Donald Trump’s lead attorney Todd Blanche began his cross-examination of Michael Cohen Tuesday. Blanche came out of the gate swinging, questioning Cohen about social media posts bashing Trump. “You referred to President Trump as a ‘dictator douchebag,’ didn’t you?” Blanche demanded of Cohen. Donald Trump’s lead attorney Todd Blanche came out of the gate swinging […]
Donald Trump’s lead attorney Todd Blanche began his cross-examination of Michael Cohen Tuesday. Blanche came out of the gate swinging, questioning Cohen about social media posts bashing Trump. “You referred to President Trump as a ‘dictator douchebag,’ didn’t you?” Blanche demanded of Cohen. Donald Trump’s lead attorney Todd Blanche came out of the gate swinging […]
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 […]
The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s hush money trial has clarified that the gag order pertaining to the former president doesn’t prohibit him from testifying on his own behalf. Judge Juan M. Merchan started the trial day Friday by making that clarification, apparently responding to comments the Republican former president made after court the day before. […]
Ex-US president Donald Trump met privately with Florida governor Ron DeSantis over the weekend, according to people familiar with the discussions, marking a detente between the former rivals after a brutal primary contest marked by insults and bruised egos. The meeting, which lasted three hours, was organised to help the men bury the hatchet and […]
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Conservative Brazilians heaped praise Sunday on Elon Musk at a rally in support of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro, whose legal troubles are mounting in tandem with the billionaire entrepreneur’s feud with the South American nation’s Supreme Court. “Brazil Thanks Elon Musk,” read one giant sign in English at the […]
By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan and China can peacefully resolve their differences, former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou said on Thursday after meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping, adding that people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait share the same culture and history. Ma, president from 2008 to 2016, last year became the first […]
South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has been involved in a car crash but was unhurt. A drunk driver collided with his “official armoured state vehicle” on Thursday evening, police have said. But a leading member of his uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party alleged that he had been targeted. He has been suspended by the […]
Brazil’s Donald Trump-loving ex-president, already under investigation for trying to overturn his election loss, was accused Tuesday of tampering with a public health database to fake his vaccination against COVID-19. Jair Bolsonaro planted false information in a government database to make it appear that he, his 12-year-old daughter and members of his entourage had received the […]
Fox News host Neil Cavuto cut into his network’s broadcast of Donald Trump’s speech from the U.S. southern border on Thursday to remind viewers the former president “still lost” the 2020 election to President Joe Biden. “We were doing a great job and that’s where it stood and then we had an election that we […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter has another distinction to his name. The 99-year-old is the first of the U.S. presidents to be honored with an official White House Christmas ornament while still living. The ornament was unveiled Wednesday and is the latest in an annual series that the nonprofit White House Historical Association […]
Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez has appeared in a New York courtroom facing drug trafficking and weapons charges. Hernandez was described by a prosecutor at the start of his trial as a corrupt politician who let his country’s biggest drug traffickers fuel his rise to power. However, he was portrayed by his defence lawyer […]