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[ad_1] Last week, Donald Trump surrendered to authorities and was arraigned in a Manhattan courtroom on thirty-four felony charges stemming from hush-money payments made during the 2016 Presidential campaign. (The money went to the adult-film star Stormy Daniels, who claims to have had an affair with Trump.) In an indictment that was unsealed after the…
[ad_1] A particularly brutal number for Joe Biden was contained in a CNN poll conducted last month: sixty-seven per cent. That is the proportion of Americans who say that Biden, already America’s oldest President at the age of eighty and about to launch a bid for a second term, does not have “the stamina and…
[ad_1] On a glorious spring day, with barely a cloud in the sky over the Manhattan Criminal Court building and magnolia trees blooming across the five boroughs, a seventy-six-year-old businessman who has lately been living in Florida was arraigned on thirty-four felony charges of falsifying business records to disguise a payment that he made, via…
[ad_1] On Alvin Bragg’s third day as the Manhattan District Attorney, in January, 2021, he stated that his office would no longer prosecute low-level offenses such as subway-fare evasion, resistance to arrest, or prostitution unless they were part of an accompanying felony charge. Despite the fact that Bragg had campaigned as a reformer, the bluntness…
[ad_1] Donald Trump said nine words during his arraignment in Manhattan criminal court on Tuesday. “Yes,” “thank you,” “I do,” “yes,” “yes,” and “not guilty.” He didn’t say “hugely not guilty” or make a crack about the judge’s race. He appeared in the doorway of the courtroom just before 2:30 P.M., sombre and alone, and…
[ad_1] Over the past two weeks, since Donald Trump said on Truth Social that his indictment in Manhattan was imminent, the country has been in thrall to a familiar phenomenon: the frantic Trump news cycle. Once upon a time, it was all too common. An Axios graphic from September, 2017—“The insane news cycle of Trump’s…
[ad_1] Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter of the best New Yorker podcasts. In 2018, at the midpoint of Donald Trump’s Presidency, the journalist and historian Jon Meacham wrote a book called “The Soul of America,” warning of the gravity of Trump’s…
[ad_1] Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter of the best New Yorker podcasts. The journalist and Presidential historian Jon Meacham has written biographies of Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, George H. W. Bush, John Lewis, and, now, Abraham Lincoln. He has served as an…
[ad_1] In America, the freedom of the press is often exercised as the freedom to congregate in exactly the same place at the same time, not doing much. Two Saturday mornings ago, former President Donald Trump posted on his proprietary social-media platform, Truth Social, declaring that he would be indicted by the Manhattan District Attorney…
[ad_1] More than a week after Donald Trump created a media frenzy by claiming that he was going to be arrested, Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District Attorney, is still deciding whether to bring criminal charges against the former President arising from the hush-money payment that he made through Michael Cohen, his ex-lawyer, to the adult-film…