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Prosecutors Are Still Hazy About What Crime Trump Was Trying To Conceal by Falsifying Business Records

The continuing ambiguity reflects the legal challenges that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg faces in transforming one hush payment into 34 felonies.

Reason

Trump’s attacks on families of Manhattan DA Bragg, Judge Merchan after being warned to tone it down criticized as ‘despicable’

NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s decision to ignore a request from the judge overseeing his Manhattan “hush money” case to tone down ramped-up rhetoric against New York authorities was condemned as “despicable” Wednesday — and unbecoming of a mafia chief, never mind a former president.

Tribune News Service

Charging Trump hush money case as felonies involves uncertain legal path

The Manhattan prosecutor is using an untested strategy to enhance the misdemeanor charges against the ex-president

The Guardian - US

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What Trump's business fraud charges mean – a former prosecutor explains the 34 felony counts and obstacles ahead for Manhattan's DA

Former President Donald Trump was arraigned in New York on April 4, 2023. Shortly after, the charges that a Manhattan grand jury indicted him on were made public.

The Conversation

Commentary: Three takeaways from Trump's historic arrest and arraignment

Since it became clear that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg intended to charge Donald Trump with crimes growing out of hush money payments to Stormy Daniels, close observers have wondered how he would frame the offenses and solve the problems that apparently led him to mothball the indictment shortly after…

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Trump gets a sobering comeuppance, courtesy of the rule of law

Technically in custody, the former president had to push his own way through a set of doors at the Manhattan Criminal Court on Tuesday, scowling at judiciously placed cameras but not allowed to speak, for he was not in charge. He headed into the courtroom, took his seat at the…

Chicago Tribune

Seth Meyers on Trump arrest: ‘How a healthy democracy and criminal justice system should be functioning’

Late-night hosts discuss the media circus around Trump’s arraignment in Manhattan on 34 charges of falsifying business records

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Eric Trump roasted for ‘hallucinating’ as he claims ‘tens and tens of thousands’ came out to support father

Supporter turnout in both Manhattan and Florida was muted on Tuesday as Donald Trump was charged with 34 felonies

The Independent UK

With the Trump Arraignment, Americans Are Seeing the Power of the Local Prosecutor

Alvin Bragg's case against Donald Trump has put the once-obscure position of district attorney into the national spotlight.

Reason

Trump supporter falling off his bike in Manhattan goes viral

‘Never seen so many poor life choices crammed into a 3 second video before,’ author James Felton says

The Independent UK

Trump's Indictment Illustrates How the Wackos Have Hijacked Politics

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Reason

With his arraignment, Trump has now earned a new sobriquet: the Indicted One

Everything that followed his election has flowed into the moment when the glum ex-president glowered in a Manhattan courtroom

The Guardian - US

"Mob boss" Trump targets judge's family

“You do not have this behavior from a mob boss," ex-prosecutor says. "You don't go after their families"

Salon

Donald Trump’s arrest and arraignment: How the historic day unfolded

Trump was arrested and arraigned on 34 felony counts in New York on Tuesday 4 April 2023

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The Independent UK

Who is Alvin Bragg? The Manhattan district attorney who could bring down Trump

The New York prosecutor has made history as the first person to ever bring charges against a former president, Alex Woodward reports

The Conversation

Trump’s indictment is unprecedented, but it would not have surprised the Founding Fathers

Much has been made of the unprecedented nature of the April 4, 2023 arraignment on criminal charges of former President Donald Trump following an indictment brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. But a closer look at American history shows that the indictment of a former president was not unforeseen.

The Guardian - US

Mike Pence will comply with subpoena to testify before January 6 grand jury – as it happened

Former vice-president will not fight a judge’s order compelling him to appear before a special grand jury

Miami Herald

Records, not hush money, key to Trump charges. Making case in court poses challenges

At first blush, the historic criminal indictment of Donald Trump seems relatively straightforward: The former president faces fraud-related charges stemming from paying hush money to a porn actress at the height of the 2016 election to prevent her from going public about their alleged sexual encounter.

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The Guardian - UK

Wednesday briefing: the Trump prosecutors have audio - and what else we learned in court

In today’s newsletter: Donald Trump was arraigned in a Manhattan court yesterday, as he pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records

The Independent UK

Mary Trump says uncle Donald gave away moment of terror outside court: ‘We saw humiliation’

Trump pleads not guilty to all charges during appearance in Manhattan Criminal Court

Reuters

Analysis-To convict Trump on hush money charges, prosecutors must get into his head

For prosecutors to win their unprecedented case against Donald Trump unveiled on Tuesday, they must meet the heavy burden of proving that the former U.S. president knowingly tried to cover up a crime by hiding a hush money payment.

The Guardian - US

‘I’ll always support him’: Republicans back Trump as he faces charges

Many on the right liken the legal battle to an attack on democracy itself and have made threats to the district attorney

The Independent UK

‘We saw uncertainty, humiliation’: Mary Trump says uncle Donald gave away moment of terror outside court

Trump pleads not guilty to all charges during appearance in Manhattan Criminal Court

Los Angeles Times

Trump has been charged with 34 felony counts. How strong is the Manhattan DA's case?

In a 13-page court filing outlining the New York criminal case against former President Donald Trump, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Tuesday described a years-long "catch and kill scheme" in which Trump and his associates buried negative stories about him by doling out hundreds of thousands of dollars in…

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5 things to know about Donald Trump's felony charges

Former President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover damaging information. Just getting up to speed on the news? Start here.

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