Editor’s Note: Stacy Schneider is a criminal defense attorney in Manhattan and former contestant on the reality show “The Apprentice.” The views expressed in this commentary are her own. Read more opinion on CNN. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office made a significant tactical error announcing they were resting their case after calling Michael Cohen as their […]
Michael Cohen will be back on the witness stand in Manhattan criminal court Thursday to resume facing off against Donald Trump‘s defense attorney as the historic criminal case against the former president nears an end. Prosecutors told Judge Juan Merchan this week that Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer, is their final witness in the often-sensational […]
Over the course of the last year, Donald Trump has been unsubtle in begging congressional Republicans to somehow intervene in his criminal trials and rescue him from possible accountability. There’s no shortage of problems with the former president’s appeals, starting with the obvious fact that lawmakers’ options are severely limited. As I explained last month, […]
At this point, Stormy Daniels has told her story about Donald Trump in a lot of places — “60 Minutes,” the pages of In Touch magazine, her own book. But on Tuesday she told it in a place that may carry the most weight: the witness stand of a Manhattan criminal courtroom where Trump was […]
Alyssa Farah Griffin is paying close attention to Donald Trump’s hush money trial … and she has some questions for the prosecution. The former White House communications director and current cohost of “The View” stopped by CNN to share her opinion on the legal strategy behind her former boss being forced to relive his affair […]
Donald Trump’s defence team has attacked the credibility of the prosecution’s first witness in his hush money case, seeking to discredit evidence detailing a scheme between Trump and a tabloid to bury negative stories to protect the Republican’s 2016 presidential campaign. Returning to the witness box for a fourth day, former National Enquirer publisher David […]
Donald Trump’s defence team in his hush money case has sought to undermine the evidence of the prosecution’s lead witness and his account that a tabloid’s practice of helping to bury embarrassing stories about Trump was part of a scheme to aid the Republican’s 2016 campaign. David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, […]
The chair of the Nevada Republican Party has been indicted. So has the former chair of the Georgia GOP. In Michigan, a former co-chair of the state party is facing charges. As former President Donald Trump goes on trial in the New York criminal case, other investigations and prosecutions in five crucial swing states are […]
Despite his wife’s backing of Donald Trump’s effort to subvert the 2020 presidential election, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has ignored calls to recuse himself from recent Jan. 6-related appeals. Perhaps it’s unsurprising, then, that his questioning Tuesday in such a case appeared to downplay the insurrection. At the oral arguments in an appeal over […]
A former chairman of the UK Post Office said he “didn’t do anything” to check the organisation’s employees were being properly prosecuted. Sir Michael Hodgkinson told the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry he is “very, very sorry for the misery” that was caused to subpostmasters during the Horizon scandal, but claimed he had tried to […]
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a lengthy statement Friday suggested that the prosecution of rioters who violently attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, might be politically motivated, partly aligning himself with the false portrayal being pushed by former President Donald Trump and his allies. The statement came a day after […]
Shortly before midnight on 14 February 2021, James Clark tapped out a message on his home computer in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, that would change his own life and shatter the peace of mind of several others. Clark, then 38, was surfing the internet having been drinking and taking drugs. Social media platforms were overflowing with heated […]