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By the time former President Donald J. Trump was convicted last week on 34 felony counts, the vast majority of people had made up their minds about him. But a small sliver of Trump-ambivalent voters is out there — and in a close presidential election, they matter a lot. For days, The New York Times has been listening to those voters process the news of Mr. Trump’s conviction, trying to measure the small shifts that could alter the contest between him and President Biden. A New York Times/Siena College Poll study of nearly 2,000 voters found modest good news for Mr. Biden. While the vast majority of people had not changed their position on the two men, more voters moved away from Mr. Trump than toward him.
Persons: Donald J, Trump, Trump’s, Biden, Will Trump, Will Biden Organizations: New York Times, Siena
Donald J. Trump and a number of his allies were indicted in Georgia in August in a sweeping racketeering indictment that accused them of trying to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state. Credit... Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times
Persons: Donald J, Trump, Haiyun Jiang Organizations: The New York Locations: Georgia
As high prices at grocery stores, gas pumps and pharmacies have soured many voters on his first term, President Biden has developed a populist riposte: Blame big corporations for inflation, not me. Now, some progressives are urging Mr. Biden to follow those senators’ lead and make “greedflation,” as they call it, a driving theme of his re-election bid. And they believe polls show voters are primed to hear the president condemn big corporations in more forceful terms. “It’s a winning message for Democrats,” said April Verrett, the president of the Service Employees International Union, which is knocking on doors in battleground states as part of a $200 million voter-turnout operation. “And clearly Bob Casey, who’s doing better in the polls than the president, is proving that it’s the winning message.”
Persons: Biden, The Biden, Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, , Mr, , Donald J, Trump, It’s, , Verrett, Bob Casey, who’s Organizations: The, Service Employees International Union
A federal judge on Thursday told Stephen K. Bannon, a longtime adviser to former President Donald J. Trump, to surrender by July 1 to start serving a four-month prison term imposed on him for disobeying a subpoena to give testimony to the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. After Mr. Bannon was sentenced in October 2022 on contempt of Congress charges, Judge Carl J. Nichols, who has overseen the case, allowed him to remain free while he appealed. Lawyers for Mr. Bannon have promised to ask the full appeals court to reconsider the panel’s ruling. Judge Nichols said that Mr. Bannon would have to start serving his sentence in less than four weeks unless the full appeals court takes the case and issues its own ruling to pause the sentence from being enforced. Another former aide to Mr. Trump is already serving a prison term for refusing to take part in the House committee’s wide-ranging investigation into Mr. Trump’s efforts to remain in power after losing the 2020 election.
Persons: Stephen K, Bannon, Donald J, Trump, Carl J, Nichols, Judge Nichols Organizations: Capitol, Lawyers Locations: Washington
Lara Trump, the Republican National Committee co-chair and Mr. Trump’s daughter-in-law, strongly denounced him on CNN. Mr. Hogan has also said he would not be going to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee next month, where Mr. Trump will officially receive the nomination. Mr. Hogan remains personally popular in Maryland, something Mr. Trump is not. “We don’t want to alienate Trump voters,” Mr. Hogan told The Associated Press in April. “But Larry Hogan is running for Senate in Maryland, not Mississippi,” a nod to the needle Mr. Hogan must thread.
Persons: Donald J, Larry Hogan’s, Hogan, Trump, , , Chis LaCivita, Lara Trump, Trump’s, Hogan’s, Michael Whatley, Larry Hogan, Biden, Republicans —, , Ben Cardin, ” Mr, Mr, Whatley didn’t, Steve Daines, Angela Alsobrooks, George Santos, Lou Dobbs, Chaya Raichik, aren’t, John Cornyn, Lindsay Reilly Organizations: Senate, Democratic, Mr, Trump, Republican, Republican National Committee, CNN, Republican Party, Trump Republican, Republican National Convention, Washington , D.C, Republicans, Democrat, Associated Press, Biden voters, Maryland, National Republican Senatorial Committee, Republican leadership’s, Fund, Hogan’s Democratic, Prince, Maryland Democrats, Maryland Democratic Party Locations: Maryland, Manhattan, America, Milwaukee, Washington ,, Montana, Mississippi, Prince George’s County, Washington, Texas
With former President Donald J. Trump’s organization in full attack mode, former Gov. Larry Hogan’s path to the Senate in Maryland is getting considerably narrower. Mr. Hogan, a popular Republican in a strongly Democratic state and prized Senate recruit, has never tried to hide his disdain for Mr. Trump, the former president and presumptive nominee. “You just ended your campaign,” announced Chis LaCivita, a veteran Republican operative who serves as a senior campaign adviser to Mr. Trump and as an official at the Republican National Committee. Lara Trump, the Republican National Committee co-chair and Mr. Trump’s daughter-in-law, strongly denounced him on CNN.
