https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/rss/330238/feed On November 3, 2020, American voters chose between Republican incumbents President Donald Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence, and Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris. Despite winning both the popular vote and the Electoral College, Biden's claim to the White House was challenged multiple times in court by the Trump campaign and members of the Republican party - without success. en https://assets-v2.i-scmp.com/production/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg (Editor’s note: This report has been updated to remove from the “other issues” section a rule that would have required Georgia election officials to hand-count ballots but was blocked in court. The section now contains a new development about North Carolina.) America’s 2024 general election has many quirks like divergent voting processes, the outsize influence of “swing states” and uncertainties about how congressional results will affect the next president’s ability to govern. In the first of a... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/china/article/3281618/how-are-votes-counted-us-presidential-election?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/china/article/3281618/how-are-votes-counted-us-presidential-election?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 08 Oct 2024 19:08:58 +0000 The Supreme Court said on Monday it will not hear an appeal from the social media platform X over a search warrant prosecutors obtained in the election-interference case against former US president Donald Trump. The justices did not explain their reasoning and there were no noted dissents. The company, known as Twitter before it was bought by billionaire Elon Musk, says a nondisclosure order that blocked it from telling Trump about the warrant obtained by special counsel Jack Smith’s team... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3281454/supreme-court-will-not-hear-appeal-elon-musks-x-platform-over-warrant-trump-case?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3281454/supreme-court-will-not-hear-appeal-elon-musks-x-platform-over-warrant-trump-case?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 07 Oct 2024 18:40:24 +0000 On November 5, Americans will go to the ballot box in what could be one of the most important elections in the country’s history. It looks likely that the result will confirm that the nation is divided into three camps, unable and unwilling to interact. Many do not vote, while the rest are roughly evenly split between voting Republican or Democrat. The strength of a democracy is that the electorate listens to debates, opinions and programmes of the candidates, judges the parties on the basis of... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/opinion/world-opinion/article/3280750/how-another-close-election-could-add-rampant-us-dysfunction?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/opinion/world-opinion/article/3280750/how-another-close-election-could-add-rampant-us-dysfunction?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 05 Oct 2024 21:30:07 +0000 Donald Trump laid the groundwork to try to overturn the 2020 election even before he lost, knowingly pushed false claims of voter fraud and “resorted to crimes” in his failed bid to cling to power, according to a newly unsealed court filing from prosecutors that offers new evidence from the landmark criminal case against the former president. The filing from special counsel Jack Smith’s team offers the most comprehensive view to date of what prosecutors intend to prove if the case charging Trump... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3280861/trump-resorted-crimes-bid-cling-power-after-losing-2020-election-prosecutors?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3280861/trump-resorted-crimes-bid-cling-power-after-losing-2020-election-prosecutors?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 02 Oct 2024 20:44:01 +0000 Donald Trump railed against immigrants in the country illegally in an often-graphic speech in Pennsylvania on Sunday, his fourth campaign stop in a month in what has become the presidential campaign’s most hotly contested state. The Republican presidential candidate called some categories of immigrants “vicious” over 10 times during his nearly two-hour address in Erie, and described several violent incidents. While there is no nationwide data on crimes committed specifically by undocumented... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3280458/trump-anxious-pennsylvania-win-rails-against-immigrants-latest-address?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3280458/trump-anxious-pennsylvania-win-rails-against-immigrants-latest-address?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 29 Sep 2024 23:05:27 +0000 A Georgia judge on Thursday dismissed two criminal counts in the US state’s 2020 election interference case against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and one other count against allies of the former US president. Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee found that state prosecutors did not have the authority to bring those charges, which related to the alleged filing of false documents in federal court. McAfee allowed the remainder of the case to move forward, including eight charges... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3278325/georgia-judge-dismisses-2-criminal-counts-against-trump-election-interference-case?