An appeals court has halted the case against Donald Trump and others while it reviews a lower court judge’s ruling allowing Fani Willis to remain on the case.
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The former president addressed reporters at his namesake tower in Manhattan Friday, returning to campaigning a day after he was convicted.
Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes. Here’s a look at the unprecedented legal questions Trump’s situation presents.
Trump is expected to appeal the verdict and will face an awkward dynamic as he returns to the campaign trail tagged with convictions.
After more than four weeks of testimony, jurors could begin deliberating next week about whether former president Donald Trump falsified business records.
It happened minutes into the testimony of Robert Costello, a former federal prosecutor who has publicly blasted the prosecutions star witness, Michael Cohen.
Defense attorneys for Donald Trump portrayed his former fixer as someone bent on seeing the former president behind bars.
The two sides remain far part on key questions of how to organize the debates, including agreeing on media partners, moderators, location and rules.
House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared at the courthouse with Trump and used his bully pulpit to turn his political party against the rule of law by declaring the Manhattan criminal trial illegitimate.
Cohen provided jurors with an insider’s account of payments to silence women’s claims of sexual encounters with Trump, saying the payments were directed by Trump to fend off damage to his 2016 White House bid.
Judge Juan Merchan denied a request from Trump’s defense team to scale back the gag order so Trump could respond to Daniels’ allegations about the alleged episode – which Trump has denied.
Stormy Daniels testified she accepted the former president’s invite because she wanted to get out of a planned dinner with her adult film company colleagues
The fine marks the second sanction for the former president for inflammatory comments about witnesses since the start of the trial last month.
Hicks, the former White House communications director under Donald Trump, is the first close adviser to testify in the criminal case against the former president.
In the recording, Donald Trump and Michael Cohen discuss a plan to give hush money to a Playboy model who claimed she had an affair with the former president.
During the trial, Trump is being increasingly confronted with images and testimony on the very stories he tried to bury.
It seemed possible the former president could still benefit from a lengthy trial delay, possibly beyond November’s election.
David Pecker’s testimony was a critical building block for the prosecution’s theory that his partnership with Donald Trump was a way to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election.
David Pecker is the first witness in the former president’s historic hush money trial in Manhattan.
A prosecutor said Donald Trump tried to illegally influence the 2016 election, while a defense lawyer attacked the credibility of the government’s star witness.
The former president faces 34 felony counts. He denies any wrongdoing.