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Trump's lie that Biden is behind his criminal trials should be challenged by Democrats
We can expect that former president and criminal defendant Donald Trump is going to claim every day — maybe even multiple times a day — that his criminal trial scheduled to begin in Manhattan on Monday was orchestrated by President Joe Biden. Trump used that line of attack at a rally five days before a Manhattan grand jury indicted him on New York state charges on March 30, 2023. Trump said the imminent charges were part of “the Biden regime’s weaponization of our system of justice.” He’s...
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Trump demands jury be told not to link Michael Cohen's guilty plea to him
Donald Trump's attorneys want his jury to get a disclaimer when they hear Michael Cohen's upcoming testimony in the election interference case involving an alleged hush money scheme. Lawfare managing editor Tyler McBrien revealed a filing from Trump's team that involves his former lawyer's 2018 guilty plea and imprisonment for campaign finance violations and other charges. Cohen had said he'd made hush money payments to adult movie star Stormy Daniels at Trump's direction to avoid her damaging...
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Women are behind the 'karmic justice' driving Trump to legal ruination: columnist
On the day before Donald Trump will have to appear in a Manhattan courtroom and deal with 34 felony counts related to paying off an adult film star to keep quiet about their alleged affair before the 2016 election, a New York Times columnist marveled that five women have led the charge to call him to account for a lifetime of skirting the law.Noting the former president's seeming contempt for women — whom he has notoriously boasted are fair game for sexual assault -- the Times' Jessica Bennett...