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3278325/georgia-judge-dismisses-2-criminal-counts-against-trump-election-interference-case?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 Sep 2024 22:02:07 +0000 Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday to criminal charges in a revised federal indictment accusing the former US president of attempting to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election. Trump’s lawyers entered the plea on his behalf at the start of a court hearing in Washington focused on how the case should proceed after the US Supreme Court ruled that former presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution. Trump, the Republican candidate in the November 5 presidential election, is... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3277385/trump-pleads-not-guilty-revised-us-2020-election-indictment?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3277385/trump-pleads-not-guilty-revised-us-2020-election-indictment?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 05 Sep 2024 15:03:05 +0000 US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is facing increasing backlash over a controversial flag raised outside his home. At the centre of the controversy is his wife Martha-Ann who has mostly remained out of the spotlight despite her husband’s influential position. Until now. Earlier this year, photos were published of the “upside-down” American flag flown at the Alitos’ home in Virginia in 2021 – rioters at the Capitol attacks had carried the flag in a similar manner in protest against the... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/magazines/style/entertainment/article/3276603/who-martha-ann-alito-wife-supreme-court-justice-samuel-alito-shes-centre-controversy-after-flying?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/magazines/style/entertainment/article/3276603/who-martha-ann-alito-wife-supreme-court-justice-samuel-alito-shes-centre-controversy-after-flying?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 Sep 2024 21:00:08 +0000 Former US President Donald Trump, who faces federal and state charges for allegedly trying to overturn his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden, insists he had “every right” to interfere in the election. “Whoever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election where you have every right to do it?” Trump said in a Fox News interview that aired on Sunday. A federal indictment accuses Trump of defrauding the United States by preventing Congress from certifying Biden’s... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3276916/trump-says-he-had-every-right-interfere-2020-us-presidential-election?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3276916/trump-says-he-had-every-right-interfere-2020-us-presidential-election?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 Sep 2024 14:39:03 +0000 Donald Trump was hit by a new federal indictment on Tuesday in his bid to overturn his 2020 election defeat, with prosecutors narrowing their approach after a US Supreme Court ruling that former presidents have broad immunity form criminal prosecution. US Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team obtained a new indictment in the Washington case, though it was highly unlikely to proceed to trial ahead of the November 5 election when the Republican Trump faces Democratic Vice-President Kamala Harris. The... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3276167/donald-trump-faces-revised-us-indictment-election-subversion-case?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3276167/donald-trump-faces-revised-us-indictment-election-subversion-case?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:03:37 +0000 Special counsel Jack Smith urged a federal appeal court on Monday to reinstate the classified documents case against former US president Donald Trump, saying a judge’s decision that dismissed the prosecution was at odds with long-standing Justice Department practice and must be reversed. Smith’s team said US District Judge Aileen Cannon made a grievous mistake by ruling that Smith was unlawfully appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland. That position, prosecutors wrote in a brief filed with... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3276027/special-counsel-urges-appeal-court-reinstate-classified-documents-case-against-trump?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3276027/special-counsel-urges-appeal-court-reinstate-classified-documents-case-against-trump?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 26 Aug 2024 22:47:20 +0000 Donald Trump is asking the judge in his New York hush money criminal case to delay his sentencing until after the November presidential election. In a letter made public on Thursday, a lawyer for the former president and current Republican nominee suggested that sentencing Trump as scheduled on September 18 – about seven weeks before Election Day – would amount to election interference. Trump lawyer Todd Blanche wrote that a delay would also allow Trump time to weigh next steps after the trial... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3274663/donald-trump-asks-judge-delay-hush-money-case-sentencing-until-after-november-election?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3274663/donald-trump-asks-judge-delay-hush-money-case-sentencing-until-after-november-election?