New York Prosecutors preparing for Former president Donald Trump’s first criminal trial next month are seeking a partial gag order to prevent the former president and those speaking on his behalf from disparaging witnesses, jurors and others involved in the case, and have asked a judge to protect jurors by shielding their names and addresses from public view.
Jared Kushner has no intention of returning to work at the White House if father-in-law Donald Trump wins November’s election, he told Axios at a Miami event on Tuesday, while also defending his business ties with the Saudi Arabian government. Kushner, who served as one of Trump's top White House advisers in his first term in office, told the Axios BFD conference in Miami on Tuesday he is enjoying life in the Sunshine State with wife Ivanka and their three children.
A president can fill the role of global statesman, master negotiator with Congress, consoler-in-chief during hard times or an entertainer on television. Many voters don’t see President Biden as embodying any of these identities, despite his legislative and diplomatic achievements, putting him at risk of being defined by matters beyond his control, such as the renewed focus on his age.
Former President Donald Trump’s attorney Alina Habba argued in a court filing Monday that the judge overseeing writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial against Trump had a conflict that resulted in Carroll receiving “preferential treatment” —but while Habba said she’ll try to use that to have the case and its $83 million verdict thrown out on appeal, legal experts say she’s unlikely to succeed. and Carroll’s attorney has denied the “baseless allegations.”