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☆ The Supreme Court is about to decide if a president can get away with committing crimes while in office
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to recognize that he had total legal immunity as president. Trump is asking the Supreme Court to grant him a sweeping immunity mandate as he runs to recapture the presidency. "This may indeed be the most important US Supreme Court case in the history of our country," he told journalists at a panel organized by the Defend Democracy Project. The Supreme Court will likely issue a decision in late April. "The Supreme Court need not stray into other questions just because Trump has made it easy for them.

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☆ Trump trial: In fiery opening statement, prosecutor says the 'case is about a criminal conspiracy and a coverup'
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-22 | by ( Laura Italiano | Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Opening statements began in Donald Trump's hush-money trial on Monday. Trump faces 34 felony counts for falsifying business records in the historic case. "This case is about a criminal conspiracy and a coverup," ADA Matthew Colangelo said. AdvertisementOpening arguments in former President Donald Trump's historic hush-money criminal trial got underway on Monday with a prosecutor describing the case as being about a "criminal conspiracy." "This case is about a criminal conspiracy and a coverup," Assistant District Attorney Matthew Colangelo told the 12-person jury.

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AdvertisementDonald Trump enters his first criminal trial every day flanked by lawyers, court officers, Secret Service members, and political advisors. AdvertisementFormer President Donald Trump speaks alongside his wife, former first lady Melania Trump, during a rare joint appearance as they arrived to vote in Florida's primary election. Bederow explained that Melania Trump's courtroom support could be "potentially very powerful" given the salacious nature of the hush-money case against Trump. Danilewitz said Trump's defense team may have a different strategy in mind when it comes to Melania Trump. If Trump's family does decide to show up Monday, they might want to wear sweaters.

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☆ Prosecutors want Trump held in contempt for 'disturbing' Truth Social post attacking prospective jurors
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewManhattan prosecutors in Donald Trump's criminal hush-money case asked the judge presiding over the case to sanction him for attacking prospective jurors in the trial, arguing the former president had repeatedly violated his gag order. Related storiesMerchan issued a gag order in the case forbidding Trump from making statements about trial jurors, witnesses, staff prosecutors, and family members of Merchan and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Prosecutors accused Trump of violating it on Monday with attacks on Daniels and Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer. On Thursday, Conroy said Trump violated the gag order seven more times, with attacks on Cohen on social media and on his campaign website. Merchan previously scheduled a hearing for next Tuesday to determine whether Trump violated his gag order.

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☆ 12 jurors — including 3 finance guys and a woman whose friend is a convicted fraudster — have been chosen for Trump's Manhattan criminal trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewTwelve of Donald Trump's peers — 7 men, and 5 women — have been chosen to decide the first-ever criminal trial of a former US president. On Thursday afternoon, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan selected the 12th juror in Trump's Manhattan criminal case. AdvertisementTwo men chosen in the afternoon filled seats that had been vacated earlier in the day. One out of six alternate jurors, a woman, was also chosen. AdvertisementThere's a man who says he knows "little" about Trump's criminal cases and gets his news from The New York Times, The Daily Mail, Fox News, and MSNBC.

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☆ Trump is struggling to stay awake at his first criminal trial. It's going to be a long 6 weeks.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Donald Trump appears to be struggling to stay awake at his criminal trial. For the 2nd day, he's repeatedly closed his eyes for minutes at a time before jolting to attention. In Manhattan's criminal trial court, reporters aren't seated close enough to Donald Trump to hear if he's snoring. On Tuesday morning, Trump closed his eyes for more than a minute at a time on at least a half-dozen occasions. AdvertisementIf Trump finds criminal court proceedings a good time to nap, he will likely have more opportunities to catch some Zs in the near future.

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Jury selection continues Tuesday in Donald Trump's Manhattan hush-money trial. Trump gave reporters a preview of his potential defense before he entered the courtroom. Meanwhile, jury selection continued for a second day on Tuesday. AdvertisementNo jurors were selected during four hours of jury selection on Monday, a day that began with a half-day of arguments over pretrial motions. He has appeared to struggle to stay awake during the sometimes tedious jury selection process.

