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On November 3, 2024, American voters chose between Republican incumbents President Donald Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence, and Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris. Despite winning both the popular vote and the Electoral College, Biden's claim to the White House was challenged multiple times in court by the Trump campaign and members of the Republican party - without success.
Many were expecting the investigation into the 2021 attack to simply repeat the obvious – that Trump lied to try to stay in power – but it goes much further.
As Biden and the Democrats mull the likely failure of their attempt to protect voting rights, Trump’s hold on the Republican Party and the popular imagination shows no sign of easing.
As a national commission sheds new light on the January 6 insurrection, Trump’s Republican wall of defence has weakened – but not collapsed.
The vote in the House of Representatives showed there will be no attempt by the Republicans to reconcile themselves with what Trump did on January 6. In fact, the many steps ahead will offer Republicans numerous opportunities to spread misinformation.
While some thought the certification of Biden’s win after the ransacking of the Capitol would be the beginning of the end for Trump, the opposite has occurred as shown by Senator Chuck Grassley’s appearance alongside Trump at a rally over the weekend.
A bipartisan, independent January 6 commission could potentially halt the mutation of the Republican Party and stop a civil war.
- Trump is charged with falsifying records to cover up payment to porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about a sexual encounter before 2016 election
- Prosecutors portrayed US$130,000 payment as criminal effort to deceive voters when Trump was facing other accusations of crude sexual behaviour
Donald Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records as part of a scheme to conceal a US$130,000 pay-off made to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Donald Trump is being investigated over his role in hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016. Jury selection expected to resume on Tuesday.
Trump called his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen and porn star Stormy Daniels ‘two sleaze bags who have, with their lies and misrepresentations, cost our Country dearly!’ on his Truth Social platform.
Donald Trump faces 34 counts of allegedly falsifying business records for paying ‘hush money’ to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election to cover up a sexual encounter.
Trump said he favours exceptions for cases of rape, incest and saving life of the mother. Call for national ban could have hurt his chances in states likely to determine November election.
The ex-US president suffered legal setbacks in both his Georgia election interference case and his Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.
Willis’ first day in office coincided with the news that Trump asked Georgia’s state secretary to ‘find votes’, but she was nearly pulled from the case due to an improper romantic relationship
Former president Donald Trump won the North Dakota Republican Party’s March 4 presidential caucuses, taking all 29 delegates.
Biden and ex-presidents will take part in discussion moderated by Stephen Colbert at Radio City Music Hall. Event will raise US$5 million more than Trump drummed up during all of February.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to falsifying business records to hide US$130,000 payment to porn star before the 2016 election to silence her about alleged sexual encounter a decade earlier.
If Trump puts up US$175 million, it will stop clock on collection of US$454 million judgment and prevent state from seizing former US president’s assets while he appeals.
Former US president Donald Trump is suing TV journalist George Stephanopoulos and ABC News for defamation for saying he raped advice columnist E Jean Carroll.
US President Joe Biden on Donald Trump: ‘Don’t tell him, he thinks he’s running against Barack Obama’.
In an appeal to minority voters, Trump claims many illegal immigrants have crossed the US-Mexico border since Biden took office.
Trump had tried to pressure Pence to help him overturn his 2020 election defeat to Biden, attacking him on social media when he wouldn’t go along with the plan.
Trump and his co-defendants in the racketeering case had been seeking to have District Attorney Fani Willis removed following revelations she had a romantic relationship with her lead prosecutor.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll found 39 per cent of people would vote for Biden if the election were held today, compared with 38 per cent who picked Trump – the lead was within the survey’s 1.8 percentage point margin of error.
The overall case will still proceed with 35 other criminal counts intact, including 10 against the former US president.
Ex-president’s lawyers on Monday asked judge to adjourn New York criminal trial indefinitely until Trump’s immunity claim in Washington election interference case is resolved.
The US president is set to use his State of the Union speech to promote his second term vision to a dispirited electorate that questions if he’s up to the job and to warn that Donald Trump is a dangerous alternative.
The senator was the last Republican leader to fall in line, declaring his support in a short statement after the ex-US president’s Super Tuesday wins.
Allen Weisselberg, 76, pleaded guilty to two perjury counts. The judge said she would sentence the former US president’s long-time loyal deputy to five months in prison.
The justices reversed a decision by Colorado’s top court to kick Trump off the state’s Republican primary ballot after finding the US Constitution’s 14th Amendment disqualified him from again holding public office.
The justices put on hold the criminal case being pursued by Special Counsel Jack Smith, and will review a lower court’s rejection of the ex-US president’s claim.
Manhattan district attorney’s office asked for order that would bar Trump from making statements about potential witnesses. Jury selection is expected to begin on March 25.
New York Attorney General Letitia James told ABC News she will seek to seize some of the former president’s assets if he’s unable to cover the bill from Judge Arthur Engoron’s February 16 ruling.
The shoes, gold lame high-tops with an American flag detail on the back, are being called the first official Trump footwear.
Trump would still be liable to pay even if the Trump Organization declares bankruptcy. If he personally declared bankruptcy, judgment against him would be paused.
A witness says the DA started dating lawyer Nathan Wade before she hired him for the Georgia election interference case, contradicting their accounts.
