Former President Donald Trump's legal team has filed a notice of appeal in his Manhattan criminal case, challenging the gag order and venue for the trial, with plans to sue the judge, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, in an effort to delay the trial set to begin on April 15.
Former President Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York has been postponed until mid-April to allow for Trump's team to review 31,000 new records related to the case. Trump faces a 34-count felony indictment for falsifying New York business records to conceal damaging information before the 2016 election. The trial centers around hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and allegations of campaign finance violations and tax mischaracterization. Despite the delay, the New York case remains the first of the four criminal cases against Trump to go to trial.
Former President Donald Trump's hush money case faces a crucial hearing in New York as the judge considers a trial delay due to recent document disclosures. Trump is charged with falsifying business records related to payments to his lawyer to keep Stormy Daniels' allegations quiet. The case has been postponed until mid-April, with Trump's lawyers seeking dismissal or a three-month delay. Prosecutors argue the disclosures are not significant. Trump's trial delay may impact his legal battles and political aspirations.
Prosecutors in New York argue against Donald Trump's request to delay his impending criminal trial due to pre-trial publicity, stating that Trump actively seeks media attention through campaign rallies and social media posts. Manhattan DA's office refutes Trump's claim of unfair trial due to negative press coverage and public statements by key witnesses. A judge denied Trump's bid to delay the trial until the U.S. Supreme Court reviews his claim to presidential immunity from a separate criminal case.
Former President Donald Trump's attempts to dismiss charges against him in criminal cases related to election interference in Georgia and mishandling classified files in Florida were rejected by judges. The cases involve allegations of attempting to overturn the 2020 election and keeping secret government documents. Trump argued that the Presidential Records Act allowed him to retain sensitive files post-presidency, but prosecutors disagreed. The judges ruled that the charges were not based on the act and that Trump can still potentially use it as a defense during trial. Trials are scheduled for July, creating potential scheduling conflicts with the upcoming presidential election.
From the 1970s until he was elected president in 2016, Donald Trump and his businesses were involved in over 4,000 legal cases in U.S. federal and state courts, including battles with casino patrons, million-dollar real estate lawsuits, personal defamation lawsuits, and over 100 business tax disputes. He has also been accused of sexual harassment and sexual assault, with one accusation resulting in Trump being held civilly liable.In 2015, his lawyer Alan Garten called this "a natural part of doing business" in the United States. While litigation is indeed common in the real estate industry, Trump has been involved in more legal cases than his fellow magnates Edward J. DeBartolo Jr., Donald Bren, Stephen M. Ross, Sam Zell, and Larry Silverstein combined.Numerous legal affairs persisted during Trump's presidency. Since he left office, multiple investigations focus on him:Between October 2021 and July 2022 alone, the Republican National Committee paid more than $2 million to attorneys representing Trump in his capacity as president and in his personal and business capacities. The New York Times published an overview of his legal involvements as of September 2022. In January 2023, a federal judge fined Trump and his attorney nearly $1 million, characterizing him as "a prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries."On December 6, 2022, Trump's company The Trump Organization was convicted on 17 criminal charges.On March 30, 2023, in People v. Trump, he was indicted on 34 felony counts by a grand jury in Manhattan, New York. He was arraigned on the charges on April 4, 2023, and pleaded not guilty to all counts.On March 25, 2024, Trump is scheduled to stand trial on state criminal charges of falsifying business records related to hush money payments to an adult film actress prior to his election to the presidency.On May 9, 2023, regarding E. Jean Carroll's claims of defamation and sexual assault, an anonymous jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse (but not rape) and defamation against Carroll and ordered Trump to pay her $5 million in damages.In June 2023, Trump was indicted on federal criminal charges relating to his handling of classified documents and was arraigned in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in Miami. On May 14, 2024, there will be a pretrial hearing.On August 14, 2023, he was criminally indicted by a grand jury in Georgia on state election-related charges. Fulton County, Georgia, district attorney Fani Willis investigated his efforts to overturn that state's 2020 presidential election results.On September 26, 2023, in New York v. Trump, a judge issued a summary judgment finding Trump and his two adult sons liable for fraud regarding fraudulent overvaluation of The Trump Organization's assets and Trump's net worth. On February 16, 2024, following a three-month trial, Trump, The Trump Organization, his sons, and the former chief financial officer were fined a total of $364 million. A week later, the court finalized that Trump must also pay $100 million in interest. Trump appealed.On January 12, 2024, a case regarding an alleged pyramid scheme was dismissed from federal court, with plaintiffs recommended to file cases in state courts.On January 26, 2024, he was ordered to pay E. Jean Carroll an additional $83.3 million in damages.In 2024, he will face trial on federal charges related to the 2020 election.
