All posts tagged "Trial"

Former President Donald Trump's legal team made a critical error in their attempt to defend against the criminal hush payment case in Manhattan, former Trump lawyer Tim Parlatore explained in a panel on CNN Thursday evening.

Trump is now the only former U.S. president in history to be convicted of a felony, and his sentencing will take place on July 11, after which he is expected to appeal. He still has three other criminal federal and state cases pending, although they are all varying levels of unlikely to go to trial before the November election.

"Give us your reaction to this historic moment," said anchor Wolf Blitzer....

MyPillow CEO and MAGA disciple Mike Lindell was gushing with glee over Donald Trump's historic guilty verdict because he feels it sealed a victory come November 5, when Americans head to the ballot box to vote.

"Everybody's been flocking me in my office asking me: 'What do you think? What do you think?' — I think he just won the election," an ebullient Lindell said while being interviewed by War Room host and former senior Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon shortly after the verdict came down.

The 45th president earned an infamous place in the American canon for being found guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records by masking six-figure hush money payments to a woman alleging an affair as a means to influence the results of the 2016 election. ...

Former FBI general counsel and prosecutor Andrew Weissmann got "worked up" after Donald Trump spoke out against the verdict in his New York trial.

Trump railed against the jurors, implying that they were incapable of rendering a legitimate verdict because they weren't his supporters.

Weissmann summed up Trump's statement by saying the ex-president was saying that people "act out of self-interest, and jurors can't be trusted unless they're MAGA Republicans.' That is essentially what he's saying, that the 'jury of my peers' has to be people who voted for me."'...

Former President Donald Trump was convicted on all charges in the Manhattan criminal hush money case on Thursday, after the jury deliberated for less than 12 hours.

It didn't have to end this way for him, wrote former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti for The New York Times — it was a "very winnable" case for him and he blew it with his go-to strategy of "attacking everyone and denying everything," which doesn't work as well in a courtroom as it does at Trump's political campaign events.

"I have practiced criminal law for over 20 years, and I have tried and won cases as both a federal prosecutor and criminal defense attorney," wrote Mariotti. "I’ve almost never seen the defense win without a compelling counternarrative. Jurors often want to side with prosecutors, who have the advantage of writing the indictment, marshaling the witnesses and telling the story. The defense needs its own story, and in my experience, the side that tells the simpler story at trial usually wins."...

A stunned nation witnessed a historic event Thursday night when a New York City jury issued a guilty verdict on criminal charges against former President Donald Trump.

Trump was found guilty on felony charges after just two days of deliberation in his trial for falsifying business records ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

George Conway had a simple, one-word response: "Justice."...

Donald Trump spoke to the press outside the courtroom where he was found guilty on 34 felony counts in his New York trial about the falsification of business records around the coverup of an alleged affair.

"This was a disgrace," Trump said in his statement. "This is a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who is corrupt. A rigged trial, a disgrace."

He went on to blame the fact that he couldn't get a change of venue for his guilty verdict, saying that the jurors were Democrats thus they could not return a real verdict. ...