Trump gets booed as jury set to begin deliberations in hush money trial: Live

The FBI joins the long list of presidents, judges, and investigators who have been attacked by Donald Trump, and a judge may have to — once again — demand that the former president keep his mouth shut.

On Friday, federal prosecutors asked a Florida judge to implement a gag order against the former president speaking out about the law enforcement who searched Mar-a-Lago.

But will another gag order actually stop Mr Trump from saying what he wants when fines barely make a dent in his wallet and an army of GOP surrogates stands ready to speak for him?

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On Saturday, the Libertarian Party’s convention in Washington will welcome a decidedly non-Libertarian speaker: Donald Trump, presumed Republican nominee for president.

His speech to the right-leaning third party will be a historic one, as no current or former president has ever been granted a speaking slot at the party’s convention, nor has Donald Trump seemingly attended a Libertarian event or convention. Yet here we are.

The odd relationship being forged between Mr Trump’s campaign and the Libertarians presents several opportunities for both the GOP politician and the “ungovernable” Libertarians — as well as potential pitfalls for the two groups.

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The Trump campaign stirred up controversy this week when it posted a video about the former president with an old-fashioned newsreel style.

On a mock-up newspaper, with the headline, “What’s next for America?,” text could be seen reading, “Industrial strength significantly increased drive by the creation of a unified Reich.”

The former president, it seemed, was openly invoking the history of Nazi Germany as part of his campaign, and he was swiftly condemned by the White House.

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Alina Habba, a former Donald Trump attorney, told Fox News that she believes the jurors in the former president’s hush money trial should have been sequestered over the holiday weekend to avoid coming down with “Trump derangement syndrome,” a cheeky name conservatives have given to anyone who criticises the GOP leader.

“In my opinion, these jurors are handling something that is completely unprecedented,” she said. “I have worries about them going back to whatever friends might have ‘Trump derangement syndrome,’ forgetting all sense of reality, and coming back and sitting in that box and saying, you know what, I have got to take one for the DNC [Democratic National Committee].”

Donald Trump faces four criminal indictments in four separate jurisdictions at a time when he is campaigning to take the White House.

His first criminal trial in New York is now drawing to a close, with the former president staring down the possibility of a conviction on charges connected to a hush money payment to a porn star.

Mr Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal a secret $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential campaign to silence her over an alleged sexual encounter in 2006. Mr Trump denies the affair and has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

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Audible boos clashed with impassioned cheers at the Libertarian National Convention in Washington DC on Saturday as former President Donald Trump took the stage before what was certainly the most skeptical if not outright hostile crowd of his bid for the White House this year.

Donald Trump was jeered multiple times within the first few minutes of his speech to a rowdy crowd of roughly a thousand people Saturday evening at the Washington Hilton, where just a few weeks ago his 2024 election opponent Joe Biden spoke at the White House Correspondent’s Association’s (WHCA) annual dinner.

The angry yells from the audience were so constant at parts that it was difficult to tell whether the crowd were booing the incumbent president Trump was rallying against, or the speaker in front of them. At other points, it was plainly obvious: a chant of “we want Trump!” was roundly drowned out by an angry response.

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The Daily Show host Michael Kosta has ridiculed Donald Trump’s latest false claim that the FBI was authorized to assassinate him when its agents raided his Mar-a-Lago home in August 2022 in search of the classified documents he refused to return to the National Archives after leaving the White House.

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Referring to media coverage of his Bronx rally on Thursday evening, Donald Trump railed on Truth Social:

THIS WAS A BIG, IMPORTANT, AND EVEN STARTLING EVENT, AND YET MUCH OF THE LAMESTREAM NETWORK MEDIA REFUSED TO COVER IT. Gee, I wonder why???

Except that everyone did, from cable news to local news, from print to online-only media outlets... 🤔

He then somewhat undermined his point by posting an article from Right Side Broadcasting Network that opens with the line: “President Donald J. Trump held a major rally in the South Bronx that blew expectations out of the water and completely dominated media coverage.”

While RSBN wildly claimed that 25,000 people attended the event (and others claimed more), the permit was for just 3,500 people and aerial photos of the site show a relatively small crowd as Trump spoke on stage.

Donald Trump’s attorneys have reportedly sent a cease and desist letter to the producers of The Apprentice, seeking to prevent the unauthorized biopic from gaining a release in the United States.

The film, directed by Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi, stars Sebastian Stan as a young Donald Trump and Succession’s Jeremy Strong as his mentor, the lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn. Stan is best known for playing the Winter Soldier in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The Apprentice premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on 20 May, and its producers are currently seeking a distribution deal.

Kevin EG Perry reports from Los Angeles: