Trump’s history-making hush-money trial begins ...(Mod Warning)

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'Trump wanted to avoid Stormy Daniels hush money payment by delaying it past election, DA alleges'

• Former President Donald Trump wanted to avoid paying $130,000 in hush money to a porn star by delaying that payment until after the 2016 presidential election, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg alleged.
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• Trump told his then-lawyer that if they could hold off on the transaction, then they wouldn’t have to pay at all, because “at that point it would not matter if the story became public,” according to Bragg.'
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• The allegation came in a statement of facts that was made public alongside the 34-count indictment against Trump.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/05/tru...void-stormy-daniels-hush-payment-da-says.html

 

DA alleges. That's not proof. Allegations are nothing until proven.

 

$420,000 for what legal services during the 12 months in 2017?

 

I’m not talking to you.

 

"allegations" are for civil charges
"accusations" are for criminal charges.

Emails and texts showing Trump wanted Cohen to keep delaying paying Stormy because if she talked after the election it wouldn't matter.
All about the election.
Have you not read Bragg's "statement of facts"?

 

Not difficult since they have him on tape.

Or haven’t you been paying attention?

 

"Jamal" how telling. /s

'Exclusive: Ex-tabloid publisher David Pecker 'swatted' on day of Trump trial testimony'
Source: Reuters

May 6, 2024 5:09 PM EDT Updated 12 hours ago


'May 6 (Reuters) - Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, who testified at Donald Trump's criminal trial last month, was targeted in a fake emergency the same day he took the stand in New York, according to police records seen by Reuters. The previously unreported April 25 "swatting" incident, or filing of a false report to trigger a potentially dangerous response, is one in a wave of violent threats against U.S. officials and other public figures in recent years.

A person using the name "Jamal" claimed in an email to a local newspaper that he had tied up his wife in the basement and killed his wife's lover. Jamal gave the address of the crime as Pecker's home in Greenwich, Connecticut. "I ****ed up really bad," Jamal wrote. "Please help me."

The incident report by the Greenwich Police Department said when police were alerted to the email they were already aware of Pecker's home address due to his "being involved in a highly publicized trial." "A check ... revealed no emergency," said the report, which was seen by Reuters through a records request. "The email was likely a swatting by proxy attempt." Reuters was unable to confirm whether any arrests were made.'

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ex...tness-trump-trial-swatting-target-2024-05-06/

 

Good luck with that.

 

Haven't heard that one. What's the source?

 

He claims that he’s following the trial like a madman. I’m skeptical.

 

It's playing out quite well in the courtroom, thank you.

 

Wrong...

"[Hicks’s] testimony makes plain Trump did so knowing that they were not payments for legal fees. And for that reason, the jury need not decide whether Trump knew of the scheme at the time (as Hicks strongly intimated) or only learned of it later (as he claimed to Hicks), since in either scenario, Trump knew of the scheme prior to making the reimbursements.

In other words, either way Trump is rather screwed. Now he can’t claim he never knew about the payoff, because by at least 2018 he admitted it to Hicks. After that point, anything he did to help cover it up was illegal."

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/did-hope-hicks-help-sink-trump

 

Todd Blanche, again and again and again, to Judge Merchan,

"I will talk to him"

'Trump caught ‘cursing audibly’ during Stormy Daniels testimony'

"In a private sidebar, Judge Merchan told Trump’s defense attorney that Trump was cursing and shaking his head during direct examination of Stormy Daniels. “It has the potential to intimidate the witness,” the judge said. Harry Litman and Lisa Rubin discuss. May 7, 2024

@ 1:20 video..
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/...-during-stormy-daniels-testimony-210464325964

 

Written by a Berkeley leftist.

 

https://apnews.com/united-states-government-ba711c493edd4cf480d4a11096887ddf

 

Why don't you post something written by a Heritage Foundation fascist to counter it?

 

All speculation. Nothing definite in there.

 

Heritage Foundation is filled with great Americans. You sound like you would be the expert on fascism.

 

I've read the fundamentals of their anti-Constitution 2025 project; they are the fascists. They are enemies of OUR Constitutional Government BY THE PEOPLE.

 

Conservatives are people. Don't you support democracy?

 

Yes. I've sworn that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

TRaitor tRump and those that support and enable him are a threat to These United States, OUR Constitution and Government BY The People.

 

Oh, bull. We both claim to support the Constitution. Maybe one of us is confused and indoctrinated. Is that possible?

 

All I know is I do; AbsaByGodLutely!

I think you've shown your cards in a word ... "claim".

You can't support tRaitor tRump and his tyranny against U.S. and the Constitution and the Constitution. No matter what you "claim".

 

I don't think you can explain what the tyranny against the US and the Constitution consists of. Go ahead.

 

Stormy is a hoot...
Loved the interview with Kimmel...
For a great laugh fast-forward to 8:55