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UPDATE, 12:08 PM: Donald Trump will not go into the Republican National Convention as a sentenced felon for business fraud and trying to buy the silence of porn star Stormy Daniels. "The July 11, 2024, sentencing date is therefore vacated," wrote Judge Juan Merchan today in further fallout from the…

The New York judge who will sentence Donald Trump next month has lifted parts of his gag order on the former president. Judge Juan Merchan issued an order today that allows Trump to make statements about witnesses and jurors in the case, but leaves in place restrictions on what he can say about…

More than 18.8 million watched across six networks as a jury announced its guilty verdict against Donald Trump on all 34 felony counts in his hush money trial. The complete numbers, released this morning, showed that Fox News topped networks with an average of 4.38 million viewers in the 4:45 p.m…

John Oliver opened Sunday’s Last Week Tonight by covering some trial that just wrapped up. "A New York businessman got into some legal trouble,” Oliver said, with great understatement, “which was undeniably fun to watch unfold live." Related Stories …

The day after a jury found him guilty of 34 felony counts, Donald Trump accelerated his attacks on the judge in the trial, Juan Merchan, calling him “a devil.” That was just the latest rhetoric Trump has used against the jurist — superlatives that would make you think that Merchan was a mix of…

The National Association of Broadcasters Leadership Foundation has rescinded an invitation to Robert De Niro to attend its Celebration of Service to America Awards next week after the Oscar-winning actor’s fiery anti-Trump remarks outside the former president’s criminal trial in Manhattan on Tuesday. De…

UPDATE: President Joe Biden responded to Donald Trump’s claim that he was orchestrating his prosecution and conviction. “I didn’t know I was that powerful,” Biden told Fox News’ Peter Doocy as the president left the White House this evening, per a pool report. Doocy also asked Biden whether he…

UPDATED: Donald Trump seized on coverage of the historic guilty verdicts in his hush money trial to blast the judge as a “devil” and claim that the proceedings were rigged. “If they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone,” Trump said at the outset of his speech, carried across cable news…

Jimmy Kimmel wasted no time weighing in on the Trump verdict Thursday night, revealing he “had to rewrite his entire monologue” following the announcement. “It was a big afternoon in New York and for the United States of America. We have a verdict in the case of the People vs. OJ..I mean DJ…Donald…

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Robert De Niro — who made a surprise campaign appearance for Joe Biden outside of Donald Trump’s trial just two days before today’s guilty verdicts in the hush-money case — reacted to the news by saying “justice was served.” While promoting his new movie Ezra on Thursday in New York City, the actor…

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, marking his successful prosecution and conviction of former President Donald Trump, credited the result as an example of his department’s enforcement of the law “without fear or favor.” “While this defendant may be unlike any other in American history, we…