Eric Columbus Rick Wilson My point is that they have vacillated between these theories; today, they acknowledged the NY election law is primarily what they are relying on.

Lisa Rubin Rick Wilson Not really the first time — they identified four theories in their motion to dismiss, and Judge Merchan in his opinion allowed them to proceed on these three theories:

During a sidebar about the relevance of Steve Bannon’s requests of Pecker, Steinglass admitted that New York Election Law 17-152, which prohibits conspiracies to promote a candidate’s election through unlawful means, is their “primary” predicate.

NEW: The DA’s office has not previously identified with any precision what the crime is that Trump allegedly was intending to commit or conceal by allegedly falsifying business records. Until now. 1/

Trump's latest defense, which we will see at trial I'm sure, that the 34 business records were not false because they were legal payments (reimbursing his lawyer Cohen for making the $130,000 hush money payment) is BELIED by contemporaneous notations that the payments were for…

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Liz Cheney is out with a NYT op-ed urging the Supreme Court to reject Trump’s immunity claim “without delay “:

“If delay prevents this Trump case from being tried this year, the public may never hear critical and historic evidence developed before the grand jury, and our…

Let me say that I respect the profession that lawyers have. Everyone in this country should be entitled to a vigorous defense, including Donald Trump.

That said, I can simultaneously be disgusted by people like Todd Blanche, who stand up in the courtroom and blow hot air and…

🧵 This week, Donald Trump will experience something he cannot prepare for: being a criminal defendant as the government presents its case against you.

He will, for the first time, feel the true weight of the government on him.

“Maybe he gets hit by a truck,” Trump said to Michael Cohen on a 2018 phone call about David Pecker, then publisher of the National Enquirer, who was considering ending his longtime arrangement with Trump to keep accusations of the President’s sex crimes out of the press.' --from…

Marjorie Taylor Greene is complaining about the foreign aid package because our border is not secure, but the clown bitch voted against the bill to protect our borders.

You can’t make this shit up!

Donald Trump spent much of the last year of his presidency trying to ban TikTok. Here’s what he said on July 31, 2020: 'As far as TikTok is concerned, we're banning them from the United States.'

Trump today: “Just so everyone knows…Biden is responsible for banning TikTok.”…

Imagine how sick you are to work in the White House being paid by the American people and to think that ones that didn't agree with you politically should just suffer and die from a pandemic. The evil of Jared Kushner has been woefully under reported. I think he was truly one of…

Master journalist Jeffrey Toobin sets the stage for Trump’s NYC criminal conspiracy trial as only he can: “For much of the tabloid’s history, it has specialized in investigations into the foibles of public personalities, including politicians. In 1987, the Enquirer published a…

America wasn’t “discovered.” America was invaded. Who here agrees? 🖐🏾

Not a single member of Trump’s family — not Melania, not Ivanka, not Don Jr, not Eric, not Tiffany — has bothered to show up at his criminal trial to show their support.

Speaks volumes, doesn’t it?

I don't blame folks for being pissed at Andrea Mitchell for referring to trump as the President.

It's been 8 years, and I still can't bring myself to use capital 'T' when I write his name.

In fact, when I refer to him using the President title, it's always 'former disgraced…

Liz Cheney: 'As a criminal defendant, Mr. Trump has long had access to federal grand jury material relating to his Jan. 6 indictment and to all the testimony obtained by our select committee. He knows what all these witnesses have said under oath and understands the risks he…

I told y’all, I fuc*ing told you!

Michael Flynn continues amplifying Project 2025 while floating ideas of assassination.

When will we start treating domestic terrorists like the criminal faction they are?

When will we start holding United States soldiers and officers…

David Pecker is testifying about an August 2015 meeting at Trump Tower attended by Trump and Michael Cohen — as well as Hope Hicks, who came in and out of the room. Pecker says he received a phone call from Cohen that 'the boss wanted to see me.'

Pecker says it was there that he…

Now, Merchan asks Blanche about what Jesse Watters, in fact, said.

Blanche: No.

Merchan: 'So your client manipulated what was said and put it in quotes?

Blanche: I wouldn't say it was a manipulation.

Merchan: This isn't a repost at all. Your client had to type it out. Use…