In the criminal hush money case involving Donald Trump, the judge has broadened the gag order on the former president to include prohibiting him from criticising his family members or those of Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg. Trump denies concealing hush money payments to an adult film actress before the 2016 election. The expanded order came after Trump's online attacks on the judge's daughter. Trump's camp called the gag order unconstitutional, but the judge emphasized the need to protect the integrity of the judicial proceedings.
A New York judge has placed a gag order on Donald Trump ahead of his criminal hush money case that begins on April 15. The order prohibits Trump from making public statements about court staff, jurors, witnesses, and lawyers in the district attorney's office. The campaign claims the order violates Trump's free speech rights. Trump is facing 34 felony counts related to hush money payments to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. Justice Juan Merchan granted the gag order after a request from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, citing Trump's history of attacking opponents.
Former President Donald Trump criticized Judge Juan Merchan and his daughter after a gag order was imposed in his criminal trial in New York, barring him from speaking about the case. The gag order prohibits public statements about witnesses, prosecutors, and court staff but does not apply to remarks about Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Trump accused Judge Merchan of trying to deprive him of his First Amendment rights and attacked Merchans daughter for using an image of Trump behind bars as a profile picture on social media.
Former California Superior Court Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell urges immediate consequences, including jail time, if former President Donald Trump violates court orders. Acting New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan imposed a gag order on Trump, who has criticized Merchan on his Truth Social platform. Cordell calls for an expanded gag order to include Merchan, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, and their families to prevent threats and intimidation towards the court system.
During a discussion on MSNBC's Deadline: White House, host Nicole Wallace passionately criticized Donald Trump's attacks on New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan's daughter, Loren, amid the hush money trial. Wallace expressed frustration over the need for gag orders due to threats towards judges and their families, highlighting Trump's disregard for the rule of law. Justice Merchan recently imposed a gag order on Trump regarding the trial, prompting prosecutors to seek clarification.
Manhattan prosecutors are seeking a judge's clarification on a gag order regarding former President Donald Trump's social media posts criticizing the judge's daughter, asking if the order extends to protecting family members of the court, district attorney's office, and other individuals. Trump's fiery posts on Truth Social targeted Judge Juan Merchan's daughter, Loren Merchan, leading prosecutors to request an end to attacks on family members to prevent intimidation of witnesses and prospective jurors.
Former President Trump's attorneys have filed a motion to adjourn the trial related to hush money payments until after the Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity in the case Trump v United States. The trial is set to begin on March 25 in New York City, with Judge Juan Merchan scheduling six weeks for the proceedings. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg had indicted Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection to hush money payments to Stormy Daniels.
Youre reading Guardian USs free Trump on Trial newsletter. To get the latest court developments delivered to your inbox, sign up here . Its official: Donald Trump will become the first former president in US history to face a criminal trial. On Monday, Judge Juan Merchan set a date of 15 April for Trumps New York hush-money trial, rejecting requests from Trumps attorneys to delay it by at least 90 days. At that hearing, which took place on the day the trial had initially been scheduled to begin, Merchan seemed irritated by Trumps teams attempts for more delay, pressing them repeatedly on their claims that Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg s office had dragged its feet on turning over thousands of pages of evidence when it was federal prosecutors offices who had those documents.
Former US President Donald Trump has posted a $175 million bond in New York to prevent the state from seizing his assets in a civil fraud case. Trump had been given 10 days to make the payment, which was reduced from $454 million. If he loses an appeal, he will be liable to pay the full amount plus daily interest. Additionally, Trump faces restrictions on verbal attacks towards the family members of a judge in a separate trial involving hush money payment to Stormy Daniels.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg seeks to dismiss Trump's request for a trial delay, with the judge granting a 30-day postponement to review new evidence, setting the trial date for April 15. Trump's legal team argues for a 90-day delay, citing discovery process violations and requesting a hearing on the matter. Over 170,000 documents were turned over, with fewer than 300 deemed relevant for Trump's defense. The case alleges falsifying business records tied to hush-money payments, with key witness Cohen's notes from the Mueller investigation included in the evidence.
By 2020, the Manhattan district attorney (DA) had opened a criminal case to determine whether The Trump Organization had committed financial fraud. In December 2022, two of the organization's subsidiary companies were found guilty of 17 charges including tax fraud. On March 30, 2023, Donald Trump was criminally indicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in tandem with an alleged catch and kill operation to suppress negative press during his 2016 campaign, largely revolving around the hush-money payment to pornographic actress Stormy Daniels. Trump is the first former U.S. president to be criminally charged. On April 4, he pleaded not guilty. Further proceedings took place over subsequent months, with a trial scheduled for March 25, 2024.The organization ceased a number of illegal practices around the time of Trump's election as U.S. president, some of which had reputedly been executed since the 1980s. Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. reportedly began scrutinizing the company in 2018 related to Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen's hush-money payment to Daniels. By mid-2021, New York State Attorney General Letitia James had joined the DA's criminal inquiry, with the latter convening a grand jury. Prosecutors filed 10 charges against the organization, alleging that it had conducted a 15-year "scheme to defraud" the government, and 15 felony counts against longtime chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, who agreed to a plea deal in August 2022—during Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's tenure. After the organization's conviction, the DA returned to the hush-money scandal as part of its larger probe.Evidence against the organization indicates that Weisselberg and other executives—as well as the two subsidiaries—participated in fraudulent schemes, including recording some employee bonuses as pay for contract work. Trump family members allegedly intended no wrongdoing despite signing relevant checks.Some conservative pundits denounced the investigation, with the Republican National Committee paying some of Trump's legal fees, while Democrats generally endorsed it. After Trump's indictment, Republican U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan organized a hearing against Bragg, leading the DA to sue him for alleged interference.
