Articles written by Jake Offenhartz & Jennifer Peltz


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  • Judge directs Michael Cohen to keep quiet about Trump ahead of his hush money trial testimony

    JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JENNIFER PELTZ|May 10, 2024

    NEW YORK (AP) — With Donald Trump's fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen expected to take the witness stand Monday, the judge in the former president's hush money case issued prosecutors a stern warning: Get Cohen to stop his taunting posts and jabs at Trump. Judge Juan M. Merchan's comments came as a dramatic and consequential week in the first criminal trial of a former American president drew to a close Friday. The prosecution could rest its case by the end of next week, prosecutor Joshua Steinglass said. Prosecutors have been building up their c...

  • Donald Trump testifies for less than 3 minutes in defamation trial and is rebuked by judge

    JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JENNIFER PELTZ|Jan 26, 2024

    NEW YORK (AP) — He testified for under three minutes. But former President Donald Trump still broke a judge's rules on what he could tell a jury about writer E. Jean Carroll's sexual assault and defamation allegations, and he left the courtroom Thursday bristling to the spectators: "This is not America." Testifying in his own defense in the defamation trial, Trump didn't look at the jury during his short, heavily negotiated stint on the witness stand. Because of the complex legal context of the case, the judge limited his lawyers to asking a h...