Former FBI director James Comey implored voters on Tuesday night to defeat Trump in November in order save the American rule of law. “You cannot sit on the sideline. I don’t care how you feel about Joe Biden, you must vote for him,” Comey said, “because the consequences on the other side are too severe.” The former FBI director had …
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Both Michael Cohen, one of the prosecutors’ star witnesses in New York’s criminal case against former President Trump, and Bob Costello, the presumptive GOP nominee’s only witness, have “substantial credibility issues,” a CNN legal analyst said Tuesday. “I only think there was two witnesses that I found with substantial credibility issues. Costello, as I just said, and of course, Michael …
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Former FBI Director James Comey said the Biden Department of Justice had been “too slow” in investigating former President Trump in an interview on Tuesday, calling it a critical mistake. Comey told MSNBC’s Alex Wagner he had learned valuable lessons from his days as a national punching bag for his role in the 2016 election. “As someone who’s caught a …
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I have observed and participated in trials throughout the world. I have seen justice and injustice in China, Russia, Ukraine, England, France, Italy, Israel, as well as in nearly 40 of our 50 states. But in my 60 years as a lawyer and law professor, I have never seen a spectacle such as the one I observed sitting in the …
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Defense attorneys in New York v. Trump rested their case Tuesday morning without calling former President Trump to the stand to testify. The prosecution rested its case Monday, and Trump defense attorneys called two witnesses — paralegal Daniel Sitko and a former legal adviser to Michael Cohen, Robert Costello — before resting its case. Judge Juan Merchan dismissed the jury …
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House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik filed an ethics complaint against Judge Juan Merchan for an alleged conflict of interest pertaining to his daughter’s role at a firm known for representing Democratic politicians. Merchan, an acting Supreme Court justice in New York, is presiding over the unprecedented criminal trial against former President Trump stemming from charges brought by Manhattan District …
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Former President Trump launched an attack on the Manhattan District Attorney’s lead prosecutor in the NY v. Trump case, despite not calling him out by name, as a “representative” of the Biden administration looking to “hurt” Trump’s 2024 run for the White House. “Let me just tell you that the White House … they’re the one trying this case. You …
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Former President Trump’s legal team was slated to call on a former commissioner of the Federal Election Commission to testify in the NY v. Trump case, but the expert’s testimony was not heard after the presiding judge curbed the scope of what he could discuss before the jury. “Judge Merchan has so restricted my testimony that defense has decided not …
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Former President Trump said his defense team has already “won the case by any standard” in the NY v. Trump trial as he called on presiding Judge Juan Merchan to dismiss this case. “We have a phenomenal case. We’ve won the case by any standard; any other judge would have thrown this case, any other judge would have thrown this …
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