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Aug 2024 15:47:59 +0000 Donald Trump has lost his latest bid for a new judge in his New York hush money criminal case as it heads toward a key ruling and potential sentencing next month. In a decision posted on Wednesday, Judge Juan M. Merchan declined to step aside and said Trump’s demand was a rehash “rife with inaccuracies and unsubstantiated claims” about the political ties of Merchan’s daughter and his ability to judge the historic case fairly and impartially. It is the third time that the judge has rejected such... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3274504/judge-rejects-donald-trumps-latest-demand-step-aside-hush-money-criminal-case?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3274504/judge-rejects-donald-trumps-latest-demand-step-aside-hush-money-criminal-case?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 14 Aug 2024 14:16:31 +0000 The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money trial is pushing back a date for a key ruling on presidential immunity until two days before Trump’s scheduled sentencing. The immunity decision had been due September 6, with the sentencing set for September 18. But then, Trump’s lawyers asked Judge Juan M. Merchan last week to rule first on their renewed bid to get the judge to step aside from the case. In a letter made public on Tuesday, Judge Juan M. Merchan postponed the immunity ruling to September 16... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3273468/judge-trumps-hush-money-case-delays-date-ruling-presidential-immunity?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3273468/judge-trumps-hush-money-case-delays-date-ruling-presidential-immunity?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Aug 2024 16:00:10 +0000 The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by the state of Missouri to halt Donald Trump’s coming sentencing for his conviction in New York on felony charges involving hush money paid to a porn star and left a related gag order until after the November 5 presidential election. The decision by the justices came in response to Missouri’s lawsuit claiming that the case against Trump infringed on the right of voters under the US Constitution to hear from the Republican presidential nominee as he... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3273326/supreme-court-declines-missouri-bid-halt-trump-sentencing-hush-money-case?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3273326/supreme-court-declines-missouri-bid-halt-trump-sentencing-hush-money-case?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 05 Aug 2024 23:47:06 +0000 Former US president Donald Trump’s campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis, who worked closely with Rudy Giuliani, will cooperate with Arizona prosecutors in exchange for charges being dropped against her in a fake electors case, the state attorney general’s office said on Monday. Ellis has previously pleaded not guilty to fraud, forgery and conspiracy charges in the Arizona case. Seventeen other people charged in the case have pleaded not guilty to the felony charges – including Giuliani, Trump... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3273323/ex-trump-lawyer-cooperate-arizona-fake-electors-case-charges-be-dropped?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3273323/ex-trump-lawyer-cooperate-arizona-fake-electors-case-charges-be-dropped?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 05 Aug 2024 21:48:12 +0000 “Trump’s policies without Trump.” Not a few Americans have expressed the attraction of this idea since Donald Trump threw his hat in the ring in 2015. It dawned on some immediately, others gradually, depending on how much tolerance one had for his mouth and demeanour. The belittling nicknames Trump coined for his opponents during the 2016 campaign were singularly amusing, and his reference to the Washington establishment as “the swamp” resonated with tens of millions of voters. But he took... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/opinion/world-opinion/article/3269175/trump-can-storm-back-white-house-if-he-loses-his-belligerence?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/opinion/world-opinion/article/3269175/trump-can-storm-back-white-house-if-he-loses-his-belligerence?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 05 Jul 2024 12:30:09 +0000 US President Joe Biden pulled even with his Republican challenger Donald Trump this week in the race to win the November election, a sign the contest remains close even after a widely panned debate performance by the Democrat, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. Biden and Trump each had 40 per cent support among registered voters in the two-day poll that concluded on Tuesday. A prior Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted June 11-12 showed Trump with a marginal 2 percentage point lead, 41 per cent to... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3269043/us-election-2024-biden-pulls-even-trump-despite-democrats-disastrous-debate-poll?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3269043/us-election-2024-biden-pulls-even-trump-despite-democrats-disastrous-debate-poll?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 03 Jul 2024 11:00:24 +0000 Rudolph Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, federal prosecutor and legal adviser to Donald Trump, was disbarred in New York on Tuesday after a court found he repeatedly made false statements about Trump’s 2020 election loss. The Manhattan appeal court ruled Giuliani, who had his New York law license suspended in 2021 for making false statements around the election, is no longer allowed to practice law in the state, effective immediately. “The seriousness of respondent’s misconduct cannot... