed delay bids.
Twelve New York residents will be chosen from hundreds to sit in the historic criminal trial where Trump faces accusations of hiding a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels. If found guilty, he could be sentenced to up to four years in prison. The jury selection process in a city largely Democratic and amidst intense media coverage is expected to be painstaking, seeking impartial panelists. Prospective jurors will undergo scrutiny with 42 questions covering their backgrounds and potential biases.
A New York appellate court rejected former President Donald Trump's request to delay his first criminal trial, where he faces 34 felony counts for falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments. The trial, set to start next Monday, includes a gag order prohibiting personal attacks on court staff, prosecutors, and witnesses. Trump claims his free speech rights are violated by the gag rule, but the court found his objection unfounded, citing the need to ensure a fair trial by preventing statements that could interfere with jury selection or intimidate witnesses.
Former President Donald Trump's request to delay his hush money criminal trial was denied for the third time in a week, with his arguments for the delay based on seeking Judge Juan M Merchan's recusal, claiming restrictive pre-motion letter requirements, and aiming to argue presidential immunity as a defense. The district attorney's office and court administration argued against the delay, deeming Trump's arguments meritless. Trump's lawyers have filed an appeal to prevent jury selection from starting, framing the action as suing Merchan under Article 78.
Allen Weisselberg, a former executive in Donald Trump's real estate empire, is set to be sentenced to five months in jail for lying under oath in Trump's New York civil fraud case. Weisselberg pleaded guilty to two counts of perjury, admitting to lying about the valuation of Trump's Manhattan penthouse on financial statements. This will be his second time behind bars, as he previously served 100 days for tax evasion. Despite testifying against Trump in trials, Weisselberg's plea agreement does not require him to testify in Trump's upcoming hush money criminal trial.
Donald Trump criticized Justice Juan Merchan and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg during a rally in Pennsylvania ahead of his first criminal trial involving hush money payments to Stormy Daniels. The former president has been issued a gag order preventing him from making public statements about witnesses. Trump also briefly mentioned Iran's recent drone and missile attack on Israel, attributing it to weakness in current leadership compared to when he was in office.
In the trial involving former President Donald Trump's alleged hush money payment to Stormy Daniels, Trump's lawyers mistakenly subpoenaed a Brooklyn man named Jeremy Rosenberg instead of the intended Manhattan investigator. Rosenberg humorously responded that he had no files to provide and kept the $15 sent for mailing documents. The prosecutor confirmed the error and stated that the wrong person had been served. The trial, facing Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records, is set for jury selection on April 15.
Donald John Trump Jr. (born December 31, 1977) is an American businessman, former television presenter, political activist, and author. He is the eldest child of former U.S. President Donald Trump and his first wife Ivana Trump.Trump serves as a trustee and executive vice president of The Trump Organization, running the company alongside his younger brother Eric. During their father's presidency, the brothers continued to do deals and investments in foreign countries, as well as collect payments in their U.S. properties from foreign governments, despite a pledge that they would not do so. He served as a boardroom judge on the reality TV show featuring his father, The Apprentice. He authored Triggered in 2019 and Liberal Privilege in 2020.Trump was active in his father's 2016 presidential campaign. He cooperated with Russia in their interference in the 2016 United States elections and had a meeting with a Russian lawyer who promised damaging information about the campaign of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. Trump campaigned for several Republicans during the 2018 midterm elections. He has promoted several conspiracy theories.Trump was also active in his father's 2020 presidential campaign, often being on the campaign trail and being featured in the news for making unfounded claims. During the election he called for "total war" as the results were counted and promoted the stolen election conspiracy theory. Following his father's defeat, he engaged in attempts to overturn the results. He spoke at the rally that led to the storming of the Capitol, where he threatened Trump's opponents that "we're coming for you." In January 2021, Attorney General for the District of Columbia Karl Racine said that he is looking at whether to charge Donald Trump Jr. with inciting the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol in the criminal investigation into the attack. CNN reported in April 2022 that two days after the election, Trump Jr. sent a text message to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows outlining paths to subvert the Electoral College process and ensure his father a second term.
