Paging Roberta Kaplan!
Via Meidas Touch:
#Trump defames #EJeanCarroll again
Acyn:
Trump appears to go after E. Jean Carroll again:
"He [the judge] gave a person, I have no idea who she is, 91 million dollars. This is a corrupt system we're in."
Paging Roberta Kaplan!
Via Meidas Touch:
#Trump defames #EJeanCarroll again
Acyn:
Trump appears to go after E. Jean Carroll again:
"He [the judge] gave a person, I have no idea who she is, 91 million dollars. This is a corrupt system we're in."
trololol.. even on his "own" social platform, #Trump had to remove 9 posts that violated a gag order
He really shouldn't be on the internet...
or running for president..
or speaking...
or even existing!
Testimony started w/a bang last week as David #Pecker, the fmr publisher of The #NationalEnquirer, said that he had entered into a secret plot w/ #Trump & #MichaelCohen to #CatchAndKill negative stories about Trump as he ran for president in 2016.
#GaryFarro, the 3rd to testify, started off w/dry details about banking transactions. But #Farro is leading us to the #HushMoney payment
#criminal #law
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/30/nyregion/trump-hush-money-trial?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
🤦🏻♀️ His lawyer must have given him a pop-up children’s book on how it works.
Just now, via Jennifer Taub:
So, does that mean he is going to testify? Did he forget what he said to the press yesterday?
Reporter: Is the gag order stopping you from testifying?
#Trump: No. It won’t stop me from testifying. The gag order is not for testifying. It stops me from talking about people and responding when they say things about me..
#TrumpTrial #Trump #legal 🧵STARTS HERE. 1/…
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😂 See my previous post, just before this one, in my TL
Pagliery:
The judge starts out be making an odd clarification about his gag order.
He says that despite the restrictions on what Trump can say *outside* the courtroom, he can absolutely testify from the witness stand.
Trump lawyer Todd Blanche thanks him.
@lisamelton
Lisa, at your discretion:
@Nonilex has been live-tweeting #Trump trial, in a very newbie-friendly, easy to understand way, especially if you can't read all previous threads to catch up.
From the boost count, leadership looks lower than what she deserves. I suspect it's just that people don't know about her feed. If you boost her once, I think people would become aware and could decide which live feed to follow.
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/112377413008408639
Up to you.
#TrumpTrial starts HERE. #Trump #legal
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1/… Bower:
Trump enters the courtroom. Before arriving, he lingered for a moment in the doorway, talking to his lawyers, Emile Bove and Todd Blanche. He had a piece of paper in his hand, which he waved around as he spoke.
Wait for it….
Lawrence O’Donnell:
“We had a monster in the presidency not because of Donald #Trump, but because of the people who voted for Donald Trump and because of the people who worked for Donald Trump’s campaign to get him there. You get monsters like Donald Trump thanks to people like Hope Hicks.”
Via Kyle Griffin:
President #Biden is traveling to Racine County, Wisconsin today to unveil a $3.3 billion investment by Microsoft to build an AI data center in the state.
This is the same location where, seven years ago, #Trump touted a $10 billion Foxconn facility as the "eighth wonder of the world."
That facility never fully materialized.
#TrumpTrial Thurs 9 May, 2024 🧵
The prosecution asks that the defense be precluded from asking #StormyDaniels whether she was arrested. Justice #Merchan agrees w/the prosecutors, saying that “anybody can be arrested” & that it “doesn’t prove anything.”
The people call Stormy Daniels back to the stand
#Trump atty #Necheles begins questioning by saying that in 2011, Daniels denied having had sex w/Trump.
#law #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney
Don Harwood responds to New York Times editor Joseph Kahn, who says that the attack on democracy represented by Trump is not the premier campaign issue:
"Donald Trump is the first American presidential candidate to explicitly threaten the democratic system on which a free press depends. He could win. Considering the stakes for the country, that ought to be the campaign issue that dwarfs all others."
