One of those people said Trump's lawyers were contacted by prosecutors shortly before he announced Thursday on his Truth Social platform that he had been indicted. Within minutes of his announcement, Trump, who said he was due in court Tuesday afternoon in Miami, began fundraising off it...
Soon after Trump's election in November, his defense lawyers promised to urge Justice Juan Merchan to toss his indictment in the "hush money" case and set aside the verdict. They made their motion on Dec. 2,hinging their pushto discard the will of 12 jurors who sat for the seven-week...
Trump had vowed to appeal and his lawyers had been laying groundwork for months by objecting frequently to Engoron’s handling of the trial. Trump said Engoron’s decision, the costliest consequence of his recent legal troubles, was “election interference” and “weaponization...
Trump's PAC Save America burned through over $20 million in legal fees in the first half of this year alone, paying for lawyers to represent the former president and his co-defendants in three other cases. Thatleftthe PAC with just over $3 million on hand at the end of June. ...
So the trial was held.It was a fair trial. Trump had been indicted not by President Biden or the Department of Justice, butby a grand juryof New York citizens. He exercised a defendant’s usual right to participate in selecting the trial jury. His lawyers were allowed to cross-examine ...
Trump's lawyers, Todd Blanche and Chris Kise, are in the car behind him. Trump aide Walt Nauta, who is also charged in the federal indictment, is also riding in that car with his attorney, Stanley Woodward. -ABC News' Katherine Faulders and John Sant...
The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, which provides legal advice and guidance to executive branch agencies, has held that a sitting president cannot be indicted. Trump’s lawyers have said that Mueller plans to adhere to that guidance, though Mueller’s office has never independently...
Trump said "I could have declassified it" and "now I can’t, you know, but this is still a secret."June 13: Trump is arraigned in the federal courthouse in Miami. He entered a not guilty plea through one of his lawyers. Hours later in remarks at his property in Bedminster New ...
Trump was also charged with several crimes related to misleading investigators and his own lawyers about which documents he had. These include one count of false statements and representations, with a maximum sentence of five years, and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice, with a maximum ...
Those charged include Giuliani and Meadows as well as John Eastman, a conservative lawyer; Jeffrey Clark, a Trump Justice Department official; and Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis, lawyers who pushed baseless claims of voter fraud. Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act,better ...