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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 …

The Associated Press reports: An attorney for Stormy Daniels says the porn actor is expected to appear as a witness in Donald Trump’s hush money trial on Tuesday. Clark Brewster tells The Associated Press that Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, is “likely” to be called as a witness in the trial on Tuesday. The jury on Monday heard …

The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump mocked Sen. Jon Tester’s (D-Mont.) weight at a fundraiser Saturday night in Palm Beach, Fla., comparing his appearance to that of a pregnant woman, according to a recording of the event obtained by The Washington Post. “He’s now in a tough campaign, and he could very well lose. We ought to go …

USA Today reports: Americans by nearly 3-1 predict that former President Donald Trump will be convicted on all or some of the felony charges he faces in a New York courtroom, an outcome never before seen in U.S. history. In an exclusive USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll, 65% expect a guilty verdict on at least some of the 34 charges that …

“The judge is so happy about two to three more weeks because all they want is to keep me off the campaign trail. That’s all this is about. And have the other thing that maybe is even more disgraceful is the gag order, where I can’t, basically, I have to watch every word I tell you people. You ask me …

ABC News reports: Former Trump Organization controller Jeff McConney testified that the Trump Organization switched from cutting Michael Cohen’s checks from the company trust account to cutting them from Donald Trump’s personal account when Trump was the president and living in Washington, D.C. — something that presented a challenge. That led to testimony that suggested checks were sent to the …

The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump complained about his gag order before entering the courtroom. When asked about his former attorney Michael Cohen — who as an expected witness Trump isn’t allowed to talk about — Trump replied, “As you know, they’ve taken away my constitutional right so I’m not allowed to answer that question.” “I find you …

Reuters reports: Donald Trump returns to a New York courtroom on Monday, where he will be forced to sit silently while others testify about his efforts during the 2016 presidential election to cover up news of an alleged tryst with a porn star. Trump’s criminal hush money trial, entering its 12th day, has featured testimony from a top aide and …

Law & Crime reports: One of the co-defendants in former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents case is asking the judge in charge to rule that the evidence seized during the execution of the search warrant should be suppressed — ruled legally unfit to be used in the upcoming trial. In a filing this week, Walt Nauta argued the warrants used …

The New York Times reports: Mr. Trump entered the donor event to the recording of the national anthem that he made with a group of people arrested in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. “When you are Democrat, you start off essentially at 40 percent because you have civil service, you have the unions and you …

NBC News reports: Donald Trump compared President Joe Biden’s administration to the secret police force of Nazi Germany in remarks at a private, closed-door donor retreat on Saturday afternoon. “These people are running a Gestapo administration,” Trump said, according to audio of the luncheon provided to NBC News. “And it’s the only thing they have. And it’s the only way …

Democracy Docket reports: The Trump campaign is challenging Nevada’s mail-in ballot receipt deadline in its first election lawsuit of the year with the help of the Republican National Committee (RNC) and the Nevada Republican Party. With the road to 270 electoral votes almost certainly going through the state, Republicans are zeroing in on voting rules in Nevada. The RNC and …

“It has always been clear that the ‘Documents Case’ is nothing but an Election Interference Scam concocted by Crooked Joe Biden, Deranged Jack Smith, and their Hacks and Thugs. “Now, Deranged Jack has admitted in a filing in front of Judge Cannon to what I have been saying happened since the Illegal RAID on my home, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, …

Politico reports: Special counsel Jack Smith’s team acknowledged Friday that some evidence in the prosecution of former President Donald Trump for hoarding classified documents at his Florida home may not be in the same sequence FBI agents found it when they swept into the Mar-a-Lago compound with a search warrant in August 2022. The concession from prosecutors in a court …

NBC News reports: The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s criminal trial told him Friday he has an “absolute right” to testify after the former president complained to reporters the gag order in the case prevented him from doing so. In remarks outside the courtroom Thursday, Trump said, “I’m not allowed to testify. I’m under a gag order” that he said …

The Meidas Touch reports: On Thursday night, Trump posted a link to a Rumble clip of Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast in which Trump supporting host Doug Burquam and Andrew Giulianni, the son of Trump co-defendant Rudy Giulianni, commented on Trump’s trial and interviewed supporters outside the courthouse. That clip complained about Trump’s gag order and about Judge Merchan’s daughter, …

“I’m not allowed to testify. I’m under gag order I guess, right? I can’t even testify. We’re gonna be appealing the gag order. I’d love to answer their questions. They’re very easy questions. The easiest questions so far. But I’m not allowed to testify because this judge, who’s totally conflicted, has me under an unconstitutional gag order Nobody’s ever had …

Reuters reports: A lawyer for Donald Trump sought on Thursday to portray the hush money payment at the center of his criminal trial as extortion, questioning a lawyer involved in the deal about his cash-for-dirt negotiations with other celebrities. Defense attorney Emil Bove’s questioning of the lawyer Keith Davidson hinted at a strategy by Trump’s legal team to undermine the …