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3268932/rudy-giuliani-disbarred-new-york-court-finds-he-repeatedly-lied-about-trumps-2020-election-loss?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3268932/rudy-giuliani-disbarred-new-york-court-finds-he-repeatedly-lied-about-trumps-2020-election-loss?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Jul 2024 20:19:15 +0000 Long-time Trump ally Steve Bannon was taken into custody on Monday after surrendering at a federal prison to begin a four-month sentence on contempt charges for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the US Capitol attack. Bannon arrived at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, around noon and was formally taken into federal custody, the Bureau of Prisons said. Speaking to reporters, Bannon called himself a “political prisoner”, said former President... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3268784/trump-ally-steve-bannon-surrenders-prison-start-4-month-sentence-contempt-charges?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3268784/trump-ally-steve-bannon-surrenders-prison-start-4-month-sentence-contempt-charges?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 01 Jul 2024 19:37:40 +0000 The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled that former president Donald Trump can claim some degree of immunity from federal criminal charges against him relating to efforts to undo his 2020 election loss, a decision that will send the case back to a district court for further deliberation. The 6 to 3 decision, along partisan lines, determined that Trump is not immune from prosecution for actions taken outside his official duties as president. US District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan will need to hear... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/china/article/3268772/us-supreme-court-rules-donald-trump-partly-protected-criminal-prosecution?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/china/article/3268772/us-supreme-court-rules-donald-trump-partly-protected-criminal-prosecution?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 01 Jul 2024 15:14:55 +0000 It’s hard to refer to someone as “Hitler” and end up in their good graces, let alone potentially become the person they choose to help lead the country. But Ohio Senator JD Vance’s shifting position on Donald Trump over the years from one-time critic of the former president to staunch ally is a metamorphosis shared by many of Trump’s potential running mates. It’s not unheard of for a running mate to move beyond past disagreements with a presidential candidate. Joe Biden had a notably barbed... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3268749/trumps-republican-vice-president-candidates-were-once-critics-key-policy-differences?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3268749/trumps-republican-vice-president-candidates-were-once-critics-key-policy-differences?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 01 Jul 2024 11:16:57 +0000 The Supreme Court’s ruling in Republican former President Donald Trump’s claim of immunity from prosecution for trying to undo his 2020 election loss is expected on Monday, the final day of its current term. US Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday announced July 1 as the final day of the nine-member court’s current term, which began in October. “At that time, we will announce all remaining opinions ready during this term of the court,” Roberts said from the bench on Friday. The justices have yet... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3268537/us-supreme-court-ruling-trumps-presidential-immunity-claim-due-monday?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3268537/us-supreme-court-ruling-trumps-presidential-immunity-claim-due-monday?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 28 Jun 2024 15:46:37 +0000 Democratic US President Joe Biden and Republican former president Donald Trump plan to face off in a presidential debate on Thursday and another September 10 ahead of a November 5 election, part of a tradition marked by some of the most memorable moments of modern US political history: 1960 The first televised debate pitted Democratic nominee John F. Kennedy against Republican Vice-President Richard Nixon, who was recovering from a hospital visit and had a 5 o’clock shadow, having refused... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3268078/biden-vs-trump-and-other-memorable-us-presidential-debate-moments?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3268078/biden-vs-trump-and-other-memorable-us-presidential-debate-moments?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 26 Jun 2024 05:08:56 +0000 Former President Donald Trump said he’s made up his mind on who he’ll select as his vice presidential nominee – but hasn’t told the Republicans vying for the position his decision yet. When asked by a reporter on Saturday if he had decided on his pick for vice-president, Trump replied: “In my mind, yeah.” Asked if anyone knew his selection, he said, “No, nobody knows.” Trump said during a stop on Saturday at a cheesesteak restaurant in Philadelphia that his running mate would be attending next... