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'No ma'am,' Cohen says when asked whether his 'legal retainers' were actually for legal work
By Ben Kochman

Cohen is speaking calmly and slowly and responding to the prosecutors' questions with short "yes, ma'am and "no, ma'am" answers.

He testified that payments earmarked by Trump's company as "legal retainers" were actually for "the reimbursement to me of the hush money fee" to Daniels, plus a bonus and other non-legal-related fees.

Terrific Tuesday thanks, Pookie!

From the "Truth in Advertising" Department:

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Prosecutors ask for a bench conference at the start of the day

Before things can get underway, the prosecution asks for a bench conference. Lawyers for Trump and the government huddle with Judge Merchan. Trump chats with lawyer Emil Bove while Todd Blanche speaks with the judge.

Members of Trump's entourage are chatting, with Doug Burgum rustling in his seat and Vivek Ramaswamy turning backward to speak to Lara and Eric Trump.

Ramaswamy also flashes a cell phone, which was in his hand.

Speaker Mike Johnson will address 'sham prosecution' of Trump outside courthouse, days after surviving MTG's ouster attempt

House Speaker Mike Johnson's move to join Trump's court entourage is an extraordinary move for the man who is third in line for the presidency, and is another sign of the total embrace Trump is getting from congressional Republicans.

It comes days after days after the House rejected an effort by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to remove Johnson from office through a procedural motion.

Trump sided with the speaker in the spat, meeting with Johnson and posting in advance that 'this is not the time' to move to vacate the chair, as Greene was proposing.

The Speaker's office left no doubt which side he is on.

'The Speaker will then address media outside of the ongoing sham prosecution of President Trump,' his office announced.

'Speaker Johnson will address the political persecution of the 45th President of the United States by President Biden’s weaponized Department of Justice and the left-wing Manhattan district attorney.'

https://twitter.com/Liz_Cheney/status/1790365490868846815

MOL

Liz is nothing but a loser BIT**!!

May 13, 2024
Jews are figuring out that Biden and the Democrats are not their friends
By Andrea Widburg

The Bible calls the Jews “a stiff-necked” people. (“The Lord also said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.’” Deuteronomy 9:13.) In other words, they’re stubborn, and nothing has been more stubborn than American Jews’ long-standing refusal to acknowledge the rising antisemitism in the heart of the Democrat party. Donald Trump’s pro-Israel record barely swayed them. However, Biden’s blatant anti-Israel policies, combined with the violent antisemitism in academia, may finally be doing the trick.

Traditionally, Jews have been second only to blacks in their fealty to the Democrat party. Many of them came from Tsarist Russia, which was fiercely antisemitic. Because the socialists were anti-tsarist, Jew naively assumed that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” And certainly, the Democrat party in the early part of the 20th century was more receptive to Jews than the Republican party.

After WWII, Jews fell for the most clever historic retrofit of the 20th century. They ignored that Hitler was a socialist, even though it was right there in the name (National Socialist Party). They accepted the post-WWII communist canard that “fascism” was a “right-wing” phenomenon and that Republicans were also “right-wing.”

In fact, “right-wing” and “left-wing” historically had no place in America. They refer to the two sides of the French Revolution, both of which were totalitarian. America’s Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights, was set up to be a bulwark against totalitarianism.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/jews_are_figuring_out_that_biden_and_the_democrats_are_not_their_friends.html