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#Trump is slippier than a greased up eel so you never know but if it were anyone else on trial in Manhattan, it'd really be a slam dunk. Based on the first few days anyway.
NOTE: I have stuff to do today. My live posting will be limited. So will my replies/reading your replies.
THREAD: 🧵 #TrumpTrial #Trump #legal 1/…
Klasfeld:
Now
Trump enters the courtroom and is seated at the defense table.
Photojournalists go close up in front of him, as usual, to take their photos.
"All rise."
Justice Merchan takes the bench and invites Trump's lawyer Emil Bove to put their email exchange from Wednesday on the record.
It's an evidentiary issue.
Start of #TrumpTrial testimony day3 (I’m not counting jury selection or off days) 🧵
#Tabloid Publisher #DavidPecker to Resume Testimony
#Pecker, the longtime publisher of The #NationalEnquirer, is expected to return to the stand & describe the #HushMoney deal w/ #StormyDaniels at the heart of the case, in which #Trump is charged w/ 34 #felonies.
#criminal #law #CatchAndKill #FakeNews #ElectionInterference
1/... Emptywheel:
New Yorkers will be amused that nepo-kid's idea of stamina is stopping by a Bodega after a 7 hour day sitting on your ass and a USSS escort drive across town.
Eric #Trump: His stamina, I've never seen anything like it in my life. He'll be in trial all day long only to step out and do events at bodegas and go to Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. The whole world knows his toughness
Federal judge rejects Donald #Trump's bid for new #EJeanCarroll defamation trial, upholds $83M judgment
The judge said Trump delivered "malicious and unceasing attacks" against her. #legal
Via Tyler McBrien:
In addition to sanctions, the prosecution is also proposing an expansion of both the gag order and the protective order which established an anonymous jury to include "an additional restriction on speech with respect to prospective and sworn jurors." #Trump #TrumpTrial #legal https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24556619/20240418-people-supplemental-aff-in-support-of-motion-for-contempt-filed.pdf
1/…🧵 #TrumpTrial #Trump #legal
Let’s start with this, via @darthstar, because NY has laws that govern #GagOrders. I heard the Legals on TV say the same thing as Sean here:
Via Kyle Cheney:
JUST IN: In response to a POLITICO petition, the DC Circuit has greenlit the potential release of documents related to the executive privilege fights #JackSmith undertook to force high-level #Trump aides to testify: https://documentcloud.org/documents/24601551-boom
NEW THREAD 🧵 #TrumpTrial #Trump #legal 1/...
Inner City Press (aka Press):
Justice Merchan: I've signed the order to show cause. Now, the texts?
Prosecutor: We are introducing them as business records. It was part of the regular business of AMI. These are discussions between co-conspirator Dylan Howard and Ms. Rodriguez
Klasfeld:
Trump is back in the courtroom, appearing to sharply exhale when he reached the defense table before sitting down.
Lol, via Biden-Harris HQ on Twitter:
A feeble and tired Donald #Trump once again appears to fall asleep in court
A tweet from @hugolowell: "TRUMP is seated by himself looking fatigued and with his eyes closed while he waits for the start of proceedings today. First on the agenda: whether Trump violated the gag order barring him from assailing witnesses in the case -- esp w Trump going after Michael Cohen yesterday" at 9:41AM on April 23, 2024
Alito turned the whole idea of deterrence on its head, arguing that giving a #POTUS immunity for attempting a coup will make future coups less likely.
Hard to overstate how utterly bonkers this is.
Oh good lord.🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Via Katie Phang;
So at 11:00 a.m. ET, #Trump posts on Truth Social calling Judge Merchan's courtroom a "kangaroo court" and calling on Merchan to recuse himself. Trump also assails the gag order, (falsely) claiming that he cannot defend himself.
This while we await a ruling from Judge Merchan on Trump's 10 violations of the #GagOrder... #TrumpTrial #legal
A Gallup survey of 83 countries and territories found that 41% approve of US leadership, which “is lower than all but one of the ratings under President Barack #Obama but is higher than any of those under Presidents Donald #Trump and George W. #Bush.”
#Republicans always undermine our soft power.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/643853/no-soft-power-shake-ups.aspx
Via CNN's Kristen Holmes:
#Trump spent Wednesday playing golf at his Bedminster club, sources told CNN. Wednesday's the only weekday court isn't in for his NY criminal trial. Trump has lamented that trial has kept him off campaign trail: “Im not in GA or FL or NC campaigning like I should be" he said Mon.
Random #TrumpTrial post via Kyle Griffin:
Pecker testifies that, following his 2015 meeting w #Trump & Cohen, he met w ex-Nat Enquirer editor-in-chief Dylan Howard
Pecker outlined the arrangement & described it as "highly private & confidential."
Pecker asked Howard to notify the tabloid's bureau chiefs that any stories that came in about Trump or 2016 election must be vetted & brought to Pecker.
Pecker said it needed to stay a secret bc it was being carried out to help Trump's campaign
#Trump Was Warned to Return Records to Archives, Unsealed Documents Say
“Whatever you have, give everything back — let them come here & get everything,” the unnamed associate told Trump, acc/to an interview the person gave the FBI “Don’t give them a noble reason to indict you, because they will.”
#criminal #law #ClassifiedDocuments #obstruction #espionage
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/us/politics/trump-warning-classified-documents-case.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
2 members of #Trump's campaign staff had a verbal & physical altercation Monday w/an ofcl at #ArlingtonCemetery where Trump participated in a [performative] wreath laying ceremony.
The cemetery ofcl tried to prevent Trump staffers from filming & photographing in a section where recent US casualties are buried. The source said Arlington ofcls had made clear only cemetery staff are authorized to take photographs or film in the area.
#PhysicalAbuse #violence
#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/27/nx-s1-5091154/trump-arlington-cemetery
This had to be said? 🤦🏻♀️
FBI director rejects #Trump's vow to investigate political rivals
In a wide-ranging interview with NBC News, Christopher Wray also broke with Trump over the former president’s characterization of Jan. 6 defendants as “hostages.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/fbi-director-rejects-trumps-vow-investigate-political-rivals-rcna149056
Via Gavin Newsom:
What Donald Trump’s version of “quite well” means (Image below.):
Biden-Harris HQ:
Embedded video:
#Trump: They tried to cancel Roe v. Wade for many years. We did it. It’s working out quite well, actually
#abortion
Via Andrew Weissmann said this last night. These are creative, and hopefully potentially effective, options:
#Trump #GagOrder options in addition to fine/jail:
- put a monitor over his use of social media posts
- hold sentence on a contempt finding until after trial over
- advise Trump that his contempt of gag order can be considered at sentencing upon conviction.
All can be used by Judge Merchan.
#Trump losing 17% of the vote in a closed swing-state primary to a candidate who dropped out months ago should lead to a lotta commentary about his weakness. It won’t, because the press is obsessed with Trumpers sticking with Trump regardless, but it should.
Imagine how they’d cover Dean Phillips pulling those numbers against #Biden.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/04/23/us/elections/results-pennsylvania-primary.html
I have to get my dad’s house cleaned out, which is gonna cost thousands of dollars. This guy showed up to pitch his services in a truck covered in fuck Joe #Biden and related stickers and it cost him real money. I’m sure it’s not the first time.
That’s your work truck, dude, and you service a county where #Trump got 36% of the vote.
These people are really not smart. #maga