Trump's Tribulations: The New York state court system has just agreed to publish a transcript of each day’s proceeding

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There’s some good news for people who want to follow the Trump trial in detail, but can’t make it to the courthouse. The New York state court system has just agreed to publish a transcript of each day’s proceeding by the end of the following day on its website. You can find the daily transcripts here.

Gotta love how open democracy works.
tribulation: distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution. also : a trying experience. the trials and tribulations of starting a new business.

 

[BackAgain]

The decision has not a fucking thing to do with “democracy” whether “open” or otherwise.

And it isn’t a “tribulation” for Trump, either.

 

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There’s some good news for people who want to follow the Trump trial in detail, but can’t make it to the courthouse. The New York state court system has just agreed to publish a transcript of each day’s proceeding by the end of the following day on its website. You can find the daily transcripts here.

Gotta love how open democracy works.

 

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So they can spew their bullshit and prevent Trump from responding to it? How democratic.
Trump 2024

 

[shockedcanadian]

New York is going the way of Ontario...good luck with that...

 

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There’s some good news for people who want to follow the Trump trial in detail, but can’t make it to the courthouse. The New York state court system has just agreed to publish a transcript of each day’s proceeding by the end of the following day on its website. You can find the daily transcripts here.

Gotta love how open democracy works.
tribulation: distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution. also : a trying experience. the trials and tribulations of starting a new business.

Alan Feuer

What will be interesting about Pecker’s testimony, if it goes as opening statements suggested it would, is that he won’t really be describing Trump’s involvement in any actual criminal activity. Rather, he will serve as a tour guide to the seamy way in which Trump used The National Enquirer to his political advantage — a storytelling point on the way to alleged criminal activity.



Jonah Bromwich

And yet, prosecutors have framed Pecker’s involvement here as part of a “conspiracy.” This could be a risk for them — conspiracy is not one of the charged crimes. And this jury has at least two lawyers.

 

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FROM NYT Live - quotes --

“Catch-and-kill” is a term coined by old-time tabloid editors for buying the exclusive rights to stories, or “catching” them, for the specific purpose of ensuring the information never becomes public. That’s the “killing” part.

Why would anyone want to spend money on a story that it never intends to publish? In the world of tabloid journalism, where ethical lines are blurry, deciding what to publish and why is often a calculus that covers favors doled out and chits called in.

David Pecker, the former publisher of The National Enquirer, who also oversaw other tabloids such as Star and lifestyle publications such as Men’s Fitness, was a master of the technique, according to people who have worked for him.

-and: was a master of the technique,

Tracing the Trail of Hush-Money Deals That Led to Trump’s Prosecution​

Before Stormy Daniels, Donald J. Trump and his allies paid to keep other stories buried as he ran for the presidency.

Nearly nine years later, Mr. Trump will face the same men, Michael Cohen and David Pecker. But unlike at that long-ago meeting, he won’t be seated at the desk in his 26th-floor Trump Tower office: He will be at the defendant’s table in a Lower Manhattan courtroom

Tracing the Trail of Hush-Money Deals That Led to Trump’s Prosecution

Before Stormy Daniels, Donald J. Trump and his allies paid to keep other stories buried as he ran for the presidency.

web.archive.org

 

[luiza]

Another great battle victory for the Good over the American Mutants .

Battle Commander Trump in fine form .

 

[Smokin' OP]

Another great battle victory for the Good over the American Mutants .

Battle Commander Trump in fine form .

Yes, he is..................

'Sleepy Don': Trump Falls Asleep (Again) at Hush-Money ...​

New York Magazine
https://nymag.com › intelligencer › article › trump-asle...
4 days ago — Trump fell asleep in court on day one of his hush-money trial — then was caught sleeping repeatedly, for a total of three times.

 

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There’s some good news for people who want to follow the Trump trial in detail, but can’t make it to the courthouse. The New York state court system has just agreed to publish a transcript of each day’s proceeding by the end of the following day on its website. You can find the daily transcripts here.

Gotta love how open democracy works.
tribulation: distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution. also : a trying experience. the trials and tribulations of starting a new business.

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Beyond the Opening Arguments:

At that meeting, Mr. Pecker said on the stand, Mr. Cohen and Mr. Trump asked him what he and his magazines could do “to help the campaign,” a crucial statement that supports the prosecution’s argument that the men were not just protecting Mr. Trump’s personal reputation, but aiding his campaign.

“I would be your eyes and ears,” Mr. Pecker recalled telling them, as he explained the tabloid practice of “catch and kill,” in which an outlet bought the rights to a story, only to never publish it.

