Michael Cohen is cross examined by defense lawyer Todd Blanche on May 14 as Judge Juan Merchan, former President Donald Trump and his lawyer Susan Necheles look on in this courtroom sketch. (Jane Rosenberg/Reuters) The fourth week of former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial concluded Thursday with Michael Cohen, his former lawyer and so-called […]
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Stormy Daniels to return to courtroom for Trump’s hush money trial
Stormy Daniels will return to the witness box on Thursday in Donald Trump’s hush money trial. The defence will try to undermine the credibility of the adult film actor’s salacious testimony about her alleged sexual encounter with Trump and the money she was paid to keep quiet. The trial against the former president kicks back […]
Inside the courtroom where Trump was forced to listen to Stormy Daniels
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump squirmed and scowled, shook his head and muttered as Stormy Daniels described the unexpected sex she says they had nearly two decades ago, saying she remembered “trying to think of anything other than what was happening.” It was a story Daniels has told before. This time, Trump had no […]
Ex-Aide Exposes Meaning Of Donald Trump’s Courtroom Scowl: ‘Scares Me A Bit’
Omarosa Manigault Newman, a one-time contestant on Donald Trump’s “Apprentice” reality show who became a senior adviser in the Trump White House, decoded a courtroom scowl the former president gave to photographers while waiting for his hush money trial to resume on Monday. “The look that he was giving, I mean the images, it kind […]
The courtroom for Trump’s trial becomes a test of power for an ex-president and a judge
A striking aspect of Donald Trump’s criminal trial is Judge Juan Merchan’s no-nonsense approach and the degree to which he — and he alone — controls the proceedings. Inside the courtroom, it’s the sitting judge and not the ex-president who reigns. Merchan resumed the trial Monday by wishing Trump, “Good morning.” That was perhaps the […]
Would cameras in the courtroom change Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial?
Not long into the first day of Donald Trump’s historic criminal hush money trial, observers saw the former president’s chin fall to his chest as, eyes closed, his mouth went slack in an impromptu snooze at the defense table. There were no cameras in the Manhattan courtroom to record Trump’s April 15 power nap. Audiences […]
Man sentenced for 2021 Tacoma quadruple murder, removed from courtroom for disruptions
A man convicted of killing four people in Tacoma in October 2021 was sentenced Friday. Malek Pate kept disrupting the sentencing in court, and the judge ordered him out of the courtroom before the hearing was over. Pate may have known his conviction would guarantee life in prison, as he repeatedly talked and mumbled, and […]
A lower Manhattan courtroom just dealt a fatal blow to the Trump mystique
On opening night of the Republican National Convention in 2016, Donald Trump came out onstage like a pro wrestler, amid clouds from a smoke machine and dramatic shadows. It was the kind of image he likes to project of himself: grandiose and imposing, like the floating head of the Great and Powerful Oz ordering Dorothy […]
Homeschool students visit real courtroom for mock trial
PETOSKEY — On Monday morning, a group of homeschool students hosted a mock trial in Judge Angela Lasher’s courtroom. Trying a faux murder case, the group of students acted as witnesses, prosecuting and defense attorneys and more. They had to state their case for why, or why not, a man should be tried for third […]
Trump has shared tales of courtroom spectacles with supporters. The reality is much more subdued
An email Monday night from Donald Trump – subject line: “My farewell message” – carried a fateful warning to his backers. “Tomorrow is my GAG ORDER hearing,” it read. “If things don’t go our way, I could be thrown in jail.” Ominous? Certainly. Dubious? Yes, that too. Trump faced little risk of ending up behind […]
Without cameras in the courtroom, Trump has already won a major victory in hush money trial
If a former president nods off in a courtroom and no cameras are around to see it, did it really happen? The case of the People of the State of New York vs. Donald J. Trump got underway Monday, and while the fate of the forthcoming election — and perhaps democracy itself — may teeter […]
Trump’s lawyer may be losing his most valuable asset: Credibility in the courtroom
A lawyer’s credibility is all they have with a judge. Donald Trump’s criminal defense lawyer in Manhattan may be losing that valuable currency in the early days of the hush money trial. The judge himself said so. At a hearing over whether Trump violated a gag order in his first criminal trial, Judge Juan Merchan […]