Trump News for Monday, May 6, 2024
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'Got one really serious idea'
New York Post
President Biden on Monday joked about trying to "cut'' former President Donald Trump from November's election.
May 6, 2024, 11:59 PM
What you missed on Day 12 of Trump's trial: Another gag order ruling and details on how Michael Cohen was paid
NBC News
Two new witnesses took the stand Monday on the 12th day of Donald Trump’s hush money trial, shortly after the judge overseeing the case again cited the former president for violating the gag order he imposed last month.
May 6, 2024, 11:56 PM
Jury in Trump trial gets inside look into payments to Michael Cohen
CBS News
Prosecutors are continuing to call witnesses in former President Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York, where jurors heard from a former Trump Organization executive.
May 6, 2024, 11:55 PM
Trump dismisses judge’s jail threat as New York district attorney’s office expects two more weeks of testimony
Washington Examiner
New York prosecutors expect to bring more witnesses to the stand for two more weeks as rump chided recent jail threats.
May 6, 2024, 11:43 PM
Jack Smith believes Walt Nauta has incriminating photos on his phone: report
Raw Story
Special counsel Jack Smith believes that Donald Trump's valet and co-defendant in the classified documents case, Walt Nauta, has two incriminating photos in his phone, according to a Monday Newsweek report.This comes just two weeks after CNN reported Nauta "was told that if he was charged with lying...
May 6, 2024, 11:19 PM
Donald Trump calls Joe Biden weak on antisemitism, ignoring his own rhetoric
WDIV ClickOnDetroit
Donald Trump is accusing Joe Biden of offering a weak response to antisemitism, wielding the clashes on colleges campuses over the war in Gaza as a campaign issue.
May 6, 2024, 11:01 PM
Judge in Trump’s classified documents case cancels May trial date
BreakingNews.ie
No new trial date has been set.
May 6, 2024, 11:00 PM
Bernie Sanders stays in Joe Biden’s corner despite saying Gaza is his Vietnam
BreakingNews.ie
The veteran politician is seen as key in getting out the youth vote for the president against challengers including Donald Trump.
May 6, 2024, 11:00 PM
Stormy Daniels describes first meeting Trump during hush money trial
BreakingNews.ie
Jurors appeared riveted as Daniels offered a detailed and and at times graphic account of an encounter Trump has denied.
May 6, 2024, 11:00 PM
Trump trial resumes with prosecutors lining up star witnesses
BreakingNews.ie
The former president has been threatened with jail for gag order violations.
May 6, 2024, 11:00 PM
Ex-tabloid publisher David Pecker 'swatted' on day of Trump trial testimony
BreakingNews.ie
Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, who testified at Donald Trump's criminal trial last month, was targeted in a fake emergency the same day he took the stand in New York
May 6, 2024, 11:00 PM
Daniels outlines 'chaos' as Trump hush deal became public
RTE.ie
Adult film actress Stormy Daniels has described her 2006 encounter with Donald Trump in unflattering terms at his criminal trial, testifying she tried not to think about the sex while it took place and feared it would become public.
May 6, 2024, 11:00 PM
Trump seeks delay in classified documents case, saying prosecutors mishandled evidence
Cable News Network
Donald Trump’s attorneys have found a new reason to seek to delay the classified documents case: Some of the documents found in boxes at Mar-a-Lago have shifted out of order since FBI agents seized them two years ago.
May 6, 2024, 10:58 PM
'I thought they were finished!' Trump complains hush money trial is taking too long
Raw Story
Former President Donald Trump came up with a new complaint Monday about his Manhattan criminal hush money trial: it's taking too long."Oh, we just heard two to three more weeks," Trump told reporters outside the courthouse. "I thought they were finished today, and they are finished today if you look...
May 6, 2024, 10:53 PM
Jurors in Trump Trial Hear Witness Tie the President to the Payment
The New York Times
Before prosecutors began presenting crucial records, the judge held Donald J. Trump in contempt, saying his complaints about the jury were “a direct attack on the rule of law.”
May 6, 2024, 10:43 PM
Trump trial updates: Trump fined again for gag order violations, jury hears testimony about Cohen reimbursement payments
Yahoo News
After Judge Juan Merchan fined former President Donald Trump an additional $1,000 for gag order violations, the jury heard testimony Monday from two Trump Organization employees about payments Trump made to his lawyer Michael Cohen.
May 6, 2024, 10:37 PM
Stormy Daniels admits in court that Trump's $130K was no payoff: Letters
New York Post
NY Post readers discuss Stormy Daniels’ lawyer admitting that Donald Trump’s $130,000 payment wasn’t a payoff.
May 6, 2024, 10:31 PM
'Fall guy': Lawyer says Trump staffer has been set up to take blame in hush money trial
Raw Story
Former President Donald Trump and his legal team will likely blame a staffer for business documents at the heart of his criminal hush money trial, a legal expert said Monday. Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani predicts Team Trump will say the former president was oblivious to slippery bookkeepi...
May 6, 2024, 10:19 PM
Not-so-Scientific American, Trump’s insane trial and other commentary
New York Post
The craziest thing “about former President Donald Trump’s trial in New York is that we do not know precisely what crime Trump is charged with committing,” muses the Washington Examiner’s Byron York.
May 6, 2024, 10:17 PM
Trump trial: Judge threatens ex-president with jail if he keeps breaking gag order
Yahoo News
The judge issues his most serious warning yet, calling the violations "a direct attack on the rule of law".
May 6, 2024, 10:15 PM
If Ivanka Trump joins dad's campaign, will she lose new A-list friends?
The Mercury News
What happens to Ivanka Trump's efforts to re-establish herself as an A-list celebrity if she campaigns again for her father's MAGA political agenda?
May 6, 2024, 10:07 PM
Donald Trump's Lawyers Switch Up Roles
Newsweek
Emil Bove is taking an increasingly significant role, cross-examining all three of the bombshell witnesses who have testified.
May 6, 2024, 10:04 PM
Paper trail and judge’s warning: Trump trial key takeaways, day 12
The Guardian
Prosecutors pressed witnesses on the alleged falsification of business records to cover up the payments to Stormy Daniels
May 6, 2024, 9:52 PM
Takeaways from Day 12 of the Donald Trump hush money trial
Cable News Network
Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s hush money trial dove into the paper trail at the heart of their case on Monday, revealing to jurors exactly how Michael Cohen was repaid by Trump’s trust and personal accounts in 2017 after he paid hush money to Stormy Daniels.
May 6, 2024, 9:49 PM
Trump Accountant Exposes Checks to Michael Cohen in Damning Testimony
Yahoo News
A Trump Organization accountant revealed who signed off on the checks to Michael Cohen for the hush-money reimbursements.
May 6, 2024, 9:44 PM