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☆ Trump keeps complaining his Manhattan trial is keeping him off the campaign trail, but it's his own legal strategy that will drag it out
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Trump has griped that his ongoing criminal hush-money trial — for 34 counts of falsifying business documents — is impairing his campaign to recapture the presidency. He has scheduled events across the country on Wednesdays, the one day each week the trial is not scheduled to take place. According to The Washington Post, Trump's legal team has decided not to stipulate to anything and to fight over everything. (Daniels and Trump were photographed together in 2006, and Daniels attended a Trump vodka event the following year.) This can be "frustrating" for the court in a practical sense, Bederow said, but Trump "has a right to do it."

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Donald Trump is in court for his first criminal trial. He stepped into Manhattan criminal court Monday morning, where jury selection will soon begin. It is the location of the first-ever criminal trial of a former US president. AdvertisementIn the hallway before walking into the courtroom, Trump criticized the case, telling journalists it was a "political persecution." Trump has been charged in three other criminal cases, none of which have firm trial dates yet.

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Read previewThe judge presiding over Donald Trump's historic criminal trial has barred testimony that the former president's wife, Melania Trump, was pregnant at the time a former Playboy model says she had an affair with Donald Trump. Additionally, Steinglass explained that during the trial, he planned to bring into evidence how McDougal claims she had the affair with Trump while Melania Trump was pregnant with their now-18-year-old son Barron. AdvertisementThe McDougal-Trump narrative includes "that Karen McDougal was a former Playboy model," and that the affair began "when his wife, Melania, was pregnant with his child," Steinglass said. AdvertisementDonald Trump's lead attorney, Todd Blanche, argued strenuously against any evidence concerning a "literally just salacious with no value." Merchan ruled that he would allow prosecutors to talk about Trump's alleged affair with McDougal during the trial — but that he would not permit them to mention that Melania Trump was pregnant at the time.

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Donald Trump is in court for his first criminal trial. It is the grimy, hot, and poorly lit location of the first-ever criminal trial of a former US president. Monday marked the start of jury selection, presided over by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan and expected to last up to two weeks. Just before the lunch break, Christopher Conroy, an assistant district attorney, accused Trump of violating the gag order. AdvertisementFormer President Donald Trump appears with his legal team at the start of jury selection in his criminal trial in New York City.

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☆ Letitia James is not done with Donald Trump. Now she wants to know if he withheld evidence in her fraud case.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-10 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Letitia James won a $454 million judgment against Trump, his penalty for a decade of fraud. She and Trump are now fighting over her claims that he withheld evidence from her fraud probe. "The Court is well within its authority to determine if Defendants and their counsel facilitated that perjury by withholding of incriminating documents," James argued in Tuesday night's letter. AdvertisementAt a hearing in April of 2022, he compared getting Trump's documents to "pulling teeth." Out of some 900,000 documents turned over, only ten were "custodial" Trump documents, meaning business files in the former president's direct custody.

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☆ Trump says going to jail for gag order violation would be a 'great honor,’ compares himself to Mandela
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-06 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Donald Trump on Saturday said he welcomed the prospect of going to jail for violating a gag order in his upcoming New York hush money trial. And last week, Trump took to Truth Social to share a message that likened his legal troubles to the persecution of Jesus Christ. That first gag order came in response to Trump's repeated calls for the judge to recuse himself. One day after the first gag order was imposed on March 26, Trump went after Merchan's daughter on social media. Under the expanded order, Trump can still criticize Merchan and Bragg individually.

