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April 21, 2024

NYT scoop: "David Pecker...is set to go first" as prosecution witness.

NYT scoop: "David Pecker...is set to go first" as prosecution witness. ⬇️

Pecker could be key witness - in ways more devastating than Michael Cohen.

This also indicates DA is foregrounding unlawful election influence for jurors.


https://twitter.com/rgoodlaw/status/1782070223190815115

April 20, 2024

"I was really not prepared for the sight of him in that courtroom today"

WATCH: "I've seen [Trump] in the White House and Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago, campaign trail, you name it. I've spent a lot of time with this man. And I was really not prepared for the sight of him in that courtroom today," says
@Olivianuzzi
https://twitter.com/allinwithchris/status/1781479557863768393

April 20, 2024

Zelensky: Today, we received the awaited decision on the US aid package that we long fought for.

And a very significant one. Our warriors on the front lines, as well as our cities and villages suffering from Russian terror, will feel it.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted on it today. I thank everyone who supported our package, this is a solution for protecting life. I personally thank Speaker Mike Johnson and all American hearts who believe, as we do in Ukraine, that Russian evil must not be winning. I am hopeful that the bill will be quite quickly passed by the United States Senate and sent to President Biden.

We appreciate every sign of support for our country and its independence, people, and way of life, which Russia is attempting to bury under the rubble. America has demonstrated its leadership since the first days of this war. Exactly this type of leadership is required to maintain a rules-based international order and predictability for all nations.

We will undoubtedly use American assistance to strengthen both of our nations and bring a just end to this war closer, the war that Putin must lose.

I thank our entire Ukrainian team and everyone who works tirelessly to bring this outcome closer. I am grateful to all of our country's representatives, diplomats working to strengthen support for Ukraine, all civil society members, every volunteer who works for Ukraine, and all of Ukraine’s friends around the world. I thank my team.

The world rallies behind Ukraine’s cause when Ukrainians rally behind independence.

https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1781763400629964834
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1781743983233745018

April 20, 2024

Guess Haberman will be in the camps with the rest of us.

Oh well.

The observation immediately went viral, provoking an irate denial from Trump’s campaign and reigniting the former president’s antipathy towards Haberman, who has been reporting on him for years. The resentment lasted the entire week, the sources add. It did not help Trump’s denial that he continued to doze off while seated in the Manhattan courtroom throughout the rest of the week. “Trump appears to have fallen asleep in court again,” Haberman wrote on Friday. “His eyes were closed for extended periods and his head dropped down twice.”

In recent conversations with Republican associates, Trump has repeatedly torn into Haberman and her CNN appearances, attacked her journalistic credentials, and bizarrely insisted that she was wrong about him falling asleep. Despite his dozing being widely reported, the former president has laid much of the blame for the detail going viral at Haberman’s feet. He was even observed glaring at her on Monday as he exited the courtroom following her CNN appearance.


https://www.eschatonblog.com/2024/04/but-they-were-such-good-friends.html
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-trial-mad-haberman-sketch-artist-1235007794/
April 20, 2024

nevermind

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April 19, 2024

What citizen of a democracy, in their right mind, would vote for such a person?

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It’s stunning that we just take for granted that people serving on a jury for a trial of a former President should simply expect to get avalanches of death threats from his supporters. What are we even doing here?

If the presidential candidate on whose behalf this was being done refused to condemn it, that would be bad enough. But the fact that we all know he enjoys it, is mind blowing. What citizen of a democracy, in their right mind, would vote for such a person?

https://bsky.app/profile/sethcotlar.bsky.social
https://digbysblog.net/2024/04/19/god-bless-magastan/

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