Tag Archives: Trump corruption

Politico reports: Justice Juan Merchan has officially impaneled the first six jurors who will decide whether Donald Trump is guilty of falsifying business records to conceal a sex scandal. The six individuals were sworn in after various other prospective jurors were removed from the pool this afternoon. Some were dismissed by the judge “for cause” after lawyers successfully argued that …

NBC News reports: After the questioning of a juror, Merchan admonished Trump for seeming to talk in a way that was audible. “I will not have any jurors intimidated in this courtroom. I want to make this crystal clear,” Merchan said. Merchan allowed the juror, whose Facebook post was at issue, to enter the courtroom so that Trump’s lawyer, Blanche, …

Mediaite reports: Several reporters in attendance at former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial shared on the air and social media that for the second day in a row, Trump fell asleep in court. CNN contributor Norm Eisen tweeted on Tuesday: “Trump is asleep again” at nearly 11:00 AM. And his account was corroborated by others on site. Maggie Haberman’s …

Kyle Cheney writes for Politico: Donald Trump is learning a hard lesson: Criminal defendants don’t get to set their own schedules. Three times on Monday the former president asked Justice Juan Merchan to cut him loose from his hush money trial to attend to other matters — some personal, some political and some legal. Three times the judge responded with, …

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: Who will explain for me, to my wonderful son, Barron, who is a GREAT Student at a fantastic School, that his Dad will likely not be allowed to attend his Graduation Ceremony, something that we have been talking about for years, because a seriously Conflicted and Corrupt New York State Judge wants …

And the hits today just keep coming: Judge Juan Merchan issued former President Donald Trump a stern warning about his attendance at his criminal trial: Show up or be arrested. Trump, the first former president to ever stand trial as a criminal defendant, attended the first day of his trial on Monday — where several motions were decided upon before …

Mediaite reports: CNN commentator and New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman reported former President Donald Trump “appears to be sleeping” in the courtroom at his election interference-hush money trial. Trump’s trial — on 34 felony counts in the case that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has brought involving hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels— began Monday morning with …

Politico reports: In his first moments on the bench, Justice Juan Merchan denied Donald Trump’s bid to get the judge to recuse himself from the case. As Trump watched, stone-faced, from the defense table, Merchan reviewed the former president’s court filings arguing that the judge should step down, which largely centered on Merchan’s adult daughter’s work for a consulting firm …

“I’m proud to do it for you. Have a good time watching. I will be forced to sit fully gagged. I’m not allowed to talk. They want to take away my constitutional right to talk. I have a crooked judge. This has never happened before by the way. Fully gagged before a highly conflicted and corrupt judge who suffers from …

“Just four years ago I was a very popular and successful President of the United States, getting more votes than any sitting President in history. Tomorrow morning I’ll be in Criminal Court, before a totally conflicted Judge, a Corrupt Prosecutor, a Legal System in CHAOS, a State being overrun by violent crime and corruption, and Crooked Joe Biden’s henchmen ‘Rigging …

Law & Crime reports: A Colorado appeals court has handed a former Dominion employee a significant win, allowing his 2020 election-related defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress claims to proceed to trial against former President Donald Trump’s campaign and “Kraken” lawyer Sidney Powell, among other individuals and entities. In late December 2020, Dr. Eric Coomer, formerly the director of …

“Judge Juan Merchan, perhaps the most highly conflicted Judge in New York State history, only gave us a short period of time to read and study hundreds of thousands of pages of documents that D.A. Alvin Bragg illegally hid, disguised, and held back from us. “Of course, and as the Judge knows, we need far more time than that. They …

The Daily Beast reports: Former U.S. president Donald Trump said that the unfolding Iranian attacks on Israel are the result of the Biden administration exhibiting “weakness” on the world stage at his Pennsylvania rally Saturday night. “Before going any further, I wanna say: God bless the people of Israel. They’re under attack right now, because we show great weakness,” Trump …

CNBC reports: Donald Trump on Saturday took aim at two likely witnesses in his upcoming New York hush money trial, testing the boundaries of a gag order that prohibits such public statements. “Has Mark POMERANTZ been prosecuted for his terrible acts in and out of the D.A.’s Office. Has disgraced attorney and felon Michael Cohen been prosecuted for LYING?” the …

Politico reports: A majority of voters believe former President Donald Trump has committed “serious federal crimes,” according to the latest New York Times/Siena College poll. Fifty-three percent of likely voters said they believe this, while 39 percent of those surveyed said they did not believe that Trump committed serious crimes. Nine percent said they didn’t know or didn’t answer the …

Axios reports: Donald Trump is moving part of his campaign operation to New York this weekend, and a massive security operation will descend around a courthouse in Lower Manhattan for what could be two months or so. The trial isn’t expected to be televised, per New York law. But it will reshape the presidential campaign in unprecedented ways. For at …

The Associated Press reports: The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money criminal case on Friday turned down the former president’s request to postpone his trial because of publicity about the case. It’s the latest in a string of delay denials that Trump has gotten from various courts this week as he fights to stave off the trial’s start Monday with …

Raw Story reports: “Do you plan to testify in your trial in New York,” a reporter asked the former president at his Mar-a-Lago press conference. “Yeah, I would testify,” Trump said. “That’s not a trial, that’s a scam.” Trump also accused Justice Juan Merchan, the criminal court judge overseeing the case, of political bias. Asked if it would be risky …

Newsweek reports: A Black woman who went viral after hugging Donald Trump this week says meeting the former president was a “learning experience.” On Friday, Michaelah Montgomery, the founder of the Conserve the Culture organization, spoke with Fox News’s Fox & Friends co-host Lawrence Jones about her recent meeting with the former president at a Chick-fil-A in Atlanta, Georgia. Earlier …

CNN reports: The transcript of an FBI interview made public late Thursday details how an aide to former President Donald Trump characterized the boxes of sensitive documents that are now at the center of the special counsel’s case into the mishandling of classified documents from the Trump White House. The new court documents also reveal how agents outlined the stakes …