Bill Maher has previously criticized the hush money cover-up case against Donald Trump, but he said on Friday night that he now believes Trump could lose at trial. Maher, who recently interviewed conservative pundit Piers Morgan about Trump, told former CNN host Don Lemon that he has "always been against" the criminal case accusing Trump of hiding payments to an adult film star for the purposes of affecting the 2016 election. "Because I thought, of all the ones you are bringing, this is going the least serious," Maher said, adding that he went as far as to write editorials about it. "Now I thi...
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Former Attorney General Bill Barr remains ever a Donald Trump disciple. During his Friday sit-down with CNN's Kaitlan Collins the lifelong Republican who served as Trump's second attorney general from 2019 to 2020 characterized President Joe Biden as a greater threat to American democracy and, even though he resigned over the 45th president's 2020 election interference claims — still wants to see a second Trump term given the binary choice between his former boss and the incumbent president. And all of this despite being openly mocked by the 45th president very recently. Want more breaking pol...
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg made a sharp move by putting former National Enquirer chief David Pecker on the stand first to testify at former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial, former court staffer and Lawfare correspondent Anna Bower explained on MSNBC Friday. The reason for that, she said, is that unlike a witness like Michael Cohen, Pecker remains friendly with the former president, and so it is much harder to spin his claims about Trump's alleged "catch and kill" schemes to manipulate the 2016 election as false. "I wonder if, from the jury's perspective, how mea...
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A banker took the witness stand in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial on Friday and for CNN's Elie Honig it was a critical moment. "So the banker, the third witness, is the least sensational witness that we've heard from, but also in my view, the most important," he said Friday night on the network. "Because when people ask, 'Well, where's the crime?' it's really important to remember because we've just spent a week immersed in hush money payments and porn stars and payouts — the crime is in the financing and now we're finally getting to that." Banker Gary Farro peeled back the scheme he...
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Former President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Friday to tear down a candidate he hasn't frequently mentioned before: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Some of his supporters didn't like it. "RFK Jr. is a Democrat 'Plant,' a Radical Left Liberal who’s been put in place in order to help Crooked Joe Biden, the Worst President in the History of the United States, get Re-Elected," wrote Trump. "A Vote for Junior’ would essentially be a WASTED PROTEST VOTE, that could swing either way, but would only swing against the Democrats if Republicans knew the true story about him. Junior’ is totall...
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Former President Donald Trump's comments about his longtime ally and former National Enquirer head David Pecker are the most compelling case for witness intimidation, legal expert Lisa Rubin told MSNBC's Joy Reid on Friday's edition of "The ReidOut." Pecker, who helped Trump in a "catch and kill" scheme to bury stories about his alleged affair with Playboy model Karen McDougal, has been the prosecution's first witness in the criminal hush money trial against Trump in Manhattan. The former president has not directly attacked Pecker — but, Rubin said, he has issued what could be interpreted as a...
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When Donald Trump used another day in court to wish his wife Melania a happy 54th birthday, his former White House Communications Director reduced it to a petty "performance." And she suspects Melania was rolling her eyes. "I want to start by wishing my wife Melania a very Happy Birthday," Trump said. "It would be nice to be with her, but I'm in a courthouse for a rigged trial... But I do have to begin by wishing Melania Happy Birthday." Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest headlines at Raw Story. ALSO READ: ‘Fraudulent’: Trump tormentor Lincoln Project loses big money in cy...
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Walt Nauta, Donald Trump's valet and co-defendant in the classified documents criminal case in Florida, told a grand jury that his boss would throw papers "on the floor" when he "would leave for the evening," according to a new filing in court. Nauta, who has so far stood by Trump's side in the case being overseen by the Trump-appointed jurist Aileen Cannon, was apparently more candid in his grand jury testimony than some might expect. In a filing made public on Friday, citizens got their first look at certain grand jury testimony by Nauta himself, according to a reporter. Want more breaking p...
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Longtime Donald Trump strategist Boris Epshteyn's presence at the former president's criminal trial in Manhattan is a bizarre development, former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance told MSNBC's Ari Melber on "The Beat" Friday — and it's worth keeping an eye on. This comes after Epshteyn, who also spent a while performing right-wing content to send to Sinclair Broadcast Group news affiliates, was implicated in the plot to declare fake electors in battleground states to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and was one of the Trump associates indicted over the scheme in Arizona earlier this wee...
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For a quarter of a century Rhona Graff ran point at Trump Tower and was his trusted gatekeeper. So when she took the stand under subpoena on Friday in former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial — it was significant. Tristan Snell, who was a former assistant attorney general for the state of New York and helped bring a $25 million dollar settlement from Trump University, believes Graff is a game-changer because she is such a longstanding player in Trump world. Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest headlines at Raw Story. "Trump exec [assistant] Rhona Graff is su...
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