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3267707/us-presidential-election-2024-trump-has-chosen-vice-president-nominee-hasnt-told-anyone?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3267707/us-presidential-election-2024-trump-has-chosen-vice-president-nominee-hasnt-told-anyone?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 23 Jun 2024 09:34:01 +0000 New York’s top court on Tuesday declined to hear Donald Trump’s gag order appeal in his hush money case, leaving the restrictions in place following his felony conviction last month. The Court of Appeals found that the order does not raise “substantial” constitutional issues that would warrant an immediate intervention. The decision is the latest legal setback for the Republican former president, who has repeatedly railed against a gag order that prevents him from commenting on witnesses, jurors... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3267136/trumps-appeal-gag-order-hush-money-case-dismissed-new-yorks-top-court?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3267136/trumps-appeal-gag-order-hush-money-case-dismissed-new-yorks-top-court?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 18 Jun 2024 16:00:21 +0000 The ranks of the double-haters — voters who say they don’t like either major party presidential candidate — are at a historic high and make up one-quarter of the electorate, according to a new analysis from Pew Research Centre. That’s nearly twice as many as at this point in 2020. Double-haters were a key factor in Donald Trump’s upset win in 2016, when they broke for the Republican candidate over Democrat Hillary Clinton. But President Joe Biden won many of those voters over on his way to... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3266799/1-4-us-voters-say-they-dont-want-trump-or-biden-win-election?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3266799/1-4-us-voters-say-they-dont-want-trump-or-biden-win-election?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 16 Jun 2024 07:47:53 +0000 Donald Trump’s presidential campaign raised US$2.5 million at a London fundraiser, where the candidate was absent, but other allies including British politician Nigel Farage and hedge fund founder Scott Bessent made appearances, according to a person familiar with the event. The fundraiser, held on Wednesday at the Chelsea home of Australian model and actress Holly Valance, where an invitation listed tickets for as much as US$100,000 per couple, featured speeches from Trump’s son Donald Trump... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3266542/nigel-farage-attends-trump-event-london-raised-us25-million?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3266542/nigel-farage-attends-trump-event-london-raised-us25-million?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 13 Jun 2024 22:14:32 +0000 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told a rally in Las Vegas on Sunday that he would seek to end taxation of income from tips, a direct appeal to service workers in the swing state of Nevada, which polls suggest is leaning his way ahead of the November 5 election. The pledge, revealed at a sweltering outdoor rally in Las Vegas, adds one more detail to a Trump tax plan that has included vague pledges of tax relief to middle-income workers and small businesses. “So this is the first... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3265982/donald-trump-tells-rally-las-vegas-he-will-not-tax-tips?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3265982/donald-trump-tells-rally-las-vegas-he-will-not-tax-tips?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 09 Jun 2024 22:04:35 +0000 Former top Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon was ordered by a federal judge on Thursday to report to prison by July 1 to begin serving his four-month sentence for contempt of Congress. Bannon, 70, was convicted of contempt in July 2022 for defying a subpoena to testify before the congressional panel that investigated the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol by Trump supporters. One of the masterminds behind Trump’s successful 2016 presidential campaign, he was sentenced to four months in... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3265688/trump-ally-bannon-must-surrender-prison-july-1-start-4-month-sentence?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3265688/trump-ally-bannon-must-surrender-prison-july-1-start-4-month-sentence?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 06 Jun 2024 17:50:13 +0000 A Georgia appeal court on Wednesday paused the criminal case accusing Donald Trump of seeking to subvert the 2020 election while it considers the former US president’s bid to disqualify lead prosecutor Fani Willis, a court order showed. The order prevents the sprawling case against Trump and 14 co-defendants from moving toward trial while Trump appeals a judge’s ruling allowing Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, to remain on the case. It is another indication that the case, one of four... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3265543/donald-trumps-georgia-election-subversion-case-paused-during-challenge-fani-willis?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3265543/donald-trumps-georgia-election-subversion-case-paused-during-challenge-fani-willis?