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, the former lawyer for the two women who have alleged affairs with Trump — adult film actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal — completed his testimony.of falsifying business records related to the hush money payment to Daniels. He has pleaded not guilty and denied a relationship with her and McDougal.Trump was met by cheers as he greeted firefighters with boxes of pizza as part of a campaign stop at a Midtown Manhattan fire station after his trial wrapped for the day.
In a tweet, Michael Avenatti, one of Stormy Daniels' former lawyers, accused Davidson, her former attorney who is currently testifying, of lying.Earlier in the day, Trump's attorneys tried to accuse Davidson and Daniels of"shaking down" Trump in 2016, which Davidson denied. In his tweet, Avenatti claimed that he reviewed text messages that proved"it was a shakedown," and claimed that that was the reason he stopped being Daniels' lawyer in 2019.
The date corresponds to a meeting between Trump and Cohen, which prosecutors allege is the date Trump agreed to begin repaying Cohen $130,000 for the payment he made to Stormy Daniels.It’s late afternoon and now prosecutors appear to be heading back into the world of computer analysis. After the celebrity gossip of the morning, this is a tough, but necessary, detour given that the two sides can’t seem to agree on the admission of certain facts in evidence.
After that exchange, it appears — especially now that Bove has given Davidson a set of headphones — that Cohen indeed recorded Davidson, and Bove is about to refresh his recollection with a tape of such a conversation.Adding a new player into this saga, Bove asks Davidson if Larry Flynt, the wealthy publisher of Hustler magazine, offered to indemnify Stormy Daniels from any liability she incurred relating to the agreement.
"Contrary to the FAKE NEWS MEDIA, I don’t fall asleep during the Crooked D.A.’s Witch Hunt, especially not today. I simply close my beautiful blue eyes, sometimes, listen intensely, and take it ALL in!!!" the former president posted. In response to questions from Bove about the Lohan file and his connections to TMZ, Davidson answered,"I don't know" and"I don't recall."
The defense's point seems to be to use Davidson’s observations to illustrate another major Trump theme: Cohen has long had a personal vendetta against Trump grounded in his personal disappointment and having nothing to do with any alleged illegal conduct by Trump.As Trump lawyer Emil Bove cross-examines Keith Davidson about Karen McDougal’s motivations in entering into an agreement with AMI, Trump is more engaged than he has been in some time.
Davidson testified that his dealings were with National Enquirer staff or Cohen and that he never even saw a copy of an agreement that was signed by Trump.SAGINAW COUNTY, Mich. — Trump hit the trail yesterday to hold a pair of campaign rallies for the first time since his hush money trial began. He ended the day in Saginaw County, a swing county in battleground Michigan that President Joe Biden flipped by just over 300 votes in 2020.
“It’s just a farce as far as I’m concerned,” said Bruce Lewenberger. “He’s being treated unfairly with a two-tiered system.” Across Riverside Family Restaurant, Danielle Schmitzer, an owner of a local dance studio, echoed those sentiments. The statement said that she was denying an affair with Trump. Asked how truthful that was, Davidson testified that it's technically true because no one had alleged a relationship between the two of them. He said a relationship is an ongoing interaction.
In messages exchanged between Keith Davidson and Michael Cohen, Davidson said that he told Cohen that The Wall Street Journal called him for comment and he saw that they had called Daniels for comment. Davidson says that in the same phone call, Cohen mentioned that he had not been repaid the $130,000 that was given to Daniels.Keith Davidson texted the editor-in-chief of the National Enquirer, Dylan Howard, around 3 a.m. ET on the night of the 2016 election."There was sort of surprise amongst the broadcasters and others that Donald Trump was leading in the polls, and there was a growing sense that folks were about ready to call the election," he added.
Blanche, for example, said Cohen has been inviting, and almost daring, Trump to respond, spreading personal attacks on his character, mocking him for being on trial and on his candidacy for president.“Mr. Cohen has been shopping television shows based upon not only what he did for President Trump, but what he’s doing here," he added.
Blanche argued that Trump’s comments on Pecker — when he said"be nice" the morning of his continued testimony — were not a willful violation of the gag order and insisted that they were neutral, therefore can’t be read to intimidate Pecker. "He cannot respond by saying Stormy Daniels, but he’s certainly allowed to respond to something that’s said by President Biden,” the judge told Blanche.The language prosecutors are using this morning to describe Trump’s alleged conduct is striking. The prosecutors don’t talk publicly during this trial, they don’t hold press conferences or take questions from reporters, so their only chance to push back against what Trump is doing is when they are in court.
“If everything’s honest, I’ll gladly accept the results. I don’t change on that,” Trump said Wednesday in anThe presumptive Republican presidential nominee also repeated his false claim that he beat Joe Biden in Wisconsin in the 2020 election. “But this judge said that I can’t get away from the trial. You know he’s rushing the trial like crazy. Nobody’s ever seen a thing go like this. That jury was picked so fast — 95% Democrats. The area’s mostly all Democrat. You think of it as a — just a purely Democrat area. It’s a very unfair situation that I can tell you.”Well, Michael Cohen is a convicted liar and he’s got no credibility whatsoever. He was a lawyer and you rely on your lawyers. But Michael Cohen was a convicted liar.
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