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In this June 29, 2020, file photo, the Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

Absolute immunity? Supreme Court to hear arguments in Trump election interference case

By Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Former president Donald Trump, center, awaits the start of proceedings at Manhattan criminal court, Monday, April 22, 2024, in New York. Opening statements in Donald Trump's historic hush money trial are set to begin. Trump is accused of falsifying internal business records as part of an alleged scheme to bury stories he thought might hurt his presidential campaign in 2016. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, Pool)

Prosecutors open Trump trial with tales of political dirt, money, collusion with National Enquirer

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Former president Donald Trump, center, awaits the start of proceedings at Manhattan criminal court, Monday, April 22, 2024, in New York. Opening statements in Donald Trump's historic hush money trial are set to begin. Trump is accused of falsifying internal business records as part of an alleged scheme to bury stories he thought might hurt his presidential campaign in 2016. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, Pool)

The Latest | Lawyers in Trump hush money case paint competing portraits of him in opening statements

Associated Press

Former president Donald Trump leaves Trump Tower on his way to Manhattan criminal court, Monday, April 22, 2024, in New York. Opening statements in Donald Trump's historic hush money trial are set to begin. Trump is accused of falsifying internal business records as part of an alleged scheme to bury stories he thought might hurt his presidential campaign in 2016. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

Trump arrives for the start of his criminal trial, an American first

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Marine One with President Joe Biden abroad flies over the Brooklyn Bridge as it arrives in New York, Thursday, June 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

New poll shows Trump trailing Biden in New York by 10 points

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom at his criminal trial at Manhattan state court in New York, Monday, April 22, 2024. (Brendan McDermid/Pool Photo via AP)

N.Y. judge upholds Trump $175 million civil fraud bond

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks to supporters during a campaign event, Sunday, April 21, 2024, in Royal Oak, Mich. (AP Photo/Jose Juarez)

RFK: Trump got ‘run over’ by Fauci, does not deserve to be president

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

FILE - Former President Donald Trump attends jury selection at Manhattan criminal court in New York, April 15, 2024. Trump's criminal hush money trial involves allegations that he falsified his company's records to hide the true nature of payments to his former lawyer Michael Cohen, who helped bury negative stories about him during the 2016 presidential campaign. He's pleaded not guilty. (Jeenah Moon/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Prosecutors will make history with opening statements in Trump’s hush money criminal trial

By Michael R. Sisak, Jennifer Peltz, Eric Tucker and Jake Offenhartz - Associated Press

Trump election campaigning illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Tried by day, Trump should stump Northeast at night

By Deroy Murdock

David Pecker, Chairman and CEO of American Media, addresses those attending the Shape & Men's Fitness Super Bowl Party in New York, on Jan. 31, 2014. The former tabloid executive said Monday he had "final say" over stories that ran in his marquee National Enquirer magazine and other publications, as prosecutors laid the groundwork to claim former President Donald Trump engaged in payoff tactics before the 2016 election and concealed them in ways that broke the law. (Marion Curtis via AP, File)

Former National Enquirer exec David Pecker is first to take the stand in Trump trial

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Violent insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump breach the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. Isreal Easterday, a Kentucky man who stormed the U.S. Capitol at the age of 19 while carrying a Confederate battle flag, has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for pepper spraying two police officers in the face. Chief Judge James Boasberg cited Easterday’s youth as a reason for sentencing him to two years and six months, five times lower than the Justice Department’s initial sentencing recommendation of 12 years and seven months. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Man who attacked police after storming U.S. Capitol with Confederate flag sentenced to over 2 years

By Michael Kunzelman - Associated Press

Michael Avenatti speaks to members of the media after leaving federal court, Feb. 4, 2022, in New York. Avenatti was sentenced Thursday, June, 2, 2022, to four years in prison for cheating client Stormy Daniels, the porn actor who catapulted him to fame, of hundreds of thousands of dollars in book proceeds. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File) **FILE**

Trump foe Avenatti says ex-president ‘a victim of the system’ in N.Y. case: ‘I am deeply disturbed’

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump walks next to his attorney Todd Blanche, at Manhattan state court in New York, Monday, April 22, 2024. (Brendan McDermid/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump is ‘not on the hook’ for alleged hush money misdeeds, defense says

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Former president Donald Trump, center, awaits the start of proceedings at Manhattan criminal court, Monday, April 22, 2024, in New York. Opening statements in Donald Trump's historic hush money trial are set to begin. Trump is accused of falsifying internal business records as part of an alleged scheme to bury stories he thought might hurt his presidential campaign in 2016. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, Pool)

Trump calls for his supporters to protest as trial begins in N.Y.

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump leaves Trump Tower on his way to Manhattan criminal court, Monday, April 22, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

Prosecutors’ pitch to jury: Trump ‘catch-and-kill’ scheme led to fraudulent docs, misleading banks

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

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Letter to the editor: Trump’s difficult path back

President Joe Biden boards Air Force One, March 11, 2024, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. The White House and the Democratic National Committee are splitting the cost of Biden’s travel while he runs for a second term. It’s part of a longstanding arrangement that prevents taxpayers from being stuck with the full bill for political trips. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez, File)

When it comes to government planes and political trips, who pays for a president’s campaign travel?

By Chris Megerian - Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump appears for jury selection in his trial at Manhattan criminal court in New York, Friday, April 19, 2024. (Curtis Means/DailyMail.com via AP, Pool)

Trump forced to listen silently to people insulting him in criminal hush money trial

By Jill Colvin - Associated Press

A metal can sits on the ground at the scene where a man lit himself on fire in a park outside Manhattan criminal court, Friday, April 19, 2024, in New York. Emergency crews rushed away a person on a stretcher after fire was extinguished outside the Manhattan courthouse where jury selection was taking place Friday in Donald Trump's hush money criminal case. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Man who set himself on fire outside Trump trial dies of injuries, police say

Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump gestures as he returns to the courtroom following a lunch break in his trial, Friday, April 19, 2024, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York. (Spencer Platt/Pool Photo via AP)

Donald Trump will use his weekend reprieve from the courtroom to campaign in North Carolina

By Bill Barrow - Associated Press