Persons: Donald J, Larry Hogan’s, Hogan, Trump, , , Chis LaCivita, Lara Trump, Trump’s Organizations: Senate, Democratic, Mr, Trump, Republican, Republican National Committee, CNN Locations: Maryland, Manhattan
It’s one of the biggest questions in the wake of Donald J. Trump’s conviction: Did the verdict change anyone’s mind? Early on, the answer appears to be an equivocal “yes.”In interviews with nearly 2,000 voters who previously took New York Times/Siena College surveys, President Biden appeared to gain slightly in the aftermath of Mr. Trump’s conviction last week for falsifying business records. The group favored Mr. Trump by three points when originally interviewed in April and May, but this week they backed him by only one point.
Persons: Donald J, Biden, Trump’s, Trump Organizations: New York Times, Siena College Locations: Siena
Former President Donald J. Trump says he is prepared to prosecute his political enemies if he is elected this fall. Simply making those threats, legal experts said, does real damage to the rule of law. The Justice Department is part of the executive branch, and he will be its boss. While the department has traditionally had substantial independence, that is only because presidents have granted it. If the legal system resists political prosecutions in a second Trump term, it will be largely because judges and jurors reject them.
Persons: Donald J, Trump Organizations: The Justice, Trump
Republican allies of Donald J. Trump are calling for revenge prosecutions and other retaliatory measures against Democrats in response to his felony conviction in New York. Within hours of a jury finding Mr. Trump guilty last week, the anger congealed into demands for action. leaders in and out of government have demanded that elected Republicans use every available instrument of power against Democrats, including targeted investigations and prosecutions. What is different now is the range of Republicans who are saying retaliation is necessary and who are no longer cloaking their intent with euphemisms. Mr. Miller posed a series of questions to Republicans at every level, including local district attorneys.
Persons: Donald J, Trump, Trump’s, Stephen Miller, Miller Organizations: Republicans, Democrats, Fox News Locations: New York
House Republicans on Wednesday urged the Justice Department to charge Hunter and James Biden, the president’s son and brother, with making false statements to Congress in the impeachment inquiry against President Biden. The chairmen of three House committees recommended the action in a criminal referral sent less than a week after the conviction of former President Donald J. Trump on 34 felony counts in New York. Their allegations, which assert that both men made false statements to Congress about President Biden’s involvement in his family’s business dealings, appear to include misrepresentations of Hunter Biden’s testimony. They also accused Hunter Biden of perjury. The referrals carry no force of law, but House Republicans are hoping to influence the Justice Department, particularly if Mr. Trump takes it over, to carry out more prosecutions of the Biden family.
Persons: Hunter, James Biden, Biden, Donald J, Trump, Biden’s, Hunter Biden’s, Hunter Biden, Mike Johnson, General Merrick B, Garland Organizations: Republicans, Wednesday, Justice Department Locations: New York
The Police Department is seeking to revoke former President Donald J. Trump’s license to carry a concealed weapon after his conviction in his New York hush-money case, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. Mr. Trump had a concealed carry permit in New York and had three pistols registered under the permit, the people said. It is unclear whether it is still in Mr. Trump’s possession. The Police Department will complete an investigation that is likely to lead to the revocation of Mr. Trump’s concealed carry permit, according to the people with knowledge of the matter. Mr. Trump has the right to file a challenge to the move.
Persons: Donald J, Trump, Trump’s Organizations: Police Department, Police Locations: New York, Florida
On the day before the F.B.I. obtained a search warrant almost two years ago to look for classified materials at former President Donald J. Trump’s private club and residence in Florida, one of the agents on the case sent a reassuring email to his bosses. “The F.B.I. Over the next 10 hours, according to court papers, there was little drama as they hauled away a trove of boxes containing highly sensitive state secrets in three vans and a rented Ryder box truck. Two years later, Mr. Trump has tried to flip the facts about that search entirely on their head, in particular by twisting the meaning of boilerplate instructions to the agents about limits on their use of lethal force.