Mr. Trump, who repaid Mr. Cohen for the hush money, is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records. Each charge reflects a check, invoice or ledger that prosecutors say disguised the true purpose of his reimbursement of Mr. Cohen, who is now a key witness against him.

Mr. Pecker’s testimony came after a bruising hearing for Mr. Trump and his legal team, as prosecutors argued that Mr. Trump’s attacks on witnesses and jurors pose a “threat” to the trial. They urged the judge to hold him in contempt of court over what they said were 11 violations of a gag order that bars the former president from attacking witnesses, prosecutors, jurors and court staff, as well as their relatives.

Live Updates: Testimony Resumes in Trump’s Criminal Trial

The jury is back in the courtroom after prosecutors had asked that Donald J. Trump be held in contempt for attacking witnesses and others close to the case. The former president is charged with 34 felony counts related to a hush-money payment to a porn star.

www.nytimes.com

 

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Beyond the Opening Arguments:

April 23, 2024, 12:49 p.m.
Jonah Bromwich
Reporting from the courthouse

Trump pulls down the lapels of his jacket sharply and walks out, again looking frustrated. To me, he’s looked far angrier yesterday and today than he did during all of last week, during jury selection.

more quotes from various reporters:
Prosecutors just showed several examples of the negative headlines about Trump's opponents, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson and Marco Rubio.

Pecker is being asked about an infamous Enquirer story linking Ted Cruz’s father to the John F. Kennedy assassination. He says it originated with Dylan Howard, The Enquirer’s editor.

Pecker said that after the Republican debates, Cohen would call him and direct him to focus the negative coverage on whichever candidate had been most successful onstage.

It should be pointed out that Pecker’s testimony isn’t just damaging to Trump. He is, in effect, laying waste to his own professional career by going through headline after headline and suggesting he attacked Trump’s rivals to aid Trump.

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Pecker is asked about the nature of Cohen’s relationship to the Trump campaign. Pecker says Cohen always said he didn’t work for the campaign, and that he was instead “Mr. Trump’s personal attorney.” But jurors just heard that Cohen was central to feeding the tabloid negative information about campaign opponents.

“Michael was physically in every aspect of whatever the campaign was working on,” Pecker says. He adds that because Cohen wasn’t officially employed by the campaign, he may have heard things “informally” or “injected himself into it.”

Pecker finally says something mildly helpful to the defense. He says he doesn’t know who Cohen spoke to, and adds that Cohen may have essentially been freelancing, acting of his own volition as he tried to get more involved with the campaign.

 

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Trump and Fake News:

In sworn testimony, Trump's friend Mr. Pecker is, in essence, admitted to promoting “fake news” on behalf of Donald Trump.

 

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Steinglass is now drilling down on the key meeting in what prosecutors say was a conspiracy — an August 2015 gathering between Trump, Cohen and Pecker. “I received a call from Michael Cohen telling me that the boss wanted to see me,” Pecker says.

Pecker says he didn’t know the purpose of the meeting before he arrived. When he got there, he says, Cohen and Trump asked him what he and his magazines could do “to help the campaign,” a quote that will be key to prosecutors’ argument that the hush money payments were made to help Trump win the election.

Steinglass, the prosecutor, is asking Pecker why he paid so much for this story. “I made the decision to buy the story because of the potential embarrassment it would have to the campaign and Mr. Trump,” Pecker responds. This is catch-and-kill in a nutshell and Pecker just said several times in different ways that he was acting on Trump’s behalf.

"Trump, speaking in the hallway outside the courtroom, says he thinks the gag order is unconstitutional."


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Steinglass is now drilling down on the key meeting in what prosecutors say was a conspiracy — an August 2015 gathering between Trump, Cohen and Pecker. “I received a call from Michael Cohen telling me that the boss wanted to see me,” Pecker says.

Pecker says he didn’t know the purpose of the meeting before he arrived. When he got there, he says, Cohen and Trump asked him what he and his magazines could do “to help the campaign,” a quote that will be key to prosecutors’ argument that the hush money payments were made to help Trump win the election.

Steinglass, the prosecutor, is asking Pecker why he paid so much for this story. “I made the decision to buy the story because of the potential embarrassment it would have to the campaign and Mr. Trump,” Pecker responds. This is catch-and-kill in a nutshell and Pecker just said several times in different ways that he was acting on Trump’s behalf.

"Trump, speaking in the hallway outside the courtroom, says he thinks the gag order is unconstitutional."


LOL

Lol. New York times .

