“That’s the big question,” #RuthBenGhiat said, adding that it depends partly on #Trump’s ability to impose party #fealty, #intimidate critics & install competent bureaucrats who are effective at using levers of #power to advance his personal aims.

“It is about criminalizing #dissent,” she said. “There is a method to his madness in that he has taken people on a journey of #indoctrination.”

"Attorney General #Paxton is using his position of authority to #harass & #intimidate #Latino non-profit organizations like #LULAC, LatinoLeaders & LULAC members," Juan Proaño, LULAC's CEO told CBS, calling the state AG's effort "point-blank" #VoterIntimidation. "It is evident through his pattern of lawsuits, raids, searches, & seizures that he is trying to keep Latinos from voting."

3 #FalseHopes

Emboldened by corrupt #SCOTUS decision on #PresidentialImmunity & FALSE hopes of #AmericanMonarchy under #Trump, #HeritageFoundation just fired opening salvo of #SecondAmericanRevolution based on another FALSE hope that it would be #bloodless — like the #GloriousRevolution that put William III of Orange on the #British Throne.

Knowing THAT hope is false, it is openly threatening #Democrats with #bloodshed, again FALSELY hoping to #intimidate us with its own #BrunswickManifesto.

#Hoffinger’s final question is an accusation: whether #RobertCostello’s testimony to Congress was meant to #intimidate #MichaelCohen as he testified in this trial. Costello asked her to repeat the question & then denied the accusation. “No,” he said. “Ridiculous.”

#Trump atty #Bove, is on redirect. Costello testifies that Cohen said in April 2018 that he would be “eternally grateful” for the help & guidance that Costello had given him in those difficult days.

Transcript excerpt of a sidebar at today’s #TrumpTrial proceedings

THE PEOPLE OF NY -vs- DONALD J. #TRUMP

JUDGE #MERCHAN: I understand that your client is upset at this point, but he is cursing audibly, & he is shaking his head visually & that's contemptuous.
It has the potential to #intimidate the #witness & the jury can see that.

DEFENSE ATTY TODD #BLANCHE: I will talk to him...

#Pecker has at least 3X described #MichaelCohen as warning him that “the boss” — meaning #Trump — would be “angry” if Pecker didn’t do whatever was being asked of him in that moment.

Prosecutors, who have focused on Trump’s tendency to #intimidate people in asking for a #GagOrder, know what they’re after in this line of questioning [#MobTactics #StochasticTerrorism].

“The People argue in their submission that Defendant's attacks, which include referring to a prosecution #witness last week as ‘death’, are based on ‘transparent falsehoods.’ …The People provide a plethora of compelling arguments in support of their claim that Defendant's conduct is deliberate & intended to #intimidate this Court & impede the orderly administration of this trial.”

The charges stemmed from a Jan 2023 *interaction with* [brutal attack on] #MichaelCoreyJenkins & #EddieParker when the group of 6 officers burst into their #RankinCounty #Mississippi home WITHOUT a #warrant & #assaulted them w/ stun guns, forced them to ingest liquids, punched & kicked them, called them #racist slurs, & worse.

#ChristianLeeDedmon fired his #gun TWICE during the incident in an attempt to #intimidate the victims, the #DOJ said in a 2023 news release.

#KenPaxton requested #transgender youths’ medical records from QueerMed — which is based in Decatur, GA — late last year, the health provider’s founder Izzy Lowell told WaPo on Sun.

“This request from the #Texas Attorney general is a clear attempt to #intimidate providers of gender-affirming care & parents & families that seek that care outside of Texas & other states w/ bans,” Lowell said in a statement.

“Trump’s claim to have won the election in 2020 was more than a lie: it was a cynical bet that he could #manipulate & #intimidate his compatriots,” & if he wins it will have worked.

"Having won back power because of his election-denial in 2020, he would surely be affirmed in his gut feeling that only losers allow themselves to be bound by the norms, customs & self-sacrifice that make a nation”.

#Vernikov turned herself in after images circulated online of her w/a #gun tucked into her waistband while at the #BrooklynCollege demonstration.

Vernikov filmed herself in front of the protest that was supporting the #Palestinian people, saying she was part of a dueling pro-#Israel demonstration to “support the Jewish students that are in school.”

But one of the Brooklyn College rallygoers… believed Vernikov… was trying to #intimidate Palestinian supporters by having a gun at the event.

Late last night, #Trump filed notice to voluntarily #dismiss his $500M suit against #MichaelCohen.

TFG was supposed to sit for a #deposition in the case on Monday. Trump had delayed the depo 2x.

Trump sued Cohen just days after Trump’s 1st #criminal #indictment in April, Cohen is the the star witness in the #StormyDaniels #HushMoney case.

Cohen said that the reversal validates his claim from the beginning that Trump filed the case to #intimidate him as a witness in more than one case.

#Feinstein, whodenied #Brennan’s charges, gave a dramatic speech on the #Senate floor in which she accused the #CIA of improperly searching computers used by her staff members & seeking to #intimidate them w/ calls for a #DOJ review of their conduct. An internal CIA investigation later supported those claims, & #Brennan apologized.