Category: Melania Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first criminal trial facing former President Donald Trump is also the one in which Americans are least convinced he committed a crime, a new AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll finds.
Only about one-third of U.S. adults say Trump did something illegal in the hush money case for which jury selection began Monday, while close to half think he did something illegal in the other three criminal cases pending against him. And they’re fairly skeptical that Trump […]
Only 1 in 3 US adults think Trump acted illegally in New York hush money case, AP-NORC …

NEW YORK — Former president Donald Trump and his allies have fought back against the criminal case he faces here by discounting the impact of alleged conduct that happened years ago and charges that center on the seemingly tedious subject of business records.
But the last flurry of motions before jury selection began Monday showed that prosecutors plan to lay out a different kind of story, one that has much more in common with the tabloid fodder that fueled Trump’s fame and revisits the […]
N.Y. trial's focus on tawdry scandal could underscore Trump's weakness with women

Third day of jury selection begins at 9.30am ET on Thursday, with seven jurors already selected
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Donald Trump will be asked about previous allegations of misconduct and crimes — including instances of sexual abuse and fraud — if he takes the stand at his historic hush money trial.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg revealed a list that includes “all misconduct and criminal acts of the defendant not charged in […]
Trump spends day off from trial attacking enemies on Truth Social: Live | The Independent

Former federal prosecutor Sunny Hostin warned on Tuesday that it could be risky for prosecutors to put former first lady Melania Trump on the stand in her husband’s Manhattan hush-money trial.
Because the case centers on hush money allegedly paid by former President Donald Trump to ex-porn star Stormy Daniels to keep an alleged affair quiet, Hostin argued that the right response from Melania Trump could create reasonable doubt for the jury.
Sunny Hostin fears Melania Trump being called to […]
Ex-Federal Prosecutor: It's A 'Big Gamble' To Put Melania On The Stand In Trump Hush-Money Trial

Ex-adviser Stephen Miller bizarrely claims his old boss ‘changed American fashion’
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Donald Trump is no stranger to toadying praise from his admirers but even he might have been surprised by his former White House adviser Stephen Miller washing up on Fox News on Tuesday evening to declare his former boss not only “the most stylish president” in recent US history, but also an icon who had “changed American […]
Donald Trump: Former president, criminal defendant – and style icon? | The Independent