Persons: Donald J, , Ryder, Trump Organizations: Mr Locations: Florida, Mar, Trump’s, Beach
For nearly four years, Republicans have delved into the darkest corners of Hunter Biden’s life, seeking to tie his troubles to his father, President Biden. But as the younger Biden stands trial in Delaware on gun charges, the case’s glaring political contradictions have rendered the G.O.P. It stands to reason: The baseless claim that the Biden Justice Department is running a political persecution of Mr. Trump is somewhat undermined by the department’s prosecution of the president’s son. So beyond the professional provocateurs in Washington and the right-wing media, Republicans have decided to say as little as possible. “I wouldn’t read too much into a lot of people not talking about it right now,” cautioned Representative Kelly Armstrong, Republican of North Dakota, and a leader of the House investigation of Hunter Biden.
Persons: Hunter, Biden, Donald J, Trump, Hunter Biden, , Kelly Armstrong, “ There’s Organizations: Republicans, Biden Justice Department, Republican Locations: Delaware, Washington, North Dakota
Senator Rick Scott is so furious over the felony conviction of former President Donald J. Trump that the Florida Republican says he and his colleagues need to take it out on the Senate, by acting as disrupters and blocking all Biden administration nominees and legislation. “We can’t have business as usual,” Mr. Scott insisted as the Senate convened this week for the first time since Mr. Trump’s trial ended in New York with a fusillade of “guilty” verdicts. Yet so far at least, business as usual it is. Despite the far-right conservative bloc vowing to draw the line against White House nominees and Democratic legislation, three nominees — one a judge for the usually pummeled District of Columbia, no less — have breezed through the Senate this week with plenty of Republican backing. side is willing to draw such a hard line in a fit of pique.
Persons: Rick Scott, Donald J, Trump, Mr, Scott, Trump’s, Mitch McConnell of Organizations: Florida Republican, Biden, White, Democratic, of Columbia, Senate, Republican Locations: Florida, New York, pummeled, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky
The Georgia Court of Appeals on Wednesday stayed the criminal election interference case against former President Donald J. Trump until an appellate panel could resolve the matter of whether the district attorney in Fulton County should be disqualified from prosecuting the case based on a conflict of interest. In a one-page order, the court stated that any movement at the trial-court level pertaining to Mr. Trump and eight other defendants who have appealed a ruling allowing the prosecutor, Fani T. Willis, to remain on the case was “stayed pending the outcome of these appeals.”Earlier this week, the appellate court set a tentative date for oral argument of Oct. 4. Legal experts expect the appeals will take months to resolve. The order was more bad news for critics and opponents of Mr. Trump who had hoped that he would stand trial in Georgia before he faced off against President Joseph R. Biden in the general election. Mr. Trump and a number of his allies were indicted in Georgia last summer in a sweeping racketeering case that accused them of trying to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state.
Persons: Donald J, Trump, Fani, Willis, , Joseph R, Biden Organizations: Wednesday Locations: Georgia, Fulton County
The original super PAC supporting Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign plans to report that it raised nearly $70 million in May, and that it will spend a further $100 million through Labor Day, according to a memo written for the group’s donors. The super PAC, Make America Great Again Inc., is preparing an advertising blitz focused on a handful of key states in the Rust Belt and the Sun Belt, where several polls show Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, leading President Biden. The burst of fund-raising it describes is on track with the surge that the Trump campaign has said it experienced after Mr. Trump was convicted last week in a Manhattan courtroom on 34 counts of falsifying business records intended to conceal a hush-money payment to a porn star in 2016. The Trump campaign has said that it raised $141 million in the days after the verdict on May 30. But by all accounts, Mr. Trump and his allied groups are moving to chip away at what has been an enormous cash advantage held by Democrats.