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☆ Trump loses late bid to delay New York hush money trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-03 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A judge on Wednesday rejected a last-ditch effort by former president Donald Trump to delay his hush money trial scheduled to begin in New York on April 15. Merchan, in shooting down that request, said Trump had "myriad opportunities" to make an argument that he was immune in the hush money case before March 7, when his attorneys first raised that claim. "Defendant's motion is DENIED as untimely," Merchan wrote in his decision issued in Manhattan Supreme Court, which is a trial-level court. Trump is charged in the case with falsifying business records related to a hush money payment to Daniels shortly before the 2016 presidential election. in his ruling, Merchan wrote that Trump's lawyers "fail to explain why Defendant waited long past" a statutory deadline of 45 days before trial to make a pre-trial motion seeking a delay.

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☆ Trump accused of 'inciting violence' after sharing video with image depicting Biden tied up in the back of a pickup truck
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Cameron Manley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Donald Trump shared an image of Joe Biden hog-tied on the tailgate of a passing pickup truck. The Republican presidential nominee was accused of inciting violence against President Joe Biden. AdvertisementRepublican presidential nominee Donald Trump faced criticism Friday for posting a video on his social media that showed President Joe Biden hog-tied on the tailgate of a passing pickup truck. Trump just posted a video of a pickup truck on Truth Social that has a giant image of President Biden bound with rope and laying, apparently kidnapped. Related stories"Democrats and crazed lunatics have not only called for despicable violence against President Trump and his family, they are actually weaponizing the justice system against him."

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☆ Trump shares video with image depicting Biden tied up in the back of a pickup truck
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Megan Lebowitz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Former President Donald Trump shared a video on social media Friday that included an image of President Joe Biden bound and restrained in the back of a pickup truck. The 20-second video, which Trump indicated was taken Thursday in Long Island, New York, shows a truck emblazoned with "Trump 2024" and a large picture depicting Biden tied up and lying on his side. When reached for comment on the image in the video, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said, "That picture was on the back of a pick up truck that was traveling down the highway." Biden campaign spokesman Michael Tyler slammed Trump for posting the video. Trump faces four criminal indictments for charges related to allegations of election interference, mishandling classified documents and falsifying business records related to hush money payments.

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☆ Trump hit with gag order in New York hush money case after slamming judge
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

A judge on Tuesday imposed a limited gag order on Donald Trump ahead of his criminal hush money trial in New York. Trump's statements about various figures involved in the case "were threatening, inflammatory [and] denigrating," Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan said in a court order. The gag order bars Trump from making public statements about likely witnesses and jurors in the case. The gag order does not specifically bar Trump from criticizing the judge. Merchan's gag order ruling on Tuesday afternoon appeared to reference Trump's remarks about his daughter.

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☆ Judge scolds Trump lawyer after poorly-supported — and unsuccessful — bid to delay hush-money trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( Laura Italiano | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

An April 15 date has now been set for Trump's first criminal trial, his Manhattan hush-money case. At a pretrial hearing Monday, Trump watched as his lawyer asked for a long delay. "It's odd that we're even here," the judge told the lawyer, calling his delay bid unsupported. AdvertisementDonald Trump's lawyer asked a Manhattan judge on Monday to postpone his hush-money trial — but instead of a delay, the lawyer got a verbal drubbing. "The People went so far above and beyond what they were required to do that it's odd we're even here," Merchan told Blanche before calling a brief break in arguments.

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☆ Trump wins rare court victory as Georgia judge dismisses 3 criminal counts against him
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewFormer President Donald Trump got a rare bit of good news on Wednesday as the judge overseeing his criminal case in Georgia dismissed three of the counts against him. And the judge did not dismiss the vast majority of the counts in the indictment, dismissing six out of 41 counts overall. So far, 10 criminal counts against Trump remain. Trump himself pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" 11,780 votes that would flip the election results in his favor. He wrote that prosecutors didn't sufficiently explain how public officials would have violated their oaths of office if they allowed Trump a victory.

