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All the Key Players in the Trump Trial
Quick Glance: Trump Faces Landmark Trial Over Hush Money Case
  • Donald Trump will go down in history as the first former president to stand trial in Manhattan on criminal charges. The historic case revolves around a potential sex scandal cover-up just days before the 2016 elections.

  • The prosecution alleges that Trump falsified business records to hide hush money payments aimed at influencing the election outcome. Trump maintains his innocence and refutes any involvement with Stormy Daniels.

  • The trial will feature key witnesses from Trump's inner circle testifying against him, including Michael Cohen and David Pecker. It will delve into the Oval Office, where Trump allegedly approved the cover-up.

  • Prosecutors must prove that Trump falsified business records with intent to commit or conceal another crime. Trump's defense is likely to focus on the legality of the hush money payments and attempt to distance him from the accounting handled by his employees.
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The New York Judge in the Stormy Daniels Case Is Not Interested in Donald Trump’s Delay Tactics
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Quick Glance: Judge Denies Trump's Request to Delay Hush-Money Trial
  • Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan rejected Donald Trump's request to postpone his hush-money criminal trial until the Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity claims in another case.

  • Trump's lawyers sought to adjourn the New York trial indefinitely until his immunity claim in the Washington, D.C., election interference case is resolved.

  • The primary allegation in the hush-money case is that Trump falsified his company's internal records to conceal payments to his former lawyer Michael Cohen.

  • Trump and his lawyers have been pushing for more delays, raising concerns about the judge's impartiality and attempting to make the case about the 2016 election, while prosecutors argue against postponing the trial.
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Trump seeks dismissal of charges in Stormy Daniels hush money case: The move comes during Trump's ongoing civil fraud trial.
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Trump seeks dismissal of charges in Stormy Daniels hush money case
Quick Glance: Trump Defense: Lawyers Present Hush Money Strategy
  • Lawyers argue that the records are not business records and do not relate to the Trump Organization.

  • Prosecutors cannot prove Trump's intent to commit the tax crime.

  • State election laws do not apply to federal candidates like Trump.

  • Prosecutors did not meet their burden of proof before the grand jury.
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Trump grand jury reportedly examining hush money payment to Karen McDougal: Playboy model claimed affair with Trump in 2006, for which she was allegedly paid ...
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Trump grand jury reportedly examining hush money payment to Karen McDougal
Quick Glance: Read Alvin Bragg's Warning to Jim Jordan Not to'Collaborate' With Trump.
  • "Let the criminal justice process proceed without unlawful political interference," one section of Alvin Bragg's letter to Republican House leaders urges.

  • In the aftermath of former President Donald Trump's indictment, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office has retaliated against a trio of House GOP committee chairmen.

  • "The referenced committee chairmen are House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil."

  • They wrote to Bragg on March 21st, "demanding communications, documents and testimony relating to Bragg's unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority and the potential indictment of former President Donald Trump."
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Retaliation failed?: Trump withdraws million-dollar lawsuit against ex-lawyer: Four lawsuits against Donald Trump are now underway. The ex-president is also ...
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Stormy Daniels Postpones Interview With Piers Morgan Amid ‘Security Issues,' Says Morgan
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Quick Glance: Stormy Daniels threatened to dance in the streets if Trump was indicted. She is now upset about what happened.
  • For nearly two hours, Stormy Daniels was unaware of Trump's indictment.

  • Stormy Daniels' statement denying an affair with Trump is from 2018.

  • Recap: A grand jury indicts Donald Trump in New York, making him the first former president to face criminal charges.

  • "I think obviously the grand jury looked at a lot of documents and heard a lot of testimony and made a decision, and I have to respect that," Brewster said.
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Quick Glance: Trump voluntarily drops lawsuit against Michael Cohen
  • Trump sued Cohen, his longtime attorney and fixer, in April for $500 million over allegations that Cohen maliciously sought attention and wealth at Trump's expense.

  • This week, Trump filed a motion to dismiss the charges and is also facing three other criminal indictments.

  • Trump was scheduled to provide a deposition in his lawsuit against Cohen on Monday.

