Maggie Haberman

Those charged included Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff, and the fake electors who acted on Mr. Trump’s behalf in Arizona after the 2020 election.

Donald J. Trump demands praise and insists on total innocence, robbing his lawyers of time-honored defense tactics.

The former president has spent decades spewing thousands and thousands of words, sometimes contradicting himself. That tendency is now working against him in his Manhattan criminal case.

The former president and his vanquished rival met in Florida, months after Ron DeSantis dropped out after a contentious Republican contest.

Michael D. Cohen’s lawyers took on OAN over the false story. The settlement came as right-wing news outlets face a barrage of defamation suits.

Todd Blanche upended his career to represent Donald J. Trump and has been the former president’s favorite. But Mr. Trump has made him a focus of his episodic wrath.

As Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial enters its third week, new witnesses will appear and the judge will weigh a request to hold him in contempt for violating his gag order.

A banker who helped set up the account used for a hush-money payment to a porn star is expected back on the stand. The judge in the case could also rule on a request to hold the former president in contempt of court.

The judge overseeing the criminal trial of Donald J. Trump fined him $9,000 and said he could face stronger consequences if he continued to violate the order. A banker who set up the account used to pay Stormy Daniels hush money is testifying.

In arguing to the Supreme Court that he cannot be charged for acts while in office, Donald Trump has asked the justices to enforce a norm that he has long threatened to shatter.