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☆ Hush money DA wants to use Trump's incessant bragging — about how sexy, thrifty, and fussy he is — against him at trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

"They didn't come out of the campaign," Trump said in the interview, referring to the payment at the center of the upcoming hush money trial, set to start March 25 in Manhattan. AdvertisementRead the 82 Trump statements prosecutors want to show hush money jurors here. In several of the statements prosecutors may use, Trump boasts of how attractive he is. AdvertisementTrump's side has argued that the 82 statements, some of them decades old, should be excluded from the trial. Failing that, they have asked state Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, who will be the trial judge, to make prosecutors explain, statement by statement, how each would be used at trial.

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☆ Ex-Trump Org finance chief Allen Weisselberg to plead guilty to perjury
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Former CFO Allen Weisselberg leaves the courtroom for a lunch recess during a trial at the New York Supreme Court on November 17, 2022 in New York City. Former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg is expected to plead guilty to perjury charges on Monday related to the testimony he gave in the New York civil fraud trial of Donald Trump and his company, NBC News reported. An attorney for Weisselberg and spokespeople for the DA's office did not immediately reply to CNBC's request for comment. The New York Times reported in early February that Weisselberg was in negotiations to plead guilty to lying on the witness stand in the Trump business fraud lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James. Weisselberg has already pleaded guilty once in connection with his work for the Trump Organization.

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☆ Trump's former CFO will plead guilty to NY fraud trial perjury: NYT
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Allen Weisselberg, Trump Org's top fiscal officer for 30 years, will plead to perjury, the Times reports. The ex-CFO allegedly lied on the stand at Donald Trump's civil fraud trial in New York last year. His plea is expected Monday in Manhattan; Weisselberg has served jail time and now faces more. AdvertisementAllen Weisselberg, Donald Trump's longtime, loyal top moneyman at the Trump Organization, is expected to plead guilty Monday to lying on the stand during the former president's civil fraud trial in New York last year. More recently, he was a key witness last October at Trump's Manhattan civil trial, in a case that uncovered a decade of fraud in the company's annual financial statements.

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☆ Manhattan D.A. seeks gag order on Trump ahead of hush money trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The Manhattan District Attorney's Office on Monday asked a judge to impose a gag order on former President Donald Trump ahead of his upcoming trial on charges of falsifying business records related to a 2016 hush money payment to a porn star. Prosecutors want Trump barred from making public comments about witnesses jurors, trial prosecutors, members of the court staff, and any relatives of lawyers and court staff involved in the case. They also want him barred from directing others to make public statements any prospective juror or jurors in the trial. "And the need for such protection is compelling," Bragg's office said in its request, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court. Trump would be allowed to make public statements about Bragg under the proosed gag order.

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☆ Manhattan DA cites Trump's lack of impulse control in request for gag order in hush money trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Prosecutors have asked the judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's upcoming criminal trial in Manhattan to gag him, arguing he can't control himself from inciting his followers to attack witnesses, jurors, and court staff. Under the gag order, Trump would additionally be forbidden from attacking jurors, staff members at the DA's office and the court, and the employees' families. The attacks triggered waves of antisemitic and sexist threats, and an appeals court upheld the gag order that Engoron imposed. Trump could not be trusted with moderating his own comments unless the judge issued a gag order, prosecutors wrote.

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☆ A man who has lived in a New York City hotel rent-free for 5 years may finally have to move out
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-17 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | Alcynna Lloyd | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewA New Yorker successfully lived in the iconic New Yorker Hotel building for half a decade without paying a single cent in rent — but the jig is up. Police arrested Mickey Barreto last week and charged him with filing fraudulent property records after attempting to claim homeownership of the hotel, according to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. For the Manhattan district attorney, it was the last straw. Advertisement“As alleged, Mickey Barreto repeatedly and fraudulently claimed ownership of one of the City’s most iconic landmarks, the New Yorker Hotel,” Alvin Bragg, Manhattan district attorney said in a statement. Business Insider reached out to Barreto through his company, Mickey Barreto Missions, but didn’t hear back before publication.

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