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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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So glad they ended the early today. We have another house showing, so that reallllllly helped.

Next week will be crazy. I hope the interruptions will be minimal. 🤞🏼

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@oldsfgirl Hoboy, you said it.

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Biden administration won’t conclude Israel violated terms of US weapons agreement, AP sources say

https://apnews.com/article/us-israel-gaza-war-nsm-international-law-c83b6f39ce2799e5d2c473a337e2f857?taid=663e4a81a33af10001442295&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

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“offshoot variant called KP.2 is taking off. The variant, which made up just 1% of cases in US in mid-March, now makes up over a quarter.

…But Dr. Ho has conducted early lab tests in cells that suggest that slight differences in KP.2’s spike protein might make it better at evading our immune defenses and slightly more infectious than JN.1.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/well/covid-flirt-variants-symptoms.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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Wow.

Via Acyn, who has video:

Ari Fleischer: needs to talk about Judge Merchan’s daughter.

McDowell: I think that violates the gag order

Kayleigh: No, he can criticize the judge

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For your reading pleasure, via Xitter:

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Orange Turd
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#TrumpTrial 🧵 starts HERE. #Trump #legal

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/

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.

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47/ Bower:

Jarmel-Schneider is a 20-something guy with a mop of curly brown hair. He wears a suit and striped tie.

And he's here to talk about reports and summaries he created using the phone records obtained by the DA's office.

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48/ Bower:

Schneider talks about excel spreadsheets. And time zones. And how prepared his summaries of the cell records.

As he testifies, Trump sits at the defense table, reading documents, which he occasionally marks with yellow highlighter.

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49/ Press:

Prosecutor: Is People's 340 calls between Michael Cohen and David Pecker?
Paralegal: Yes.
Prosecutor: Is People's 349 calls between the Defendant and Michael Cohen?
Paralegal: Yes.
Prosecutor: Move to admit.
Trump's lawyer Blanche: No objection.
Admitted

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50/ Klasfeld:

He's been called to submit a chart illustrating what the phone records show.

Once released, this will be an important exhibit.

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51/ More fun from Pagliery:

While lanky, tall Jarmel-Schneider prattles off about phone call entries, I'm still thinking about the way Longstreet (who's maybe 24?) used this utterly dismissive tone to bat away questions from Trump's legal team.

She's say "yes" but it sounded like, "yeah, so?"

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52/ Press:

Prosecutor: What are People's 1 through 34?
Paralegal: Checks and invoices.
Prosecutor: Move to admit this summary chart.
Trump's lawyer Bove: Objection to this, can we have a sidebar, please
[Sidebar]

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54/ Bower:

Prosecution pulled up one of the summaries created by Schneider. It's calls between Cohen and Weisselberg. It shows a series of call between the two, including calls on Oct. 23, 2016, and Oct. 25, 2016. (The full exhibit will be released sometime later today).

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55/ LOL, Trump is trying so hard to look like he's doing something important, but he's basically been given busy work to keep him from getting held in contempt again.

Via Press:

[Trump continues flipping through and writing up papers during the sidebar. Then;]
Justice Merchan: We'll resolve your objection as discussed at the bench.
Prosecutor: When we are ready to display the summary chart - People's 350
Bove: As modified, no objection

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56/ Klasfeld:

Trump's lawyer Emil Bove cross-examines the witness, asking whether the rather painstaking work of putting vast reams of data together was tedious.

"Honestly, I kind of enjoyed it," the witness says, to laughter.

Bove: "I hear that. Respect." (laughter)

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@tshirtman ✔️

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57/ Press:

Trump's lawyer Bove: From 2018, there are about a page and half of calls cut?
Paralegal: I don't know.
Bove: Look at the government's exhibit list of April 16, 2024. Look at 336 and 337 - some pages were deleted - was this after our cross of Davidson?
A: What?

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58/ Bower:

Bove questions Schneider about his summaries and the underlying data. He asks if Schneider recalls the "IMEI number" of a particular phone.

Schneider smiles again, but this time his expression seems to
👉🏼say "Are you kidding me?"

"It's like a 20-digit code..." he replies.

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59/ Bower:

There are no calls between Hope Hicks and David Pecker reflected in these records, right?

I'm don't think that's correct, but I would need to look at the logs.

At one point, Bove pulls up an exhibit showing a series of IMEI numbers of various phones.

IMEI numbers are associated with a physical phone, right?

👉🏼I think you're displaying the wrong column, Schneider says. But yes, that's right.

👉🏼Laughs in the overflow room.

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60/ Press:

Bove: Now CP1 is using another IMEI - do you remember what Mr. Dixon said?
Paralegal: I don't want to contradict him
Bove: Nothing further

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61/ Press:

Re-direct
Prosecutor: Why did we shorting the charts?
Paralegal: To incl only what came up at trial. We're pretty well down the road, s...
Pros: Earlier you wanted to explain - what did you want to say?
Paralegal: Mr. Bovay, Bove, sorry, it was AT&T
Prosr: Do people sometimes get a new phone but keep the same phone #?
Paralegal: I do.
Pros: Nothing further
Bove: You're just speculating, right?
Paralegal: The importance of the call is the time stamp.
Bove: The recording cuts off

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62/ Pagliery:

Today's testimony ends with a closer look at the AT&T "toll" records that reflect an incoming call that cut off a voice recording Michael Cohen was making of his boss, Trump.

Prosecutors don't have another witness lined up. Jury's getting sent home early for the weekend.

The judge reminding the jury to follow the rules and stay silent about the case when 👉🏼some chatting caught his attention.

👉🏼"Are you done?" he said, annoyed.

Was Trump mouthing off again?

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63/ Bower:

Schneider is done. He basically went toe-to-toe with Bove on cross. And he was very endearing.

My editor weighs in on the America's Favorite Paralegal battle: "I love these kids and want to hire them all."

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64/ Klasfeld:

That does it for another week of witness testimony in Trump's criminal trial.

Assistant DA Joshua Steinglass says he plans to call two more witnesses:

"I think it's entirely possible that we will rest by the end of next week."

[Me: Monday is Michael Cohen... no idea who the other is]

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@Wileymiller Can't. We have open house tomorrow, so that's a day of crazy.

Sunday, hopefully.

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