MOL

11:00
Stormy Daniels tells the court about having sex with Donald Trump

The prosecutor asks Stormy Daniels if she did end up having sex with Donald Trump on the bed?

‘Yes,’ Daniels says.

Daniels is asked to describe it briefly. She testifies that the next thing she knew, she was on the bed and had her clothes and shoes off. She says she still had her bra on. It was missionary position.

She recalls staring up at the ceiling.

The prosecutor asks if he was wearing a condom?

‘No,' Daniels says.

She recalls it being brief.

Daniels remembers getting dressed and that it was ‘absolutely dark outside.’

She testifies that her hands were shaking so hard she was having a hard time with the buckles on her shoes.

She did not say no at any time.

‘I didn’t say anything at all,' Daniels says.

She remembers taking a cab back.

‘I felt ashamed that I didn’t stop it, that I didn’t say no,' Daniels says.

3 minutes ago
Trump introduced Stormy Daniels to NFL star Ben Roethlisberger night after sex: testimony

Stormy Daniels testified that the night after she had sex with Donald Trump, she met him the next day in Lake Tahoe where he introduced to her to his "friend" — former Steelers Super-Bowl winning quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.

Daniels said that Trump's bodyguard told her that Trump wanted to talk to her again, and she met Trump at one of the night clubs at the charity event.

"Trump was sitting in a booth, not drinking, at a nightclub with his friends and bodyguard," Daniels said. "He introduced as his old friend Stormy to Big Ben."

Daniels is referring to the NFL star's nickname, she said.

Daniels recalled how she remembers getting the chance to try on Roethlisberger's Super Bowl ring because she could fit two fingers in it.

Too few planners understand what special operators can do today
No less than in yesterday’s era of counter-terrorism, SOF are indispensable in today’s great power competition.
CLEMENTINE G. STARLING and JAMES CARTWRIGHT | MAY 5, 2024
COMMENTARY SPECIAL OPERATIONS PENTAGON
   
U.S. special operations forces have a unique role to play in today’s strategic competition with China and Russia, yet—outside a niche community—understanding of what SOF do is limited, outdated, and under-appreciated. It’s time that changed. For global security challenges that transcend traditional boundaries and cut across theaters and domains, Defense Department planners should look more often to special operations forces.

While most often associated with direct-action missions and counterterrorism, the modern special operator is far more than just a "trigger-puller." Hailing back to the roots of special operations in the Great War period, special operators are highly skilled at providing intelligence and executing missions below the threshold of conflict that complicate the goals of great power competitors. In World War II, for example, British and American special operators played an outsized role in organizing and training resistance forces in Nazi-occupied France to undermine the German occupation.

It behooves the national security community to update its understanding of the modern-day special operator and to use these highly trained and specialized forces to pursue U.S. goals against near-peer competitors.

Today, U.S. special operations forces have a diverse array of skills, including expertise in fields such as coding, space, and cyber operations. SOF are not only operators—deployed in kinetic, physical battlespaces—they are also, as importantly, enablers—conducting placement and access in spaces where they can collect information and intelligence and enable missions through AI and engineering support. They can operate across the spectrum of competition, executing and supporting U.S. diplomatic, informational, military, and economic efforts to combat adversary threats globally.

https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2024/05/too-few-planners-understand-what-special-operators-can-do-today/396316/

10:39
Court resumes from morning break

Judge Merchan admonishes prosecutor and says that the level of detail Stormy Daniels has been going into is unnecessary.

He says when she returns, they should move it along more quickly.

Of course he did ---- they're proving she's a lowlife and Jeffrey Toobin just called begging for a rest ......

Paul Ingrassia
@PaulIngrassia

BREAKING: Bragg’s prosecutors questioning Daniels about her STD tests and preferred sex positions. What a sleazy, disgusting trial.

With this political persecution, we are witnessing the execution of due process and rule of law in real time by Biden and his acolytes.

What a tragedy — the damage being done to the justice system will take years to repair, and may be permanent.


11:13 AM · May 7, 2024