Persons: Donald J, Trump, Biden, Taylor Budowich, MAGA Organizations: Labor, Make, Inc, Sun, The New York Times Locations: Manhattan
forward — rose in a Delaware courtroom to declare that the Justice Department’s sweeping immunity deal with Hunter Biden was not nearly as sweeping as the defense believed. His transfer coincided with efforts by congressional Republicans to portray Mr. Weiss — a Trump appointee held over by President Biden’s aides — as offering “a sweetheart deal” to the Bidens. In early 2023, he published a memoir covering the police trial, describing himself as “the prosecutor who took down Baltimore’s most crooked cops.”Mr. But he was passed over because it was believed he might clash with prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, they said. Ms. Monaco eventually chose another prosecutor from Maryland, Thomas P. Windom, to run the team.
Persons: — bespectacled, Department’s, Hunter Biden, Leo J, Wise, , . Wise, Biden, Biden’s, David C, Weiss, Mr . Wise, , , Catherine Pugh, ” Mr, Philip Morris, Kathryn Ruemmler, Barack Obama’s, Lisa O, Donald J, Monaco, Thomas P, Windom Organizations: Trump, Baltimore U.S, Harvard Law, Navy Reserve, Justice Department, Enron, Capitol, Monaco Locations: Delaware, Baltimore, Los Angeles, U.S, Wilmington, Washington, Maryland
Judge Reshuffles Hearings in Trump Documents Case
  + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Alan Feuer | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The federal judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s classified documents case abruptly changed the proceeding’s schedule on Wednesday, reshuffling the timing for hearings on an array of important legal issues. The move by the judge, Aileen M. Cannon, was unlikely to have much impact on the overall trajectory of the case, but it reflected the substantial number of unresolved legal motions she is juggling. Last month, Judge Cannon scrapped the case’s trial date, saying she could not yet pick a new one because of what she described at the time as “the myriad and interconnected” questions she had still not managed to consider. Judge Cannon kept in place a hearing she had set for June 21 to discuss a motion by Mr. Trump’s lawyers to dismiss the indictment on the grounds that Jack Smith, the special counsel named to oversee the prosecutions of Mr. Trump, was illegally appointed to his job. Similar motions have been rejected in cases involving other special counsels, including Robert S. Mueller III, who investigated connections between Russia and Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign, and David C. Weiss, who has brought two criminal cases against Hunter Biden, President Biden’s son.
Persons: Donald J, Trump’s, Aileen M, Cannon, Judge Cannon, Jack Smith, Trump, Robert S, Mueller III, David C, Weiss, Hunter Biden, Biden’s Locations: Russia
President Biden’s campaign has been clear: He will debate former President Donald J. Trump only one-on-one. That hasn’t stopped Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from trying. As the deadline to qualify for the June 27 debate draws closer, Mr. Kennedy, who is running for president as an independent, has said he’s confident he can still meet host CNN’s requirements, while ramping up accusations that the news organization rigged the process. But Mr. Kennedy’s rivals do have a mutual interest in boxing him out, as The New York Times previously reported. Mr. Kennedy is drawing support away from both Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump, and both campaigns are concerned about the potential for him to swing the election in key battleground states.
Persons: Biden’s, Donald J, Trump, hasn’t, Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Kennedy, , ” Mr, , Biden Organizations: CNN, Biden, Trump, “ CNN, ” CNN, New York Times
Donald J. Trump’s lawyers on Tuesday asked the judge who oversaw the former president’s criminal trial to lift a gag order on their client as the presidential campaign intensifies. The lawyers said in a letter to the judge, Juan M. Merchan, that the end of the trial on Thursday nullified the need for the gag order, which bars the former president from attacking witnesses, the jury and others involved in the case. Mr. Trump was convicted of 34 felonies, with a jury determining that he had falsified documents related to a hush-money payment his former fixer made to a porn star in 2016. “Now that the trial is concluded, the concerns articulated by the government and the court do not justify continued restrictions on the First Amendment rights of President Trump,” the lawyers, Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, wrote in the letter.
