Author: Reporter

CNN and MSNBC both cut away from the criminally indicted and convicted felon ex-president Donald Trump as he spoke live on May 31, less than 24 hours after a jury of his peers unanimously found him guilty in New York on 34 counts related to falsifying business records in order to illegally influence the 2016 election. The decisions, along with coverage of the trial’s aftermath in general, spoke to how the nation’s divisions are reflected in the media and the way journalists continue to wrestle with how best to deal with Trump as he is well into his third...

Donald Trump may be convicted of a felony and reside in Florida, a state notorious for restricting the voting rights of people with felony convictions. But he can still vote as long as he stays out of prison in New York state. That is because Florida defers to other states’ disenfranchisement rules for residents convicted of out-of-state felonies. In Trump’s case, New York law only removes the right to vote for people convicted of felonies when they are incarcerated. Once they are out of prison, their rights are automatically restored, even if they are on parole, per a 2021...

Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes on May 30 as a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through hush money payments to a porn actor who said the two had sex. Jurors deliberated for 9.5 hours over two days before convicting Trump of all 34 counts he faced. Trump sat stone-faced as the verdict was being read, while cheering from the street below — where supporters and detractors of the former president were gathered — could be heard in...

President Joe Biden’s campaign showed up outside former President Donald Trump’s New York City criminal hush money trial on May 28 with actor Robert De Niro and a pair of former police officers in an effort to refocus the presidential race on the ex-president’s role in the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol insurrection. It was a sharp about-face for President Biden’s team, which had largely ignored the trial since it began six weeks ago and is now looking to capitalize on its drama-filled closing moments, sending the “Goodfellas” actor and the first responders who were at the Capitol on...