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Washington (AFP) - Western leaders are celebrating 75 years of NATO with an elephant in the room -- will Donald Trump, who could again be the US president within months, blow the alliance up? This week's summit in Washington will look, without saying so explicitly, to "Trump-proof" NATO by expanding the role of the alliance itself -- especially in supporting Ukraine, whose fight against Russia has drawn skepticism from the Republican candidate. US President Joe Biden and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg have both trumpeted the 32-nation bloc as the most successful military alliance in h...
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Miami (AFP) - Attorneys for Donald Trump asked a judge on Friday to pause his case on charges of mishandling top secret documents, citing a Supreme Court ruling that a former president has broad immunity from prosecution. Trump, 78, is accused in an indictment filed in Florida by Special Counsel Jack Smith of endangering national security by holding onto top secret documents after leaving the White House. In a court filing on Friday, Trump's lawyers asked District Court Judge Aileen Cannon for a partial stay of proceedings to allow for an assessment of the "implications" of the Supreme Court r...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court ruling that a former president has broad immunity from criminal prosecution has thrown a legal wrench into the cases facing Donald Trump. The ruling will result, at the very least, in delays to any further trials of Trump, and may lead to cases being thrown out altogether, legal experts said. Here's where things stand with the four criminal cases against the 78-year-old Republican presidential candidate: 'Hush money'In May, Trump was convicted in New York of 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments made to porn star Stormy...
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New York (AFP) - A judge postponed Tuesday Donald Trump's sentencing for covering up hush money payments until September 18, the first fallout of a Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity, pushing it to after the Republican convention. The United States' top court ruled Monday that Trump enjoys some immunity from prosecution as a former president, a decision also set to delay his trial for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election. Hours after the ruling was announced, Trump's legal team said in a letter to the New York court that the immunity ruling vindicated Trump's position that he sh...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden warned Monday that the US Supreme Court's landmark ruling on presidential immunity sets a "dangerous precedent" that Donald Trump would exploit if elected in November. The conservative-dominated high court ruled that Trump -- and all presidents -- enjoy "absolute immunity" from criminal prosecution for "official acts" taken while in office, but can still face criminal penalties for "unofficial acts." "For all practical purposes today's decision almost certainly means there are no limits to what a president can do. This is a fundamentally new principle, an...
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Washington (AFP) - As the Democratic Party fights over whether Joe Biden should step aside before November's presidential election, rival Donald Trump has declined to join the pile-on. Biden's halting debate last week against Trump fuelled concerns among voters around the president's age and ability to govern -- fears that Republicans have often been eager to highlight. Yet the Trump campaign has now pushed back against the idea of Biden, 81, stepping down. Democrats dumping their own candidate would tip them into uncertainty just months before the election -- but it also carries risks for Tru...
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Washington (AFP) - Prosecutors overstepped in charging January 6 rioters with obstruction for trying to prevent certification of the 2020 presidential election, the US Supreme Court said Friday, throwing hundreds of cases into doubt. The matter was brought to the court through an appeal by former police officer Joseph Fischer, a supporter of former president Donald Trump who entered the Capitol in Washington with hundreds of others on January 6, 2021. Writing the opinion for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said prosecutors' interpretation of the law would "criminalize a broad swath of...
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Washington (AFP) - Mass expulsions? Political revenge? World peace? A new golden age? As Donald Trump vies for another term in the White House, America is abuzz with speculation over how life might look with the ex-president back at the helm. In a series of interviews and campaign rallies, the Republican has offered some clues. Here are Trump's plans for the United State and the world, as set out by the candidate himself. Mass deportationsPresident Joe Biden's rival in November's election has pledged to launch the biggest deportation operation of illegal migrants in US history on his first ...
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New York (AFP) - A judge eased a gag order on Tuesday that was imposed on Donald Trump during his criminal trial which saw him convicted of 34 counts, according to a court filing. Judge Juan Merchan imposed the limited gag order ahead of the trial, restricting Trump from commenting publicly on jurors, witnesses, prosecutors and court staff, later expanding it to include his own family and that of the prosecutor. Merchan, who will sentence the presidential hopeful on July 11, said that "circumstances have now changed. The trial portion of these proceedings ended when the verdict was rendered, a...
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Detroit (AFP) - Donald Trump is so proud of a cognitive assessment he took while president that he boasted about it in a speech Saturday, while attacking what he claims is US President Joe Biden's lack of mental acuity. The only problem: he then immediately got confused on the name of the doctor who oversaw the test. Trump extolled his powers of mental recall in a speech to hard-right allies in Detroit, challenging Biden to take the same cognitive exam he says he underwent in 2018 with then White House physician Ronny Jackson. However, he immediately flubbed the name of the former official, wh...
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