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10 Key Facts On Trump’s Legal Battle In Manhattan

Former President Donald Trump has reportedly been indicted by the Manhattan District Attorney for violating New York’s law after allegedly illegally doctoring his official accounting books and records to conceal hush money payments to an adult entertainer with whom he had an extramarital affair. In New York, falsifying business records is a crime. When it’s being done […]

Jennifer Rubin In The Washington Post: Trump Is Indicted, And Justice Is Served

This op-ed appeared in The Washington Post on March 30, 2023. Trump Is Indicted, And Justice Is Served By Jennifer Rubin Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg made history on Thursday, indicting a former U.S. President for the first time. The indictment is under seal. From all indications, however, former president Donald Trump was indicted for falsification of […]

New On Just Security: Detailed Chronology Of Alleged Trump-Cohen Hush Money Scheme

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is reportedly investigating criminal violations that may have occurred when Donald Trump and his team paid two women to stay silent about alleged affairs with the then-presidential candidate. A new report on Just Security provides a richly detailed chronology of events involving the alleged hush-money payments. The in-depth chronology, covering the period 2014 […]

Eisen/Stanton/Wertheimer In Salon: How Trump’s Own Lawyer May Have Cooked Trump’s Goose In Mar-a-Lago Documents Case

There was already a strong case against former President Donald Trump in the Justice Department’s Mar-a-Lago documents case, but if Trump was in trouble before, then the “testimony and documentation from his own lawyer, Evan Corcoran, could turn out to provide the final evidence necessary to charge Trump — and soon,” Amb. Norman Eisen (ret.), […]

The House GOP’s Efforts To Obstruct, Obfuscate, Politicize, & Interfere In The Trump Investigations

Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | March 23 , 2023 With the support of Speaker Kevin McCarthy, extremist House Republicans are out to defend former President Donald Trump without regard for any criminal activities in which Trump may have engaged. These Trump followers show little interest in defending him on the merits in the four criminal […]

Eisen/Wertheimer/Stanton On MSNBC: The House GOP’s Manhattan DA Meddling Is Ugly, Partisan, And Potentially Unlawful

y District Attorney Alvin Bragg “should hold firm and proceed with his charges, come what may.” “With the unprecedented indictment of a former President likely imminent, we must prepare for another first in our nation’s history — attempted congressional interference with a state prosecution of a former President,” Amb. Norm Eisen (ret.), Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer, […]

Goodman/Weissmann In The New York Times: Make No Mistake, The Investigation Of Donald Trump And The Stormy Daniels Scheme Is Serious

“Though it may be tempting to do so, it is a mistake to assess the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation of Donald Trump by comparing its relative severity with those of myriad other crimes possibly committed by him,” Ryan Goodman and Andrew Weissmann write in The New York Times today.  “That is not how state and federal prosecutors […]

Just Security: The Manhattan DA’s Charges And Trump’s Defenses — A Detailed Preview And Analysis

“While bringing a felony case presents complexities, DA Bragg is to be applauded for taking the matter seriously.” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is apparently on the verge of charging former President Donald Trump regarding hush money payments that may have affected the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. In a new report, part of […]

Trump Faces A Slew Of Civil & Potential Criminal Court Cases

  Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | March 16 , 2023 Former President Donald Trump tried to steal the 2020 presidential election and in the process did enormous damage to our democracy and the integrity of our elections. It increasingly looks like Trump might just finally be held accountable for his attacks on our democracy, his […]

Eisen/Wertheimer In Slate: Can Georgia Republicans Really Fire A Prosecutor For Indicting Trump?

“Having tried and failed to interfere in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump’s allies are now attempting to interfere with the ongoing grand jury investigation into that earlier misconduct,” Ambassador Norman Eisen (ret.) and Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer write in an op-ed published today on Slate. The Republican-led Georgia House approved a bill this week that […]