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kpete's Journal"Stormy Daniel tried to take advantage of Trump by extorting him after he simply had an innocent conversation with her"
Trump's lawyer: "Stormy Daniel tried to take advantage of Trump by extorting him after he simply had an innocent conversation with her" 🤔Hmmm... well that's an extremely creative way to describe paying for sex with a Pornstar while poor Melania was pregnant of Barron😂, I guess Melania's following this trial very closely and Trump and his lawyer want to spare her the humiliation and all the juicy details.
https://twitter.com/Jurgen80048425/status/1782439084763357668
DA's Opening Statement: "This case is about a criminal conspiracy. Donald Trump corrupted the 2016 election"
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The first line of Colangelo's opening was, "This case is about a criminal conspiracy and a cover-up - Donald Trump corrupted the 2016 election." He said that it all began when Trump and Michael Cohen met with National Enquirer publisher David Pecker In August 2015 to suppress negative stories about Trump. He said that Trump gave Cohen $130,000 to pay Stormy Daniels to silence her. He covered up the payments by falsifying his business records.
Colangelo said that Trump's claim that the payments to Cohen were for legal services was a lie, and he falsified 34 separate invoices to cover up the fact that it was being done for election purposes. He said that Pecker served as the "eyes and ears" of the Trump campaign, keeping his eye out for stories that could hurt Trump so he could make him aware of them. This is what they called their "catch and kill" strategy. At the same time, Pecker was publishing positive stories about Trump is several different publications and running stories attacking his opponents.
Colangelo then gave several examples of stories they ran such as accusing Ted Cruz's father of being involved in the JFK assassination and Ben Carson of committing medical malpractice.
He then said that they carried out three separate "catch and kills":
1. A doorman for Trump was trying to sell a story that he had information that Trump fathered children with women. He was paid $30,000 and Pecker suppressed the story.
2. Former Playboy model Karen McDougal was shopping her story through her attorney that she had a year-long affair with Trump. Pecker paid her $150,000 and suppressed the story. However, Pecker later became upset about his because Trump wouldn't reimburse him.
3. The Stormy Daniels payment through Michael Cohen for $130,000 to cover up Trump's sexual encounter with the porn star.
Cohen then recorded a conversation with Trump about this and Colangelo said that tape will be played in court. He said Trump is on the tape saying they should pay in cash and label the payment "advisory services." However, Pecker's lawyer advised against taking the payment so it was never made. He said that they would present evidence in the form of a "flurry of text messages" and a "barrage of phone calls" to suppress the story.
MORE:
https://www.meidastouch.com/news/das-opening-statement-in-trump-trial
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NYT scoop: "David Pecker...is set to go first" as prosecution witness.
NYT scoop: "David Pecker...is set to go first" as prosecution witness. ⬇️
Pecker could be key witness - in ways more devastating than Michael Cohen.
This also indicates DA is foregrounding unlawful election influence for jurors.
https://twitter.com/rgoodlaw/status/1782070223190815115
I don't want to hear shit about the Ukrainian flag at the Capitol today; from the far right MAGA scum
https://twitter.com/cturnbull1968/status/1781820725600350384
"I was really not prepared for the sight of him in that courtroom today"
WATCH: "I've seen [Trump] in the White House and Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago, campaign trail, you name it. I've spent a lot of time with this man. And I was really not prepared for the sight of him in that courtroom today," says
@Olivianuzzi
https://twitter.com/allinwithchris/status/1781479557863768393
Takei tweet: Odor in the court!
https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1781438859093389549Zelensky: Today, we received the awaited decision on the US aid package that we long fought for.
And a very significant one. Our warriors on the front lines, as well as our cities and villages suffering from Russian terror, will feel it.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted on it today. I thank everyone who supported our package, this is a solution for protecting life. I personally thank Speaker Mike Johnson and all American hearts who believe, as we do in Ukraine, that Russian evil must not be winning. I am hopeful that the bill will be quite quickly passed by the United States Senate and sent to President Biden.
We appreciate every sign of support for our country and its independence, people, and way of life, which Russia is attempting to bury under the rubble. America has demonstrated its leadership since the first days of this war. Exactly this type of leadership is required to maintain a rules-based international order and predictability for all nations.
We will undoubtedly use American assistance to strengthen both of our nations and bring a just end to this war closer, the war that Putin must lose.
I thank our entire Ukrainian team and everyone who works tirelessly to bring this outcome closer. I am grateful to all of our country's representatives, diplomats working to strengthen support for Ukraine, all civil society members, every volunteer who works for Ukraine, and all of Ukraine’s friends around the world. I thank my team.
The world rallies behind Ukraine’s cause when Ukrainians rally behind independence.
https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1781763400629964834
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1781743983233745018
Guess Haberman will be in the camps with the rest of us.
Oh well.
The observation immediately went viral, provoking an irate denial from Trump’s campaign and reigniting the former president’s antipathy towards Haberman, who has been reporting on him for years. The resentment lasted the entire week, the sources add. It did not help Trump’s denial that he continued to doze off while seated in the Manhattan courtroom throughout the rest of the week. “Trump appears to have fallen asleep in court again,” Haberman wrote on Friday. “His eyes were closed for extended periods and his head dropped down twice.”
In recent conversations with Republican associates, Trump has repeatedly torn into Haberman and her CNN appearances, attacked her journalistic credentials, and bizarrely insisted that she was wrong about him falling asleep. Despite his dozing being widely reported, the former president has laid much of the blame for the detail going viral at Haberman’s feet. He was even observed glaring at her on Monday as he exited the courtroom following her CNN appearance.
https://www.eschatonblog.com/2024/04/but-they-were-such-good-friends.html
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-trial-mad-haberman-sketch-artist-1235007794/
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