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 05 Jun 2024 21:13:54 +0000 Donald Trump said on Sunday he would accept home confinement or jail time after his historic conviction on criminal charges by a New York jury last week but that it would be tough for the public to accept. Trump is scheduled to be sentenced on July 11, four days before Republicans gather to formally choose their presidential nominee to face Democratic President Joe Biden in November’s election. Prison time is rare for people convicted in New York state of felony falsification of business... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3265099/trump-warns-prison-sentence-over-hush-money-conviction-could-be-breaking-point-supporters?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3265099/trump-warns-prison-sentence-over-hush-money-conviction-could-be-breaking-point-supporters?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 02 Jun 2024 16:58:26 +0000 Shortly after 5pm on Thursday, former US president and likely Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump notched up another first for the record books. After a surprisingly short nine hours of deliberation, a jury of New Yorkers found him guilty on all 34 counts in a closely watched New York state election-interference trial involving falsified business records and hush money paid to an adult-film star. This criminal conviction follows his other precedent-setting history as the first US... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3264969/after-donald-trumps-felony-conviction-will-real-verdict-be-november-5?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3264969/after-donald-trumps-felony-conviction-will-real-verdict-be-november-5?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 31 May 2024 14:52:01 +0000 A second flag of a type carried by rioters during the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was displayed outside a house owned by US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. An “Appeal to Heaven” flag was flown outside Alito’s beach holiday home last summer. An inverted American flag – another symbol carried by rioters – was seen at Alito’s home outside Washington less than two weeks after the violent attack on the Capitol. News of the upside-down... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3263717/second-trump-linked-flag-flown-us-supreme-court-justice-samuel-alitos-property-report-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3263717/second-trump-linked-flag-flown-us-supreme-court-justice-samuel-alitos-property-report-says?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 22 May 2024 23:35:25 +0000 Donald Trump’s defence lawyers rested their case Tuesday – without the former president following through on a vow to testify – as the judge scheduled jury deliberations in the historic criminal trial for next week. The trial has not been televised due to New York law, and experts are divided on whether the five weeks in court, more than 20 witnesses and often salacious testimony have damaged Trump politically. But the looming verdict represents a moment of peril for Trump, less than six months... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3263556/trump-hush-money-trial-defence-rests-its-case-without-calling-ex-president-witness?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3263556/trump-hush-money-trial-defence-rests-its-case-without-calling-ex-president-witness?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 21 May 2024 14:44:31 +0000 Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen testified that he stole money from Trump’s company as a form of “self-help” as prosecutors rested their case on Monday at the former US president’s hush money trial. The prosecution’s most important and final witness, Cohen acknowledged on his last day of testimony that he pocketed most of a sum of money that was meant for a technology company that did work for Trump’s company. “I just felt it was almost like self-help,” Cohen said. Cohen’s admission... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3263425/stealing-trump-was-self-help-lawyer-cohen-testifies-hush-money-trial?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3263425/stealing-trump-was-self-help-lawyer-cohen-testifies-hush-money-trial?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 20 May 2024 22:29:30 +0000 Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani was served a patriotic-themed cake during his 80th birthday party in Palm Springs, California, on Friday night – then served with a notice of indictment related to an alleged scheme to overturn the 2020 election results in Arizona. Giuliani was indicted last month alongside 18 other allies of former US president Donald Trump in connection with their unsuccessful bid to award the state’s 11 presidential electoral votes to Trump instead of Joe Biden, who went on... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3263228/trump-ally-rudy-giuliani-served-arizona-indictment-papers-own-80th-birthday-party?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3263228/trump-ally-rudy-giuliani-served-arizona-indictment-papers-own-80th-birthday-party?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 18 May 2024 18:58:38 +0000 Donald Trump’s lawyer on Thursday accused star witness Michael Cohen of lying at the former US president’s trial about a phone conversation he claimed to have had with Trump about a hush money payment to a porn star shortly before the 2016 presidential election. Trump’s lawyer Todd Blanche said the phone conversation was about harassment from a prank caller and not, as Cohen had asserted in previous testimony, about a US$130,000 payment that bought the silence of porn star Stormy Daniels at the... