A lawyer for former President Donald Trump claimed that officials are more concerned about keeping the former president off the campaign trail than they are concerned about winning their cases against him. Chris Kise told Fox News on Monday evening that “the real threat to democracy is the willingness to abuse the power of your […]
Former President Donald Trump on Friday said that he should be campaigning instead of sitting in a courtroom as he again called for the judge in the case to remove a gag order. Before entering the courtroom in Manhattan on Friday, he told reporters that he is “sitting in a courthouse all day long, while […]
Prosecutors in the so-called “hush-money” case filed court papers Tuesday alleging former President Donald Trump violated a judge’s gag order by commenting on potential and likely witnesses involved in the case. Several weeks ago, Judge Juan Merchan imposed the gag order on President Trump, writing that he cannot make public comments about witnesses such as […]
Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday criticized the New York judge overseeing his “hush money” case as well as the judge’s daughter—coming just hours after that same judge handed down a gag order against him. Judge Juan Merchan is presiding over the criminal case accusing President Trump of making alleged payments in the 2016 election, […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—Heavily armed gangs tried to seize control of Haiti’s main international airport on Monday, exchanging gunfire with police and soldiers in the latest attack on key government sites in an explosion of violence that includes a mass escape from the country’s two biggest prisons. The Toussaint Louverture International Airport was closed when the attack […]
On Dec. 14, a day after testimony ended for the case brought by the New York Attorney General against former President Donald Trump and his Trump Organization for fraud, an appellate court rejected the former president’s appeal of a gag order. New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron had issued the order on Oct. 3, […]
New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron, presiding over the civil fraud trial against President Donald Trump, responded in court filings on Dec. 6 to the former president’s accusation that he acted unlawfully. President Trump and his attorneys made no protest when Justice Engoron first issued his gag order, he wrote, and besides that communications […]
Former President Donald Trump is seeking permission to appeal to New York’s highest court a decision that reinstated a gag order in his civil fraud case in the state, a court filing showed on Monday. Monday’s court filing marks the latest development in President Trump’s civil bench trial that’s entering its tenth week, in which […]
Defense attorneys filed a letter on Nov. 24 rejecting the use of one gag order on former President Donald Trump to justify another. The former president had two gag order imposed on him—one in a New York civil case, another in federal criminal court—which could complicate his ability to campaign effectively as he seeks to […]
The federal appeals court in Washington heard arguments on the gag order imposed on former President Donald Trump in a federal criminal case that accuses him of having interfered with the 2020 elections. Many criminal defendants choose to say nothing at all, but President Trump faces 91 charges in four separate criminal cases, and the […]
House GOP Chairwoman Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) declared “victory” on Thursday after an appeals court lifted a gag order imposed on former President Donald Trump in the Trump Organization civil fraud trial in New York. “VICTORY,” declared Ms. Stefanik, who wrote to the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct on Nov. 10 expressing “serious […]
Special counsel Jack Smith filed court papers Tuesday seeking to uphold a gag order in former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election case, claiming that the former president’s public criticism of the prosecutor is reason to keep it intact. Last week, an appeals court in Washington suspended the gag order, which was handed down earlier by […]
The Georgia prosecutor who is leading a case against former President Donald Trump and more than a dozen others asked a judge Tuesday to issue an “emergency renewed motion” for a protective order on certain discovery materials. In court papers filed in Fulton County, District Attorney Fani Willis wrote that the judge should issue an […]
Attorneys for former President Donald Trump on Nov. 2 filed an appeal with a federal court in an effort to lift a gag order restricting his speech in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) federal election case, accusing him of attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Lawyers for President Trump, in an emergency […]
Former President Donald Trump criticized the reinstatement of a gag order against him in a federal indictment case, insisting that the restrictions take away his free speech rights “in the middle of my campaign for President.” “I have just learned that the very Biased, Trump-Hating Judge in D.C., who should have RECUSED herself due to […]
A federal judge has reinstated a gag order she previously ordered on former President Donald Trump in the Department of Justice’s federal election case accusing him of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan had initially approved President Trump’s request for an administrative stay, or pause, on the […]
Israeli forces on Oct. 18 urged residents in northern Gaza to evacuate to the town of Al-Mawasi in southern Gaza, claiming the latter area is now a “humanitarian area.” In an evacuation advisory, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it “continues to call on the residents of the northern Gaza Strip and Gaza City to evacuate […]
WASHINGTON—District Judge Tanya Chutkan opposed the request by prosecutors to bar former President Donald Trump from revealing non-sensitive evidence provided to him by the prosecutors ahead of the trial on whether he conspired to illegally obstruct the counting of the 2020 electoral votes. During an Aug. 11 hearing in Washington, she decided to issue a […]
The French President said he wants order to be restored, responding to the riots that shook the country earlier this month. While no new security measure has been taken yet, it seems the country is heading for more tough public safety policies. NTD spoke with a former police commander for more insight.
North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Thursday, according to South Korea’s military, triggering a scare in northern Japan. The launch prompted Japan’s government-run emergency broadcasting system, J-Alert, to warn millions of residents on the northern island of Hokkaido to “evacuate immediately” and take immediate cover in a building or underground, saying the missile was expected to land […]
