Rep. Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg demanding materials related to his investigation into alleged hush-money payments from Trump to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
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Manhattan DA postpones scheduled Trump grand jury session, sources say
The panel is is probing Trump’s involvement in a $130,000 payment made in 2016 to the porn actor Stormy Daniels to keep her from going public about a sexual encounter she said she had with Trump years earlier.
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Trump’s potential indictment caps decades of legal scrutiny
For 40 years, former President Donald Trump has navigated a flurry of legal investigations without ever facing criminal charges.
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Trump waits out grand jury as New York braces for protests
A city mindful of the riot by Trump loyalists at the U.S. Capitol more than 2 years ago took steps to protect itself from any violence that could accompany the unprecedented prosecution of a former president, who stayed in Florida.
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Fox News producer sues company, claims lawyers coached her Dominion testimony
Abby Grossberg alleges that she faced discrimination at Fox News and that she was coached to mislead in her Dominion defamation case deposition.
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McCarthy downplays possible N.Y. case against Trump, dismisses it as ‘personal money’
McCarthy’s comments come as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg appears close to deciding whether to charge Trump in the payment of $130,000 to silence adult-film actress Stormy Daniels over an alleged affair.
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Trump indictment would be unprecedented moment in U.S. history
Law enforcement officials are bracing for protests and the possibility of violence after Trump called on his supporters to protest ahead of a possible indictment.
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Four guilty of conspiracy in latest Oath Keepers Jan. 6 trial
Unlike other Oath Keepers, they were not charged with seditious conspiracy – the most serious offense prosecutors have levied so far in the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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Trump lawyers attack Georgia grand jury and prosecutor
Trump’s lawyers are asking a state court to throw out its report and all testimony from the inquiry and bar Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from continuing to investigate or prosecute Trump.
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Trump calls for protests, but even some ardent supporters dismiss the idea
The hundreds of arrests that followed the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, not to mention the convictions and long prison sentences, may have dampened the desire for repeat mass unrest and violence.