#Trump has a huge posse today, including #KashPatel; #GerryKassar, a #conservative party leader in NY; #BernieKerik, fmr NYPD commissioner who was imprisoned for tax fraud & false statements; #AlanDershowitz, lawyer who defended Trump during his first impeachment, & #BorisEpshteyn, legal adviser who was #indicted in AZ for attempts to keep Trump in power after the 2020 election.
#Blanche notes that #MichaelCohen bragged to people about being Trump’s personal atty, & that some of the work he did for #Trump was actual legal work.
That was the first time Blanche came anywhere close to the actual case — the 34 falsified business documents — but of course he moved on.
Blanche tries several times to illustrate that Cohen did legal work for the Trump family in 2017 e.g. #Melania Trump’s agreement w/Madame Tussauds wax museum.
#MichaelCohen also recalls asking #Trump how #Melania might take it. He describes Trump's reply as follows: "He goes, 'How long do you think I'll be on the market for? Not long. He wasn't thinking about Melania. This was all about the campaign."
Cohen's description of Trump expressing fear that the #StormyDaniels story could poison him w/female voters is important, but uncorroborated. It's the first time a witness has attributed concerns about the scandal hurting the election directly to Trump.
#MichaelCohen says that he believed that at this point in the narrative, just weeks before the 2016 election, he could no longer delay making the payment to #StormyDaniels.
Cohen is shown a text message #Melania#Trump sent him on 18 Oct, 2016:
“Good morning Michael, can u pls call DT on his cell. Thanks.”
He replied: “Of course.”
The timestamps on the texts show that he responded to Melania’s message within 30 seconds.
This shows how attentive Cohen was to the #Trumps.
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.
#Westerhout is testifying about how important #Trump's wife, #Melania, is to him, echoing #HopeHicks as she says they had a relationship of "mutual respect" & Trump cared a lot about his wife's opinion. "There was really no one else who could put him in his place," she laughs, addressing the jury directly. "He was my boss but she was definitely the one in charge."
Then Westerhout starts to cry as she recounts her experience of being forced out of the WH for being indiscreet.
Mendacious misanthrope Trump reposted this on his laughably titled Truth Social site.
Has nobody told Melania that her husband is a five-time draft dodger who mocks POWS, calls our war dead “suckers” and “losers,” insults Gold Star families, and attempted to overthrow U.S. democracy. #Trump#Melania
#NationalEnquirer fmr publisher David #Pecker’s testimony is expected to conclude today. He’s already spent 3 days on the stand.
#Trump, addressing reporters before entering the courtroom, wished his wife, #Melania, a happy birthday on camera. Then entered the courtroom where he’s on trial for falsifying records to silence 2 women about having extramarital affairs w/him to hide it not from her but from his evangelical Christian electorate. JFC
#Melania Trump sponsored her mother to #immigrate to the #UnitedStates through a family-based process that #Trump aggressively sought to end, acc/to federal #immigration records released Mon.
The records detail for the first time the full path that the fmr first lady’s mother, Amalija Knavs, followed from Slovenia to the #US — & how the Trump admin’s policies would have made that far more difficult for others.
#Melania Trump used a #legal pathway that #Trump & his top advisers repeatedly disparaged as “chain migration,” the right of US #citizens to bring their parents to the #UnitedStates. #Federal#law since 1965 has said #US citizens may apply to bring minor children & parents to join them in the United States w/o having to wait a long time for a #visa. Citizens may sponsor siblings & adult children, but they typically wait longer for #visas.
(Painters slowed me down. I'm catching up...patience)
Via InnerCityPress aka Press:
Habba: My client & I wish to pt out Ms Carroll can sit in front of jurors every day. But my client has to choose between attending his mother in law's funeral--
Judge Kaplan: I have ruled. Sit down
Habba: I don't like to be spoken to that why. Please refrain. I am asking for an adjournment for a funeral.
Judge Kaplan: Denied. Sit down
If presidents have ultimate immunity, regardless of constitutionality, as #trump is claiming (and #scotus refuses to correct), can #biden , the current president, nullify the 2024 election without correction by SCOTUS?
Can he throw out the congressional investigation of impeachment proceedings, or the one into his son? Can he appoint the heads of military which #tuberville is delaying, unilaterally?
Can he imprison #gaetz for an ugly face? Can he deport #melania ? Can he declare himself king?
😳Why Is the National Archives Hosting #Melania#Trump at a Naturalization Ceremony for New Citizens? - Melania Trump Welcomes You to America, for Some Reason
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
-The Presidential Oath of Office
Now Trump’s defense it that he never swore an oath to support the constitution
Having Republican leaders is the same as being in an abusive relationship.
Repugnant Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis gives a big F U to Florida residents as he ignores President Biden's visit to hurricane ravaged Florida to bring disaster relief money!
Ahead of President Joe Biden’s Saturday tour of Hurricane Idalia’s damage, DeSantis’ office refuted the president’s claim that he would be meeting with the governor during the visit, claiming it would negatively impact the recovery efforts in the state. #AureFreePress#News#GOP#Politics#USA
On the off-chance #DeSantis becomes the #republican nominee, as was true with #Trump and #Melania, most #GOP votes from the assholes and morons of #TheThurd will be cast by #white males who see themselves as having a chance at gettin’ some sugar from Mrs DeSantis. #Republicans are basically just delusional, #racist ball sacs.
On Dec 2, 2021, the now-defunct Make America Great Again Again super PAC (run by #Trump toadies former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and Kimberly #Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr.’s fiancée) paid #Melania Trump $155,000. Not by name.
The occasion: a fundraising dinner at Mar-a-Lago “for a party of about 40 people.” Why? “Choosing tableware, arranging settings and picking floral arrangements.”