Under Cross-Examination, Michael Cohen Spills About His Past With Trump
Mother Jones; Laura Brett/ZUMA; Jane Rosenberg/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump’s criminal trial for engineering a hush money scheme—to save his 2016 campaign from a slew of stories about his infidelities—entered its dramatic final stages on Tuesday, as his former fixer, Michael…
Donald Trump Really Trying to Pretend He Couldn’t Care Less About Michael Cohen
Mother Jones; Yuki Iwamura/AP; Imago/ZUMA; Elizabeth Williams/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Former President Donald Trump faced off with his onetime fixer Michael Cohen in court on Monday, and for the most part, Cohen delivered a persuasive indictment. Even though the two men have…
Trump Denies the Affairs at the Heart of the Hush-Money Case. Almost No One Believes Him.
Mother Jones illustration; Glenn Francis/Wikimedia; Elizabeth Williams/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump is on trial in Manhattan facing 34 counts of falsifying business records as part of another crime: conspiring to influence the 2016 election. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg argues that,…
Why Trump’s Sleaziest Criminal Case Is So Important
Donald Trump appears at a Manhattan criminal court on February 15, 2024, for a hearing in his porn-star/hush-money case. Brendan McDermid/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Editor’s note: The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the…
When the Judge Refused to Toss His Case, Trump Stormed Out of Court Today
Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he exits courtroom in his civil business fraud trial at New York Supreme Court, on Wednesday.AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Former president Donald Trump abruptly left a New York City courtroom on…
The Full Stormy Hush-Money Tale Features Plenty of Witnesses Who Could Be Trouble for Trump
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.With a possible indictment of Donald Trump, it’s a good moment to review how the porn-star-hush-money caper may make him the first president or ex-president ever charged with a crime. Such a refresher reminds us just how tawdry the…
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