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Kyle Cheney on Twitter wrote:UPDATE: BLANCHE says witnesses he calls are unlikely to go beyond Monday (though he says they're stil discussing possible Trump testimony). Merchan tells parties to be prepared to begin closings on Tuesday.

https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1791201326405497027

If interested, this is a Twitter list of journalists covering the Trump trial. Consulting (or following) this list page will show you tweets from all of them. If you're already following on Twitter, I'm sure you have your favorite sources already, including names we're all familiar with. But this is...

I'd hate to think what this photo would look like if Trump decided the latest fashion was tying a severed cow penis to your forehead and wearing a green neon jumpsuit. Cow ... penis? I mean, maybe if a BULL, but COW? Does not compute. Funny, but... I expect better, is what I'm saying. You're right,...

Rolodex wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 11:24 am Some funny person labeled this the "Reservoir Lapdogs."

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm on Twitter wrote:I'd hate to think what this photo would look like if Trump decided the latest fashion was tying a severed cow penis to your forehead and wearing a green neon jumpsuit.

Legal detail I did not know from the Times Live Blog: Cohen did not say that Trump personally falsified the records, or even that he explicitly instructed someone else to do so. He did, however, testify that Trump knew the records would disguise the reimbursement as ordinary legal expenses. Cohen’s ...

Best wishes for your recovery! I have wanted for some time to add my voice to the chorus of appreciation for your expert and informative posts.

For anyone interested, NM courts created a "high profile cases" page, which has docket items for cases stemming from the Rust shooting (the only "high profile" cases so far): https://nmcourts.gov/news/high-profile-cases/ There are now multiple motions to dismiss from Team Baldwin...

Think it's referring to this, filed by the joint defendants June 1, 2018 in the action to release Daniels from the NDA (ultimately dismissed as moot). https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Cohen_6.1_Objection_stay.pdf The context of this in-court admission, as I understand it: T...

Thanks, that's helpful. I'd like to read the brief, and that snippet probably supplies enough information to identify the case and download the pdf, but I think I'll wait and see if it surfaces. ... Think it's referring to this, filed by the joint defendants June 1, 2018 in the action to release Da...

Kendra wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 10:58 am CNN reporting that Cohen on stand next week, I think Monday.

On the MeidasTouch video above, guest Karen Agnifilo said she could almost guarantee that prosecution would not put Cohen on on a Friday, leaving the whole weekend for folks to overanalyze everything he said.

Michael Popok is an insufferable windbag. He really does put bagpipes to shame. As one who had to listen to bagpipes at 2AM when I was reenacting, that's a tall order. Reminds me of the time a rude neighbor came banging on my door at 3AM. 3AM! Who does that? It was just lucky for him I was still up...

Thanks, that's helpful. I'd like to read the brief, and that snippet probably supplies enough information to identify the case and download the pdf, but I think I'll wait and see if it surfaces. It's a helpful piece of evidence, but I'm not sure how admissions and potential collateral estoppel from...

https://twitter.com/AWeissmann_/status/1788604752030208488 Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads)🌻 @AWeissmann_ Notes from 100 Centre St: KEY ADMISSION --on redirect the state elicits that Trump admitted in a CA legal case that he, Trump, reimbursed Cohen the $130,000 hush money. If anyone knows...

NECHELES: “Even though you had agreed that you would not discuss this supposed story and you had received a lot of money for that agreement, you then decided that you wanted to publicly say that you had sex with Donald Trump.” DANIELS: “No, nobody would ever want to publicly say that”. I wanted to ...

Washington Post now in on the pdf transcript act as well. Just keeping up with the Times, I guess: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/transcripts-trump-hush-money-trial/ May 7 pdf: https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/ceb063c4-0c31-40fc-9805-5e093f3a6449.pdf Glad these are ava...

Shad beats the NYT to a May 7 pdf. (Though NYT pdf conversion seems a bit more elegant, omitting Next/Prev from the court's online pages).

p0rtia wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 2:10 pm I have not heard stay (and I've been looking). Media doesn't give a shit, just assuming.

Wednesdays are no trial days. Cross begins tomorrow. Cross examination of Daniels did start on Tuesday; it will resume Thursday. FWIW (maybe not much) Jonathan Alter for New York Times opined that in some ways she did better against the harsh questions than on direct: Stormy Daniels Stood Up Well t...

Lisa Rubin @lawofruby ... I also found that a very eloquent thread from Lisa Rubin, highglighting the sometimes overlooked metoo aspect of Daniels' encounter that resonates beyond the salacious details. TPM's Kovensky also noted this and here's another comment in this vein from NYT's Jessica Bennet...

I just learned the New York Times is publishing the trial transcripts in pdf form. This looks to obviate the need to rely on the yeoman services of Shad Riley (85 followers including me) to convert them. Root page for the transcripts: https://www.nytimes.com/article/trump-hush-money-trial-transcript...

Interesting observation from TPM's Josh Kovensky: Here’s a problem with Daniels’ testimony, as I see it at the current moment: it’s at least somewhat obvious that she is taking joy in belittling Trump. This doesn’t necessarily go to the veracity of what she’s saying. It could all be true, she could ...

Please help me out here. If most of those checks were written on Trump's personal account , how are they business records? That may be a defense to many/most of the criminal counts. I thought the claim was that every one is a payment of an invoice to the Trump org for "legal services" and...

Please help me out here. If most of those checks were written on Trump's personal account , how are they business records? That may be a defense to many/most of the criminal counts. I thought the claim was that every one is a payment of an invoice to the Trump org for "legal services" and...