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Donald Trump trials in focus

  • White man wearing black suit and yellow tie gestures with his hands as another man in a suit stands behinds him

    ‘Mr Trump, why won’t you testify?’
    Hush-money trial nears end with a fizzle, not a bang

  • Donald Trump at court on Monday.

    Trump on trial
    ‘The people rest’ – and no Trump testimony

  • Man outside court in navy suit and red tie

    Donald Trump
    Ex-president turns trial into circus as Biden tries to focus minds on economy

  • Man in suit in shade obscured by shadow

    Michael Cohen
    Will testimony sway jurors in Trump’s hush-money trial?

Latest news

  • Older white man wearing black suit and yellow tie, speaks and gestures.

    Judge in Mar-a-Lago case asked to curb Trump’s speech after false FBI claim

  • Older white man, longish coiffed white hair, dark suit, speaking in front of American flag.

    US attorney general calls Trump’s claim FBI was ready to shoot him ‘dangerous’

    Merrick Garland says agency’s ‘standard operations plan’ was also used for Biden, as ex-Trump lawyer excoriates Mar-a-Lago delays
  • pile of documents on the floor

    Trump classified documents case: judge holds hearing on dismissing charges

    Judge Aileen Cannon to hear arguments in court for the first time since indefinitely postponing trial

  • Trump prosecutor Fani Willis wins Georgia primary election

  • Trump insists defense ‘had a great case’ as court resumes for jury instructions – as it happened

  • Defense rests without Donald Trump testifying in criminal hush-money trial

  • Lawyer: Michael Cohen said ‘numerous times’ Trump didn’t know about Stormy Daniels payments – as it happened

  • Trump trial: Cohen testifies that hush-money payment violated election law

  • Trump trial judge rebuked for donations to Democrat-aligned groups in 2020

  • Michael Cohen accused of lying over phone call at Trump hush-money trial

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Features

  • Man wearing glasses, suit, and tie talks to the camera on a late-night television show set

    Stephen Colbert on Trump’s refusal to testify in trial: ‘Did he write himself a check for $130,000?’

  • Man in orange tie stands with lawyer and waves papers around

    Cohen declines to bite at combative questions from Trump’s man Todd

  • Man wearing suit and tie walks past people

    Michael Cohen gives wistful Trump trial testimony: ‘I would only answer to him’

  • man in a suit

    Coming soon to a Trump trial near you: Michael Cohen

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Explainers & analysis

  • Donald Trump watches as Stormy Daniels is questioned by defense attorney Susan Necheles

    Stormy Daniels testimony was lurid and powerful – but Trump voters don’t care

    New York trial heard salacious details about actor’s encounter with ex-president, but it ‘doesn’t move the needle’ with his supporters
  • White man wearing blue suit and orange tie opens his mouth

    Trump’s strategy to delay cases before the election is working

  • Woman wearing Statue of Liberty crown holds anti-Trump placard

    Trump the elephant in the room as supreme court hearing strays into the surreal

  • Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal in New York on 19 April 19.

    Silenced in court: Trump curbed by trial rules but tries to wield power outside

  • Collage of Michael Cohen, an illustration of Trump in court, and Stormy Daniels

    Trump’s New York criminal trial begins soon – but will the public care?

  • a side-by-side image of Donald Trump and Aileen Cannon

    The Mar-a-Lago judge is entertaining Trump’s most brazen defenses

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Opinion

  • Sidney Blumenthal

    Michael Cohen learned that membership in Trump’s inner circle has a harsh cost

    Sidney Blumenthal
  • Fiona Katauskas cartoon on 'Trump trial merchandise'

    Forget the Maga caps – check out Trump’s new Courtroom Collection!

    Who says (alleged) crime doesn’t pay?
  • Robert Reich

    The Trump hush-money trial reveals a seedy world shot through with moral rot

    Robert Reich
  • Emma Brockes

    It’s not pivotal that if the Donald is convicted Michael Cohen can sell his ‘Trump in jail’ T-shirts – but it’s not nothing

    Emma Brockes
  • Margaret Sullivan

    Trump’s hush-money case has proved he’s a low-life. Can it prove he’s a criminal?

    Margaret Sullivan
  • Moira Donegan

    Stormy Daniels’s testimony paints a dark picture of Trump’s view of sex and power

    Moira Donegan
  • Emma Brockes

    Mockery, low tactics, sexist tropes: gloriously, Stormy Daniels is repaying Donald Trump in kind

    Emma Brockes
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