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CNN reports: The third week of the Donald Trump criminal hush money business fraud trial will resume Tuesday with the Manhattan district attorney’s office continuing to be secretive about it its plan of attack. Prosecutors are expected to pick up questioning of Michael Cohen’s former banker Tuesday morning. It’s unclear what other witnesses will take the stand this week – …

“He’s going all over the place. And his stamina, Maria, I have never seen anything like it in my life. I mean, I have just never seen it. “He will be in trial all day long only to step out and go to events at bodegas and wake up and speak to union workers and go to Michigan and go …

Politico reports: Former President Donald Trump is turning up the heat on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the reality sets in that Kennedy’s quixotic White House bid could siphon Republican support away from him. Kennedy is “far more LIBERAL than anyone running as a Democrat, including West and Stein,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday morning, referencing third-party candidates …

The Washington Post reports: There were some 2,600 people at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. But, really, it came down to only two men: Joe Biden and Donald Trump. “The 2024 election is in full swing and, yes, age is an issue,” President Biden told the black-tie crowd. “I’m a grown man running against a 6-year-old.” “Can we just …

The Christian Post reports: A North Carolina pastor has gone viral after urging his congregants not to embrace the “God Bless the USA Bible” endorsed by former President Donald Trump, which includes documents central to the founding of the United States. Pastor Loran Livingston of Central Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, condemned the “God Bless the USA Bible” in a …

Raw Story reports: Former President Donald Trump’s attorney Alina Habba appeared to slip up in an interview on Fox News, complaining that it’s not fair Trump should be criminally tried with a jury from a “blue state” like Manhattan. “He should win, if he’s given a fair jury, if he’s given a fair court,” said Habba, who previously defended Trump …

“Crooked Joe Biden just announced that he’s willing to debate! Everyone knows he doesn’t really mean it, but in case he does, I say, ANYWHERE, ANYTIME, ANYPLACE, an old expression used by Fighters. “I suggest Monday Evening, Tuesday Evening, or Wednesday Evening at my Rally in Michigan, a State that he is in the process of destroying with his E.V. …

CNN reports: The prosecution is having Pecker confirm that the purpose of the National Enquirer’s contract with former Playboy model Karen McDougal was to suppress her potentially damaging story about Donald Trump and help influence the 2016 election. Additional items about writing articles and appearing on covers were extraneous, Pecker confirmed, in response to prosecutor Joshua Steinglass, who is bringing …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump again complained about the temperature in the courtroom during his ongoing hush money trial on Friday, suggesting it is being kept cold “on purpose.” “We have another day in court in a freezing courthouse,” Trump said in the hallway just before the fourth day of testimony in his trial commenced. “It’s very cold in …

The Associated Press reports: David Pecker will return to the witness stand for the fourth day as defense attorneys try to poke holes in the testimony of the former National Enquirer publisher, who has described helping bury embarrassing stories Trump feared could hurt his campaign. Over several days on the witness stand, Pecker has described how he and the tabloid …

Axios reports: This is not the first time Trump has downplayed the severity of the Charlottesville rally, in which hundreds of white nationalists marched through the town’s streets and a driver plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one. “We’re having protests all over,” Trump told reporters Thursday, referring to the pro-Palestinian and anti-war protests, while leaving court after another …

“The U.S. Supreme Court had a monumental hearing on immunity, and immunity having to do with presidential immunity. And, I think it was made clear, I hope it was made clear, that a president has to have immunity, or you don’t have a president. “Or, at most, you could say, would be a ceremonial president. That’s not what the Founders …

The Huffington Post reports: Pecker reiterated that he never intended to publish Karen McDougal’s story, rather, he was motivated by a desire to prevent the story from getting out and influence the 2016 presidential election. He also agreed with Steinglass that he had an obligation to comply with campaign finance laws, yet did not report the $150,000 to the FEC …

Mediaite reports: Justice Samuel Alito asked Sauer if the president is immune from prosecution for unlawful acts if they are committed by the president in his official capacity. “Absolutely, Your Honor,” insisted Sauer. “We have the historical precedent of President Grant sending federal troops to Louisiana and Mississippi in 1876 to make sure that the Republican electors got certified in …

Rolling Stone reports: So what kind of crimes do the former president’s attorneys think should fall under the umbrella of executive immunity? Pretty much everything, apparently, including political assassinations. When asked by Justice Sonya Sotomayor during arguments on Thursday if the president deciding “that his rival is a corrupt person and he orders the military — or he orders someone …

“I don’t have hopes really that high at this moment that the New York courts will do the right thing, that the jury will do the right thing. We’re in a blue state, as you know, Greg. And I think everything’s by design. We’re in a case that was eight years old, over the statute of limitations, was denied by …

The Daily Beast reports: On Wednesday morning, The Daily Beast published a report detailing how Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and four associated PACs have been using a GOP compliance firm to pay legal fees, obscuring who is the ultimate recipient of millions of dollars in legal payments. By Wednesday night, the Trump campaign and the four PACs were facing a …

The New York Times reports: The Supreme Court, in its last argument of the term, will consider on Thursday whether former President Donald J. Trump must face trial on charges that he plotted to subvert the 2020 election. The court’s answer to that question will be a major statement on the scope of presidential power. Depending on its timing and …

The Washington Post reports: Trump’s sense of ownership of the building extended even to a souvenir he had created: a “key to the White House.” In his book “Breaking History,” Trump adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner described the tchotchke. “When Trump met with Netanyahu, he whipped out his signature gift — an oversize bronze ‘key to the White House’ in …

“Thousands of people were turned away from the Courthouse in Lower Manhattan by steel stanchions and police, literally blocks from the tiny side door from where I enter and leave. It is an armed camp to keep people away. “Maggot Hagerman of The Failing New York Times, falsely reported that I was disappointed with the crowds. No, I’m disappointed with …