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Trump tries to move past his guilty verdict by attacking the criminal justice system
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump sought to move past his historic criminal conviction on Friday and build momentum for his bid to return to the White House with fierce attacks on the judge who oversaw the case, the prosecution’s star witness and the criminal justice system as a whole.Speaking from his namesake tower in Manhattan in a symbolic return to the campaign trail, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee delivered a message aimed squarely at his most loyal supporters. Defiant as ever, he insisted without evidence that the verdict was “rigged” and driven by politics.
Trump’s NY case was the first of four to go to trial. It could be the last one for a while
The hush money case that culminated in a conviction of Donald Trump this week was the first of four criminal prosecutions brought against the former president — and likely the only one to reach trial before the November elections.
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What world's media made of Trump's guilty verdict
A White House run derailed or a crooked jury? From Buenos Aires to Beijing, this is how the verdict was reported.
www.bbc.comCongressional leaders invite Israel's Netanyahu to deliver an address at the Capitol
Congressional leaders have invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deliver an address a the U.S. Capitol.
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Trump supporters try to doxx jurors and post violent threats after his conviction
On social media and web forums, users called for jurors, judges and prosecutors to be killed after the former president was found guilty on 34 felony counts.
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What's next after Trump's verdict: From the Politics Desk
Yes, it's a big moment. But it's not even close to the last big moment on tap in 2024.
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Biden reacts to Trump's conviction for the 1st time, calls attacks on judicial system 'reckless'
President Joe Biden reacted to Donald Trump's conviction for the first time on Friday, criticizing those calling the trial "rigged."
GOP senators vow roadblocks for Biden after Trump verdict - Washington Examiner
The vow came in response to Trump’s felony conviction, which the GOP senators claimed was a result of White House meddling in the 2024 election.
www.washingtonexaminer.comBiden calls Trump's claims on hush money conviction 'reckless' as campaign grapples with verdict
President Joe Biden says Donald Trump was found guilty by a unanimous jury and “it’s reckless, it’s dangerous, it’s irresponsible for anyone to say this is rigged just because they don’t like the verdict.”
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Biden slams Trump and his allies for calling the hush money verdict 'rigged'
The president's comments came hours after Trump blamed him for his legal woes in remarks to the press and supporters, saying, “This is all done by Biden and his people.
www.nbcnews.comHow Trump and his allies are spinning his historic guilty verdict
Former President Donald Trump and his allies immediately tried to flip the script after a New York jury found him guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records Thursday.
Biden says it’s ‘time for this war to end’ as he lays out Israeli ceasefire proposal | CNN Politics
President Joe Biden asserted Friday that Hamas has been degraded to a point where it can no longer carry out the type of attack that launched the current 8-month conflict in Gaza, laying out a three-phase proposal Israel has submitted to wind down the grinding crisis as he declared, “It’s time...
www.cnn.comTrump's case casts a spotlight on movement to restore voting rights to those convicted of felonies
Former President Donald Trump is likely to remain eligible to vote in Florida despite his conviction for 34 felonies in his New York hush money trial.
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'These are bad people': Trump unloads after his historic guilty verdict
In his first extended remarks since the New York jury found him guilty on all 34 counts in his hush money trial, Trump delivered rambling comments on his frustration with the verdict.
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Trump guilty verdict reveals split among former GOP presidential primary opponents
Former President Donald Trump's Republican primary opponents offered varying reactions to the guilty verdict in his New York City trial.
How long will Trump go to prison for? Not 187 years like he claims | Fact check
Each of Trump's 34 convictions has a maximum of four years imprisonment individually, but New York caps Class E felony sentences at 20 years.
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Israel-Gaza war: Biden unveils Israeli proposal to end conflict
It would begin with a six-week ceasefire and the withdrawal of IDF forces from populated areas.
www.bbc.comBiden details a 3-phase hostage deal aimed at winding down the Israel-Hamas war
President Joe Biden has detailed a three-phase deal proposed by Israel to Hamas militants that he says would lead to the end of the Mideast war.
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden declared Friday that a New York jury’s guilty verdict against former President Donald Trump should be respected and denounced Republican efforts to undermine the justice system as “reckless,” “dangerous” and “irresponsible.” Breaking his long silence over Trump’s...
Trump vows to appeal felony conviction | CNN Politics
Donald Trump on Friday railed against his historic guilty verdict in the New York criminal hush money trial and again vowed to appeal his conviction in remarks that were filled with false claims.
www.cnn.comUpside-down American flag reappears as a right-wing protest symbol after Trump's guilty verdict
Right-wing commentators and supporters of former President Donald Trump have flooded social media with images of upside-down American flags in protest of his historic guilty verdict.
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Rubio gets blowback for comparing Trump trial to Cuban 'show trials,' executions
An expert on political rhetoric and a former Republican congressman whose father was a victim of a Cuban trial warn that delegitimizing the justice system is itself authoritarian.
www.nbcnews.comTrump carries the stain of conviction like a crown. Will the verdict matter to voters?
Back in 2016, Donald Trump famously said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any voters because of it.
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Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump's sons react to guilty verdict in hush money trial
Former President Donald Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts in his hush money trial on Thursday.
Publisher of '2000 Mules' apologizes to Georgia man falsely accused of ballot fraud in the film
The publisher of “2000 Mules” has issued a statement apologizing to a Georgia man who was shown in the film and falsely accused of ballot fraud during the 2020 election.
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As the nation’s electorate processed the felony convictions of Donald J. Trump, the partisan divide in the verdict’s wake did not look so much like opposing sides of a chasm but like two alternate universes, one where the former president had been hounded and persecuted by his corrupt political enemies, the other where justice had finally been served to a career criminal.
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In a filing last week, attorneys for Mr. Giuliani said that one of...
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“I’m under a gag order, nasty gag order," the former president said Friday while speaking to reporters at Trump Tower. Referring to star prosecution witness Michael Cohen, Trump said: “I’m not allowed to use his name because of the gag order.”
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