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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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GottaLaff, to random
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Federal appeals court upholds Steve ’s contempt-of-Congress conviction | CNN Politics https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/10/politics/steve-bannon-appeal-denied/index.html

GottaLaff, to Ukraine
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US to announce new $400 million military aid package for

The package includes new Patriot missiles, Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, Bradley fighting vehicles, MRAPs, Javelin anti-armor systems and other munitions.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/10/us-ukraine-military-aid-russia-00157299

GottaLaff, to TeslaMotors
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🤨Elon Changes Tune on Superchargers After Mass Firing

Last week, he dismissed virtually the entire charging division

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-10/elon-musk-changes-tune-on-tesla-superchargers-after-mass-firing

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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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16/ Pagliery:

Effective lawyering from the DA's office. Necheles tries to bring up Trump's 2016 GOP candidate travel schedule, but prosecutor Becky Mangold interjects & questions Westerhout.

Turns out her lawyer just showed them to her this morning. Judge stops it from entering evidence.

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17/ Press:

👉🏼Justice Merchan: The motion to introduce this into evidence is denied.
Trump's lawyer Necheles: You were asked about how checks were sent, right?
Westerhout: Yes.

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18/ Bower:

Now Necheles asks Westerhout about the process of getting the checks to Trump.

Sending things to the White House were slow, right? Yes.
There was lots of security? Yes.
You found out that some of his personal items sent to the White House were never received? Yes.

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19/ Bower:

With this line of questioning, Necheles is trying to tell the jurors that there are other reasons why Trump's personal mail--the checks--would be sent to Keith Schiller or John McEntee instead of the White House.

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20/ Bower:

So it was a way to get items quickly to Trump? Yes.
Was it your understanding that getting items promptly to the president of the United States was a problem for previous administrations? I don't have knowledge of that, but I can't imagine it would be any different.

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21/ Press:

Necheles: You didn't give packages to Ivanka Trump?
Westerhout: I didn't.

Bower:

If Trump had time, he would sign the checks? Yes if he had time and if he was in the office.
And he had a tremendous amount of things to sign? Yes.
Would you see him signing things without reviewing them? Yes.
You saw him sign checks without reviewing? Yes.

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22/ Press:

Trump's lawyer Necheles: He signed a lot of things. He felt if people were getting his signature they should get his real signature, right?
👉🏼Justice Merchan: Sustained. Stricken from the record.
Necheles: He signed checks while on the phone?
Westerhout: Yes.

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23/ Leave it to Pagliery:

Westerhout is being quite the friendly witness for the former president, happily agreeing with Necheles' descriptions of him being a very busy man who multitasked all day, signed everything by hand, and couldn't possibly read everything he signed.

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24/ NOTE: I’m taking my Mr. Blowdryer break now. I will catch you up when I return.

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25/ I'm back, and Mr. Blowdry has waved the white flag again.

Catching you up now via this handy copy/paste from thread reader!

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1788902135058268502.html

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26/ Via Bower from the above recap:

Good news for the reporters who are shivering in the overflow room: The prosecution says it only has two more witnesses today, and they will be relatively brief. So we expect to wrap up with today's witness testimony by lunchtime (around 1 pm).

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27/ And this from Bower recap:

The next witness is Georgia Longstreet, America's favorite paralegal, who is back to provide testimony on Donald Trump's social media usage.

We see a Trump post on Twitter form April 21, 2018, in which he says that a "third rate reporter named Maggie Haberman, known as a Crooked H flunky who don't speak to," is going out of her way to destroy Michael Cohen in the hopes that he will "flip."

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28/ Bower:

Another Trump tweet from August 22, 2018 (after Cohen pleaded guilty to federal charges):

"If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I strongly suggest that you don't retain the services of Michael Cohen!"

(Not bad advice, actually!)

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29/ re "damning posts", Pagliery:

She also read these out loud. Keep in mind, NYT reporter Maggie Haberman is in the courtroom.

The former president's long-running and openly combative relationship with reporters adds a weird dimension to this trial.

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30/ Press:

Prosecutor [after showing a tweet praising Paul Manafort for, by contrast, not flipping] Is this a three tweet thread?
Longstreet: Yes. May 3, 2018.
[Thread about NDA payment, "campaign contributions played no part in this transaction"]

Prosecutor: Who redacted these text messages?
Longstreet: I did.
Prosecutor: Please read them?
Longstreet: This is from Gina Rodriguez to Dylan Howard: Stormy Daniels was his mistress... She will talk under two conditions

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31/ Bower:

More Trump tweets about Cohen. This one is from May 3, 2018, and it's the tweet in which Trump specifically concedes that Cohen was "reimbursed" for the Daniels payment.

Mr. Cohen, an attorney, received a monthly retainer, not from the campaign and having nothing to do with the campaign, from which he entered into, through reimbursement, a private contract between two parties, known as a non-disclosure agreement, or NDA. These agreements are.....

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32/ Bower:

The prosecution now instructs Longstreet to read a series of text messages into the record. They are messages between Stormy Daniels' manager, Gina Rodriguez, and the National Enquirer's Dylan Howard.

The texts were previously admitted into evidence: https://pdfs.nycourts.gov/PeopleVs.DTrump-71543/Evidence/People/4-30-2024/People's%20171A%20(Howard-Rodriguez%20Texts%204.7.2016-10.26.2016).pdf

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33/ All caught up.

This from Josh Gerstein from 20 mins ago:

Trump typically ignores the press as he walks through the courtroom for a break, but just now he leaned over and gave a friendly tap to Fox News personality Judge Jeanine Pirro, who's seated near the aisle

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34/ Pagliery:

The paralegal read this one too.

No one laughed, but reading these one after the other comically show just how sharply Trump turned on his former legal adviser.

Great lawyer! What? Never mind!

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35/ Press:

Prosecutor: Read these please, from July 31, 2016
Longstreet: Gina R to Dylan H: Whatever happened with the Stormy Daniels interview? Then on August 8, 2016, Call me
Prosecutor: And these?
Longstreet: Dylan H to Gina R: He likely will pay. How much? Gina R: 250K

GottaLaff, to Canada
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🇨🇦For those interested, finally, Part 3 of my series is done. Parts 1, 2 are linked in Part 3 but just in case, I'm linking here too.

This is for anyone interested in why, how we managed to get permanent residency.

Everyone else, ignore, although you may find it interesting regardless.

Part 3: https://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2024/05/im-moving-to-canada-part-3-its-happening.html

Part 1: https://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2024/01/im-moving-to-canada.html

Part 2: https://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2024/01/im-moving-to-canada-part-two-how.html

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@jadag88 You are my exact audience. You are who I’m trying to help.

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@CuriousMagpie So kind, thank you for getting it

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