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
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
Via Kyle Griffin:
Breaking:
#Trump just refused to commit to accepting the results of Wisconsin's presidential election in November if he doesn't win and again lied that he won the state in 2020.
Trump also repeated similar language to what he said on Jan. 6: "If everything's honest, I'd gladly accept the results. If it's not, you have to fight for the right of the country."
#TrumpTrial 🧵starts HERE. #Trump #legal
PLEASE NOTE: I likely can’t reply while live-posting. Adding NFL (Not For Laffy) helps! Thx.
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Via Andrew Weissmann:
Court about to begin. The defense table, from left to right: Blanche, the defendant (ie Trump), Bove, and Necheles (notably farthest from Trump). Gaggle of photographers shoot Trump, inches from his face: he maintains an implacable and dour expression. ADA Josh Steinglass and his team now enter: Steinglass is very much the lead here.
#TrumpTrial 🧵 Thurs, May 2
charges are falsifying business records to hide #HushMoney payments in lead up to 2016 election to #influence electorate
just one Trump supporter at the courthouse draped in a Trump flag.
#StormyDaniels's lawyer, #KeithDavidson, to return to stand. He negotiated the hush-money payment at the center of the case, & is expected to lay out details of the deal.
#criminal #law #Trump #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #KarenMcDougal
Via Angry Staffer:
It’s about time the media is starting to report on Trump’s cognitive decline.
If he can’t stay awake during his felony trial, how are we supposed to trust him to handle a national security crisis?
#Biden-Harris HQ:
Reporter: #Trump is sleeping in court. It is 100 percent true. I’ve seen it. People around him have confirmed to me that he has been sleeping
👀 “Google and Twitter recently provided hundreds of files to #Michigan prosecutors for their 2020 election subversion probe, complying with search warrants that investigators obtained after CNN revealed secret social media accounts belonging to pro-#Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, who played a major role in the fake electors plot.” #legal
*Double take*
Via Rupar:
#Trump on the #PanamaCanal: "They violated the agreement. We're gonna take it back, or something very powerful is going to happen."
NEW #TrumpTrial 🧵 starts HERE. #Trump #legal 1/...
McBrien:
Merchan is back on the bench, Davidson is on the stand, and the jurors have returned.
Emil Bove for the defense begins the cross.
WTF.
Via Anna Bower:
NEW: The #Georgia Court of Appeals will take up #Trump’s immediate appeal of lower court order that declined to disqualify Fulton County district attorney #FaniWillis. #legal 1/…
Via Kyle Griffin:
More than 128,000 Indiana Republican primary voters cast a ballot for Nikki Haley yesterday — even though #Trump clinched the nomination two months ago.
Haley is on track to win more than 21% of the primary vote.
NEW #TrumpTrial #Trump #legal 🧵 starts HERE. 1/...
Klasfeld:
We're back.
Trump's attorney Susan Necheles hands over "a stack of news articles" by legal commentators like Jonathan Turley, others. She says Trump wants to post them, but she wants to make sure they do not violate the gag order.
"We think that they are perfectly fine."
Prosecutor:
🤔👉🏼"It seems odd that they're asking the court for an advanced ruling" on these sorts of things.
Via NPR's Tom Dreisbach:
New investigation:
Dozens of fed judges attended wk-long seminars at luxury retreats -receiving free rms, free meals, free $ for travel worth 1000s - & failed to fully disclose as required.
Judges w disclosure issues incl some big names.
Aileen #Cannon, currently presiding over #Trump’s docs case, attended 2wk-long seminars at lux resort near Yellowstone Nat Park...failed to upload disclosure w/in 30 days as required.
Court said it was an “inadvertent” omission.
Via Kyle Griffin:
Judge Chutkan has received threats.
Judge Berman Jackson has received threats.
Judge Merchan has received threats.
Judge Engoron has received threats.
AG James has received threats.
DA Bragg has received threats.
DA Willis has received threats.
Despite that, #Trump attacked Judge Merchan at length during his Waukesha rally, calling Merchan — without evidence — "crooked" and "totally conflicted."
#Trump says #police raid on university #protesters 'beautiful to watch'
Trump, at a rally in Waukesha, #Wisconsin, called for tougher action against campus protests & again suggested some of the protesters were paid actors. He called on college presidents to “remove the encampments immediately, vanquish the locals & take back our campuses for all of the normal students.”
#Protests #CollegeProtests #Israel #Gaza #Palestinians
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-heads-wisconsin-michigan-after-being-hit-with-gag-order-fine-2024-05-01/
#TrumpTrial 🧵starts HERE. #legal #Trump 1/…
👀Via Katie Phang:
Interestingly: Eric Trump has accompanied his father to court today. Perhaps Trump’s legal team heard all of the chatter about the appearance to the jury with no family members being present?…
Reporter: What was it like to see Hope Hicks?
#Trump: So I'm not allowed to comment on any of that as you know I’m under a gag order
And via Rupar, apparently the evil Jews are behind everything! They're after me!
"They've been after us for years ... being sucked dry ... Soros-backed ... they're all lawyered up" -- Trump goes on a paranoid rant after his trial ends for the week
Via MuellerSheWrote:
Yeahhhh that’s not what that means.
