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Karen McDougal
April 22, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
This Damning Trump Tape Will Be Used Against Him in Hush-Money Trial
Prosecutors will play a recording of a phone call between Donald Trump and Michael Cohen.
March 25, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Donald Trump Will Face His First Criminal Trial Before the Election
A New York judge has officially put Trump’s hush-money case on the calendar.
March 7, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Has Way Too Much Info About the Jury in His First Criminal Trial
Donald Trump is getting a troubling amount of personal information about the jurors in his hush-money case.
February 27, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Has an Unhinged List of Demands for His First Criminal Trial
Donald Trump wants the New York hush-money trial with Stormy Daniels to proceed without some very key evidence (and witnesses).
April 3, 2023
Timothy Noah
How
Citizens United
Greased Trump’s Payoffs to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal
If the Supreme Court hadn’t ruled that corporations are people, Trump would be a lot easier to prosecute.
January 23, 2019
Marcy Wheeler
How Trump Suborns Perjury
Even without BuzzFeed’s explosive report about Michael Cohen, the evidence shows that the president has persuaded his associates to lie to Congress and the feds.
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