Separately, that civil case hearing about the bond has wrapped up quickly enough:
AGREEMENT REACHED: Kise says they'll agree to maintain the Schwab account in cash and give Knight exclusive control of the account. Under a previous agreement, a Trump trust shared control. Seems like this will moot the AG's challenge to the bond.— Rachel Scharf (@rscharf_) April 22, 2024
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 April 2024 15:28 (one week ago) link
"I have a spoiler alert: There’s nothing wrong with trying to influence an election," Blanche says. "It’s called democracy."
― scott seward, Monday, 22 April 2024 15:34 (one week ago) link
this guy is fun:
"It seems as if Blanche will seek to convince the jury that everything that happened was appropriate and done by the book, not even worthy of notice. That Cohen was Trump’s lawyer, and he was paid for legal services. But he’ll also seek to distance his client from the matter: “President Trump had nothing to do with the invoice,” he says."
― scott seward, Monday, 22 April 2024 15:36 (one week ago) link
xpost Big 'how do you do fellow kids' energy there.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 April 2024 15:36 (one week ago) link
i will prove that he WAS my client's lawyer but that there is no such thing as a lawyer!
― scott seward, Monday, 22 April 2024 15:37 (one week ago) link
The thing to remember -- I've said it before -- is the thing Trump hates most in the world is losing, and if he feels he's losing he'll do anything to distract from it. You see it happening. You see him fiddling with his chips before he flips the table.— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) April 22, 2024
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 April 2024 15:39 (one week ago) link
soooo, if their defense is just: this wasn't a hush money payment and michael cohen is a liar then..they are cooked, right? they aren't even going to bother defending the election stuff. because they can't. their only shot is for the jury to...be really really dumb.
― scott seward, Monday, 22 April 2024 15:59 (one week ago) link
Burden of proof is always the prosecutor's to make but it does seem like they have most of the cards.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 April 2024 16:19 (one week ago) link
PECKER TO THE STAND.
― scott seward, Monday, 22 April 2024 16:21 (one week ago) link
Hahaha
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 22 April 2024 16:22 (one week ago) link
they are not dumb:
"Merchan stops testimony, says he realizes jurors weren’t given writing materials to take notes. At least 10 raise their hands when asked if they’d like some."
― scott seward, Monday, 22 April 2024 16:24 (one week ago) link
this is going to be a pretty crazy trial.
― scott seward, Monday, 22 April 2024 16:25 (one week ago) link
great characters. The Fixer. The Rag King. The Porn Star. The Orange Boss.
― scott seward, Monday, 22 April 2024 16:29 (one week ago) link
Tom Wolfe is very upset that he's dead right now.
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Monday, 22 April 2024 16:35 (one week ago) link
ICYMI pic.twitter.com/YnXm2V5Nj0— a horse child is born (taken out for gallops) 🫏🐀 (@BinAnimals) April 22, 2024
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 22 April 2024 16:42 (one week ago) link
He’s not the only one tbrr
― tobo73, Monday, 22 April 2024 16:43 (one week ago) link
xpost LOL
so badly faked it loses half a letter grade but still funny
i wonder if news networks gave guidelines for how to report on pecker
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Monday, 22 April 2024 16:52 (one week ago) link
so the defense's argument is essentially "this should not be a crime"??
― frogbs, Monday, 22 April 2024 17:12 (one week ago) link
yes
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 22 April 2024 17:17 (one week ago) link
Just heard a woman reporter on Sky News say, "Pecker is going to be huge".
― Not waving but droning (Tom D.), Monday, 22 April 2024 17:18 (one week ago) link
it's the 'catch and kill' part that isn't a crime; it's the down-ballot ramifications wrt the election and that doing c&k was in service of interfering w the election
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 22 April 2024 17:18 (one week ago) link
Epner with a solid point earlier:
I'm reading the live blogging of Todd Blanche's opening statement and looking for one thing: Does Todd Blanche saying something along the lines of "You don't have to like Donald Trump to reject the charges in this case." I have not seen Blanche say anything like that yet.FPOTUS may have barred Blanche from saying it. Without having been privy to their strategic discussions, I'm virtually certain that Blanche & Necheles want that to be said during the opening. It is what every defense counsel says in a case where the defendant has some fleas on him.The prosecution has objected to three separate portions of Blanche's opening (which is rare). Each of those objections has been SUSTAINED (meaning the judge ruled for the prosecution and against Trump).This is horrible for Blanche's credibility with the jury, in my training & experience.
I have not seen Blanche say anything like that yet.
FPOTUS may have barred Blanche from saying it. Without having been privy to their strategic discussions, I'm virtually certain that Blanche & Necheles want that to be said during the opening. It is what every defense counsel says in a case where the defendant has some fleas on him.
The prosecution has objected to three separate portions of Blanche's opening (which is rare). Each of those objections has been SUSTAINED (meaning the judge ruled for the prosecution and against Trump).
