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Trump tries to move past his guilty verdict by attacking the criminal justice system​

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump sought to move past his historic criminal conviction on Friday and build momentum for his bid to return to the White House with fierce attacks on the judge who oversaw the case, the prosecution’s star witness and the criminal justice system as a whole.

Speaking from his namesake tower in Manhattan in a symbolic return to the campaign trail, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee delivered a message aimed squarely at his most loyal supporters. Defiant as ever, he insisted without evidence that the verdict was “rigged” and driven by politics.
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Trump’s NY case was the first of four to go to trial. It could be the last one for a while

The hush money case that culminated in a conviction of Donald Trump this week was the first of four criminal prosecutions brought against the former president — and likely the only one to reach trial before the November elections.
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What world's media made of Trump's guilty verdict

A White House run derailed or a crooked jury? From Buenos Aires to Beijing, this is how the verdict was reported.
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Congressional leaders invite Israel's Netanyahu to deliver an address at the Capitol

Congressional leaders have invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deliver an address a the U.S. Capitol.
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Trump supporters try to doxx jurors and post violent threats after his conviction

On social media and web forums, users called for jurors, judges and prosecutors to be killed after the former president was found guilty on 34 felony counts.
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What's next after Trump's verdict: From the Politics Desk

Yes, it's a big moment. But it's not even close to the last big moment on tap in 2024.
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Biden reacts to Trump's conviction for the 1st time, calls attacks on judicial system 'reckless'

President Joe Biden reacted to Donald Trump's conviction for the first time on Friday, criticizing those calling the trial "rigged."
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GOP senators vow roadblocks for Biden after Trump verdict - Washington Examiner

The vow came in response to Trump’s felony conviction, which the GOP senators claimed was a result of White House meddling in the 2024 election.
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Biden calls Trump's claims on hush money conviction 'reckless' as campaign grapples with verdict

President Joe Biden says Donald Trump was found guilty by a unanimous jury and “it’s reckless, it’s dangerous, it’s irresponsible for anyone to say this is rigged just because they don’t like the verdict.”
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Biden slams Trump and his allies for calling the hush money verdict 'rigged'

The president's comments came hours after Trump blamed him for his legal woes in remarks to the press and supporters, saying, “This is all done by Biden and his people.
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How Trump and his allies are spinning his historic guilty verdict

Former President Donald Trump and his allies immediately tried to flip the script after a New York jury found him guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records Thursday.
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Biden says it’s ‘time for this war to end’ as he lays out Israeli ceasefire proposal | CNN Politics

President Joe Biden asserted Friday that Hamas has been degraded to a point where it can no longer carry out the type of attack that launched the current 8-month conflict in Gaza, laying out a three-phase proposal Israel has submitted to wind down the grinding crisis as he declared, “It’s time...
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Trump's case casts a spotlight on movement to restore voting rights to those convicted of felonies

Former President Donald Trump is likely to remain eligible to vote in Florida despite his conviction for 34 felonies in his New York hush money trial.
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'These are bad people': Trump unloads after his historic guilty verdict

In his first extended remarks since the New York jury found him guilty on all 34 counts in his hush money trial, Trump delivered rambling comments on his frustration with the verdict.
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Trump guilty verdict reveals split among former GOP presidential primary opponents

Former President Donald Trump's Republican primary opponents offered varying reactions to the guilty verdict in his New York City trial.
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How long will Trump go to prison for? Not 187 years like he claims | Fact check

Each of Trump's 34 convictions has a maximum of four years imprisonment individually, but New York caps Class E felony sentences at 20 years.
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Israel-Gaza war: Biden unveils Israeli proposal to end conflict

It would begin with a six-week ceasefire and the withdrawal of IDF forces from populated areas.
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Biden details a 3-phase hostage deal aimed at winding down the Israel-Hamas war

President Joe Biden has detailed a three-phase deal proposed by Israel to Hamas militants that he says would lead to the end of the Mideast war.
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Biden Declares Trump Verdict a Victory for the Rule of Law

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden declared Friday that a New York jury’s guilty verdict against former President Donald Trump should be respected and denounced Republican efforts to undermine the justice system as “reckless,” “dangerous” and “irresponsible.” Breaking his long silence over Trump’s...
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Trump vows to appeal felony conviction | CNN Politics

Donald Trump on Friday railed against his historic guilty verdict in the New York criminal hush money trial and again vowed to appeal his conviction in remarks that were filled with false claims.
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Upside-down American flag reappears as a right-wing protest symbol after Trump's guilty verdict

Right-wing commentators and supporters of former President Donald Trump have flooded social media with images of upside-down American flags in protest of his historic guilty verdict.
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Rubio gets blowback for comparing Trump trial to Cuban 'show trials,' executions

An expert on political rhetoric and a former Republican congressman whose father was a victim of a Cuban trial warn that delegitimizing the justice system is itself authoritarian.
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Trump carries the stain of conviction like a crown. Will the verdict matter to voters?

