WASHINGTON — Despite previous claims that the Republican National Committee would not be paying Donald Trump’s various legal bills, an invitation to a Palm Beach, Florida fundraiser next month shows that the Save America committee Trump has been using for that purpose will, in fact, be a recipient of donor money. The fundraiser for a […]
CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig on Thursday explained why a CNN report that staffers and contract workers at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort may testify in the classified documents case could spell seriously bad news for the former president. The potential calling of a woodworker, a plumber, a maid and a chauffeur to take the […]
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow said Donald Trump’s “chaotic, rambling, non sequitur, out of control, insulting” testimony on Monday may not help with his case, “but it does make a mockery of the legal system.” On the witness stand, the former president repeatedly clashed with the judge overseeing his $250 million civil fraud trial in New York, […]
Former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal on Sunday said former President Donald Trump faces a “Hobson’s choice” when he takes the stand in his civil fraud trial in New York this week. Trump could answer the questions or plead the Fifth when he’s grilled in the $250 million lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General […]
Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe on Tuesday explained why he believes Donald Trump’s arguments against calls for him to be disqualified from the 2024 election ballot for inciting the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection as he desperately sought to cling to the presidency are “absurd.” Trump faces legal challenges in multiple states that claim he […]
CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig on Tuesday broke down how Donald Trump’s children could be damned if they do and damned if they don’t take the Fifth during their scheduled upcoming testimony in the former president’s civil fraud trial in New York. Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump are all set to […]
Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann highlighted a “chilling” aspect of Donald Trump’s attempted appeal of the gag order in his 2020 election interference case. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan’s order bans the former president from criticizing prosecutors, court staff and any potential witnesses in public. It was temporarily lifted Friday for Chutkan to assess an […]
Sidney Powell’s guilty plea in Georgia Thursday spells a heap of trouble for former President Donald Trump, CNN legal eagle Elie Honig said. (Watch the video below.) In exchange for probation, Powell struck a deal to admit to six misdemeanors in a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election, and agreed to testify against other alleged […]
Special counsel Jack Smith is demanding to know whether former President Donald Trump actually plans to argue in court — as he and his legal team have suggested they will — that he was simply following advice from his lawyers when he attempted to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Several lawyers in […]
Trump would be “destroyed on cross-examination” if he used that argument, the prosecutor in the Watergate scandal that took down President Richard Nixon said on MSNBC’s “The Beat.” It would only work if Trump “was doing something presidential, something within his job description” when he did what he is alleged to have done, said Wine-Banks. […]