Former President Trump's legal team filed a motion requesting Judge Juan Merchan's recusal from the hush money trial due to his daughter's Democrat-affiliated political work and alleged hostility towards Trump. Merchan's daughter is involved in a company that services exclusively Democrat clients and is ranked #21 in connection with the 2024 election. The trial is related to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's investigation into alleged hush money payments before the 2016 election, with Bragg examining payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
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.
Former President Donald Trump's legal team has argued for sweeping immunity to criminal prosecution in a Supreme Court filing, claiming it is necessary to avoid future presidents being blackmailed. They reference Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh's past words but overlook his nuanced stance on post-presidential indictments. Legal experts have rejected the immunity argument, citing its potential to elevate presidential power to imperial levels. The case, set to be heard on April 25, is viewed as a delaying tactic by Trump, with little expectation of success.
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.
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.
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.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree in Manhattan for a hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels, along with allegations of orchestrating a scheme to influence the 2016 election. The trial will last up to two months and is the first of Trump's four criminal cases to go to trial. Trump denies all wrongdoing and accuses the district attorney of a politically motivated witch hunt.
Former President Donald Trump's legal team argues in court that he had the authority to keep any documents he wanted during his time in the White House as his personal records, facing charges related to mishandling classified documents and obstructing justice. Judge Aileen Cannon is hearing arguments on whether the case should be dismissed based on Trump's claims of presidential classification powers, with potential rulings on trial dates and discovery requests from President Joe Biden's White House and the FBI.
Reporter, HuffPost Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann on Thursday slammed former President Donald Trump for his repeated social media attacks on the daughter of the judge overseeing his upcoming hush money trial in New York. Weissmann acknowledged it would be easy to dismiss Trumps attacks on the daughter of Acting New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan as just more of the same from the four-times-indicted presumptive GOP nominee. But it is really important not to just normalize this, Weissmann told MSNBC s Joy Reid. So many people talk about predicting what would a Trump 2.0 administration be, and should we really think hes going to be a dictator and what will happen, he said.
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.
Donald Trump's eligibility to run in the 2024 U.S. presidential election was the subject of dispute due to his involvement in the January 6 United States Capitol attack, through the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution's "insurrection clause", which disqualifies insurrectionists against the United States from holding office if they have previously taken an oath to support the constitution. Courts or officials in three states—Colorado, Maine, and Illinois—ruled that Trump was barred from presidential ballots. However, the Supreme Court in Trump v. Anderson (2024) reversed the ruling in Colorado on the basis that states could not enforce the insurrection clause against federal elected officials.In December 2023, the Colorado Supreme Court in Anderson v. Griswold ruled that Trump had engaged in insurrection and was ineligible to hold the office of President, and ordered that he be removed from the state's primary election ballots as a result. Later that same month, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows also ruled that Trump engaged in insurrection and was therefore ineligible to be on the state's primary election ballot. An Illinois judge ruled Trump was ineligible for ballot access in the state in February 2024. All three states had their decisions unanimously reversed by the United States Supreme Court. Previously, the Minnesota Supreme Court and the Michigan Court of Appeals both ruled that presidential eligibility cannot be applied by their state courts to primary elections, but did not rule on the issues for a general election. By January 2024, formal challenges to Trump's eligibility had been filed in at least 34 states.On January 5, 2024, the Supreme Court granted a writ of certiorari for Trump's appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court ruling in Anderson v. Griswold and heard oral arguments on February 8. On March 4, 2024, the Supreme Court issued a ruling unanimously reversing the Colorado Supreme Court decision, ruling that states had no authority to remove Trump from their ballots.Several commentators have also argued for disqualification because of democratic backsliding, as well as the paradox of tolerance, arguing that voters should not be able to elect Donald Trump, whom they see as a threat to the republic. Other commentators argue that removing Trump from the ballot constitutes democratic backsliding.There has been widespread doxing, swatting, bomb scares, and other violent threats made against politicians who have attempted to remove Trump from the ballot. On December 29, 2023, Secretary Bellows was swatted. The incidents are part of a broader spate of swatting attacks.
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