Tuesday, May 07, 2024
Trial
Washington Post: Judge denies mistrial request after Stormy Daniels details alleged sex with Trump
Defense attorney Susan Necheles has been going over the judgments that have been entered against Stormy Daniels in her litigation with Donald Trump, to try to show the jury that Daniels has a financial motive to see him jailed.
Trial
Susan Necheles, a Trump lawyer, sought to paint Ms. Daniels as focused on money, including by citing her career as a porn star. And when she pressed Ms. Daniels about mocking Mr. Trump’s looks on Twitter, Ms. Daniels shot back that Mr. Trump had done so first.
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Washington Post: Stormy Daniels takes the witness stand in Trump’s hush money trial
Prosecutors said Monday that they have about two weeks left in their direct case. Then Trump’s defense lawyers may present witnesses. After that, jurors will hear closing arguments and the judge’s instructions and begin deliberating.
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Daniels recalls that her publicist urged her to go to the dinner, and asked her: "'What could possibly go wrong?'"
Have An Excellent Tuesday
"In Canova's timeless masterpiece, the wings of Cupid are so delicately thin that when sunlight touches them they shimmer with a gentle peach glow."
SNY - Tom Thibodeau On Knicks' Game 1 Win Over Pacers - Jalen Brunson's Historic Numbers
It's been a while since Knicks fans have seen such a good team.
Letters
There was also a tattered envelope postmarked 1942, and addressed to “Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Lamb Jacksonville, Arkansas.” It was stamped “U.S. ARMY POSTAL SERVICE.”
Russia
In a radical reshaping of Russia’s education system, curriculums are being redrawn to stress patriotism and textbooks rewritten to belittle Ukraine, glorify Russia and whitewash the totalitarian Soviet past.
S.T.I.
Between 2012 and 2022, rates of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia more than doubled among those 55 and older...
War
...in what it called a limited operation aimed at destroying Hamas targets it says were used to attack Israeli soldiers.
The Market On Tuesday
Good morning. At 7:15 a.m. ET DOW futures are +44, S&P futures are +3, and NASDAQ futures are -16.25. The market is poised to open mixed.
Monday, May 06, 2024
War
Washington Post: Hamas says it approves a cease-fire proposal; Israel is ‘considering’ its response
(Israel said) “We are considering any response and any answer in the most serious way and are pursuing every possibility for negotiations to return the hostages as quickly as possible.”
Trial
Haberman - As a side note, Trump’s campaign is fundraising off the judge’s warning to him this morning about possible jail time if he does not stop violating his gag order, and attacking witnesses and others connected to the case.
Trial
Washington Post: Trump violated gag a 10th time, judge says, threatening jail
“The check (to reimburse Cohen) was drawn out of President Trump’s personal account,” McConney testified. “We had to get it down to the White House so that President Trump could sign it.”
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