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#Trump was 60 at the time of this meeting, & #StormyDaniels was 27.
Daniels says that Trump asked further about testing for STDs
She told him she picked adult film production companies because of their contraceptive requirements & could show him her complete records & that she never had a bad test result.
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney
Jurors are seeing the infamous photo of #StormyDaniels & #Trump at the golf tourn.
Daniels says that she was approached by “Keith,” [Keith Schiller] Trump’s bodyguard who asked her to dinner. She says he took her number, though she refused the invitation.
Daniels says her initial reaction to Trump’s invitation was, “Fuck No!”
After she rejected Trump’s dinner request, her publicist told her to accept saying it'll be a great story, & what could possibly go wrong.
The prosecutor asks if #StormyDaniels met #Trump on the golf course at Lake Tahoe in 2006.
Daniels: "Yes I did."
She Trump saying when she said she was a director, "You must be smart..."
Daniels says she didn’t have a very substantive discussion w/Trump & didn’t know much about him. She knew he was a golfer, she says — they were on a golf course — & that he worked in reality TV. And she knew of his show, “The Apprentice.”
#StormyDaniels details how she recently got fired from a podcast because she was reluctant to continue talking about this case & about politics. This is an important bit of testimony that could rebut Trump’s lawyers’ argument that Daniels has made a career off of her sexual encounter w/ #Trump.
Daniels is now describing the golf tournament at Lake Tahoe in 2006 where she met Trump. She says she knew that he was “as old or older than my father.”
#criminal #law #Trump #TrumpTrial
Susan #Hoffinger, the prosecutor, takes #StormyDaniels thru talking about writing & directing adult films - focusing on the #professional aspects of the industry & giving Daniels credit for not just acting but steering her productions.
Prosecutors have made a point to note that Daniels did nude modeling & adult films as a way to make money & survive.
Daniels goes thru her CV, including mainstream movies she appeared in like “The 40-Year-Old Virgin.”
#criminal #law #Trump #TrumpTrial
#StormyDaniels says she went w/ “a girlfriend of mine … I was so scared, I was an extra completely clothed on shoots, the director asked me if I would do it... I got offered a contract...l was 23...”
As Stormy Daniels talks about moving from stripping to acting in adult films, she is talking very quickly, understandably, she is a witness talking about starting to act in adult films in front of a courtroom full of reporters & the fmr president of the US.
#criminal #law #Trump #TrumpTrial
#StormyDaniels begins to talk about her career as a dancer — she began stripping, she says, because she made more money doing it than she did “shoveling manure” — the work she had done previously at a stable.
She is nervous as she speaks.
Daniels says when she was 21, she "went on to pose for some magazines to get some accolades" to be able to go on tour.
After that she started working in adult film industry.
#criminal #law #Trump #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #ElectionInterference #HushMoney
“The people call #StormyDaniels,” Susan #Hoffinger says. She takes the stand & is sworn in with her hand raised.
Daniels sounds nervous as she spells her name.
Several members of the jury noticeably perked up when Stormy Daniels's name was called as a #witness.
#criminal #law #Trump #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney
The cross-examination is over. There will be some more questions from the prosecutor, Rebecca Mangold. But we are likely just minutes away from the testimony of #StormyDaniels.
#criminal #law #Trump #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney
#Trump lawyer Todd #Blanche is on cross-examination of Sally Franklin.
His argument is that Meredith McIver, the ghost-writer, was behind the language, as opposed to Trump.
Trump himself has always insisted that all of the words printed in his name are his. During the White House years, Trump aides would implausibly claim on the record that Trump’s speeches were written by him.
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney
Prosecutor #Mangold has Sally Franklin describe a chapter of a book in which #Trump, in his own words, describes his frugality, including looking over bills to “make sure I’m not being overcharged.”
This goes toward his micromanagement & supports the argument that there was now way he was unaware of what he was paying #MichaelCohen, or what the money was for.
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney
Rebecca #Mangold, the prosecutor, has Sally Franklin to read #Trump’s written words from these books, including the following:
“For many years, I’ve said that if someone screws you, screw them back”
“When somebody hurts you, just go after them as viciously & as violently as you can. Like it says in the Bible, an eye for an eye.”
“All the women on ‘The Apprentice’ flirted with me."
#criminal #law #Trump #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney
The cover of #Trump’s book, “How to Get Rich,” is displayed for the jury.
The book cover includes the tagline: “Big deals from the star of The Apprentice.”
The book is described on Amazon as a tell-all “about the lessons learned from The Apprentice,” as well as “his most important role, as a father who has successfully taught his children the value of money & hard work.”
😂🤣
The prosecutor & Franklin discuss what percentage of the cover the word “Trump” takes up.
The first #witness today is #SallyFranklin, who works at Penguin Random House, a publisher.