  • Due to President Trump's deposition in a civil matter on Columbus Day, his ongoing legal battles in New York, Washington D.C., Florida, and Georgia, and his successful campaign leading the Republicans by 60 points and leading Joe Biden by 11 points to become the next President of the United States, President Trump has decided to temporarily pause his valid claims against Michael Cohen.
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Stormy Daniels Reacts to Trump's New Weight Report: The former president reportedly has the same measurements as several top professional athletes.
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Stormy Daniels Reacts to Trump's New Weight Report
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See where the big Trump cases stand in the months leading to the election: Former President Donald Trump has been charged with criminal counts in four separate ...
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See where the big Trump cases stand in the months leading to the election
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It's not just Stormy Daniels. Here are ongoing criminal investigations Trump faces
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Stormy Daniels: Lock Up Trump If Guilty — But Not For 'Crimes Against Me': In a new interview, the porn star at the center of Donald Trump's hush money case said ...
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Stormy Daniels: Lock Up Trump If Guilty — But Not For 'Crimes Against Me'
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Stormy Daniels ordered to pay Trump team another $120,000 in legal fees: Three thousand miles away from his New York legal drama, Donald Trump secured a ...
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Stormy Daniels ordered to pay Trump team another $120,000 in legal fees
Quick Glance: Stormy Daniels must pay $122,000 in legal fees to Trump.
  • Stormy Daniels, an adult film actress, poses for photos at the end of her striptease show at Gossip Gentleman club in Long Island, N.Y., on Feb. 23, 2018.

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  • According to Harmeet Dillon, one of Daniels' attorneys in the case, Daniels has been ordered to pay more than $600,000 in Trump's legal fees.
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Trump Gets Good News About Stormy Daniels Case While in Court: When all is said and done, Daniels could owe the former president more than a half million dollars ...
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Trump Gets Good News About Stormy Daniels Case While in Court
Quick Glance: Trump Pleads Not Guilty After Being Charged with 34 Felonies
  • Former President Donald J. Trump exited Trump Tower and drove to the Manhattan district attorney's office in a motorcade.

  • The hearing was also historic for Alvin L. Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney who brought the case.

  • The case, which was filed in Mr. Trump's hometown, marks the start of the former president's journey through the criminal justice system.

  • He accused Mr. Trump of falsifying business records related to the hush money, which appear to be felony charges based on a novel application of the law.
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Call for protests: Trump expects arrest soon: Next Tuesday he will be arrested, Donald Trump has now claimed himself. His supporters called the ex-US president ...
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Call for protests: Trump expects arrest soon
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Quick Glance: The following are the key players in the Trump hush money case.
  • Daniels met with New York prosecutors investigating the hush money case earlier this month and stated her willingness to testify in any potential case against Trump.

  • Cohen previously stated that he would take a bullet for Donald Trump.

  • Costello, who previously represented former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and ex-Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon, began advising Cohen in 2018 as federal investigators ramped up their probe into the hush money payments.

  • Melania Trump hasn't said much about her husband's alleged affairs in public.
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Cohen to testify before grand jury investigating hush money payments made on Trump's behalf
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Donald Trump’s Stormy Daniels case: Here’s what you need to know: Trump may become the first former US president to face formal charges. Al Jazeera looks at what ...
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Donald Trump’s Stormy Daniels case: Here’s what you need to know
Quick Glance: Donald Trump Investigations - How his wife Melania is Faring
  • Melania Trump is reportedly "furious."

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Why Donald Trump’s Hush Money Payment Is the Thing That Finally Got Him: Hush money is usually legal in America. But there's more to the story here.
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Why Donald Trump’s Hush Money Payment Is the Thing That Finally Got Him
Quick Glance: The Trump hush-money grand jury will reconvene on Monday after a week-long hiatus.
  • A Manhattan grand jury has been deliberating evidence of Trump's alleged role in a 2016 pre-election payment to Stormy Daniels since January.

  • According to two law enforcement sources, a New York state grand jury will resume hearings on the Trump "hush money" case on Monday after a week's break.

  • It's unclear whether the grand jury, which meets in the afternoon, will hear additional witnesses or vote on Monday.