 

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Lol. New York times .

You can't refute a fact? So stupid attacking the messenger, when what is being reported there is reported all over the world.

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Steinglass is now drilling down on the key meeting in what prosecutors say was a conspiracy — an August 2015 gathering between Trump, Cohen and Pecker. “I received a call from Michael Cohen telling me that the boss wanted to see me,” Pecker says.

Pecker says he didn’t know the purpose of the meeting before he arrived. When he got there, he says, Cohen and Trump asked him what he and his magazines could do “to help the campaign,” a quote that will be key to prosecutors’ argument that the hush money payments were made to help Trump win the election.

Steinglass, the prosecutor, is asking Pecker why he paid so much for this story. “I made the decision to buy the story because of the potential embarrassment it would have to the campaign and Mr. Trump,” Pecker responds. This is catch-and-kill in a nutshell and Pecker just said several times in different ways that he was acting on Trump’s behalf.

"Trump, speaking in the hallway outside the courtroom, says he thinks the gag order is unconstitutional."


LOL

thank you

 

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There’s some good news for people who want to follow the Trump trial in detail, but can’t make it to the courthouse. The New York state court system has just agreed to publish a transcript of each day’s proceeding by the end of the following day on its website. You can find the daily transcripts here.

Gotta love how open democracy works.
tribulation: distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution. also : a trying experience. the trials and tribulations of starting a new business.

Trump's Tribulations: The New York state court system has just agreed to publish a transcript of each day’s proceeding​

meanwhile:

Jonah BromwichReporting from the courthouse
David Pecker is now describing a post-election meeting he had with Michael Cohen at Trump Tower. Pecker said Cohen told him he had not been reimbursed for his payment to Stormy Daniels. Cohen, who also wanted to be paid a holiday bonus, asked Pecker “if I would talk to the boss on his behalf.”


Maggie HabermanReporting from the courthouse
Pecker says that after Cohen asked him to intercede with Trump on his behalf, he spoke privately with Trump about the bonus. “He’s been working very hard, from my perspective, and I believe that he would throw himself under a bus for you,” Pecker says he told Trump. Trump said Cohen already owned 50 taxi medallions and multiple apartments in Trump buildings, but he would take care of it.

Jonah BromwichReporting from the courthouse

Pecker has just given us a very detailed description of Jared Kushner walking him into Trump Tower, and then into Trump’s office, shortly before Trump's inauguration as president. In the office were four noteworthy people: James Comey, Sean Spicer, Reince Priebus and Mike Pompeo. Three were Republicans who would go on to work in the Trump administration, while the fourth, Comey, would eventually become one of Trump’s chief adversaries. Into that tableau walks Pecker, to be asked about Karen McDougal by the president-elect.


Maggie HabermanReporting from the courthouse
One of Trump's hallmarks, as he became president, was his tendency to treat all aspects of his world as flat and the same. He did not differentiate between the F.B.I. director and the head of a supermarket tabloid in terms of their obligations to him.

Jonah BromwichReporting from the courthouse
Pecker says that in front of Comey, the head of the F.B.I., Trump thanked him for purchasing the stories — and likely committing at least one crime in the process, as Pecker well knew. It's of course not clear what Comey heard. But this is a wild, wild scene we are hearing about.


Jesse McKinleyReporting from the courthouse
Seemingly important question here, as prosecutors ask David Pecker whether Trump was concerned about his wife or family finding out about his alleged affairs when he was campaigning for office. Pecker responds no. This suggests that Trump’s worries were electoral, not personal.


Matthew Haag
To catch you up during the lunch break, David Pecker, the former publisher of The National Enquirer, has been testifying all day — it's his third day on the stand. He disclosed for the first time in the trial how he learned that the porn star Stormy Daniels was trying to sell her account of a sexual affair with Trump for $120,000. The hush money she was paid is at the heart of the criminal case against Trump.

It began with an urgent call in October 2016 — the month before Trump was elected president — in which The Enquirer’s editor told Pecker about Daniels's claim. The tabloid had already made two catch-and-kill deals to quash potentially negative stories about Trump, and Pecker did not want to enter into a third. He suggested to Michael Cohen, Trump's fixer, that he make a deal with Daniels instead. Cohen did so, and later complained to Pecker that Trump had not reimbursed him.

Asked about Trump’s motivations to quash stories about his alleged affairs, Pecker said that his concerns were electoral, not personal. He also said that Trump thanked him for orchestrating catch-and-kill deals in front of James Comey, then the F.B.I. director.

