Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan is resurfacing years-old allegations of what prosecutors have said was a criminal conspiracy intended to suppress negative stories about the then-presidential candidate before the 2016 election.
The first witness in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, testified on Tuesday that he used his supermarket tabloid to suppress stories that might have hurt Trump's 2016 presidential bid.
Pecker, a longtime tabloid publisher, returned to the stand and told jurors about his efforts to help Donald Trump stifle unflattering stories during the 2016 campaign.
Veteran tabloid publisher David Pecker returned to the witness stand in Donald Trump’s hush money case on Tuesday. Testimony in the case resumed just before midday following a morning hearing on the former president’s alleged gag order violations.
Prosecutors asked the judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial on Tuesday to fine the former U.S. president $10,000 for violating a gag order that prevents him from criticizing witnesses and others involved in the case.
Witness testimony will continue Thursday in Donald Trump's hush money criminal trial. Follow here for the latest live news updates from court, analysis and more.
The judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial will decide on Tuesday whether the former U.S. president should be punished for violating a gag order that prevents him from criticizing witnesses and others involved in the case.
Jurors in former President Donald Trump's trial in New York heard testimony from a former media executive about his efforts to bury negative stories about Trump before the 2016 presidential election.
Donald Trump introduced David Pecker to Steve Bannon to strategize future stories about Trump's opponents, the former National Enquirer publisher testified. " [Trump] thought both of us could work very well together,
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The contempt hearing has turned tense as Trump attorney Todd Blanche tries to defend Trump's posts as mere responses to attacks -- but isn't giving clear examples of how Trump was being attacked. Instead,
The judge overseeing former President Trump's hush money trial began the day with a hearing over whether Trump violated his gag order with social media posts allegedly attacking potential witnesses.
A veteran tabloid publisher was expected to return to the witness stand Tuesday in Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial. Prosecutors and defense attorneys in opening statements Monday painted competing portraits of the former president — one depicting him as someone who sought to corrupt the 2016 presidential election for his own benefit and another describing him as an innocent,
Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York City, where he is facing felony charges related to a 2016 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. It marks the first time in history that a former U.
The first witness in former President Donald Trump's New York criminal trial is expected to retake the stand Tuesday morning, but only after a hearing in which the judge in the case will examine a batch of Trump's recent social media posts.
David Pecker, former publisher of the National Enquirer, resumed testifying in the criminal hush money trial of former U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump has pleaded not guilty,
Trump’s historic trial on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records got underway in Manhattan on Monday. During opening arguments in the first ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president, prosecutors told jurors that Trump engaged in a “criminal conspiracy and a cover-up,
The testimony was sought to bolster prosecutors’ premise that Trump sought to illegally influence the 2016 election through a “catch-and-kill” strategy to buy up and then spike negative stories. Key to that premise are so-called hush money payments that were paid to porn actor Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal,
Donald Trump’s motorcade has arrived at the courthouse in lower Manhattan as his criminal hush money trial readies to resume. After a morning campaign event in midtown Thursday, the former
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Thursday over former President Donald Trump’s pursuit of absolute immunity from criminal charges alleging that he schemed and knowingly fed lies to subvert the 2020 presidential election,
Read our ongoing coverage of Donald Trump’s first criminal trial here. Way back in April 2023, when a grand jury in Manhattan filed the first criminal indictment of a U.S. president in the country’s history,
Prosecutors in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial have asked a judge to consider whether he violated a gag order four more times with remarks he made outside court
While the judge has held off on ruling so far, he tore into Trump’s lead lawyer Tuesday in a scene that may spell trouble for the former president’s defense, telling attorney Todd Blanche: “Mr Blanche,
Read our ongoing coverage of Donald Trump’s first criminal trial here. It’s only the second full day of Donald Trump ’s criminal trial in New York and Justice Juan Merchan already appeared ready to hold the former president in violation of a pretrial gag order and to fine him up to $10,
The US Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday on whether Donald Trump, as a former president, should be immune from criminal prosecution for acts he committed while in office.Two lower courts flatly rejected that argument but the Supreme Court agreed in February to hear the case.
A colorful former tabloid publisher took the witness stand Tuesday at Donald Trump's "hush money" trial and described how he suppressed negative stories about the real estate tycoon, a practice
Susanne Craig, New York Times Investigative Reporter joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to the former head of the National Enquirer, David Pecker’s testimony on Day 6 of the Trump Hush Money trial and the stunning admission that the media company worked with Trump,
Prosecutors on Tuesday accused Donald Trump of brazenly violating a gag order imposed by the judge presiding over his "hush money" trial to prevent him from intimidating witnesses.
Former President Trump’s hush money trial adjourned Tuesday after a second day of testimony from former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, who gave a detailed account of an agreement he reached with Trump and his fixer,
The former president's hush money trial is set to resume Tuesday at Manhattan Criminal Court, where ex-National Enquirer publisher David Pecker — the first witness to testify in the historic case — will return to stand.
Former President Donald Trump is standing trial in New York City on felony charges related to a 2016 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Trump is accused of falsifying internal business records as part of an alleged scheme to bury stories he thought might hurt his presidential campaign in 2016.
Former President Trump’s hush money trial is underway Tuesday with a New York judge hearing arguments over whether the former president violated a gag order imposed on him in the case. Prosecutors with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office claim Trump has so far violated the order barring him from attacking witnesses,
Former President Trump’s hush money trial will resume Tuesday with a New York judge hearing arguments over whether the former president violated a gag order imposed on him in the case. Prosecutors with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office claim Trump has so far violated the order barring him from attacking witnesses,
Former President Trump’s first criminal trial began in earnest Monday, with opening statements from prosecutors and the defense team, as well as the calling of the first witness. Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
David Pecker has previously cooperated with federal investigations into payments made to two women who were going to allege they had affairs with Trump ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
David Pecker has previously cooperated with federal investigations into payments made to two women who were going to allege they had affairs with Trump ahead of the 2016 presidential election.