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Donald Trump has been hit with another gag order ahead of his hush-money criminal trial. Justice Juan Merchan granted the request from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg which prohibits the former president from talking about anyone involved in the case or their families.
Mr Trump experienced a day of mixed fortunes in the courtroom on Monday when Judge Merchan ruled the trial could go ahead as planned with jury selection on 15 April while a New York appeals court granted him a major win on the day his $464m fraud bond had been due.
Mr Trump attended the pretrial hearing on the hush-money case and said he expects to become “more popular” if he is ultimately convicted because his supporters know the case against him is a “scam.”
In the fraud case, he was unexpectedly handed a 10-day extension to pay $175m of the total fraud judgment against him as the deadline for that payment dawned.
Mr Trump has repeatedly claimed that he is worth billions of dollars but much of that is tied up in the Trump Organization and real estate.
New York Attorney General Letitia James responded that the defendant “is still facing accountability for his staggering fraud”.
RFK Jr names attorney and investor Nicole Shanahan as running mate
Mr Kennedy, an environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist, made the announcement at an event in Oakland, California on Tuesday. In the last few weeks, the Kennedy campaign has spoken to more than half a dozen possible candidates, with the early favourites including New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers and former wrestler and Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura.
Ms Shanahan, 38, became the favourite late in the process even as she was connected to his campaign and helped pay for a Super Bowl ad backing Mr Kennedy, The New York Times noted.
Gustaf Kilander watched the announcement:
Oliver O’Connell26 March 2024 23:45
Trump promises to ‘put up cash’ as former president granted more time to produce bond
Donald Trump said he would “put up the cash” as he was granted more time to pay part of the $464m bond in his New York civil fraud case on Monday, 25 March. An appeals court granted the former president a 10-day extension to pay $175m in a reprieve on the day the full amount against him had been due. In rambling remarks at 40 Wall Street after appearing in Manhattan criminal court, Mr Trump said: “This is all about election interference. This is all Biden-run things. “We’ll put up securities, cash, or bond, whatever it is, very quickly.”
Oliver O’Connell26 March 2024 23:15
RFK Jr announces attorney and investor Nicole Shanahan as running mate
Mr Kennedy made the announcement at an event in Oakland, California on Tuesday. In the last few weeks, the Kennedy campaign has spoken to more than half a dozen possible candidates, with the early favourites including New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers and former wrestler and Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura.
Ms Shanahan, 38, became the favourite late in the process even as she was connected to his campaign and helped pay for a Super Bowl ad backing Mr Kennedy, The New York Times noted.
Oliver O’Connell26 March 2024 22:45
Donald Trump: Bible salesman
Mr Trump held up the brown leather tome — this time right-side up — in an ad he shared on his Truth Social account on Tuesday.
Oliver O’Connell26 March 2024 22:15
Jon Stewart mocks claims Trump’s New York fraud is ‘victimless’
The former president’s New York fraud case has been branded as an incident with no victims, particularly by commentators on Fox News.
The Shark Tank judge Kevin O’Leary even declared that everything Mr Trump was found liable for in the civil fraud case “is done by every real estate developer everywhere on Earth in every city. This has never ever been prosecuted.”
“Leave it to Kevin O’Leary to be unaware enough to say the quiet part out loud,” Stewart responded incredulously on The Daily Show.
Amelia Neath has the story:
Oliver O’Connell26 March 2024 21:45
Trump unleashes rant aimed at daughter of hush money judge
Oliver O’Connell26 March 2024 21:15
Truth Social hits stock market at a share price of almost $78
Shareholders of Mr Trump’s Truth Social platform voted on Friday to take the company public, a move that could raise the former president’s net worth by tens of millions of dollars as he desperately tries to find cash for the court-ordered judgements against him.
Here’s what you need to know:
Oliver O’Connell26 March 2024 20:45
New poll: Biden gaining ground on Trump in swing states
Andrew Feinberg reports from Washington, DC:
President Joe Biden is erasing his polling deficit with his likely Republican election opponent in a number of key states that will decide the outcome of this year’s presidential contest, according to a new survey by Bloomberg and Morning Consult.
The survey of 4,392 registered voters, which took place from 8 March to 15 March, found that Mr Biden either tightened his margin against Donald Trump or overtook the ex-president in six of seven states, with the largest polling shift coming in Wisconsin, where Badger State respondents gave the 46th president a one-point lead, 46 per cent to Mr Trump’s 45 per cent.
The president’s slim advantage over the man he defeated four years ago comes just one month after a similar survey showed Mr Trump leading Mr Biden by four per cent.
Read on for more details on the latest polling:
Oliver O’Connell26 March 2024 20:15
Biden campaign mocks Trump’s typo-riddled Truth Social post calling him feeble and confused
Oliver O’Connell26 March 2024 19:57
Trump PAC calls RFK Jr and running mate “Far-Left Liberal”
After Independent presidential candidate Robert F Kenedy Jr announces Nicole Shanahan as his running mate, pro-Trump PAC MAGA Inc blasts him as “a Far-Left Liberal With A Far-Left Running Mate”.
Oliver O’Connell26 March 2024 19:52
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