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Trump trial: Witness testifies Weisselberg was mastermind behind Cohen payments

A former Trump Organization executive testified on Monday in New York about a series of payments he approved to Michael Cohen in 2017, saying the Trump Organization’s former CFO was responsible for setting up the payment arrangement. Jeffrey McConney, the Trump Organization’s former controller, said on the witness stand that then-CFO Allen Weisselberg approached him […]

David Pecker was ‘swatted’ the day he testified in Trump trial: Report

A former magazine publisher at the center of former President Trump’s criminal hush money trial was “knocked down” on the day Trump testified in the case. Reuters reported Monday. An unidentified person claimed in an April 25 email that he had tied up his wife in the basement of his home and murdered a man […]

Not-so-Scientific American, Trump’s insane trial and other commentary

Woke Clock: Not-So-Scientific Americans “American journalism has never been good at covering science.” As City Journal’s James B. Meigs argues: — But lo and behold, Scientific American has decided that science must serve as a “handmaiden” to progressive orthodoxy. Witness the magazine’s coverage of coronavirus, transgender children and the climate. This is a “new style […]

Judge threatens Trump with jail time: 5 takeaways from Trump trial Day 12

Former President Trump faced a new threat in a New York criminal trial on Monday. Judge Juan Marchand noted that if Trump continues to violate the gag order, he could be sent to prison. Marchand warned of that possibility after he fined Trump for the 10th time for violating an executive order barring the former […]

‘Travesty of Justice’ if Trump Convicted in NY Trial

Gov. Doug Burgum (R-North Dakota) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that it would be a “travesty of justice” if former President Donald Trump is convicted in the New York corporate records trial. He said he was deaf. Anchor Jake Tapper said, “Polls show that many Americans believe President Trump did commit a […]