#Trump isn't handling being a 34x #felon very well. In just a few hours, he dropped a DOZEN delusional video screeds on his personal social media platform. Lots of "I DID NOTHING WRONG!" and "I'M A POLITICAL PRISONER!!!" He referred to Allen Weisselberg as an "honest and respected bookkeeper", and went on a tangent about his "perfect NDAs". This is a sick man whose mind is collapsing before our very eyes.
“Black people are flocking to #Trump like monkeys gathering on his porch. Oops, wait, that’s not what I meant. I’m just saying Trump loves the Blacks and the Blacks love Trump, so we should all be chucking spears at Trump’s haters together! What—what did I say?” ~#EricTrump
These are truly sick individuals. #Trump's crimes are #JoeBiden's fault. Trump's trial is #Biden's fault. Trump's conviction is Biden's fault. And now, the threats to the safety of the jurors by Trump and his supporters are Biden's fault. I cannot wrap my head around such brazen and absurd projection, and abandonment of objective reality. These are, unquestionably, the most dishonest people to ever walk the Earth.
#TrumpSupporters outside the Manhattan courthouse aren't taking the 34 #guilty verdicts well. One was just screaming "FUCK YOU!", while his buddy told everyone that their children were all dead, and some woman screamed, "1776!!!" over and over again. I really hope #lawEnforcement has these people on some list.
[NYTimes]: Listening to this portion of testimony underscores something we’ve said here before, but it bears repeating: David Pecker was a very damaging witness for the defense. And the efforts to detract from his testimony during cross-examination only seemed to make him more defiant as a witness. By Maggie Haberman
#Trump's 19th century #racism is in full effect following the end of his #hushMoneyTrial. He's now making overt references to where #JudgeMerchan "comes from" in his daily screeds against the judge, the court, and everyone who's doing their job and holding him accountable for his crimes. Even for Trump, this is uniquely disgraceful. Trump is a blight on our country, and a danger to the world. Don't vote for him.
When Trump responds to Cohen re Melania: "How long do you think I'll be on the market for. not long"
What Trump is saying is he's fine divorcing Melania and just finding the next wife. #michalecohen#hushmoneytrial
[NYTimes]: Susan Hoffinger, the prosecutor, picks up where she left off, with Michael Cohen on the verge of describing having made the hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels. She shows him a series of emails with Keith Davidson, who was Daniels’s lawyer in 2016. Davidson, who has already testified he was frustrated by a delay in receiving the payment, says in the email that it wasn't necessary for him to speak to Cohen, and that he just wanted to be paid. ..
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
@GottaLaff reading this makes me feel hopeless. Trump has us teetering on the edge of facism. A majority of SCOTUS is corrupt. This judge should have been removed months ago. Even the antics of the defendents attorneys in the #hushmoneytrial would never be tolerated as they have. Trump should be in jail for continuing to violate the gag order...😭
I'm not a criminal lawyer nor a legal commentator, however, I have a gut feeling that, in retrospect, today could be a turning point in the #HushMoneyTrial...
[NYTimes]: Susan Necheles, the defense lawyer, has lodged objection after objection. Objections are meant to either cut off testimony or have it stricken from the official record entirely. We can’t tell you exactly what her rate of success has been, but it’s way higher than normal. The judge is accepting her objections and disrupting Stormy Daniels’s testimony. By Jonah Bromwich
[NYTimes]: Stormy Daniels says that during her dinner with Trump, she asked about his wife. He told her, she says, not to worry because the two did not “even sleep in the same room.” Trump and Melania were married in 2005, the year before this encounter. By Jonah Bromwich
[NYTimes]: Stormy Daniels is now talking about meeting Trump for dinner. She says that when he first emerged from his hotel suite, he was wearing “silk or satin” pajamas, which Daniels compared to those often sported by Hugh Hefner. She asked him to change, and he returned in more standard dress clothes. By Jonah Bromwich
[NYTimes]: It was clear this morning before the courtroom opened that today would be different. Many reporters anticipated that Stormy Daniels was likely the next witness, and the lines formed earlier. By Maggie Haberman
[NYTimes]: Live Updates: Stormy Daniels Is Expected to Testify in Trump’s Trial
Ms. Daniels, who received $130,000 in hush money to keep silent about her story of having had sex with Donald J. Trump, is at the center of the case against him.
[NYTimes]: Trump, who has largely avoided looking at Hicks during her testimony, locks his eyes on her as she starts to cry. By Kate Christobek
Bove has a tough job here. His client is furious with Hicks. And Bove will have to impeach her credibility or otherwise disrupt her testimony without coming off as too aggressive and alienating sympathetic jurors. The prosecutors are now leaving the room hastily, looking somewhat concerned. By Jonah Bromwich
[NYTimes]: As we mentioned earlier today, this is going to be a tricky cross-examination for the defense lawyer, Emil Bove, especially with a vulnerable witness. And Hope Hicks just began to cry. By Jonah Bromwich
[NYTimes]: Hope Hicks is now describing the initial Wall Street Journal article about the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels. She says she cannot recall certain facts about this period, including a conversation with Michael Cohen. But she says if the prosecution has something to refresh her memory, she is willing to look at it. She has gotten considerably more nervous-looking again, clenching her jaw and stumbling a bit in her speech.