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3262983/donald-trumps-lawyer-accuses-michael-cohen-lying-hush-money-trial?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3262983/donald-trumps-lawyer-accuses-michael-cohen-lying-hush-money-trial?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 16 May 2024 21:20:06 +0000 China did not try to influence the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election and the US has “no information to suggest” Beijing will play a “more active role” this year, a top US intelligence official told senators on Wednesday. Testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee, US director of national intelligence Avril Haines said that while China had a “sophisticated influence apparatus” to exploit new technologies such as generative AI, Beijing remained concerned about potential... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/china/diplomacy/article/3262854/china-has-sophisticated-influence-apparatus-did-not-try-sway-202o-us-election-says-american?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/china/diplomacy/article/3262854/china-has-sophisticated-influence-apparatus-did-not-try-sway-202o-us-election-says-american?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 16 May 2024 03:14:36 +0000 US Senator Bob Menendez, a Democrat, went on trial in Manhattan federal court Monday, accused of accepting bribes of gold and cash to use his influence to deliver favours that would help three New Jersey businessmen. Menendez, 70, sat with his lawyers and listened as Judge Sidney H Stein told several dozen prospective jurors about the charges against Menendez and two of the businessmen. The judge told them the “sitting US senator from the state of New Jersey” had been charged in a conspiracy in... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3262555/corruption-trial-us-senator-bob-menendez-begins-new-york?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3262555/corruption-trial-us-senator-bob-menendez-begins-new-york?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 13 May 2024 19:27:19 +0000 Donald Trump was intimately involved with all aspects of a scheme to stifle stories about sex that threatened to torpedo his 2016 campaign, his former lawyer said on Monday in matter-of-fact testimony that went to the heart of the former president’s hush money trial. “Everything required Mr Trump’s sign-off,” said Michael Cohen, Trump’s fixer-turned-foe and the prosecution’s star witness in a case now entering its final, pivotal stretch. In hours of highly anticipated testimony, Cohen placed... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3262553/make-sure-it-doesnt-get-released-star-witness-michael-cohen-implicates-trump-hush-money-case?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3262553/make-sure-it-doesnt-get-released-star-witness-michael-cohen-implicates-trump-hush-money-case?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 13 May 2024 17:22:22 +0000 Donald Trump notched another win on Wednesday in his campaign to slow the criminal cases against him, when a Georgia appeal court agreed to hear his bid to disqualify the district attorney prosecuting him for trying to overturn his election loss in the state. The ruling prolongs the legal battle over a former romance between Fani Willis, Fulton County’s district attorney, and a one-time top deputy, a relationship defence lawyers have used to try to derail the case. The court’s decision to hear... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3261931/donald-trump-wins-another-delay-georgia-court-agrees-hear-bid-disqualify-fani-willis?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3261931/donald-trump-wins-another-delay-georgia-court-agrees-hear-bid-disqualify-fani-willis?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 May 2024 17:27:34 +0000 If the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s hush money trial is to be taken at his word, America could be careening toward an unprecedented moment: A former US president behind bars. Justice Juan Merchan on Monday threatened Trump with jail time for repeatedly violating a gag order in the criminal case under way in Manhattan, although Merchan said it is a step he is reluctant to take. Jailing Trump would almost certainly inflame his already loyal base of supporters and in their minds further Trump’s... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3261760/jailing-trump-contempt-hush-money-trial-could-spell-political-trouble-ex-president?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3261760/jailing-trump-contempt-hush-money-trial-could-spell-political-trouble-ex-president?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 07 May 2024 18:00:19 +0000 The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal trial fined him US$1,000 and held him in contempt of court for a 10th time on Monday for violating a gag order and warned that further violations could land the former president in prison. Justice Juan Merchan said the nine US$1,000 fines he had imposed previously did not seem to be deterring the wealthy business mogul from violating the order, which bars him from speaking publicly about the jurors and witnesses in the first criminal trial of a former... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3261635/trump-hush-money-trial-judge-fines-ex-president-again-threatens-jail-gag-order-violations?