Mr. Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. The charges stem from a $130,000 hush-money payment that Mr. Trump’s fixer, Michael D. Cohen, made to the porn star Stormy Daniels in the days leading up to the 2016 election, suppressing a story of a sexual liaison that she said she had with Mr. Trump.
US President-elect Donald Trump has announced Leo Terrell as the Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the US Department of Justice. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said,
Donald Trump's sentencing in his New York criminal case on Friday closes out a series of prosecutions that he largely beat by retaking the U.S. presidency, though he is still fighting to avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars for losses in civil lawsuits.
The defeat at the Supreme Court was a rare reversal for Trump’s strategy of seeking to delay his criminal cases with multiple appeals – which he used in his federal cases to buy time until he could use his executive authority to thwart them. Of course, for this to work he had to live up to his end of the bargain and win the election.
President-elect Donald Trump is scheduled to be sentenced Friday morning on felony charges — a history-making moment he had tried desperately to make sure wouldn't happen before his inauguration 10 days from now.
Donald Trump is scheduled to be sentenced Friday on 34 counts of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment to an adult-film actress shortly before the 2016 election.
The chief federal prosecutors in most other New England states have submitted resignations ahead of Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration, but in R.I., US Attorney Cunha said he does not plan to resign.
Ten days ahead of his presidential inauguration, Donald Trump is scheduled to be sentenced Friday morning in New York for committing what the judge in his case characterized as a "premeditated and continuous deception" to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election.
Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin tells Politicon's "Highly Conflicted" podcast that Democrats will oppose any effort by Donald Trump to politicize the Department of Justice: QUESTION, HUGO LOWELL: Let me change gears,
Politico's Kyle Cheney discusses Representative Raskin's sharp criticism of Trump's private phone call with Justice Alito, when we'll see the Jack Smith reports, and the Supreme Court's legitimacy issues.