Trump calls special counsel Jack Smith "deranged" and a "Trump hater"
Trump said the federal indictment filed on Thursday is "baseless" but at least it's driving his poll numbers and fundraising.
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Trump said the federal indictment filed on Thursday is "baseless" but at least it's driving his poll numbers and fundraising.
Former president Donald Trump is back on the campaign trail after being indicted on federal charges. Cristian Benavides reports for CBS2.
In addition to the federal indictment, former President Trump is facing legal issues in several other cases. He pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in New York. And the Justice Department is looking into Trump's actions leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane has more.
Donald Trump is the first former president in history to face a federal criminal indictment.
Attorneys Jim Trusty and John Rowley said in a statement they will no longer represent him in the indicted case, nor will they represent him in the Jan. 6 investigation.
Claiming he is "an innocent man," former President Donald Trump lashed out on his Truth Social platform following word he will be indicted on seven counts in connection with his handling of classified documents. Jocelyn Moran reports on what happens next.
A federal indictment could have more serious implications for former President Trump's 2024 presidential run than the indictment brought against him by a New York grand jury in March, CBS News Political Director Fin Gómez said Thursday.
The charges would be the first to arise from special counsel Jack Smith's investigations into former President Donald Trump.
Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that he was indicted in connection with a federal investigation into his handling of sensitive government documents after he left the White House, a historic move that is likely to roil the ongoing 2024 presidential race. CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane reports.
Juliette Goodrich spoke with Prof. Rory Little about the historic indictment of a former president by the U.S. Dept. of Justice over documents taken from the White House. (6-8-23
Donald Trump's legal team has been informed that the former president is a target of the federal criminal investigation into possible mishandling of classified information.
Former Vice President Mike Pence is taking on former President Trump.
Several sources with knowledge of the investigation believe that a charging decision in the documents case involving former President Donald Trump is imminent.
The judge said Tennessee's law is "unconstitutionally vague and overbroad" and encouraged "discriminatory enforcement."
In the recording, Trump acknowledged he kept a classified Pentagon document after he left the White House.
A Pennsylvania restaurant owner who screamed death threats directed at then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi while storming the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to two years and three months in prison.
A document filed in former President Donald Trump's Manhattan criminal case indicates prosecutors have released to his attorneys a recording of Trump and an undisclosed witness.
Author E. Jean Carroll is asking for "very substantial" damages after former President Trump decried the defamation verdict against him and called her a "whack job" during the town hall.
The release of special counsel John Durham's report on the origins of the FBI investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election comes four years after he began his probe.
The writer was awarded $5 million total in damages.
A federal jury in New York found former President Donald Trump liable for battery and defamation in a civil trial stemming from allegations he raped the writer E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.
About 48 minutes of video shown at the trial in which Trump was pressed about Carroll's claim that he raped her in the 1990s was released.
In a letter to the judge, Trump's lawyers argued the judge has made "unfair and prejudicial" rulings against the former president.
Former President Trump's repeated efforts to stop former Vice President Mike Pence from testifying before the Special Counsel investigating him failed this week. An appeals court denied his final legal challenge, and the very next day Pence was sworn in before a grand jury. Willie James Inman reports.
Special counsel Jack Smith subpoenaed former Vice President Mike Pence in February.
