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Donald Trump asks Supreme Court to block sentencing in his hush money case in New York

January 8, 2025 admin

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. File | Photo Credit: Reuters President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to call off Friday’s (January 10, 2025) sentencing in his hush money case in New York. Mr. Trump’s lawyers turned to the nation’s highest court Wednesday (January 8, 2025) after New York courts refused to postpone the sentencing…

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Donald Trump hush money trial: Judge sets sentencing for January 10, signals no jail time

January 3, 2025 admin

President-elect Donald Trump | Photo Credit: AP In an extraordinary turn, a judge Friday set President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case for January 10 — little over a week before he’s due to return to the White House — but indicated he wouldn’t be jailed. The development nevertheless leaves Mr. Trump on…

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Trump seeks to set aside his New York hush money guilty verdict after Supreme Court immunity ruling

July 2, 2024 admin

Former U.S. President Donald Trump. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s lawyers have asked the New York judge who presided over his hush money trial to set aside his conviction and delay his sentencing, scheduled for next week. The letter to Judge Juan M. Merchan cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling…

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Donald Trump blasts ‘rigged trial’, says will appeal guilty verdict

May 31, 2024 admin

Donald Trump launched into attacks on the judge in his criminal trial and continued to undermine New York’s criminal justice system on May 31 as he tried to repackage his conviction on 34 felony charges as fuel, not an impediment, to his latest White House bid. Trump spoke to reporters at his namesake tower in…

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Analysis: How former U.S. President Donald Trump got convicted at his hush money trial

May 31, 2024 admin

In their opening statement at Donald Trump’s criminal trial, the prosecutors seeking to win the first-ever criminal conviction of a sitting or former U.S. president made a bold prediction: they would have hard evidence to back up testimony from Michael Cohen, the star witness branded a liar by the defense. Over the next several weeks,…

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Donald Trump becomes first former U.S. President convicted of felony crimes

May 30, 2024 admin

Former President Donald Trump speaks outside the courtroom at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on May 30, 2024 after a jury convicted him of felony crimes for falsifying business records. | Photo Credit: AP Donald Trump became the first former President to be convicted of felony crimes on May 30 as a New York jury…

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Jury in Donald Trump’s hush money case asks to rehear testimony as deliberations get underway

May 29, 2024 admin

The jury in Donald Trump’s hush money trial asked to rehear testimony on Wednesday less than four hours after beginning deliberations in the first criminal case against a former American president. The four requests included testimony related to a 2015 meeting at Trump Tower where a tabloid publisher agreed to identify negative stories about Trump so that…

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‘Mother Teresa could not beat these charges’ says Trump as jury begins deliberations in hush money criminal trial

May 29, 2024 admin

Former President Donald Trump walks to speaks to reporters with his attorney Todd Blanche, right, as jurors begin deliberations for his trial at Manhattan criminal court, on May 29, 2024, in New York. | Photo Credit: AP Jurors began deliberating on May 29 on whether to convict Donald Trump in the first criminal trial of…

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Under Team Trump attack, Stormy Daniels proves tenacious

May 11, 2024 admin

Former U.S. President Donald Trump, with attorney Todd Blanche, speaks to the press amid his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City, on May 10, 2024. Trump is accused of falsifying business records in a scheme to cover up an alleged sexual…

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Stormy Daniels Testifies In Court, Recounts 2006 Sexual Encounter With Trump

May 7, 2024 admin

Donald Trump has denied having sex with Stormy Daniels.(File) New York: Stormy Daniels, the porn star at the heart of Donald Trump’s hush money case, testified in a rapt Manhattan courtroom Tuesday about a 2006 sexual encounter that precipitated the criminal trial of the former US president. Trump, 77, is charged with falsifying business records…

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