Jul 27 Trump says lawyers met with special counsel team as 2020 election investigation looms By Eric Tucker, Associated Press Lawyers for Donald Trump are meeting with members of special counsel Jack Smith's team as a potential indictment looms over the former president's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Continue reading
Jul 27 Trump supports Jan. 6 rioters as his own legal troubles mount By Jill Colvin, Associated Press The early but commanding front-runner in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, former President Donald Trump regularly downplays the violence, lionizes the rioters as patriots and spreads false claims about who was involved. Continue reading
Jul 25 DeSantis unhurt in a car accident in Tennessee while traveling to presidential campaign events By Kimberlee Kruesi, Michelle L. Price, Associated Press DeSantis was uninjured while traveling Tuesday to a campaign stop for his 2024 presidential bid. The chain reaction crash happened on Interstate 75 in Chattanooga. Continue reading
Jul 24 How Trump is gaining an advantage in the nitty-gritty battle for delegates By Michelle L. Price, Associated Press Trump's political team has been working for years to shape the mosaic of local GOP rules around how delegates are awarded in each state after the complex and sometimes convoluted rules tripped up his 2016 campaign. Continue reading
Jul 21 Trump Organization, Michael Cohen settle former attorney's lawsuit over unpaid legal bills By Larry Neumeister, Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press Donald Trump's company and his former longtime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen have settled a lawsuit over Cohen's claims that he was unfairly stuck with big legal bills after getting entangled in investigations into the former president. Continue reading
Jul 19 Judge upholds the $5 million verdict against Trump in E. Jean Carroll's sex abuse and defamation case By Larry Neumeister, Associated Press Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said Wednesday the jury's May award of compensatory and punitive damages to writer E. Jean Carroll for sexual abuse and defamation in the civil case was reasonable. Continue reading
Jul 19 Federal judge rejects Trump's bid to move hush-money criminal case, keeping it in New York state court By Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein's decision Wednesday sets the stage for Trump to stand trial in state court in Manhattan as early as next spring, overlapping with the 2024 presidential primary season. Continue reading
Jul 18 Michigan charges 16 fake electors for Trump with election law and forgery felonies By Joey Cappelletti, Associated Press Michigan’s attorney general has filed felony charges against 16 Republicans who acted as fake electors for Trump in 2020, accusing them of submitting false certificates confirming they were legitimate electors despite Joe Biden’s victory in the state. Continue reading
Jul 18 Trump's pretrial hearing in classified documents case ends with no decision on trial date By Adriana Gomez Licon, Eric Tucker, Associated Press At issue during Tuesday's arguments is a 1980 law known as the Classified Information Procedures Act, a statute that governs how classified information is handled by the parties in a criminal prosecution. Continue reading
Jul 18 Trump says he's been informed he's target of investigation into efforts to overturn 2020 election By Associated Press Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he has received a letter informing him that he is a target of the Justice Department’s investigation into efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election. Continue reading