Alvin Bragg started his tenure in chaos. A political rebranding and a successful case against the president-elect changed everything.
Seeking a second term, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg may not be facing significant challenges on the campaign trail. But he will be running for reelection in a supercharged political
NEW YORK — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is cruising to reelection — and he has Donald Trump to thank for his good fortune. The president-elect’s criminal case has loomed over Bragg since his first day on the job. That ended Friday with ...
Only one of the four criminal cases against Trump ever reached the trial stage, the Manhattan hush-money case. It culminated on Friday, when New York Justice Juan Merchan sentenced Donald Trump to an “unconditional discharge” following the May 2024 jury verdict finding him guilty of 34 felony charges.
Bannon, a political strategist and longtime ally of President Donald Trump, had been scheduled to stand trial Feb. 25 in the “We Build the Wall” case in state court in New York. It will now start March 4, Judge April Newbauer said.
Joe Biden left some of Donald Trump’s biggest enemies off of his pardon list. The new president often talks about getting revenge on his foes—and has called for many to be arrested after they have crossed him.
None of them had said publicly that they wanted a pardon, and it’s not clear any of them would have accepted one. But some top Democrats, like Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, had endorsed the notion of preemptively pardoning prosecutors, particularly Smith.
Today we will have a new president at noon. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss (from that inauguration eight years ago.)
A third New York jury convicted Trump of fraud for inflating the value of his real estate holdings, not an uncommon practice by developers. A federal judge fined him $355 million, even though harm was never established. The extraordinary penalty seemed designed to drain Trump of resources needed for his reelection bid.
President-elect Donald J. Trump believes he has been wronged by current and former officials, members of the media and more.
When Donald Trump returns to the White House on Monday, January 20, 2025, he will become the first president in U.S. history to have been sentenced on a criminal conviction. Trump's sentencing in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr.
Photo: Jane Rosenberg/Reuters What a suitably ludicrous end to Alvin Bragg’s ludicrous New York prosecution of Donald Trump. Ten days from being inaugurated as the 47th President, Mr. Trump on ...