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Live Updates: Trump Guilty on All Counts in Hush-Money Case — Donald J. Trump, the former president and presumptive 2024 Republican nominee, was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a case stemming from a payment that silenced a porn star.
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Kaia Hubbard / CBS News:
Is Trump going to prison? What to know about the possible sentence after his conviction — Washington — Former President Donald Trump has now been convicted in the New York “hush money” criminal trial, immediately raising a lot of questions and launching the case into uncharted territory …
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Renato Mariotti / New York Times:
How Trump's Team Blew It — The criminal trial of Donald Trump didn't have to end this way. — The prosecution's case had flaws that couldn't be wallpapered over even with weeks of testimony, over 200 exhibits and a polished and persuasive presentation by Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, and his team.
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Bill Scher / Washington Monthly:
Donald Trump Should Drop Out — Convicted felon Donald Trump's first words after the historic jury verdict were predictably defiant: “The real verdict is going to be November 5 by the people.” — The Biden-Harris campaign's communication director issued a statement (perhaps written …
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
Wrong Case, Right Verdict — The wrong case for the wrong offense just reached the right verdict. — Donald Trump will not be held accountable before the 2024 presidential election for his violent attempt to overturn the previous election. He will not be held accountable before the election …
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Trump Loses a Big Battle in His Lifelong War Against Accountability — His 34 guilty convictions turn this escape artist into a felon. — Donald Trump has been in a war with accountability his entire adult life, and accountability has usually lost. In a New York City courtroom on Thursday …
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Erin Doherty / Axios:
TRUMP FOUND GUILTY ON ALL CHARGES … - Trump's guilty verdict is also likely to fuel his repeated efforts to paint himself as the victim of politically motivated prosecutors. — Minutes after the verdict, Trump campaign senior adviser Chris LaCivita wrote on the social media platform X: “The FIX was always in ...”
CNN:
Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony charges — What you need to know — Trump to be sentenced just days before officially becoming the GOP presidential nominee — Donald Trump is scheduled to be sentenced just days before the Republican National Convention where it is expected …
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump guilty on all counts in New York criminal trial — Trump says he will ‘fight till the end,’ and says ‘this is long from over’ — Former President Trump was found guilty on all counts in his historic and unprecedented criminal trial, making him the first former president of the United States to be convicted of a crime.
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Associated Press:
Guilty: Trump becomes first former U.S. president convicted of felony crimes
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Rebecca Picciotto / CNBC:
Biden, Democrats react to Trump's guilty verdict: ‘No one is above the law’
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emptywheel:
Trump Convicted of Fraud to Cover-up Fucking a Sex Worker
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Trump Will Do All He Can to Use Guilty Verdict to Win the Election
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Bill Pruitt / Slate:
For 20 Years, I Couldn't Say What Donald Trump Did on the Set of The Apprentice. Now I Can. — For 20 years, I couldn't say what I watched the former president do on the set of the show that changed everything. Now I can. — On Jan. 8, 2004, just more than 20 years ago, the first episode of The Apprentice aired.
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Amanda Yen / The Daily Beast:
Trump Called ‘Apprentice’ Contestant Kwame Jackson N-Word, Producer Says
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Stephen Neukam / Axios:
Trump aide declares Larry Hogan's campaign dead … - Hogan's call to respect the rule of law seems to have incensed at least one top Trump advisor. — “You just ended your campaign,” said Chris LaCivita, a senior Trump advisor, on X in response to Hogan's comments.
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David Axelrod / CNN:
How Robert De Niro's advocacy for Biden backfired — Editor's Note: David Axelrod, a CNN senior political commentator and host of “The Axe Files,” was a senior adviser to former President Barack Obama and chief strategist for the 2008 and 2012 Obama presidential campaigns.
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Natasha Korecki / NBC News:
Biden campaign on Trump verdict: ‘No one is above the law’
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Politico:
Biden secretly gave Ukraine permission to strike inside Russia with US weapons — It's a major reversal that will help Ukraine to better defend its second-largest city. — The Biden administration has quietly given Ukraine permission to strike inside Russia — solely near the area of Kharkiv …
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
False right-wing reports about Trump trial jury instructions fuel threats against judge — False reporting and social media commentary about the jury instructions in Trump's hush money trial has spurred calls for the assassination of the judge overseeing the case.
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Aysha Bagchi / USA Today:
Why Donald Trump supporters are complaining about jury instructions in his criminal trial
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Isaac Schorr / Mediaite:
The Federalist CEO Calls For Republicans to Draw Up Lists of Democrats to ‘Put in Prison’ After Trump Verdict — Sean Davis, the CEO and co-founder of the the right-wing website The Federalist, called on Republicans to draw up lists of Democrats to “put in prison” in a social media post reacting …
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Biden's problems with younger voters are glaring, poll finds — Younger voters have been a crucial voting bloc for Democrats for decades. — Voters 18-29 years old made up roughly 1 in 6 voters in 2020, and President Biden won them by more than 20 points, according to exit polls.
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November's Presidential Election May 2024
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Françoise Mouly / New Yorker:
John Cuneo's “A Man of Conviction” — The former President is found guilty on all thirty-four counts. — It's not the first time that news of a verdict against Donald J. Trump has been eagerly awaited by cartoonists, commentators, and the general public.
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Bystander Shouts ‘You F*cking Suck!’ at Fox News Host Outside Trump Trial — DRIVE BY — Also calling Gowdy a “c*cksucker,” the unidentified New Yorker sped by on a bicycle during a live TV segment about the Trump trial. — A New York bicyclist verbally assailed Fox News host Trey Gowdy …
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Ken Silverstein / New Republic:
Off Leash: Inside the Secret, Global, Far-Right Group Chat — In his book In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin, Erik Larson cites a cable sent to the State Department in June 1933 by a U.S. diplomat posted in Germany that provided a far …
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Axios:
Free IRS online tax filing program coming soon to all states … - Treasury announced earlier this month that more than 140,000 people participated in the Direct File pilot program in a dozen states claiming more than $90 million in refunds. — The pilot exceeded its 100,000-person target during this past tax season.
Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press:
NRA can sue ex-NY official it says tried to blacklist it after Parkland shooting, Supreme Court says — A unanimous Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for a National Rifle Association lawsuit against a former New York state official over claims she pressured companies to blacklist …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP mega-donor Miriam Adelson to fund colossal super PAC for Trump — The casino billionaire is planning to back the newly reconstituted Preserve America effort to help the former president. — Republican mega-donor and casino billionaire Miriam Adelson plans to help bankroll a massive super PAC …
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