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The Latest | Judge is sorting out the final stretch of Trump's hush money trial

May. 16, 2024 16:38 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors' star witness in the hush money case against Donald Trump was back in the hot seat Thursday as defense lawyers tried to chip away at Michael Cohen’s crucial testimony implicating the former president. The trial resumed in Manhattan with the potentially...

Star witness Michael Cohen says Trump was intimately involved in all aspects of hush money scheme

May. 13, 2024 21:58 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump was intimately involved with all aspects of a scheme to stifle stories about sex that threatened to torpedo his 2016 campaign, his former lawyer said Monday in matter-of-fact testimony that went to the heart of the former president’s hush money trial. ...

What to know about Trump fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen's pivotal testimony in the hush money trial

May. 13, 2024 17:36 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Once Donald Trump's loyal attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen pointed the finger at his former boss Monday in pivotal testimony about hush money payments at the center of the first criminal trial of a former American president. Cohen provided jurors with an insider's...

The Latest | Michael Cohen takes the stand as testimony in Trump hush money case enters 4th week

May. 13, 2024 16:53 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The fourth week of witness testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial could be a doozy: Michael Cohen, the prosecution's star witness, has taken the stand. The long-anticipated testimony on Monday from Trump’s former lawyer and personal fixer follows a...

Trump hush money trial: A timeline of key events in the case

May. 13, 2024 09:02 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The events at the center of former President Donald Trump’s hush money case date back almost two decades, with new dates coming to light as the trial plays out in a Manhattan courtroom. Here are the key moments in the case, as described in trial testimony and court documents: ...

Hush money, catch and kill and more: A guide to unique terms used at Trump’s New York criminal trial

May. 05, 2024 08:15 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial is full of terms you don’t typically hear in a courtroom. Centering on allegations Trump falsified his company’s records to conceal the nature of hush money reimbursements, it's the first ever criminal trial of a former...

Hulk Hogan, hurricanes and a blockbuster recording: A week in review of the Trump hush money trial

May. 04, 2024 08:00 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Crucial witnesses took the stand in the second week of testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial, including a California lawyer who negotiated deals at the center of the case and a longtime adviser to the former president. Jurors heard a potentially pivotal...

The Latest | Court in Trump's hush money trial adjourns for the day following Hope Hicks' testimony

May. 03, 2024 15:57 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Hope Hicks took the stand Friday in Donald Trump's hush money case, recounting in her morning testimony how she followed Trump from the real estate world to politics and how his 2016 presidential campaign was turned upside down following a leak of a video recording in which he...

Jurors in Trump hush money trial hear recording of pivotal call on plan to buy affair story

May. 02, 2024 21:43 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors in the hush money trial of Donald Trump heard a recording Thursday of him discussing with his then-lawyer and personal fixer a plan to purchase the silence of a Playboy model who has said she had an affair with the former president. A visibly irritated Trump...

Hush money trial judge raises threat of jail as he finds Trump violated gag order, fines him $9K

Apr. 30, 2024 18:43 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump was held in contempt of court Tuesday and fined $9,000 for repeatedly violating a gag order that barred him from making public statements about witnesses, jurors and some others connected to his New York hush money case. If he does it again, the judge warned, he could...