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Republican politicians have flocked to New York City in recent days to stand alongside former President Trump as he attends his hush money trial. Trump’s group on Monday included several members of Congress: Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) and Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.), who represents Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn. Sen.…

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) stuck by his attacks against the daughter of the judge overseeing former President Trump’s criminal case on Sunday, claiming she is a “political operative.” Scott was in New York City on Thursday to support Trump in his criminal case, where he faces over 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related…

Mary Trump, who is the niece of former President Trump, said it’s “absurd” to think that her uncle would willingly go to jail if the judge orders him to for breaking the rules of his gag order. “I think that it’s absurd for anybody to think that he would willingly go into jail for even…

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) said Tuesday the city’s infamous Rikers Island jail will be “ready” for former President Trump if he is ordered to jail over violating a gag order in his criminal hush money trial. Adams said the city’s Department of Corrections “is prepared for whatever comes on Rikers Island,” comparing…

Former President Trump made a negative comment about MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell, whom he saw at a New York City courthouse during his first criminal trial and said he looks very bad. “I saw Lawrence O’Donnell, of MSDNC, at the Courthouse today. I haven’t seen him in years,” Trump wrote late Tuesday on his…

Former President Trump appeared to delete a social media post Tuesday morning complaining that his legal team did not have adequate time to prepare for the next witness in the hush money criminal trial, within an hour of initially posting it. In his statement posted at 7:30 a.m. on his Truth Social platform, Trump said…

The former magazine publisher at the center of former President Trump’s criminal hush money trial was “swatted” on the day he testified in the case, Reuters reported Monday. An unidentified person claimed in an April 25 email that they had tied up their wife in the basement of their home and killed a person, giving…

Former Trump attorney William Brennan described Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the New York hush money case involving former President Trump, as a “pro” and “a pleasure” to work with. Trump has frequently targeted Merchan before and during the hush money trial, lashing out and saying he is running an unfair proceeding. But Brennan…

Alina Habba, an attorney for former President Trump, signaled she does not have high hopes for the former president’s success in the New York hush money trial. “But I don’t have hopes really that high at this moment that the New York courts will do the right thing, that the jury will do the right…

Former President Trump went after his former personal attorney Michael Cohen again Tuesday, despite a court order not to discuss witnesses in his criminal hush money trial. “Michael Cohen is a convicted liar, and he’s got no credibility whatsoever,” Trump told 6ABC Philadelphia in an interview. “He was a lawyer, and you rely on your…