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Hope breaking down as soon as the defense started questioning her about Trump isn't a great look for him in front of the jury...
Yeah, I'm not so sure. She's either afraid or feels like it's a betrayal of him.
She's speaking very consistently about how Cohen often went rogue. Reallllllllly interested how redirect is going to go here. I'm pretty sure she's the prosecution's witness, and that's intimation about Cohen going rogue, Cohen wanting to be a fixer and do stuff that will help Trump without formally being part of the campaign makes it sound like Trump never told Cohen to do what he did.
I'll point out, too, that Cohen's representation is that Trump was like a mob boss and that he always spoke in code. You were supposed to do the right thing by Trump even if he didn't say it to you directly. The defense here wants to basically say Cohen did this completely on his own, and Trump never really ordered it, and that the payments were simply Trump paying him for various legal services, which Cohen (on his own) represented as being reimbursement for what he did with the Stormy story.
lol
View: https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1786481917728083975
Reporter: What was it like to see Hope Hicks?
Trump: So I'm not allowed to comment on any of that as you know I'm under a gag order
View: https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1786481917728083975
Reporter: What was it like to see Hope Hicks?
Trump: So I'm not allowed to comment on any of that as you know I'm under a gag order
Oh no. Maybe he'll get hit for another 1k.
That will certainly show him.
I did see this, but I don't know how reliable this person is (or who they are).
View: https://x.com/AWeissmann_/status/1786479393323225560
Why Hicks is such a devastating witness against Trump: 1. Hicks makes clear Trump knew of the Cohen payoff scheme to Daniels.
2. Even if you believe his statement to her that he only learned after the fact.
3. Her testimony sinks Trump's defense since he is on record in a civil case admitting that he reimbursed Cohen the $130,000.
4. Hicks establishes that Trump knew that money was for Daniel's silence- not for the claimed legal fees for ongoing legal work by Cohen.
Hicks suggests that #2 was a lie by Trump to her (because she testified that Cohen was not a charitable kind of guy who would keep his good deed to himself), but it does not matter- even if the jury believes Trump only knew later, he knew PRIOR to making all the reimbursement payments to Cohen.
And Hicks' crying on the stand makes it that much clearer that she does not want to be implicating her former boss-- the DA is making the case, as the J6C did, through Trump loyalists.
Andrew Weissmann is 100% reliable, former assistant US Attorney etc., often provides legal commentary on MSNBC.
Ah! Excellent, thanks for the info! Extra nice to see this is his takeaway, in that case.
Weissman was one of the lead investigators on the Mueller Investigation, too.
You should listen to his podcast Prosecuting Donald Trump.
She's done and has been excused. DA opted not to redirect after cross was over.
Same thing with Pecker. He gave very convincing testimony in large part because he still speaks fondly of Trump and doesn't hold the same vitriol as Cohen. That's the goal of the prosecution here, in that the defense's sole argument is that Cohen is a liar and has an axe to grind. The DA is relying as much as they can on others' testimony to prove their case.
Stormy, when she pulled back the veil.
Trump in court, court of slumber
Pecker and Hicks, their faces wet
Trump, eyes red, mouth gagged
Scavino with ears burning, fingers moving
DJT, when the stock fell
Trump in court, court of slumber
Pecker and Hicks, their faces wet
Trump, eyes red, mouth gagged
Scavino with ears burning, fingers moving
DJT, when the stock fell
Off topic, so I apologize, but this just reminded me that a few years back, one of the last comic conventions I went to before the pandemic shut everything down, Jason Momoa was there signing autographs, and he was standing around, and dude is fucking huge in person! I mean, I'm a short guy, so most folks are tall to me (XD XD), but still, I was actually taken aback by how tall he was. I can't remember if he was wearing boots, but he seemed significantly taller than 6'4" lol. I have friends that tall, but he definitely was taller than that XD
Same with Shaqueille O'Neil! I served him popcorn and a drink while him and Ian Zeiring were in line back when The Phantom Menace was playing at the theater I worked at, and, yeah, some of these dudes are legit giants in person.
You think you can "gotcha" Trump that easily? He called John Eastman "the leading Constitutional scholar in the country", because he was willing to say that the Constitution said Pence could crown Trump. I doubt he'd have any trouble naming a "scholar", whether it's Alina Babba or John Barron. Or Cricket the dead dog.
I come to this thread for phisheep, I stay for
Looks like Trump violated the gag order again according to the midastouch podcast
View: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0WawD4vLe6eyUWEpv1DOYR?si=8769aa3c61a14582
View: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0WawD4vLe6eyUWEpv1DOYR?si=8769aa3c61a14582
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Day 12 starting in about 15 minutes. No idea which witness we will get.
I guess there will be a lot of press on their case to fix it - fingers crossed.
I guess there will be a lot of press on their case to fix it - fingers crossed.
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If he sets foot in a prison cell the meltdown on the right will be a feast. I'm ready to eat.
Is incarceration for contempt typically a defined time period or for the duration of the trial?