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3261635/trump-hush-money-trial-judge-fines-ex-president-again-threatens-jail-gag-order-violations?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 06 May 2024 14:06:14 +0000 Donald Trump told Republican donors at his Florida resort this weekend that US President Joe Biden is running a “Gestapo administration”, the latest example of the former president employing the language of Nazi Germany in his campaign rhetoric. The remarks on Saturday at Mar-a-Lago were described by people who attended the event and spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private session. The “Gestapo” comment, one person said, came as Trump renewed his complaint that Biden’s White House... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3261504/trump-says-biden-running-gestapo-administration-his-latest-reference-nazi-germany?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3261504/trump-says-biden-running-gestapo-administration-his-latest-reference-nazi-germany?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 05 May 2024 19:15:16 +0000 Donald Trump was held in contempt of court on Tuesday and fined US$9,000 for repeatedly violating a gag order that barred him from making public statements about witnesses, jurors and some others connected to his New York hush money case. And if he does it again, the judge warned, he could be jailed. Prosecutors had alleged 10 violations, but New York Judge Juan M. Merchan found there were nine. Trump stared down at the table in front of him as the judge read the ruling, frowning slightly. It... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3260985/judge-holds-trump-contempt-fines-him-us9000-raises-threat-jail-hush-money-trial?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3260985/judge-holds-trump-contempt-fines-him-us9000-raises-threat-jail-hush-money-trial?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:30:22 +0000 Former US president Donald Trump held a private meeting with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at the weekend, marking a thaw in relations between the former rivals after a brutal Republican primary contest marked by insults and bruised egos, according to three people familiar with the discussion. The meeting, which lasted three hours, was organised to help the men bury the hatchet and discuss potential joint fundraising efforts, according to one of the people, who, like others, spoke on condition... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3260848/trump-and-desantis-meet-make-peace-and-discuss-fundraising-ex-presidents-campaign?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3260848/trump-and-desantis-meet-make-peace-and-discuss-fundraising-ex-presidents-campaign?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 29 Apr 2024 23:43:56 +0000 Election security is fundamental to the integrity of democracy. In the US, election credibility has been shaken by allegations of foreign interference, voter fraud and other irregularities, after the presidential vote in 2016 and 2020. Ahead of the November presidential election, it is crucial to understand and address the concerns about election security in light of past experiences. On the night of November 5, public discourse in America may well shift from who will next occupy the Oval Office... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/opinion/world-opinion/article/3260542/credibility-us-democracy-docks-presidential-election?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/opinion/world-opinion/article/3260542/credibility-us-democracy-docks-presidential-election?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 28 Apr 2024 11:30:18 +0000 The US Supreme Court suggested it might drag out Donald Trump’s claim of immunity from prosecution, an outcome that could doom any chance of a pre-election trial on charges of trying to stay in power illegally. Hearing arguments Thursday in Washington, the justices expressed scepticism toward the former US president’s sweeping arguments for immunity for his efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory. But a pivotal member, Chief Justice John Roberts, said he disagreed with part of an... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3260399/wary-us-supreme-court-could-extend-donald-trumps-immunity-bid-past-november-election?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3260399/wary-us-supreme-court-could-extend-donald-trumps-immunity-bid-past-november-election?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:58:35 +0000 Rudy Giuliani, a former lawyer for Donald Trump, is among 18 people charged in Arizona with illegally seeking to claim the state’s 2020 electoral votes for the then-US president, in an indictment that names Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator. The indictment, reached on Tuesday and unsealed on Wednesday, stems from the attempt by Trump and his allies to pressure election officials in several states to overturn the presidential election won by Joe Biden, efforts for which Trump has been... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3260283/arizona-indicts-trump-allies-giuliani-meadows-16-others-2020-election-scheme?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3260283/arizona-indicts-trump-allies-giuliani-meadows-16-others-2020-election-scheme?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 25 Apr 2024 03:29:28 +0000