During and after his term as President of the United States, Donald Trump made tens of thousands of false or misleading claims. The Washington Post's fact-checkers documented 30,573 false or misleading claims during his presidential term, an average of about 21 per day. The Toronto Star tallied 5,276 false claims from January 2017 to June 2019, an average of 6.1 per day. Commentators and fact-checkers have described the scale of Trump's mendacity as "unprecedented" in American politics, and the consistency of falsehoods a distinctive part of his business and political identities. Scholarly analysis of Trump's tweets found "significant evidence" of an intent to deceive.By June 2019, after initially resisting, many news organizations began to describe some of his falsehoods as "lies". The Washington Post said his frequent repetition of claims he knew to be false amounted to a campaign based on disinformation. Trump campaign CEO and presidency chief strategist Steve Bannon said that the press, rather than Democrats, was Trump's primary adversary and "the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit."As part of their attempts to overturn the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Trump and his allies repeatedly falsely claimed there had been massive election fraud and that Trump had won the election. Their effort was characterized by some as an implementation of the big lie propaganda technique.On June 8, 2023, a grand jury indicted Trump on one count of making "false statements and representations", specifically by hiding subpoenaed classified documents from his own attorney who was trying to find and return them to the government. In August 2023, 21 of Trump's falsehoods about the 2020 election were listed in his Washington, D.C. indictment, while 27 were listed in his Georgia indictment.
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Trump received a Bachelor of Science in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968, and his father named him president of his real estate business in 1971. Trump renamed it the Trump Organization and reoriented the company toward building and renovating skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. After a series of business failures in the late twentieth century, he successfully launched side ventures that required little capital, mostly by licensing the Trump name. From 2004 to 2015, he co-produced and hosted the reality television series The Apprentice. He and his businesses have been plaintiff or defendant in more than 4,000 state and federal legal actions, including six business bankruptcies.Trump won the 2016 presidential election as the Republican Party nominee against Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton while losing the popular vote. During the campaign, his political positions were described as populist, protectionist, isolationist, and nationalist. His election and policies sparked numerous protests. He was the first U.S. president with no prior military or government experience. A special counsel investigation established that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election to favor Trump's campaign. Trump promoted conspiracy theories and made many false and misleading statements during his campaigns and presidency, to a degree unprecedented in American politics. Many of his comments and actions have been characterized as racially charged or racist and many as misogynistic.As president, Trump ordered a travel ban on citizens from several Muslim-majority countries, diverted military funding toward building a wall on the U.S.–Mexico border, and implemented a policy of family separations for migrants detained at the U.S. border. He weakened environmental protections, rolling back more than 100 environmental policies and regulations. He signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which cut taxes for individuals and businesses and rescinded the individual health insurance mandate penalty of the Affordable Care Act. He appointed Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court. He reacted slowly to the COVID-19 pandemic, ignored or contradicted many recommendations from health officials, used political pressure to interfere with testing efforts, and spread misinformation about unproven treatments. Trump initiated a trade war with China and withdrew the U.S. from the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, the Paris Agreement on climate change, and the Iran nuclear deal. He met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un three times but made no progress on denuclearization.Trump refused to concede after losing the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, falsely claiming widespread electoral fraud, and attempted to overturn the results by pressuring government officials, mounting scores of unsuccessful legal challenges, and obstructing the presidential transition. On January 6, 2021, he urged his supporters to march to the U.S. Capitol, which many of them then attacked, resulting in multiple deaths and interrupting the electoral vote count.Trump is the only American president to have been impeached twice. After he tried to pressure Ukraine in 2019 to investigate Biden, he was impeached by the House of Representatives for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress; he was acquitted by the Senate in February 2020. The House impeached him again in January 2021, for incitement of insurrection, and the Senate acquitted him in February. Scholars and historians rank Trump as one of the worst presidents in American history.Since leaving office, Trump has continued to dominate the Republican Party and is a candidate in the 2024 Republican presidential primaries. In 2023, a civil trial jury found that Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll. In 2024, a New York state court found Trump liable for financial fraud. Trump is appealing both judgments. He was also indicted in New York on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, in Florida on 40 felony counts related to his mishandling of classified documents, in Washington, D.C., on four felony counts of conspiracy and obstruction for efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and in Georgia on 13 charges of racketeering and other alleged felonies committed in an effort to overturn the state's 2020 election results. Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges.
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Donald Trump's campaign is advocating for an earlier start to presidential debates with Joe Biden, citing concern that a significant number of Americans will have already voted before the first scheduled debate on Sept 16. They propose additional debates to allow more voters to see the candidates in action. Trump's advisors suggest up to seven presidential debates, drawing inspiration from the historic Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858. Biden has not confirmed his participation, linking it to Trump's behavior.
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