  • The grand jury last met on Monday, March 20, when it heard testimony from a rebuttal witness at Trump's request.
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Stormy Daniels says she looks forward to testifying in Trump case: The adult-film actress said in an interview broadcast Thursday that she would « absolutely » ...
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Stormy Daniels says she looks forward to testifying in Trump case
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Quick Glance: Stormy Daniels was riding her horse Redemption when Trump's indictment was announced.
  • Stormy Daniels told The Times of London that the $130,000 payment at the heart of Trump's indictment was used to buy a horse trailer.

  • When the indictment was announced, Daniels said "Team Stormy" merchandise sales skyrocketed.

  • According to The New York Times, she also began receiving violent threats on "all social media platforms, and email, and phone," hours after the indictment was announced.

  • "The number and the intensity is the same as it was the first time around, but this time it's straight-up violent," she told The New York Times.
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Another political hush-money case offers clues to a possible Donald Trump defense
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How the Trump hush money case compares to the John Edwards indictment: Edwards was accused of soliciting nearly $1 million to hide an affair.
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How the Trump hush money case compares to the John Edwards indictment
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Manhattan prosecutors target Trump with an iffy bank shot: The reported ploy centers on a payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in 2016.
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Manhattan prosecutors target Trump with an iffy bank shot
Quick Glance: Trump's hush money case in New York goes to a grand jury on Monday.
  • A grand jury is hearing evidence in New York about former President Donald Trump's role in hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign, according to two sources familiar with the situation.

  • According to Reuters, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified before the grand jury.

  • According to the Wall Street Journal, Pecker, AMI's former CEO and a longtime friend of Trump and Cohen, told prosecutors about their hush-money deals with McDougal and Daniels before Trump's 2016 U.S. election victory.
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New York prosecutors indicate Trump criminal charges likely, report says: Donald Trump is being investigated for a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels ...
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New York prosecutors indicate Trump criminal charges likely, report says
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Instructions from the judge: Date for Trump's hush money trial is set: Donald Trump wants to be re-elected US President in November 2024 before that, however ...
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Instructions from the judge: Date for Trump's hush money trial is set
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Trump charged with narrow violations — in pursuit of broad scheme to undermine 2016 vote
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Quick Glance: Juan Merchan: Who is the judge in charge of the Donald Trump-Stormy Daniels case?
  • Merchan oversaw the Trump Organization's criminal trial last year, which resulted in the real estate company being convicted of tax fraud and fined, while one of its longtime executives, Allen Weisselberg, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison.

  • Merchan ordered the Trump Organization to pay $1.6 million after a jury found the company guilty in December.

  • Trump, who was not charged in his company's case, slammed Merchan on his Truth Social platform on Friday.

  • According to court records, her case was dropped.
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Michael McDowell: Donald Trump’s indictment makes his re-election more likely: The issues with the former US president run deeper than the Stormy Daniels case ...
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Michael McDowell: Donald Trump’s indictment makes his re-election more ...
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Trump claims he ‘will be arrested’ on Tuesday in New York criminal case: Ex-president makes remark on Truth Social without any official confirmation of the ...
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Trump claims he ‘will be arrested’ on Tuesday in New York criminal case
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Stormy Daniels Thanks Donald Trump for ‘Admitting’ Their Affair: The porn star-turned-reality show host’s comments come as a grand jury is reportedly hearing ...
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Stormy Daniels Thanks Donald Trump for ‘Admitting’ Their Affair
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How Daniels hush payment could lead to Trump indictment: A payment meant to silence an adult film actress in the days before Donald Trump's stunning ...
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How Daniels hush payment could lead to Trump indictment
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Trump's Lawyer Admits Indictment Becoming 'More Probable': The former president is accused of paying an adult actor $130,000 in hush money ahead of the 2016 ...
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Trump's Lawyer Admits Indictment Becoming 'More Probable'
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Michael Cohen says DA took phones for renewed Stormy Daniels hush-money probe: The payment to Daniels, which Cohen says was intended to buy her silence about an ...
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Quick Glance: Cohen claims he handed over cellphones to Manhattan prosecutors investigating Trump hush payments.
  • "Most recently, they asked for my cellphones because they want to be able to extract from it the voice recordings that I had had with Keith Davidson, former attorney to Stormy Daniels before Michael Avenatti, as well as a bunch of emails, text messages and so on," Cohen said on CNN's "This Morning."

