Trump News for Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Former President Donald Trump's classified documents trial was postponed indefinitely Tuesday after the federal judge overseeing the case vacated this month's trial date due to outstanding pretrial litigation.

Judge Merchan said that Daniels' testimony was more detailed than he liked, but not to the point of a mistrial

RFK Jr. has an idea for his and Trump's intriguing intersection at the libertarian convention: a debate.

The adult film performer has testified Donald Trump was wearing pyjamas when he welcomed her to his hotel suite.

Stormy Daniels was called to the witness stand to testify at former President Donald Trump's trial in New York on Tuesday.

With Donald Trump sitting just feet away, Stormy Daniels testified Tuesday at the former president's hush money trial about a sexual encounter the porn actor says they had in 2006. (AP video by Joe Frederick)(AP produced by Javier Arciga)

Embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is prosecuting former President Donald Trump, indicated Monday that she will refuse to testify before the Georgia state Senate Special Committee investigating whether she misused taxpayer money during her relationship with former special prosecutor Nathan Wade.

Judge Aileen Cannon had previously made clear that the trial would not start as scheduled this month but she declined to set a new timetable, saying many pretrial issues still have to be resolved.

Former President Trump was projected to win Indiana’s Republican primary, according to Decision Desk HQ.  The win could give Trump, already the presumptive GOP nominee, another 58 delegates, according to a tracker from Decision Desk HQ/The Hill, in a state he’s forecast to clinch this fall.  Trump was the only active candidate on Indiana’s GOP ballot, but he was still up…

Trump's attorneys confronted porn star Stormy Daniels on Tuesday during the former president's trial in New York, raising questions about her credibility.

The judge in Donald Trump's hush money trial said the former president was "cursing audibly" during testimony by adult film actress Stormy Daniels and directed his lawyers to temper their client's behaviour.

Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) wouldn't say whether she and former President Donald Trump discussed a controversial story where she admitted to killing her dog.

Trump said Tuesday that he has no regrets about challenging the 2020 election results and asserted that when it comes to “straightening out elections," it’s important to "follow your heart."

But there is "some danger that an intense cross examination of her will make her look" bad, law professor says

Former President Trump's New York criminal trial resumes Tuesday, May 7 with further testimony from witnesses for the prosecution. Trump is facing increased scrutiny from Judge Juan Merchan, who warned the former president this week that further gag order violations could result in jail time. Prosecutors are building toward testimony from Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels.

Payments made to Daniels by Trump’s then-lawyer Michael Cohen at the end of the 2016 presidential campaign are at the heart of the criminal case.

The start date for former President Trump's classified documents trial was originally scheduled for May 20.

Adult film star Stormy Daniels dished out salacious details of her sexual encounter with former President Donald Trump in 2006 from the witness stand on Tuesday, describing how they met at a celebrity golf tournament and what she says happened when she went to Trump’s Lake Tahoe hotel room.

Daniels' testimony was preceded by prosecutors and defense lawyers arguing about the extent of her testimony.

Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who says she had an affair with Donald Trump, took the witness stand in the former president’s criminal trial Tuesday, providing sometimes graphic testimony about their alleged 2006 tryst in a hotel suite and the efforts to buy her silence in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election.

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Lawyers for former Trump attorney attempt to explain failure to meet accounting obligations in bankruptcy case

The adult film actor Stormy Daniels offered the most lurid, explosive testimony so far in the trial against the former president