Pecker, a longtime tabloid publisher, returned to the stand and told jurors about his efforts to help Donald Trump stifle unflattering stories during the 2016 campaign.
Opening statements began in Donald Trump's hush money trial. Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker took the stand as the first witness for the prosecution.
The trial started with competing narratives of whether the former president’s payment to a porn star was a legal means of swaying voters or part of a criminal conspiracy to influence the 2016 election.
Donald Trump tried to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election by preventing damaging stories about his personal life from becoming public, a prosecutor told jurors Monday at the start of the former president's historic hush money trial.
More than a year after securing an indictment, New York prosecutors for the first time on Monday laid out their case against Donald Trump in a courtroom.
Donald Trump’s first criminal trial began with opening statements. Prosecutors alleged the former president tried to hide payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, which Trump denied. Photo: Victor J. Blu
Manhattan prosecutors accused Donald Trump of violating a gag order mere steps away from the courtroom in which he is standing trial, as they asked a judge to impose fines and warn the former president that he could be jailed if he continues to attack witnesses and jurors.
The judge overseeing former President Trump's hush money trial began the day with a hearing over whether Trump violated his gag order with social media posts allegedly attacking potential witnesses.
The first witness in former President Donald Trump's New York criminal trial is expected to retake the stand Tuesday morning, but only after a hearing in which the judge in the case will examine a batch of Trump's recent social media posts.
Prosecutors signaled a sweeping case and Donald J. Trump’s lawyers began their assault on witnesses’ credibility. The judge seems intent on expediting the first trial of an American president.
Donald Trump’ s first and potentially only criminal trial before Election Day has begun. It’s also the first-ever such trial for a former president, who could be sent to prison if convicted on charges that he broke the law by paying,
Donald Trump's New York hush money criminal trial continued Tuesday with more testimony from former tabloid executive David Pecker. The judge also held a gag order hearing.
: David Pecker, the former CEO of the celebrity magazine and tabloid company American Media, was first witness today, as prosecutors try to show the extent to which Donald Trump sought to suppress embarrassing stories in advance of the 2016 election.
The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal case in New York appeared to strongly disagree Tuesday with the former president’s lawyers’ explanation for why he should be considered in compliance with a gag order in the case.
Prosecutors on Tuesday will try to convince the judge in Donald Trump's hush-money trial that the former president should be held in contempt for multiple alleged breaches of a gag order imposed on him in the case.
Prosecutors and former President Donald Trump's lawyers presented their opening statements Monday as Trump's first criminal trial got underway in Manhattan. Assistant District Attorney Matthew Colangelo laid out the government's roadmap to convincing the jury Trump falsified records about a hush-money payment to a porn actress to illegally influence the 2016 election.
Donald Trump is the first former US president to face criminal trial, and on Monday his defense as well as New York prosecutors presented their opening arguments in the closely-watched
Seconds after Judge Juan Merchan closed a meeting into accusations that Donald Trump violated a gag order meant to protect jury members and witnesses in his hush money trial, the former president unleashed an attack on the judge.
The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s hush money trial could determine today whether the former president violated his gag order. FOX 5 NY’s Robert Moses has the latest.
Donald Trump engaged in "election fraud" by paying hush money to a porn star just days before the 2016 White House vote, prosecutors said Monday at the first ever criminal
Former President Donald Trump is standing trial in New York City on felony charges related to a 2016 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Trump is accused of falsifying internal business records as part of an alleged scheme to bury stories he thought might hurt his presidential campaign in 2016.
In opening statements in Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial, prosecutors said Monday that the former president “orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt” the 2016 presidential election.
Former President Trump’s first criminal trial began in earnest Monday, with opening statements from prosecutors and the defense team, as well as the calling of the first witness. Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
Prosecutors lost little time objecting to Donald Trump's attorneys Monday, firing off a complaint in opening statements as the former president's team made claims about why payments were made to adult movie star Stormy Daniels.
Former President Trump’s first criminal trial began in earnest Monday, with opening statements from prosecutors and the defense team, as well as the calling of the first witness. Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
Day 5 of Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial was also the first day of legal arguments before jurors. Proceedings lasted little more than three hours on Monday, but both parties delivered opening statements,
STORY: Donald Trump left a Manhattan courthouse after the first day of his historic criminal trial Monday, when the jury heard opening statements about hush money paid to a porn star.Prosecutors said the former president broke the law and deceived voters in the 2016 election by trying to cover up sexual encounters with adult film actress Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal.
The opening statements offered the 12-person jury - and the voting public - a roadmap for viewing the allegations at the heart of the case and Trump's expected defenses.