Stormy Daniels
Our Local Correspondents
Donald Trump and Michael Cohen Deserve Each Other
At the former President’s hush-money trial, Trump’s ex-lawyer is using his old boss’s playbook to help the prosecution.
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.
Cultural Comment
Stormy Daniels’s American Dream
Donald Trump’s lawyers tried to portray the scrappy adult-film actress as a lying profiteer. Instead, she emerged as an intelligent, credible witness who is also very good at making money.
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?
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.
Our Local Correspondents
Donald Trump’s Trial of the Century
Manhattan prosecutors have argued that the Stormy Daniels case—the first criminal trial of a former President in American history—is about much more than hush money. And legal experts believe that a conviction is likely.
The Political Scene
Jim Jordan’s Singular Pursuit of Justice
Republicans in Congress are united on at least one thing: the defense of Donald Trump.
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.
News Desk
Inside the Hush-Money Payments That May Decide Trump’s Legal Fate
Years of interviews with potential witnesses provide insights into the Manhattan D.A.’s case.
Cover Story
Jane Rosenberg’s “Courtroom Sketch, Manhattan Criminal Courthouse”
Truth is stranger than fiction: for the first time in its long history, The New Yorker is publishing a courtroom sketch on the cover.
The Political Scene Podcast
The Mood Inside the Courtroom Where Trump Was Arraigned
Eric Lach recounts the proceedings of the first time in history that a former President was brought before a court to face criminal charges.
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.
Daily Comment
Alvin Bragg, Donald Trump, and the Pursuit of Low-Level Crimes
Following the Manhattan District Attorney’s investigation, the former President was arraigned on felony charges stemming from hush-money payments.
Daily Comment
An American Tragedy, Act III
The indictment of the former President by a Manhattan grand jury begins a perilous new phase in the Trump saga.