[#StormyDaniels is the 2nd]
Franklin is a #CustodialWitness — here to verify facts that Trump's lawyers have not agreed to — she will testify about 2 books that #Trump wrote, including “Trump: How to Get Rich” & “Trump: Think Like a Billionaire,” both published by Ballantine, a Penguin Random House imprint.
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney
#StormyDaniels is expected to be the second witness today.
#Trump's lawyer #Necheles, begins by objecting to Daniels testifying, including “any details” of any “sexual act.”
Susan Hoffinger, a prosecutor, is arguing that these details are key to the case — & that this issue has already been settled. She says that details that are too salacious will not be admitted, but that the story is “significant” & important to prosecutors in terms of Daniels’s credibility.
Back to court
#Trump did not answer reporters’s questions about his morning Truth Social post.
One of Trump's lawyers, Susan #Necheles, appears to be taking her seat to Trump’s right— suggesting she will be the one to cross-examine #StormyDaniels.
Show’s about to start, doubt Trump will be sleeping today.
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #StochasticTerrorism #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics
#Trump posted an angry message on TruthSocial saying he’d just learned who the next witness was [#StormyDaniels] & that his lawyers had “no time” to prepare.
The post remained up for 30 mins before Trump removed it, probably bc it was another violation of the #GagOrder & #jail is fully on the table.
Reportedly, Trump hates deleting posts — he sees it as a sign of weakness 🙄.
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #StochasticTerrorism #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics
Tuesday 7 May 2024 #TrumpTrial 🧵
#StormyDaniels Is Expected to #Testify today
Daniels, who received $130k in #HushMoney to keep silent about her story of having had sex with #Trump, is at the center of the case against him.
#criminal #law #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #MobTactics #NodFarter #GagOrder #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal
Experts on traumatic sexual experiences say that a person's perception of such encounters can change over time, & that the most traumatic details may emerge only later.
So any arguments that the ominous overtones of #StormyDaniels’s testimony about her sexual encounter w/ #Trump were not present in early versions of this story is evidence that she is not being truthful is bunk.
#BelieveSurvivors #criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney
#HopeHicks says that when she shared the email from The Washington Post w/ #Trump, one of his initial reactions was to say that his comments about assaulting women “didn’t sound like something he would say.” [he later admits it was him, so = liar]
Hicks says she went to conference room to discuss #AccessHollywood tape & Trump came to see what was happening:
"Everyone was just absorbing the shock of it."
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney
#HopeHicks is then shown a copy of her email forwarding the message to to “campaign leadership.” The email went to, among other people, Kellyanne Conway & Steve Bannon.
In it, she says: “Need to hear the tape to be sure,” & “Deny, deny, deny.” She describes it to prosecutor Colangelo as a “reflex.”
#criminal #law #Trump #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics #NodFarter #GagOrder #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal
#HopeHicks is shown an email that reporter David Fahrenthold sent her on 7 Oct, 2016, seeking comment on the #AccessHollywood tape. The email contained a transcript of what was said on it.
“I was concerned. Very concerned.…I was concerned about the contents of the email, I was concerned about the lack of time to respond, I was concerned that we had a transcript but not a tape. There was a lot at play.”
#criminal #law #Trump #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney
Asked to describe the #NationalEnquirer article attack on #TedCruz’s father, #HopeHicks looks like she is going to laugh: “His father may have been involved with Lee Harvey Oswald” — the man who shot John F. Kennedy — “or something like that.”
Hope Hicks is now being questioned about the “#AccessHollywood” tape & her expression is no longer jovial. She swallows hard & says that yes, she was familiar.
#criminal #law #Trump #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference
#HopeHicks is testifying in detail how #Trump praised David #Pecker, then the publisher of The #NationalEnquirer, after the tabloid ran a story saying one of his #GOP presidential rivals, Dr. Ben Carson, had left a sponge in a young girl’s brain. “Mr. Trump was congratulating him on the great reporting,” she recalls. “This is Pulitzer-worthy,” Hicks says she recalls him saying.
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference
#HopeHicks is emphatic when asked if she checked w/ #Trump before issuing statements about him. “Absolutely,” she says.
Hicks testified that when she began working for Trump in 2015 during his first campaign, the media team consisted of only the 2 of them.
"It was just me & Mr. Trump," Hicks said.
She went on to say that later in the general election there was a larger staff that dealt w/phone calls & other needs around the office.
Colangelo keeps asking #HopeHicks to acknowledge that #Trump oversaw every aspect of her job: “I reported to Mr. Trump” & “Mr. Trump was responsible” are two things she’s just said. Again, this is key for prosecutors, showing that Trump is a hands-on manager — & hoping to convince the jury he would have taken the same hands-on approach as #MichaelCohen brought him news of negative stories to quash.
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney
#HopeHicks is asked about #KeithSchiller, who was #Trump’s longtime bodyguard. Schiller is a fmr NYPD detective.
Hicks is asked about others who were in Trump's close circle, such as the #TrumpOrganization's fmr CFO, #AllenWeisselberg, & Trump’s assistant, #RhonaGraff.
