POTUS has no official role in the 1/6 count. When a candidate pressures/threatens the President of the Senate (Pence), pressures and lobbies state legislatures & members of Congress, and oversees a fraudulent elector scheme, his acts are private. And plotting to appoint an AG in…

Conservative lawyer George Conway on David Pecker’s testimony in Trump's election interference trial:

“It’s a damning testimony. Because…the finding that there's a campaign finance violation is what kicks up the business record charge from a misdemeanor to a felony. & that’s what…

Indeed, Trump did leave office peacefully. All is peaceful that ends peacefully.

It’s going to be very important to simplify what’s going on to people who aren’t tracking all the ins and outs of these courts proceedings.

Here you go: Trump is accused of breaking laws in his campaign to become president in 2016 and breaking laws to stay president in 2020.…

Speaking to friends of King Charles in recent weeks about his health, the most common response is a lowering of the voice by half an octave or so, followed by the sombre, drawn-out pronouncement: “It’s not good.”

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Justice Merchan’s signed order to show cause compelling Trump to attend a hearing on his latest alleged gag order violations has been released.

This is quite a ratio

Blunder Road

All of the times David Pecker quoted Michael Cohen or someone else referring to Trump as 'The Boss,' during the morning session of Thursday's trial proceedings alone.

A thread. 🧵

NEW: Federal judge rejects Trump's appeal of $83M defamation verdict in E. Jean Carroll case trib.al/Aha7R6t

Congrats to E. Jean Carroll & her counsel Robbie Kaplan
'Ignores Reality and Basic Logic': Judge Rejects Trump's Argument That $83 Million Carroll Verdict Was Excessive at.law.com/LCiVX6?cmp=sha… via New York Law Journal

“Unprecedented reprehensibility” is a phrase that truly captures the essence of Donald J. Trump.

Thank you, Judge Kaplan.

Why the size of the +$80M award wasn't excessive:

'The jury was entitled to find that 'the degree of reprehensibility' of Mr. Trump’s conduct was remarkably high, perhaps unprecedented,' 'castigating' Carroll from the 'loudest 'bully pulpit' in America and possibly the world.'

That this denial of Trump's request to redo or outright prevail in the second, financially punishing E. Jean Carroll case was issued as David Pecker testifies during the Manhattan DA's criminal trial adds a further surreal quality to these already strange times at 100 Centre…

A federal judge in New York upheld a defamation verdict against Donald Trump, keeping him on the hook for the $83 million he owes E. Jean Carroll, the writer who accused him of sexual assault.

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NOW: Donald Trump's requests for a new defamation trial and judgement re: E. Jean Carroll case are DENIED.

Judge Kaplan: 'Trump's argument is entirely without merit both as a matter of law and as a matter of fact...'

The trial judge in the E. Jean Carroll case has denied Trump's motion for a new trial or to direct judgment against Carroll. I'm told the opinion, which I haven't seen yet, is scathing. This from Carroll's lawyer, Robbie Kaplan: