Trump is in New York for the hush money trial while the Supreme Court hears his immunity case in DC

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

84% : Trump, when asked during his campaign appearance Thursday what he thought of Pecker’s testimony, responded: “David’s been very nice, a nice guy.”Pecker
60% : “We have a big case today,” Trump said during an early morning campaign stop in Manhattan to visit construction workers.
55% : Speaking Thursday morning, Trump said: “A president has to have immunity.”
49% : The New York trial resumes after a scheduled day off with more testimony from the Manhattan District Attorney’s first witness, David Pecker, former publisher of the National Enquirer and a longtime friend of Trump’s who pledged to be his “eyes and ears” during his 2016 presidential campaign.
31% : Jurors will hear more witness testimony from a veteran tabloid publisher, and Trump faces a looming decision over whether he violated a gag order imposed by the judge.
31% : A conviction by the jury in the hush money probe would not preclude Trump from becoming president again, but because it is a state case, he would not be able to pardon himself if found guilty.
31% : The Supreme Court’s arguments, meanwhile, are related to charges in federal court in Washington, where Trump has been accused of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election.
30% : A reluctant Donald Trump will be back in a New York City courtroom Thursday as his hush money trial resumes at the same time that the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in Washington over whether he should be immune from prosecution for actions he took during his time as president.
29% : It is the first of four criminal cases against Trump to go before a jury.
29% : The high court is moving faster than usual in taking up the case, though not as quickly as special counsel Jack Smith wanted, raising questions about whether there will be time to hold a trial before the November election, if the justices agree with lower courts that Trump can be prosecuted.___Long reported from Washington.
28% : His request was denied by New York state Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the trial on the hush money scheme that was meant to prevent harmful stories about Trump from surfacing in the final days of the 2016 campaign.
28% : In both instances, Trump is trying to get himself out of legal jeopardy as he makes another bid for the White House.
20% : Merchan, the judge, may also decide whether or not to hold Trump in contempt and fine him for violating a gag order that barred the GOP leader from making public statements about witnesses, jurors and others connected to the case.
20% : He then said, “They’ve taken my constitutional right away with a gag order.”Merchan criticized Blanche this week for excusing the posts as Trump simply responding to political attacks and commenting on his experience with the criminal justice system.
18% : Trump was dismissive about the upcoming decision.
16% : explained to jurors earlier this week how he and the tabloid parlayed rumor-mongering into splashy stories that smeared Trump’s opponents and, just as crucially, leveraged his connections to suppress seamy stories about Trump, including a porn actor’s claim of an extramarital sexual encounter years earlier.

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