As former President Donald Trump's historic criminal trial gets underway in New York this week, the CBS News Confirmed team has been tracking potentially misleading narratives that have gained some traction on social media.
The first seven jurors for Donald Trump’s hush money trial were chosen Tuesday after lawyers grilled members of the jury pool about their social-media posts, political views and personal lives to decide whether they can sit in fair judgment of the former president.
Trump hush money trial. Former President Donald Trump was back in court for the second day of his Manhattan criminal trial as he's accused of covering up a hu
The first seven jurors were selected for Donald Trump’s hush money trial Tuesday amid a battle over prospective jurors’ old Facebook posts and calls to “lock him up” and a judge’s warning that the former president should not try to intimidate the panelists who will be deciding his fate.
A group of three jurors was selected on Tuesday to serve on Donald Trump's hush-money criminal trial, as the selection process continues to choose a 12-member panel which can be fair to the Republican former U.
Lawyers worked for a second day to find a panel of New Yorkers to decide whether the Republican will become the first former president convicted of a crime.
Follow today’s live coverage of Trump’s hush money trial. After years of investigation and weeks of delay, the criminal case known as the People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump went to trial Monday,
Donald Trump's criminal trial on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star is not a referendum on his presidency, a prosecutor told prospective jurors on Tuesday in asking whether they could put personal politics aside.
Following a protracted questionnaire phase and hours of questioning on Tuesday, seven jurors were seated by the time the court adjourned on the second day of Donald Trump ’s hush money trial. Jury selection will resume Thursday morning.
Former President Donald Trump's historic criminal hush money case continues Tuesday morning in Manhattan. Follow Newsweek's live blog for the latest updates.
It's a moment in history — the first U.S. president facing criminal charges in an American courtroom. Yet only a handful of observers are able to see or even hear what is going on. Instead, most of the nation is getting news of former President Donald Trump's hush money trial secondhand.
Donald Trump’s first criminal trial got off to a plodding start, with the proceedings stalling over disagreements about evidence and other last-minute arguments, leaving even the former president looking bored and resting his eyes at times.
President Donald Trump made history this week as the first former president to stand trial on criminal charges. But he’s not only facing 34 felony charges, he now has a new problem to contend with too.
More potential jurors were dismissed Tuesday from Donald Trump’s hush money case as lawyers worked for a second day to find a panel of New Yorkers willing to set their political beliefs aside, clear their personal calendars and sit in judgment of a former U.
There are two Donald Trump criminal trials now taking place. There’s the one in a Manhattan courtroom, where a judge, attorneys for both sides and prospective jurors are making strenuous efforts to lay the foundation of the fair trial to which the ex-president and every other citizen is entitled.
The first criminal trial facing former President Donald Trump is also the one in which Americans are least convinced he committed a crime, a new AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll finds.
The first seven jurors were selected on Tuesday to serve on Donald Trump's hush-money criminal trial, as the selection process continues to choose a panel of 12 members and six alternates who can be fair to the former U.
Donald Trump’ s first and potentially only criminal trial before Election Day has begun. It’s also the first-ever such trial for a former president, who could be sent to prison if convicted on charges that he broke the law by paying,
Two days into his historic criminal trial, former President Trump is confronting the same rare feeling that fueled his erratic behavior in the wake of the 2020 election: a loss of control. Why it matters: Trump is quickly learning that Manhattan's criminal courthouse is not like the court of public opinion,
During jury selection in a criminal trial, it’s important that prospective jurors be screened for any potential biases towards the defendant or prosecution.In Donald Trump’s hush money trial, this meant the former president had to sit through the second day of proceedings listening to jokes and memes publicly posted on social media at his expense.
Once a jury is finally seated for Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan, all eyes will turn to the key players. and witnesses. Here’s who they are. The first former president to be charged with a crime,
Former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at Manhattan Criminal Court as he attends the first day of his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, in New York City on April 15,
Former President Trump is set to come face-to-face with a lineup of witnesses in his first criminal trial that could include former White House aides, Trump Organization employees and multiple people allegedly paid hush money on his behalf.
Donald Trump's unprecedented criminal trial resumes Thursday in New York with the judge seeking to complete jury selection and kick off arguments in the politically explosive case early next week.
The first of Donald Trump’s four criminal trials is underway in New York on April 15. Here is a look at some of the key figures in the case. (AP Video: Ted Shaffrey)
It’s that last bullet point the former president has to worry about as jury selection for his hush money trial began earlier this week. Trump is now officially the first ex-president to be prosecuted for a crime.
Trump's first criminal trial is ongoing in New York, and The Daily Show — who are never adverse to making a joke or two about the former president — were on hand with the big updates. But first, a reminder that the former president is facing multiple criminal and civil cases.
Two things are becoming increasingly clear as Donald Trump’s historic trial gets underway: it will be difficult for him to get a trial most people will accept as fair, and he’s likely to be helped politically no matter what happens.
The second day of former President Trump’s criminal trial in New York was more productive than expected, with the jury beginning to take shape. Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
Dozens of prospective jurors poured back into Manhattan criminal court Tuesday morning for the second day of former President Donald Trump's hush money trial. Prosecutors allege that Trump falsified business records related to a hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.
Seven New Yorkers have so far been picked to serve as jurors on former President Trump’s hush money trial, the first criminal case of any U.S. president in history. The judge, along with prosecutors and Trump’s defense team,
Donald Trump returned Tuesday to a New York courtroom as the jury selection process in his historic hush money trial enters a second day. The former president and presumptive GOP nominee began the day by railing against the trial and complaining about a gag order that bars him from from publicly commenting on jurors,
Seven diverse New Yorkers were sworn in as jurors at Donald Trump’s hush money trial on Tuesday, securing their places in history as those who will weigh the first criminal charges ever brought against a former U.
A New York judge questioned more prospective jurors on Tuesday, looking for people who say they could fairly judge the criminal case against Donald Trump in the first ever trial of a former U.S. president.
Hours after Donald Trump sat in a New York courtroom and became the first former president in U.S. history to be a defendant in a criminal trial Monday, his attorneys filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court renewing his claim of absolute presidential immunity in another criminal case against him.
Jury selection in Donald Trump’s hush money trial has resumed in Manhattan. Lawyers are working to find a panel of New Yorkers who will decide whether the Republican who hopes to return to
There are the breathless live blogs documenting each side-eye Trump delivers, as audiences must rely on the media to distill what’s happening without cameras in the courtroom. This tactic will eventually give the press the opportunity to launder and sanitize the salacious content we’re headed for,
A fuming Donald Trump began another day of jury selection in his historic criminal trial Tuesday, in stark contrast to his White House rival President Joe Biden who headed out to campaign in a key swing state.
Donald Trump returned to a New York courtroom Tuesday as a judge works to find a panel of jurors who will decide whether the former president is guilty of criminal charges alleging he falsified business records to cover up a sex scandal during the 2016 campaign.