Trump news today: Donald Trump sues journalist Bob Woodward as Manhattan DA
Trump opens 2024 run, saying he’s ‘more committed’ than ever
Donald Trump is suing journalist Bob Woodward for releasing his interview recordings to the public, claiming that he didn’t give him permission to use them for an audiobook.
Mr Trump also now faces yet another criminal investigation, this time at the hands of the Manhattan district attorney’s office.
The New York Times broke the story of the office’s ongoing grand jury probe into Mr Trump’s 2016 hush payment, via former attorney Michael Cohen, to adult film star Stormy Daniels. The office is presenting evidence to a grand jury in the days ahead, and will soon decide whether Mr Trump or others should face criminal indictments.
The former president is alleged to have paid off Ms Daniels in 2016 to prevent her from spreading claims of an affair between the two. Mr Trump denies this; Ms Daniels and the ex-president’s former “fixer”, Mr Cohen, do not.
Meanwhile, his former UN ambassador, Nikki Haley, said on Fox News this weekend that it was time for a “young generation” to step up and take the reins of power.
Donald Trump sues Bob Woodward and book publisher over interview tapes
Donald Trump is suing journalist Bob Woodward of the Watergate scandal fame for releasing his interview recordings to the public, claiming that he didn’t give him permission to use them for an audiobook.
The former US president filed a lawsuit on Monday against Woodward, the publisher Simon & Schuster and its parent company Paramount Global for releasing the recorded interviews that took place between December 2019 and August 2020.
Mr Trump claimed in the lawsuit that he consented to be recorded for a series of interviews but only for a book Woodward was working on. Woodward’s “Rage” was published in September 2021.
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Maroosha Muzaffar31 January 2023 04:57
Inside McCarthy’s House: Famous friends and hard realities
Three weeks into the new era of the House Republican majority, the risks of Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s leadership style are clearly taking hold.
Away from the glare of the speaker’s official office, McCarthy is conducting some of the most exhilarating but also difficult business of leadership. Yet McCarthy is also confronting the limits of his slim hold on power as the promises of a new style of running the House run into the hard realities of governing.
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John Bowden31 January 2023 12:30
Manhattan DA opens grand jury probe into hush payments to Stormy Daniels
Donald Trump has yet another criminal investigation to add to the long list of legal battles he is waging as he seeks the presidency for a third time.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office has impanelled a grand jury and will soon begin presenting evidence that crimes were committed when Donald Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen paid hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016.
Both Mr Cohen and Ms Daniels have said that the money was meant to stop Ms Daniels from spreading her claims of an…
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