NEW #TrumpTrial THREAD STARTS HERE 🧵 #legal #Trump 1/...
Anna Bower:
Trump has returned to his seat in courtroom 1530.
Keith Davidson is back on the stand.
Here we go!
trump
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Hope Hicks is back on the stand.
Merchan: "Good afternoon Ms. Hicks. Remember you're still under oath."
Via Kyle Griffin:
Breaking: An appeal's court has denied #Trump's request to delay the hush money [election interference] trial.
Trump sought a delay because Merchan refused to recuse, because he couldn't invoke an immunity defense and because the judge made his team file motions with a delay to allow for redactions. #legal #TrumpTrial
I wonder if #Trump would have jumped through all these hoops to kill Stormy Daniels' story if she hadn't said he was the worst lay she's ever had.
Via BlackKnight10K on Twitter:
Has there ever been someone who has been so totally disconnected from everything they just said in the previous sentence.
Trump: he's rushing this case
Also Trump: they've never sat in court so long
Acyn:
#Trump: You have a judge who is totally conflicted and he's rushing this case through. Some people somebody just told me they never sat for such a long period of time in a court house before. It’s ridiculous. #TrumpTrial
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."
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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.
"After severe flooding in non-evacuated areas in Texas has left at least 24 dead with dozens more missing, including several young girls at a summer camp, Texas officials are blaming their failure to act on a faulty forecast by Donald Trump’s new National Weather Service gutted by cuts to their operating budget and most experienced personnel."
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Trump #weather #Texas #flooding #NWS
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/texas-officials-blame-agency-gutted
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@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.
“Kristi #Noem said a migrant threatened to kill #Trump. Investigators think he was set up”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/29/politics/kristi-noem-migrant-arrested-threatening-trump?cid=ios_app
#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.
Edited 1y ago
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."
In October, we published secret recordings of Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term.
It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism, our editor-in-chief writes.
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-russell-vought-prophetic-trump-second-term?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post