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
trump
#TrumpTrial 🧵 starts HERE. #Trump #legal
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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.
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 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
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New #TrumpTrial 🧵starts HERE. #Trump #legal 1/…
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Inner City Press (aka Press):
They're back.
Trump's lawyer Blanche: Half an hour ago, we learned who the next witness is - and we have some objections. Invoices from Michael Cohen are not business records of the Trump Organization. If she stamped them, sure
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Katie Phang:
NEW: The Manhattan DA’s Office advises Judge Merchan that they expect to be done with their case-in-chief two weeks from tomorrow.
#TrumpTrial #legal #Trump
#HillaryClinton: I’ve Debated #Trump & #Biden.
It is a waste of time to try to refute Trump’s arguments like in a #normal #debate. It’s nearly impossible to identify what his arguments even are. He starts w/ #nonsense & then digresses into blather.
#vote #BidenHarris2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/opinion/hillary-clinton-trump-biden-debate.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2U0.xlUu.Brtundb4MZQ_&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
It’s Trump’s Party Now
Following the installation of Trump’s daughter-in-law, the #RNC has hired a 28-yr-old fmr bikini model as its new spox. Elizabeth Pipko, who has posed for SportsIllustrated, Maxim, & Esquire, a longtime admirer of #Trump, previously worked on his 2016 campaign. “The things he’s been through have been unreal. A lot of people look at what he’s up against every day & see his real character”
[I can hear her eyelashes batting in that quote]
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rnc-hires-ex-bikini-model-as-its-new-spokesperson-report
As I was unable to do a #TrumpTrial 🧵 today, here’s a #GiftArticle on the day’s proceedings:
“After 2 wks of enthralling jurors w/stories of sex & scandal, prosecutors delved into the documents at the heart of Trump’s #criminal trial on Mon, a pivotal turn in the case that came on the same day the judge held #Trump in #contempt & threatened to #jail him.”
Emptywheel:
Tommy Tuberville says he went to Gotham to help an accused felon threaten a judge's family.
Via David Lurie:
Tuberville is a bad co-conspirator.
Aaron Rupar:
Tommy Tuberville admits on Newsmax that "one of the reasons he went" to NYC yesterday was to "overcome this gag order" #Trump #GagOrder
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NEW #TrumpTrial 🧵starts HERE. #Trump #legal
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1/… First, via Lawrence O'Donnell:
J.D. Vance was on the phone the entire time. He wasn’t taking in a word of testimony. Tuberville, to his credit, looking straight ahead, taking it all in as best he can, whatever sense he can make of it
👀 Via Katie Phang:
NEW: Judge #Cannon enters an Order “temporarily staying” the requirement for #Trump to have to file his CIPA Section 5 notice in the MAL classified #documents case.
Sec. 5 requires Trump to disclose to the Government the classified materials he intends on using at trial. #trial
Mary Trump: 'Republican Geoff Duncan, the former Lt. Governor of Georgia, endorsed President Biden in a scathing op-ed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
“Unlike Trump,” he writes, “I’ve belonged to the GOP my entire life. This November, I am voting for a decent person I disagree with on policy over a criminal defendant without a moral compass.”
https://marytrump.substack.com/p/endorsement-of-biden-burns-donald?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2 #Trump #GeoffDuncan
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Roger Parloff did a 🧵on #Trump #documents trial. Sigh.
As Trump’s classified docs prosecution goes forward, now w no pretense of trial before the election, Judge #Cannon appears poised to permit him to use pub hearings in the case to sound his campaign themes. 1/… #legal
Huh. Imagine that.
👀
IRS Audit of #Trump Could Cost Former President More Than $100 Million
The tax agency concluded in its long-running investigation that Trump effectively claimed the same massive write-off twice on his failed Chicago tower. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-audit-chicago-hotel-taxes
#TrumpTrial 🧵starts HERE. #Trump #legal
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1/…More color from Pagliery:
Eric Trump just swapped seats with Rep. Donalds just in time for the congressman to appear in photos behind Trump's defense table.
That's what this trial is now for Trump, a political photo opp.
More...
#TrumpTrial Tues 14 May, 2024 🧵
#Trump has his posse again. Today it’s more #Republican elected officials. Today, Trump will be joined by the #House speaker, #MikeJohnson, as well as #NorthDakota’s governor, #DougBurgum, a contender to be Trump's running mate. Also present will be Representatives #ByronDonalds & #CoryMills of Florida, & #VivekRamaswamy, who was one of Trump's primary rivals this year. Both Donalds & Ramaswamy are longshot hopefuls to be Trump's running mate.
#TrumpTrial #Trump #legal 🧵starts HERE.
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Tyler McBrien::
Necheles rises to renew Trump's objection to Daniels testifying about any "sexual details," which she says has no relevance and is prejudicial.
By details, Merchan asks, more than just "we had sex"? Yes, Necheles says.