The first criminal trial of an American president has presented more than a few logistical complications. Former President Donald J. Trump spends each day inside a heavily policed, Secret Service-swept courtroom in Lower Manhattan, where even the street outside has restricted access. And then, during each midday break in the action, it’s time for Mr….
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News Menendez co-defendants reveal strategy to beat the rap in high-stakes corruption trial
The federal government’s case in its corruption prosecution of Sen. Bob Menendez amounts to mere guilt by association, attorneys for the New Jersey Democrat’s co-defendants, Wael Hana and Fred Daibes, said Thursday in their opening statements. Lawrence Lustberg, Hana’s attorney, told the jury the prosecution’s case is about criminalizing friendships, gift giving and business successes…
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News Trump’s Hush-Money Trial: 4 Key Moments That Defined the Week
In the past week of testimony in Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial, prosecutors were tying their case together, with two of the most important witnesses — a porn star and Mr. Trump’s one-time fixer — testifying just days apart. Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, testified for over nine hours, saying…
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News Almost end times for Trump trial spectacle but there’s still room for fireworks: 3 things to watch
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News Defense Blames Senator Menendez’s Wife as Bribery Trial Starts
A lawyer for Senator Robert Menendez on Wednesday laid blame for the bribery charges the senator faces squarely on his wife — a woman he found “dazzling” but who, his lawyer said, hid her past dire finances and the source of her newfound income from her powerful husband. She had kept him in the dark…
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News Opening Statements in Senator Menendez’s Corruption Trial: 5 Takeaways
The corruption trial of Senator Robert Menendez, a powerful New Jersey Democrat, spun into motion in Manhattan on Wednesday, with combative opening statements and an extraordinary claim by the defense. Speaking directly to the jury, a U.S. prosecutor asserted that Mr. Menendez “put his power up for sale,” trading favors involving Egypt and New Jersey…
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News Michael Cohen Is Prosecutors’ Last Witness In Trump’s Trial. Here’s What Happens Next.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office will soon conclude its case against Donald J. Trump, after having questioned 19 witnesses in an effort to prove that the former president committed 34 felonies. For now, Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s one-time lawyer and fixer who is being cross-examined, will be the last witness of the prosecution’s case….
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News Michael Cohen Testifies on White House Deal That Led to Trump’s Trial
Little more than two weeks into Donald J. Trump’s presidency, he and his personal lawyer met in the Oval Office for a private conversation about money. “I was sitting with President Trump and he asked me if I was OK,” the lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, recalled on Tuesday from the witness stand at Mr. Trump’s…
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News Trump unleashes on ‘fascists’ in Dem party after ‘very good day’ of trial
Former President Donald Trump slammed the Democratic Party as a group of “fascists” following a “very good day” in court, which included continued testimony from Michael Cohen. “‘The problem for Democrats is that the extensive polling now shows that the voters see through their scam and don’t like what’s going on,’” Trump said outside of…
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News Todd Blanche, Trump’s Lawyer in Hush-Money Trial, Cross-Examines Cohen
Donald J. Trump’s defense lawyer had waited a day and a half for this moment, to rise and begin the cross-examination of the prosecution’s star witness. Right out of the gate, he tried to set the tone for how the proceedings would unfold. Did you, Todd Blanche asked Michael D. Cohen, go on TikTok and…
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