Persons: Donald J, Juan M, Trump, Todd Blanche, Emil Bove
Nigel Farage, the pro-Brexit campaigner and serial disrupter of British politics, on Monday announced plans to run as a candidate in Britain’s general election next month, dealing a new setback to the prospects of the country’s embattled prime minister, Rishi Sunak. The surprise announcement from Mr. Farage, who represents an insurgent hard right movement, threatens to upend an election campaign by taking votes from Britain’s governing Conservative Party. Divisive, charismatic and famed for his communication skills, Mr. Farage was one of the architects of Brexit, which a slim majority of Britons supported in a 2016 referendum. His earlier decision not to run in the election was thought by some analysts to have sapped momentum from Reform U.K., the successor to the Brexit Party he once led. Mr. Farage last month said that he would not seek a parliamentary seat because he wanted to prioritize supporting Donald J. Trump’s electoral campaign in the U.S. Mr. Farage is a longtime ally of the former president and campaigned for him in 2020.
Persons: Nigel Farage, Rishi Sunak, Farage, Sunak, Donald J Organizations: Monday, Conservative Party, Labour Party, Brexit, Reform, Brexit Party Locations: U.S
President Biden is expected to sign an executive order on Tuesday allowing him to temporarily seal the U.S. border with Mexico to migrants when crossings surge, a move that would suspend longtime protections for asylum seekers in the United States. Mr. Biden’s senior aides have briefed members of Congress in recent days on the forthcoming action and told them to expect the president to sign the order alongside mayors from South Texas, according to several people familiar with the plans. “I’ve been briefed on the pending executive order,” said Representative Henry Cuellar, Democrat of Texas who previously criticized Mr. Biden for not bolstering enforcement at the border earlier in his presidency. “I certainly support it because I’ve been advocating for these measures for years. While the order is yet to be released, I am supportive of the details provided to me thus far.”The order would represent the single most restrictive border policy instituted by Mr. Biden, or any modern Democrat, and echoes a 2018 effort by President Donald J. Trump to block migration that was assailed by Democrats and blocked by federal courts.
Persons: Biden, Biden’s, “ I’ve, , Henry Cuellar, Mr, , I’ve, Donald J, Trump Organizations: Mr Locations: Mexico, United States, South Texas, Texas
Some Democratic leaders are eager to make former President Donald J. Trump’s new identity as a convicted criminal central to their pitch to voters on why he is unfit for office. At the same time, there has been a movement on the left for years to end the stigma of criminal records and point out grave issues in the country’s legal system. That is why in the wake of the news last week that a New York jury had found Mr. Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, there were especially complex and personal reactions among the millions of Americans who have also been convicted of felonies. They debated whether the former president’s convictions made him one of them or only underscored how unlike them he was, and discussed their mixed feelings over hearing an entire country discuss the ramifications of having a rap sheet. “He’s convicted, so now he’s in our community,” said Rahim Buford, 53, who also has a felony conviction on his record.
Persons: Donald J, Trump, “ He’s, , Rahim Buford Organizations: Democratic Locations: New York
Former President Donald Trump's campaign and the Republican National Committee announced Monday that the two entities together raised $141 million in May. The Trump campaign said it raised $34.8 million in less than seven hours after the New York jury's verdict was announced. The Trump campaign said that accounts for just over 37% of their May haul. Therefore, I am supporting former President Trump in this coming election," Leone said in a post on X. To date, according to the official records, Trump's campaign has raised $120 million in the 2024 election cycle, while Biden's campaign has brought in $195 million, according to data from OpenSecrets.
Persons: Donald Trump, Donald Trump's, Trump, Joe Biden's, Stormy Daniels, Doug Leone, Leone, Donald J, Susie Wiles, Chris LaCivita, Biden Organizations: U.S, Republican, Republican National, Trump, RNC, The Trump, Trump . Venture, Capitol Locations: Windham , New Hampshire, York, OpenSecrets
With a one-page order, the Georgia Court of Appeals on Monday made it all the more likely that Donald J. Trump will not face a criminal trial in the state before he faces off against President Biden in the November election. That suggests that the matter almost certainly will not be resolved in time for a trial to start before the election. While the court does not have to hear arguments on the appeal, lawyers for Mr. Trump and another defendant said they would ask it to do so. Anthony Michael Kreis, a law professor at Georgia State University, said it was “pretty highly likely” that the court would agree to oral arguments, given the complexity of the issues. The delay in setting a trial date represents a major victory for Mr. Trump.
Persons: Donald J, Trump, Biden, Willis, Anthony Michael Kreis Organizations: Mr, Georgia State University Locations: Georgia, Fulton County
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