Via Jim sciutto:
So the opposing political party is a greater danger than 2 nuclear-armed superpowers strategically invested in weakening the US & bringing down the international system it built w its allies over 80 years? The trouble is, he apparently truly believes this - and Moscow & Beijing will absolutely celebrate and take advantage.
#Trump: "Your problem is from the left, it's not from the right ... from within our country ... that's in my opinion a bigger danger than China and Russia."
NEW #TrumpTrial 🧵 starts HERE. #Trump #legal
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1/
McB:
...At 2:14 p.m., Trump walks in, entourage in tow.
Boris Epshteyn just handed a piece of paper with a photo on it to Kaitlan Collins.
I thought he maybe said "Conway" to her, but I'm not exactly sure.
Via Adam Schiff:
People are losing respect for our system of justice because a Speaker of the House stands outside a courthouse to falsely denigrate it.
If you have no respect for the rule of law, Mr. Speaker,
At least have some self-respect.
Aaron Rupar:
Speaker Mike Johnson is outside #Trump's trial offering a stream of lies
Via Kevinly Father on Twitter:
The Republican party is literally suing to prevent legal votes from being counted.
Bartiromo: I see that the RNC is filing a lawsuit in a battleground state to stop counting ballots past election day.
Lara #Trump: Yeah. Well, that's exactly right. You cannot have ballots counted after elections are over.
Via Kyle Griffin:
White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates on #Trump's gestapo remark:
"Instead of echoing the appalling rhetoric of fascists, lunching with Neo Nazis, and fanning debunked conspiracy theories that have cost brave police officer their lives, President #Biden is bringing the American people together around our shared democratic values and the rule of law — an approach that has delivered the biggest violent crime reduction in 50 years."
Wow.
Via Acyn, who has video:
Ari Fleischer: #Trump needs to talk about Judge Merchan’s daughter.
McDowell: I think that violates the gag order
Kayleigh: No, he can criticize the judge
Via Kyle Cheney:
BREAKING: Judge MERCHAN has just quashed #Trump's effort to subpoena Mark Pomerantz, former prosecutors in Bragg's office. https://www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/press/PDFs/DM-PomerantzSubpoena.pdf
Federal Appeals Court Upholds #SteveBannon’s #Contempt #Conviction
Stephen# Bannon, a longtime ally of #Trump, had been found #guilty of defying a subpoena from the House #Jan6 committee.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/us/politics/stephen-bannon-contempt-upheld.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
#TrumpTrial 🧵 starts HERE. #Trump #legal
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1/
Pagliery:
Today's session starts with prosecutors asking for a sidebar with the judge. Lawyers on both sides are now discussing something in hushed tones.
#TrumpTrial Friday 10 May 2024 🧵:
Madeleine #Westerhout testimony resumes
A fmr White House aide who worked closely w/ #Trump returned to the stand to testify about a significant meeting between Trump & #MichaelCohen his personal lawyer that is at the center of Trump’s #criminal trial.
Cohen is expected to testify Monday.
#law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics #GagOrder #StochasticTerrorism #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal #NodFarter
Word-slaw.
#Trump: The case is not about all of the other stuff you’ve been seeing because we’re using that to attempt, it’s had no impact because it’s so old, attempt to do something to me politically
#TrumpTrial 🧵starts HERE. #Trump #legal 1/…
Bower:
Justice Merchan starts off will the prosecution motion for contempt.
He tells Trump he's about to issue his ruling, in which he will again find Trump in contempt of court.
The last thing I want to do is put you in jail, Justice Merchan says to Trump. You are the former President of the United States and possibly the next President as well.
But "going forward," he continues, "this court will have to consider jail sanctions" if necessary.
Via Lisa Rubin:
Former #Trump Org. comptroller Jeff McConney is now off the stand, but centerpiece of his direct exam wasn't even something he said. It was handwriting he recognized, specifically that of Allen Weisselberg, on doc
It's Weisselberg's handwriting McConney testified, in which Weisselberg sketched out the plan to repay Cohen = $180k for the Stormy payment and another, unrelated $50k, doubled to "gross up" Cohen for tax purposes, & w another $60k on the top for a "bonus" #legal