This is horrible for Blanche's credibility with the jury, in my training & experience.
He implicitly notes that this is in contrast to the prosecutors being upfront about Cohen's own flaws, and hazarded a guess as to how their closing argument could go. But yeah, Trump BEING Trump, having to at any point admit a flaw seems like a no-go so he wouldn't let his lawyers do that either, and FWIW, this suddenly becomes a clear running line across ALL his legal cases, essentially hiding in plain sight. He never fails, is only failed, etc.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 April 2024 17:18 (one week ago) link
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, April 22, 2024 12:18 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
had Trump just paid out of his own pocket, is it likely that nobody knows who Stormy Daniels is today? or were there enough people poking around Trump's finances that someone might've figured it out?
― frogbs, Monday, 22 April 2024 17:31 (one week ago) link
Trump’s motorcade left the courthouse just after 1:05 p.m., wrapping up the trial’s first day of testimony. The view was blocked by an N.Y.P.D. dump truck, to many reporters’ great frustration.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 April 2024 17:36 (one week ago) link
>had Trump just paid out of his own pocket, is it likely that nobody knows who Stormy Daniels is today? or were there enough people poking around Trump's finances that someone might've figured it out?
aiui there will be testimony centered around why payments went thru cohen and not direct from trump or trump org
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 22 April 2024 17:39 (one week ago) link
the thing Trump hates most in the world is losing
I don't think this is right. Maybe it depends what losing means. What he hates is not being the centre of attention. Losing isn't so bad (why would you take up so many battles otherwise?) as long as you get to keep fighting (with his ideologically fanatical associates, elected or not, also more interested in fighting than winning generally) and being the CoA.
― nashwan, Monday, 22 April 2024 18:01 (one week ago) link
Why does the NYPD have a dump truck
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 22 April 2024 18:32 (one week ago) link
that's where they put all the skells, second story men, sneak thieves, and peepers.
― scott seward, Monday, 22 April 2024 18:34 (one week ago) link
xpost maybe it was a police officer w/ a big ass
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Monday, 22 April 2024 18:35 (one week ago) link
Special Sanitation Unit
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 22 April 2024 18:35 (one week ago) link
they are literally for the purpose they were used today: mobile barriers. they get used during parades. they are managed by nypd counterterrorism. weird fuckin city.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 22 April 2024 18:38 (one week ago) link
apparently they are filled with sand to help them absorb explosions. oy vey.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 22 April 2024 18:40 (one week ago) link
who isn't?
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Monday, 22 April 2024 18:43 (one week ago) link
Is there a Law and Order episode where they find a body in the sand truck?
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Monday, 22 April 2024 18:51 (one week ago) link
lmao xp
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 22 April 2024 19:04 (one week ago) link
What he hates is not being the centre of attention.
He also seems to take great pleasure in humiliating others.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 22 April 2024 19:50 (one week ago) link
seems very illegal
NEW: Trump valet Walt Nauta was allegedly told “if even if he gets charged with lying to the FBI, FPOTUS will pardon him in 2024” — per cooperating witness Person 16Nauta is now a co-defendant in the Trump classified docs case, charged with obstructionhttps://t.co/EZoHEanEDB pic.twitter.com/KQnh7hWWWQ— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) April 22, 2024
― frogbs, Monday, 22 April 2024 21:40 (one week ago) link
FPOTUS
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 April 2024 22:04 (one week ago) link
i too FPed POTUS
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Monday, 22 April 2024 22:07 (one week ago) link
Gotta say I am somewhat gobsmacked by the defence narrative - “it was just a piece of routine business to conceal his actions, you know, so voters wouldn’t be influenced by knowing what he’s really like”.
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 22 April 2024 22:08 (one week ago) link
Scraping FPOTUS Off the Wheel
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Monday, 22 April 2024 22:48 (one week ago) link
You’ve Got FPOTUS On Your Breath
― steely flan (suzy), Monday, 22 April 2024 22:50 (one week ago) link
any good anagrams for Walt Nauta. i suck at anagrams.
― scott seward, Monday, 22 April 2024 22:51 (one week ago) link
W/ TAUT ANAL
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Monday, 22 April 2024 22:55 (one week ago) link
WATTA LUNA
― Ippei's on a bummer now (WmC), Monday, 22 April 2024 22:57 (one week ago) link
a twunt, AAL
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 22 April 2024 23:03 (one week ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/wjGhyYS.jpeg
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 22 April 2024 23:30 (one week ago) link
I won't be said if Cohen falls down an elevator shaft 30 seconds after the last time he testifies against Trump.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 00:01 (one week ago) link
xp Tuna at Law
― jaymc, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 01:04 (one week ago) link
Cohen is even dumber than his former boss. Why on earth would you tweet that during a trial at which you're the flawed star witness
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 03:05 (one week ago) link