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GottaLaff

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Bite me, Musk.

Progressive political commentator (print, radio, podcasts) for years. I post a lot: breaking news + legit info you can use, prone to snark. My mini Australian Labradoodle, Hamilton, has trained me well.

Now where's my trough of wine? 🍷🇺🇸🇨🇦

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NEW 🧵 starts HERE.

Please remember I don’t reply while live-posting. Plz use NFL (Not For Laffy, but no hashtag) so I can ignore those replies.

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.

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103/ Klasfeld:

Steinglass says he's happy to make a sealed record of more salacious details that are "highly corroborate," yet not put into the record, so as to "avoid embarrassing the defendant."

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104/ Press:

Prosecutor: We went out of our way to avoid some of the salacious details, to not embarrass the defendant with the details of the sexual act. At one point she was asked did you feel anything difference. She was going to say, I felt the skin of a 60 year old man

Prosecutor: We could put in an exparte submission of more embarrassing details we omitted, to not embarrass the defendant. Ms McDouglas was on our witness list but we never said we intended to call her

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105/ lol

Emptywheel:

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Please force Steinglass to make this a judicial record, Todd Blanche. I beg of you.

Adam Klasfeld:

Steinglass says he's happy to make a sealed record of more salacious details that are "highly corroborative," yet not put into the record, so as to "avoid embarrassing the defendant."

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106/ McB:

"Please have a seat so I can render my decision," Merchan says to Blanche, who had stood up to argue.

Merchan says he went back to his previous decisions side-by-side with the transcript to make sure that everyone had followed his guidelines.

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107/ Klasfeld:

Judge:

Mr. Blanche, you denied that there was a sexual encounter between Stormy Daniels and the defendant.

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108/ Klasfeld:

Merchan notes that Blanche made that remark in opening statement, leaving a controversy for the jury about whom to believe.

McB:

Your denial puts the jury in a decision of choosing who they believe: Donald Trump or Stormy Daniels. Prosecution doesn't have to prove a sexual encounter occured, they have a right to rehabilitate Daniels' credibility, which was immediately attacked in Blanches opening statement

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109/ McB:

Merchan sua sponte (of his own accord) objected to the trailer park comment, and struck it from the record.

Following the court's own objection, Merchan notes, Necheles began to object with some frequency, and virtually all were sustained.

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110/ Klasfeld:

Justice Merchan notes that Trump's lawyer didn't object to objectionable remarks multiple times:

"There were many times, not once or twice, when Ms. Necheles could have objected, but didn't."

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111/ McB:

On the blacking out comment, for some reason, I don't know why, you went into it ad nauseam on cross-examination, Merchan says, drilling it into the jury's ears over and over.

Bower:

What's more, the witness immediately said that there was no coercive force and that she didn't feel threatened. And Necheles elicited that same testimony over and over again on cross, he observes.

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112/ Klasfeld:

Merchan notes that, at a sidebar conference, prosecutors wanted to bring in a 2019 documentary about Roger Ailes called "Bombshell," addressing the sexual harassment scandal.

The judge immediately ruled he wouldn't let that in.

"I did that to protect your client," he says.

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113/ Bower:

I agree the detail about the condom should not have come out, Justice Merchan says. But "for the life of me" I don't know why Ms. Necheles didn't object.

Yikes.

What's more, the witness immediately said that there was no coercive force and that she didn't feel threatened. And Necheles elicited that same testimony over and over again on cross, he observes.

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114/ Klasfeld:

"Your motion for a mistrial is denied," Justice Merchan announces.

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115/ Klasfeld:

Trump exits.

See you tomorrow morning.

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@Wileymiller Snicker!

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@Darxyanne You're so welcome

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@GeePawHill Thanks GeePaw! xo

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@PattyHanson Thanks!

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@MicrobeRust YVW!

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"The first invasive brain chip that Neuralink embedded into a human brain has malfunctioned, with neuron-surveilling threads appearing to have become dislodged from the participant's brain, the company revealed in a blog post Wednesday."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/elon-musks-neuralink-reports-trouble-with-first-human-brain-chip/

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starts HERE.
Please remember I don’t reply while live-posting. Plz use NFL (Not For Laffy, but no hashtag) so I can ignore those replies.

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….

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@pseudonym YVW!

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WELL. Now that THAT'S over (), I'm going to get back to revising finishing touches on Part 3 of my Canada blog for those interested. I hope to post it today.

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