Back in 2016, Donald Trump famously said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any voters because of it.
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Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump's sons react to guilty verdict in hush money trial

Former President Donald Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts in his hush money trial on Thursday.
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Publisher of '2000 Mules' apologizes to Georgia man falsely accused of ballot fraud in the film

The publisher of “2000 Mules” has issued a statement apologizing to a Georgia man who was shown in the film and falsely accused of ballot fraud during the 2020 election.
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Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge to state abortion ban's medical exceptions

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The Texas Supreme Court on Friday rejected a lawsuit challenging the state's abortion ban over its medical exceptions.

The court ruled against a group of women who suffered serious pregnancy complications and became the first in the country to testify in court about being denied abortion access since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022.

In a unanimous ruling, the court upheld the Texas law after the women filed a lawsuit in March 2023 seeking clarity on when exceptions to the abortion ban are permitted, arguing the law was confusing for doctors who...
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Venice bans large tourist groups and loudspeakers

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Groups of more than 25 and loudspeakers are no longer allowed to reduce the impact of mass tourism.
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At least 19 injured as Russia hits Ukraine's power grid with fresh barrage

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Officials in Ukraine said Russia pummeled the country's energy infrastructure with a large-scale drone and missile attack, injuring at least 19 people
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Trump Verdict Hardens Many Views, but Changes Some, Too

  • News source: Jonathan Weisman, Kellen Browning and Maya King
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As the nation’s electorate processed the felony convictions of Donald J. Trump, the partisan divide in the verdict’s wake did not look so much like opposing sides of a chasm but like two alternate universes, one where the former president had been hounded and persecuted by his corrupt political enemies, the other where justice had finally been served to a career criminal.

Where the two sides were even within shouting distance of each other was vanishingly small, if it existed at all. But a few voices in the Trump universe allowed that Mr. Trump may...
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A 9/11 Charity Provides a Financial Safety Net to a Giuliani Firm

  • News source: David A. Fahrenthold and Eileen Sullivan
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Democrats Push Biden to Make Trump’s Felonies a Top 2024 Issue

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Now that former President Donald J. Trump is a convicted criminal, the Democratic Party finds itself wrestling with a choice that will help define this year’s presidential race: Should it try to push his felonies to the center of the election?

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Tales from The Trail: Trump 'unleashed' with criminal trial over

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Donald Trump is wasting no time in getting back on the campaign trail now that the verdict is in and his historic
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Hunter Biden is prepping for his federal gun trial, but faces other legal challenges

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Hunter Biden is preparing for his first criminal trial, which is set to start Monday, but that federal gun case stemming from Special Counsel David Weiss’ yearslong investigation is just one of several legal challenges the first son faces.

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Is Trump still under a gag order after his conviction? Here's what we know

  • News source: MIchael R. Sisak | Associated Press
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Donald Trump said he remains muzzled by a gag order after his conviction in his hush money criminal trial. His lawyer said he thinks the gag order was supposed to expire with the verdict and he may seek clarity from the court.

“I’m under a gag order, nasty gag order," the former president said Friday while speaking to reporters at Trump Tower. Referring to star prosecution witness Michael Cohen, Trump said: “I’m not allowed to use his name because of the gag order.”

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Biden: 'Reckless' for Trump to call trial rigged

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President Joe Biden defends the justice system during his first comments on Trump's guilty verdict.
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France mourns nurse known as Angel of Dien Bien Phu

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The French president said she showed "exemplary courage and devotion" amid suffering.
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Trump’s Conviction Brings Him Into a ‘New World’

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Donald J. Trump’s historic felony convictions may not alter the presidential race right now, but they have punctured his sense of invincibility in a courtroom, The New York Times’s Maggie Haberman explains.
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‘2,000 Mules’ Producer Apologizes to Man Depicted Committing Election Fraud

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The conservative media company Salem Media Group has apologized to a Georgia man who was falsely depicted as having committed election fraud in the film “2,000 Mules,” which Salem co-produced and released in 2022.

The documentary, written and directed by the right-wing commentator Dinesh D’Souza, claimed that Democrats had conspired with nonprofit groups to rig the 2020 election in favor of President Biden by using “mules” who stuffed ballot boxes in swing states.

More than a million people watched “2,000 Mules” in just the first two weeks after...
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