When Trump responds to Cohen re Melania: "How long do you think I'll be on the market for. not long"
What Trump is saying is he's fine divorcing Melania and just finding the next wife. #michalecohen#hushmoneytrial
[NYTimes]: Susan Hoffinger, the prosecutor, picks up where she left off, with Michael Cohen on the verge of describing having made the hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels. She shows him a series of emails with Keith Davidson, who was Daniels’s lawyer in 2016. Davidson, who has already testified he was frustrated by a delay in receiving the payment, says in the email that it wasn't necessary for him to speak to Cohen, and that he just wanted to be paid. ..
As Trump’s classified docs prosecution goes forward, now w no pretense of trial before the election, Judge #Cannon appears poised to permit him to use pub hearings in the case to sound his campaign themes. 1/… #legal
@GottaLaff reading this makes me feel hopeless. Trump has us teetering on the edge of facism. A majority of SCOTUS is corrupt. This judge should have been removed months ago. Even the antics of the defendents attorneys in the #hushmoneytrial would never be tolerated as they have. Trump should be in jail for continuing to violate the gag order...😭
I'm not a criminal lawyer nor a legal commentator, however, I have a gut feeling that, in retrospect, today could be a turning point in the #HushMoneyTrial...
[NYTimes]: Susan Necheles, the defense lawyer, has lodged objection after objection. Objections are meant to either cut off testimony or have it stricken from the official record entirely. We can’t tell you exactly what her rate of success has been, but it’s way higher than normal. The judge is accepting her objections and disrupting Stormy Daniels’s testimony. By Jonah Bromwich
[NYTimes]: Stormy Daniels says that during her dinner with Trump, she asked about his wife. He told her, she says, not to worry because the two did not “even sleep in the same room.” Trump and Melania were married in 2005, the year before this encounter. By Jonah Bromwich
[NYTimes]: Stormy Daniels is now talking about meeting Trump for dinner. She says that when he first emerged from his hotel suite, he was wearing “silk or satin” pajamas, which Daniels compared to those often sported by Hugh Hefner. She asked him to change, and he returned in more standard dress clothes. By Jonah Bromwich
[NYTimes]: It was clear this morning before the courtroom opened that today would be different. Many reporters anticipated that Stormy Daniels was likely the next witness, and the lines formed earlier. By Maggie Haberman
[NYTimes]: Live Updates: Stormy Daniels Is Expected to Testify in Trump’s Trial
Ms. Daniels, who received $130,000 in hush money to keep silent about her story of having had sex with Donald J. Trump, is at the center of the case against him.
[NYTimes]: Trump, who has largely avoided looking at Hicks during her testimony, locks his eyes on her as she starts to cry. By Kate Christobek
Bove has a tough job here. His client is furious with Hicks. And Bove will have to impeach her credibility or otherwise disrupt her testimony without coming off as too aggressive and alienating sympathetic jurors. The prosecutors are now leaving the room hastily, looking somewhat concerned. By Jonah Bromwich
[NYTimes]: As we mentioned earlier today, this is going to be a tricky cross-examination for the defense lawyer, Emil Bove, especially with a vulnerable witness. And Hope Hicks just began to cry. By Jonah Bromwich
[NYTimes]: Hope Hicks is now describing the initial Wall Street Journal article about the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels. She says she cannot recall certain facts about this period, including a conversation with Michael Cohen. But she says if the prosecution has something to refresh her memory, she is willing to look at it. She has gotten considerably more nervous-looking again, clenching her jaw and stumbling a bit in her speech.
Its getting heated.. [NYTimes]: We know this, but it’s still amazing to hear Hope Hicks say it aloud: During the period where she was texting with Michael Cohen about the Wall Street Journal story and the damage it could potentially cause, the presidential election was three days away. Jonah Bromwich
[NYTimes]: Hope Hicks refers to Trump as “Mr. Trump.” Notably, she says she’s paying for her own lawyer. She says the last time she spoke to Trump was in the summer or fall of 2022.By Maggie Haberman
Someone who's this angry about being rejected as a #juror after being caught lying about past criminal charges is exactly the type of person who shouldn't be on the #jury. This guy clearly had an agenda, and was rightly dismissed. Great work by #JudgeMerchan and the prosecutor!
#Trump wants to call #MichaelCohen a liar in court, but he doesn't want jurors to know that the lie Cohen told was at the direction, and for the benefit of Trump. This is called having your cake, and eating it, too.
The #media seems hell-bent on endangering the lives of prospective #jurors, and destroying any chance of assembling an #impartialJury to evaluate the case against #Trump. Even after #JudgeMerchan admonished the media for exposing the identities of potential jurors, resulting in the dismissal of at least two seated jurors, they continue to publish identifying information about them. This isn't #journalism.
Trump Forced to See Mean Memes About Him Shared by Prospective Jurors (www.rollingstone.com)
Seven jurors were selected for Trump's hush-money trial as others were dismissed for sharing negative memes and social media content about him.