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The Daily Beast reports: In a turn that is oh-so-meta, a brand new hush money deal is now at the center of attention in Donald Trump’s ongoing hush money trial: $750,000 that prosecutors say the business mogul is dangling above Allen Weisselberg’s head to keep him testifying against his former boss. For the first time on Friday, prosecutors disclosed the …

The New Jersey Advance reports: The Republican presidential hopeful’s campaign paid $54,200 to Wildwood for the May 11 rally being held on the beach between a set of amusement piers, according to records obtained by NJ Advance Media through the Open Public Records Act. The campaign’s payments Wildwood were made in two parts a week apart: $54,000 on April 16 …

NBC News reports: Michael Cohen will begin his testimony in the Trump hush money trial Monday, NBC News has learned through multiple sources. He is expected to be on the stand for several days. Cohen is at the center of the case as the one who paid Stormy Daniels the $130,000 hush money to keep her quiet about her alleged …

“It’s pretty obvious that Donald Trump does accept election results even despite the fact that it was a very questionable election in 2020 because Joe Biden is, unfortunately, sitting in the Oval Office today. What Donald Trump has said – and I think he’s exactly right – is that we should have free, fair, and transparent elections. And unfortunately, Eric, …

The Daily Beast reports: Stormy Daniels couldn’t resist taking another swipe at Donald Trump after her bombshell testimony in his hush-money trial after his defense team sought a change in his gag order to allow him to speak publicly about the porn star. After Judge Juan Merchan on Thursday rejected the request to amend the order—which was imposed to prevent …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump’s hush money judge rejected the former president’s request to narrow his gag order so he can speak publicly about porn actor Stormy Daniels now that she has completed her testimony in Trump’s ongoing criminal trial. Trump’s gag order limits his attacks against witnesses, among others, forcing the former president to stop pummeling some of …

“RFK Jr. is a Democrat plant. A radical left liberal who’s been put in place in order to help Crooked Joe Biden, the worst president in the History of the United States get reelected. A lot of people think Junior is a conservative. He’s not. A vote for Junior would be a wasted protest vote. “Republicans, get it out of …

“What Biden is doing with respect to Israel is disgraceful. If any Jewish person voted for Joe Biden, they should be ashamed of themselves. He’s totally abandoned Israel and nobody can believe it. I guess he feels good about it because he did it as a political decision. You have to do the right decision, not the political decision. But …

The New York Times reports: Stormy Daniels, who received $130,000 on the eve of the 2016 election to keep silent about a one-night sexual encounter she said she’d had with Donald J. Trump, is back on the witness stand in the former president’s criminal trial, facing more questions from his lawyers. Ms. Daniels described on Tuesday — sometimes nervously, sometimes …

The Washington Post reports: As Donald Trump sat with some of the country’s top oil executives at his Mar-a-Lago Club last month, one executive complained about how they continued to face burdensome environmental regulations despite spending $400 million to lobby the Biden administration in the last year. Trump’s response stunned several of the executives in the room overlooking the ocean: …

The Washington Post reports: President Biden, in an interview with CNN aired Wednesday night, said that if he wins the November election, Trump will not admit defeat. “You can’t only love your country when you’re winning,” Biden said, adding: “He may not accept the outcome of the election. I promise you he won’t.” In recent interviews with Time magazine, Trump …

“I absolutely love Marjorie Taylor Greene. She’s got Spirit, she’s got Fight, and I believe she’ll be around, and on our side, for a long time to come. However, right now, Republicans have to be fighting the Radical Left Democrats, and all the Damage they have done to our Country. “With a Majority of One, shortly growing to three or …

CNN reports: Lawyers for Donald Trump asked a New York appeals court to rule on their challenge to the gag order limiting what the former president can say about witnesses in the criminal hush money trial, according to people familiar with the matter. Trump’s legal team filed an order to show cause Wednesday, which has been sealed. The Manhattan district …

“It is a really bad feeling to have your Constitutional Right to Free Speech, such a big part of life in our Country, so unfairly taken from you, especially when all of the sleazebags, lowlifes, and grifters that you oppose are allowed to say absolutely anything that they want. “It is hard to sit back and listen to lies and …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump took a shot Tuesday at MSNBC host Laurence O’Donnell, who he saw at a New York City courthouse amid his first criminal trial, and said looks like ‘s—.” “I spotted Ratings Challenged Lawrence O’Donnell, of MSDNC, in the Courthouse today. I haven’t seen him in years,” Trump wrote late Tuesday on his Truth Social …

The Huffington Post reports: The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s hush money trial warned his lawyer Tuesday that the former president’s repeated cursing in court was verging on witness intimidation as adult film star Stormy Daniels testified at length in front of the jury. New York state Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan called Trump attorney Todd Blanche to the stand for …

Bloomberg News reports: Donald Trump’s criminal trial for allegedly mishandling classified documents has been postponed indefinitely in a blow to the Justice Department’s efforts to obtain a jury verdict before November’s presidential election. US District Judge Aileen Cannon, who is overseeing the criminal proceeding in Florida, set a new schedule for motions in the case and announced that a previously …

Axios reports: New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday that the Department of Correction and Rikers Island would be “ready” if former President Trump is sentenced to jail for violating the gag order in his hush money trial. “Our amazing commissioner, she is prepared for whatever comes on Rikers Island,” Adams said during an unrelated media availability on Tuesday. …

ABC News reports: Trump’s defense team has moved for a mistrial over Stormy Daniels’ testimony. “We move for a mistrial based on the testimony this morning,” defense attorney Todd Blanche said following the lunch break. “The guardrails by this witness answering questions by the government were just thrown to the side,” Blanche said. “There is no remedy that we can …

Axios reports: Daniels’ testimony brought her face-to-face with the former president, years after she alleged that Trump paid her to stay quiet about an alleged affair that he denies. Daniels described to the jury the night she says she met Trump for dinner after meeting him at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe in July 2006. She testified that …