Trump hit with another gag order ahead of hush money criminal trial: Live

Will Trump use his supposed $500m in cash for his campaign?

Alex Woodward reports:

Days later, facing an imminent deadline to post an appeals bond of nearly half a billion dollars to block enforcement of civil fraud judgment against him, the former president suggested he had “a similar amount in my bank account” and he “intended to use much of that hard earned money on running for President.”

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Oliver O’Connell27 March 2024 06:45

Hush-money gag order comes after Trump attacks judge’s daughter

In the hush-money case gag order, Donald Trump is prohibited from:

“Making or directing others to make public statements about known or reasonably foreseeable witnesses concerning their potential participation in the investigation or in this criminal proceeding;

“Making or directing others to make public statements about (1) counsel in the case other than the District Attorney, (2) Members of the court’s staff and the District Attorney’s staff, or (3) the family members of any counsel or staff members, if those statements are made with the intent to materially interfere with, or to cause others to materially interfere with, counsel’s or staff’s work in this criminal case, or with the knowledge that such interference is likely to result and;

“Making or directing others to make public statements about any perspective juror or any juror in this criminal proceeding.”

It is worth noting that it was only on Tuesday morning that the former president attacked Judge Juan Merchan, and his daughter, in a Truth Social post:

Oliver O’Connell27 March 2024 05:15

Full story: Judge hands Trump another gag order as he grants restrictions in hush money trial

Alex Woodward reports:

Donald Trump will be restricted from making any public statements about witnesses, jurors, lawyers, court staff and their families, according to a partial gag order from New York Justice Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the so-called hush money case against the former president.

The judge’s order, issued hours after Mr Trump lashed out at his daughter on his Truth Social, blocks the former president from making any such statements “made with the intent to materially interfere” with any work in the case, which is scheduled to go to trial on 15 April.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg requested a limited gag order last month, citing Mr Trump’s “long history” of “inflammatory” remarks aimed at the prosecutors, judges, court staff and others wrapped up in his mountain of criminal and civil litigation.

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Oliver O’Connell27 March 2024 03:45

Trump co-defendant and former campaign official subpoenaed in Arizona 2020 election probe, report says

Mike Roman, once a 2020 Trump campaign official and now a co-defendant alongside the former president in the Fulton County Georgia election interference case, has been subpoenaed by officials in Arizona as part of that state’s criminal investigation into efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s victory.

ABC News and CNN have both reported the news citing unnamed sources.

Oliver O’Connell27 March 2024 02:45

Georgia election interference: ‘The train is coming!’

Ms Willis spoke to a CNN reporter on Saturday and said that while outside forces were working to slow the case down, her office had continued working on the case throughout the recent proceedings determining whether there was a conflict of interest on Ms Willis’s part given a romantic relationship she engaged in with a prosecutor on her team.

Continue reading John Bowden’s report:

Oliver O’Connell27 March 2024 01:45

‘Reprehensible stupidity’: Maria Bartiromo slammed for linking bridge disaster to immigration

In an early morning broadcast on the right-wing channel, Bartiromo asked US Senator Rick Scott for his take on the bridge collapse, linking it to the “wide-open border.”

Martha McHardy reports on what Bartiromo said:

Oliver O’Connell27 March 2024 00:45

RFK Jr names attorney and investor Nicole Shanahan as running mate

Independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr has announced that Silicon Valley investor and attorney Nicole Shanahan will be his 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

Independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr has announced that Silicon Valley investor and attorney Nicole Shanahan will be his 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.

Gustaf Kilander reports:

Oliver O’Connell26 March 2024 22:45

Donald Trump: Bible salesman

Graig Graziosi reports:

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.

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Oliver O’Connell26 March 2024 22:15