Criminal Trials
Letter from Biden’s Washington
On Trump and the Elusive Fantasy of a 2024 Election Game Changer
With a general-election debate and the ex-President’s criminal verdict looming, can anything move the immovable American electorate?
The Political Scene Podcast
Stormy Daniels’s Biggest Role Yet
Naomi Fry on the “epic battle of wills” she witnessed between Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump during Trump’s criminal trial.
Our Local Correspondents
Can You Believe What Michael Cohen Just Said at the Trump Trial?
The star witness in the former President’s criminal trial is also the most aggrieved and seemingly unreliable one.
The Political Scene Podcast
The Pure Chaos Inside Donald Trump’s Criminal Trial
Stifled by a court-imposed gag order, the former President must sit and listen to hours of “at times tedious, at times embarrassing, at times damning evidence against him,” the staff writer Eric Lach says.
Our Local Correspondents
What Is Hope Hicks Crying About?
During Donald Trump’s criminal trial, the inscrutable former White House aide was equally inscrutable on the witness stand, despite breaking out into tears while testifying.
Our Local Correspondents
Trump Is Turning Victimhood Into His Legal Strategy
In the early days of the trial, lawyers on both sides have started to reveal their strategies. Will the jury believe that Trump’s sordid acquisition of the White House was political business as usual?
News Desk
What Harvey Weinstein’s Overturned Conviction Means for Donald Trump’s Trial
The legal issue behind Weinstein’s successful appeal is also at the heart of the former President’s hush-money case.
Our Local Correspondents
Donald Trump Is Being Ritually Humiliated in Court
At his criminal trial, the ex-President has to sit there while potential jurors, prosecutors, the judge, witnesses, and even his own lawyers talk about him as a defective, impossible person.
Our Local Correspondents
Who’s Afraid of Judging Donald Trump? Lots of People
At the ex-President’s criminal trial, where Trump has been reprimanded for intimidating a potential juror, and a man self-immolated outside, it has been challenging to find twelve people willing to sit in the jury box.
The Political Scene Podcast
The Morality Play Inside Trump’s Courtroom
“This idea of the old ‘Teflon Don’ is just finished,” Evan Osnos says. “The guy is now a creature of the court.”
The Political Scene Podcast
Ronan Farrow on the Scheme at the Heart of Trump’s New York Trial
A back-room deal between the former President, his then lawyer, and the C.E.O. of American Media plays a central role in the criminal felony charges he faces in Manhattan.
The Political Scene Podcast
What to Expect from Trump’s First Criminal Trial
A cast of characters from Donald Trump’s past is due to appear in the first-ever criminal trial of a former President of the United States.
Our Local Correspondents
The Haunted Juror
In 1987, two innocent teen-agers went to prison for murder. Thirty-seven years later, a juror learned she got it wrong.
Q. & A.
Is the Trump Indictment a “Legal Embarrassment”?
Analysts have argued that the case, which was put down by previous prosecutors, sets a dangerous precedent in American politics. That might be naïve.
A Reporter at Large
The Covert Mission to Solve a Mexican Journalist’s Murder
After the death of a reporter who investigated narcopolitics, her colleagues formed a secret collective to bring the killers to justice—and challenge a culture of impunity.
On Television
Donald Trump’s Unhinged Reality Show Gets Another Season
“Seems so SURREAL,” the former President wrote before his arraignment, with a curious self-alienation, as if he were not actually experiencing the event but watching it on TV (which he probably was).
Letter from Biden’s Washington
America’s First Indicted Ex-President Is Very Sorry—for Himself
Notes on Donald Trump’s day in court.
Our Columnists
The People v. Donald J. Trump
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is effectively accusing the former President of defrauding voters in 2016.
Our Local Correspondents
A Courtroom Made Donald Trump Look Small
At his arraignment, all the former President could do was sit and listen.
Comment
How Republicans Are Handling Trump’s Possible Indictment
The responses to Alvin Bragg’s Stormy Daniels case may not offer the best guide to navigating the former President’s legal troubles.