This is who Donald Trump's people are:

The Freudian slip of all time Freudian slips.

Not Trivial

Charlie Sykes: “He is the only man in American presidential history who could pay off two porn stars, and orchestrate a criminal conspiracy to cover it up in the final crucial days of a presidential election, and have people think that it was ‘trivial.'”

“After seven years of pussy grabbing, mendacity, incitements, obstruction, shooting people in the middle of 5th Avenue, and an endless torrent of lies, the smart kids still look at the criminal charges and wonder if that’s all there is to it?”

https://politicalwire.com/2023/04/05/not-trivial/
https://morningshots.thebulwark.com/p/the-non-trivial-crimes-of-donald?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=87272&post_id=112717598&isFreemail=false&utm_medium=email

Tucker Carlson. Sean Hannity, Maria Bartiromo and Bret Baier will testify at defamation trial

CNN:
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Fox News said in a court filing Tuesday that it plans to put some of its most prominent executives and TV hosts on the witness stand to testify as part of its defense in the Dominion defamation trial.

The right-wing network told the judge it “intends to make available” these people to testify in-person. Fox will call these witnesses as part of their defense, but Dominion also wants to question them as part of their case.

The list includes Fox TV hosts Tucker Carlson, Maria Bartiromo, Sean Hannity, and Bret Baier, as well as Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and President Jay Wallace.


https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/04/media/tucker-carlson-sean-hannity-fox-news-dominion/index.html

A Metaphor for the Trump Era

Dan Pfeiffer: “Tuesday was the perfect metaphor for the Republican Party in the Trump era. The former President and current frontrunner for the GOP nomination was arrested, fingerprinted, and arraigned like a common criminal. He endured the ignominy with false bravado and the full support of his party and its media apparatus. Later that night, Trump’s party lost yet another winnable election.”

https://messagebox.substack.com/p/trump-loses-again?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=65026&post_id=112231078&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
https://politicalwire.com/2023/04/05/a-metaphor-for-the-trump-era/

YOUR TEARS, THEY ARE DELICIOUS!

Jenna Ellis 🇺🇸

Chicago has fallen.

Breaking: Far-Left Democrat Brandon Johnson Wins Chicago Mayoral Race

To quote
@emeriticus
: The Right memes. The Left wins elections.
How many of us were even aware of the Chicago mayoral and Wisconsin Supreme Court elections today? How many GOP voters?

Wisconsin has fallen. R’s will barely notice and then get mad when the new liberal majority rules on an abortion ban. Only then will someone have the bright idea, “We have to DO SOMETHING!” This is why we can’t have nice things, like election integrity.

https://twitter.com/JennaEllisEsq/status/1643452492032688128?s=20

The moment Janet Protasiewicz walked in to declare victory

— trailed by the rest of the new Wisconsin Supreme Court majority

https://twitter.com/benwikler/status/1643443155075837952?s=20
https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/1643437152997343232?s=20

NYT Opinion: We Finally Know the Case Against Trump, and It Is Strong

By Karen Friedman Agnifilo and Norman Eisen
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The 34 felony books and records counts in the Trump indictment turn on the misstatement of the hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels arranged by Michael Cohen in the waning days of the 2016 election and the repayment of that amount by Mr. Trump to Mr. Cohen, ostensibly as legal expenses. There are 11 counts for false invoices, 11 for false checks and check stubs and 12 for false general ledger entries. This allegedly violated the false records statute when various entries were made in business documents describing those repayments as legal fees.

Moreover, the statement of facts alleges that deals, including one for Ms. Daniels and another for Karen McDougal that involved The National Enquirer, which had longstanding ties to Mr. Trump, were for the purpose of helping him win the presidency. If that is proved, then the deals would be “attempts to violate state and federal election laws,” as Mr. Bragg said in a statement, such as on their amount and disclosure. In this theory,the false records in the indictment covered up the campaign finance violation.

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It’s also worth noting that Mr. Trump was a federal candidate, whereas the other New York cases involved state ones. But court after court across the country has recognized that state authorities can enforce state law in cases relating to federal candidates. Those courts have allowed state cases concerning federal campaign contributions under widely varied circumstances, including for fraudulently diverting funds from political action committees founded to support federal presidential campaigns, violating state law limits on corporate contributions to federal campaigns and transgressing state laws concerning donations to PACs that funded federal campaigns. Some of the examples involve criminal enforcement by state authorities, some civil, but the point is the same: They can act.

https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1643408579708215302?s=20
the rest:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/opinion/donald-trump-alvin-bragg-indictment-charges.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur

He did not lead anyone down the boulevard. He slunk in and out of the courtroom as fast as possible

From Digby:

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He did not lead anyone down the boulevard. He slunk in and out of the courtroom as fast as possible and hightailed it back to his safe space in Mar a lago.

Poor little Eric was just trying to buck up his sad, sad daddy.

Hoo boy: Trump & Michael Cohen "met in the Oval Office at WH" to confirm the false repayment scheme

Hoo boy: Donald Trump and Michael Cohen "met in the Oval Office at the White House" to confirm the false and fraudulent repayment scheme.

26. The Defendant, the TO CFO, and Lawyer A then agreed that Lawyer A would be paid the $420,000 through twelve monthly payments of $35,000 over the course of 2017. Each month, Lawyer A was to send an invoice to the Defendant through Trump Organization employees, falsely requesting payment of $35,000 for legal services rendered in a given month of 2017 pursuant to a retainer agreement. At no point did Lawyer A have a retainer agreement with the Defendant or the Trump Organization.

27. In early February 2017, the Defendant and Lawyer A met in the Oval Office at the White House and confirmed this repayment arrangement.