Two cases that could defy Donald Trump’s capacity to thwart prosecutions and even to overturn eventual convictions against him if he returns to the White House reach critical tests on Thursday with major implications for the 2024 election. In the latest remarkable twist of his multiple legal sagas, Trump is expected to show up in […]
Tag: Indictment
Sen. Bob Menendez & wife indicted for bribery
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez was charged Friday with corruption-related offenses for the second time in 10 years. Menendez and his wife, Nadine Arslanian Menendez, are accused of accepting “hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes” in exchange for the senator’s influence, according to the newly unsealed federal indictment. Prosecutors allege the bribes included […]
Trump not losing sleep over threat of jail time
Former President Donald Trump is not afraid of going to prison despite facing four criminal trials, saying, “I’m built a little differently.” “I don’t even think about it,” Trump told NBC’s Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker in an interview aired on Sunday. “I’m built a little differently, I guess, because I have had people […]
Special Counsel Smith & Trump; still going at it
Special counsel Jack Smith is not done with former President Donald Trump and his entourage, despite charging him with four criminal counts over his attempt to overthrow the 2020 election and more than three dozen other charges over his hoarding of classified documents in Florida. The clash between the hard-driving prosecutor and the world’s most […]
New scheme to take Trump out being initiated
Let’s say you hate Donald Trump and really, really, really don’t want him to become president of the United States again. How do you prevent that? Well, most would agree the best way would be to defeat him electorally, either in the Republican primaries or in the 2024 general election. But a significant number of […]
Can all politicians be accused of fraud for lying?
If there’s one word to describe what everyone might wish Washington would stop producing, it’s “unprecedented.” Yet here we go again, with special counsel Jack Smith’s unprecedented indictment of a politician for engaging in “a conspiracy to defraud the United States.” Be prepared for this new and startlingly elastic precedent to ensnare plenty of others. […]
Trump due in DC court to answer indictment
Former US President Donald Trump will be formally charged at a court hearing later for allegedly plotting to overturn his 2020 election defeat. Mr Trump, 77, is due to appear at a federal courthouse in Washington DC on Thursday at 16:00 EDT (20:00 GMT). It is expected that he will attend in person and plead […]
Trump indicted for third time this year
Former President Donald Trump has been indicted for a third time this year, this time on charges related to his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. With Trump’s indictment on four counts in Washington, D.C., he is accused of conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of […]
Smith opens new criminal investigation into Trump
Former President Donald Trump said in a social media post that he’s been informed by special counsel Jack Smith that he is a target of the criminal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. “Deranged Jack Smith, the prosecutor with Joe Biden’s DOJ, sent a letter (again, it was Sunday night!) stating that I […]
Miami braces for protests over Trump court appearance
The mayor of Miami has said police officials are bracing for large protests when Donald Trump makes his initial appearance in court later today. The former US president faces a 37 charges of hoarding classified documents. He denies any wrongdoing. In a joint press conference with the city’s police chief, Mayor Francis Suarez urged calm […]
Congress returns to session; Trump looms large
House Republicans say they’ll return Monday fresh off a week of infighting that paralyzed the lower chamber, but they’ll have a renewed focus on this: to discredit the inquiry that led to former President Donald Trump’s historic indictment on 37 counts as well as Trump’s political enemies. House Republicans had launched aggressive investigations into President […]
Trump calls indictment “biased abuse of power”
Former President Donald Trump on Saturday cast his federal indictment as election interference and an abuse of power by the Biden administration. Speaking to the crowd at the Georgia Republican Convention in Columbus, Trump made his first public remarks since the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment a day earlier laying out its case that […]