 

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You can't refute a fact? So stupid attacking the messenger, when what is being reported there is reported all over the world.

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quotes:

Steinglass is now drilling down on the key meeting in what prosecutors say was a conspiracy — an August 2015 gathering between Trump, Cohen and Pecker. “I received a call from Michael Cohen telling me that the boss wanted to see me,” Pecker says.

Pecker says he didn’t know the purpose of the meeting before he arrived. When he got there, he says, Cohen and Trump asked him what he and his magazines could do “to help the campaign,” a quote that will be key to prosecutors’ argument that the hush money payments were made to help Trump win the election.

Steinglass, the prosecutor, is asking Pecker why he paid so much for this story. “I made the decision to buy the story because of the potential embarrassment it would have to the campaign and Mr. Trump,” Pecker responds. This is catch-and-kill in a nutshell and Pecker just said several times in different ways that he was acting on Trump’s behalf.

"Trump, speaking in the hallway outside the courtroom, says he thinks the gag order is unconstitutional."

Trump's Tribulations: The New York state court system has just agreed to publish a transcript of each day’s proceeding​

meanwhile:

Jonah BromwichReporting from the courthouse
David Pecker is now describing a post-election meeting he had with Michael Cohen at Trump Tower. Pecker said Cohen told him he had not been reimbursed for his payment to Stormy Daniels. Cohen, who also wanted to be paid a holiday bonus, asked Pecker “if I would talk to the boss on his behalf.”


Maggie HabermanReporting from the courthouse
Pecker says that after Cohen asked him to intercede with Trump on his behalf, he spoke privately with Trump about the bonus. “He’s been working very hard, from my perspective, and I believe that he would throw himself under a bus for you,” Pecker says he told Trump. Trump said Cohen already owned 50 taxi medallions and multiple apartments in Trump buildings, but he would take care of it.

Jonah BromwichReporting from the courthouse

Pecker has just given us a very detailed description of Jared Kushner walking him into Trump Tower, and then into Trump’s office, shortly before Trump's inauguration as president. In the office were four noteworthy people: James Comey, Sean Spicer, Reince Priebus and Mike Pompeo. Three were Republicans who would go on to work in the Trump administration, while the fourth, Comey, would eventually become one of Trump’s chief adversaries. Into that tableau walks Pecker, to be asked about Karen McDougal by the president-elect.


Maggie HabermanReporting from the courthouse
One of Trump's hallmarks, as he became president, was his tendency to treat all aspects of his world as flat and the same. He did not differentiate between the F.B.I. director and the head of a supermarket tabloid in terms of their obligations to him.

Jonah BromwichReporting from the courthouse
Pecker says that in front of Comey, the head of the F.B.I., Trump thanked him for purchasing the stories — and likely committing at least one crime in the process, as Pecker well knew. It's of course not clear what Comey heard. But this is a wild, wild scene we are hearing about.


Jesse McKinleyReporting from the courthouse
Seemingly important question here, as prosecutors ask David Pecker whether Trump was concerned about his wife or family finding out about his alleged affairs when he was campaigning for office. Pecker responds no. This suggests that Trump’s worries were electoral, not personal.


Matthew Haag
To catch you up during the lunch break, David Pecker, the former publisher of The National Enquirer, has been testifying all day — it's his third day on the stand. He disclosed for the first time in the trial how he learned that the porn star Stormy Daniels was trying to sell her account of a sexual affair with Trump for $120,000. The hush money she was paid is at the heart of the criminal case against Trump.

It began with an urgent call in October 2016 — the month before Trump was elected president — in which The Enquirer’s editor told Pecker about Daniels's claim. The tabloid had already made two catch-and-kill deals to quash potentially negative stories about Trump, and Pecker did not want to enter into a third. He suggested to Michael Cohen, Trump's fixer, that he make a deal with Daniels instead. Cohen did so, and later complained to Pecker that Trump had not reimbursed him.

Asked about Trump’s motivations to quash stories about his alleged affairs, Pecker said that his concerns were electoral, not personal. He also said that Trump thanked him for orchestrating catch-and-kill deals in front of James Comey, then the F.B.I. director.

You must be a highly paid propagandist!

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thank you

Was the NY times being paid by Biden? How about CNN?

 

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Was the NY times being paid by Biden? How about CNN?

Has President Biden been accused of falsifying business records to hide something from the FEC?

 

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Has President Biden been accused of falsifying business records to hide something from the FEC?

No he was accused of a lot worse , like accepting bribes, pay to play . Stealing documents. Showering with his teenage daughter. You know !