The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has obtained former President Trump’s tax returns. A spokesman for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. (D) said Thursday that the office obtained the records on Monday. The development comes after the Supreme Court on Monday rebuffed an effort from Trump’s lawyers to shield the documents. CNN, which first reported […]
Two Georgia counties are seeking nearly $20,000 in attorney fees from former President Trump and the head of the Georgia GOP as compensation for a fruitless lawsuit seeking to overturn President Biden’s victory in the state. In court filings, DeKalb County called for $6,105 in compensation, while Cobb County asked for $10,875, according to CNN. […]
The Supreme Court declined Monday to block a New York grand jury from getting former President Donald Trump’s personal and corporate tax returns, a decisive defeat in his long legal battle to keep his tax records out of investigators’ hands. The ruling doesn’t mean the returns will become public any time soon, and they might […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Acquitted by the Senate of inciting last month’s U.S. Capitol insurrection, former President Donald Trump faces more fallout from the unrest, including a lawsuit from a congressman Tuesday. But his biggest legal problems might be the ones that go much further back. In one of what is expected to be many […]
Nearly 60 percent of Americans believe former President Trump should have been convicted during his second Senate impeachment trial, an ABC News-Ipsos poll taken shortly after the trial ended shows. Fifty-eight percent of Americans surveyed in the new poll, which was conducted from Feb.13 to 14 and is based on a nationally representative probability sample […]
The Senate voted Saturday to allow witnesses in former President Trump’s second impeachment trial, a stunning development that could extend the proceedings. House Democrats prosecuting the case called for a single immediate witness to testify: Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.), who has hammered Trump for his actions after the Capitol attack on Jan. 6. The […]
The top prosecutor in Fulton County, Georgia, has opened a criminal investigation of a January phone call to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger by then-President Donald Trump, who urged the official to “find” him enough votes to overturn his election loss to Joe Biden. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in a letter to Raffensperger […]
A majority of Americans favor convicting former President Trump in his second impeachment trial this week, according to a CBS-YouGov poll released Tuesday. The survey found 56 percent favor the former president’s conviction, the same percentage who said they supported it in an ABC News-Ipsos poll released Sunday. The same percentage of respondents in the […]
Lawmakers and others held another memorial service Wednesday for Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick in the Capitol Rotunda, where he has been lying in honor since Tuesday evening after dying last month from injuries suffered during the Jan. 6 riot at the building that he helped defend. There will be a send-off ceremony outside the […]
Half of Americans believe the Senate should convict former President Trump of inciting an insurrection, according to a Marist poll released Monday. With Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate drawing closer, 50 percent of Americans believe that the Senate should find the now-former president guilty for his role in stoking the Jan. 6 riot at […]
A Pennsylvania woman accused of being one of the Capitol rioters told a former “romantic partner” that she planned to steal a laptop computer from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office and sell it to Russian intelligence, court documents revealed Monday. The woman, Riley June Williams, 22, was on the run, charged with disorderly conduct on […]
Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) on Sunday advised the president not to grant presidential pardons to the rioters who stormed the Capitol this month, warning that doing so would “destroy” Trump. “Mr. President, your policies will stand the test of time. You’re the most important figure in the Republican party. You can shape the direction […]