The People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump is a pending criminal case against Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States. On March 30, 2023, Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury for his alleged role in a scandal relating to hush money payments made to the pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, making him the first U.S. president to be indicted. Trump faces 34 felony charges of falsifying business records in the first degree, carrying a maximum sentence of 136 years if Trump is convicted on all counts.Trump traveled from his residence in Florida to New York City on April 3, 2023 where he surrendered to the Manhattan District Attorney's office on the afternoon of April 4. After his arraignment, he immediately returned to Florida. The trial was set for March 25, 2024.Throughout the investigation that led to the indictment, Trump accused district attorney Alvin Bragg—the case's prosecutor—of having political motivations. Months before he was indicted, Trump declared that he would run in the 2024 presidential election; neither the indictment nor any resulting conviction would disqualify his candidacy.
On January 12, 2018, The Wall Street Journal reported that in October 2016, just before the 2016 United States presidential election, Michael Cohen, lawyer for then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, arranged a payment of US$130,000 to pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels to stop her disclosing an affair she and Trump allegedly had in 2006. Daniels had signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). At first, Cohen denied Trump had the alleged affair and sought to suppress the allegation based on the NDA, but a month later publicly acknowledged making the payment.Besides allegations surrounding the details of the affair itself, the acknowledged payment raised legal and ethical questions as to whether the payment violated federal campaign finance laws, either because the payment was not duly disclosed as a campaign contribution or because campaign funds may have been used towards the payment. On February 13, Cohen said he paid the money out of his own pocket, not as a campaign contribution; and that neither The Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign reimbursed him for making it. On April 5, Trump said he had no knowledge of Cohen's payment; but on April 26 admitted for the first time that Cohen represented him in "the Stormy Daniels deal". On May 2, Trump's new lawyer Rudy Giuliani said that Trump had reimbursed Cohen for the payment.In August 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges, including a campaign finance violation for Daniels's payment. He stated under oath that he paid her "in coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office". Cohen was sentenced to three years in federal prison on various charges, and was disbarred.Daniels filed three lawsuits against Trump and/or Cohen. In the first lawsuit she argued that the NDA was invalid. She won the lawsuit, though it was dismissed after Trump and Cohen agreed not to enforce the NDA. A California court subsequently ordered Trump pay $44,100 to reimburse her legal fees. She lost the second lawsuit, in which she argued she was defamed, and was ordered to pay almost $300,000 in legal fees and court sanctions. In the third lawsuit she claimed that Cohen colluded with her previous attorney Keith Davidson against her interests when he negotiated the payment. The lawsuit did not name Trump as a defendant, and settled in May 2019.Trump's accounting firm, Mazars, provided his tax returns and related documents to the Manhattan District Attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., following the outcome of the Supreme Court's Trump v. Vance ruling in February 2021. Although an internal report said there was "reason to believe" Trump's campaign had knowingly violated campaign finance law, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) abandoned an inquiry into the payment to Daniels. The FEC's vote on May 6, 2021, split 2–2 along party lines.On March 30, 2023, a Manhattan grand jury indicted Trump for his alleged role in the scandal. Trump was arraigned in the Manhattan district court on April 4.
Donald Trump is struggling to post a bond worth around half a billion dollars in New York to prevent his assets from being targeted after a huge fraud judgment. Despite this, Trump is set for a potential financial windfall as his media company prepares to go public, adding $3 billion to his net wealth. He faces a critical hearing in a Manhattan hush money case that could lead to him being a convicted felon before the next election. Trump, while battling multiple criminal trials, remains dominant in the Republican Party and leads President Joe Biden in some swing-state polls.
Former Trump aide Hope Hicks is set to testify for the prosecution in Trump's New York hush money trial, involving falsified business records to cover up payments made to hide an affair during his 2016 campaign. Hicks, who denies prior knowledge of payments, is believed to have been involved in negotiating a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels. Trump faces multiple criminal cases and has labelled the charges as political, pleading not guilty. His former attorney, Michael Cohen, is cooperating with prosecutors. The trial is scheduled for April 15, with Daniels expected to testify.
Former White House communications director Hope Hicks is expected to testify in the criminal trial against Donald Trump in New York regarding falsifying business records related to hush money paid to Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign. Hicks previously denied knowledge of the hush money payment but was allegedly involved in negotiations to prevent Daniels from going public with her claims. The trial, scheduled to start on April 15, includes key witnesses such as Cohen and Daniels, with Trump pleading not guilty to the charges.
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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