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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 …

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, …