Donald Trump news today: Chesebro and Powell to be tried together in Georgia election case as lawsuit seeks to bar Trump from 2024 race
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Donald Trump’s myriad of legal problems were swirling at full force on Wednesday as the first televised hearing in the 2020 election interference case took place in Fulton County, Georgia.
The former president and all 18 of his co-defendants have entered pleas and waived their in-person arraignments on the charges but the hearing went ahead.
Judge Scott McAfee denied motions to separate the speedy trials of Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, which will go ahead at the same time on 23 October. But he voiced scepticism that DA Fani Willis will get her wish to try all 19 defendants together at once.
Elsewhere, a judge has found Mr Trump liable again for defaming writer E Jean Carroll ruling that January’s scheduled trial will only determine monetary damages.
Further, a group of Republican voters in Colorado have filed a suit to bar the former president from seeking office again in 2024 citing the 14th Amendment.
In other legal troubles, special counsel Jack Smith has accused Mr Trump of making “daily extrajudicial statements that threaten to prejudice the jury pool” in the federal election interference case, and a Mar-a-Lago IT employee has agreed to testify in the classified documents case.
Jack Smith accuses Trump of ‘daily’ statements that could prejudice jury pool
Donald Trump has been accused by special counsel Jack Smith of making “daily extrajudicial statements that threaten to prejudice the jury pool” in the former president’s 20202 election trial.
Mr Smith’s claims against the Republican 2024 frontrunner about his possible impact on the Washington DC jury pool came in a new filing in the federal criminal case.
It is part of a court fight between the special counsel’s office and Mr Trump’s legal team over a filing that the Justice Department wants to make under seal.
Graeme Massie has the story.
Oliver O’Connell7 September 2023 07:45
New York AG: Trump should be fined thousands for repeatedly using ‘frivolous’ legal arguments
She called for defendants in the fraud case against the Trump Organization to be fined a collective $10,000, and to impose a $10,000 fine on the defence attorneys working the case, according to CNBC.
Graig Graziosi has the details.
Oliver O’Connell7 September 2023 06:45
Legal experts divided on whether 14th amendment can bar Trump from 2024 race
As Donald Trump looks increasingly likely to be the 2024 Republican nominee for president, it continues to look more and more plausible that there could be a serious effort to keep him off the ballot entirely.
John Bowden investigates.
Oliver O’Connell7 September 2023 04:45
Can Trump pardon himself?
It’s not as straightforward as he might hope…
Can Donald Trump pardon himself?
Ex-president, now fighting three indictments himself, liberally handed out executive clemency orders to his political allies from the White House
Oliver O’Connell7 September 2023 03:45
Harris says Trump can’t be spared accountability for Jan 6
Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday that those responsible for the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and the ensuing violence at the U.S Capitol must be held accountable — even if that means Donald Trump.
“Let the evidence, the facts, take it where it may,” Harris said in an interview with The Associated Press in Jakarta, Indonesia, where she was attending a regional summit.
Federal prosecutors have indicted Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, for his efforts to cling to power in 2020, The former president also has been charged in Georgia in a scheme to subvert the will of voters who elected Democrat Joe Biden instead of giving Trump a second term.
Explained: Trump, January 6 and a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election
Alex Woodward explains how the sprawling Justice Department probe into the former president and his allies yielded four criminal charges in a stunning indictment that outlined a path to power at whatever cost…
Oliver O’Connell7 September 2023 01:45
Pence rails against Trump’s ‘siren song of populism’
Former Vice President Mike Pence cast the 2024 election as a fight for the future of conservatism and called on fellow Republicans to reject the “siren song of populism” championed by former President Donald Trump and his followers.
What is an arraignment and how did Trump just avoid his fourth one?
It’s unlikely he would have added anything substantive to the proceedings.
Oliver O’Connell7 September 2023 00:15
With strong rural support, a Trump back has a narrow lead in Utah’s congressional primary
With strong backing from Utah‘s rural voters, Donald Trump supporter Celeste Maloy held a slim lead in a Republican special congressional primary — but the race was still too early to call Wednesday.
With four indictments, can Trump still run for president?
Oddly, the framers of the Consitution didn’t foresee this eventuality…
Oliver O’Connell6 September 2023 23:00
