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Tom Howell Jr.

Tom Howell Jr.

Tom Howell Jr. covers politics and the White House for The Washington Times. He can be reached at thowell@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Tom Howell Jr.

Former President Donald Trump walks to speak to reporters at Manhattan criminal court, Monday, May 6, 2024 in New York. (Win McNamee/Pool Photo via AP)

Stormy Daniels takes stand, dishes tawdry testimony in Trump trial

Prosecutors dove straight into the seamy details of the hush money case against former President Donald Trump on Tuesday by putting adult-film actress Stormy Daniels on the stand to testify about an alleged sexual encounter in a Lake Tahoe suite in 2006 and efforts to sell her story before the presidential election a decade later. Published May 7, 2024

Former President Donald Trump sits in Manhattan Criminal Court on Tuesday, May 7, 2024 in New York. (Win McNamee/Pool Photo via AP)

Defense gets crack at Stormy Daniels, highlights her hatred for Trump

Former President Donald Trump's lawyers undercut Stormy Daniels and her motivations Tuesday after prosecutors spent hours eliciting salacious testimony from the porn star, a central witness in the New York hush-money trial against the former president. Published May 7, 2024

Former President Donald Trump, center, sits at the defense table with his attorneys Susan Necheles, from left, Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, in Manhattan criminal court, Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in New York. (Sarah Yenesel/Pool Photo via AP)

Judge rejects Trump’s motion for mistrial over Stormy testimony

Former President Donald Trump moved for a mistrial Tuesday, saying testimony offered by porn star Stormy Daniels went too far. The motion was swiftly rejected, though the attempt will preserve some of Mr. Trump's rights in an appeal of a potential conviction. Published May 7, 2024

Stormy Daniels appears at an event, May 23, 2018, in West Hollywood, Calif. The hush money trial of former President Donald Trump begins Monday, April 15, 2024, with jury selection. It's the first criminal trial of a former U.S. commander-in-chief. The charges in the trial center on $130,000 in payments that Trump's company made to his then-lawyer, Michael Cohen. He paid that sum on Trump's behalf to keep Daniels from going public, a month before the election, with her claims of a sexual encounter with Trump a decade earlier. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)

Stormy Daniels takes the stand in Trump trial

Porn star Stormy Daniels took the witness stand Tuesday in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial, a remarkable moment that breathed life into proceedings that had been mired in copies of checks, invoices and other mundane details of the state's case. Published May 7, 2024

Former President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at Manhattan criminal court, Monday, May 6, 2024 in New York. (Brendan McDermid/Pool Photo via AP)

New York judge to Trump: You’re heading to jail if you violate gag order again

A New York judge warned former President Donald Trump on Monday that he'll go to jail if he further violates a gag order, starting the third week of his hush money trial on an ominous note before Trump Organization employees walked the jury through accounting evidence at the heart of the case. Published May 6, 2024

Former White House communications director Hope Hicks arrives for closed-door interview with the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Hope Hicks describes hectic 2016 climate, cries on witness stand at Trump trial

Prosecutors will call a new witness Monday when former President Donald Trump's hush money trial moves on from a dramatic cameo by Hope Hicks, a key former Trump aide who broke down in tears while describing the hectic days around the 2016 election and reports of hush money payments. Published May 3, 2024

Hope Hicks, former White House Communications Director, arrives to meet with the House Intelligence Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 27, 2018. Prosecutors say Hicks spoke with former President Donald Trump by phone during a frenzied effort to keep allegations of his marital infidelity out of the press after the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape leaked weeks before the 2016 election. In the tape, from 2005, Trump boasted about grabbing women without permission. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Former Trump aide Hope Hicks testifies about key events in 2016

Hope Hicks, a top aide to former President Donald Trump during his political rise, is testifying in her former boss' hush money trial about key players in 2016 payoffs to women and the fallout from the "Access Hollywood" tape before the election. Published May 3, 2024

Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court before his trial in New York, Thursday, May 2, 2024. (Charly Triballeau/Pool Photo via AP)

New York prosecutors want Trump slapped with new gag-order fines

Prosecutors on Thursday urged a New York judge to impose new fines on former President Donald Trump, pointing to four alleged violations of a gag order that barred the famous defendant from opining on potential trial witnesses, jurors and court staff. Published May 2, 2024