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Chris. R. 🎧🎼☕🍍<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jwildeboer</span></a></span> I like <a href="https://fedi.cr-net.be/tags/Blanche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blanche</span></a>' s song a lot as well. One of the exceptions to root for Belgium 🙂 <br>But this year is not one of those years.</p><p>And you' re right, in retrospect, this is a prophetic shiver down our spines.</p>
Poujol 𝖱𝗈𝗌𝗍 ✅<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.numerique.gouv.fr/@cnil" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cnil</span></a></span></p><p> 😡 Je m'étouffe !</p><p>90% des <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/personnages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>personnages</span></a> de cette page ont la peau <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/blanche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blanche</span></a>.</p><p>La prudence serait une qualité de Blanc-he ?</p><p>Ou la sécurité / <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/vie_priv%C3%A9e" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vie_privée</span></a> serait réservée aux Blancs &amp; Blanches &amp; leurs <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/enfants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enfants</span></a> ?</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/AAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AAI</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/CNIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CNIL</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/servicePublic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>servicePublic</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/diversit%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diversité</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/invisibilisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>invisibilisation</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>NY Supreme Court Justice Juan <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Merchan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Merchan</span></a> issued a limited <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GagOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GagOrder</span></a> before <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s 6-wk <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> trial citing grave safety concerns, but Trump &amp; attys argued his rights were being trampled on.<br>
“President Trump’s opponents &amp; adversaries are using the Gag Order as a political sword to attack President Trump with reference to this case, on the understanding that his ability to mount a detailed response is severely restricted by the Gag Order,” Trump attys <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Blanche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blanche</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Bove" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bove</span></a> wrote in the doc.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>One of his lawyers, Todd <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Blanche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blanche</span></a>, will be present for the interview.</p><p>It is unusual for a lawyer to be present for a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Probation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Probation</span></a> Dept interview, acc/to current &amp; fmr agency officials &amp; several defense lawyers w/experience dealing w/the agency. And since the coronavirus pandemic has waned, virtual interviews have become far less common.</p><p>But Justice Juan M. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Merchan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Merchan</span></a>, who presided over Trump’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> trial &amp; will hand down his sentence, signed off on the arrangement.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FeloniousTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FeloniousTrump</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> attorney Todd <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Blanche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blanche</span></a> received permission to attend Trump's <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/presentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>presentence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/probation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>probation</span></a> interview</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FeloniousTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FeloniousTrump</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/press/PDFs/People%20v%20DJT%206-7-24%20Letter%20to%20Parties.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/press/</span><span class="invisible">PDFs/People%20v%20DJT%206-7-24%20Letter%20to%20Parties.pdf</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>There were few <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/witnesses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>witnesses</span></a> whose testimony was central to the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/crimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crimes</span></a> charged. One was <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MichaelCohen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MichaelCohen</span></a>, whose <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/credibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>credibility</span></a> was attacked by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s lawyer Todd <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Blanche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blanche</span></a>.</p><p>Another witness —who had no connection to the falsification of business records— was <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StormyDaniels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StormyDaniels</span></a>, whose <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HushMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HushMoney</span></a> from Cohen is what was covered up. Susan Necheles, the defense lawyer w/the most trial experience on Trump's team, worked aggressively to sow doubts about Daniels’s story w/the jury.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTrial</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Justice <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Merchan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Merchan</span></a> commends the jury alternates for paying attention. The judge, who often watches the jury for attentiveness in case they need a break, praises one alternate in particular who went through “several notebooks” taking down notes.</p><p>Jurors 4 &amp; 6, a man &amp; a woman, are gathered around a laptop w/a paralegal for the prosecution. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> defense atty Todd <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Blanche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blanche</span></a> stands behind the computer looking on.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTrial</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CatchAndKill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CatchAndKill</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conspiracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionInterference</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HushMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HushMoney</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>As was dramatically illustrated by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> atty Todd <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Blanche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blanche</span></a> yesterday, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/jurors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jurors</span></a> will NOT decide Trump’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/punishment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punishment</span></a> if found <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/guilty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>guilty</span></a>.</p><p>But since we are both curious &amp; ready for the accountability to begin here are some possible <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/penalties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>penalties</span></a> he may face.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTrial</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CatchAndKill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CatchAndKill</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conspiracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionInterference</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HushMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HushMoney</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/nyregion/trump-convicted-jail-penalties.html?smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2024/05/29/nyregio</span><span class="invisible">n/trump-convicted-jail-penalties.html?smid=url-share</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Steinglass shows Trump’s filing w/the federal government’s Office of Government <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ethics</span></a> in May 2018 that revealed <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> had made a payment to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MichaelCohen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MichaelCohen</span></a>. The filing came days after <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RudyGiuliani" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RudyGiuliani</span></a> said on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FoxNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FoxNews</span></a> that Trump had reimbursed Cohen for the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StormyDaniels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StormyDaniels</span></a> payment.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Blanche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blanche</span></a> cited this same filing as <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/evidence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evidence</span></a> that Trump had no <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/intent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intent</span></a> to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/defraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>defraud</span></a>.</p><p>“The defendant didn’t actually pay a lawyer, he paid a porn star by funneling money through a lawyer” Steinglass says.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTrial</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Blanche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blanche</span></a> tried to make the fact that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MichaelCohen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MichaelCohen</span></a> didn’t remember how much he was owed each month for the reimbursements into a suspicious thing. But <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Steinglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Steinglass</span></a> says it demonstrates that there was no retainer agreement, &amp; that the knowledge &amp; the math was then in the hands of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s employees.