Trump’s eyes are glued onto Hicks as she begins her testimony. This is the most alert he’s been since the trial started.
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #NodFarter
#HopeHicks continues flattering her old boss, saying that the #TrumpOrganization was big & successful, but run “like a small family business.” Because of that, she says, “Everybody that works there in some sense reports to Mr. Trump.”
This is good for prosecutors showing #Trump personally ran his affairs; Hicks can come off as praising him while simultaneously harming him.
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal
Prosecutor #Colangelo begins questioning #HopeHicks about participating in key meetings.
Hicks acknowledges that she was frequently involved, going in & out of Trump’s office.
Hicks calls #Trump “a very good multitasker & a very hard worker.” 💨🍑
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal
The people call #HopeHicks, Matthew #Colangelo, one of the prosecutors, says.
She is visibly uncomfortable. She is testifying under subpoena. She says she's "nervous.”
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 summer or fall of 2022.
That was around the time when text messages she exchanged w/a colleague criticizing the #Jan6 attack were made public.
#criminal #law #Trump #TrumpTrial
Blanche implies that someone else is writing Trump’s social media posts, the ones Trump posts under his handle on a website that he routinely tells people is the “true voice of America.” lol 😂
#criminal #law #Trump #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal
The evidence appears designed to lay out #Trump’s tendency to lie, his vulnerability among female voters, & motives for the cover up.
Trump lawyer #Blanche is now cross-examining Georgia Longstreet, asking her about #MichaelCohen & whether she tracked his #socialmedia as part of her job. She says she followed his tweets & his podcast. Asked if she listened to every episode of the podcast, Longstreet responds “absolutely not,” getting a big laugh in the courtroom.
Prosecutors enter a series of tweets into #evidence:
Trump attacking Senator John McCain
Trump insisting he never inappropriately touched 2 women who claimed he had
Trump complaining he’d lost female supporters, all from 2016
Defense lawyers fought the admission of these tweets.
Georgia Longstreet describes the posts from the stand.
There’s now a TruthSocial post from March 2023 in which Trump, in colorful terms, denies an affair w/ #StormyDaniels.
Prosecutors play a video #Trump put out right after the #AccessHollywood tape was made public. He acknowledged in the video that he made the comments on the tape. The video statement was recorded after he had earlier refused to apologize, though his aides told him to.
“I’ve said some foolish things, but there’s a big difference between the words & actions of other people,” Trump says in the video, then he attacks Hillary & Bill Clinton.
Longstreet testified that as part of her work, she has reviewed 5k - 10k #socialmedia posts (poor thing) about the case & saved 1,500 of them.
She added that she checks online sources multiple times a day, including news articles & posts on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook & Truth Social.
She said she takes screenshots of the posts, adds them to a folder & saves them w/a few words to identify each one.
#criminal #law #Trump #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference
Longstreet’s testimony, including a description of the #WaybackMachine, which archives old online postings, is a good primer on #socialmedia basics, for folks who need it, may be necessary for some #jurors, I think during voir dire one said they used a flip phone & had never “seen a podcast”
#criminal #law #Trump #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal
Georgia Longstreet, the next witness, is a paralegal who monitors social media postings at the Manhattan DA’s office. She will be questioned by prosecutor Rebecca #Mangold.
This is another #CustodialWitness — again only necessary because #Trump’s legal team refused to agree on basic #facts prior to trial.
“Can you briefly describe how #Twitter works?” is a question 🙄.
#AlternativeFacts #Gaslighting #Propaganda #criminal #law #TrumpTrial #conspiracy #ElectionInterference
Redirect is over & #Trump atty #Bove returns to question Daus again to clarify his cross-examination arguments, saying he was asking about “unknowns” — “gaps in the handling of this data that created risks” for tampering.
Prosecutor #Conroy returns to ask Daus another question in a 2nd re-redirect.
This is a lot of questioning & requestioning for a custodial witness.
Justice #Merchan calls a sidebar hopefully to get these folks to tighten up their questioning.
Cross-examination ended
Redirect by prosecutor #Conroy.
On re-direct, Conroy is asks questions that mock #Bove’s cross, implying to the jury that Bove's line of questioning was BS.
Some questions:
“I take it you’re not a friend of Michael Cohen’s?”
“Is it unusual for a phone to be used?”
[Making fun of Bove’s basic #tech questions]
Public in the overflow room reportedly got what Conroy was doing & laughed at the questions & answers
#criminal #law #Trump #TrumpTrial
During this technical dry testimony, #Trump again appears to be sleeping.
Trump tried to spin this Thurs afternoon in a post to Truth Social:
“I simply close my beautiful blue eyes, sometimes, listen intensely, and take it ALL in!!!”
However, SEVERAL people in his world have confirmed privately that he has been sleeping in court.
.#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics #NodFarter #GagOrder #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal