Trump Claims To Have Evidence Of Juror Misconduct In Hush Money Case
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Prosecutors said the allegations are just a ploy to cast doubt on the verdict.
President-elect Donald Trump’s attorneys are continuing their fight against his hush money conviction by arguing that “grave juror misconduct” tainted the verdict, although prosecutors called the allegation “vague.”
Details of the supposed misconduct were redacted from court filings made public Tuesday.
Trump’s team has been fighting to have the case thrown out entirely by arguing that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in July on presidential immunity invalidated it.
New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan decided Monday, however, that Trump is not immune to the charges because none of the relevant conduct involved official presidential acts.
Rather, central to the case was an effort to conceal allegations of a sexual encounter with a porn actor from emerging in the days before the 2016 election. Trump denies the sexual encounter and has said he did nothing wrong.
A contest to determine who will lead Democrats on the Oversight Committee next year will go to the full conference after Ocasio-Cortez lost an early round.
The president-elect told reporters that the former Fox News host was “making tremendous strides” in his bid to become defense secretary.
If he loses his remaining appeals, Trump would become the first convicted felon to serve as U.S. president.
Smirnov had been an informant for more than a decade when he made the explosive allegations about the Bidens in June 2020.
No president before has pardoned people who were “essentially his co-conspirators in crime," one legal expert said.
U.S. appeals court judge James Wynn, an Obama appointee, is the third judge to change his mind about retiring since Trump won reelection.
Chuck Hildebrandt recently tried to return a book titled “Baseball’s Zaniest Stars” that he borrowed in 1974 when he was a 13-year-old “baseball nut.”
The former White House chief strategist claimed there might be a way around the constitutional two-term limit.
Joyce Vance was one voice in a chorus of backlash following the $15 million agreement.
Geoff Duncan also warned that “the intensity of the challenges that this country faces” are “more serious than Donald Trump is.”
The president-elect called into the event and addressed the incident, saying Alex Bruesewitz is “a very special guy.”