  • The phones, which were previously seized by federal agents in 2018, are "new to the district attorney," according to Cohen.

  • "I mean, Donald cannot keep track of the lies that he tells," he explained.

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Payment to Stormy Daniels: Donald Trump requests postponement of hush money trial
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Explaining the charges against Donald Trump: Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree ...
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Explaining the charges against Donald Trump
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Biden opts for silence in the face of Trump’s sound and fury : The Stormy Daniels case has put all eyes back on the former president, but the White House is ...
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Biden opts for silence in the face of Trump’s sound and fury
Quick Glance: Why Donald Trump's arrest may help his presidential campaign in the Iowa caucuses in 2024.
  • Donald Trump has been charged with crimes in New York, according to the indictment.

  • Even as enthusiasm wanes, support for Donald Trump remains strong.

  • In September 2021, Trump was viewed favorably by 91% of Iowa Republicans.

  • Wapello County GOP Chair Trudy Caviness said the indictment isn't causing Republicans to side with or against Trump at this time.
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Donald Trump's Cold War With Ron DeSantis Is Now Full-Blown Conflict: DeSantis said he won't be "getting involved" if Trump is indicted over allegations that he ...
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Donald Trump's Cold War With Ron DeSantis Is Now Full-Blown Conflict
Quick Glance: Disney uses a royal family clause to thwart Ron DeSantis' Florida power play.
  • DeSantis also proposed renaming the area the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District and establishing a new board of supervisors to oversee it.

  • Florida lawmakers have objected to the new agreement, vowing to find a legal way to repeal or void it.

  • "All agreements signed between Disney and the District were appropriate, and were discussed and approved in open, noticed public forums in compliance with Florida's Government in the Sunshine law," The Walt Disney World Resort said in a statement.

  • The Florida Legislature established it so that Disney could build the infrastructure for Walt Disney World at no cost to Florida taxpayers.
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Trump told of possible criminal charges for paying off Stormy Daniels – report: The ex-president has been given a chance to testify next week before a grand jury ...
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Trump told of possible criminal charges for paying off Stormy Daniels – ...
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Trump criminal trial over porn star payoff set for March, months before 2024 election
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Quick Glance: Trump's Criminal Trial for Hush Money to Porn Star Set for March 2024
  • Former President Donald Trump will face trial starting March 25 for falsifying business records related to a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.

  • Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan announced the trial schedule as Trump appeared in court via video for a hearing in the case.

  • Merchan warned Trump that he could be sanctioned if he violates an order restricting his ability to publicly release evidence and other materials related to the criminal case.

  • In late March, Trump was indicted by a grand jury on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
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Trump departs Florida for New York, where he is set to be arraigned Tuesday: Donald Trump travels to New York to turn himself in and face criminal charges ...
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Trump departs Florida for New York, where he is set to be arraigned ...
Quick Glance: Donald Trump arrives in New York ahead of a court appearance.
  • Former President Donald Trump's plane arrives at New York's LaGuardia Airport.

  • Former US President George H.W. Bush's supporters said he will "forever" have their support.

  • Following the completion of the booking, Trump will appear before a judge for an afternoon arraignment.

  • The investigation has been criticized by Donald Trump.
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Trump Charges: Hush Money Paid To Porn Star, Model And Doorman: Prosecutors laid out a case of lies and cover-ups against Donald Trump on Tuesday over hush-money ...
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Trump Charges: Hush Money Paid To Porn Star, Model And Doorman
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First Trump allies in presidential election subversion case surrender in Georgia: The first of Donald Trump's co-defendants in Georgia's criminal case accusing ...
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First Trump allies in presidential election subversion case surrender in ...
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Who’s who in the Stormy Daniels case that could take Trump to court? : The alleged payment of hush money to a porn star by the Republican leader has embroiled ...
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Who’s who in the Stormy Daniels case that could take Trump to court?
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Trump Breaks Silence a Day After Indictment Deadline: The former president is posting on social media on Wednesday, but making no reference to his suggestion ...
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Trump Breaks Silence a Day After Indictment Deadline
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Michael Cohen meets with NY prosecutors looking into Trump Org. and Stormy Daniels payments
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Michael Cohen meets with NY prosecutors looking into Trump Org ...