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Cohen testimony on Trump: ‘He is a racist. He is a conman. He is a cheat.’
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, will provide documents to the House oversight committee on Wednesday that he says prove Trump’s “illicit” acts, according to prepared...
View ArticleMichael Cohen alleges Trump created web of lies
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s former attorney and fixer on Wednesday laid out a series of damning accusations against the president, presenting evidence of alleged lies and criminal conduct and...
View ArticleWorld’s cartoonists on this week’s events
First published in The New York Times, U.S., February 20, 2019 | By Chappatte First published on POLITICO.eu, Belgium, March 2, 2019 | By Rytis Daukantas First published on Caglecartoons.com, The...
View ArticleTrump clings to economy as woes mount
Inside the White House, U.S. President Donald Trump is in a rut. His administration faces a raft of investigations from House Democrats on everything from Russia to abuses of power. His summit with...
View ArticleInside Trump’s yearslong campaign to stymie the Russia investigation
In the summer of 2016, not long after WikiLeaks began releasing damaging material hacked by the Russian government from the servers of the Democratic National Committee, candidate Donald Trump was...
View ArticleTrump sues Deutsche Bank, Capital One to block House subpoenas
U.S. President Donald Trump and his family are suing Deutsche Bank and Capital One to block subpoenas issued by House Democrats seeking Trump’s financial records. In the federal lawsuit filed Monday in...
View ArticleThere are 15 outside investigations into Trump — and he relishes it
President Donald Trump is facing a hurdle no other president has — an unprecedented onslaught of investigations into almost every recent organization he has led. In California, investigators are...
View ArticleUkraine scandal ropes in the usual suspects
The Ukraine scandal engulfing Donald Trump’s presidency goes well beyond the core cast of characters at the heart of Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. It’s now drawing in a duo familiar to anyone who has...
View ArticleTrump calls Ukraine corrupt. He still wanted to build a resort there.
In 2006, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump traveled to Ukraine to meet with government officials about building a multimillion dollar hotel and golf course in the country. Two years later, Trump Jr....
View ArticleTrump ally Roger Stone sentenced to over three years in prison
Roger Stone was sentenced Thursday to just more than three years in prison, a decision that raises immediate questions about whether President Donald Trump will pardon his longtime political confidant...
View ArticleJudge signals she’s likely to back Trump request for Mar-a-Lago special master
A federal judge said Saturday she’s inclined to grant Donald Trump’s request to bring in an outsider to oversee the review of more than two dozen boxes of materials the FBI seized from the former...
View ArticleTrump, company and family members sued over alleged fraud scheme
NEW YORK — New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed suit against former U.S. President Donald Trump, three of his adult children and his business empire, accusing them of large-scale...
View ArticleTrump’s income taxes were often paltry, newly released documents show
Former President Donald Trump repeatedly paid little or nothing in federal income taxes between 2015 and 2020 despite reporting millions in earnings. Documents released Tuesday night by House...
View ArticleTrump’s tax returns released, launching fresh scrutiny of his finances
House Democrats released several years’ worth of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns on Friday, launching what is sure to be another round of intense scrutiny of his finances. The drop marks...
View ArticleYour questions about the Trump indictment, answered
The unprecedented indictment of former President Donald Trump plunges the legal system into murky waters. The Manhattan grand jury’s decision to charge Trump for his alleged involvement in a hush...
View ArticleOne’s a tactician, the other’s a showman. Meet Trump’s defense team.
When former President Donald Trump arrives in Manhattan Criminal Courthouse to be arraigned next week, it will be his first appearance there as a criminal defendant. But for his lawyers, it is...
View ArticleTrump’s lawyer expects to make motion to dismiss charges
Joe Tacopina, one of former President Donald Trump’s lawyers, said Sunday that he eventually expects to move to dismiss the charges against the former president. “I very much anticipate a motion to...
View ArticleThe new revelations — and key questions — in the Trump indictment
The 16-page indictment against Donald Trump accuses him of 34 felonies for allegedly falsifying business records in a bid to violate campaign finance laws — a bevy of charges setting in motion the...
View ArticleTrump blasts judge during first day of $250 million fraud trial
NEW YORK — Donald Trump came face-to-face in a Manhattan court Monday with the attorney general who is suing him for massive business fraud and the judge who last week revoked his business licenses,...
View Article‘Rock solid and unwavering’: Biden pledges support for Israel after Hamas...
U.S. President Joe Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Saturday morning about the “horrific” Hamas attacks on Israeli civilians, offering “all appropriate means of support” to...
View ArticleWhich Trump trial will go first, and 4 other questions after a busy week in...
Twin court rulings on Friday underscored how prosecutors’ carefully laid plans to put former President Donald Trump on trial have nearly all been upended with less than eight months until Election...
View ArticleHow Donald Trump gets special treatment in the legal system
A firebrand politician named Donald is about to stand trial. Just a few days before jury selection, he goes on TV to slam the charges as baseless and biased. “The FBI and the Justice Department,” he...
View ArticleHow the Trump hush money scandal turned into a criminal case: The whirlwind...
On Monday, nearly eight years after Donald Trump allegedly orchestrated a scheme to pay a porn star to keep quiet about affair allegations on the eve of the 2016 election, he will become the first...
View ArticleFrom porn star to prosecution’s key witness: The evolution of Stormy Daniels
Porn star and director. Former stripper. And now, witness for the prosecution. Stormy Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, had a lucrative career as a porn star before an alleged sexual...
View ArticleWith eyes shut, Trump endures testimony from his nemesis
NEW YORK — Face to face in court on Monday with his fixer-turned-nemesis Michael Cohen — the witness whose testimony is key to New York prosecutors’ criminal case against him — Donald Trump seemed...
View Article‘Are you staring me down right now?’: Key Trump defense witness draws judge’s...
NEW YORK — Shortly after the prosecution rested its case Monday in the Manhattan hush money trial, the defense called to the stand a belligerent witness who sparred with prosecutors, muttered under...
View ArticleWe’re on the cusp of a Trump verdict. Here’s what our insiders think.
The evidence in People v. Trump is officially closed after a turbulent few days in the courtroom. Early this week, Michael Cohen finally ended his testimony after several days of aggressive and...
View ArticleDonald Trump found guilty in New York hush money trial
NEW YORK — Donald Trump was found guilty Thursday of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to a porn star, making him the first former president to become a convicted felon. The...
View ArticleTrump needs to win votes from people who despise him. That just got harder.
Yes, it’s obviously true that a 34-count felony conviction would be enough to demolish the career of any normal politician. Yes, it’s obviously true that former president Donald Trump is not a normal...
View ArticleUS Senator Bob Menendez guilty verdicts give New York prosecutors a win after...
NEW YORK — A sitting U.S. senator, stacks of gold bars and a clean sweep of guilty verdicts on 16 federal fraud, bribery and extortion counts: For federal prosecutors in the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s...
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