Judge again rejects Trump’s bid to move criminal hush money case to federal court - POLITICO

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein is a blow to Trump’s attempt to effectively erase the prosecution altogether by suggesting it wrongly wrongly punished him for official acts he took as president during his first term. But Hellerstein concluded that Trump’s payments, routed through attorney Michael Cohen to Daniels, were entirely “private” conduct, not related to his presidency...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/28/trump-new-york-hush-money-case-ruling

Jeff Daniels chastises Trump voters: ‘I hope you’re losing tons of money’ | Movies | The Guardian

Speaking to MSNBC's The Best People With Nicolle Wallace podcast, Daniels addressed the president's supporters, saying: "I hope you're losing tons of money, those of you who thought this would be OK. My question is, 'What are you guys going to do about it?'" 

 Daniels continued by saying he believed Trump's slate of tariffs would cost him supporters. "'Wait a minute, the grocery bill is what? $180 more? I can't get that car that we have to have unless I pay another $8,000. What? Who do I blame for that? Who do I see about that?' One person.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jul/24/jeff-daniels-chastises-trump-voters-i-hope-youre-losing-tons-of-money

 

🚨Jeff Daniels Just Revealed the WORST THING About TRUMP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmUTPso7scI

Dave Bautista’s attack on Trump on Jimmy Kimmel’s show wasn’t just about jokes

"But mostly, he's terrified that real, red-blooded American men will find out that he's a weak, tubby toddler," the actor says, closing with a flurry of, shall we say, colorful insults, including a reference to Trump's …

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/trump-hush-money-trial-access-hollywood-tape-rcna144233

Evangelicals Hate Stormy Daniels But Love Trump. Here’s Why. - POLITICO

Trump may have sinned, but evangelicals still admire his masculinity and power...

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/05/07/stormy-daniels-donald-trump-evangelical-appeal-00156488

BREAKING: Stormy Daniels issues EXPLOSIVE testimony against Trump at trial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avnaXTtSi1A

Tucker Carlson, other Fox pundits, call for protests of Trump charges - The Washington Post

Conservative commentators, presenting the indictment as political oppression, predicted 'unrest'…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/03/30/trump-indict-fox-tucker/

New York grand jury indicts Trump in Stormy Daniels hush-money case, law...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fMg-ppquUs

Alvin Bragg didn’t say he would drop charges against Donald Trump; this video’s a deepfake - PolitiFact

A Google reverse-image search shows that the video was manipulated from footage of Bragg taken during a Jan. 20, 2022, question-and-answer forum at the New York University School of Law. At the time, Bragg had just been sworn in as district attorney. He did not mention Trump during his remarks…

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/mar/27/tiktok-posts/alvin-bragg-didnt-say-he-would-drop-charges-agains/

PolitiFact | Did Trump release a ‘bombshell’? No, Stormy Daniels quickly recanted this 2018 letter

In the open letter, dated Jan. 30, 2018, Daniels denied having an affair with Trump... The letter was publicly released and widely reported on the day it was released. 

But soon after, Daniels recanted, saying an affair had in fact occurred. She said her denials were because of a nondisclosure agreement and that she signed the letter because parties involved "made it sound like I had no choice."…

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/mar/27/facebook-posts/did-trump-release-a-bombshell-no-stormy-daniels-qu/

Trump wants to be handcuffed for court appearance in Stormy Daniels case, sources say

Trump's increasing insistence that he wants to be handcuffed behind his back for a perp walk appears to come from various motivations, including that he wants to project defiance in the face of what he sees as an unfair prosecution and that it would galvanize his base for his 2024 presidential campaign...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/22/trump-wants-to-be-handcuffed-for-court-appearance-in-stormy-daniels-case-sources-say

Mark Pomerantz and the “People vs. Donald Trump” | 60 Minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAT3nw6YSj4

BREAKING: Donald Trump’s WORST NIGHTMARE finally comes true in New York ...

Michael Popok of LegalAF reports on today's dramatic escalation of the Manhattan DA's prosecution of Donald Trump with the announcement of a new special grand jury empaneled to investigate Trump's paying stormy Daniels 130k in hush money during the 2016 campaign...

https://youtu.be/8jcMWNEoTvY

Black Scholars Are Not ‘Rare Creatures’ - NYTimes

In late November, the president of Purdue University, Mitch Daniels, told students that he will soon “be recruiting one of the rarest creatures in America — a leading, I mean a really leading, African-American scholar.” “Creatures?” a student asked. “Come on.” ....
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/opinion/purdue-mitch-daniels-creatures.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Trump directly involved in talks that led to Stormy Daniels payment, FBI says

Court filing says Trump and Hope Hicks spoke to Michael Cohen often as Daniels in 2016 threatened to go public with story of affair....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/18/trump-hope-hicks-stormy-daniels-michael-cohen-fbi

What’s illegal about Trump’s hush payments to women, briefly explained - Vox

Debunking the president's desperate spin about being incriminated in felonies. ......
https://www.vox.com/2018/12/12/18138213/trump-illegal-hush-payments-women-explained

'A very sobering thing': CNN's Jeffrey Toobin explains the gravity of the DOJ calling Trump a felon - Raw Story

The United States government believes President Donald Trump is a felon, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said Friday night. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/sobering-thing-cnns-jeffrey-toobin-explains-gravity-doj-calling-trump-felon/

5 Percent of Trump Voters Would've Changed Their Vote if Stormy Daniels Allegations Surfaced Week Before Election, Poll Finds - Newsweek

The Stormy Daniels scandal could've changed a few votes in 2016. ....
https://www.newsweek.com/5-percent-trump-voters-change-vote-stormy-daniels-allegations-election-poll-1096457

Shep Smith drops a truth bomb on Fox viewers: The Cohen scandal is about a federal crime — not sex - Raw Story

Although most of the country considers Donald Trump's "hush money" payouts involving his former "fixer" Michael Cohen to be sex scandals, Fox News host Shep Smith laid the idea to rest Friday afternoon. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/shep-smith-drops-truth-bomb-fox-viewers-cohen-scandal-federal-crime-not-sex/

National Enquirer kept safe flush with documents related to Trump's hush-money deals - Daily Kos

Wow, this is just going to blow your mind—the National Enquirer kept a safe filled with documentation related to the seedy sex stories the tabloid paper had acquired and quashed on behalf of Donald Trump during the 2016 election. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1790503