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTrial</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CatchAndKill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CatchAndKill</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conspiracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionInterference</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Steinglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Steinglass</span></a> puts his own spin on one of the defense’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClosingArguments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClosingArguments</span></a>, that the existence at the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpOrganization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpOrganization</span></a> of financial documents related to the charged <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/crimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crimes</span></a> shows that they were not crimes.</p><p>“You almost have to laugh at the way Mr. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Blanche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blanche</span></a> explained it to you,” he says. “They would have destroyed evidence — committed another crime — to hide this crime, but because they didn’t do that, &amp; these documents exist” that’s evidence that there was no crime.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTrial</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>To believe defense, you’d have to take <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Blanche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blanche</span></a>’s word <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MichaelCohen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MichaelCohen</span></a> went rogue &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> was clueless about the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StormyDaniels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StormyDaniels</span></a> deal.</p><p>Steinglass details calls between <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Pecker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pecker</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MichaelCohen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MichaelCohen</span></a>, w/ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HopeHicks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HopeHicks</span></a> occasionally in the mix, reminding jurors how enmeshed Cohen was &amp; how much he talked to the campaign.</p><p>As he takes jurors through the mountain of documentary evidence, he sympathizes, “We don’t need to show all these calls &amp; emails… they’re in evidence if you want to see them.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTrial</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> atty Todd <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Blanche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blanche</span></a>, during his closing, tried to convince the jury that the prosecution’s case relied entirely on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MichaelCohen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MichaelCohen</span></a>. Josh <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Steinglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Steinglass</span></a> is taking that argument on directly &amp; indirectly. As he moves through the case’s timeline, showing every piece of documentary <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/evidence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evidence</span></a> the prosecution has, he is reinforcing just how much does not rely on Cohen, but on the testimony of witnesses who are friendly to Trump &amp; on phone records you can’t dispute.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTrial</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Steinglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Steinglass</span></a> uses the case of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpOrganization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpOrganization</span></a> doorman to illustrate a point about looking at testimony in its full context.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Blanche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blanche</span></a> had noted that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Pecker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pecker</span></a> said he would have printed the doorman's story, about <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> fathering a child out of wedlock, regardless of whether it was true. But Steinglass shows the jurors that Pecker added that he would have waited until after the election to do so. “Because that was what they agreed to do.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTrial</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Steinglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Steinglass</span></a> notes that while NDAs are not inherently <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a>, but they are “indeed illegal when they serve an unlawful purpose.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> atty <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Blanche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blanche</span></a> barely stitched together a story, but tried to distance Trump from the documents &amp; ended by attacking <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MichaelCohen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MichaelCohen</span></a>.</p><p>Steinglass tells a sweeping narrative about a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fraud</span></a> on the American people, &amp; argues that Americans had the right to determine if they cared that Trump slept w/a porn star while his wife was home w/their new baby.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTrial</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Steinglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Steinglass</span></a> addresses <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Blanche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blanche</span></a>’s interest in the term <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CatchAndKill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CatchAndKill</span></a>, drawing a distinction between the phrase &amp; the practice.</p><p>Steinglass says while the phrase may not have been used much during the trial, the practice was exactly what had been agreed to, &amp; argues that suppressing those stories amounted to committing a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fraud</span></a> on American voters, pulling the wool over their eyes “in a coordinated fashion.”</p><p>He calls The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalEnquirer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalEnquirer</span></a> “a covert arm” of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s campaign.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTrial</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Steinglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Steinglass</span></a> outlines their theory of the Aug 2015 meeting between <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MichaelCohen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MichaelCohen</span></a>, &amp; David <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Pecker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pecker</span></a>, of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalEnquirer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalEnquirer</span></a>, in which they agreed to a plot to suppress negative stories about Trump &amp; promote negative stories about his opponents.</p><p>Steinglass punctures one of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Blanche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blanche</span></a>’s go-to arguments —that The Enquirer is like all publications &amp; Pecker's arrangement w/Trump wasn’t unusual. There is nothing normal or standard about what the tabloid was doing w/Trump.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTrial</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Steinglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Steinglass</span></a> addresses another problem w/ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Blanche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blanche</span></a>'s argument — that he is trying to both say this wasn’t a reimbursement &amp; it was also a legitimate legal expense.</p><p>“Their arguments are not necessarily consistent, but they’re passionate,” Steinglass says, about the defense's contradictory arguments at one point they argued <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> didn’t know about the reimbursement &amp; at another point that he did.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTrial</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CatchAndKill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CatchAndKill</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conspiracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionInterference</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HushMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HushMoney</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MobTactics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MobTactics</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Steinglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Steinglass</span></a> quickly disposes w/some of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Blanche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blanche</span></a>’s arguments, including the idea that there was an alternative <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conspiracy</span></a> involving <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StormyDaniels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StormyDaniels</span></a>, her manager &amp; a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalEnquirer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalEnquirer</span></a> editor. He says that the defense is trying to distract from a key issue in the case, adding, “In the end, all of this doesn’t really matter.”</p><p>[thank you! This is about falsifying business records]<br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTrial</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CatchAndKill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CatchAndKill</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conspiracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionInterference</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HushMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HushMoney</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MobTactics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MobTactics</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>↑This goes directly at 1 of the 10 reasons for reasonable doubt that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Blanche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blanche</span></a> kinda listed at the end of his closing. Blanche questioned whether the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/evidence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evidence</span></a> was handled properly.</p><p>Next, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Steinglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Steinglass</span></a> says that one of the defense’s narratives is “this notion that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StormyDaniels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StormyDaniels</span></a> is trying to extort the defendant … threatened to go public unless she was paid off. But that's just not reality.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTrial</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CatchAndKill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CatchAndKill</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conspiracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionInterference</span></a></p>
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